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| Thread ID: 125116 | 2012-06-07 07:37:00 | Why do Kiwis make such an issue of everything? | mzee (3324) | PC World Chat |
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| 1280351 | 2012-06-08 22:31:00 | Haha thats classic! Not from my experiance. Over here the kiwis are pretty quick to close Highways as soon as a thin dusting appears. In England or I should say Britain they are not so quick to close the roads until the snowploughs get stuck! I had to laugh last year being told it was to dangerous to drive on a highway I had already driven on because I passed a Road Block no where near where we lived or close to the problem snow area. Laugh because I was working driving up and down the ski access roads for a living. Funniest line came from our employer! He told my wife she need not come into work because the road was dangerous yet I had to because I had a bus to drive, lets put it this way I had fun that day. Now talking of the cold in the UK we had brick houses and central heating unlike the wood shacks here and pretty much guarenteed a week in the winter where the temperature would not go above freezing during the day. Find me somewhere in NZ like that? I worked in Joinery workshops over there where it wouldn't get above freezing for weeks at a time. Auckland doesn't get cold ever just occasionally goes below 10C |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 1280352 | 2012-06-08 22:42:00 | The Eskimos in Igloos seem to manage all right. They don't live in those anymore. However, an igloo is actually very warm - Snow is used because the air pockets trapped in it make it an insulator. On the outside, temperatures may be as low as −45 °C , but on the inside the temperature go up to 16 °C. Any heat generated from inside the igloo, usually from body heat or a small fire, stays inside. The warmth inside the igloo does melt the inner layer of snow and ice, but the air outside–often much colder than the air inside–freezes it back. The result is an additional sheet of ice on the interior walls, which adds to the insulation |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1280353 | 2012-06-08 22:59:00 | They don't live in those anymore. However, an igloo is actually very warm - Snow is used because the air pockets trapped in it make it an insulator. On the outside, temperatures may be as low as −45 °C , but on the inside the temperature go up to 16 °C. Any heat generated from inside the igloo, usually from body heat or a small fire, stays inside. The warmth inside the igloo does melt the inner layer of snow and ice, but the air outside–often much colder than the air inside–freezes it back. The result is an additional sheet of ice on the interior walls, which adds to the insulation So an Igloo is warmer than most NZ houses? |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1280354 | 2012-06-09 00:13:00 | I worked in Joinery workshops over there where it wouldn't get above freezing for weeks at a time. Auckland doesn't get cold ever just occasionally goes below 10C There seem to be a plethora of Auckland climatologists out there who do not actually live here. It gets ******* cold here with some mean frosts, where I have to throw warm water on my windscreen. I know cold from my upbringing in the Graham Valley. The only time I have ever got hyperthermic was just outside Kaitaia duck shooting and a bit lost poaching on moaris land although I was bit pissed as well. I have hunted from Stewart Island up so know cold. |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 1280355 | 2012-06-09 00:36:00 | There seem to be a plethora of Auckland climatologists out there who do not actually live here. Meh, spent a few years there, Its a shithole...but not due to the weather, the further south you go the colder it gets. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 1280356 | 2012-06-09 01:14:00 | They don't live in those anymore. However, an igloo is actually very warm - Snow is used because the air pockets trapped in it make it an insulator. On the outside, temperatures may be as low as −45 °C , but on the inside the temperature go up to 16 °C. Any heat generated from inside the igloo, usually from body heat or a small fire, stays inside. The warmth inside the igloo does melt the inner layer of snow and ice, but the air outside–often much colder than the air inside–freezes it back. The result is an additional sheet of ice on the interior walls, which adds to the insulation Thanks to Wiikipedia for this learned discourse ... :D |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1280357 | 2012-06-09 01:54:00 | Thanks to Wiikipedia for this learned discourse ... :D I have slept in the odd snow cave before by choice rather than a crowded hut they can be very comfortable if dug properly |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 1280358 | 2012-06-09 04:57:00 | So an Igloo is warmer than most NZ houses? Quite so, but the view from them leaves a bit to be desired. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1280359 | 2012-06-09 05:45:00 | Quite so, but the view from them leaves a bit to be desired. As does the view from most NZ houses. |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1280360 | 2012-06-09 23:39:00 | An observation of Kiwi behaviour is some can be real aholes when it comes to consideration of others. Best part though is when they are wrong they find it difficult to accept that fact blame others and if they can play the race card! Our lovely neighbour has this morning played just that race card! Following a complaint of Streo noise at 6am (on a sunday) for the 3rd day running! After noise control visited the "Blardy Poms" line was heard across the fence. | coldfront (15814) | ||
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