Hard News: Who'd have thought?
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Carol Stewart, in reply to
My lad's intermediate school uniform consists of thin cotton shorts for winter. Luckily they get to wear a voluminous polarfleece jumper which covers their nether regions if not their legs.
I don't understand it either. Must be something to do with this Character, which Lucy refers to.
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Glenn Pearce, in reply to
This discussion has taken a Pythonesque turn ;-)
They were gotten up, every morning of the year, to swim in the cold pool
.. walked 20 miles to school, barefoot, uphill, both ways
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BenWilson, in reply to
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The thing I've never quite understood about New Zealand school uniforms was dressing children in shorts in winter.
The All Blacks wear shorts in any weather. It's really a sifting process.
Edit: And c'mon! They were woolen shorts.
Edit2: And anyway, since 90% of body heat is lost through the head, so long as you're wearing a warm cap, you could go starkers and only be 10% cold.
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Lilith __, in reply to
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since 90% of body heat is lost through the head, so long as you’re wearing a warm cap, you could go starkers and only be 10% cold.
Yeah, quite! Thus that myth is, uh, exposed. ;-)
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Islander, in reply to
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And anyway, since 90% of body heat is lost through the head, so long as you’re wearing a warm cap, you could go starkers and only be 10% cold.
You ever actually tried this Ben?
Say, somewhere in Central on a real bonspiel night?
I guarentee you'll find you really would wish you'd bought more than a woollen cap within...o. about a minute? -
Islander, in reply to
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And silly me, I thought it was 10%!
And, I thought you were serious!
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Lucy Stewart, in reply to
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They were gotten up, every morning of the year, to swim in the cold pool. Sado-masochistic they must have been, back then.
Hey, I had to swim in an unheated, thoroughly shaded pool at 8am when I was at high school. Only in the summer, mind, but it didn’t precisely encourage a love of the activity.
Yeah, quite! Thus that myth is, uh, exposed. ;-)
IIRC it derived from a 1950s British study where they measured heat radiating off otherwise well-clothed but hat-less people in the Arctic. As the heat had nowhere else to radiate from....
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Sacha, in reply to
As the heat had nowhere else to radiate from....
yet everyone left out that detail
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Lucy Stewart, in reply to
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yet everyone left out that detail
It fascinates me as an anecdote because it's such a good example of how a result can be both true and totally wrong.
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More slick NASA public relations- these guys are good at it :)
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