How warm should a house be?!

[Mary Fisher]

So teach her. Properly and patiently. I know both at the same time are difficult for you but if you try you can do it :-)

Mary

[Matt]

It was reversed after Anders Celcius died

But, if you need to be really pedantic, the standard boiling point of water isn't 100 deg C. It boils at 99.97 deg C at 1 standard atmosphere (101.325kPa) , and at 99.61 deg C at 1 bar (100kPa) which is now taken to be the standard boiling point of water.

This of course fully explains why tea is more lukewarm than it used to be.

[Mary Fisher]

Ner - that's because you're not drinking it at sea level.

Mary

[mcbrien410]

I'm known by SWMBO as 'UnderPants' man as that what my evening attire consists of with a 'T' shirt or Tracky top. I can cool down with a can of John Smiths et al.

[Bob Eager]

Celsius is the correct name.

[Rob Morley]

Centigrade is just a general term that means a scale with 100 divisions

- AIUI it's not incorrect just imprecise.

[Mary Fisher]

John Smiths?

That says it all :-)

Mary

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[Mary Fisher]

Near enough for ordinary mortals.

Mary

[Owain]

Gracious me. Do you wear a Tracky top under or over a tuxedo?

I warm up with a glass of Glenmorangie.

Owain

[Matt]

If the sea reached the level of my kettle half of the UK would be a few hundred feet under water - something Dr Drivels plumbing might achieve sooner rather than later.

[Jeff]

"Mary Fisher" wrote :-

What should it be ?

Theakstons old pec ? or a nice bottle of red ?

Regards Jeff

[Mary Fisher]

There are hundreds of good beers, JS's isn't one of them.

I once went to an eventwhere they were GIVING way JS's.

There were few takers.

But there again we were in Yorkshire ... :-)

Oh come on! That's as silly as saying "a cold beer".

Ot perhaps it sums up your knowledge of wine.

Mary

[Mary Fisher]

Same here.

But altitude does have some effect on boiling.

Mary

[Jeff]

I bet you drink pints

Regards Jeff

[Mary Fisher]

Used to. I was a Guiness man. I remember once being in a pub with a friend, Joss, when someone he knew offered to buy a round. He came back with a half for me. I looked at Joss in wonderment, not saying anything. He shrugged and said, "He's from the south." The chap went back to the bar and got a pint.

Nowadays I sometimes drink speciality beers with a meal for which it's more appropriate than wines.

We don't go to pubs any more.

Well, very, very rarely.

Mary

[Andy Hall]

Tetley's foamy stuff pulled on beer engines with the sparkler screwed right down. Is this why Yorkshire barmaids have large er. biceps?

[Matt]

I think mentioning kPa in my original posting might have given a bit of a hint that I knew that ;-) If you times kPa by 10 you get good old millibars used everywhere on the weather forecasts - except for some perverse reason down under where they use hecto pascals instead (which are nothing to do with Rowntrees Fruit Pastilles)

The boiling water at altitude problem was one of the reasons it took so long for a Brit to get to the top of Everest. The tea and biscuits on the way up were so bad they kept turning back.

[Bob Eager]

Come down here and get the proper beer from the oldest brewery in the country...forget the johnny-come-lately Yorkshire stuff!

[<me9]

The other Tadcaster Smith (Sam) is *much* better.

[John White]

Getting your feet too hot can be fatal - as Joan of Arc found out.

(sorry)

John