Conquer Club

Just wondered...

Who's living in one of the areas hit by the BIG FREEZE?

What's it like inside your houses? Aren't most of them only built for a country where the mercury usually bottoms out at -3 or -4? How are you dealing with it? Cranking the heaters up to max and leaving it like that 24/7? Having to wear coats to bed?

My igloo is in no danger of melting this year, unlike the past couple of winters.

I live in St.Paul Minnesota it was -38f without wind chill.

Headline in local paper is that it's the coldest winter here sine 89.

The only chill I'm feeling is a mild flu bug
and I feel lucky it's not the BIG bug.

Temps around here have been single digit
with only the chill factor below zero.

It is strange to see New Orleans, Houston
and San Antonio below freezing.

oVo wrote:The only chill I'm feeling is a mild flu bug
and I feel lucky it's not the BIG bug.

Temps around here have been single digit
with only the chill factor below zero.

It is strange to see New Orleans, Houston
and San Antonio below freezing.

are you talking in barbarian farenheit or in common humanity celsius?

betiko wrote:

oVo wrote:The only chill I'm feeling is a mild flu bug
and I feel lucky it's not the BIG bug.

Temps around here have been single digit
with only the chill factor below zero.

It is strange to see New Orleans, Houston
and San Antonio below freezing.

are you talking in barbarian farenheit or in common humanity celsius?

Celsius uses larger increments when measuring... So, unless you want to always have to use decimal points, Fahrenheit gives you a more accurate reading... My wife is a microbiologist and we were just arguing about this on the way to work this morning... It's like using a Meter to measure something when you could use Feet... Smaller increments give you more exactness without having to use fractions and decimals!

betiko wrote:

oVo wrote:The only chill I'm feeling is a mild flu bug
and I feel lucky it's not the BIG bug.

Temps around here have been single digit
with only the chill factor below zero.

It is strange to see New Orleans, Houston
and San Antonio below freezing.

are you talking in barbarian farenheit or in common humanity celsius?

Pretty sure he is talking Fahrenheit.

Anarkistsdream wrote:

betiko wrote:

oVo wrote:The only chill I'm feeling is a mild flu bug
and I feel lucky it's not the BIG bug.

Temps around here have been single digit
with only the chill factor below zero.

It is strange to see New Orleans, Houston
and San Antonio below freezing.

are you talking in barbarian farenheit or in common humanity celsius?

Celsius uses larger increments when measuring... So, unless you want to always have to use decimal points, Fahrenheit gives you a more accurate reading... My wife is a microbiologist and we were just arguing about this on the way to work this morning... It's like using a Meter to measure something when you could use Feet... Smaller increments give you more exactness without having to use fractions and decimals!

Perhaps we should change the counting system to something other than decimal based.

Maybe 12 is a nice number for the first stage. Then I would recommend 3 for the next stage. 1760 is the ideal number for the next group.

Anarkistsdream wrote:

betiko wrote:

oVo wrote:The only chill I'm feeling is a mild flu bug
and I feel lucky it's not the BIG bug.

Temps around here have been single digit
with only the chill factor below zero.

It is strange to see New Orleans, Houston
and San Antonio below freezing.

are you talking in barbarian farenheit or in common humanity celsius?

Celsius uses larger increments when measuring... So, unless you want to always have to use decimal points, Fahrenheit gives you a more accurate reading... My wife is a microbiologist and we were just arguing about this on the way to work this morning... It's like using a Meter to measure something when you could use Feet... Smaller increments give you more exactness without having to use fractions and decimals!

i have to openly admit, i loved your post
very barbarian but accurate post,
your wife would love to read the science book
what einstein told his cook from
Robert L. Wolke

google it, its a page- turner, and i bought in in alaska for 25 bucks
have fun reading it, its really a good book

and talking about microbiology,
how s sex with a microbiologian?

if you want something more scientific use kelvins, no scientist uses farenheits.
A mesure that uses 0 for "water freezes" and a 100 for "water boils" in earthly pressures is pretty much as logic, comprehensive, straight forward, smart and common sensed as it can get. Also the whole world could understand you if you used it.

if i tell you 90°F or 91°F is it really different? like if you tell me 30°c or 30,5°.
In fact when you wonder about the temperature you never know exactly what it is. why would you need to be more precise than the celsius scale to express every day life temepratures?? On the air conditioner of my car it goes by half degree celsius to change temperature. that's more precise that a degree farenheit lol.

and the foot argument doesn't make sense either... use centimeters or decimeters or whatever you want. Any fraction of a number based on the decimal system makes more sense than your prehistorical system.

AslanTheKing wrote:

Anarkistsdream wrote:

betiko wrote:

oVo wrote:The only chill I'm feeling is a mild flu bug
and I feel lucky it's not the BIG bug.

Temps around here have been single digit
with only the chill factor below zero.

It is strange to see New Orleans, Houston
and San Antonio below freezing.

are you talking in barbarian farenheit or in common humanity celsius?

Celsius uses larger increments when measuring... So, unless you want to always have to use decimal points, Fahrenheit gives you a more accurate reading... My wife is a microbiologist and we were just arguing about this on the way to work this morning... It's like using a Meter to measure something when you could use Feet... Smaller increments give you more exactness without having to use fractions and decimals!

i have to openly admit, i loved your post
very barbarian but accurate post,
your wife would love to read the science book
what einstein told his cook from
Robert L. Wolke

google it, its a page- turner, and i bought in in alaska for 25 bucks
have fun reading it, its really a good book

and talking about microbiology,
how s sex with a microbiologian?

..... hey wait a minute!

Hey, betiko.... I disagree...

Bam.... just showed you two... hell yeah, go Danny!

It was -52c with wind chill the other day where I live. Everything remained open and life went on as usual, except I wore a toque when I went to work...

Celsius is best, everyone knows it.

So what's it like inside your houses during the cold weather?

I live somewhere that is generally fairly cold this time of year, but we've had daily highs above freezing (take that arguers, doesn't matter what scale I'm using now) for the past few days, with the forecast saying it will continue at least another 5 days. On Tuesday it's supposed to get above 10. That's 50-ish for those of you using archaic measurement systems (damn it, now I've joined them).

Cold is cold. 0ºF is colder than C.

Not sure if cold is actually a thing though,
since it is actually the absence of heat.

It's 9pm at night and it's still 31.8 C

Going for a nice walk for a beer wearing shorts and a singlet

About 283 kelvin here.

It s around 107 degrees betiko here.

Midnight now and still 33.6°C

Tomorrow will reach 43°C -

In Adelaide, my old home town, it's expected to reach 46°C -


We've got four days of 40+ days before a cool change finally comes on the weekend

oVo wrote:Cold is cold. 0ºF is colder than C.

Not sure if cold is actually a thing though,
since it is actually the absence of heat.

You could use the Kelvin scale.

Anarkistsdream wrote:Hey, betiko.... I disagree...

Bam.... just showed you two... hell yeah, go Danny!

Wow. Betiko just got served. Phew..... Here you go Anarkistsdream: