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So hot that your eyes water when you get in them and your b0ll0cks abandon ship over the side of the bath and scuttle for safety behind the loo-brush holder.
to have a thermostat to regulate the hot water temperature on your tank or multi-point boiler.
So now we need to introduce a law to fit a thermostat to taps, just in case some numpty sets the one on their tank too high??????
The WHO recommends that the tank thermostat should be set at 60C to prevent the growth of legionnaire's disease. There is accordingly a proposal to have new water heaters set to a fixed 60 degrees, so it's not a case of "just in case some numpty sets the one on their tank too high". If it is adjustable then they should set it to 60.
But scalding of children is a serious and all-too-frequent problem, especially with the higher hot-water temperatures. In real life it's not just a case of a stupid mother lowering a toddler into water without checking first. Hence the proposal to have an anti-scald protection on the delivery system (i.e. the tap).
As usual it's easy to shout condemnation before knowing or thinking about it, not so easy afterwards.
So hot that your eyes water when you get in them and your b0ll0cks abandon ship over the side of the bath and scuttle for safety behind the loo-brush holder.
Surely it's my personal right to have the hot water at the temperature I desire ?
Otherwise, I'll just boil some hotter water on the hob and chuck it in using a saucepan.
And we don't have kids anyway, so what's the problem ?
Oh.....hang on....suppose a burglar breaks in while we are on holiday and runs himself a bath, which is too hot, then sues us ?
Or perhaps he makes himself a snack from the fridge, using the packet of ham we forgot to throw away before leaving for two weeks, and gets food poisoning and sues us ?
Or, on finding that we don't have a mega-blaster 60" Plasma TV with all the trimmings, decides to sue us for "Chattels that, once sold, do not renumerate enough to support his crack-cocaine habit".
I called myself a white barsteward today, so I am going to sue myself for racism......the world's gone mad.........
Is this the same Nanny state that stopped us using asbestos to build houses and banned arsenic and lead in paint? I think it's quite a good idea and I can't see why anyone would want to reserve the right to scald their kids or elderley relatives.
It does smack a bit of looking around desperately for some legislation to propose to make a name for yourself though.
As long as the Environment Secretary, the Gorgeous Margaret Becket, joins me in the bath of whatever temperature, I would be happy.
Seriously, this is such nonsensical never happen bulltulip, it is not worth worrying about. I could easily circumvent such a device as I imagine could most of you. Are they really going to send somebody around at random intervals to check it?
This just illustrates the lamentably low intelligence of labour MPs.
PS OH I SEE! It is to avoid injury to children!!! Where's the fun in that? Thought you meant to save energy. Same comment really. It is an Englishman's right to boil his children.
Is this the same Nanny state that stopped us using asbestos to build houses and banned arsenic and lead in paint? I think it's quite a good idea and I can't see why anyone would want to reserve the right to scald their kids or elderley relatives.
It does smack a bit of looking around desperately for some legislation to propose to make a name for yourself though.
On Jeremey Vine's show on Radio 2 at the moment - Labour politician advocating that the Government should legislate so that we will all have to have a mixer tap that regulates the temperature of our bath water. It will be law to have to fit a special thermostat. Is it me...............?
They should also ban kettles, cooking, knives and electricity.
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