Bathrooms and stupidity

Will__ | 18:30 Fri 16th Sep 2005 | How it Works

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Two questions:

a) Why are electrical sockets illegal in bathrooms in the UK? (I presume they are since there never are any) Are people really that stupid that they need to enforce this as law? In Spain where I live now, there are usually several sockets in every bathroom and believe it or not there aren't dozens of spaniards being electrocuted every day.....so why ?

b) Basin taps in UK bathrooms. Why on earth, in room in the house where you might possibly most want a warm flow of water, are so many UK taps split into Hot and Cold ? Anyone with half a brain would be able to imagine that instead of burning or freezing or being forced to fill a basin (silly waste of water) it might be nice to enjoy a steady controllable MIXED flow of water? Is it law, or just decades of bovine like stupidity? I'm really curious...

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Well, thanks for all your thoughts and answers. It still amazes me that the UK feels the need to nanny us so much. As I said in the original post, you don't often hear of thousands of people electrocuting themselves in their bathrooms all over Spain, Germany etc just because they have plug sockets in the bathroom. And as for the mixer tap, well that's just stupid (not having one)

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