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That's what my children (grown men actually) say. They hate those few days when it's over about 26 C.
When and where was this a common thing?
I've lived and owned houses built from the 1750s to the 1960s in England and Norway and none of them have much in the way of ornamentation.
> Houses used to be built to be lived in
Of course and that's one reason why most didn't have a lot of ornamentation, the money would be spent on necessary functionality first.
Perhaps I'm just not wealthy enough.
Really? With the spelling Portia it's a perfectly respectable girl's name in English, why not in German? Or are they completely unrelated? The English Portia stems from Brutus' wife.
Surely it was the name of a person long before it was the name of a thing?
Do they also forbid Mercedes?
Long obsolete except in Iceland.
Also the abstract talks only about peak temperatures. Those peaks tend to last only for a few days or even less in Norway, the July average where I live (about 40 km south of Oslo) this year was 18 C (0.5 C higher than normal), maximum was 32 C (for two days), minimum 6 C.
A McDonald's Quarter Pounder is 86 NOK (8.30 EUR or 9.34 USD) here and 6 USD in the US, 5.40 EUR in Germany. So yes it is more expensive than the US or Germany but still not outrageously so.
The one hour train journey from where I live to the national airport is 298 NOK (29 EUR, 32 USD).
I'll grant you it's not perfect, primary education is a bit lacklustre, preparation for an oil free economy is not given enough effort, etc. What were your "structurally pathetic", etc. things?
100% touch free? How does that work?
So pretty much anyone for whom the news is relevant would understand the headline immediately.
I find that difficult to believe. Is there some objective evidence?
There's no shortage of haughty politicians either.
Sunrise today was 07:31, sunset will be at 16:32 here.
On 22nd December it will be 09:17 and 15:16.
When I was working I worked from 08:00 to 16:00 with a half hour break for lunch. But several of my colleagues in the same office worked 07:00 to 15:00. All of us worked with other engineers in countries across the world. My children went to school at 08:30 until 13:30 until they were in senior high school when it was 08:00 to 15:30
The local buses start running at 05:30 and stop at 22:30.
This gets brought up every time the discussion happens, yet we manage perfectly well even further north here in Norway.
Also why should people need government permission to vary the time at which they do things?
As far as I'm concerned I just want the clock to not change every spring and autumn. Institutions can surely be left to decide for themselves what working hours they have? After all shops, cafes, restaurants, bars, etc., already do that.