air conditioning may be making us fat
in [Europe]
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From: EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) on 20 Jul 2006 11:27 Mxsmanic wrote: > Dave Frightens Me writes: > > >>How is this newsgroups not representative of the world? We think >>you're a loser, and apparently so does the world - which is why your >>life is so poor. > > > The world has not expressed an opinion. Ever hear of "cause and effect"? If the quality of your life is as poor as you claim here, it would appear the world HAS "expressed an opinion", albeit obliquely!
From: EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) on 20 Jul 2006 11:34 Mxsmanic wrote: > David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and > deansgate writes: > > >>This is a good example of your dishonesty. You said _universal_. What >>are they? > > > They are universal because people can distinguish music from noise. Depends upon how wide your definition of "music" is - some of us who love classical music find it difficult to distinguish some currnt types of "pop" music from "noise". > Without rules, that wouldn't be possible. But the "rules" change - as they have over the centuries. > Music uses tones and > timbres that are pleasing to the ear and arranges them in mathematical > relationships to each other that also are pleasing to the ear. Define "pleasing" - there's no real consensus, or there would not be so very many kinds of music which some people find pleasing and others do not. > Noise > does not. Thus, music follows universal rules that distinguish it > from noise. > Your're crawling out onto another shaky limb, Mixi - why not stop talking about things you know nothing about?
From: EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) on 20 Jul 2006 11:39 Mxsmanic wrote: > This is also mythology. Air conditioning extracts moisture from the > air, but only because the humidity becomes so high without > dehumidification that it is extremely uncomfortable to people. Air > conditioned air still has a level of relative humidity that is more > than sufficient to avoid drying of the mucous membranes. Tell that to all the opera singers who find it difficult to sing in the ubiquitous air-conditioning they find in the U.S., because it causes such dryness in the vocal apparatus! (You really are full of it, Mixi - why not stick to subjects you understand, instead of displaying your ignorance in other fields?)
From: EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) on 20 Jul 2006 11:45 Carole Allen wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 04:20:05 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > Most people don't go around with their feet in cold > >>water, even in cold weather. > > > > Oh, you have never been to Seattle in the winter then? Most natives > have webbed feet, we spend so much time with wet feet in cold weather. They do in the upper Midwest, too - often because the snow is deeper than their snow boots and works its way in over the tops, so when it melts..... (But careful - Mixi may take you literally, and start arguing that few if any human beings actually have webbed feet!)
From: EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) on 20 Jul 2006 11:58
Mxsmanic wrote: > David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and > deansgate writes: > > >>I think there must be something in that. I found in the US that when I >>spent a lot of time in an a/c environment, I would get unusually large >>number of 'sniffles' and colds. I used to go to a gym in Philadelphia >>which was in a hotel which in 1976, had a rather infamous convention of >>the American Legion! :) > > > Air conditioning is actually preferred for allergy sufferers, as the > air is usually filtered and thus less likely to contain large amounts > of allergens. Depends upon how frequently they change the filters! ;-) > |