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The eternal roommate thermostat debate
2009-06-23, 12:20 AM #41
Originally posted by Vin:
Start keeping all your dishes in your room. Same with toilet paper, toothpaste, stuff like that. Let his garbage and dirty dishes stack up, while you keep yours clean and tucked away where he can't find them.


that's just asking for a **** lasagna.
2009-06-23, 12:29 AM #42
Originally posted by Shayol:
I live in a sub-tropical climate. It's hot and humid. Unless something unusual happens, our winter day time temps are around 15-20C (~60-68F). As you can imagine this is not my favourite time of year.


I wish my winter day time temps were 16C. I'd never take my shorts off!
2009-06-23, 2:25 AM #43
Originally posted by Shayol:
I live in a sub-tropical climate. It's hot and humid. Unless something unusual happens, our winter day time temps are around 15-20C (~60-68F). As you can imagine this is not my favourite time of year.

My 87 layers of thermal padding will render me impervious to any assault.

Burn more coal people. Bring on global warming already.

I don't know where you live but it sounds like your country is broken. ;)

Don't make fun of Canada, Cold is good.
2009-06-23, 6:32 AM #44
Originally posted by Jon`C:
that's just asking for a **** lasagna.


http://community.livejournal.com/housematehorror/1451.html
[This message has been edited. Deal with it.]
2009-06-23, 6:48 AM #45
Originally posted by dalf:
I barely use the A/C even in my car.


that's because san diego weather is PERFECT.
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

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2009-06-23, 6:56 AM #46
Originally posted by Martyn:
I wish my winter day time temps were 16C. I'd never take my shorts off!

This. 15-20C are Summer temperatures for me.

I like it at whatever temperature it just happens to be, I don't know a single person that has air conditioning.
nope.
2009-06-23, 7:00 AM #47
Originally posted by Shayol:
Flatmate is being a tool, either kick him out or make him pay more rent to cover the electricity bill.

Also, damn people. 60F (16C) is bloody freezing. Not only is that jumper weather, it's trackies, beanies, gloves and ugg boots weather.

If it's less than 27C (80F) it's too damn cold.


lulz

:hist101:
woot!
2009-06-23, 7:18 AM #48
60/16 is awesome.

At the house here, thermostat is usually set near 80/27
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2009-06-23, 8:12 AM #49
Originally posted by Malus:
http://community.livejournal.com/housematehorror/1451.html


Purloined from the venerable Something Awful Forums.
2009-06-23, 10:56 AM #50
Originally posted by JLee:
lulz

:hist101:


that's nothing.
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

Lassev: I guess there was something captivating in savagery, because I liked it.
2009-06-23, 11:05 AM #51
I once had a arabian roommate who kept plugging the toilet every night, and the dumbass would always just continue to flush, causing some major overflows with **** floating on everywhere. Then instead of getting a mop he'd run around cursing in his dumbass language.

Then I shoved him out of anger and he fell into the s***ty water.

He was expulsed from the place the following day.

I worried about a plane crashing into the home for a few weeks afterwards.
Was cheated out of lions by happydud
Was cheated out of marriage by sugarless
2009-06-23, 11:21 AM #52
And I'm worried about you shooting an abortion clinic.
2009-06-23, 11:29 AM #53
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Was cheated out of lions by happydud
Was cheated out of marriage by sugarless
2009-06-23, 11:56 AM #54
That's what white people do, right?
2009-06-23, 11:58 AM #55
But they terk are jerbs!
It took a while for you to find me; I was hiding in the lime tree.
2009-06-23, 12:00 PM #56
Originally posted by Malus:
http://community.livejournal.com/housematehorror/1451.html

I haven't finished reading it yet, but the part about "the kidnapping" feels like I'm reading the next instalment of John Dies At The End.
2009-06-23, 12:09 PM #57
85-95 is good for me

2009-06-23, 1:39 PM #58
The SA story is awesome.
2009-06-23, 3:27 PM #59
Originally posted by JLee:
lulz

:hist101:


Oh, so that's what snow is. I think I've read about that somewhere once.
2009-06-23, 4:25 PM #60
The SA story that Malus linked to is insane. Definitely worth the long read.
幻術
2009-06-23, 4:36 PM #61
Again, the guy in Malus's link is a pussy. If he had made the guy eat his own **** the first time it had happened, he wouldn't have had to put up with any more of the guys crap.
It took a while for you to find me; I was hiding in the lime tree.
2009-06-23, 5:00 PM #62
My roommate and I have the same problems. He likes to keep it at 78 always, which is absolutely way too hot. Maybe I get hot easy or something, but if its not 72 or lower, I can't even sleep at night (naked and no covers) without sweating. I can be sitting in my room, not doing anything and start sweating because 78 is just not cold enough.
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2009-06-23, 6:01 PM #63
79-90.

I also wear shorts in cold weather.

I don't care about temperature much, except that hotter the better when I'm relaxing and colder the better when I'm working.

As to the point of your thread, I'll echo the predominant opinion that your roommate is very wrong.
2009-06-23, 8:20 PM #64
Originally posted by Vin:
I keep it at 78.


I'm at 78, too. Must be an Arizona thing.
2009-06-23, 8:29 PM #65
Easy mathematically-sound and fair solution:

First, both of you vote on the temperature you want. Then, weight the votes based on how much % each person pays of the electric bill, and then do a weighted average based on the results. If you pay for the electricity alone, this will be very much in your favor (which is fair!) and if he wants it colder he'll need to start chipping in.

2009-06-23, 8:51 PM #66
But whats to stop him from just dicking around with the knob?
2009-06-23, 9:23 PM #67
Originally posted by Jon`C:
Purloined from the venerable Something Awful Forums.


It is also the first result of my somewhat convoluted Google search.
[This message has been edited. Deal with it.]
2009-06-23, 9:42 PM #68
65 is crazy.

My dad is a utility natzi and our AC doesn't go on once through the year, even when it's 100 degrees out so I'm fairly used to it.

It gets mid 80s in our house about 5 PM, mid 90s in the top floor rooms. We pretty much don't use those rooms from 2PM - 10PM. Then the cool ocean air comes in and it's back down to the 50s at night which is ****ing awesome.

I'd say 78 is reasonable.
2009-06-23, 9:47 PM #69
I talked to my other roommate and we figure we'll just try to get him to pay more of the bill (currently we split it evenly 4 ways between the 4 of us). Or to stop messing with it, one or the other.

Unfortunately I have no updates because I haven't seen the guy again yet.
Warhead[97]
2009-06-23, 10:08 PM #70
Originally posted by BobTheMasher:
I talked to my other roommate and we figure we'll just try to get him to pay more of the bill (currently we split it evenly 4 ways between the 4 of us). Or to stop messing with it, one or the other.


You're breaking my balls man. Breaking my balls.
It took a while for you to find me; I was hiding in the lime tree.
2009-06-23, 10:33 PM #71
Originally posted by Tiberium_Empire:
But whats to stop him from just dicking around with the knob?


He doesn't exist.

But if you're asking someone for whom this is actually a problem, my solution would be to hold him at bay with a knife.

(Honestly, when I lived with people I never once thought about the temperature. If it was too warm or too cold, I just adjusted my clothing accordingly.)
If you think the waiters are rude, you should see the manager.
2009-06-24, 5:42 AM #72
Its about 22'c here currently, all windows open and its nice and cool in the house, at work I make sure the A/C unit is down to about 18'c with all the little spotlights we have in the shop it can feel like a tanning salon.

Personally I would just stick the guy in a fridge freezer and see what happens.
Flying over there some were...
2009-06-24, 6:46 AM #73
I keep the house here around 74F in the summer, 68F in the winter. Works fine for me, although I have another window A/C unit in the computer room, because it heats the whole damn upstairs to 80+F during the day, while the rest of the house stays cool.
2009-06-24, 8:04 AM #74
Originally posted by UltimatePotato:
You're breaking my balls man. Breaking my balls.


I mean getting HIM to stop messing with it. ;)
Warhead[97]
2009-06-24, 10:41 AM #75
Originally posted by Malus:
http://community.livejournal.com/housematehorror/1451.html

thats just unsanitary. i wouldnt have been putting up with his ****. not even if i only had to pay 50 bucks a month for rent.
I'm proud of my life and the things that I have done, proud of myself and the loner I've become.
2009-06-24, 10:51 AM #76
Originally posted by Shayol:
I live in a sub-tropical climate. It's hot and humid. Unless something unusual happens, our winter day time temps are around 15-20C (~60-68F). As you can imagine this is not my favourite time of year.



Why not? That's nearly ideal weather. I mean, for winter, you could hardly ask for better. Stop whining.
2009-06-24, 11:07 AM #77
20C is pretty much my ideal temperature. Not too hot, not too cold.
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2009-06-24, 3:02 PM #78
Originally posted by Obi_Kwiet:
Why not? That's nearly ideal weather. I mean, for winter, you could hardly ask for better. Stop whining.


Ideal? For you perhaps, but acclimatisation is kind of the point of the thread. 15C is enough to make my hands crack and bleed. I doubt you'd enjoy our 75% humidity 30C+ summers.
2009-06-24, 3:55 PM #79
For someone that hates 85% humidity at 22C, that would kill.
nope.
2009-06-26, 8:39 AM #80
I'd kill to have 60 degrees. Honestly, anyone who says yay for global warming doesn't have to work outside, ever. This summer sucks dicks.
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