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Re: How do you guys dispense water? Hi.@GrannyCheeseWheel, that's not exactly how our plugs work.There's 3 prongs, one that is slightly longer, then two below that eather side, oh also; I think your prongs are a circle shape where as our are kind of squareish, you then plug the plug

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? I'm half wondering if it might just be a hallmark of older sockets. When I was living with my grandmother for a time, I remember the sockets would occasionally spark when I plugged something in. Nothing major, certainly not liable to start a fire

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? A one foot spark? I mean, maybe if she unplugged an arc welder or a circular saw when it was under heavy load. That is far from the norm. In point of fact, they all spark, even yours. As long as the switch is on and you plug or unplug, there's a spark

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? @55, then that plug is damaged. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/610571/#p610571 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? I just make use of the normal kettle in the house, hold my finger uptill the space i want my water, then move my finger up for the milk, to make sure i don't make a mess. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/610568/#p610568 -- Audiogames

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? Hi.I leave my switches on most of the time but that's just in my room, i've never had a plug spark at me, I remember a friend of mine telling me she saw a 1 foot spark of electric once when she was using a plug socket, that's scary.As for the microwave

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? Yeah but then there's things such as microwaves, george forman grills etc where that doesn't even apply. Actually you have to cut the power on the george in order for it to stop heating anyway. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/610560/#p610560

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? Well, things do have standby power, but those things generally do better when you leave them in standby mode, rather than shutting them off by cutting their power. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/610556/#p610556 -- Audiogames-reflector

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? I was told something about if you left stuff plugged into the outlet, even though its not on it still draws a small bit of power, hence why in the UK, they have switches on the plugs because its more convenient to keep the plugs in and just flipping

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? I was told something about if you left stuff plugged into the outlet, even though its not on it still draws a small bit of power, hence why in the UK, they have switches on the plugs because its more convenient to keep the plugs in and just flipping

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? It doesn't go anywhere because nothing is drawing current. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/610539/#p610539 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? Isn't the outlet still consuming at least a little bit of power just sitting there enabled, even if nothing is actually connected to it? Seems incredibly counterproductive to me. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/610532/#p610532 -- Audiogames

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? I talked to a friend who knows this stuff, and I was wrong. The voltage shouldn't matter all that much.The outlets sparking thing, I mean they do, but it's such a small thing that I just can't justify why you would want a switch on the outlet. I first

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? Hi.Is it just widely accepted in the US that your plug sokits will sometimes spark and that's just how it is? Here in the UK we have switches to turn the plug on and off, I've heard that's not a thing in the US, is that true? URL: https

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? I googled it, camlorn seems to be right. The following is pasted from wikipedia:The choice of supply voltage is due more to historical reasons than optimization of the electric power distribution system—once a voltage is in use and equipment using

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? Hi.@Jeffb, I've not been to the cinema in ages but it wouldn't surprise me if that's still the case. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/610071/#p610071 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? I don't know if it's still this way but when I went to London the movies playing at the theater were already out on DVD in the US. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/610049/#p610049 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? Hi.@GrannyCheeseWheel yeah, you have a good point but a bit of research never hurt anyone, if you're talking about the UK for example; why would you assume we use dollars. I dunno, it's just a couple of minutes out of their day. I know I'm making

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? LOOL you make electricity sound like some kinda prehistoric thing and that America is such a new fangled country. Its 200 and forty something years old, new is most of the countries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, etc. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? Reddit is very american-centric. It's just how it is.Yeah that's odd to me. Yes, they can charge more, but it evens out over time. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/610012/#p610012 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? Hi.Oh yeah, one more thing, you guys in the US use a grid system for your roads/streats, we don't do that hear.I'm not attacking anyone when I say this but I think it's very important to say, America is not the world and if any Americans want to travel

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? Hi.@GrannyCheeseWheel, that sounds horrible! So they can bill you a bit extra just cause they messsed up on their guestimated figgures?You've got to remember the UK is an older country and therefor has older ways of doing things.This is how you do

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? @38Pre-paid metres are the exception rather than the rule I think. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/60/#p60 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? We have meters, we just get billed for usage. Between meter readings, we have guestimates. If it's done wrong, we are charged more at the next meter reading and whatever billing cycle that falls under. Alternatively, if they mess up the other way, we'll

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? Hi.@camlorn, I don't think the UK actually has a grid system. We use electric meaters and smart meaters, I don't think the US has that. At least I've never heard someone from the US say something like, "I put $20 on the meater today."

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? Yeah, Vulcan, we also have a normal kettle. And yeah, I doubt that for common household things the voltage would make much difference. I just imagined if it crossed 110 it wouldn't do much aside from fry the circuits lol. But as I said earlier we have

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? @32I'm just saying that unless I'm very much missing something, lower voltage isn't going to have an impact on an electric kettle.  I know the grids are different. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/609968/#p609968 -- Audiogames-reflector

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? @25Pro tip: I tend to be quite over dramatic haha.@27You... horrible horrible person!! At least you've embraced English society with your tea-making and kettle-filling haha.Also, we don't own a toaster Just prefer doing toast and crumpets in the oven.If

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? Lmao all this speed heating water and fast cooking talk makes me laugh.  Their is nothing wrong with a stove top kettle. Its what they had for hundreds of years before ecltricity.  Do people no longer have patients? URL: https://forum.audiogames.net

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? @Camlorn, The 120-220 valt difference between Europe and America is definitely a thing, when my lady wants to run some American devices over here, she needs a transformer, not merely a plug converter. Your correct that in America cookers etc are indeed

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? I use an electric kettle. There are those small office kettles which you can have in your room, but most of the time I make tea in a really big cup and keep in here. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/609944/#p609944 -- Audiogames-reflector

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? I'm pretty sure the voltage doesn't matter, guys.  Maybe it does but I'd like to see a scientific resource on that.  You can't just throw infinite electricity through a heating element.  Our stoves need 220 because they're 4 burners and a giant cavity

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? Of course you have working ears, so you can hear when you've filled up the cup. so you only need to have your finger barily at the liquid so you don't get burned. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/609922/#p609922 -- Audiogames-reflector

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? Agreed with dark, it's also a normal part of a kitchen for us, everyone has them and I also didn't realise this wasn't the case in some countries. I forgot not all countries use the same voltage, ours is around 220. Didn't know that difference would have

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? As cheese wheel said, it's to do with the lower valtage electricity in the states that electric kettles are less common. To me, boiling on a stove always seems needlessly primitive, like making toast on a griddle. When I was in the states I relied mostly

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? I just use a standard electric kettle. Haven't really measured the time on how long it takes for it to boil, but I'm guessing it's somewhere between 3 and 4 minutes. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/609845/#p609845 -- Audiogames-reflector

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? Hi.@24 I don't know how they boil their water but yeah, I'd asume they fill it up to the top then boil it and lmake tea or coffee and then leave the water in the kettle but I'm not really sure.Oh and... 15 leaters? I don't think our kettle can even take

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? @18Nope... I'm guessing your family does this thing that makes my blood boil in about 5 seconds:They'll fill the kettle all the way to the brim... Then boil it for the 5 minutes it takes, costing shite loads in electricity, which isn't too great

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? the level indicator?, the ones that beep when the cop/glass is full?, i have one here!. they are usefull URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/609826/#p609826 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? For our electric one it takes about 1.5 minutes or so. Thanks for the moving your finger up/down tip. That's pretty helpful. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/609824/#p609824 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? Hi.I don't know exactly how long it takes here as I've not timed it either, so it could be about 3 minutes perhaps, I'm not sure. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/609803/#p609803 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? 5 minutes, even 3 minutes is a rather slow kettle by my standards as well. Haven't actually timed ours but I have a rough idea of how long it feels to heat something in the microwave for 3 minutes and I'm pretty sure most kettles don't take that long

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? @Dark I'm not sure why you couldn't find an eletric kettle in the US. I live in PA and that's the kind of kettle we have. It makes things easier for sure. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/609762/#p609762 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? Hi.is 5 minutes really bad? I don't drink hot drinks but I think that's how long it takes for the families kettle to boil water. I'm in the UK. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/609761/#p609761 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? There's probably better kettles. Mine was some $20 thing from Amazon that I got during my tea-making phase as an experiment.  Things like the keurig can give you a cup of hot water instantaneously, and we had this really scary one when I was a kid

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? I make my teas with a Keurig, with good temperature control. At least I believe the newer ones are better at temperature so they're fine to use for tea these days. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/609757/#p609757 -- Audiogames-reflector

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? erm, 110 volts here also and it takes like 3 minutes for it to warm up, but like slayer I don't like it too hot, because ya know, 33C outside, but not too bad. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/609753/#p609753 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? We bought this water boiler for environmental reasons. After having used it for a few years, while I love the machine itself, I have found myself out of practise with a standard kettle which I'm not too happy with.For anyone who doesn't like getting

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? you can fill with water, set on the stove and then turn the stove on. water will heat, when the pot wistles, turni t off. classic, but works.a teapot URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/609738/#p609738 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? Yeah I can get mine done in like a minute, though I'd wait a bit for my tea to cool down slightly. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/609733/#p609733 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? Five minutes? That’s, uh, wow. That’s, pretty bad by most standards, although perhaps the model of the kettle you’re using may have an effect. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/609730/#p609730 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? @9I'm in the U.S. and have an electric kettle and it works fine. Boiling water in maybe 5 minutes or so. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/609726/#p609726 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? Electric kettles would not work as well in the states as they do in the U.K. because of our power. We have 110 here and you guys have 220. Due to the ways of current and blibbity blah, you really have 208 but still. This is going to be far more efficient

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? @haily_merry, I'm just interested to see what people do... Sorry if I gave the wrong impression. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/609722/#p609722 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? @haily_merry, I'm just interested to see what people do... URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/609722/#p609722 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? Yeah, I’m surprised OP doesn’t know about this. we go to the same school, and he should have definitely received training on this. What the bla? URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/609720/#p609720 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? There's always also the hot water dispenser option, though those won't keep the water constantly near boiling, just fairly close. We've had one of those at home for as long as I can remember. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/609716/#p609716

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? Yeah, I mostly keep the level indicator around so I don't stick my finger in someone else's coffee, less of a problem during covid.Electric kettles are the norm in Canada too, I don't think I've actually seen a non electric one in my life. URL: https

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? Same as Rashad here. Electric kettle. pouring slowly, and my asbestos finger :d. I have used liquid level indicators in the past, but stopped when I made coffee in a cafetier, since the indicator won't fit over the side of one.You can however practice

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? I know a lot of the fancier Keurigs have a hot water function, I'm just not sure why you wouldn't want to pour normally. It isn't that bad, if you don't want to use your finger to track how much you've poured you can get a level indicator for pretty

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Re: How do you guys dispense water? Get an eletric one, place it over the cup, and gently pore. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/609697/#p609697 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman

How do you guys dispense water?

How do you guys dispense water? Yeah so I'm looking for some sort of kettle alternative. How do you guys make your hot beverages? URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/609694/#p609694 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https