> Well fix that problem then. If someone puts a smoke detector above a toaster you don't just pull the battery and call it a day.

I think what's happening here is that the smoke detector is indicating the possibility of fire, but the toaster is always being immediately doused in water. Which as we know would cause more damage than good unless there truly was a raging inferno.

The suggestion here seems to be moving the smoke detector to somewhere where there's a higher chance of it ringing means a higher chance of a damaging fire. Which seems quite reasonable.

'minge' would be the word you're thinking about.

‘Let that sink in’ is my cue to stop reading now.

Or simply zone out if it’s someone actually talking.

Sadly I’ve noticed that comments on this topic usually devolve into tribal comments about how ‘things are done in the EU’ which always seem to not be actually that representative of the 27 different countries of the EU, but of course must be better than the US.