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Get a polar jacket on yourself and get it really cool inside. I know someone who walks out of the house, that is cool, and goes through the whole hot day with a jacket on. Everybody thinks he is crazy.

You think that would work? Now to the problem of getting something as big as a polar jacket really cool inside... :)

WATER!!!!!!!!!!!!

You betcha! I'm an extraordinarily heavy water drinker. The water in many German cities is of excellent quality which is why many people, including myself, have one of these water sparkling devices. I bought mine at the same time as Ettena and I'm at my third carbon dioxide cartridge already, while she is still using the one that came with the sparkler.

'Yeah, That's what Jesus would do. Jesus would bomb Afghanistan. Yeah.' - snowlion

Ah, i understand. In melbourne we get about a month 20degrees followed a fortnight of 40degrees followed by a week of blissful 25, followed by about two months of 30-35.

we may be the most livable city however i believe our motto should be beautiful one day, raining the next!

i reccommend getting out the house. library's are great places! as are shopping centres!

however, if you wish to stay inside, i reccommend putting a tub of cold water with ice blocks in it in front of your fan which should at ALL TIMES be placed in front of you!

either that or hire an eskimo to sit on you face....

-mel

Look at me! I'm a prostitute robot from the future!

I think I will go with the Eskimo idea. Maybe I'll even try the hint with the tub of cold water!

Actually I've noticed that many companies are combining a simple fan with a coolable bottle of water and then sell the resulting device as an air conditioner.

'Yeah, That's what Jesus would do. Jesus would bomb Afghanistan. Yeah.' - snowlion

Girls, guys, thanks a lot for so many helpful tips, that was certainly much more than I expected!

Also thanks to null who sent me an emergency-SMS right after he saw my post and came up with some more ideas, like hanging a wet towel in front of the window and having the fan blow against it. Rumour has it that everyone in Australia is doing this?

'Yeah, That's what Jesus would do. Jesus would bomb Afghanistan. Yeah.' - snowlion

Well, Bob our Australian programmer says that people use some seaweed-like stuff, but I've thought it might be easier for you to use a towel instead. :-)

When life hands you a lemon, that's 40% of your RDA of vitamin C taken care of.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

had an extremly long reply which just disappered into cyber-space due to BLOODY TELSTRA!

grrrr.

ok, this a last resort method.

go to your bathroom. fill the bath with cold, cold water. sit with your feet in bath. have a fan blowing into bath, have another one blowing on you. drape wet face washers around your neck. open a window slighty with icey water in frot of it. have the door open a crack with all other windows and curtains closed except for one at the opposite end of the house where the curtain should be shut but the window should be open. dont ask me why, something to do with circulating air. turn bathroom fan on. proceed to read or some other time wasting activity. if you have a space far away from the bath, the television can be your greatest friend.

well this is my much simplified last resort plan.

i have never heard of any seaweed thing though...hmmmmmmm, you may want to question Bob's reliability! Tell Bob Melbourne says hi! and sends thoughts of vegemite, and barbeque shapes! and also potato cakes which apparently you can't get anywhere but in Oz??

if you have sky-lights...cover them. those things are SATAN!

my father reccommends to create a draft by opening a low window and a high window...hmmm, not sure about that one, but apparently it works, which is all we want right?

you see how complicated all this is? just hire the eskimo dammit!

-Mel

Look at me! I'm a prostitute robot from the future!

thoughts of vegemite

Wait. . .
Didn't the Marmites slay the Vegemites in the Bible? I think it was in Dalmations, or maybe Excretions.

No, it was definitely in Amphibians. Amphibians 3:11 (What's that you say? There's no Amphibians in the Bible, you say? What about the plague of frogs?)

I'll believe in anything if you'll just believe in anything

This post was edited by Magnifico on Jun 09, 2003.

No, i'm quite sure vegemite won...that battle anyway. then later in Amphibians 4:27 Promite was victorious and so it has stayed. i personally can't stand the taste of vegemite, but oh well...each to their own.

-mel

Look at me! I'm a prostitute robot from the future!

Sorry, but I can't help but add to this.

This reminds me of 6 months ago, one of my first posts on NAO blabbing about how stinking hot it was. 6 months later, and we have Jaz in Germany complaining about the heat, and me and Mel in Melbourne soon to be complaining about the cold (well maybe, it doesn't snow here except on mountains).

My suggestion for night time is this: Sleep on tiles. Actually, that's really uncomfortable. I usually sleep on the outside of a sleeping bag in summer. Ah, nylon. It tends to stay cooler than ordinary linen.

P.S. I have also never heard of any seaweed thing. Ask Bob if he's from Queensland. It would explain a lot.

Which world is Plato in?

P.S. I have also never heard of any seaweed thing. Ask Bob if he's from Queensland. It would explain a lot.

:-)

Well AFAIK his mom lives in Sydney. I can't tell where he grew up or lived last. His last name is Streatfeild, if that gives you any hint. And he's very afraid of spiders. :-P Anyway, with two Australians not knowing this it seems to be some regional thing. I'll ask him again if he shows up this week (and I don't forget it :-) ).

When life hands you a lemon, that's 40% of your RDA of vitamin C taken care of.