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Aabra

Joined: 03 Feb 2007
Posts: 64

Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 2:21 am Post subject:

Ben Round de Bloc wrote:

Aabra wrote:

No refrigerator for the beer? No problem!

I went to a boarding school for a couple years back when I was in high school. To hide the beer AND keep it cool, we used to take the lids off of the toilets and hide the beer in the (more or less clean) water.

That's assuming the water coming into the house is cold, which is not the case most of the year where I live. After water sits in a holding tank on a roof for several hours under a tropical sun, temperature pushing 40� C. outside, the water is not very cold.

I'm not sure about this. Regardless of the temperature outside, I highly doubt that the water will be *hot*. After all it's been sitting inside the porcelain god for a while. The water won't necessarily be *cold* but it will still be several degrees cooler than the current temperature in the room no? Remind me to ask some of you guys in May what the temperature of the water in your toilet is. Smile

ls650

Joined: 10 May 2003
Posts: 3484
Location: British Columbia

Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 2:37 am Post subject:

Aabra wrote:

The water won't necessarily be *cold* but it will still be several degrees cooler than the current temperature in the room no?

So, instead of 36c like the room temperature, the water in the toilet tank is 'only' 30c or so.

I prefer cold beer from the fridge.

Ben Round de Bloc

Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Posts: 1946

Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 12:29 pm Post subject:

Aabra wrote:

Obviously, you've never lived in a place where the temperature gets really hot and where houses have the type of plumbing system that most have in the city where I live. When the water comes into the house from the holding tank on the roof during the hotter months, the water is usually warm. However, during much of the day, the first water to come out of the faucet or shower head -- or to go into the toilet tank when flushed -- is scalding hot, because it has been standing in exposed-to-the-tropical-sun water pipes on the roof, the pipes that carry water from the holding tank to the kitchen and bathrooms inside the house. After the water has been in the toilet tank for a while, it does cool down some -- to the point where it's only warm instead of hot. In my house when a person takes a shower during the middle of the day in the month of May (since that's the particular month you chose,) it's usually necessary to let the water run for a few minutes to let it cool down (clear the water pipes of the scalding hot water.)

MELEE

Joined: 22 Jan 2003
Posts: 2583
Location: The Mexican Hinterland

Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 5:03 pm Post subject:

Definately with Ben and LS on this one. Water in BLACK tank on roof top, No large trees in the city center to shade that tank, dark pipes across the roof leading to the bathroom, water drops into the toilet, if no one has flushed for a couple of hours it might cool back down to air temperature, if no one flushes overnight it might cool a little bit more. But still, much much better to walk to the corner store and buy your beer fresh!

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