Water on an electrical appliance esp if the breaker doesn’t blow, that’s how… not a good combo…
Water on an electrical appliance won’t cause a fire… This is a wide spread misbelief. Also the circuit breaker won’t trigger in that case. The circuit breaker reacts to high loads. The thing triggered in that case would be the RCD…
You are not an electrician, let’s leave it at that…
I really hope you are not. Because what you are saying here is total bs…
And yes I learned things like that as part of my job.
I bet my ass you can fully submerge that fan into water and the breaker won’t trigger nor will there be a fire. When there is an RCD present it might trigger. But even that is not sure.
Jab, seriously if you fully submerged that fan it would trip the RCD and that is if the RCBO didn’t trip the whole flat first. RCD’s are extremely sensitive to within a 1000th of a second even a tungsten bulb blowing can trip an RCD. And I am a qualified domestic electrician.
It would trigger it under normal circumstances. Put it in a plastic tub and the water is isolated against ground it won’t trigger 
Totally agree about the rest about RCDs you said 
The normal circuit breaker would not trigger as the conductivity of water is not sufficient enough for that. A normal household used B16A circuit breaker reacts within 0,4 - 2,2 seconds when there is a current of 80 amps or more recognized. Water does not have that conductivity to cause a short circuit 
Inside the fans motor is live, neutral and earth to make it run, it has nothing to do with the water in the bath being earthed now does it. The water will cross the live, earth and neutral and trigger the RCD.
I still think conductivity is not enough for that. We did an experiment during my studys with a hair dryer. We used a small plastic tub, put tap water in it and then put a running hair dryer in it. (Of course safety precautions were taken) Neither the circuit breaker nur the RCD was triggered. The hair dryer just kept running under water
All good here
All good 
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The only I can think of either you had a very poor earth or neutral be the earthing type eitherTT, TN-S or TN-C-S. Most items that are likely to be used in a wet area should have a form of internal fuse, just in case they come in to contact with water. The hair dryer you referred to could have also had the internal terminal connector block enclosed in a water tight box, that is also another form of protection method. Once dropped into the bath the heating element acts a bit like a kettle element as the earth, neutral and live terminals being in a IP67 box are not exposed to the water. Unfortunately all of those protection methods are very unlikely to be present in a standard room fan.
The net simulated was TN-S I unfortunately do not know the brand of the dryer anymore
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If the fan falls and tangles with the curtains, it will stop spinning, heat up and burn the curtains. Trust me, I’ve seen it happen.
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Looks like sufficient food in the kitchen to withstand a visit from Paul!! 
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Looks like Shana’s friend is visiting H&M’s place while Shana is home s___ping. Is Mira in for a wild night?
