For the non poors who have air conditioners...

[scared?]

What do u set ur thermostat to in ur home?...ppl around here think we are weird cuz we set ours to 72F. (Summer and winter)...They all say 78-82 is where it's at...

Wtf?...is this poorness or are ppl in texas just morons?...

[GONNAFISTYA]

lol I guess Texans love sitting in ball sweat.

And lol @ countries using the Fahrenheit temperature scale. Welcome to the 1700s.

[SoM]

nice and cool 22C

that's 71.6F u fagot

[xer0s]

Wtf?...is this poorness or are ppl in texas just morons?...

Both.

I have mine set on 73. But only because I have a thing about odd numbers and 71 is too cold...

[xer0s]

Did you invite the Mexicans in for some tea and they said it was too cold in your house?

[scared?]

I'm thinking its poor ppl pretending to be green...typical austin attitude...

[shaft]

Usually 73F.

[plained]

70 day

67 night

hehe

[Scarface]

68 all day

[Tsakali]

ignoring that thermostat location makes these numbers pointless, mine's at 76.

[scared?]

76? Inferno!... Fuck u...

[Tsakali]

that's cause I'm not a hotflashin middle aged woman like you

[shaft]

70 day

67 night

hehe

I would like to keep it that cold, but the kids would freeze.

[xer0s]

I agree with keeping it a lower temp at night. Much easier to sleep...

[bitWISE]

If I'm home and awake I prefer 73/74. I have it set higher at night and during work hours.

[Eraser]

72F? That's over 22 degrees C! And you people say that's cold?
We don't have AC, but here we don't really need that (except for a few days a year in the summer, but we can deal with that). Our thermostat for central heating is set for about 19 degrees C, which is 66 F. 19 degrees, to me, is a very nice indoor temperature.

[Eraser]

I would like to keep it that cold, but the kids would freeze.

Bunch of pussies should grow some balls

[shaft]

72F? That's over 22 degrees C! And you people say that's cold?

Its cold when its 90F outside and you're in shorts and a tee. In the winter you're dressed for it so keeping it cooler (60's) in the house is fine. Its all relative...

[scared?]

We don't have AC

lol poor ppl...

[Whiskey 7]

I would like to keep it that cold, but the kids would freeze.

Get them moving or working shaft

In answer to the question: Don't need it that much in our climate but if it is used it sits on 24c.

[Eraser]

72F? That's over 22 degrees C! And you people say that's cold?

Its cold when its 90F outside and you're in shorts and a tee. In the winter you're dressed for it so keeping it cooler (60's) in the house is fine. Its all relative...

I guess that is an annoyingly undeniable truth.

[LawL]

lol @ morons who don't have perfect weather all year 'round.

[[xeno]Julios]

relevant (at least for winter months):

http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.ca/20 ... -deal.html

Two new studies concurrently published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation last week demonstrate what I've suspected for a long time: brown fat can be 'trained' by cold exposure to be more active, and its activation by cold can reduce body fatness.


It was previously shown that non-shivering thermogenesis is higher in winter than in summer in the same people (1), suggesting that it may be a modifiable trait. As an aside, obese people tend to have low brown fat activity (2)****. The first new study demonstrates that brown fat can be trained to be more active in as little as 10 days, and that this training causes people to become more cold-tolerant (3). The protocol involved exposing people to 60 F (15-16 C) air for two hours on day 1, four hours on day 2, and six hours on days 3-10. Although I assume they were lightly clothed, this is a pretty mild cold exposure.

The second study went further, using a longer cold exposure protocol to investigate changes in fat mass among people with low brown fat activity at baseline (4). Researchers exposed volunteers to 63 F (17 C) air for two hours a day over a six-week period; again I assume they were lightly clothed. As in the previous study, they observed an increase in brown fat activity with cold training, and they found that calorie expenditure was higher when subjects were in the 'cold' air. After six weeks of training, body fat mass had declined by about 5 percent. This is despite the fact that all subjects were lean to begin with!

I think this is pretty impressive, given how wimpy the cold exposure protocol was. Think about it: two hours a day at 63 degrees F. That would seem downright luxurious to a person 100 years ago in winter in almost any temperate climate. Today, most people keep their central heat closer to 70 F in winter, apparently eliminating a major source of passive calorie burning.

[scared?]

I call bullshit on that...

[ToxicBug]

20 C (68 F) all summer, but I don't pay for electricity.