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Someone:

--- Quote from: james_s on December 23, 2020, 05:01:36 am ---
--- Quote from: Someone on December 23, 2020, 01:18:28 am ---You joke, but hot water from the tap is legislated in Australia to be "warm water" for just this reason.:
https://www.vba.vic.gov.au/consumers/guides/hot-water-safety
With special lower limits for the very old and very young.

Owing to plumbers not wanting to run multiple hot water feeds within a house all outlets have the same temperature. This leads to people boiling water in a kettle when they want to do the washing with "hot" water.
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Can you not just turn it up? My water heater has a line on the dial that says something to the effect of that being the recommended maximum temperature, however there is nothing stopping a person from turning it up much higher. I learned pretty quick when I was a young child not to turn the tap too far to the hot side because hot water is... hot.  :palm:

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They are separate to most water heaters (heaters integrate it) and similar to a gas regulator, possible to adjust but unlabelled and intentionally made difficult.

Circlotron:

--- Quote from: ratatax on December 22, 2020, 07:09:31 pm ---"one child a month"

Yeah so who cares. Natural selection. If we needed to prevent any misuse of any product everything would be forbidden, even spoons.

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Seeing we're talking about natural selection, next time you get sick, stick to your principles and don't go to the doctor. Stay home and die.

tszaboo:

--- Quote from: Rick Law on December 23, 2020, 02:15:33 am ---
--- Quote from: NANDBlog on December 22, 2020, 11:59:04 pm ---
--- Quote from: ratatax on December 22, 2020, 07:09:31 pm ---"one child a month"

Yeah so who cares. Natural selection. If we needed to prevent any misuse of any product everything would be forbidden, even spoons.

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Nah, if would be a different story, if it would be 12 year olds.
There is a stage in children's development, where they experience the world by putting things into their mouth. It's better at feeling things than their hands. Freud and stuff.
Same way, I slow down and be careful about birds and cats on the road. They have no idea about the danger.
I care less about jaywalkers and cyclists who are breaking the rules. They all know it well what they are doing.

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12 year old or 1 month old, it still would be natural selection - based on parental behavior.  Same as a tigress that would not feed the baby tiger, her gene is terminated.

Nature is more cold and efficient than modern human society...

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I dont know if you ever saw a 3-4 year old, but they can throw a glass cup (that they get a hold of somehow) on the floor, swallow a battery and run into the the side of a table in 20 seconds (an start crying). You literally won't notice it happening because you are picking up the shards, so they don't kill your child.

And if you think that: This one was dumb, I just make another one...
No you wont, you will be devastated, crying 20 years later on Christmas eve. These things stay with and ruin a family.

VK3DRB:
Here is the latest rule that appeared in the news today... https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-23/sa-ban-of-single-use-plastics-and-straws-to-start-in-march/13009582 Plastic spoons, forks etc used at BBQs and parties will be banned in South Australia. McDonalds and Kentucky Fried Chicken will be forced to comply. This legislation will undoubtedly spread nation wide.

Australia is a safe country to live in, partly because we have three levels of government, with more rules and regulations than any other country on earth. But at least we don't have the EU's ridiculous CE Radio Emissions Directive.

richard.cs:

--- Quote from: Someone on December 23, 2020, 01:18:28 am ---Owing to plumbers not wanting to run multiple hot water feeds within a house all outlets have the same temperature. This leads to people boiling water in a kettle when they want to do the washing with "hot" water.

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We have something similar in the UK, but hot is piped everywhere, and then there are thermostatic mixers at point of use when needed, the kitchen sink is not one of those places.

When hot water is stored (as opposed to heated on demand) its actually required to be hot, at least 70C if I remember correctly. Legionella risk is seen to be higher than the scalding risk.

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