>> Interesting, where would you plug in a hair dryer?
>
>In the bedroom!  My girlfriend (who is from New York) finds
>it annoying that she can't dry her hair in the bathroom,
>but it's the way we do it here.

Well, you can have one in the bathroom, but it has to be permanently wired.

The one that amuses me is that Britain still uses pull cord light switches 
in bathrooms. I assume that the reason is some safety inspector decided many 
years ago that a wall mounted light switch was likely to get water into it 
and electrocute someone if it wasn't IP rated. But NZ has had all mounted 
light switches in bathrooms more years than I can remember, and they are 
just the standard light switch. If anyone thinks an NZ bathroom doesn't 
become a steamy wet room, they should try living in the sub tropical climate 
of the northern provinces, and you'll get just as much condensation on the 
walls as any British bathroom.

At the end of it, I think it is just a con by the switch manufacturers - I 
think I have replaced my bathroom light switch on average every 3 years, as 
the cord breaks. 

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