"Nothing to lose but your chains"

[bellinghman]

One thing about our trip that I noticed - in Australia, it appears that the concept of the chain for the sink or basin plug doesn't exist.

It may well be that this is down to small sample size (only three different places), but I don't think I've previously encountered the plug with no chain attached (except for wear and tear cases). The resulting inability to lift the plug from a very hot sink is inconvenient, and the comparative difficulty in finding the plug in the first place (in Melbourne, I couldn't find the kitchen one, and borrowed the bathroom one for a day or two) would seem to outweigh the added simplicity of leaving the chain out.

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[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Ah, cheers. In that case, I think we just got unlucky. Since the plug-chain is in my experience almost universal (excepting where there are internal level systems, or no plug-hole at all as per the tip-up basins on the Indian Pacific train), I was a tad bemused.

It's the little differences that get you. Great big parrots in a city centre? Yeah, no problem.