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Blue railway signals?
On Sat, 29 Dec 2018 01:45:51 GMT, Johnny B Good
wrote: On Fri, 28 Dec 2018 15:53:23 +0000, William Gothberg wrote: On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 03:11:09 -0000, Johnny B Good wrote: ====snip==== Since there's already an existing (born out of logic) standard way round to fit hot and cold taps and you want to maintain consistency within your own home, it's just simply better that the layout you choose matches that used in the vast majority of cases elsewhere. Consistency is the key to an easier life, so, just 'go with the flow'. :-) It really doesn't bother me about where the hot and cold are, I just use the blue or red one as required. But when something needs to be turned the wrong way, that's insane. For example it once cost me £200 because I broke a Nikon camera - they actually have the lenses designed to fit on anti-clockwise! And what's worse, if you turn them the wrong way, it snaps the linkage for the focusing in the camera, costing a fortune. Oh well, I'll never buy anything from that company again, their loss. I've seen a similarly insane choice with those dual kitchen sink taps which have the taps for hot 'n' cold arranged directly opposite each other either side of the single spout tap assembly such that you need to rotate them so the top sides of either tap are either rotated towards or away from you rather than the entirely logical anti-clockwise to open them from the appropriate sideways end view of each tap. It's hard to describe succinctly but, in the unlikely event you haven't experienced this sort of 'counter-intuitive weirdness' before, you may need to consider my description very carefully to appreciate what a stupid nitwit idea this is. If it had been a quarter turn lever tap rather than an otherwise ordinary multi-turn tap where clockwise means 'close' and anticlockwise means 'open', the idea would have worked just fine but, as it was, it was a total pain using such an oddball tap arrangement. I have a friend with such a tap. I always forget, and get a drenching when trying to turn off the cold tap but get the full force of the mains instead. -- Dave W |
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Blue railway signals?
On Sat, 29 Dec 2018 01:45:51 -0000, Johnny B Good wrote:
On Fri, 28 Dec 2018 15:53:23 +0000, William Gothberg wrote: On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 03:11:09 -0000, Johnny B Good wrote: ====snip==== Since there's already an existing (born out of logic) standard way round to fit hot and cold taps and you want to maintain consistency within your own home, it's just simply better that the layout you choose matches that used in the vast majority of cases elsewhere. Consistency is the key to an easier life, so, just 'go with the flow'. :-) It really doesn't bother me about where the hot and cold are, I just use the blue or red one as required. But when something needs to be turned the wrong way, that's insane. For example it once cost me £200 because I broke a Nikon camera - they actually have the lenses designed to fit on anti-clockwise! And what's worse, if you turn them the wrong way, it snaps the linkage for the focusing in the camera, costing a fortune. Oh well, I'll never buy anything from that company again, their loss. I've seen a similarly insane choice with those dual kitchen sink taps which have the taps for hot 'n' cold arranged directly opposite each other either side of the single spout tap assembly such that you need to rotate them so the top sides of either tap are either rotated towards or away from you rather than the entirely logical anti-clockwise to open them from the appropriate sideways end view of each tap. It's hard to describe succinctly but, in the unlikely event you haven't experienced this sort of 'counter-intuitive weirdness' before, you may need to consider my description very carefully to appreciate what a stupid nitwit idea this is. If it had been a quarter turn lever tap rather than an otherwise ordinary multi-turn tap where clockwise means 'close' and anticlockwise means 'open', the idea would have worked just fine but, as it was, it was a total pain using such an oddball tap arrangement. I've seen quite a few of those and agree entirely. I turn on the cold and it works normally, then I try to turn on the hot and it doesn't move. Oh, that one works in reverse. |
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Blue railway signals?
On Sat, 29 Dec 2018 11:47:57 -0000, Dave W wrote:
On Sat, 29 Dec 2018 01:45:51 GMT, Johnny B Good wrote: On Fri, 28 Dec 2018 15:53:23 +0000, William Gothberg wrote: On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 03:11:09 -0000, Johnny B Good wrote: ====snip==== Since there's already an existing (born out of logic) standard way round to fit hot and cold taps and you want to maintain consistency within your own home, it's just simply better that the layout you choose matches that used in the vast majority of cases elsewhere. Consistency is the key to an easier life, so, just 'go with the flow'. :-) It really doesn't bother me about where the hot and cold are, I just use the blue or red one as required. But when something needs to be turned the wrong way, that's insane. For example it once cost me £200 because I broke a Nikon camera - they actually have the lenses designed to fit on anti-clockwise! And what's worse, if you turn them the wrong way, it snaps the linkage for the focusing in the camera, costing a fortune. Oh well, I'll never buy anything from that company again, their loss. I've seen a similarly insane choice with those dual kitchen sink taps which have the taps for hot 'n' cold arranged directly opposite each other either side of the single spout tap assembly such that you need to rotate them so the top sides of either tap are either rotated towards or away from you rather than the entirely logical anti-clockwise to open them from the appropriate sideways end view of each tap. It's hard to describe succinctly but, in the unlikely event you haven't experienced this sort of 'counter-intuitive weirdness' before, you may need to consider my description very carefully to appreciate what a stupid nitwit idea this is. If it had been a quarter turn lever tap rather than an otherwise ordinary multi-turn tap where clockwise means 'close' and anticlockwise means 'open', the idea would have worked just fine but, as it was, it was a total pain using such an oddball tap arrangement. I have a friend with such a tap. I always forget, and get a drenching when trying to turn off the cold tap but get the full force of the mains instead. ROFL, done that a few times. Especially with the ones with a very small amount of turn required to get to full open. |
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Blue railway signals?
"William Gothberg" wrote in message news On Sat, 29 Dec 2018 01:45:51 -0000, Johnny B Good wrote: On Fri, 28 Dec 2018 15:53:23 +0000, William Gothberg wrote: On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 03:11:09 -0000, Johnny B Good wrote: ====snip==== Since there's already an existing (born out of logic) standard way round to fit hot and cold taps and you want to maintain consistency within your own home, it's just simply better that the layout you choose matches that used in the vast majority of cases elsewhere. Consistency is the key to an easier life, so, just 'go with the flow'. :-) It really doesn't bother me about where the hot and cold are, I just use the blue or red one as required. But when something needs to be turned the wrong way, that's insane. For example it once cost me £200 because I broke a Nikon camera - they actually have the lenses designed to fit on anti-clockwise! And what's worse, if you turn them the wrong way, it snaps the linkage for the focusing in the camera, costing a fortune. Oh well, I'll never buy anything from that company again, their loss. I've seen a similarly insane choice with those dual kitchen sink taps which have the taps for hot 'n' cold arranged directly opposite each other either side of the single spout tap assembly such that you need to rotate them so the top sides of either tap are either rotated towards or away from you rather than the entirely logical anti-clockwise to open them from the appropriate sideways end view of each tap. It's hard to describe succinctly but, in the unlikely event you haven't experienced this sort of 'counter-intuitive weirdness' before, you may need to consider my description very carefully to appreciate what a stupid nitwit idea this is. If it had been a quarter turn lever tap rather than an otherwise ordinary multi-turn tap where clockwise means 'close' and anticlockwise means 'open', the idea would have worked just fine but, as it was, it was a total pain using such an oddball tap arrangement. I've seen quite a few of those and agree entirely. I turn on the cold and it works normally, then I try to turn on the hot and it doesn't move. Oh, that one works in reverse. It has to be that way due to how the tap itself works. You're free to not buy one if you don't like that approach. Tad radical, I realise. |
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Lonely Psychotic Senile Ozzie Troll Alert! LOL
On Sun, 30 Dec 2018 05:11:49 +1100, cantankerous trolling geezer Rot Speed,
the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again: It has to be that way due to how the tap itself works. You're free to not buy one if you don't like that approach. Tad radical, I realise. BOTH of you prize idiots need several real hard taps with a hammer on your stupid heads! -- Bill Wright to Rot Speed: "That confirms my opinion that you are a despicable little ****." MID: |
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