I will be enacting a few new laws.
- All sinks and baths will be required to have the hot tap on the right and the cold tap on the left.
- All houses will be required to display their number in such a way that it is visible to all passers by, whether on foot or in a car.
- Delivery drivers who tap inaudibly at the door, stick a scruffy, illegible card through the letterbox and run will be summarily executed.
- People who delete my blog posts while cleaning out mobile blog spam will by sent to the Gulag and spend the rest of their days trying to figure out how to use Textpattern.
T-Bird. Don’t worry, even though your comment vanished when Jax ****ed the previous version of this post, your name is still on the list.
ha ha I like the fourth one.
And I can comment 🙂
Ah – it’s letting me comment now 🙂
“hot tap on the right and the cold tap on the left” You are so mistaken. It should be the hot tap on the left and the cold tap on the right.
You are going on the list too.
I love the ‘when’ rather than the ‘if’. You’d better put your skates on.
Hot tap should be the right.
Happy Birthday Tim!
Thanks Kirsty.
Chris, Saga louts don’t usually wear skates, but I will try anything if you think it will help.
see? not just me who KNOWS taht the cold tap should be on the right then!
Tut. That labour camp is going to be so darn BIG.
I’m sorry but Michelle is right – it’s Hot on the left and Cold on the right.
As for being put on the list, if enough of us stand up to this tyranny we can start a revolution!
No. You have had your chance, there were regs, no-one paid attention. Bloody subversive, that’s what you are.
For tap placement, and many other things, check out Donald Norman‘s book Design / Psychology of Everyday Things.
I can’t remember which side of the argument he comes down on, but that could be irrelevant as he’s American and they (and most of the rest of the world) drive on the wrong side of the road so don’t count.
Can you add people who spell laser as lazer *shudder* to your list? It’s not cool, it’s wrong: Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation.
Surely when you’re supreme ruler all taps will issue water only at the temperature you desire, so there will be only one tap?
You see, you others, (Oi, Marcus – are you listening?), this is a right thinking sort of person.
Firstly, he regards Americans and most of the rest of the world as irrelevant (what a guy), secondly he is coming up with useful new laws, in fact, I think I will add that one about lasers to the list, along with proper use of the subjunctive. Be afraid!
Bob, I think the solution is to appoint you as my personal tap operator and toilet flusher, then I can be certain that water will always be as required.
I don’t like drinking warm water.
“Bob, I think the solution is to appoint you as my personal tap operator and toilet flusher, then I can be certain that water will always be as required.”
I know my station. If everyone knew their station, the world would be a much more Victorian place.