Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

Pyxis

silvercar wrote: »

If people are having problems with this thread it may be time to start a new one. Although MSE no longer requests that threads are limited to 10,000 posts, it may be that a long thread is causing reloading problems.

I hadn't thought of that!

zagubov

Maybe it's time for someone to start a new one.
I've done one, so have a range of others.
Who should it be next?

LydiaJ

zagubov wrote: »

I once got confused when I hear somebody talking about their half-cousin Had to think about it for quite a long time. :think:

My grandfather's first wife died, and he married again when his daughter was 10. My mother was the youngest child of the second marriage. Her half-sister started providing her with half-nieces when she was 7. These were of course my half-cousins, but they were old enough to be my parents, and their children were all round about my age. We saw quite a lot of some of them, so I've known since I was tiny that they were my "half-first-cousins once removed", and how the terminology works. (At least, we always said "half first cousins" - perhaps it should be "first half-cousins". Can anybody find a definitive ruling on that?

zagubov wrote: »

Maybe it's time for someone to start a new one.
I've done one, so have a range of others.
Who should it be next?

Perhaps one of our newer NP? Any NP who would like to and haven't done one yet, please raise your hand!

In other news, I went to watch DS in a play last night. It was a psychological horror play called "Ernest and the pale moon" about a deranged killer who is obsessed with the woman in the flat opposite, and turns out by the end of the play to have murdered his mother and boarded up the body inside the wall of his flat before nearly murdering the woman he's obsessed with and ending up catatonic in a secure mental hospital. DS played Ernest, and, if I may be allowed a little boasting, was terrifyingly good at it. There were only 5 of them in it, and they switched from scene to scene with 2 or 3 of them playing characters and the other 3 or 2 tag-team narrating. The way he switched his entire persona (voice, posture, movement, facial expression, everything) so completely between his cheerful narrator character and the brooding evil presence of Ernest was unlike anything I've seen him do before. I am so proud of him (as well as remaining very happy that my two are into drama (both of them) and music (DD) so that when they do their thing I get to sit down in a nice warm theatre or concert hall rather than being into sport, which would require me to stand on a freezing cold wet touchline ).

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

I blame people who post and moan, with nothing to actually say .... who needs to know about footballs and tea towels??

It's good to get it off your chest.
Helps to defuse the stress and tension a wee bit.
Problem shared is problem halved, etc.

CKhalvashi

chris_m wrote: »

No problem - for future reference anything over 80° F in new money is simply 'kin' 'ot :rotfl:

LydiaJ

I have never understood why some people set their air conditioning thermostat to a lower temperature than they would have their heater thermostat in cold weather.

18C is IMO uncomfortably cold at any time of year, regardless of whether it's achieved by inadequate heating in winter or aggressive air conditioning in summer.

michaels

LydiaJ wrote: »

I have never understood why some people set their air conditioning thermostat to a lower temperature than they would have their heater thermostat in cold weather.

18C is IMO uncomfortably cold at any time of year, regardless of whether it's achieved by inadequate heating in winter or aggressive air conditioning in summer.

In the car you get direct radiant heat from the sun so may want the air temp lower to compensate?

CKhalvashi

LydiaJ wrote: »

I have never understood why some people set their air conditioning thermostat to a lower temperature than they would have their heater thermostat in cold weather.

18C is IMO uncomfortably cold at any time of year, regardless of whether it's achieved by inadequate heating in winter or aggressive air conditioning in summer.

No idea.

I do know though that the heater on 30 degrees in the middle of winter is lovely.

Taken Michaels point, and can't say I've noticed it's anything other than cold. Definitely it's cooler than outside, and I have to say that's generally the idea.

ETA: Home thermostat is set at 17 degrees in winter, although there is also the probability of wearing thick jumpers which aren't often professional (or sometimes practical) enough to wear when working.

michaels

We have the car at 16 and the 10 minutes spent getting from the station to the house yesterday were the most blissful part of my day.

Sleeping, even with the ceiling fan on, is difficult at the moment, for some reason when I went to sleep last night at 11 even with the fan on and the windows wide open the indoor thermometer was reading 29.9C even though the outside sensor was saying 24C, I think the room had picked up a lot of heat in the day and was being very slow to shed it - our bedroom has huge windows and faces just south of west so is a PM heat trap.

We do have a portable AC in the shed (not touched for about 3 or 4 years. It may be getting to the point where we have to get it out.

silvercar

LydiaJ wrote: »

I have never understood why some people set their air conditioning thermostat to a lower temperature than they would have their heater thermostat in cold weather.

18C is IMO uncomfortably cold at any time of year, regardless of whether it's achieved by inadequate heating in winter or aggressive air conditioning in summer.

Heating engineer told me that people feel colder if it is cold out, and consequently set their heating higher than in more temperate weather. Suppose the reverse is true too.