Calling Joe Duffy instead of the Guards *shivers* Leading on from that, "It's a disgrace, Joe"

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So here's another immersion question from an ignorant Yank:

Would you have used that for all your hot water in the house (for washing dishes, for example), or just for the bath/shower?

I rather liked the electric showers in the houses I stayed in in Ireland (instant hot water! yay!), though I must admit I took cold showers for the first two days because I'd never seen one before and had no idea how to use it (I kept turning up the hot water tap, with no result). I finally had to ask someone how to get hot water in the shower!

Redwolf

Dont fear much the immersion isnt dead yet, we have one in a new house!! although we don't use it because we have instant hot water too, but we still worry about it...

can we add one about drink to the 'character'? where someone is clearly an alcoholic but nobody ever says it because thats just uncle john doing his thing taking a drink at 10 am?

the one about joe duffy is so true

I have an electric powered shower, but it doesn't heat the water.
The immersion has a switch on it, Sink/Bath, so you decide how much water to heat.
I use it rarely (in winter anyhow) as the range has a back boiler and that heats the water. And I can also switch the "hot water" on the oil central heating system. Immersion is the last resort

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It is recommended that you always wait for three to agree on a translation.
I speak Connemara Irish, and my input will often reflect that.
I will do an mp3 file on request for short translations.
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The whole lot! And as for the 'would you have....', we still do!

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Now see all these interesting things I'm learning about life in Ireland! The closest equivalents I can think of for "Californianess" is a blasé attitude toward any earthquake smaller than a 5.0, the naive assumption that any tree smaller than 100 feet tall must be a sapling, and a passionate devotion to one's favorite taqueria that borders on religious obsession.*

Redwolf

*Mine's Taqueria Vallarta, and woe be unto anyone who doesn't agree it's the best taqueria in Santa Cruz!

In my house i have a back boiler on my open fire (i live in a old house in dublin ) so when the fire is on i get hot water when it is not if i want to use hot water i have to turn on the imerssion and have to remeber to turn it off there nothing like the respect we have for turning off the imerssion over here.

Other things Irish .

Missing bacon when you are abroad seriously what is so hard about making proper rashers that the Irish are the only ones able to do it right ?

We had an immersion heater, a great big cylinder of a thing. It was in the airing cupboard where you put the bed linen and when you opened the door, you could hear what was being said in the kitchen below. (this was in England in the 60's) but I don't remember having to turn it off, it was just on - that's all I can remember about it.

Must have had some kind of thermostat, maybe?

I bet having something you switch on and off really saves on electricity (if you remember to switch it off, that is!). We have a 50-gallon water heater and, nice as it is to always have plenty of hot water on-demand, I sometimes wonder if a lot of money gets wasted keeping 50 gallons of water hot and at a steady temperature all night and all day.

Redwolf