Steve_P

Was it actually sticky?

Or was more sort of like stiff and sluggish.

I'm not at all sure I would want a sticky box, but one really can't be too choosy.

clynnog

Be thankful you weren't in Algonquin Park or Borden where it was -35 c and -31 c overnight.

dbd33

Does it really matter? I mean below 55 or so F is not pleasant, once it's -20 or -30 or -40 life is just something to struggle through and it's arguable if one should bother, it seems pointless to quibble over negative degrees.

clynnog

Well at -31 or -35 your box would have been stickier (or stiffer). You know it is cold outside when you press scan on the radio and you can visibly see that it is scanning through at a slower speed.

airbornesapper

I'm resisting the urge to add to this...so I will leave now smiling after reading the last few posts.

REgards to one and all...

dbd33

My radio froze. No shit the lcd, or whatever, display in the Sirius radio has gone solid and I can't get the BBC anymore. At -27 and without news from abroad I really feel that I'm in the wilderness.

Novocastrian

But you are, you are.

You should leave the radio turned on all night. Keep the 'orses amused.

<what is it about this forum and block heaters anyway?>

clynnog

Never had mine freeze before, but it has gone sluggish. It co-incided with having what seemed to be square tires (it was -26 or something and I was driving on all seasons).

DBD you are north of Steeles Avenue aren't you?. I recall in high school in Toronto (I moved here when I was 17) and the teacher asked in geography class where the 'north' started in Canada. One kid put up his hand and quite honestly said 'Steeles Avenue'.

iaink

Beats me. There is a perfectly good wiki article on the subject now.

Rob4BC

True, and thanks, but it's just not the same!

dbd33

When I lived in Toronto I would not have known where Steeles Ave was. For the first fifteen years or so I didn't go past Bloor and then when I did I wondered why. I don't think there's anything of note in the GTA once you get more than half a mile from the St. Lawrence market.

clynnog

It is that kind of attitude that people in the ROC dislike so much about 416 ers.

dbd33

Does it matter what they think?