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Just so long as you've remembered to retrouser yourself, should be fine

After we had our bathrooms and downstairs toilet redone last year my wife asked me to get rid of the string that controlled the light in the small toilet

The slight issue was she waited until all the work was done! So I had a sensor fitted that turns the light on when you go in, it lasts for 20 seconds and even when I'm sat on the toilet it won't pick me up until I wave my arm in the air.

My son refuses to use it as he rightly calls it the dark toilet

So waiting until I have some cash and replacing it with a heat sensor, also doing this with the lights at the front of the house as they come on all the time when the wind blows bushes and annoy our guests in the downstairs room.

So I’ve heard.

(He’s edited now, so this is no longer the funneeze)

I reckon that’s Sal waiting two minutes, deciding nobody needs to be on the loo that long, then flipping your through-the-wall bathroom switch off next to your racing car chair.

A heat sensor for the toilet light? What's wrong with pulling the cord to turn it on?

So that means 350 euro a child for a passport even with an Irish citizen as a mother?

And that's why you'll never be the Champion of Cyrodiil.

The cord has gone and I have a motion sensor that isn't very good\set up well

Really I should just get rid of the sensor and use a Hue bulb & hue sensor

Need the heat ones at the front though as they come on all the time with wind blowing bushes etc

We have sensors in the kitchen and the bathroom and it'll be the first thing I fit in the new house too.

Which sort? Hue or something else?

Have some Hue ones, just not got around to setting them up,

I'm as much a fan of needless tech as much as the next person, but it's pretty clear that a light that turns off when you're shitting is not any kind of a good thing. Just have a light switch, weirdos.

Kindle's are backlit.

Yeah it's annoying.

Think so. Need to go foreign births register.

No they're not.

I quite like the tranquility of a pitch black poop. Well, apart from the blinding light of my phone screen, natch

Too much Guinness.

And a nodder machine.

We've got one that you can set how long it stays on for and adjust the sensitivity.

The problem with that is for 9 trips out of 10 to the loo it would be far too long.

I don't understand why you just wouldn't have a pull cord. I'm going to get it changed as soon as I can.

Yeah. But at least it's sensitive enough to come back on if you wave your hand about.

So's mine, but having to wave your hand about while shitting is suboptimal imo.

What are your hands up to?

Mine doesn't turn off while you're shitting. But then I also have two bathroom windows so even if it did you wouldn't exactly be plunged into darkness.

Not even at night?

There's a house over the way with a massive floodlight on the back of their house so we get some light through the windows even at night.

I suppose the funny thing is that night time is the only time the sensor light actually bothers me, as I'd rather go for a piss in the dark so my eyes don't start to adjust (I also keep my bedroom pitch black). Very rarely get up in the night to pee since I stopped drinking though.

I agree, it's easier to just piss where you are

It's alright lads. I always poo before I get up.

Oi!

Channel 4 are pulling their HD channel from Freesat. So I guess I'll have to watch the Last Leg and the Big Fat Quiz in SD from now on. Oh well.

Sure, I could use All4 over my Roku, but I could also pull my toenails out.

The gang of idiots and sociopaths who manage our office have taken away our kettle and left us with nothing but one of those fancy hot water taps. And there aren't any normal pencils in the stationery cupboard anymore - just plastic propelling pencils.

All we have here is a boiling water tap. I don't do hot drinks but people say it's just fine.

We have a boiling water tap. Ok for instant coffee, but crap for tea as it isn't quite boiling.

Same.

They put those in our place last year, they do cold water, sparkling (cold) water and boiling all from one tap.

My brother also has one in his kitchen, its a mixer tap, you have to press a button that is way beyond the reach of small child for boiling water.

Was discussing them with my kitchen guy and he said they are more cost effective than a kettle, not so sure in our case as my wife has a cup of tea on a morning and at night and I use the Nespresso machine.

That seems like a pointless blanket statement; it's going to come down to your exact usage. I boil water in my kettle once a day so there's no way it would be cost effective to keep a load of water on the boil in my use case. If you've got people in your house most of the day drinking loads of tea or whatever then yeah, I could see it.

They don't store hot water. It's a high speed electric heater that heats cold water on demand. Great for one cup at a time

Edit: Ignore me. I'm wrong

https://www.tapwarehouse.com/blog/the-t ... water-taps

Yeah, they're more efficient than a kettle because you're only doing the amount you need.

Yeah, I was thinking about the system I saw in Holland. MrsPaz's aunt lives on a new-build estate near an old landfill. They collect the methane from the landfill and use it heat water, which is pumped to all the houses as mains warm water (about 60 degrees c I think). This is warm enough for underfloor heating and baths etc. It is then boosted by an injection heater to provide boiling water at the tap.

When our zip tap (or whatever it's called) at work broke, we had to use kettles to make our tea and coffee. That was shit, with one kettle between 30-odd people all wanting a hot beverage during a 30 minute break.

At work we have a Costa coffee bar, vending machines on free vend with vile coffee and the all in one taps.

We have quite bad coffee powder from a big tin. It's free.

We're only a small-ish facility, about 50 people total, and the vast majority take their breaks at the same time.

I picked the wrong time to come to the post office. Woman at the front of the queue is paying about 800 bills and getting her PIN code wrong repeatedly for each one.

Everyone in the queue tutting and even the post office lady has asked her if she can serve some other people for a bit.

I assume you could replicate this by only boiling the amount you need in your kettle?

(Which I never do)

Wouldn’t you bollock your kettle if you only needed, say, one cup of water boiled? Mine has a minimum level of “3”.

Mine has two, but their idea of a cup is a tiny bone china thing that nobody normal has drunk coffee out of in 30 years, so it's effectively one.

After the interview, I wasn't the number one candidate for a job I wasn't sure I really wanted anymore anyway. They want to interview me for a different position that I'm not sure I'm really interested in either.

Cor, I sound like a little git when I read that back