The Kintyre Forum

See this live earth thingy? Would it not be much better for the environment if all of the 500000 squillion people in the 120 countries around the world watching it just turned off thier tellys for a few hours when it was on? Think of the electricity we'd save!

Just a thought.

we'd just watch something else, just like i did last sunday when the diana thing was on, who wanted to watch that crap? likewise, who wants to watch this crap? not me, so like countless millions i'll be watching something else, bugger the enviroment, i couldn't care less if the world implodes the day after i die, as most of it is nonsense, what goes around comes around, be it a rise in temperature or an ice age, which ten years ago they were predicting we were heading for. now the ice cap is melting and the sea will rise 25m, just means i'll have a harbour view and my house will be worth more and i won't get that annoying school traffic every morning.

jist shot oot another 25 fathom of wire, you'll be fine

you always get a good laugh after the general has spoken but he might not take kindly to the jellyfish etc when he gets his sea view

i don't mind skowders, seeing as i'd only feel them if i got a faceful, and i've had that manys a time boating the net, you get immune to the stings after a few years, unless your one of those soft midwater herring boys that used to wear facemasks from the creamery, saying that i did have a severe reaction to a nasty sting on the leg when i was a boy, and no i didn't self medicate to relieve the pain, old hands will know what i mean!!!

One for old Sweltered,

Heard a while back that Texas (roughly same pop as UK) uses more electricity in the summer than UK does in winter???????

Would this be air-con??????? Never been to a hot country so dont know how this works - are they heavy on juice etc? I always switch to the blower rather than air-con in the motor, it seems crap in a car.

Hadrians hiring! wrote:One for old Sweltered,

Heard a while back that Texas (roughly same pop as UK) uses more electricity in the summer than UK does in winter???????

Would this be air-con??????? Never been to a hot country so dont know how this works - are they heavy on juice etc? I always switch to the blower rather than air-con in the motor, it seems crap in a car.

You have relatively mild summers and winters there. In the US, we have winters in some areas that go down to -20F and summers in some areas that can go to 120F, although in Texas it is more in the high 90s. If you came to Texas in the middle of summer, you would switch on the air conditioning in the car pretty quickly.

Sometimes, you switch on the air conditioning, and wait - outside the car until it cools down. Because if you don't you will feel like you are in a sauna. OR, if you have leather or vinyl seats, you will burn your behind!!!

Since I do work for the biggest & best AC manufacturer in the world (main plant is in Tyler Tx btw) I could wax lyrical about ac systems.

Instead, all I'll say is, they are grey boxes that blow cold air, and we couldn't survive in Florida without them.

i'll have two please!!!! can i reverse them so they suck the cold air out of a room?

Sweltered wrote:Since I do work for the biggest & best AC manufacturer in the world (main plant is in Tyler Tx btw) I could wax lyrical about ac systems.

Instead, all I'll say is, they are grey boxes that blow cold air, and we couldn't survive in Florida without them.

Ah I see, but is your job Sweltered to put the Legionaires in each one?????

Not all ac has water cooling towers, so no.

ooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhh, do i detect a wee flounce there? go on, i know the tone of voice, even from this distance, you might fool the rest but i can read the tone into the printed word. a defanite flounce, mr. mean toothfairy you!!!!

Ah but is he AC/DC????????????

All I know about AC/DC is that they are an abomination to the ears