Why do circuit breakers go up for on and down for off?

You would not die at 59F with a light breeze with a tshirt on. I take it you've never been camping.

I've slept naked all night when it's snowing on the top of a mountain. You shiver, that's it.

You have the death sentence for those don't you?

Unless they're hungry and you're the only meat around.

The opposite is the Pacific Crest Trail, a roughly 3 month hike from Mexico to Canada. I've only done bits of it but have acted as a trail angel. What the hikers really appreciate is a cold beer.

There are places in San Franciso where one can take a (short) hike in the woods and see no people and no evidence of civilization. That's nice for a big city.

Think so? Do people name kids Herbert, knowing in advance that they will be gay?

I wouldn't name any kid Herbert.

And what's the obsession with gayness? That's telling.

Strange that a tiny place like England should have so many distinct accents.

"is" is too short. "a" is even worse.

It comes from a time when people very rarely traveled more than a few miles from home.

To a certain extent, those regional accents are smoothing out under the influence of radio and television. Just as in the U.S. Young Texans are more apt to speak "General American".

I'm from New Orleans and nobody can tell. I speak "NBC English."

Yes, US regional accents are fading. I think TV started that, and now there is a lot of migration between regions.

So many people going away to colleges, and getting jobs in cities, stirs things up too.

I rode a chair lift with a lady who had an astonishingly beautiful British accent, and then with a Russian guy who didn't.

It's sort of horrible what so many countries did to the elegant British accent.

In theory I should have a Western New England accent that's perceived around here as 'back east someplace' rather than General American.

How about Hubert, Norbert, Cuthbert, Gilbert, Filbert and so forth. It's odd the only *bert that survived is Robert, to the point of being a cliche. Albert is a distant second.

I did go to high school with a Hubert, who was black.

You choose to go for a walk. Shivering is a reflex as you descend into hypothermia. It sometimes occurs to elevate your body temperature above normal to help fighting infection.

He's talking about those who choose to live illegally in a national park etc, not visitors.

It would solve a lot of problems if Kinsey did some naked scuba diving on the Maine coast. I'd give him about an hour. Many lobstermen can't swim. They figure if you fall out of the boat and can't get back in you're going to die. Why prolong the agony?

I grew up in Philadelphia. I often could tell what part of the city you lived in the same way. When we moved to CT, people knew we were outsiders.

Amazing how many people in recent years never traveled more than a few miles from home.

Been about 20 years, but a neighbor wanted to get an appliance his wife asked about. Local store did not have it but I found a store 30 miles north of us in Worcester MA had it. I suggested he buy it there. His reply? "OK, I'll go but you'll have to drive"

It's accepted that shivering functions to warm a body up.

Maybe named for a rich grandfather.

Gilbert isn't too bad. Nickname Gil.

I can beat that. Lionel Dimel.

And the semi-famous Amory Lovins. I pal'd around with him at a national science fair in Baltimore.

Much worse in Italy, it isnt just accents there, its entire dialects which are completely unintelligible to other Italians.

Are there sharks? Can't think of much else that could kill a scuba diver.