{"id":267,"date":"2006-07-22T23:33:47","date_gmt":"2006-07-22T12:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2006\/07\/22\/hot-and-cold-running-whinges\/"},"modified":"2006-07-22T23:33:47","modified_gmt":"2006-07-22T12:33:47","slug":"hot-and-cold-running-whinges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2006\/07\/22\/hot-and-cold-running-whinges\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot and Cold Running Whinges"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Why is it,” I have muttered for many years, “that we still have so many hand-basins with two spouts – one hot and one cold! It’s 2006! Surely, we have mastered the technology by now to have two taps leading to one spout? We shouldn’t have to choose between running scalding hot or freezing cold water over our hands. Instead, we should be able to choose a pleasant mixture of body-temperature warm water.” <\/p>\n

Yes, yes. When I’ve said this before, I have substituted the current year – it’s not like I was saying “It’s 2006!” when it was only 1998. Please try not to get too distracted by this, okay?<\/div>\n

It seems the simple answer is no, we haven’t mastered that technology yet. I came to the conclusion this week that I found myself using a set of modern handbasins in a building only about four years old. The manufacturers had managed to have two taps and one spout, but they hadn’t quite mastered the concept of mixing the water. The spout consisted of two separate water pipes up to the tip, and the jet of water contained a stream of hot water and a stream of cold water, nestling together. The result was that washing my hands gave me an unpleasant sensation of scalding and<\/em> frostbite within millimetres of each other.<\/p>\n

I remain optimistic that, perhaps within my own lifetime, humankind will be able to conquer this one unfathomable aspect of the physics of fluid dynamics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Why is it,” I have muttered for many years, “that we still have so many hand-basins with two spouts – one hot and one cold! It’s 2006! Surely, we have mastered the technology by now to have two taps leading to one spout? We shouldn’t have to choose between running scalding hot or freezing cold water over our hands. Instead, we should be able to choose a pleasant mixture of body-temperature warm water.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insufficiently-advanced-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}