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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2017 12:26:13 GMT
So is breathing. I wouldn't expect running hot water would use significantly more energy than filling a basin. However breathing is a necessity of life, whereas pouring hot water down the drain isn't. I suppose it depends how long you leave the tap running vs how much you fill the basin, but my mummy always taught me that washing under a running hot tap was wasteful - she having spent her teenage years during WW2 was into not being wasteful. My mum used to put me in the bath after my 2 sisters had been washed. Put me off baths for life. Now I'm a scruffy smelly middle aged git. Not OCD but scruffy.
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Post by Saltysplash on Apr 26, 2017 12:32:45 GMT
However breathing is a necessity of life, whereas pouring hot water down the drain isn't. I suppose it depends how long you leave the tap running vs how much you fill the basin, but my mummy always taught me that washing under a running hot tap was wasteful - she having spent her teenage years during WW2 was into not being wasteful. My mum used to put me in the bath after my 2 sisters had been washed. Put me off baths for life. Now I'm a scruffy smelly middle aged git. Not OCD but scruffy. You were lucky to have a bath, we did have a tin thing in front of the fire which used to hang on a nail in the yard when not in use. Our first proper bath was like you, once they stopped bathing me and brother together there used to be a definate tide mark around it once we'd all finished
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Post by Jim on Apr 26, 2017 16:59:50 GMT
How about axes? I let my 4 year old have a chop with (a bluntish) one. I figured if he hit his leg while he could barely lift it he'd get a tiny bruise and it would be better than a full bloodied swing at his shin when he was older. Wife was horrified, I still say I was right. We had a lot of similar discussions. I had them fire breathing at 5 and 7. With chocolate powder? Or paraffin? If you already know,fair enough, but the main danger isn't getting burnt, that will heal. It's chemical pneumonia, if you choke on it and it gets in your lungs your body can't deal with it and death occurs after a couple of weeks. I've also known an asthmatic to get chemical pnuemonia from breathing the sooty fumes, watching a training session but not actually taking part. I was a bit of a bugger for playing with fire as a kid, nearly burnt the house down a couple of times, kept quiet about that one! I taught myself fire breathing, after I'd seen someone do it, in my late teens.
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Post by lollygagger on Apr 26, 2017 17:08:43 GMT
How about axes? I let my 4 year old have a chop with (a bluntish) one. I figured if he hit his leg while he could barely lift it he'd get a tiny bruise and it would be better than a full bloodied swing at his shin when he was older. Wife was horrified, I still say I was right. We had a lot of similar discussions. I had them fire breathing at 5 and 7. With chocolate powder? Or paraffin? If you already know,fair enough, but the main danger isn't getting burnt, that will heal. It's chemical pneumonia, if you choke on it and it gets in your lungs your body can't deal with it and death occurs after a couple of weeks. I've also known an asthmatic to get chemical pnuemonia from breathing the sooty fumes, watching a training session but not actually taking part. I was a bit of a bugger for playing with fire as a kid, nearly burnt the house down a couple of times, kept quiet about that one! I taught myself fire breathing, after I'd seen someone do it, in my late teens. It's well worth pointing that out. They were trained with water, warned about inhaling, warned to stop it the flame was coming back towards them etc etc. You know if your own kids are taking it in and serious. I have pics somewhere, they were pretty damn good at it and so were 6 and 8 year old daughters of a friend. His 4 year old was allowed to do it with water but completely hopeless, knew it and declined the real thing before we had to say no. They all had to satisfy both of us. To this day, 20 years on they still love to say "Pah! I did that when I was 6".
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Post by lollygagger on Apr 26, 2017 17:11:20 GMT
I got free Glastonbury tickets in return for wandering about the place doing a bit of fire breathing back in the day.
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Post by Jim on Apr 26, 2017 17:28:08 GMT
I got free Glastonbury tickets in return for wandering about the place doing a bit of fire breathing back in the day. It's a while since I've been, and pump only once in a professional capacity, but my mate still works there with his show, Circus Fudge.
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Post by lollygagger on Apr 26, 2017 17:51:07 GMT
I got free Glastonbury tickets in return for wandering about the place doing a bit of fire breathing back in the day. It's a while since I've been, and pump only once in a professional capacity, but my mate still works there with his show, Circus Fudge. I wasn't head pyromaniac, he used to run round screaming with his head on fire to freak out the hippies. Happy days.
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