Random Rants
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@hajduk Historically, we have only had to worry about houses getting too cold in winter. Now we have to worry about the mercury hitting 35 degrees Celsius and occasionally 40 degrees in the summer with some regularity and reliability. But housing guidelines still only worry about the former, so new houses (mine was built in 2016) are built to trap and retain heat, not to disgorge it when it's hot. It's currently 33 degrees outside in the shade where I live, and the thermometers in my kids' rooms say 31 and 29 degrees respectively. (I have told Mrs H to stay with them with my parents, who have A/C, tonight as that's just not safe for a 3 year old and a 7 month old.)
My house is great in winter, by bills are teeny (I'm also slightly weird in that I set the thermostat to 17 and wear heavyweight denim and flannels) but in summer it's an oven.
Over here in Europe we generally turn our noses up at A/C, the self-important European/UK zeitgeist seems to be that Americans are just being their typical selves and over-consuming as usual by putting A/C into anything with a roof on it, and we will endure the heat for the sake of not using power and the climate, but I'm sick of it. This is like the 3rd or 4th summer in a row where we get these nasty heatwaves, and is our second this year.
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I'm big anti air con. The amount of hot air being pumped out into the world, fuck me, must be one of the largest contributors to global warning.
Exaggeration alert. I am prone to exaggeration and claims based on.....well no base. It is how I think, so how I talk, and how I write, so I do not need a load of data and arguments proving I am talking bullshit, I know I maybe, but the general point is still valid. (I say this mainly for Americans, (Generalisation alert) who struggle to understand a lot of what I say, and take everything at face value. Oh, Germans too).....
"OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011
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@Giles fuck you…what about us Canadians…we don’t count. Sorry about that eh…like I didn’t mean to berate you there! Really sorry, I mean really sorry to tell you to fuck off…that’s not in our nature.
“our policy of no discussions regarding politics, religion, asparagus, and other controversial issues.” - Andrew
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Us Canadian’s will spend exorbitant amounts of money in the middle of winter to get away from -30c temps to travel somewhere that is 30c. Then in the summer spend every breathing moment complaining about the exact same 30c weather that we just travelled to months before.
But as I have often said a bitchin’ sailor is a happy sailor. When you don’t hear anything from them is when you have to worry…meaning a mutiny is bound to happen….
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@goosehd said in Random Rants:
@Giles fuck you…what
aboutaboot us Canadians…we don’t count. Sorry about that eh…like I didn’t mean to berate you there! Really sorry, I mean really sorry to tell you to fuck off…that’s not in our nature.Fixed it for you
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@Tago-Mago I didn’t know you spoke Canadian. Well done!!
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@Giles HAHA I usually operate under the assumption that this is the case for everyone (regarding exaggeration alert)... minus the self-awareness.
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@Giles said in Random Rants:
Can I join in?
I was oot and aboot today....
This could pass as Scottish too
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Just planting the seed for the 21oz selvedge kilt...
