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Originally Posted by Rumpelteazer
I'm wondering if there is any (mechanical) reason for why my father always lets the tank of toilets refill incredibly slow. If, for whatever reason, you want to flush twice I have to wait almost a full minute before I can flush the second time, which is frustrating. Nowhere else have I encountered such slow tank refill. It might just be one of those things that my father believes in which is totally wrong (like you can't get a virus if you install software from the server instead of downloading it, which is a totally different rant). Every time I need to double flush I get the tendency to open op the little tap a little bit more so the tank refills faster.
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How old is your father?
Some old people become crazy over time, and I think I know some of the reasons.
They only stay in touch with other old people, so they never see or do anything new. They also have the craziest idea's that something 'needs to be done like that' because it was like that in the 70's or before. If I tell my father to change X into Y or something, his answer is always: "Don't need to. *EVERYBODY* does it like this."
Yes, if 'everybody' are also 75-80 year old people who haven't changed anything in their homes since the 1970's (or even 60's.... don't start. My father's neighbor still has non-resettable fuses in her home. You know, a black box with those white screw-in thingies), then yes, they do it like that. Everybody else, including myself in my own home, don't use technology invented during the premiere of Ben Hur.
To be honest, I can't really see myself becoming like that, because I work in IT. Everything changes all the time, and it will for the next 30 years. So, there's no way for me to get 'stuck' in 2015 like current old people sometimes seem to be stuck in 1975.
(Yeah, I still play 20 year old computer games for nostalgic reasons, but I do so on a *new* computer; and I play new games as well. Even though I thought some games were beautiful to look at back then, I can clearly see that they're crap nowadays, especially on LCD-screens that don't have any other resolution than their native one.)