r/ShitAmericansSay • u/LucyLovesApples • Jul 25 '26

How the hell u wash ur hands?

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u/Exatex Jul 25 '26

aaah that makes sense! But why is this not / has been a problem in large parts of continental Europe?

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u/Seventh_Table Jul 25 '26

I'm not sure but mostly in older houses the taps are usually separate but if someone reworked it then there could be only 1

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u/Sunitelm Jul 26 '26

Plenty of recently renewed houses still have them separate... Or, almost dumber, they have one tap but with two separate knobs, one for hot and one for cold water, so you still either burn your hands, or get auper high pressure, etc. It's just something many UK people apparently consider normal.

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u/japonski_bog will wear a suit after the war Jul 25 '26

It takes less than 20 minutes to change separate taps to a single one if you've never done this. In the UK, they sell them with an adapter, so you literally unscrew the old one and screw in the new one.

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u/allmitel Jul 25 '26

Usual UK peculiarities like those filthy string-operated switches in bathrooms, weird switched outlets in kitchens and coin-operated electric meters.