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As an aside, the UK is a great tourist destination, especially if you leave London right after landing.

Beautiful landscape, the best breakfast around, really nice people, tons of sights to see.

>>FredPr+(OP)
Yes the end result of rich western nations that get strangled by government is to be a museum

>>monero+cl
I agree it’s tragic but out of all the ways a culture can strangle itself, museumification is the least horrible

>>FredPr+nq
There's always the option of, you know, not strangling itself.

>>FredPr+(OP)
Best Breakfast Around? That's not one I've heard touted before. Expand plz. The stereotypical british breakfast in my head is undercooked bacon, beans, hard cooked eggs.

>>stavro+aP
That would be splendid although it seems to have been a controversial choice until recently

>>grogen+1S
You forgot the sausages! Compare and contrast to the "continental" "breakfast" which is usually a muffin.

>>FredPr+xX
And you forgot the black pudding! Not to mention tomatoes, mushrooms (if you insist) and of course fried bread and/or toast. I won’t complain if hash browns or white pudding make an appearance either.

You can’t beat a good fry up!

>>stavro+aP
don't kinkshame the lovely people of the Isles, they apparently have a penchant for many things, like separate cold and hot water faucet and a bit of autoerotic asphyxiation.

>>FredPr+(OP)
...plenty of weather, scenic potholes, medieval plumbing and occasional trains.

>>grogen+1S
Yeah, the "Full English" breakfast is popular worldwide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_breakfast

>>pas+Nq1
> like separate cold and hot water faucet

This was, oddly, for regulatory reasons; the concern was that a blocked mixer unit could cause hot water (considered potentially unsafe) to be forced into the mains supply (presumed safe). This hasn't been a concern with mixer designs for a long time, but it took til the 90s to get the rule changed.

>>rsynno+6S1
The hot water was considered unsafe initially because early hot water cylinders over there were open tanks subject to incursion by vermin

>>FredPr+rX1
This is a weirdly persistent myth, but no, that's not the case (think about it; what would happen if you had an open hot water tank? It would cool down very quickly, and you'd have horrendous humidity problems). _Cold_ water tanks used to be like that (sometimes still are), which I suspect is where the confusion comes from.

Hot water getting into the mains would be a concern anywhere; in particular, unless all equipment is in perfect working order, there's a legionnaires disease risk, but there are many other risks.

>>rsynno+6S1
Thanks for the details! (Completely randomly just a few hours ago I got a many-many years old Tom Scott video recommended to me on YT about this topic.)