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i was minding my own business in the steam room yesturday having just finished my boxing circuit class and this two pitch alarm started up and went off every 5 seconds. i noticed there were still people in the pool so i juts ignored it. it then took 3 mins for an automated voice to say somthing about leaving the building for you own safety.
so there i was wrapped in a towel with only swim shorts on standing in the car park with 100 other people freezing my toes off. i was in the wettest place you could be damnit why shud i get out? was a false alarm anyway *grumbles*

If someone poured oil over the surface of the swimming pool, and set it alight, you'd be screwed.

that 200m^2 of oil, and the chances someone would poor that much in a pool without me noticing is low no?

the roof could be on fire and it could fall down on ye head... roofs seem to come down quite much from swimming pool building things :unsure:  

Nah, that's the easy part.
The hard part is getting the oil truck close enough to the pool, which is why you escaped... for now. :devil:

*dumps oil on SS' head and runs away quickly*

someone had to actually do something sometime, right? :P

*throws torch at SS*

*giggles immaturely*

can you go 10 seconds without being peverted Fire?

My guess is "No."  LOL  

Oh of course, but that was too good to ignore.

OMG LET'S GO STREAKING!!

... in the 'wettest place' or outside?

wow cant believe i missed that one

*sigh* :P
 

it's too cold to go streaking >_>

agreed, rainging far too much atm iswell glad i didnt have to go out in that

she lives in cali.  it's not too cold for her.

Fire is so smart.  *high fives*

:)  

*lie detector breaks a needle*

*mutters about lucky cali people with their warm weather*

*mutters about stabing mole with a sharp object*

Fellow New Yorker agrees.  :P

Hey- they can't get school closings from snow, though!  LOL  

we don't even get it here in england, just the welsh and the scottish. And anywhere near a river so flooding becomes an excuse as well.

eh at least my school year seems shorter.  You guys have to make up days.

only place wales gets more snow than england is in the mountains and then we're talking the north western ones

Not true - I can remember at least one school day cancelled because of snow.
Though if all the fuss about global warming is true then it'll be happening less often now than it did 5+ years ago.

Well when i was in school it never got cancelled and we had heaps of snow :/ Well that was liverpool for you.

nah, we get five snowdays before they take any days off of vacation :)

i remember 1 day and it was a hoax by some other pupils, so fun day

global warming is bullshit.  SS you should know better.

Sharky, that's shit.

Meh. Maybe.

Global warming may be bullshit, but we are coming out of an iceage, so the polars will melt whatever the hell we do about it, its just everyone gets told that its gonna be like the appocalypse or something.

What do you mean?  My school gives us 5 snow days too- if school is closed fewer than 6 days per year, we lose no vacation time.  ;)  

good

Um.. the problem with global warming is not that the Earth's temperature is changing, it's that it's happening too quickly.  Species cannot adapt to the new conditions that will exist in 50 years, and thus we'll experience mass extinctions if the process is not halted.  ;)  

mmm but if climates change quickly then they'll change back quickly. rising CO2 levels produce more clouds, which reflect radiation away from the earth allowign it too cool down, causing CO2 levels to drop so on this process has been happening for billions of years we're just compressing the effect into 200 years...uhh oh anyone wanna work out the ratio?  1:20000000?

we're coming out of an ice age? i was always under the impression we were living in the post effects of an ice age, glaciers in iceland, greenland those kinds of places just been after effects that and proceeding not receeding

Nope, we are actually still in an ice age, untill the polars go anyway.

what? thats bull. polars shudnt go away. thats there natural climate since 30m BC

As far as I know, I thought we were out of an ice age that happened in the Middle Ages, and the next step is going back into one.  :miffed:

Mole- that's an interesting hypothesis you posed, and I've seen it somewhere before.  However, since practically all scientists agree that global warming is a big threat, I'm inclined to take their side.  The only way I can rebut your argument is: water vapor is a greenhouse gas too, and increasing levels of it in the atmosphere would probably cause some heating; if CO2 levels in the atmosphere continue to rise because of human interference, then no matter how many clouds are around the climate will still get warmer; and even a small change and back in climate would severely hurt many species and ecosystems *points out how deserts such as the Sahara are expanding (yes, due to other reasons, but this one too) and more severe storms in the Atlantic and Pacific*  :)

Has anyone seen The Day After Tomorrow?

yeah but that took place in the space of a week. Of course not having experineced an Ice Age i couldn't tell you if that's how fast it takes but i highly doubt it takes that little time to have an Ice Age. I know there was a mini Ice Age a few hundred years ago in which the Baltic Sea froze over

yea, not the best film of the year buit it was pretty convincing. wouldnt happen though

wishful thinking ^_^  

the CO2 will more keep the heat in than keep it out, remember, the earth produces it's own heat as well, not to mention the products of factories, etc.

that heat can still defuse through the CO2 though. its a fairly marginal thing but we'll see im sure

No it can't.  The more CO2 gas in the atmosphere, the less heat will escape into space, and the warmer Earth becomes.  :P  

yea it can the outer edge of the atmosphere is cooled, hot air is drawn upwards so on it does work