The Brits - Pansies About The Heat...???
Jul 24th 2006 | 1:07 am
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The Brits - Pansies About The Heat...???
http://www.spectator.co.uk/online-ed...h-empire.thtml
The day the sun set on the British empire
Boris Johnson
Hot? Call this hot? One warm day and the whole country flops down in a faint
like a bunch of wilted pansies. I mean what's got into us, eh?
After being AWOL for most of June, the British sun has put in a brief
appearance, and at once our airwaves are jammed with portentous government
doctors warning us to stay indoors, wear loose cotton clothing, turn off the
central heating and above all to slather our skins with oceans of foul
seal-blubberish suncream. We are warned of heatstroke, kidney failure, heart
attack and - mystifyingly - cold sores.
Listen, my friends. Here is my own personal weather analysis. It is a lovely
sunny July day. It is admittedly a trifle close on the Tube - but how on
earth can that be an excuse for closing our schools?
On trains, passengers are continually interrupted by the guard warning them
to drink water, bottles of which may conveniently be obtained from the
buffet car at a mere two quid a pop. What next? Will they have to remind us
to keep breathing? Have we lost all sense of proportion?
The Middle East is aflame. Our Prime Minister has been exposed in a posture
of abject servility before the American President, summoned with a click of
the fingers and the words "Yo, Blair", as if he were Jeeves to Dubya's
Wooster.
I only refrain from calling Mr Blair a poodle because several correspondents
have protested to me that this is an insult to poodles, who are, apparently,
keen independent spirits.
The Labour Government is in a state of meltdown far more serious than any
softening of the tarmac at Eastbourne, and in only a few days' time we must
endure the national agony of seeing John Prescott at the helm of the ship of
state.
In spite of all this genuine global catastrophe it seems that the main
news - the big, front-page news - concerns the efficacy or otherwise of sun
gunk.
In order to terrify its poor benighted readers one newspaper has recruited
two groups of warring scientists. The first lot says that you must baste
yourself with two 5mm layers of sun gunk, being careful to leave it on the
skin like war-paint, otherwise it will have no effect and you will get
cancer. The second lot says that you must rub it in, otherwise it will soon
wear off and you will get cancer.
Which is it? And isn't the dreadful truth, frankly, that we would be just as
well off using Mazola?
Let me remind you of one thing, all you local authorities which seize the
chance to close the schools on a gorgeous sunny day. The parents of these
kiddies save thousands of pounds to buy them holidays in the sun everywhere
from Crete to Cancun.
Look up at the sky and every 60 seconds you will see another huge airborne
cattle truck taking the British to be scorched in climates far fiercer than
our own. We sit in our villas and our condos around the shores of the
Mediterranean, like pale frogs about a pond, and when our own watery sun is
so pretentious as to put on a Mediterranean performance, we go into a
national spasm of alarm.
Is this the nation that built the Empire? When Lawrence was cantering his
camels through the sands, was he pursued by health warnings about exposing
the tips of his ears and nose to the desert glare?
When Livingstone toiled through the sweltering jungles of central Africa,
did he have coolies toting bottles of Evian and government officials warning
him of dehydration?
This is a nation whose imperial greatness transformed the world, and which
disseminated ideas of freedom, parliamentary democracy and above all the
English language, the language of the globe, polar, tropical and temperate.
We pulled it off because we were equipped with colonial servants who didn't
care whether it was as hot as a chilli on the back streets of Bangalore.
They were pink of cheek and rheumy of eye, and when their French and German
rivals were having a siesta, they were out in the noonday sun claiming the
planet for the Crown.
How fallen, how changed we are from that magnificent ethic. Even since the
1970s, when we last had a heatwave and, interestingly, movies about Superman
and the Poseidon Adventure, we seem to have softened like a strawberry mivvi
in the sun.
Our footballers blub when they lose a match. The nanny state won't let us
take our T-shirts off in public lest we get sunburn, and from November all
children under the age of 11 will have to be equipped with an expensive
plastic booster seat banquette before you can take them in the back of the
car.
We have become so wet that the Government has tried to intrude in the
housing market and abolish the ancient principle of caveat emptor, and while
I am on the subject there is one final point I want to make before I fire
this piece off to the Telegraph and go for a well-deserved pint of beer with
dewy condensation running down its cold, golden flanks.
No matter how great the hysteria about the heat, no matter how many
scientists warn us about the risks of either applying or failing to apply
sunscreen, we should not allow anyone to convert the current panic into
legislation.
We don't want any more of those directives that make employers criminally
liable for failing to see that their employees are covered with gloop factor
15.
Let us in conclusion remember the words of the poet. Sometime too bright the
eye of heaven shines, he pointed out, and for some weeds out there that is
the case this week.
But the key point, as he went on to say, is that Often is his gold
complexion dimm'd. That is the way of the British sun, and that, if I read
the forecast correctly, is what is going to happen this weekend.
My heatwave health advice is to jump in the delicious river Thames, upstream
of Henley. And if you really can't stand the heat, move to Scotland, where
it seems to be raining already."
</>
The day the sun set on the British empire
Boris Johnson
Hot? Call this hot? One warm day and the whole country flops down in a faint
like a bunch of wilted pansies. I mean what's got into us, eh?
After being AWOL for most of June, the British sun has put in a brief
appearance, and at once our airwaves are jammed with portentous government
doctors warning us to stay indoors, wear loose cotton clothing, turn off the
central heating and above all to slather our skins with oceans of foul
seal-blubberish suncream. We are warned of heatstroke, kidney failure, heart
attack and - mystifyingly - cold sores.
Listen, my friends. Here is my own personal weather analysis. It is a lovely
sunny July day. It is admittedly a trifle close on the Tube - but how on
earth can that be an excuse for closing our schools?
On trains, passengers are continually interrupted by the guard warning them
to drink water, bottles of which may conveniently be obtained from the
buffet car at a mere two quid a pop. What next? Will they have to remind us
to keep breathing? Have we lost all sense of proportion?
The Middle East is aflame. Our Prime Minister has been exposed in a posture
of abject servility before the American President, summoned with a click of
the fingers and the words "Yo, Blair", as if he were Jeeves to Dubya's
Wooster.
I only refrain from calling Mr Blair a poodle because several correspondents
have protested to me that this is an insult to poodles, who are, apparently,
keen independent spirits.
The Labour Government is in a state of meltdown far more serious than any
softening of the tarmac at Eastbourne, and in only a few days' time we must
endure the national agony of seeing John Prescott at the helm of the ship of
state.
In spite of all this genuine global catastrophe it seems that the main
news - the big, front-page news - concerns the efficacy or otherwise of sun
gunk.
In order to terrify its poor benighted readers one newspaper has recruited
two groups of warring scientists. The first lot says that you must baste
yourself with two 5mm layers of sun gunk, being careful to leave it on the
skin like war-paint, otherwise it will have no effect and you will get
cancer. The second lot says that you must rub it in, otherwise it will soon
wear off and you will get cancer.
Which is it? And isn't the dreadful truth, frankly, that we would be just as
well off using Mazola?
Let me remind you of one thing, all you local authorities which seize the
chance to close the schools on a gorgeous sunny day. The parents of these
kiddies save thousands of pounds to buy them holidays in the sun everywhere
from Crete to Cancun.
Look up at the sky and every 60 seconds you will see another huge airborne
cattle truck taking the British to be scorched in climates far fiercer than
our own. We sit in our villas and our condos around the shores of the
Mediterranean, like pale frogs about a pond, and when our own watery sun is
so pretentious as to put on a Mediterranean performance, we go into a
national spasm of alarm.
Is this the nation that built the Empire? When Lawrence was cantering his
camels through the sands, was he pursued by health warnings about exposing
the tips of his ears and nose to the desert glare?
When Livingstone toiled through the sweltering jungles of central Africa,
did he have coolies toting bottles of Evian and government officials warning
him of dehydration?
This is a nation whose imperial greatness transformed the world, and which
disseminated ideas of freedom, parliamentary democracy and above all the
English language, the language of the globe, polar, tropical and temperate.
We pulled it off because we were equipped with colonial servants who didn't
care whether it was as hot as a chilli on the back streets of Bangalore.
They were pink of cheek and rheumy of eye, and when their French and German
rivals were having a siesta, they were out in the noonday sun claiming the
planet for the Crown.
How fallen, how changed we are from that magnificent ethic. Even since the
1970s, when we last had a heatwave and, interestingly, movies about Superman
and the Poseidon Adventure, we seem to have softened like a strawberry mivvi
in the sun.
Our footballers blub when they lose a match. The nanny state won't let us
take our T-shirts off in public lest we get sunburn, and from November all
children under the age of 11 will have to be equipped with an expensive
plastic booster seat banquette before you can take them in the back of the
car.
We have become so wet that the Government has tried to intrude in the
housing market and abolish the ancient principle of caveat emptor, and while
I am on the subject there is one final point I want to make before I fire
this piece off to the Telegraph and go for a well-deserved pint of beer with
dewy condensation running down its cold, golden flanks.
No matter how great the hysteria about the heat, no matter how many
scientists warn us about the risks of either applying or failing to apply
sunscreen, we should not allow anyone to convert the current panic into
legislation.
We don't want any more of those directives that make employers criminally
liable for failing to see that their employees are covered with gloop factor
15.
Let us in conclusion remember the words of the poet. Sometime too bright the
eye of heaven shines, he pointed out, and for some weeds out there that is
the case this week.
But the key point, as he went on to say, is that Often is his gold
complexion dimm'd. That is the way of the British sun, and that, if I read
the forecast correctly, is what is going to happen this weekend.
My heatwave health advice is to jump in the delicious river Thames, upstream
of Henley. And if you really can't stand the heat, move to Scotland, where
it seems to be raining already."
</>
Jul 24th 2006 | 1:40 am
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Re: The Brits - Pansies About The Heat...???
Gregory Morrow wrote:
> http://www.spectator.co.uk/online-ed...h-empire.thtml
> The day the sun set on the British empire
> Boris Johnson
> Hot? Call this hot? One warm day and the whole country flops down in a faint
> like a bunch of wilted pansies. I mean what's got into us, eh?
> After being AWOL for most of June, the British sun has put in a brief
> appearance, and at once our airwaves are jammed with portentous government
> doctors warning us to stay indoors, wear loose cotton clothing, turn off the
> central heating and above all to slather our skins with oceans of foul
> seal-blubberish suncream. We are warned of heatstroke, kidney failure, heart
> attack and - mystifyingly - cold sores.
> Listen, my friends. Here is my own personal weather analysis. It is a lovely
> sunny July day. It is admittedly a trifle close on the Tube - but how on
> earth can that be an excuse for closing our schools?
> On trains, passengers are continually interrupted by the guard warning them
> to drink water, bottles of which may conveniently be obtained from the
> buffet car at a mere two quid a pop. What next? Will they have to remind us
> to keep breathing? Have we lost all sense of proportion?
> The Middle East is aflame. Our Prime Minister has been exposed in a posture
> of abject servility before the American President, summoned with a click of
> the fingers and the words "Yo, Blair", as if he were Jeeves to Dubya's
> Wooster.
> I only refrain from calling Mr Blair a poodle because several correspondents
> have protested to me that this is an insult to poodles, who are, apparently,
> keen independent spirits.
> The Labour Government is in a state of meltdown far more serious than any
> softening of the tarmac at Eastbourne, and in only a few days' time we must
> endure the national agony of seeing John Prescott at the helm of the ship of
> state.
> In spite of all this genuine global catastrophe it seems that the main
> news - the big, front-page news - concerns the efficacy or otherwise of sun
> gunk.
> In order to terrify its poor benighted readers one newspaper has recruited
> two groups of warring scientists. The first lot says that you must baste
> yourself with two 5mm layers of sun gunk, being careful to leave it on the
> skin like war-paint, otherwise it will have no effect and you will get
> cancer. The second lot says that you must rub it in, otherwise it will soon
> wear off and you will get cancer.
> Which is it? And isn't the dreadful truth, frankly, that we would be just as
> well off using Mazola?
> Let me remind you of one thing, all you local authorities which seize the
> chance to close the schools on a gorgeous sunny day. The parents of these
> kiddies save thousands of pounds to buy them holidays in the sun everywhere
> from Crete to Cancun.
> Look up at the sky and every 60 seconds you will see another huge airborne
> cattle truck taking the British to be scorched in climates far fiercer than
> our own. We sit in our villas and our condos around the shores of the
> Mediterranean, like pale frogs about a pond, and when our own watery sun is
> so pretentious as to put on a Mediterranean performance, we go into a
> national spasm of alarm.
> Is this the nation that built the Empire? When Lawrence was cantering his
> camels through the sands, was he pursued by health warnings about exposing
> the tips of his ears and nose to the desert glare?
> When Livingstone toiled through the sweltering jungles of central Africa,
> did he have coolies toting bottles of Evian and government officials warning
> him of dehydration?
> This is a nation whose imperial greatness transformed the world, and which
> disseminated ideas of freedom, parliamentary democracy and above all the
> English language, the language of the globe, polar, tropical and temperate.
> We pulled it off because we were equipped with colonial servants who didn't
> care whether it was as hot as a chilli on the back streets of Bangalore.
> They were pink of cheek and rheumy of eye, and when their French and German
> rivals were having a siesta, they were out in the noonday sun claiming the
> planet for the Crown.
> How fallen, how changed we are from that magnificent ethic. Even since the
> 1970s, when we last had a heatwave and, interestingly, movies about Superman
> and the Poseidon Adventure, we seem to have softened like a strawberry mivvi
> in the sun.
> Our footballers blub when they lose a match. The nanny state won't let us
> take our T-shirts off in public lest we get sunburn, and from November all
> children under the age of 11 will have to be equipped with an expensive
> plastic booster seat banquette before you can take them in the back of the
> car.
> We have become so wet that the Government has tried to intrude in the
> housing market and abolish the ancient principle of caveat emptor, and while
> I am on the subject there is one final point I want to make before I fire
> this piece off to the Telegraph and go for a well-deserved pint of beer with
> dewy condensation running down its cold, golden flanks.
> No matter how great the hysteria about the heat, no matter how many
> scientists warn us about the risks of either applying or failing to apply
> sunscreen, we should not allow anyone to convert the current panic into
> legislation.
> We don't want any more of those directives that make employers criminally
> liable for failing to see that their employees are covered with gloop factor
> 15.
> Let us in conclusion remember the words of the poet. Sometime too bright the
> eye of heaven shines, he pointed out, and for some weeds out there that is
> the case this week.
> But the key point, as he went on to say, is that Often is his gold
> complexion dimm'd. That is the way of the British sun, and that, if I read
> the forecast correctly, is what is going to happen this weekend.
> My heatwave health advice is to jump in the delicious river Thames, upstream
> of Henley. And if you really can't stand the heat, move to Scotland, where
> it seems to be raining already."
> </>
Boris is a legend in his lunchtime, and he should stay that way.
> http://www.spectator.co.uk/online-ed...h-empire.thtml
> The day the sun set on the British empire
> Boris Johnson
> Hot? Call this hot? One warm day and the whole country flops down in a faint
> like a bunch of wilted pansies. I mean what's got into us, eh?
> After being AWOL for most of June, the British sun has put in a brief
> appearance, and at once our airwaves are jammed with portentous government
> doctors warning us to stay indoors, wear loose cotton clothing, turn off the
> central heating and above all to slather our skins with oceans of foul
> seal-blubberish suncream. We are warned of heatstroke, kidney failure, heart
> attack and - mystifyingly - cold sores.
> Listen, my friends. Here is my own personal weather analysis. It is a lovely
> sunny July day. It is admittedly a trifle close on the Tube - but how on
> earth can that be an excuse for closing our schools?
> On trains, passengers are continually interrupted by the guard warning them
> to drink water, bottles of which may conveniently be obtained from the
> buffet car at a mere two quid a pop. What next? Will they have to remind us
> to keep breathing? Have we lost all sense of proportion?
> The Middle East is aflame. Our Prime Minister has been exposed in a posture
> of abject servility before the American President, summoned with a click of
> the fingers and the words "Yo, Blair", as if he were Jeeves to Dubya's
> Wooster.
> I only refrain from calling Mr Blair a poodle because several correspondents
> have protested to me that this is an insult to poodles, who are, apparently,
> keen independent spirits.
> The Labour Government is in a state of meltdown far more serious than any
> softening of the tarmac at Eastbourne, and in only a few days' time we must
> endure the national agony of seeing John Prescott at the helm of the ship of
> state.
> In spite of all this genuine global catastrophe it seems that the main
> news - the big, front-page news - concerns the efficacy or otherwise of sun
> gunk.
> In order to terrify its poor benighted readers one newspaper has recruited
> two groups of warring scientists. The first lot says that you must baste
> yourself with two 5mm layers of sun gunk, being careful to leave it on the
> skin like war-paint, otherwise it will have no effect and you will get
> cancer. The second lot says that you must rub it in, otherwise it will soon
> wear off and you will get cancer.
> Which is it? And isn't the dreadful truth, frankly, that we would be just as
> well off using Mazola?
> Let me remind you of one thing, all you local authorities which seize the
> chance to close the schools on a gorgeous sunny day. The parents of these
> kiddies save thousands of pounds to buy them holidays in the sun everywhere
> from Crete to Cancun.
> Look up at the sky and every 60 seconds you will see another huge airborne
> cattle truck taking the British to be scorched in climates far fiercer than
> our own. We sit in our villas and our condos around the shores of the
> Mediterranean, like pale frogs about a pond, and when our own watery sun is
> so pretentious as to put on a Mediterranean performance, we go into a
> national spasm of alarm.
> Is this the nation that built the Empire? When Lawrence was cantering his
> camels through the sands, was he pursued by health warnings about exposing
> the tips of his ears and nose to the desert glare?
> When Livingstone toiled through the sweltering jungles of central Africa,
> did he have coolies toting bottles of Evian and government officials warning
> him of dehydration?
> This is a nation whose imperial greatness transformed the world, and which
> disseminated ideas of freedom, parliamentary democracy and above all the
> English language, the language of the globe, polar, tropical and temperate.
> We pulled it off because we were equipped with colonial servants who didn't
> care whether it was as hot as a chilli on the back streets of Bangalore.
> They were pink of cheek and rheumy of eye, and when their French and German
> rivals were having a siesta, they were out in the noonday sun claiming the
> planet for the Crown.
> How fallen, how changed we are from that magnificent ethic. Even since the
> 1970s, when we last had a heatwave and, interestingly, movies about Superman
> and the Poseidon Adventure, we seem to have softened like a strawberry mivvi
> in the sun.
> Our footballers blub when they lose a match. The nanny state won't let us
> take our T-shirts off in public lest we get sunburn, and from November all
> children under the age of 11 will have to be equipped with an expensive
> plastic booster seat banquette before you can take them in the back of the
> car.
> We have become so wet that the Government has tried to intrude in the
> housing market and abolish the ancient principle of caveat emptor, and while
> I am on the subject there is one final point I want to make before I fire
> this piece off to the Telegraph and go for a well-deserved pint of beer with
> dewy condensation running down its cold, golden flanks.
> No matter how great the hysteria about the heat, no matter how many
> scientists warn us about the risks of either applying or failing to apply
> sunscreen, we should not allow anyone to convert the current panic into
> legislation.
> We don't want any more of those directives that make employers criminally
> liable for failing to see that their employees are covered with gloop factor
> 15.
> Let us in conclusion remember the words of the poet. Sometime too bright the
> eye of heaven shines, he pointed out, and for some weeds out there that is
> the case this week.
> But the key point, as he went on to say, is that Often is his gold
> complexion dimm'd. That is the way of the British sun, and that, if I read
> the forecast correctly, is what is going to happen this weekend.
> My heatwave health advice is to jump in the delicious river Thames, upstream
> of Henley. And if you really can't stand the heat, move to Scotland, where
> it seems to be raining already."
> </>
Boris is a legend in his lunchtime, and he should stay that way.
Jul 24th 2006 | 2:05 am
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Re: The Brits - Pansies About The Heat...???
The british ALWAYS talk about weather .
I think it's the country in the world in wich the weather is more
subject of conversation.
Here in Spain the weather in subject of converstion on exceptional
circunstancies, not as a usual subject like the british .
Regarding hot , I have notice how bad norther european countries are
equiped to cope with Hot . I'm now in Malaga with 27Celsius outside ,
but i'm writing this under my excelent air conditioning machine .
During the last few night it has been on, all night .
For you to learn , extreme hot is only distressfull on the NIGHTS .
No matter how hot is the day if the night is fresh , there is no
problem .
The problem came when a series of hot days , is simoultaneous with a
series of hot NIGHTS ... then a hot stresss appears .
This situation is very easily avoided with air conditioning , specially
at night and in the central hours of the day . On sunday Malaga suffer
from 41 Celsius and I didn't notice it .
The only thing you would need to change is to install air conditioning
for the hot , that's all .
But the BEST recipe to combat HOT is NOT THINKING ON IT.
If one don't think on the hot the hot stress dissapears , that's my
lesson on hot.
I think it's the country in the world in wich the weather is more
subject of conversation.
Here in Spain the weather in subject of converstion on exceptional
circunstancies, not as a usual subject like the british .
Regarding hot , I have notice how bad norther european countries are
equiped to cope with Hot . I'm now in Malaga with 27Celsius outside ,
but i'm writing this under my excelent air conditioning machine .
During the last few night it has been on, all night .
For you to learn , extreme hot is only distressfull on the NIGHTS .
No matter how hot is the day if the night is fresh , there is no
problem .
The problem came when a series of hot days , is simoultaneous with a
series of hot NIGHTS ... then a hot stresss appears .
This situation is very easily avoided with air conditioning , specially
at night and in the central hours of the day . On sunday Malaga suffer
from 41 Celsius and I didn't notice it .
The only thing you would need to change is to install air conditioning
for the hot , that's all .
But the BEST recipe to combat HOT is NOT THINKING ON IT.
If one don't think on the hot the hot stress dissapears , that's my
lesson on hot.
Jul 24th 2006 | 2:25 am
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Re: The Brits - Pansies About The Heat...???
IBstaff wrote:
> The british ALWAYS talk about weather .
Yes, they do...
> I think it's the country in the world in wich the weather is more
> subject of conversation.
> Here in Spain the weather in subject of converstion on exceptional
> circunstancies, not as a usual subject like the british .
> Regarding hot , I have notice how bad norther european countries are
> equiped to cope with Hot . I'm now in Malaga with 27Celsius outside ,
> but i'm writing this under my excelent air conditioning machine .
Up in Sussex they are living on their terraces, cowering under mosquito
nets...in Paris they are arguing about British Thermal Units and wet - bulb
thermometers...in Scotland they are nattering on about whales...all the
while off - European tangents such as coal burning in China and the need for
a/c in Philadelphia keep rearing up too.
But here in Malaga they have air conditioning -- this folks is a PRACTICAL
fellow in a PRACTICAL place...!!!
> During the last few night it has been on, all night .
> For you to learn , extreme hot is only distressfull on the NIGHTS .
> No matter how hot is the day if the night is fresh , there is no
> problem .
> The problem came when a series of hot days , is simoultaneous with a
> series of hot NIGHTS ... then a hot stresss appears .
> This situation is very easily avoided with air conditioning , specially
> at night and in the central hours of the day . On sunday Malaga suffer
> from 41 Celsius and I didn't notice it .
> The only thing you would need to change is to install air conditioning
> for the hot , that's all .
You are another CLEVER European, I salute you...you are an avator of the NEW
EUROPE, not the prissy and in - denial Olde Europe.
[that now makes TWO Europeans here who have stated that they have embraced
this new Yank fad of air conditioning...dare we make it THREE...???]
> But the BEST recipe to combat HOT is NOT THINKING ON IT.
> If one don't think on the hot the hot stress dissapears , that's my
> lesson on hot.
Yep, and be practical about the heat, e.g. install air conditioning...this
is something I've pointing out on this froup for going on three years now.
Thank you :-)
--
Best
Greg
> The british ALWAYS talk about weather .
Yes, they do...
> I think it's the country in the world in wich the weather is more
> subject of conversation.
> Here in Spain the weather in subject of converstion on exceptional
> circunstancies, not as a usual subject like the british .
> Regarding hot , I have notice how bad norther european countries are
> equiped to cope with Hot . I'm now in Malaga with 27Celsius outside ,
> but i'm writing this under my excelent air conditioning machine .
Up in Sussex they are living on their terraces, cowering under mosquito
nets...in Paris they are arguing about British Thermal Units and wet - bulb
thermometers...in Scotland they are nattering on about whales...all the
while off - European tangents such as coal burning in China and the need for
a/c in Philadelphia keep rearing up too.
But here in Malaga they have air conditioning -- this folks is a PRACTICAL
fellow in a PRACTICAL place...!!!
> During the last few night it has been on, all night .
> For you to learn , extreme hot is only distressfull on the NIGHTS .
> No matter how hot is the day if the night is fresh , there is no
> problem .
> The problem came when a series of hot days , is simoultaneous with a
> series of hot NIGHTS ... then a hot stresss appears .
> This situation is very easily avoided with air conditioning , specially
> at night and in the central hours of the day . On sunday Malaga suffer
> from 41 Celsius and I didn't notice it .
> The only thing you would need to change is to install air conditioning
> for the hot , that's all .
You are another CLEVER European, I salute you...you are an avator of the NEW
EUROPE, not the prissy and in - denial Olde Europe.
[that now makes TWO Europeans here who have stated that they have embraced
this new Yank fad of air conditioning...dare we make it THREE...???]
> But the BEST recipe to combat HOT is NOT THINKING ON IT.
> If one don't think on the hot the hot stress dissapears , that's my
> lesson on hot.
Yep, and be practical about the heat, e.g. install air conditioning...this
is something I've pointing out on this froup for going on three years now.
Thank you :-)
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Greg
Jul 24th 2006 | 2:31 am
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> IBstaff wrote:
>> The british ALWAYS talk about weather .
> Yes, they do...
The posts on this newsgroup about weather overwhelmingly emanate
from Americans
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> IBstaff wrote:
>> The british ALWAYS talk about weather .
> Yes, they do...
The posts on this newsgroup about weather overwhelmingly emanate
from Americans
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Keith W wrote:
> "Gregory Morrow" <[email protected]> wrote in
> message news:[email protected] ink.net...
> >
> > IBstaff wrote:
> >
> >> The british ALWAYS talk about weather .
> >
> >
> > Yes, they do...
> >
> >
> The posts on this newsgroup about weather overwhelmingly emanate
> from Americans
With all the Brits on this froup I move we should talk about pets. I'm
kinda "weathered" out quite frankly...
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> "Gregory Morrow" <[email protected]> wrote in
> message news:[email protected] ink.net...
> >
> > IBstaff wrote:
> >
> >> The british ALWAYS talk about weather .
> >
> >
> > Yes, they do...
> >
> >
> The posts on this newsgroup about weather overwhelmingly emanate
> from Americans
With all the Brits on this froup I move we should talk about pets. I'm
kinda "weathered" out quite frankly...
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Jul 24th 2006 | 2:40 am
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Following up to Gregory Morrow
>I only refrain from calling Mr Blair a poodle because several correspondents
>have protested to me that this is an insult to poodles, who are, apparently,
>keen independent spirits.
"Bush's bitch" is fine.
>and while
>I am on the subject there is one final point I want to make before I fire
>this piece off to the Telegraph and go for a well-deserved pint of beer with
>dewy condensation running down its cold, golden flanks.
Hah, this man calls himself an Englishman and drinks bloody
lager!
>My heatwave health advice is to jump in the delicious river Thames, upstream
>of Henley. And if you really can't stand the heat, move to Scotland, where
>it seems to be raining already."
only Shetland has remained totally cool so far.
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>I only refrain from calling Mr Blair a poodle because several correspondents
>have protested to me that this is an insult to poodles, who are, apparently,
>keen independent spirits.
"Bush's bitch" is fine.
>and while
>I am on the subject there is one final point I want to make before I fire
>this piece off to the Telegraph and go for a well-deserved pint of beer with
>dewy condensation running down its cold, golden flanks.
Hah, this man calls himself an Englishman and drinks bloody
lager!
>My heatwave health advice is to jump in the delicious river Thames, upstream
>of Henley. And if you really can't stand the heat, move to Scotland, where
>it seems to be raining already."
only Shetland has remained totally cool so far.
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Following up to Gregory Morrow
>> The british ALWAYS talk about weather .
>Yes, they do...
because its very changeable.
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>> The british ALWAYS talk about weather .
>Yes, they do...
because its very changeable.
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The Reid wrote:
> Following up to Gregory Morrow
> >> The british ALWAYS talk about weather .
> >
> >
> >Yes, they do...
> because its very changeable.
And it is constantly about one...
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> Following up to Gregory Morrow
> >> The british ALWAYS talk about weather .
> >
> >
> >Yes, they do...
> because its very changeable.
And it is constantly about one...
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Jul 24th 2006 | 2:54 am
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Gregory Morrow wrote:
> IBstaff wrote:
> Yep, and be practical about the heat, e.g. install air conditioning...this
> is something I've pointing out on this froup for going on three years now.
> Thank you :-)
> --
> Best
> Greg
It's important to note that current generation of AC equipment is MUCH
better that older ones.
I have AC in house and office since the early 80's . My first AC was a
General Electric that made a lot of noise , consume a LOT of
electricity and on very hot days didn't cold enough .
Since them AC equipment has improve a LOT . The last generation of AC
are marvellous . Its worth of replacing old units with the new ones .
The new generations make NO noise , cold inmediatly , and consume very
little energy , less than an average TV !!! .
The new unit I have it's marvellous . Make no noise, cold inmediatly ,
adjust to the desired level , and all that with a surprisingly low
electric comsuption.
Also have an option only to DRY the air , not cooling or heating .
The new AC also provides hot air in the winter !!! ..using reverse
cooling , that also consume less electricity that the old conventional
resistance hot machines.
> IBstaff wrote:
> Yep, and be practical about the heat, e.g. install air conditioning...this
> is something I've pointing out on this froup for going on three years now.
> Thank you :-)
> --
> Best
> Greg
It's important to note that current generation of AC equipment is MUCH
better that older ones.
I have AC in house and office since the early 80's . My first AC was a
General Electric that made a lot of noise , consume a LOT of
electricity and on very hot days didn't cold enough .
Since them AC equipment has improve a LOT . The last generation of AC
are marvellous . Its worth of replacing old units with the new ones .
The new generations make NO noise , cold inmediatly , and consume very
little energy , less than an average TV !!! .
The new unit I have it's marvellous . Make no noise, cold inmediatly ,
adjust to the desired level , and all that with a surprisingly low
electric comsuption.
Also have an option only to DRY the air , not cooling or heating .
The new AC also provides hot air in the winter !!! ..using reverse
cooling , that also consume less electricity that the old conventional
resistance hot machines.
Jul 24th 2006 | 2:57 am
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On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 14:25:05 GMT, "Gregory Morrow"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>But here in Malaga they have air conditioning -- this folks is a PRACTICAL
>fellow in a PRACTICAL place...!!!
Converting the whole Iberian Plain into one big ****ing aerodrome?
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<[email protected]> wrote:
>But here in Malaga they have air conditioning -- this folks is a PRACTICAL
>fellow in a PRACTICAL place...!!!
Converting the whole Iberian Plain into one big ****ing aerodrome?
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Jul 24th 2006 | 2:57 am
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On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 14:36:13 GMT, "Gregory Morrow"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>With all the Brits on this froup I move we should talk about pets. I'm
>kinda "weathered" out quite frankly...
Want to talk about you favourite pussy?
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<[email protected]> wrote:
>With all the Brits on this froup I move we should talk about pets. I'm
>kinda "weathered" out quite frankly...
Want to talk about you favourite pussy?
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Jul 24th 2006 | 3:00 am
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> Gregory Morrow wrote:
>> IBstaff wrote:
>> Yep, and be practical about the heat, e.g. install air
>> conditioning...this
>> is something I've pointing out on this froup for going on three years
>> now.
>> Thank you :-)
>> --
>> Best
>> Greg
> It's important to note that current generation of AC equipment is MUCH
> better that older ones.
> I have AC in house and office since the early 80's . My first AC was a
> General Electric that made a lot of noise , consume a LOT of
> electricity and on very hot days didn't cold enough .
> Since them AC equipment has improve a LOT . The last generation of AC
> are marvellous . Its worth of replacing old units with the new ones .
> The new generations make NO noise , cold inmediatly , and consume very
> little energy , less than an average TV !!! .
Only if you have a steam driven TV.
Most colour TV's use less than 100 watts. The smallest AC units
on the market pull at least 500 watts, Central AC units pull
between 2000 and 5000 watts dependening on load.
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> Gregory Morrow wrote:
>> IBstaff wrote:
>> Yep, and be practical about the heat, e.g. install air
>> conditioning...this
>> is something I've pointing out on this froup for going on three years
>> now.
>> Thank you :-)
>> --
>> Best
>> Greg
> It's important to note that current generation of AC equipment is MUCH
> better that older ones.
> I have AC in house and office since the early 80's . My first AC was a
> General Electric that made a lot of noise , consume a LOT of
> electricity and on very hot days didn't cold enough .
> Since them AC equipment has improve a LOT . The last generation of AC
> are marvellous . Its worth of replacing old units with the new ones .
> The new generations make NO noise , cold inmediatly , and consume very
> little energy , less than an average TV !!! .
Only if you have a steam driven TV.
Most colour TV's use less than 100 watts. The smallest AC units
on the market pull at least 500 watts, Central AC units pull
between 2000 and 5000 watts dependening on load.
Keith
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On 24 Jul 2006 07:05:18 -0700, "IBstaff" <[email protected]> wrote:
>But the BEST recipe to combat HOT is NOT THINKING ON IT.
>If one don't think on the hot the hot stress dissapears , that's my
>lesson on hot.
Mrs Beckham is hot.
I try not to think about her.
"I think, therefore I am hot" (Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot 1824)
Are you competing for the Mixi award to Civilisation and Life Sciences
2006?
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>But the BEST recipe to combat HOT is NOT THINKING ON IT.
>If one don't think on the hot the hot stress dissapears , that's my
>lesson on hot.
Mrs Beckham is hot.
I try not to think about her.
"I think, therefore I am hot" (Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot 1824)
Are you competing for the Mixi award to Civilisation and Life Sciences
2006?
--
Martin
Jul 24th 2006 | 3:04 am
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IBstaff wrote:
> Gregory Morrow wrote:
> > IBstaff wrote:
> >
> > Yep, and be practical about the heat, e.g. install air
conditioning...this
> > is something I've pointing out on this froup for going on three years
now.
> >
> > Thank you :-)
> >
> > --
> > Best
> > Greg
> It's important to note that current generation of AC equipment is MUCH
> better that older ones.
> I have AC in house and office since the early 80's . My first AC was a
> General Electric that made a lot of noise , consume a LOT of
> electricity and on very hot days didn't cold enough .
> Since them AC equipment has improve a LOT . The last generation of AC
> are marvellous . Its worth of replacing old units with the new ones .
25 years ago I had on old window AC unit. My monthly electricity bill in
the summer was usually around $90.00. Now with a more effecient unit my
monthly power bill is rarely more than $40.00 for cooling the same amount of
space. Adjusted for inflation, that's about a quarter or even less than
what I was paying years ago.
> The new generations make NO noise , cold inmediatly , and consume very
> little energy , less than an average TV !!! .
> The new unit I have it's marvellous . Make no noise, cold inmediatly ,
> adjust to the desired level , and all that with a surprisingly low
> electric comsuption.
New units sometimes even have a remote control, very handy.
> Also have an option only to DRY the air , not cooling or heating .
> The new AC also provides hot air in the winter !!! ..using reverse
> cooling , that also consume less electricity that the old conventional
> resistance hot machines.
These "heat exchanger" - type units are pretty common in warmer places like
Florida, etc. They work well during the ocassional cold snaps that these
places experience (many homes do not have any type of central heating).
Sounds very practical for Malaga :-)
--
Best
Greg
> Gregory Morrow wrote:
> > IBstaff wrote:
> >
> > Yep, and be practical about the heat, e.g. install air
conditioning...this
> > is something I've pointing out on this froup for going on three years
now.
> >
> > Thank you :-)
> >
> > --
> > Best
> > Greg
> It's important to note that current generation of AC equipment is MUCH
> better that older ones.
> I have AC in house and office since the early 80's . My first AC was a
> General Electric that made a lot of noise , consume a LOT of
> electricity and on very hot days didn't cold enough .
> Since them AC equipment has improve a LOT . The last generation of AC
> are marvellous . Its worth of replacing old units with the new ones .
25 years ago I had on old window AC unit. My monthly electricity bill in
the summer was usually around $90.00. Now with a more effecient unit my
monthly power bill is rarely more than $40.00 for cooling the same amount of
space. Adjusted for inflation, that's about a quarter or even less than
what I was paying years ago.
> The new generations make NO noise , cold inmediatly , and consume very
> little energy , less than an average TV !!! .
> The new unit I have it's marvellous . Make no noise, cold inmediatly ,
> adjust to the desired level , and all that with a surprisingly low
> electric comsuption.
New units sometimes even have a remote control, very handy.
> Also have an option only to DRY the air , not cooling or heating .
> The new AC also provides hot air in the winter !!! ..using reverse
> cooling , that also consume less electricity that the old conventional
> resistance hot machines.
These "heat exchanger" - type units are pretty common in warmer places like
Florida, etc. They work well during the ocassional cold snaps that these
places experience (many homes do not have any type of central heating).
Sounds very practical for Malaga :-)
--
Best
Greg
