A Change in Climate

[Cutesie]

Another saying we have in my family is, always be dressed for an emergency
Imagine there's a fire, or earthquake, and you have to leave the house, immediately!
I'd rather have a t-shirt and shorts on

It all depends on the specific reason that @Jumpinbare wears clothing in public. If he likes being nude but doesn't like being seen that way by others, you have a point. If he would love to go everywhere unclothed but conforms to social custom, why be worried about an emergency? If he's forced to be seen like that, so be it.

 

[Jumpinbare]

If he would love to go everywhere unclothed but conforms to social custom, why be worried about an emergency? If he's forced to be seen like that, so be it.

You have it exactly. And as much as the feeling of clothes on my body bothers me, it's a substantial sacrifice for a silly custom.

 

[thejuice]

Some things must still be the same in some ways. Quite a few of our best musicians were born in the UK but grew up here. The Bee Gees. Half of AC/DC. Our legendary Jimmy Barnes.

Here's a very young Angus Young, and Bon Scott on lead bagpipes. Melbourne, 1978.

Jimmy Barnes the GOAT

I often here British musicians in interviews saying they enjoy touring down under, how awesome it is. They do better there than in North America. Some of our best bands struggle to break out across the pond.

Also as an (alleged) drummer I'm very much enjoying the drummer being front and central in the music video! The kids were jamming that song with Jack Black in School of Rock at the end of the film, love it.
We have a busking bagpiper in our town. I like it, from a distance, due to my hypersensitive hearing lol

 

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I often here British musicians in interviews saying they enjoy touring down under, how awesome it is.

We share a lot the same culturally. It was an old English joke that the mediteranean would be a lot more enjoyable if it wasn't full of foreigners. In a way that's what a lot of Brits get when they come here.

 

[thejuice]

There's the old gap year tradition too. I had so many young Australian rugby and cricket coaches at school (although to us they were the cool, less uptight adults). Apparently theres load of Aussies in London but I wouldn't know I avoid the Big Smoke if I can!

 

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There's the old gap year tradition too.

Gap Year's changed a little here now too. If you've been unemployed and claiming the dole for more than 6 months the government will pay your fees to go to uni and make yourself more employable. So they finish high school and go on a short holiday somewhere, then come home and bum around for 6 months to get free uni.

 

[thejuice]

Bumming around, what students do best! That or keeping working people awake at 3am on a Tuesday

 

[Lemon Zing]

It is getting cold in Edinburgh. We had a bit of a warm spell a few weeks ago. But man. You are gonna be needing gloves before too long.

 

[gabesroom]

I myself always feel better in colder weather. The few times I was able to experience snow in life were honestly amazing. I think I just prefer going out in cold windy weather way more than I do just sweating all the time. It's less stressful somehow.

 

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The few times I was able to experience snow in life were honestly amazing.

I was 18 the first time I saw snow, then I got in to downhill skiing, seriously loved that sport. 5 years later I had no cartilage in one knee but I have no regrets, I had a great time.

Other than that, I really hate wearing restrictive clothing, and if it's so cold that I have to wear shoes then I won't last long.

 

[gabesroom]

I was 18 the first time I saw snow, then I got in to downhill skiing, seriously loved that sport. 5 years later I had no cartilage in one knee but I have no regrets, I had a great time.

Other than that, I really hate wearing restrictive clothing, and if it's so cold that I have to wear shoes then I won't last long.

Cool. Idk the layers of clothing always felt just comfy to me somehow, then again i never tried exercising with them so.

I don't think i could go skiing considering my vision issues but it seems like a fun sport, high on adrenaline.

 

[MildredHubble]

It's rapidly turned cold here in the UK. I don't do so well with rapid changes in temperature unfortunately, which is kinda how the summer came and went. I'm pretty sure it's contributed to feeling rubbish mood wise.

I had to put the heating on today as it was 14°C in the house and it definitely felt pretty bad. I made a couple of changes to the radiator plumbing a few weeks ago and in all the excitement I'd managed to get the radiator valves on the radiators I'd installed on the top floor backwards The return and flow valves were on the wrong sides.

I noticed today that one of the radiators didn't seem to be circulating properly so I had to investigate. I think I fixed it now but they still need balancing as I one is getting super hot and the last in the chain is not quite getting as toasty as it should, but infinitely better than nothing. It's in our bathroom so I'm actually enjoying a nice bath right now in a room that doesn't feel like Siberia for a change this time of year!

I like being just the right kind of warm, it makes me feel much better

 

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This morning I woke up to another beautiful spring day. A real spring day like we used to get, not the limp wristed affair we've had for the last few years. It's almost 9:00am and the temperature is 15 degrees, headed for a top of 25.

I haven't had to use the heater for a few days now, and this morning I opened all my windows hoping that I won't need to close them again until April.

 

[MildredHubble]

This morning I woke up to another beautiful spring day. A real spring day like we used to get, not the limp wristed affair we've had for the last few years. It's almost 9:00am and the temperature is 15 degrees, headed for a top of 25.

I haven't had to use the heater for a few days now, and this morning I opened all my windows hoping that I won't need to close them again until April.

I'm feeling jealous! Our summer was kinda brief and intermittent. I didn't exactly adjust to the heat and then it was suddenly over :-(

When it started getting cold we started to use our heated blanket, but it stopped working, we'd only bought and used it last winter!

I found a rather concerning issue with electric/heated blankets. You get capacitive coupling to AC devices! So if you use, say a laptop in bed while charging it can over load the power supply!

I tried repairing the power supply but although the blanket started getting warm, one of the diodes was getting so hot it melted the casing. It tested fine so obviously something going wrong that I can't figure out and just not worth the risk.

I'm really surprised that they don't use a transformer to provide some isolation but they just seem to have a full bridge rectifier connected directly to the mains with an inline fuse.

Anyway, kinda a PSA to be careful with heated blankets.

 

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When it started getting cold we started to use our heated blanket, but it stopped working, we'd only bought and used it last winter!

A few years back I bought a single bed electric blanket to drape over my big reclining armchair thinking that I wouldn't have to spend so much heating the whole apartment as long as I was warm enough.

It worked really well.... for about 6 weeks. Electric blankets aren't made to be able to cope with constant movement and being bunched up in some places. Then I wondered if you could get actual seat heaters, but they're only for European cars, not for home seating.

 

[MildredHubble]

A few years back I bought a single bed electric blanket to drape over my big reclining armchair thinking that I wouldn't have to spend so much heating the whole apartment as long as I was warm enough.

It worked really well.... for about 6 weeks. Electric blankets aren't made to be able to cope with constant movement and being bunched up in some places. Then I wondered if you could get actual seat heaters, but they're only for European cars, not for home seating.

Yes, that's true, I'm constantly making sure that ours is not getting in a mess.

Could you get a car seat heater and run it off a fairly beefy 12v power supply? Or is it more that the design won't fit your chair?

One thing I have is a jacket/body warmer that you can connect to a USB power bank. It actually gets pretty warm without power but honestly it can get very warm and a single charge of a decent power bank lasts a good 8 hours. You can get them pretty cheap on Amazon/eBay and they tend to be cheaper in the summer months for obvious reasons

 

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Could you get a car seat heater and run it off a fairly beefy 12v power supply? Or is it more that the design won't fit your chair?

I looked in to that as well but it was going to work out more expensive than it was worth. I also looked at heated jackets out of curiosity. In truth our climate here isn't really all that cold and I decided I was just being silly.

 

[MildredHubble]

I looked in to that as well but it was going to work out more expensive than it was worth. I also looked at heated jackets out of curiosity. In truth our climate here isn't really all that cold and I decided I was just being silly.

It's probably not silly. I would probably pass out and die in the heat in Australia! It's got to be unpleasant when you have to adjust, even if it's not as cold as winter in the UK.

The heated jackets definitely work well. There's an option to boost them or have them on a low or high temperature. Once they warm up you can switch to the lower temperature and it will basically maintain a good temperature. I find that if I'm moving around, say tidying up, I will leave it turned off. Or if I'm sitting at a desk I just boost it up for a bit and then it automatically drops to a lower temperature.

I feel much better when I'm sitting still and I'm not cold. It makes it easier to focus. So if you enjoy video games etc, it might help you enjoy them more in the winter.

I think they are worth a try if you can pick one up at the equivalent of £10-15.

 

[Jumpinbare]

I'm really surprised that they don't use a transformer to provide some isolation but they just seem to have a full bridge rectifier connected directly to the mains with an inline fuse.

That's astoundingly cheap construction, and not overly safe. I'm surprised they could actually get UL approved connected right to the ac line rather than a transformer.

 

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It's probably not silly. I would probably pass out and die in the heat in Australia!

It's natural you'd relate to the temperatures we get here as if you got that weather in England, as you sometimes do. But you have high humidity in England and even 32 is pretty hot. It's like that in Sydney and Melbourne too. Especially Melbourne, 32 is a hot day there and in winter the cold seems to rip straight through to your bones.

Adelaide's a much drier climate and the hot and cold don't have quite the same impact. It was more a case of me not adjusting from 20 years in the tropics very quickly. It took a few years.