Questions for our British friends - Page 346

OldSchool47 · May 18th, 2017, 04:31 PM

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Originally Posted by bloke57

It's still 1939 in Leeds.

I'm planning to move to Leeds. I'm gonna get me a flat in a nice section of the city and a chick who looks like Honor Blackman circa 1968. How will I spend my time? Writing a book patterned after The Cruise Of The Snark about my travels in the "Far North."

**@llatse@** · May 19th, 2017, 11:12 AM

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Originally Posted by trailmaster

Do English homes and flats use air conditioners when the summer weather gets too hot?

Air conditioning is not standard in UK Homes.....however with global warming that may change.

There is a lot of hot air and blowhards around @ the mo'.....probably due to electioneering by our cherished leaders and politicos

**trailmaster** · May 19th, 2017, 11:42 AM

If you ever want to visit hot places in the U.S. like Florida, or Arizona, or southern California you will be kept cool wherever you go. Everything is air conditioned. And even the northern states use air conditioning in our usually hot, humid summers.

**bloke57** · May 19th, 2017, 11:51 AM

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Originally Posted by trailmaster

If you ever want to visit hot places in the U.S. like Florida, or Arizona, or southern California you will be kept cool wherever you go. Everything is air conditioned. And even the northern states use air conditioning in our usually hot, humid summers.

A lot of shops, malls and restaurants are air conditioned. The one local shop in my town that was not - and always like an oven in summer - was British Home Stores which, for overseas members, famously failed miserably after many years trading.

I wonder if Sir Philip Green (despicable owner) was too mean to install it and that contributed to its demise? Still, all the more profits left for him to spend on himself.

**Clouddancer** · May 19th, 2017, 11:53 AM

It´s absolutely essential where I live, here in Southern Spain, especially in the summer months which can be anywhere from March to October. The temperature today is 25 C, or if use still use old money 77 F. In July & August it is almost unbearably hot.

**@llatse@** · May 19th, 2017, 01:27 PM

Strangely enough with all the energy that Air Con uses it contributes massively to global warming (if you believe in that sort of thing.....I'm not that convinced that it isn't just a long term weather pattern anyway and we're only contributing to it in a small way)

So maybe all the Air Con techies need to get together to put a massive one on the moon to cool everyone on Earth........I'm on the phone to the UN now.

OldSchool47 · June 1st, 2017, 08:49 PM

Ranking the best British rock albums ever by how good you feel after listening to the album start to finish with no break other than flipping the disk.

Number 1
Number 2
Number 3
Number 4
Number 5

What do my British friends think?

**73north** · June 1st, 2017, 08:55 PM

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Originally Posted by OldSchool47

Ranking the best British rock albums ever by how good you feel after listening to the album start to finish with no break other than flipping the disk.

Number 1
Number 2
Number 3
Number 4
Number 5

What do my British friends think?

The Rolling Stones - any album really
Del Amitri -
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Showaddywaddy - any album
Stones Roses -
this is my pick

**73north** · June 1st, 2017, 08:57 PM

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Originally Posted by trailmaster

Do English homes and flats use air conditioners when the summer weather gets too hot?

never met a house in the UK that had one , truthfully

**bloke57** · June 1st, 2017, 09:19 PM

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Originally Posted by OldSchool47

Ranking the best British rock albums ever by how good you feel after listening to the album start to finish with no break other than flipping the disk.

Number 1
Number 2
Number 3
Number 4
Number 5

What do my British friends think?

I think that's a whole new thread.

May 19th, 2017, 11:53 AM	#3455
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May 19th, 2017, 01:27 PM	#3456
@llatse@ Vintage Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Over the hills and far away Posts: 2,150 Thanks: 7,750 Thanked 24,861 Times in 2,098 Posts	Strangely enough with all the energy that Air Con uses it contributes massively to global warming (if you believe in that sort of thing.....I'm not that convinced that it isn't just a long term weather pattern anyway and we're only contributing to it in a small way) So maybe all the Air Con techies need to get together to put a massive one on the moon to cool everyone on Earth........I'm on the phone to the UN now. __________________ Lord, we might end up dead or worse, poor

June 1st, 2017, 08:49 PM	#3457
OldSchool47 Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2016 Posts: 306 Thanks: 129 Thanked 3,045 Times in 299 Posts	The Definitive Ranking Ranking the best British rock albums ever by how good you feel after listening to the album start to finish with no break other than flipping the disk. Number 1 Number 2 Number 3 Number 4 Number 5 What do my British friends think?

May 19th, 2017, 11:42 AM	#3453
trailmaster Veteran Member Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA Posts: 59,898 Thanks: 1,329,029 Thanked 707,260 Times in 60,072 Posts	If you ever want to visit hot places in the U.S. like Florida, or Arizona, or southern California you will be kept cool wherever you go. Everything is air conditioned. And even the northern states use air conditioning in our usually hot, humid summers.