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l'bogo said:
(scrivo in Italiano) Quelli che hai incontrato non sono dei Casanova, sono solo dei cafoni!
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Or maybe Casanovas on steroids? Yes, not everyone is like Berlusconi (or Trump). And at least there isn't the hypocrisy there is in the United States, with priests and preachers playing around on the side. I've heard of women who when subjected to "pinches" in Mexico have kicked the guy where it hurts. Some American women seem to be no longer aware of the unwritten "rules".
 
Eulalia said:
And warm in Iceland, Greenland, even well within the Arctic Circle.
As I understand (and my mind tends to boggle when such things are explained to me)
the warming of the Arctic has caused the cold air that spins around above the Pole in the stratosphere
to sink down lower, and this has reversed the direction of the Jet Stream that usually brings us westerly weather, so we're now getting weather from Russia. :lupie::loco:

But I like this piece of advice :D:
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A little of snow in Venice today: Venezia - Bacino di S Marco, Riva degli Schiavoni.jpg
 
Frank Petrexa said:
In the eastern half of the United States (even the southern eastern half) it was very cold in Late December through early February. Now, it's in the 60's (F) (that's 45.6 C, I think--starting to lose the ability to do numbers in my head). The west coast is very cold , including the coast of California--relatively, that is, just above freezing. We are paying here with lots of rain and severe flooding. I don't have a good handle on the atmospheric model because it's three-dimensional (shame for a physics guy) but I think that if the jet stream changes, it induces pressure changes in the south toward the low side, and the "coreolis circulation" induced by the earth's rotation can pull in cold northern air from the west. That's inland Canada in these parts. Apparently, that "bend" in the jet stream moves around, and now it's Europe's turn.
The ice thickness in the Arctic is very low compared to historical norms. And when you get water in the atmosphere (which often you don't in the southwest and California), you get a lot of it and the rain just pours down. Hence the California rain-induces mudslides following the fires of the summer. Lake Mead behind Hoover dam on the Colorado River has been low for 10 years--so low that Las Vegas is drilling a new tunnel for a water intake because the one they have now is soon going to be above the water line.
Messing with the earth tends to have consequences.
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60degF = 15degC
68degF = 20degC
 
cruxlover said:
60degF = 15degC
68degF = 20degC
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Yeah, right. 60-32 = 28. Then (5/9)28 = 15+, not (9/5)28 = 45+. An inverted conversion factor. Thanks. I really wish the US would get away from the old "English" system. A conserative newspaper columnist named George Will once railed against going metric--it would compromise our "true American values". So a statistics professor who hailed from Germany wrote a letter to the editor. "Why is our monetary system metric? We could have a 3 cent coin, a 17 cent coin, and a bill worth 3.4 true American dollars." I had a chemistry teacher in high school who used to complain that "little kids flunk tests trying to remember how many inches to a foot, feet to a yard, pints to a quart, and quarts to gallon".
 
Frank Petrexa said:
Yeah, right. 60-32 = 28. Then (5/9)28 = 15+, not (9/5)28 = 45+. An inverted conversion factor. Thanks. I really wish the US would get away from the old "English" system. A conserative newspaper columnist named George Will once railed against going metric--it would compromise our "true American values". So a statistics professor who hailed from Germany wrote a letter to the editor. "Why is our monetary system metric? We could have a 3 cent coin, a 17 cent coin, and a bill worth 3.4 true American dollars." I had a chemistry teacher in high school who used to complain that "little kids flunk tests trying to remember how many inches to a foot, feet to a yard, pints to a quart, and quarts to gallon".
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12 inches to a foot; 3 feet to a yard; 2 pints to a quart and 4 quarts to a gallon!
And I didn't have to look any up!
 
Gibbs505 said:
Inches divided into , halves, quarters, eighth, sixteenth, thirty-seconds, etc.!!
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Quite right, base 12 is much more flexible than base 10.
We're stuck with base 10 for no better reason than we happen to have 10 fingers -
but we've 12 finger-joints on each hand, Indian kids use those to count and calculate,
quicker than a computer!
And inches, feet, yards are units that relate to our human bodies, which are easy to understand,
not arbitrary divisions of the circumference of the planet!
 
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