air conditioning may be making us fat
in [Europe]
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From: Tim C. on 13 Jul 2006 14:17 On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:01:42 +0100, The Reid <dontuse(a)fell-walker.co.uk> wrote: >Following up to Tim C. > >> I'm happy up to about 30C then I'm uncomfortable . Unless I'm on >>holiday near a beach. >>-- >Yes, 30s OK for just lazing around, but for doing anything give >me 10 to 25 max. 25C-ish is nice and comfy. It also helps keep the evenings warm enough to sit outside without wrapping up. -- Tim C.
From: Tim C. on 13 Jul 2006 14:20 On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:01:42 +0100, The Reid <dontuse(a)fell-walker.co.uk> wrote: >Following up to Tim C. > >>>or multilingual penguins in Antarctica >> >>Absolutely. Clever birds are penguins. > >crows are cleverer. Ah, but their talents are directed into the practical side - solving puzzles, stealing shiny thing etc, whereas your average penguin is an intellectual. Languages, chess, philosophical discussions over a snifter of sea-water and shrimps. -- Tim C.
From: Tim C. on 13 Jul 2006 14:22 On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:15:34 +0100, The Reid <dontuse(a)fell-walker.co.uk> wrote: >Following up to David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the duchy of >besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco 24h offy > >>> several days recently have been very humid. You see people on >>> trains sticky with sweat. If you exert yourself your clothes >>> start to get wet. How can that be "nice"? >> >>Remember it's usually several degrees cooler in the north west. There >>have only been a couple of days where it got like that. > >I tend to forget that, while a bikini clad wench brings me my >cocktail by the pool, you are in the grim north, surrounded by >satanic mills, with flat 'atted men dressed in grey overcoats >filing past, like that artist I cant think of. Instead of the bikini-girl he's got Nora Batty yelling "get your own beer you lazy, good for nothing waste of space". :-) -- Tim C.
From: Dave Frightens Me on 13 Jul 2006 17:20 On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 20:00:34 +0200, Tim C. <tim.challenger(a)aon.at> wrote: >On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 07:12:20 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> >wrote: > >>> But it does work for many others. >> >>It doesn't work for anyone. > >Other viruses, not other people, you pillock. He is a pillock of course, but he did simply misread it. You didn't factor in that he's a half wit. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- --
From: Carole Allen on 14 Jul 2006 00:01
>Dave Frightens Me writes: > >> So if he doesn't get exposed to viruses, how come you do? > On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 23:18:11 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote: >We work in different environments. > What a load of c... p. When you aren't at McD's, or walking in Paris (which of course you don't do on the "hot" days), or teaching English to a group of students (adults, not children? - the same students, they don't take just one lesson from you?), you are sitting in your AC'd little apt, flying flight simulator, or checking your watch to the nanosecond, or messing with your computers. You don't go to libraries, or to the theater, or to sporting events, or to bars, etc., etc., or any other sort of place where large crowds gather (except perhaps the subway). You probably live a more isolated life than 99.9% of rte's posters. I am exposed on a daily basis to people with TB, hepatitis, heaven only knows what else they have picked up from their drug habits, I interact with significant numbers of people daily, and the turnover of people I am exposed to is relatively constant. This week I had to manage a group of 45 people for 2 days, after which it was only 14 of them through the week. That doesn't count the other 6 participants in the trial (attorneys, staff, etc.) or the witnesses, or the observers. Tomorrow I have to manage the flow of people for 16 sentencings, which involves at least 3 people for each one (prosecutor, defense atty, defendant). there will be family members, two interpreters, jail staff, etc. Papers will be handled by all and pased back and forth. That's JUST the afternoon schedule. I still have my 14 people and others for the morning. Next week it will be "deja vu all over again," with a whole new case. Counting our administrative people I also interact with,and fellow employees, I am exposed like this on a daily basis, easily 150-200 people every week. (And I ride busses too.) I hardly ever get a cold. You get colds because when you ARE exposed to a virus your body is not healthy enough to fight it off becuase you eat an unbalanced diet and you are out of shape, by your own description. |