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I’m not as thunk as some drinkle peep I am ‘Borderline evil’ - Brian Bilston.
I’m not as thunk as some drinkle peep I am ‘Borderline evil’ - Brian Bilston.
![1 ‘There follows a public safety message from the Ministry of Taps.’
2 [Show a moustachioed man in a white coat, standing next to a sink with two taps.]
Hello.
3 Here are two beautiful, British taps.
4 Don’t they make you proud? Cold and hot, divided in modesty, as God intends!
5 But in recent years, more and more Britons are using ‘mixer taps’ - a highly addictive form of foreign tap.
6 The great British tradition of washing one’s hands via a weird sort of hot-to-cold dance is under threat. [Show someone doing this dance]
7 The 'mixer' is a gateway tap.
One minute you're dabbling with a dual faucet.
Next thing you know, you're 'dancing with the fisherman's hose'.
[Show one of those big bendy fishmonger’s hoses that people have these days]
8 See here the brain of a healthy, two-tap using Briton:
[Show diagram of a brain with two thirds of it devoted to ‘WASHING HANDS’]
9. And this... is the brain of a ‘mixhead’:
[Show same brain diagram, but the Washing Hands section is replaced with ‘FOREIGN THOUGHTS’]
Remember: Mixing can lead to foreignness and fishmongery.
BRITONS: DON’T MIX YOUR TAPS
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