Tuesday, December 16, 2008
"Put it up to thirty".
Overheard a woman passenger on my coach last night talking into her mobile phone. The weather outside my coach was nippy with the gauge indicating 0 degrees C. She was talking to someone whom she was obviously going to meet at her stop. Her instructions were for that person to go into the kitchen and turn the thermostat up to thirty.
I was shocked to hear this, setting a domestic heating thermostat to 30 degrees C is obscene. To run any domestic heating system up to 30 degrees is expensive and a waste of money. Twenty degrees is plenty, why throw your money away in excess heat? People should dress properly for the season.
This is the time of year when women everywhere are complaining about the cold. Well, dress properly for the season you silly little girls. It does not seem to matter how old the woman is, they still complain of feeling cold rather than dressing properly for the season.
Overheard a woman passenger on my coach last night talking into her mobile phone. The weather outside my coach was nippy with the gauge indicating 0 degrees C. She was talking to someone whom she was obviously going to meet at her stop. Her instructions were for that person to go into the kitchen and turn the thermostat up to thirty.
I was shocked to hear this, setting a domestic heating thermostat to 30 degrees C is obscene. To run any domestic heating system up to 30 degrees is expensive and a waste of money. Twenty degrees is plenty, why throw your money away in excess heat? People should dress properly for the season.
This is the time of year when women everywhere are complaining about the cold. Well, dress properly for the season you silly little girls. It does not seem to matter how old the woman is, they still complain of feeling cold rather than dressing properly for the season.
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another small example of the failure of new labour to get across in any detail at all the urgency of our response to climate change. prior to the credit crunch you would also see it in car choices, tv sizes, etc. we are habitualised to put ourselves first without consideration of the consequences. mind you at least she was on a bus!
# posted by 
: 16 December 2008 at 14:08
: 16 December 2008 at 14:08
I disagree. It would be a crime to force women to wrap-up warm in the winter, life would be so much more boring if they did, especially on Saturday nights in town!!
# posted by : 17 December 2008 at 21:06
: 17 December 2008 at 21:06
Another number: My first thought is the cost and financial waste involved. Our gas bill has gone up big time due to the increase in wholesale gas prices not our thermostat setting.
Graham: As a fellow hetrosexual man it is lovely to observe all women showing bare flesh while out on the town. It is very pleasant to glimpse their bare flesh in more everyday garments, bare midrift, bottom cleavage, tramp stamps and over-wide armholes.
However, care needs to be taken, and if John, the teaching biker/mountain climber, reads this comment - he should agree. Remember the story from the 25th November 2008...
The freezing weather nearly claimed a life after a woman in her 20s got lost in a blizzard after leaving a nightclub and was found collapsed in a field at Hopton, Norfolk at 2am on Saturday. Doctors said the girl was wearing just jeans and a flimsy top and her body temperature had dropped dangerously when she was found an hour and a half after collapsing.
The alarm was raised by night anglers on the nearby beach at Hopton who heard the girl's weak cries for help above the noise of the waves.
Her core body temperature had fallen to 32 degrees, she was suffering from hypothermia and it was estimated she had just 90 minutes left to live.
A spokesman for Yarmouth Coastguard said: "The weather conditions were Arctic and she is a very lucky young lady - much longer out there and she would have died. This highlights the dangers of taking chances - she was totally inappropriately dressed to be out in that sort of weather."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3507737/UK-brought-to-standstill-as-five-inches-of-snow-falls-in-an-hour.html
Graham: As a fellow hetrosexual man it is lovely to observe all women showing bare flesh while out on the town. It is very pleasant to glimpse their bare flesh in more everyday garments, bare midrift, bottom cleavage, tramp stamps and over-wide armholes.
However, care needs to be taken, and if John, the teaching biker/mountain climber, reads this comment - he should agree. Remember the story from the 25th November 2008...
The freezing weather nearly claimed a life after a woman in her 20s got lost in a blizzard after leaving a nightclub and was found collapsed in a field at Hopton, Norfolk at 2am on Saturday. Doctors said the girl was wearing just jeans and a flimsy top and her body temperature had dropped dangerously when she was found an hour and a half after collapsing.
The alarm was raised by night anglers on the nearby beach at Hopton who heard the girl's weak cries for help above the noise of the waves.
Her core body temperature had fallen to 32 degrees, she was suffering from hypothermia and it was estimated she had just 90 minutes left to live.
A spokesman for Yarmouth Coastguard said: "The weather conditions were Arctic and she is a very lucky young lady - much longer out there and she would have died. This highlights the dangers of taking chances - she was totally inappropriately dressed to be out in that sort of weather."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3507737/UK-brought-to-standstill-as-five-inches-of-snow-falls-in-an-hour.html
You are correct Steve, hypothermia can be a risk anywhere with some of the colder weather we have had recently and not just mountains and moorlands as many believe. The real danger with hypothermia is that can creep up on a victim gradually, especially if you are not aware of the symptoms.
At 32 degrees you are classed as having moderate hypothermia (which is more serious then it sounds) the functioning of the brain is impaired and a victim might not feel cold and will sometimes refuse help believing that there is nothing wrong. They will not recover without medical help.
Drop the temperature a degree or two lower the victim becomes severely hypothermic, pulse rate becomes irregular followed by unconsciousness with a real danger of fatal consequences.
However the real answer could be that the ladies in question dress in short skirts and little tops in the bars and clubs etc but then put on a big coat and hat when they leave to go home, then we would all be happy, or is that too sensible?
John
At 32 degrees you are classed as having moderate hypothermia (which is more serious then it sounds) the functioning of the brain is impaired and a victim might not feel cold and will sometimes refuse help believing that there is nothing wrong. They will not recover without medical help.
Drop the temperature a degree or two lower the victim becomes severely hypothermic, pulse rate becomes irregular followed by unconsciousness with a real danger of fatal consequences.
However the real answer could be that the ladies in question dress in short skirts and little tops in the bars and clubs etc but then put on a big coat and hat when they leave to go home, then we would all be happy, or is that too sensible?
John
# posted by : 22 December 2008 at 20:36
: 22 December 2008 at 20:36
Thanks for that John, I agree with all you posted and - "put on a big coat and hat when they leave to go home" - and also to wear socks and sensible shoes. Grampy Steve and Mountain John know what is best for the ladies!
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