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Old 01-28-2009, 12:44 AM
VandalSquirrel VandalSquirrel is offline
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Um, the 40s inside is too cold for me, but celebrate your small carbon footprint!

And as I said earlier, I'm not sure that just straight no cut off represents the best policy, but if it's the only way to keep people from freezing to death inside, maybe that's what you have to do.

Does anyone else run stuff like this through your little house on the prairie mental filter? If the freaking pioneers could live without electricity at all or gas heat in freaking Nebraska or whatever, why do we now think we need free heat to live?

(and sure we don't all have fireplaces and wood stoves today, but I don't think they had them fired up 24 hours a day and they still survived.)

We'd still come back to a 93 year old guy living alone and he'd had a hard time at any point, but we've all gone soft and we're stupidly dependent of stuff we don't actually provide for ourselves.
Well I've mentioned on GC before I'm a perfect example of Bergmann's rule, I think I just handle cold better. I walked to and from school yesterday and people were whining about the weather, and I thought it was gorgeous, I even got so warm I had to unzip my coat. Today there were more whiners (8am class) and I felt fine. My whole trip to Vegas I was miserably hot, and I don't think it got above 65. I keep my extremities covered though, as I am not interested in frostbite.
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