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With all this bad weather we're having all I'm hearing is "what about the homeless people?"
You don't hear them worrying about us in the Summer. While we're all sweating our arses off in our offices they're all sunbathing in the parks whilst swigging cider.
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One of the many reasons why I've always refused to work in an office. It's just one step up from prison.
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Somehow, I beg to differ. Prison (rape, murder, fear, suicide, etc.) vs. Office (annoying people perhaps?).
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There is an "open prison" in Holland of which the BBC was interviewing its governor. "Aren't you worried that prisoners will just walk out?" they asked. "Well," the governor replied, "if they do that too often we tell them they can't come back!" 
The whole world isn't like the USA. Some parts of it are actually reasonably civilised.
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What a stupid comeback. Pick a country that is closing prisons at record rates because it doesn't have enough criminals as your argument piece. Holland, is not the rest of the world. Some of the world's worst prisons are in Europe as well.
Try again.
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Go have a cup of tea, me old china. Relax.
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So, the prisons in Holland are so nice that the prisoners want to come back? Sounds like they are more of a pleasure resort than even American prisons. I thought punishment was the whole idea. I must be too old, or too conservative.
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No, punishment is half the idea - the other half being reform. Obviously these are only ever low-risk category prisoners, and the idea is to release them after their sentence with as low a chance that they will re-offend as possible - something most other prisons fail miserably at, where prisoners as often than not come out worse people than when they went in.
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A_Griffin wrote: It's just one step up over from prison.
FTFY
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Pom Pey wrote: While we're all sweating our arses off in our offices they're all sunbathing in the parks whilst swigging cider.
Yup, sweating in the comfort of air conditioned offices while homeless people are dealing with dehydration, hunger, disease and crime.
But hey, there's a bright side -- all that "office sweat" is at least resulting in taxable income that the government squanders away, never solving anything anyways.
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Pom Pey wrote: While we're all sweating our arses off in our offices they're all sunbathing in the parks whilst swigging cider.
You expect us to believe that you won't be right there next to them, swigging your own bottle of White Lightning?
Fake news. 
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Bad weather is in the eye of the beholder. Good weather is in the eye of the hurricane.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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011111100010 wrote: Bad weather is in the eye of the beholder. Good weather is in the eye of the hurricane.
Cute.
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I once worked with a guy who used to work with a guy (I know...) who worked 6 months out of the year, then spent the rest of the year living as a beggar, and had been doing that for a decade. His claim was that he was making as good money, and living out of homeless shelters with free meals and accommodations.
If you have no family...or ambition...or pride...I suppose it can be a lifestyle.
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The LMB had failed in the cold rather than the dish moving.
A braver man than I went up on the roof and did his thing with the hardware to replace it, and we're back. (I get nervous in thick socks - I've been up there and done it, but the slightest breath of wind and I'm hugging the chimney pots like a frightened squid.)
That surprises me - yes, it was damn cold with the wind chill, but I'd have thought they would be rated to much lower temperatures than we probably got. What's the outside temperature where you are (Australia doesn't count as we'd only get jealous)?
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Never have a problem with stuff freezing outside here, instead it's rot, everything rots.
But still, prefer the warmth: 24 - 34 degrees every day year round,
shorts every day and just throw on a T shirt if going out.
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Well maybe you should take the LMB to the KLF
This morning the thermometer in my car said it was -7.5 degrees Celsius outside ...
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Our satellite guy had to come out mid February because the dish got buried in snow. But it was only -15C on that day. Up on the roof and raked off a bunch of snow -all fixed. Then he was on to the next house.
-11 right now.
BTW - the equipment does not get affected by the wind chill - except that it cools down faster - but if it was outside it was probably pretty close to ambient all along.
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Fortunately, just about all of it will be in the form of rain.
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You're prediction is wrong. I am not expecting any snow or rain today, thank you very much.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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