Incredible Valentine's Day lunch at Plantuguese in #Bristol.

[heartofcoyote@neuromatch.social]

@afewbugs Why is there an app associated with free water refills?

[tattooed_mummy@beige.party]

@afewbugs they have one at Victoria Station (London) but it's often out of order. How a tap can be out of order only god knows .

[afewbugs@social.coop]

@Heartofcoyote it's an app that tells you where the machines are located. Honestly I don't see why it has to be an app rather than a map on a webpage (I mean I do, it's for extracting saleable data to offset the cost of the machines) but it is pretty useful when travelling - I have actually used it to find the very confusingly located machine in Manchester station

[afewbugs@social.coop]

@Tattooed_Mummy yeah I've seen that one and it does seem to be out of order more often than it isn't. Cafe Nero behind it have happily refilled my bottle a couple of times when that happens

[tattooed_mummy@beige.party]

@afewbugs when I was a kid there were water fountains. I remember drinking from one at Tower of London.
Even victorians had them. We need to wake up and install more.

[afewbugs@social.coop]

@Tattooed_Mummy the Victorians had the right idea with providing public toilets too. Don't get me wrong, they had the wrong idea about a lot of things, but when it came to getting liquids into and out of people they were on it

[vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de]

@afewbugs @Tattooed_Mummy mainland Europe and the other whole world apart from USA still uses British Standard Pipe threads for their plumbing, I suspect this is due to Britain exporting techniques and materials to the wider world during the Victorian era..

I spent a good deal of last Thursday evening and Friday AM on the outskirts of Colchester, Essex surrounded by toilets, basins, and plumbing fittings (I was working with my friend installing a sound system in the showroom for the customers and workers) - it was interesting to see how much was still made in Britain (particularly plumbers tools) even today and how because we use the same fittings everything from Europe works over here and vice versa..

[heartofcoyote@neuromatch.social]

@afewbugs Exactly. Someone spent thousands of dollars for an app to tell you where their free products are and track your locations.

Otherwise, I agree it’s cool. Free drinking water access should have been built into the infrastructure to begin with, but at least it’s being addressed.

[ravenbait@mastodon.scot]

@afewbugs @Tattooed_Mummy Shame their sewers were combined.

[afewbugs@social.coop]

@ravenbait @Tattooed_Mummy yeah that one really has come back to bite us hasn't it

[ravenbait@mastodon.scot]

@afewbugs @Tattooed_Mummy It really has.

[abuseofnotation@mathstodon.xyz]

@afewbugs I hope you don't have to download the app to refill :)

[jamesb@fedi.duckduckpigeon.co.uk]

@afewbugs
You look, and I mean this in a non-sexual way, very cute there. You also look very guilty. Did you poop on the doormat?

[afewbugs@social.coop]

@abuseofnotation not to use the machines, just to locate them