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> Lower your temperature by 1 degree right now Not wishing to open a(nother) can of HN-worms, but what happens if you share your home with members of the oppos

> Lower your temperature by 1 degree right now Not wishing to open a(nother) can of HN-worms, but what happens if you share your home with members of the opposite sex? My wife and my daughter are the two members of the household who complain about feeling cold. In the winter they each want a hot water bottle to take to bed. My sons and I just don't seem to mind .. and all the bedrooms are at the same temperature!

maccard 5y ago
> but what happens if you share your home with members of the opposite sex? No reason to bring sex into it. My girlfriend complains that our home is too warm meanwhile I sit under a blanket with a hot water bottle.
- logifail 5y ago
  Science: New study reveals the evolutionary reason why women feel colder than men https://phys.org/news/2021-10-reveals-evolutionary-women-colder-men.html https://phys.org/news/2021-10-reveals-evolutionary-women-col...
lucb1e 5y ago
If they aren't to be convinced of the cause then there's no choice right? Then your bedroom will just be colder than theirs, and shared spaces could meet in the middle (sofa can have blankets; at dinner there is hot food; at lunch you might need to heat the eating room a bit more). And it depends on how extreme you want to go: 13°C is laudable but I'm trying to do the same and 16-17°C is the limit before I need to put on a real winter coat and actually impair comfort/mobility while working on my computer. And that's with headwear and everything (which I take off for customer video calls, to come across a bit more professionally...). If you'd want to go 13°C then I guess shared spaces might be more towards the comfort side of the spectrum.
- logifail 5y ago
  > If they aren't to be convinced of the cause then there's no choice right? Then your bedroom will just be colder than theirs [..] Not wishing to be completely silly, but you've obviously not met my wife and daughter. You are correct in one sense, there is no choice: the [whole] house will be warm. At a slightly less silly level: I'm not sure we win the climate debate by picking fights within our immediate families.
  - lucb1e 5y ago
    Yeah, if it's a contentious issue then it's not really a win. For me it's easier with just one other person who works in another (toasty) room.
Symbiote 5y ago
Buy them nice sweaters :-)

maccard 5y ago

> but what happens if you share your home with members of the opposite sex? No reason to bring sex into it. My girlfriend complains that our home is too warm meanwhile I sit under a blanket with a hot water bottle.

logifail 5y ago
Science: New study reveals the evolutionary reason why women feel colder than men https://phys.org/news/2021-10-reveals-evolutionary-women-colder-men.html https://phys.org/news/2021-10-reveals-evolutionary-women-col...

lucb1e 5y ago

If they aren't to be convinced of the cause then there's no choice right? Then your bedroom will just be colder than theirs, and shared spaces could meet in the middle (sofa can have blankets; at dinner there is hot food; at lunch you might need to heat the eating room a bit more). And it depends on how extreme you want to go: 13°C is laudable but I'm trying to do the same and 16-17°C is the limit before I need to put on a real winter coat and actually impair comfort/mobility while working on my computer. And that's with headwear and everything (which I take off for customer video calls, to come across a bit more professionally...). If you'd want to go 13°C then I guess shared spaces might be more towards the comfort side of the spectrum.

logifail 5y ago
> If they aren't to be convinced of the cause then there's no choice right? Then your bedroom will just be colder than theirs [..] Not wishing to be completely silly, but you've obviously not met my wife and daughter. You are correct in one sense, there is no choice: the [whole] house will be warm. At a slightly less silly level: I'm not sure we win the climate debate by picking fights within our immediate families.
- lucb1e 5y ago
  Yeah, if it's a contentious issue then it's not really a win. For me it's easier with just one other person who works in another (toasty) room.

Symbiote 5y ago

Buy them nice sweaters :-)