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It is remarkably simple. The whole world works in C whereas the merkins
don't. I was brought up with F but had to convert later in life and these
days have no problems when thinking down to their level.

 

Need I remind you again about the lazy part (vs ignorance?)
Converting temperature exactly is so seldom required, as opposed to
distance or volume, that a vague wave of the hand usually suffices. We
can tell the difference between comfortable, bloody freezing, warm,
and unbearably hot, but a few degrees one way or the other is
irrelevant. My conversion factors are 0=32, 100=212, and ambient air
is 20ish=high 60's. If someone says it's 40C outside, I know it's hot,
but I don't need to know the exact F.

 

SIRPip spoke:

But aren't Poles used to cold temperatures?

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Looks like Rab C Nesbit.

 

Did anyone take the chemical heat pads that Donald and I used in
Germany? They were ace, 8 gets you warm fingers and toes for a full
day. That was in case my heated gloves failed.

 

I remember you showing me the heated visor made with resistance wire,
why didn't you use it?

 

All these stories have made me think again about a Sidecar raid. How do
you think outfits would fare on thiose roads, assuming studs/chains on
all 3 tyres

 

I think you should try it. I wouldn't want to be in the chair if you
broke down or had to pull over for any reason because the breaking
distance for fully loaded trucks on ice isn't very good and they're
not all running studded tyres and I don't think I've seen anything
fitted with chains.

You'd also find that unless you spend a lot of money on the outfit
it'd be in bits before you reached the arctic circle. The roads are
very bumpy and would shake most outfits apart in a very short time.

 

You would want a good steering damper for when the ridges in the road
shake the steering and points the bike in the wrong direction.

Plus with your circulation issues probably a total loss heating system
driven by a spare battery. It gets really fucking cold. And then add
windchill. Some areas looked like a freezer with freezing mist to go
with it. Three of us have something close to frostbite.

I really would not do chains, they would shake you more than you
need. Studs are the way to go. Lots of them.

 

When it's 40C the exact "F" is normally followed by a "uck me"

If it hits 50C further "F"s can be added as required.

 

You do appear to have rather more natural insulation than the rest
though, & that makes a *big* difference. There's a good reason seals &
penguins aren't built like Andy.

 

Just thought of this from "The King's Speech"


Lionel Logue: Do you know the "f" word?
King George VI: Ffff... fornication?

 

Also the tale of the swearing kitten and the rotweiler.

A little girl was at school one day. They were learning about animals.
The teacher asks "What do dogs say?" Hands are raised and the the
correct answer of "woof" was given. The teacher moves on to the next
question "What do kittens say?" a little girl raises her hand. The
teacher says yes Mandy. Mandy says "****! miss. They say ****." The
teacher in a state of shock immediately drags Mandy from the room
to the headmasters office and demands that she explain herself.

The headmaster well used to such incidents by now,after his time in an
inner London creche, asks Mandy why she thought that kittens say ****.

Mandy replies.

Well I was playing in the garden at home with my kitten one day when the
neighbours rotweiler escaped and jumped over the garden fence. My kitten
say the rotweiler and started to go F F F Ffff ffff. He was going to say
**** but the rotweiler killed him before he could finish.

 

But not so many studs that they puncture the front tube because that
is not fun.

 

Quite the learning experience, this.

By the time you get back you'll be fully prepared for the trip you
started a week and a half ago!

 

Heh, maybe next year the Sahara, a whole different kettle of a ball
game.

 

Shackleton's birthday today should be inspiration to them.