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Mon, 12 March 2007 13:01

Deeej

Needs to get a life!

Location: Berkshire, UK
Registered: March 2005
Messages: 3281

Would you believe it? Apparently there is no demand for desk fans at this time of year. I have trudged round every shop in Egham looking for one, and the vast majority of mail order places are also out.

I live in a university hall of residence where the temperature has been, throughout winter, a constant (I've got a clock with built-in thermometer, so I check from time to time) 80 degrees F (27 degrees C). This has been with the radiator permanently switched off. The demand from the 3000 or so university-accommodated students alone would be enough to keep a fan shop in business, I would have thought...

If they heated the buildings a little less, perhaps the accommodation fees would decrease? Ha ha. I live in a country where there is a legal minimum temperature for a workplace, but no legal maximum. Better to boil than freeze, presumably. On the other hand, this is also the country where, traditionally, "central heating" means "everyone puts on another jumper".

Before someone tells me to open a window, the windows here only open about 4 inches, a health and safety measure to stop people jumping out (the temperature being enough to make the inhabitants delirious).

David

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