Our puppy was due to go to a training class tomorrow but it has been canceled in case the heat does everyone in. At 9am. NW England FFS, how hot can it possibly get? I might eat my words tomorrow but i'm fairly confident it will turn out to be a comfortable temperature at that time of the morning at the very least. I note this is commonplace with events being canceled all over and talk of school closures.
What have we become? :(
twonks of the first order. Its all about a compliant cowed population that is to scared to go out, too scared to have sex, and to stupid to run a post industrial country.
I remember Christmas in Johannesburg. The unheated pool was 38°C. We simply drank cold drinks and ate icecream and fruit.
Only once did I stop working - when the sweat dripping from my forehead in the un air conditioned lab made the ink run on my drawings. I told my boss I couldn't work. He said. 'It is too hot. Today we drink beer'
So we did.
It is only 25-26 C now where I am in Kent. The plastics used in cars can generally withstand hot sunlight unlike things like music cassettes.
Michael Chare laid this down on his screen :
Who still uses music cassettes?
Harry Bloomfield Esq snipped-for-privacy@harrym1byt.plus.com> posted
I do. I've got a big collection of them.
Anyone who still has a collection of them plus something nice to play them on (like a Nakamichi)?
[Actually, as EMI dubbed them, it's just "musicassette". I'll get me coat.]
My present car does not have a cassette player but it does have a CD player so I did wonder if CDs would get distorted in the same way as cassette tapes. Most of my music is on an SD Card in the glove box.
Michael Chare formulated on Saturday :
I gave up on cassettes decades ago, almost likewise with CD's and DVD's. All I own is memory cards or hard disk.
The main purpose of heat warnings, is this.
A lot of these individuals, they have health problems, they have mobility problems, and there's no one to move them out of their hot apartment during a hot spell. They might not have air conditioning, or even a table fan. That's how 619 people die. One at a time. With their boots on.
Paul
Because of global warming propaganda we aren't told that far more people die of cold than they do from heat. If the temperature goes up it will save lives not cost them.
Aren't they all shut anyway? Ours have been off for a week, and usually they're earlier than the rest of the country.
+1, although I'd like to see the statistics.
Surrey's term doesn't end until next Friday.
just had a message from my son in the (southern part of the) USA.
They've had forty degree temperatures all this last week.
Not many died.
A source with an agenda, but:
Around 1990 or 1991, I spent two days in France, cutting and laying floorboards, when the temperature was 42°C. It was lay one, drink bottle of beer, lay another. The bottle were only small and 3.5%, but the boards were only 4" wide, so a lot of them. We did fine. The biggest problem was that it was an upstairs floor, no ceiling below it, and we were just stepping from joist to joist ... no-one fell!
My sons' school finishes next Friday, with prize-giving on Thursday night.
The range rover dashboards would disagree with you...
Larf my forkin head off. I tried to set up a Nakamichi once.
After a day trying I couldn't get the two tracks within 6dB of each other at frequencies over 2k.
It was as crap as every other cassette recorder. Blessed the day when CDs arrived
Ditto here.
Bill
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