Glad I am not the only one.... father in-law use to give me a hard time because when he would ask me I would have to do the math....if I was not ...... umm to old I would dance on his grave.
In his defense, I just turned 22 and I'm already losing count. Spent a week thinking I'm 23 until it came up in a conversation with a friend who clearly knew my age better than I did.
I was 22 for two years until my 24th birthday. After hitting my 40's I tend to round up to the next age, as I was born late in the year and it's just easier that way. That 24th birthday party was a blast though, because all my friends thought I was insane for not knowing my real age, and apparently forgetting how old I actually was.
@Emporio Alniño I know what you mean; you just get used to your current age, then a month later, you’re expected to remember a different number, which takes you another 11 months to get right, and the whole sorry business continues haha. I think I’ll just leave it for other people to remember my age; it’s clearly not something I’m good at, so maybe someone else will do a better job at it. And then, if anybody asks me my age, I can direct them to the person I’ve delegated the task of remembering it; and if he/she can’t remember, it’ll make them look stupid, not me...my god, it’s foolproof plan...in that only a fool could come up with it haha. All the best. 😀👍
I'm in my early thirties. Whenever someone wants to know more I'd have to do the math in my head. I actually think it's quite healthy to not be that aware of your own age.
Very simply, there’s 2 taps in the UK because warm water in the olden days was not drinkable, only cold water was hence you couldn’t mix them. (Edit) Since so many people can't fathom the idea that houses can be old, 2 taps still work, which is why some houses in the UK still have them. Watch Tom Scott’s video for a more in depth explanation yo why tf you all having a go at me like I'm some die hard England 2 tap supporter? I just explained why sometimes this happens quit hassling me
Rhod deserves some points here because he's absolutely correct. Once you're over 40, there is absolutely no reason to know your own age. It doesn't matter. You're just over 40. If you hit 100 start counting again in case you hit some kind of record.
I actually had our HR lady at the office correct me when she overheard me telling someone how old I thought I was! I really have to think about it and remind myself often so I can remember the correct number. Yes, I'm just over 40.
underfloor heating doesn't cast fire (usually). Normally the hitting system is cemented in. Here in Norway we use water-heating in newer houses, you can make a wall or the floor as a heater
This is great for cold climates, but useless for areas with more daily variance in temperature. The heated glycol that is piped through the floor takes a long time to raise the temperature and conversely a long time to cool down after being turned off, so for areas that need heating one day, and cooling the next it becomes inefficient. However if you need to heat a space for 4 months of uninterrupted time, its vastly superior.
But unless you keep your floor squeaky clean around the hour you are going to deal with dust and dead skin and what not stirring up because of the convection currents... It's a real nightmare for people with allergies
to explain seperate taps: by UK law, the cold water supply is the "drinking water" as it comes from the main supply network, but the hot water used to be stored in a tank in the roof, so was not required by law to be drinking water.
Blind Bob I’m don’t think this explains why they now can’t have a combination tap. Where the water comes from is irrelevant as the 2 separate lines converge on the mixer tap regardless of where they come from.
The point is still that the hot water is stored in such a way that it sits still for a long time and so by law is not drinking water. In my house, though the heating and hot water are separate, they are both heated by the same boiler, which only comes on from about 6 to 9 each morning and evening. this means that the hot water used between these times is stored in an insulated container which can technically run out, though if it did we'd just activate the boiler outside it's schedule. The water in this container sits there for long enough that it's not drinkable. The reason why we haven't replaced the system? Simple, that boiler and the related setup will last pretty much forever. they are very old, we've lived here for 25 odd years and the boiler was there before the previous owners. It has only ever had one or two problems due to a fuse blowing or a problem with the pump. modern plumbing systems, especially boilers, are designed to fail after 5 or 10 years so that the boiler making company can get more business (planned obsolescence). and above that? we've never had a problem with separate taps, i mean, there's really no point to changing.
i was born in a year ending in 0 so its very easy to keep track of my age. Its 2018? Well, ive already had my birthday this year so it ends in an 8. And theres no way you could accidentally skip a decade unless you have dementia or something like that, and in that case you probably dont need to remember your age anyways because youll have someone taking care of you.
He got the answer wrong BECAUSE he did it that way. If you were born say 6/6/2000 and the current date was 5/6/2021, then you are 20 years old, not 21 years old which is the answer you'd get if you subtract your birth year from the current year.
For those who don’t know the reason there are 2 taps in Britain whilst some modern build houses or businesses use mixer taps like several countries is because traditionally the houses cold water taps were supplied directly by the main UK water source so was safe to drink. Whereas the hot water may come from boiler or in roof water pools and sometimes these pools contained bacteria growth, dead rats etc which is no longer common but when they were open top and used poor materials it happened so drinking water had to come from the cold tap for safety because the hot water was not always fresh from the boiler.
That means that using boiler water was an unsafe practice. The government should have required that ALL water use in a home be potable. The only reason to use boiler water is to save money. We use boilers and radiators in the US too. If the boiler provides hot water for household uses, it uses potable water and a separate heat exchanger. This makes boilers a little more expensive.
Having two taps is because hot water used to be stored in the loft or whatever of the house and was considered unsafe for drinking unlike the cold water which came from an external pipe - to avoid cross contamination the taps were kept separate
Those are different things: A heat pump is essentially an inside-out refrigerator where you cool the outside to heat the inside. Forced air heating uses a furnace of some kind to heat air which is then blown through ducts to distribute the heat.
wrong. Forced air simply means any system that delivers cold/hot air through your house through ducts and vents. A heat pump does this, a furnace does this, many systems do this. An old radiator water based system isn't forced air. A electric system isn't forced air. Some geo heat pumps aren't forced air, but most regular heat pumps are. A heat pump and a furnace are just different methods to do forced air. So Truth is 100% right, its called a heat pump in new Zealand, while in Canada she calls it forced air. We don't call it forced air in America, we usually call it central air, or we call it by the method it's delivered (a furnace system, heat pump, natural gas, etc). As an American I never even heard of "forced air" until she said it in this episode, we call it something else.
Rhod has a point. I could never remember my age as it changes every year. Even now, at 53, I have to work it out each time. . Stuff like today's date you see all the time and it's the same for everybody
Every January people fuck up when writing the date because they forget ... after a month of not remembering you got older on your most recent birthday I'm sure it would finally sink in. ... and then you'd get depressed for another three months thinking "I can't believe I'm this fucking old" while kidding yourself that you're still "young at heart."
I struggle with remembering my age. I also frequently forget my birthdate so I can't work it out quickly! Which is a problem because I also am frequently at the pharmacy and doctors where they always ask me my birthdate 🤦🏻♀️
I think the tap thing is because there was a regulation that didn't allow them to mix. Someone told me that cold water in Britain used to be on the same line as drinking water. Something like that.
It has mostly to do with the after war infrastructure. The cold water was coming directly from the towns water grid. Warm water was stored in boilers (on the attic). (Of course they were filled from the Grid as well) BUT the standing warm water in often not so clean tanks was a major health threat. In order to protect the grid from contermination with the bacteria infected warm water they seperated the pipes till the last moment . Today it is not needed any more but old learned sthings stick
Well it's partly to do with how hot water was a later addition to UK homes, but it's mainly to do with the cold-water tank that in turn feeds the hot water tank. The cold tank is normally an open-top container and sits in the roof space. This means that vermin like mice and rats may fall into it and drown. The last thing you'd want to do is contaminate the tap that feeds your drinking water. Thankfully you're unlikely to find rodents in the roof space these days, although that doesn't mean the water in the cold tank is safe to drink. Of course this isn't a problem with newer properties, or indeed any property with a gas boiler rather than an electrically heated hot water tank.
As a Canadian, I have never heard it called ´forced air.’ It’s more commonly called central heating, and is essentially a bunch of air being circulated through vents
For anyone who's interested, he book _Blind Man's Bluff,_ by Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew and Annette Lawrence Drew is a really good exposition of Ivy Bells and the other US clandestine submarine operations.
Forced air requires ductwork that would only work in newer wood framed houses. Britain's older brick homes would be a nightmare to heat this way. Floor radiant heating would be better. With rising global temps Britain's summers are getting hotter, so retrofitting AC is going to be the next boom industry in southern England.
We have brick homes in Canada too you know. Or are you saying the British floors are all brickwork lain horizontally? Because in Canada we invented the wooden floor built on crossbeams.
Forced air is crazy expensive because it runs off electricity 24/7. Central heating is more efficient because it heats cold air coming through the windows and it's cheaper because it only runs a water pump for a few minutes a day.
A forced air furnace doesn't run 24/7. The term central heating is very general, and in fact most forced air systems are a type of central heating. The greatest expense in heating in a cold climate is the actual heating, not the running of a pump or a fan. Many different types of systems can be efficient, including forced air and radiant heating. In any case, allowing cold air to come in through the windows and heating that is about the least efficient system you could possibly come up with.
With a central heating system of radiators, you don't literally let cold air come in through the windows and heat it on the way - that would indeed be stupidly inefficient. However, for any given room, even with the windows shut, the space next to the window is usually going to be the coldest part. Not massively colder than the rest of the room - the temperature difference would only be a couple of degrees. So if the radiator is positioned on the wall below the window, that small temperature difference is enough to drive the convection current (which is initiated by warm air rising from the radiator) around the entire room. This gives better mixing of warm air with cooler air than would be achieved by placing the radiator on any other wall. A bonus is that the distribution of warm air happens passively and therefore silently, so is more efficient than you might think.
Nope btu's for air-conditioning is always more efficient Central heating, heats water which heats a radiator which then heats surrounding air three steps, while air-conditioning is heating the medium (air) via a heat exchange 2steps... Although gas is cheaper than electricity normally air-conditioning is around 5 times more efficient so even if gas is twice as cheap saving works out easily... Plus air-condition can heat and cool while radiators are useless in summer... Knowledge bomb!!!
It's true that if you need a system that can heat and cool, then air conditioning will be more efficient, since it works on the heat-pump principle: The primary energy use (which is usually electricity but can be gas) is for moving heat energy around, either from outside to inside for heating, or the reverse of that for cooling. So in any inherently hot climate where you are mostly going to need cooling, AC is definitely the more efficient system. However, there are a couple of disadvantages of a heat-pump driven AC system: To begin with, the air ducting it needs takes up quite a lot of space, which is fine for a building designed from the start to use it, but much harder to retro-fit to existing buildings, especially small city properties where internal space is limited. This is why central heating uses water to transfer heat, since it has a much larger heat capacity than air and therefore the pipework is a lot smaller. A water-based central heating system can also be used to provide hot water for bathroom and kitchen requirements. A property fitted with AC will need a separate system for providing hot water, since AC units only heat air to moderate temperatures and can't provide hot water.
I'm with Rhod on this, I'm in my late thirties and I quite often forget my own age. Because it just doesn't matter, once you're over a certain age. I'm 37 or 38 or something and I cannot be arsed to work it out.
It's not the case anymore but at one time all US submarines were named after types of fish. Imagine signing up to be a submariner (very dangerous work at the best of times), hoping to get assigned to the USS Hammerhead or USS Barracuda & you end up on the USS Halibut. I'm sure it was a great boat but it'd have to be a bummer. Your sitting in a bar in San Diego with a bunch of other Navy men. One guy says "I'm on the USS Enterprise", another one says "I'm on the Yorktown. What about you?" "I'm on the Halibut". No matter how brave you are or how good your sub is, you're going to take a lot of crap.
I was going to say: To get all the dragons out of England. Which is a reference to the Universal Tap Room from the short story 'The Deliverers of their Country'.
Warm water was taken from a separate dirty tank of water which was in the house and sent through the boiler that was unsuitable to drink so couldn’t be mixed with cold water which came from the mains and was suitable to drink and the easiest solution to this problem was make two taps for hot and cold instead of one tap for both. And for radiators it’s very simple why we have a heating system and no cooling system and that is because it’s always bloody cold here and if for some reason we actually get some sunshine we all go outside and enjoy it instead of staying inside so we have no reason to cool the house down outside of opening a few windows and maybe turning a fan on at night because you forgot to take the winter duvet off and you’re roasting alive.
The explanation for the two taps is that the cold water is treated running water and, therefore, drinkable. Whereas, the hot water has typically come from a boiler tank in the UK (as this was just the system that was typically used after the war and which most houses often still have). Whilst the boiler tank is filled with the same cold water that comes from the cold tap, it sits in the tank - to be heated - and, well, how long that water might sit in the tank entirely depends on how much hot water you're using (and as the hot water tank is being constantly refilled as it's being used then, depending on how the water swirls around, the same water might end up in the tank for a long time, going around and around). These facts about the boiler tank therefore mean that the hot water can't be rated as "drinkable water". And the reason the taps are separate is because, with a mixer tap, the hot water - rated "undrinkable" - could potentially run back up the cold water and, thus, compromise the cold water's "drinkable" rating. But, yes, in reality, this is very much like British plugs and sockets. Those big three-pronged beasts of a plug - because of the insistence of having a fuse protect the cabling. But, hey, most other countries don't bother having this and it doesn't really make any great difference. The British insistence on a fuse is safer. But, well, it's not as if there's some gargantuan epidemic of house fires caused by unfused cabling in America, where they don't bother doing this. And then the sockets all being switched. Again, America doesn't bother with this and it's not the end of the world to lack a switch. Though, in this particular case, I'd recommend the switched sockets for their superior convenience, rather than any additional safety it might bring - though there is that too - because it's very handy to be able to turn things on and off with a switch, rather than having to plug and unplug a device constantly. So, what I'm getting at is that British standards for things are often overly pedantic. Overly official - yes, the hot water is rated "undrinkable" and with good reason, as it cannot be guaranteed of drinkable quality, due to the hot water boiler being in the equation. But, well, the hot water tank is fed by the treated cold water. It's not as if the hot water wasn't treated beforehand, as it was. Not that I'd personally recommend it - as the reasons for why it's rated "undrinkable" are sound - but if you unintentionally drank a cup from the hot water tap, then you'd very likely be perfectly okay. British standards tend to be paranoid compared to other countries - and though the stereotypes for the Germans is that they are sticklers for "official rules" and the letter of the law, their cousins, the English, have some of that "Anglo-Saxon" still in them too. Because as well as the British safety standards being paranoid (though not at all wrong, as these risks they counter are genuine issues that could potentially occur), the British people tend to be pedantic rule-followers too. So every kid has it drummed into them that you never ever drink from the hot water tap. Never do this. Never. But if you did? Odds of something untoward actually happening: very low. But, nonetheless, it's the rules. The rules must be followed to the letter - on penalty of stern social disapproval, which is a fate worse than death for a Brit! In fairness, the British came up with the whole "rule of law" thing with the Magna Carta. We have form on that, and I feel some rightful pride in it. But we also perhaps might be a bit too obsessed with it sometimes too. (The British tabloids, for instance, regularly moan about EU regulations. But the thing is, in all the other EU countries, these are more "guidelines" and are often flouted or ignored, if it'd be rather silly to insist on upholding them. But, in Britain, if the laws say this then that's what happens. End of discussion. So a lot of these complaints about EU law are really not so much the laws themselves, but the British insistence on taking all of them overly seriously. Oh, and we were a EU member, with the ability to bring laws to the EU - so, some of the ones that the tabloids complain about? Guess which nation probably came up with it in the first place? Particularly if it's an overly paranoid and "official" type of law that's a pain in the arse to enforce. Because we Brits are the experts in inventing those type of laws, and then insisting on following them to the letter.) Of course, you could make equal argument in the other direction. That it's not the Brits being "paranoid" with their standards, but that the Americans, for example, are just too lax and insufficiently concerned with theirs. It is, ultimately, a subjective judgement call where you stand on how pedantic the safety rules ought to be. Should it be set at "mostly safe, but with some leeway to not overly restrict people"? Or should it be set at "extremely safe, as we've aimed to eliminate 90% of the risks - and we should restrict people's freedoms, as it's for their own good, to protect them"? But, yeah, the issue with mixer taps when combined with the typical hot water boiler tank that UK homes mostly have is that, nominally, the "undrinkable" hot water could potentially run back up into the "drinkable" cold water pipes and, thus, threaten the cold water's "drinkable" rating. So, to make that impossible, the taps are separated. And the idea, by the way, is to mix the cold and hot water in the sink to your desired temperature - not stick your hands under the tap directly. Yeah, I often can't be bothered with that either. But just, you know, for the record, that's what's supposed to be done. Use the plug and mix the water in the sink. Even if no-one actually ever does this.
We don't have mixer taps because since the second world war up until very recently there was a hot tank in the Attic which contain water that was deemed not suitable to drink which means any mixer tap would be putting water that wasn't safe to drink water whilst hens having two separate taps
So every place in Britain gets its hot water supplied from a different source than its cold water? Why? Does the water arrive heated? Is it heated in the tank? Why a second source?
the central heating is called forced air because it is blown by a central fan into each room. In a room there is a vent pushing warm or cold air into the room, and there is also a return taking the air back to the central unit to either heat or cool. Simple.
Forced air is definitely the normal in Canada. Furnace heats air, and fan blows it thru ductwork into all rooms in the house. On new constructions, of course.
Poor Rhod! 😂 I often have no idea how old I am when I first wake up. I once spent about the first five minutes of my day sure I was 19 and by the time I got upstairs I woke the rest of the way up. I then understood that I was 31.
There isn't always two taps, it depends on the sink. Also, I don't want radiators, I wish I had air conditioning instead. I'd rather be able to make it colder than hotter.
2 taps reason the hot water tap was not directly fed by the mains there was a tank up in the loft that was fed from the mains via a ballcock for use with a heating system and also this tank of water could stand for days or weeks in some cases the tank could have dead birds or rats in it as kids we were told never drink from the hot tap or you will die the thinking at the time was a mixer tap could backwash the stagnant water back into the mains drinking water now they have no return valves fitted plus we don't use the tank system anymore
Funny they should mention people that don't know how old they are, considering Bill Bailey found out his true birthday just in February of this year (2018)
You have two taps as the hot water heating used to be kept on site. and as areas of that pipe were dry and humid bacteria would come. Which is why we don't use the water straight after it comes out the tap as it may have contained germs back in those days. These days that isn't a problem as all new houses have to run hot n cold pipes in.
I live in Kentucky where, actually the older Victorian era houses do have two tap sinks, and I just can't get over my massive Bluegrass Region borne crush on Sandi. I never expect to get over that crush, either, Muhammad Ali's honor, I won't. (I live where he's buried).
I love how the host[ess] seems to have fun with the, uh... "contestants", I guess? on these British shows. This is just high-budget old-school RUclips.
Thought forced air meant there was a 747 in one corner, engines on full forcing air into the room. But that might get a bit noisy after a while, and the neighbours might complain. Unless they live in the next town.
She spent most of her childhood in New York City until she was sent off to boarding school in England where she had to work at losing her accent to be accepted by the other girls.
I lose track of how old I am because I start saying the age that I'm closest to, since that's the only thing that makes sense, but then I forget if I've started doing it yet or not
Funny thing is, there have been forced air heating systems in the UK for a long time, even houses (laced with asbestos too!) built in "New towns" had it, though it was gas heated and stank, it was still hot air being pushed through tubes (again, asbestos lined!), as for hot & cold, that's cos of open header tanks in the roof being filled with dead creatures before the advent of the combi boiler, don't want to accidentally drink dead pigeon water... :S
The hot water Co. Es from a tank you heat, probably in the loft where other things can get in it, dust insects etc, the cold wTer comes from the mains line and is drinkable.
In older houses, before boilers, hot water was gravity fed. With Mixer taps, it was possible that the cold water could push the hot water back to the hot water tank and overflow it.
I live in Canada and some old lady that I worked with laughed at me for putting hot water into the kettle. In Canada, our hot water and cold comes from the same source, so not really an issue. The thing is, she was Canadian, but I think her parents were British, so now I'm laughing at her all these years later.
In the UK it's same source as well. I don't know any country that has separate hot water source. The reason you don't drink hot water is because metal dissolution. Pipe used to be lead and that might still exist in older buildings. In Canada you now use copper pipes, which is not poisonous but still a heavy metal. She's right to be cautious.
@@LoggyWD Actually in older homes in the UK, hot water was a separate source, and still is in some homes. But regardless, the lead pipes thing makes sense as well. She wasn't correct about not using hot water though. Hot water is perfectly safe from the tap here. www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-42948046
Interesting that they don't know why there are two taps in the UK....It's seems obvious to me that the reason is so you can fill up the basin to the desired temperature for washing more than your hands, and as hot water was then and still costs energy to produce, it's better to fill up the basin rather than just run it down the plughole....Id say it comes from the days before indoor plumbing when everyone washed from a basin...
Nope. It's because water for heating used to be stored in a 'septic tank' which was separate from the 'mains' drinking water supply and would often attract rodents/dust/other contaminants, making it unsafe for consumption. Source: I live in the UK.
Two taps is more commonplace in Countries that are not as wasteful. North America is one of the Countries most likely to squander resources so it is not unexpected they have mixer taps. The sink has a plug hole and a plug, which enables the user to run sufficient hot and cold water into said sink and arrive at a suitable temperature of water without perpetually running the water (i.e. a sink allows the user to modify the volume of water being used). Anyone who does not 'get this' clearly does not give consideration to the environment.
Two taps, because jot water wasn't guaranteed to be safe because hot water tanks weren't nessersary maintained, so to stop contaminated hot water syphoning back into the mains supply you had two taps. Now an antisyphon valve on a mixer tap works just as well, same for outdoor taps.
If you have algae breeding in your hot water cylinder how did they get there? Your hot water cylinder first fills with cold water from the same source as your cold water. If your hot water is supplied from the same boiler as your heat. Clean your boiler. If it is supplied by your local government, put a filter on the line.
Those are forced air systems. It means the system has a fan that blows hot/cold air into each room via a duct system and carries cold air from each room via a return duct system where it is heated and returned to each room. If you haven't ever heard it called this, stop watching cartoons and read a book.
@@zdcyclops1lickley190 If even Sandi Toksvig hasn't heard of it, I think we can rule out lack of reading as the problem. In the US, it's commonly called HVAC (pronounced H-vac) or central heating/cooling, as Smash said. Also, those aren't necessarily forced air systems. For example, a central heating system can work with a network of radiators.
Do you live in an area of the States that was one of the first places to be colonised? Could be that the separate taps phenomenon crossed the ocean before you guys figured out how to do it better.
@@Raemnant 🤣 But I think on the internet it is bad form to ever admit error. Double down and attack the questioner seems to be the usual mode of operations.
@@BootsofBlindingSpeed There was, just no DIRECT tie to the president was found, there was plenty of evidence that a lot of his staff and his son did collude with Russia. You also can't indict a sitting president which means Mueller couldn't really do much without a direct tie. At this point you've got to be willfully ignorant to ignore all the evidence of this happening. I suppose evidence, facts and reality are all fake news to you cult members though.
@@BootsofBlindingSpeed I wish I could see the look on your face when the bastard gets impeached. Next election you're supporting Yang? Not if he's not on the ballot, you're not.
@@BootsofBlindingSpeed So the 30+ convictions ranging from the Campaign Chairman to members of the state delegations for illegal contacts with the Russians means that nobody knew what was going on? You might be that stupid, but none of the rest of us are.
Nobody in Britain has heard of forced air heating? Your furnace has a heating element inside and it runs a continuous flow of air over it, which gets pumped into the air ducts of your house...Or do you just not have air ducts in your houses?
Rhod 'I'm forty-nine.'
Producer 'Imma check that real fast.'
A shame there wasn't a klaxon when he said 49
ReaLLY fast
He actually says, "I'm about 49."
@@mathewfullerton8577 Hello David.
This episode’s highlight: Rhod Gilbert forgets how old he is.
I do that too, I think it's because we don't want to grow older. So we convinently forget😉!
She told him he was 48... and HE WROTE IT DOWN! LMFAO!!!
Glad I am not the only one.... father in-law use to give me a hard time because when he would ask me I would have to do the math....if I was not ...... umm to old I would dance on his grave.
I think it's Alan clinging desperately to the Mueller hoax.
Slobodan Reka shut up. Trump did it.
I know why there's two taps in British homes because of Tom Scott... Now I want to see him on QI...
That would be the best thing ever
It would be unfair for others to have Tom Scott on
@@shurdi3 Well they did have Brian Cox several timea
Tom Scott would just decimate all the questions
No, Jay Foreman should be on first. Scott would be nothing without Foreman.
I'm 49.
*klaxon sound intensifies*
He *actually* said "I'm about 49", which was true
I love the way Rhod can take any panel show completely off the rails.
This is what I love about QI. The subject matter wont always dictate the direction of the conversation, and you just get something totally unexpected.
In his defense, I just turned 22 and I'm already losing count. Spent a week thinking I'm 23 until it came up in a conversation with a friend who clearly knew my age better than I did.
I just know I'm soon 25 because I'll change benefits.
I was 22 for two years until my 24th birthday. After hitting my 40's I tend to round up to the next age, as I was born late in the year and it's just easier that way. That 24th birthday party was a blast though, because all my friends thought I was insane for not knowing my real age, and apparently forgetting how old I actually was.
@Emporio Alniño
I know what you mean; you just get used to your current age, then a month later, you’re expected to remember a different number, which takes you another 11 months to get right, and the whole sorry business continues haha.
I think I’ll just leave it for other people to remember my age; it’s clearly not something I’m good at, so maybe someone else will do a better job at it.
And then, if anybody asks me my age, I can direct them to the person I’ve delegated the task of remembering it; and if he/she can’t remember, it’ll make them look stupid, not me...my god, it’s foolproof plan...in that only a fool could come up with it haha.
All the best. 😀👍
Ah after 21 it's just all gravy.
I'm in my early thirties. Whenever someone wants to know more I'd have to do the math in my head.
I actually think it's quite healthy to not be that aware of your own age.
Very simply, there’s 2 taps in the UK because warm water in the olden days was not drinkable, only cold water was hence you couldn’t mix them. (Edit) Since so many people can't fathom the idea that houses can be old, 2 taps still work, which is why some houses in the UK still have them. Watch Tom Scott’s video for a more in depth explanation
yo why tf you all having a go at me like I'm some die hard England 2 tap supporter? I just explained why sometimes this happens quit hassling me
Harry Jones *hence you couldn't mix them
Never say "hence why". It's nonsense.
yeah i'm retarded lmao ty
Harry Jones It's a really common mistake these days. People hear it and pick it up. Even TV reporters say it.
Aye, you just want to use "Hence", the "why" isn't neccesary
yes, well, key phrase being "olden days"! theres bloody reason for you not to have them now
Katherine Ryan and Rhod Gilbert are an unexpectedly good panel show combination
Rhod deserves some points here because he's absolutely correct. Once you're over 40, there is absolutely no reason to know your own age. It doesn't matter. You're just over 40.
If you hit 100 start counting again in case you hit some kind of record.
How would you know if you hit 100 tho
I actually had our HR lady at the office correct me when she overheard me telling someone how old I thought I was! I really have to think about it and remind myself often so I can remember the correct number. Yes, I'm just over 40.
@@invictus7736 People will remind you.-
I'm not quite 40. I usually have to do some quick maths to remember my age.
I tend to forget since I turned 25 lol. Age just isn't that relevant when you're not a kid anymore.
Underfloor heating is the best. Evenly distributed, and warms ur feet nicely.
underfloor heating doesn't cast fire (usually). Normally the hitting system is cemented in.
Here in Norway we use water-heating in newer houses, you can make a wall or the floor as a heater
Yes since heat rises and with underfloor heating starts at the floor. It is perfect.
This is great for cold climates, but useless for areas with more daily variance in temperature. The heated glycol that is piped through the floor takes a long time to raise the temperature and conversely a long time to cool down after being turned off, so for areas that need heating one day, and cooling the next it becomes inefficient. However if you need to heat a space for 4 months of uninterrupted time, its vastly superior.
But unless you keep your floor squeaky clean around the hour you are going to deal with dust and dead skin and what not stirring up because of the convection currents... It's a real nightmare for people with allergies
Korea!
to explain seperate taps: by UK law, the cold water supply is the "drinking water" as it comes from the main supply network, but the hot water used to be stored in a tank in the roof, so was not required by law to be drinking water.
Interesting! Have some points!
@ Blind Bob... Now I understand what happened to the British automotive industry.
@Blind Bob For that, you get 10 points.
Blind Bob I’m don’t think this explains why they now can’t have a combination tap. Where the water comes from is irrelevant as the 2 separate lines converge on the mixer tap regardless of where they come from.
The point is still that the hot water is stored in such a way that it sits still for a long time and so by law is not drinking water. In my house, though the heating and hot water are separate, they are both heated by the same boiler, which only comes on from about 6 to 9 each morning and evening. this means that the hot water used between these times is stored in an insulated container which can technically run out, though if it did we'd just activate the boiler outside it's schedule. The water in this container sits there for long enough that it's not drinkable.
The reason why we haven't replaced the system? Simple, that boiler and the related setup will last pretty much forever. they are very old, we've lived here for 25 odd years and the boiler was there before the previous owners. It has only ever had one or two problems due to a fuse blowing or a problem with the pump. modern plumbing systems, especially boilers, are designed to fail after 5 or 10 years so that the boiler making company can get more business (planned obsolescence). and above that? we've never had a problem with separate taps, i mean, there's really no point to changing.
Rhod legit looks young for 48..
Especially when Bill Bailey is on the panel, who is only three years older than Rhod Gilbert.
He looks 45
You know you're getting old when you have to do the math.
i was born in a year ending in 0 so its very easy to keep track of my age. Its 2018? Well, ive already had my birthday this year so it ends in an 8. And theres no way you could accidentally skip a decade unless you have dementia or something like that, and in that case you probably dont need to remember your age anyways because youll have someone taking care of you.
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I've been doing that since my thirties
Ive one word for you 🖕
tom jackson are you old enough to remember 0-26?
2:08 "What year are we in today
When am I born just take that away
You don't have to be a whiz
That's how old Rob Gilbert is"
He got the answer wrong BECAUSE he did it that way. If you were born say 6/6/2000 and the current date was 5/6/2021, then you are 20 years old, not 21 years old which is the answer you'd get if you subtract your birth year from the current year.
3:11 I enjoy how amused Rhod is that there’s a submarine named after a halibut
It was CALLED the Halibut. It wasn't named after a halibut: The USS Terry, after Terry the Halibut.
After the age of 30, it really gets hard to remember your age. Imagine how elves must feel.
Human: how old are you?
Elf: what year are we in?
Human: 2547
Elf lich: of what calendar?
For those who don’t know the reason there are 2 taps in Britain whilst some modern build houses or businesses use mixer taps like several countries is because traditionally the houses cold water taps were supplied directly by the main UK water source so was safe to drink. Whereas the hot water may come from boiler or in roof water pools and sometimes these pools contained bacteria growth, dead rats etc which is no longer common but when they were open top and used poor materials it happened so drinking water had to come from the cold tap for safety because the hot water was not always fresh from the boiler.
Yes, we'ere aware of this. We're also aware that it's stupid to continue doing it that way. The rest of the world has figured it out.
That means that using boiler water was an unsafe practice. The government should have required that ALL water use in a home be potable. The only reason to use boiler water is to save money. We use boilers and radiators in the US too. If the boiler provides hot water for household uses, it uses potable water and a separate heat exchanger. This makes boilers a little more expensive.
I love when Sandi gets angry 😂😂😂
Having two taps is because hot water used to be stored in the loft or whatever of the house and was considered unsafe for drinking unlike the cold water which came from an external pipe - to avoid cross contamination the taps were kept separate
That last joke witstood the time very well.
"Forced air" sounds better than "heat pump" which is what we call it here in New Zealand.
As a kid I would sit in front of the kitchen heat vent to warm up on winter mornings.
Those are different things:
A heat pump is essentially an inside-out refrigerator where you cool the outside to heat the inside.
Forced air heating uses a furnace of some kind to heat air which is then blown through ducts to distribute the heat.
@@chakatfirepaw ahhh ok. Basically a heat pump is like an air conditioning system that also heats. Nobody in NZ has furnaces for heating.
Yes but you've got nice scenery
wrong. Forced air simply means any system that delivers cold/hot air through your house through ducts and vents. A heat pump does this, a furnace does this, many systems do this. An old radiator water based system isn't forced air. A electric system isn't forced air. Some geo heat pumps aren't forced air, but most regular heat pumps are. A heat pump and a furnace are just different methods to do forced air. So Truth is 100% right, its called a heat pump in new Zealand, while in Canada she calls it forced air. We don't call it forced air in America, we usually call it central air, or we call it by the method it's delivered (a furnace system, heat pump, natural gas, etc). As an American I never even heard of "forced air" until she said it in this episode, we call it something else.
Forced air heating was quite common in my younger days (in the UK Midlands), several of the houses I lived in and visited had these systems
Really? In the US and Canada, radiators were the standard before WW2. Forced air gained popularity after air conditioning became widely available.
Rhod has a point. I could never remember my age as it changes every year. Even now, at 53, I have to work it out each time.
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Stuff like today's date you see all the time and it's the same for everybody
Every January people fuck up when writing the date because they forget ... after a month of not remembering you got older on your most recent birthday I'm sure it would finally sink in.
... and then you'd get depressed for another three months thinking "I can't believe I'm this fucking old" while kidding yourself that you're still "young at heart."
You don't have to work it out each time...you work it out once a year and then remember it for the rest of the year
I struggle with remembering my age. I also frequently forget my birthdate so I can't work it out quickly! Which is a problem because I also am frequently at the pharmacy and doctors where they always ask me my birthdate 🤦🏻♀️
Being born in 2000 can be really helpful in that regard
@@invictus7736 Yes. If only you can remember date...
I thought she said “four stair” and I was more confused than Rhod
"Guys, Larry doesn't know how to use the three seashells!" 😂
As a Brit, I'm with Sandi on this. My house only has one faucet and I consider the other taps nothing other than glorified nerve damage.
Alexander G clearly not a brit
Harold Welsman-Worth Because?
Alexander G you said faucet
Harold Welsman-Worth True, but that's because I googled it to try and sound clever.
Alexander G well then you might be a brit, only we are that self conscious
I think the tap thing is because there was a regulation that didn't allow them to mix. Someone told me that cold water in Britain used to be on the same line as drinking water. Something like that.
Najey Rifai Tom Scott: ruclips.net/video/HfHgUu_8KgA/видео.html.
It has mostly to do with the after war infrastructure.
The cold water was coming directly from the towns water grid.
Warm water was stored in boilers (on the attic). (Of course they were filled from the Grid as well)
BUT the standing warm water in often not so clean tanks was a major health threat.
In order to protect the grid from contermination with the bacteria infected warm water they seperated the pipes till the last moment .
Today it is not needed any more but old learned sthings stick
Well it's partly to do with how hot water was a later addition to UK homes, but it's mainly to do with the cold-water tank that in turn feeds the hot water tank. The cold tank is normally an open-top container and sits in the roof space. This means that vermin like mice and rats may fall into it and drown. The last thing you'd want to do is contaminate the tap that feeds your drinking water. Thankfully you're unlikely to find rodents in the roof space these days, although that doesn't mean the water in the cold tank is safe to drink.
Of course this isn't a problem with newer properties, or indeed any property with a gas boiler rather than an electrically heated hot water tank.
That makes sense! Thanks for the info :)
@TRiG I love this guy! Thanks for the link :)
In Ireland we have central heating, radiators AND a range
Turf Burner!
Still too fucking cold, somehow, or you forget to turn off the Immersion. Or forget to turn it on..
Bill baileys face at Rhod forgetting his age 😂😂
As a Canadian, I have never heard it called ´forced air.’ It’s more commonly called central heating, and is essentially a bunch of air being circulated through vents
N.H.C. Monkman In Australia it's called ducted heating/cooling
Who needs heating in Australia?!
Najey Rifai down south where I live it can get pretty cool in the winter nights (-5C ~25F i think)
Central heating is any heating system for a house. Radiators and such.
@Adrian, I guess it's right next to the South Pole. Never really thought of it that way.
For anyone who's interested, he book _Blind Man's Bluff,_ by Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew and Annette Lawrence Drew is a really good exposition of Ivy Bells and the other US clandestine submarine operations.
Forced air requires ductwork that would only work in newer wood framed houses. Britain's older brick homes would be a nightmare to heat this way. Floor radiant heating would be better. With rising global temps Britain's summers are getting hotter, so retrofitting AC is going to be the next boom industry in southern England.
Yeah but even in America minisplit systems are gaining ground, so retrofitting AC is much easier than it used to be.
We have brick homes in Canada too you know. Or are you saying the British floors are all brickwork lain horizontally? Because in Canada we invented the wooden floor built on crossbeams.
I grew up in a mid 19th c solid brick house and remember my dad putting in forced air.
Forced air is crazy expensive because it runs off electricity 24/7. Central heating is more efficient because it heats cold air coming through the windows and it's cheaper because it only runs a water pump for a few minutes a day.
A forced air furnace doesn't run 24/7. The term central heating is very general, and in fact most forced air systems are a type of central heating. The greatest expense in heating in a cold climate is the actual heating, not the running of a pump or a fan. Many different types of systems can be efficient, including forced air and radiant heating. In any case, allowing cold air to come in through the windows and heating that is about the least efficient system you could possibly come up with.
Wait until they discover heat pumps.
With a central heating system of radiators, you don't literally let cold air come in through the windows and heat it on the way - that would indeed be stupidly inefficient. However, for any given room, even with the windows shut, the space next to the window is usually going to be the coldest part. Not massively colder than the rest of the room - the temperature difference would only be a couple of degrees.
So if the radiator is positioned on the wall below the window, that small temperature difference is enough to drive the convection current (which is initiated by warm air rising from the radiator) around the entire room. This gives better mixing of warm air with cooler air than would be achieved by placing the radiator on any other wall. A bonus is that the distribution of warm air happens passively and therefore silently, so is more efficient than you might think.
Nope btu's for air-conditioning is always more efficient Central heating, heats water which heats a radiator which then heats surrounding air three steps, while air-conditioning is heating the medium (air) via a heat exchange 2steps... Although gas is cheaper than electricity normally air-conditioning is around 5 times more efficient so even if gas is twice as cheap saving works out easily... Plus air-condition can heat and cool while radiators are useless in summer... Knowledge bomb!!!
It's true that if you need a system that can heat and cool, then air conditioning will be more efficient, since it works on the heat-pump principle: The primary energy use (which is usually electricity but can be gas) is for moving heat energy around, either from outside to inside for heating, or the reverse of that for cooling. So in any inherently hot climate where you are mostly going to need cooling, AC is definitely the more efficient system. However, there are a couple of disadvantages of a heat-pump driven AC system:
To begin with, the air ducting it needs takes up quite a lot of space, which is fine for a building designed from the start to use it, but much harder to retro-fit to existing buildings, especially small city properties where internal space is limited. This is why central heating uses water to transfer heat, since it has a much larger heat capacity than air and therefore the pipework is a lot smaller. A water-based central heating system can also be used to provide hot water for bathroom and kitchen requirements. A property fitted with AC will need a separate system for providing hot water, since AC units only heat air to moderate temperatures and can't provide hot water.
I'm with Rhod on this, I'm in my late thirties and I quite often forget my own age. Because it just doesn't matter, once you're over a certain age. I'm 37 or 38 or something and I cannot be arsed to work it out.
It's not the case anymore but at one time all US submarines were named after types of fish. Imagine signing up to be a submariner (very dangerous work at the best of times), hoping to get assigned to the USS Hammerhead or USS Barracuda & you end up on the USS Halibut. I'm sure it was a great boat but it'd have to be a bummer. Your sitting in a bar in San Diego with a bunch of other Navy men. One guy says "I'm on the USS Enterprise", another one says "I'm on the Yorktown. What about you?" "I'm on the Halibut". No matter how brave you are or how good your sub is, you're going to take a lot of crap.
That would be excellent. The USS Minnow, loaded with the most advanced arsenal, would be a great cover name.
I can neither confirm nor deny this.@@jpaxonreyes
@@jpaxonreyes No it wouldn't. It would run around on a tropical isle after a 3 hour cruise
Alan Davies is a skinny legend💙🤣
I was going to say: To get all the dragons out of England. Which is a reference to the Universal Tap Room from the short story 'The Deliverers of their Country'.
I'm with Rhod G, it's tremendously difficult knowing how old I am and a point of great amusement for my friends.
They say that to get mixed taps they'd have to re do the whole piping system and that costs too much so they stick with separate taps
Warm water was taken from a separate dirty tank of water which was in the house and sent through the boiler that was unsuitable to drink so couldn’t be mixed with cold water which came from the mains and was suitable to drink and the easiest solution to this problem was make two taps for hot and cold instead of one tap for both. And for radiators it’s very simple why we have a heating system and no cooling system and that is because it’s always bloody cold here and if for some reason we actually get some sunshine we all go outside and enjoy it instead of staying inside so we have no reason to cool the house down outside of opening a few windows and maybe turning a fan on at night because you forgot to take the winter duvet off and you’re roasting alive.
The explanation for the two taps is that the cold water is treated running water and, therefore, drinkable.
Whereas, the hot water has typically come from a boiler tank in the UK (as this was just the system that was typically used after the war and which most houses often still have).
Whilst the boiler tank is filled with the same cold water that comes from the cold tap, it sits in the tank - to be heated - and, well, how long that water might sit in the tank entirely depends on how much hot water you're using (and as the hot water tank is being constantly refilled as it's being used then, depending on how the water swirls around, the same water might end up in the tank for a long time, going around and around).
These facts about the boiler tank therefore mean that the hot water can't be rated as "drinkable water".
And the reason the taps are separate is because, with a mixer tap, the hot water - rated "undrinkable" - could potentially run back up the cold water and, thus, compromise the cold water's "drinkable" rating.
But, yes, in reality, this is very much like British plugs and sockets. Those big three-pronged beasts of a plug - because of the insistence of having a fuse protect the cabling. But, hey, most other countries don't bother having this and it doesn't really make any great difference.
The British insistence on a fuse is safer. But, well, it's not as if there's some gargantuan epidemic of house fires caused by unfused cabling in America, where they don't bother doing this.
And then the sockets all being switched. Again, America doesn't bother with this and it's not the end of the world to lack a switch.
Though, in this particular case, I'd recommend the switched sockets for their superior convenience, rather than any additional safety it might bring - though there is that too - because it's very handy to be able to turn things on and off with a switch, rather than having to plug and unplug a device constantly.
So, what I'm getting at is that British standards for things are often overly pedantic. Overly official - yes, the hot water is rated "undrinkable" and with good reason, as it cannot be guaranteed of drinkable quality, due to the hot water boiler being in the equation.
But, well, the hot water tank is fed by the treated cold water. It's not as if the hot water wasn't treated beforehand, as it was. Not that I'd personally recommend it - as the reasons for why it's rated "undrinkable" are sound - but if you unintentionally drank a cup from the hot water tap, then you'd very likely be perfectly okay.
British standards tend to be paranoid compared to other countries - and though the stereotypes for the Germans is that they are sticklers for "official rules" and the letter of the law, their cousins, the English, have some of that "Anglo-Saxon" still in them too.
Because as well as the British safety standards being paranoid (though not at all wrong, as these risks they counter are genuine issues that could potentially occur), the British people tend to be pedantic rule-followers too.
So every kid has it drummed into them that you never ever drink from the hot water tap. Never do this. Never. But if you did? Odds of something untoward actually happening: very low.
But, nonetheless, it's the rules. The rules must be followed to the letter - on penalty of stern social disapproval, which is a fate worse than death for a Brit!
In fairness, the British came up with the whole "rule of law" thing with the Magna Carta. We have form on that, and I feel some rightful pride in it. But we also perhaps might be a bit too obsessed with it sometimes too.
(The British tabloids, for instance, regularly moan about EU regulations. But the thing is, in all the other EU countries, these are more "guidelines" and are often flouted or ignored, if it'd be rather silly to insist on upholding them. But, in Britain, if the laws say this then that's what happens. End of discussion. So a lot of these complaints about EU law are really not so much the laws themselves, but the British insistence on taking all of them overly seriously. Oh, and we were a EU member, with the ability to bring laws to the EU - so, some of the ones that the tabloids complain about? Guess which nation probably came up with it in the first place? Particularly if it's an overly paranoid and "official" type of law that's a pain in the arse to enforce. Because we Brits are the experts in inventing those type of laws, and then insisting on following them to the letter.)
Of course, you could make equal argument in the other direction. That it's not the Brits being "paranoid" with their standards, but that the Americans, for example, are just too lax and insufficiently concerned with theirs.
It is, ultimately, a subjective judgement call where you stand on how pedantic the safety rules ought to be. Should it be set at "mostly safe, but with some leeway to not overly restrict people"? Or should it be set at "extremely safe, as we've aimed to eliminate 90% of the risks - and we should restrict people's freedoms, as it's for their own good, to protect them"?
But, yeah, the issue with mixer taps when combined with the typical hot water boiler tank that UK homes mostly have is that, nominally, the "undrinkable" hot water could potentially run back up into the "drinkable" cold water pipes and, thus, threaten the cold water's "drinkable" rating.
So, to make that impossible, the taps are separated. And the idea, by the way, is to mix the cold and hot water in the sink to your desired temperature - not stick your hands under the tap directly.
Yeah, I often can't be bothered with that either. But just, you know, for the record, that's what's supposed to be done. Use the plug and mix the water in the sink. Even if no-one actually ever does this.
Can you provide a few more details?
We don't have mixer taps because since the second world war up until very recently there was a hot tank in the Attic which contain water that was deemed not suitable to drink which means any mixer tap would be putting water that wasn't safe to drink water whilst hens having two separate taps
So every place in Britain gets its hot water supplied from a different source than its cold water? Why? Does the water arrive heated? Is it heated in the tank? Why a second source?
the central heating is called forced air because it is blown by a central fan into each room. In a room there is a vent pushing warm or cold air into the room, and there is also a return taking the air back to the central unit to either heat or cool. Simple.
I also forget how old I am and have to work it out every time someone asks me because I never celebrate my birthday lol
Forced air is definitely the normal in Canada. Furnace heats air, and fan blows it thru ductwork into all rooms in the house. On new constructions, of course.
Poor Rhod! 😂 I often have no idea how old I am when I first wake up. I once spent about the first five minutes of my day sure I was 19 and by the time I got upstairs I woke the rest of the way up. I then understood that I was 31.
The submarine's name was USS Halibut (in those days American submarines were named after fish).
There isn't always two taps, it depends on the sink. Also, I don't want radiators, I wish I had air conditioning instead. I'd rather be able to make it colder than hotter.
Four stair heating?
Is that some sort of heated bannister thing?
@Herbert Erdferkel
AHH..good coronavirus advice.
For stare he ting
2 taps reason the hot water tap was not directly fed by the mains there was a tank up in the loft that was fed from the mains via a ballcock for use with a heating system and also this tank of water could stand for days or weeks in some cases the tank could have dead birds or rats in it as kids we were told never drink from the hot tap or you will die the thinking at the time was a mixer tap could backwash the stagnant water back into the mains drinking water now they have no return valves fitted plus we don't use the tank system anymore
Funny they should mention people that don't know how old they are, considering Bill Bailey found out his true birthday just in February of this year (2018)
You have two taps as the hot water heating used to be kept on site. and as areas of that pipe were dry and humid bacteria would come. Which is why we don't use the water straight after it comes out the tap as it may have contained germs back in those days.
These days that isn't a problem as all new houses have to run hot n cold pipes in.
In America (at least around my city), we also have the hot water heating all in-house. Idk what's different about it but we also have only one tap
The question isn't why they exist - the question is why they keep getting installed in new homes. Absolutely daft.
I live in Kentucky where, actually the older Victorian era houses do have two tap sinks, and I just can't get over my massive Bluegrass Region borne crush on Sandi. I never expect to get over that crush, either, Muhammad Ali's honor, I won't. (I live where he's buried).
I love how the host[ess] seems to have fun with the, uh... "contestants", I guess? on these British shows. This is just high-budget old-school RUclips.
Alot of people would fill the sink up with water and wash their face etc with a flannel so they would mix the temps in the sink
@@tamielizabethallaway2413 haha my house has two taps and it works just fine
A giant under water tape recorder some people take jokes way too literally but it lead to an interesting invention
My house is from 1703, and I have single faucets. I haven't even seen double ones since the 80s.
We have forced air hearing in the U.S. Much of the U.S. would be uninhabitable without it.
I'm with Rhod, remembering how old I am is a lifelong difficulty.
sewob147 Wikipedia will work it out for you!
I think you'll find we do have mixer taps but the reason most houses have a hot and a cold is because houses are older and it is slightly safer.
Thought forced air meant there was a 747 in one corner, engines on full forcing air into the room. But that might get a bit noisy after a while, and the neighbours might complain. Unless they live in the next town.
That music is funny, considering the last comment by Alan...😂😂
Michael Berthelsen That Gilbert guy looks just like Paul Gilbert.
What is the music?
Cheap Trump jibe spoilt an otherwise Great show
Ann Other Cheap, perhaps, but still both funny and true. Why would it ruin anything?
Because everyone uses a Trump gag when all else fails
Rhod: Your year of birth could be useful device, for remembering how old you are. 👍
Where’s the presenter originally from
She spent most of her childhood in New York City until she was sent off to boarding school in England where she had to work at losing her accent to be accepted by the other girls.
Born in Denmark
I lose track of how old I am because I start saying the age that I'm closest to, since that's the only thing that makes sense, but then I forget if I've started doing it yet or not
Kids born in 2000 will never understand how easy they have it when working out their age.
For Rhod, pretty much all houses built after 1950 in North America have forced air heating and cooling.
Funny thing is, there have been forced air heating systems in the UK for a long time, even houses (laced with asbestos too!) built in "New towns" had it, though it was gas heated and stank, it was still hot air being pushed through tubes (again, asbestos lined!), as for hot & cold, that's cos of open header tanks in the roof being filled with dead creatures before the advent of the combi boiler, don't want to accidentally drink dead pigeon water... :S
LMAO well the last line in this aged rather well
tfw donal dwumph is bad ;/
Apart from the fact that it seems that Joe and Hunter Biden are the ones with the criminal links to unfriendly foreign governments.
The hot water Co. Es from a tank you heat, probably in the loft where other things can get in it, dust insects etc, the cold wTer comes from the mains line and is drinkable.
Allan KILLED it with that Trump bit. XD
In older houses, before boilers, hot water was gravity fed. With Mixer taps, it was possible that the cold water could push the hot water back to the hot water tank and overflow it.
I love this program!!!
Two taps were for filling the basin or bath, not holding your hands under and wasting the hot water. We're a thrifty nation.
...A thrifty nation with lots of citizens who must somehow enjoy scrubbing away at soap scum?
No, the two taps are because hot water was stored in a disgusting tank in the attic and needed to be kept separate from the clean cold drinking water.
2:04 That was impressively fast 😳
I live in Canada and some old lady that I worked with laughed at me for putting hot water into the kettle. In Canada, our hot water and cold comes from the same source, so not really an issue. The thing is, she was Canadian, but I think her parents were British, so now I'm laughing at her all these years later.
In the UK it's same source as well. I don't know any country that has separate hot water source. The reason you don't drink hot water is because metal dissolution. Pipe used to be lead and that might still exist in older buildings. In Canada you now use copper pipes, which is not poisonous but still a heavy metal. She's right to be cautious.
@@LoggyWD Actually in older homes in the UK, hot water was a separate source, and still is in some homes. But regardless, the lead pipes thing makes sense as well. She wasn't correct about not using hot water though. Hot water is perfectly safe from the tap here.
www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-42948046
Interesting that they don't know why there are two taps in the UK....It's seems obvious to me that the reason is so you can fill up the basin to the desired temperature for washing more than your hands, and as hot water was then and still costs energy to produce, it's better to fill up the basin rather than just run it down the plughole....Id say it comes from the days before indoor plumbing when everyone washed from a basin...
Nope. It's because water for heating used to be stored in a 'septic tank' which was separate from the 'mains' drinking water supply and would often attract rodents/dust/other contaminants, making it unsafe for consumption.
Source: I live in the UK.
Ah Rhod. Classic. Hahaha
At the risk of repetition... WHAT IS THE POINT OF A TAP IN THE OCEAN!!
I read this at the same time she yelled it!
I might've misunderstood Katherine but it sounds like she's saying she's seen houses with only 1 radiator when my house has 10
Sandi was absolutely the correct choice to replace Stephen.
Two taps is more commonplace in Countries that are not as wasteful. North America is one of the Countries most likely to squander resources so it is not unexpected they have mixer taps. The sink has a plug hole and a plug, which enables the user to run sufficient hot and cold water into said sink and arrive at a suitable temperature of water without perpetually running the water (i.e. a sink allows the user to modify the volume of water being used). Anyone who does not 'get this' clearly does not give consideration to the environment.
Two taps, because jot water wasn't guaranteed to be safe because hot water tanks weren't nessersary maintained, so to stop contaminated hot water syphoning back into the mains supply you had two taps. Now an antisyphon valve on a mixer tap works just as well, same for outdoor taps.
It isn’t a problem because the cold water isn’t frigid and and the hot water isn’t searing.
Central heating?
I think I lived in a house with forced air heating in Kirkby In Ashfield about 35 years ago!
the reason for 2 taps is so you are not drinking water that is contaminated by the algae that breeds in hot water cylinders.
If you have algae breeding in your hot water cylinder how did they get there? Your hot water cylinder first fills with cold water from the same source as your cold water. If your hot water is supplied from the same boiler as your heat. Clean your boiler. If it is supplied by your local government, put a filter on the line.
I'm from the US and I've never heard of "forced air", only "central air/heating/cooling".
Those are forced air systems. It means the system has a fan that blows hot/cold air into each room via a duct system and carries cold air from each room via a return duct system where it is heated and returned to each room. If you haven't ever heard it called this, stop watching cartoons and read a book.
@@zdcyclops1lickley190 If even Sandi Toksvig hasn't heard of it, I think we can rule out lack of reading as the problem. In the US, it's commonly called HVAC (pronounced H-vac) or central heating/cooling, as Smash said. Also, those aren't necessarily forced air systems. For example, a central heating system can work with a network of radiators.
I'm pretty sure many of us are trying to forget how old we are
I live in the U.S. and every house I've ever been in has had two taps as well. I've only ever seen one tap in public bathrooms
Do you live in an area of the States that was one of the first places to be colonised? Could be that the separate taps phenomenon crossed the ocean before you guys figured out how to do it better.
@@theclockworkcadaver7025 Florida, so I really dont know. Maybe its because we were all so ass backwards down here anyways
@@Raemnant Are you thinking about the handles? lol I'm also in Florida and I've never once seen a two tap system outside of professional kitchens
@@TheRiley1345 u rite. I was stupid, forget I said anything lmao
@@Raemnant 🤣 But I think on the internet it is bad form to ever admit error. Double down and attack the questioner seems to be the usual mode of operations.
I still don't know the answer to the question
Alan firing shots
Nah, mostly being ignorant. It's kind of his job on the show.
Whatever helps you sleep champ ^^
@@BlueFury2577 there was no collusion. Give it up.
@@BootsofBlindingSpeed There was, just no DIRECT tie to the president was found, there was plenty of evidence that a lot of his staff and his son did collude with Russia.
You also can't indict a sitting president which means Mueller couldn't really do much without a direct tie.
At this point you've got to be willfully ignorant to ignore all the evidence of this happening.
I suppose evidence, facts and reality are all fake news to you cult members though.
@@BootsofBlindingSpeed I wish I could see the look on your face when the bastard gets impeached. Next election you're supporting Yang? Not if he's not on the ballot, you're not.
I thought the tap was in the ocean so the fish could get a drink whenever.
Alan, i thought the same thing.
My grandpa had the two tap sink. We are in USA
Q: What is the point of a tap in the ocean
A: Rhod Gilbert is 48 at time of recording
What is the blonde’s name ?????
England houses don't have central heat or modern plumbing? Is everyone there living in 100 year old buildings?
They do and their country is quite old so a lot of the buildings are quite old, unlike the US.
Yes actually.
3:48 You aren't wrong, comrade.
except that he is?
Don't engage the moron.
Don't even really need to ask, just follow his twitter feed.
There was no collusion.
@@BootsofBlindingSpeed So the 30+ convictions ranging from the Campaign Chairman to members of the state delegations for illegal contacts with the Russians means that nobody knew what was going on? You might be that stupid, but none of the rest of us are.
Nobody in Britain has heard of forced air heating? Your furnace has a heating element inside and it runs a continuous flow of air over it, which gets pumped into the air ducts of your house...Or do you just not have air ducts in your houses?
Not since the 1960s, no.