Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime

michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

Just wet, wet, wet here - it's been raining most of the afternoon and all evening. Rain, rain, rain. It's about 2-3 degrees. My toes have been cold ... couldn't get warm at work (it's under the legal limit all day) ... came home and not been able to get bottom half of my legs and toes warm all evening, even though I've had thick socks on and my legs/feet under two layers of blankets and a pillow all evening. There's a hidden chilly draught from somewhere....

Yesterday at work I spent the day wearing 3 jumpers, a fleece, a scarf and a hat. Still cold. Hard to type with cold little fingers.

Shame you are so far or you could come and snuggle up under the duvet here.

Netweather.tv base their forecasts on the American GFS computer model which is sometimes less accurate for the UK than the UK Met Office and European ECM models but in reality they are all much of a muchness.

Viva don't let DH bring a battery home with him...

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

When I walk the dog at night my key won't turn in the frozen lock when I get back and/or my fingers are too cold to get the key to work. :mad:

There are some keywarming things ... intended for iced up car locks. Can't think what the name is or how they work...

I'd keep a can of de-icer beside the door and give it a spray when I got back.

sss555s

zagubov wrote: »

Smartphone apps. Just downloaded Skype and Viber both of which I've seen namechecked on the thread. Are they any good? Does anybody use both or do you just pick one?

You should have had a go of Diamond Blast.

Maybe you could have beat Nikki

Generali

PasturesNew wrote: »

There are some keywarming things ... intended for iced up car locks. Can't think what the name is or how they work...

I'd keep a can of de-icer beside the door and give it a spray when I got back.

A cigarette lighter to heat the key is very effective. The trouble with de-icer is that it reduces the temperature still further due to the energy required to change the state of the water from solid to liquid.

If instead you add energy in the form of a warm key you melt the ice without risking making things worse.

****Braces himself for the wrath of the physicists: economists mostly suffer from physics envy anyway****

silvercar

zagubov wrote: »

Smartphone apps. Just downloaded Skype and Viber both of which I've seen namechecked on the thread. Are they any good? Does anybody use both or do you just pick one?

I use Skype or Facetime. If one doesn't work try the other. (Facetime requires both users to be on Apple devices, but ipad to ipad the quality is better.)

LydiaJ

Generali wrote: »

A cigarette lighter to heat the key is very effective. The trouble with de-icer is that it reduces the temperature still further due to the energy required to change the state of the water from solid to liquid.

If instead you add energy in the form of a warm key....

****Braces himself for the wrath of the physicists: economists mostly suffer from physics envy anyway****

No wrath from me. I generally prefer to deal with ice by using heat rather than chemicals where possible anyway.

The only possible problem would be if the metal key conducted the heat from the lighter to PN's fingers too effectively and burnt her (or got dropped to avoid that). If I were to try your method, I'd definitely want to be wearing gloves!

PS Happy to be envied.

silvercar

lostinrates wrote: »

I wonder what heathrow will be doing over the next couple of days.

I won't find out. He has gone and booked himself a ryanair flight out of stansted:(

No tier points, no avios, no lounge access, no seat allocated and he has to check in on time even if the flight is delayed. He is going to be so moody tomorrow. And only one evening flight home, so if the return flight is cancelled, he will be at some strange out of town airport with no flight.

zagubov

silvercar wrote: »

I won't find out. He has gone and booked himself a ryanair flight out of stansted:(

No tier points, no avios, no lounge access, no seat allocated and he has to check in on time even if the flight is delayed. He is going to be so moody tomorrow. And only one evening flight home, so if the return flight is cancelled, he will be at some strange out of town airport with no flight.

You could clear your inbox and post a request on this thread.

Spirit_2

silvercar wrote: »

I won't find out. He has gone and booked himself a ryanair flight out of stansted:(

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That is bad. Height of horribleness. Not even working in the wine industry makes up for that. He will need lots of TLC.

Spirit_2

zagubov wrote: »

You could clear your inbox and post a request on this thread.

I did that once and got back advice to meet up with travellers who belong to another forum once we had arrived at the airport. It was too complicated and felt a bit weird to me.

The person who replied was very helpful...I may have been over cautious.

Having said all that it reminds me of a pm I got a couple of days ago.

In 2009 I contributed to a thread about keloid scars (I have a few). Over the weekend I got pm directing me from the thread to a new non MSE forum for people with such scars.

I had a peak at the forum but was bit concerned in case it was a haven for fetishists who like lumpy bumpy skin on older women. So I have stayed safe amongst the NP.