Nitram

On Sun, 8 May 2005 11:49:15 +0200, Wolfgang Schwanke <[email protected]>
wrote:

    >nitram <[email protected]> wrote
    >in news:[email protected]:
    >> Can you receive Dutch satellite TV?
    >Nah, I have cable. German cable companies don't feed a lot of foreign
    >channels except in near border areas where they have to by law. We get
    >a lot of shopping and rip-off channels instead, can't waste that
    >bandwidth for anything useful. The opposite policy of Dutch cable
    >providers which is much more consumer friendly.

I was amazed by the enormous number of German channels available in a
hotel I stayed in near the Bodensee. It was all rubbish just like
everywhere else :-)

Nitram

On Sun, 8 May 2005 11:51:14 +0200, Wolfgang Schwanke <[email protected]>
wrote:

    >nitram <[email protected]> wrote
    >in news:[email protected]:
    >> Don't mention the war.
    >Why not, it's its birthday today.

Anniversary of its death, surely?

Miasma will be proud of us :-)

Keith W

"Mxsmanic" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
    > Keith W writes:
    >> Which is rarely the case
    > It is increasingly the case.
    >> It ALWAYS helps as it prevents heat entering the system, this basic
    >> thermodynamics old boy
    > Reducing the temperature from 65° to 45° isn't necessarily a useful
    > improvement.

Now where in Europe do we get ambient temps of 65 C ?

    >> Except that by definition air on the shaded side of the house is
    >> apt to be cooler, sepecially at ground level
    > It may still be warmer than air inside the house.

But typically isnt.

    >> Now you are just being silly, the Conquistadors didnt bring AC
    >> units with them you know.
    > They're all dead now.

But not of heat stroke

Keith

Chancellor Of The Duchy Of Besses O' Th' Barn And

nitram <[email protected]> wrote:

    > On Sun, 8 May 2005 11:49:15 +0200, Wolfgang Schwanke <[email protected]>
    > wrote:
    >
    > >nitram <[email protected]> wrote
    > >in news:[email protected]:
    > >
    > >> Can you receive Dutch satellite TV?
    > >
    > >Nah, I have cable. German cable companies don't feed a lot of foreign
    > >channels except in near border areas where they have to by law. We get
    > >a lot of shopping and rip-off channels instead, can't waste that
    > >bandwidth for anything useful. The opposite policy of Dutch cable
    > >providers which is much more consumer friendly.
    >
    > I was amazed by the enormous number of German channels available in a
    > hotel I stayed in near the Bodensee. It was all rubbish just like
    > everywhere else :-)

A year ago, I remember flicking through the channels in my hotel room in
Wurzburg, and the programmes I saw all seemed to be German versions of
Judge Judy, except with better looking male versions. Bizzare!

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The Rev Gaston

On 2005-05-08 12:12:12 +0200, "Keith W"
<[email protected]> said:

    > Now where in Europe do we get ambient temps of 65 C ?

In most Parisian hospitals, as far as I can make out from Mixi's postings.

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The Rev Gaston <[email protected]> wrote:

    > On 2005-05-08 12:12:12 +0200, "Keith W"
    > <[email protected]> said:
    >
    > > Now where in Europe do we get ambient temps of 65 C ?
    >
    > In most Parisian hospitals, as far as I can make out from Mixi's postings.

I'm more inclined to think it's the temperature of his arse. That's
where is head seems to be most of the time.

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Nitram

On Sun, 8 May 2005 12:19:59 +0200, The Rev Gaston <[email protected]>
wrote:

    >On 2005-05-08 12:12:12 +0200, "Keith W"
    ><[email protected]> said:
    >> Now where in Europe do we get ambient temps of 65 C ?
    >In most Parisian hospitals, as far as I can make out from Mixi's postings.

His brain is addled by poor environmental conditions in Parisian broom
cupboards. I gave him the benefit of the doubt and assumed that he had
lapsed into Fahrenheit.

Nitram

On Sun, 8 May 2005 11:12:48 +0100, [email protected]
(chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco)
wrote:

    >nitram <[email protected]> wrote:
    >> On Sun, 8 May 2005 11:49:15 +0200, Wolfgang Schwanke <[email protected]>
    >> wrote:
    >>
    >> >nitram <[email protected]> wrote
    >> >in news:[email protected]:
    >> >
    >> >> Can you receive Dutch satellite TV?
    >> >
    >> >Nah, I have cable. German cable companies don't feed a lot of foreign
    >> >channels except in near border areas where they have to by law. We get
    >> >a lot of shopping and rip-off channels instead, can't waste that
    >> >bandwidth for anything useful. The opposite policy of Dutch cable
    >> >providers which is much more consumer friendly.
    >>
    >> I was amazed by the enormous number of German channels available in a
    >> hotel I stayed in near the Bodensee. It was all rubbish just like
    >> everywhere else :-)
    >A year ago, I remember flicking through the channels in my hotel room in
    >Wurzburg, and the programmes I saw all seemed to be German versions of
    >Judge Judy, except with better looking male versions. Bizzare!

and none of the intellectual stimulation somebody, who doesn't
understand Italian, gets out of trying to work out the correlation
between girls always taking their clothes off and giving the correct
or incorrect answer to questions in Tutti Frutti on Italian TV

Mxsmanic

nitram writes:

    > and you believe that they'd be still alive, if they had air
    > conditioned Armour?

No, but if they were still alive today, the argument would be a lot more
meaningful and relevant.

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The Rev Gaston

On 2005-05-08 12:35:01 +0200, Mxsmanic <[email protected]> said:

    > nitram writes:
    >
    >> and you believe that they'd be still alive, if they had air
    >> conditioned Armour?
    >
    > No, but if they were still alive today, the argument would be a lot more
    > meaningful and relevant.

I wasn't aware that human physiology had changed so much in the meantime.

You live and learn...

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Mxsmanic

The Rev Gaston writes:

    > I wasn't aware that human physiology had changed so much in the meantime.

It hasn't, but technology has moved on, and the only way to tolerate
heat as people did 500 years ago is to live as they did, which means
discarding almost every feature of modern society. Even then, one may
not be able to tolerate heat--500 years ago, they didn't tolerate it so
much as they had no choice.

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Nitram

On Sun, 08 May 2005 12:35:01 +0200, Mxsmanic <[email protected]>
wrote:

    >nitram writes:
    >> and you believe that they'd be still alive, if they had air
    >> conditioned armour?
    >No, but if they were still alive today, the argument would be a lot more
    >meaningful and relevant.

They could join in the discussion of where the best tapas bars are to
be found?

Nitram

On Sun, 08 May 2005 12:43:32 +0200, Mxsmanic <[email protected]>
wrote:

    >The Rev Gaston writes:
    >> I wasn't aware that human physiology had changed so much in the meantime.
    >It hasn't, but technology has moved on, and the only way to tolerate
    >heat as people did 500 years ago is to live as they did,

by getting acclimatised to the local climate and using traditional
methods of staying cool.

    > which means
    >discarding almost every feature of modern society.

You have already done that.

    > Even then, one may
    >not be able to tolerate heat--500 years ago, they didn't tolerate it so
    >much as they had no choice.

British troops lived in barracks without air conditioning in Singapore
right up to independence. Likewise French troops stationed in the
tropics.

Chancellor Of The Duchy Of Besses O' Th' Barn And

Mxsmanic <[email protected]> wrote:

    > The Rev Gaston writes:
    >
    > > I wasn't aware that human physiology had changed so much in the meantime.
    >
    > It hasn't, but technology has moved on, and the only way to tolerate
    > heat as people did 500 years ago is to live as they did, which means
    > discarding almost every feature of modern society. Even then, one may
    > not be able to tolerate heat--500 years ago, they didn't tolerate it so
    > much as they had no choice.

If you scratched your way out of the cubby hole you live in, you might
find out that much of Latin America doesn't rely on a/c as much as the
US does (in areas with similar climates) or as much as you think the
rest of us ought to.

Most people accept that a/c is necessary in certain conditions, but in
others, I think it's just a question of comfort, not survival, and
certainly not as a way of life.

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michaelnewport

nitram wrote:
    > On Sun, 08 May 2005 12:35:01 +0200, Mxsmanic <[email protected]>
    > wrote:
    > >nitram writes:
    > >
    > >> and you believe that they'd be still alive, if they had air
    > >> conditioned armour?
    > >
    > >No, but if they were still alive today, the argument would be a lot
more
    > >meaningful and relevant.
    > They could join in the discussion of where the best tapas bars are to
    > be found?

Euskadi