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1. Buy cask wine, lots of it.
2. Drink cask wine, lots of it.
3. Inflate empty "mylar" cask bladders.
4. Toss them into your ceiling.
5. Pay less for heating/cooling your house.
(?) Keep 'em full.
http://www.codechec...rier_ng.htm#radient
or the excess heat may ruin your roof. [reensure, Dec 16 2001]
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I get the feeling this idea has been concocted as an excuse to drink lots of wine, using the facade of being green... |
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Steps 1. and 2. sound promising. I think I'll try them out and see how it goes before I implement the whole plan though. |
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[-alx], that is possible.
[Bob], The plan can be implemented over time. It does encourage you to invite many friends around for a week or so of Bacchanalia. |
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I would have thought after 10 casks of wine you would be unlikly to notice how cold it was, or case for that matter. |
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I gather that UnaBubba is well on his way to completing stage two of this plan. I hope you'll inform us if you ever reach stage three, or whether you decide to repeat this process from the beginning once you've run out of wine. |
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Low-cost home building.
1. Drink lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of Jack Daniels.
2. Build house with empty bottles, which are conveniently brick-shaped. |
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Beer cans would be the perfect building material. Easily stackable, nesting nicely horizontally and vertically, just build your walls 3 or 4 thick for added strength. |
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I had a five-foot cube cardboard box for a Wendy House once. They threw it out because it was on the floor of the garage and the base was getting soggy. I think I lost a little piece of my soul when I lost that house. |
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lg: I think that's the saddest thing I ever read. I'll see if me and Guy Fox can find you a replacement for tonight. |
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cheers. maybe cardboard boxes in Scottish garages are my spiritual home.
Oh, update - getting 16.41 train, should be in Queen St at 19.15, add time to find hotel and don my evil badass heels (yes, *those* shoes) and corsage, and I'll be with you by 8pm. You have my number, anyway. |
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like i believe blissmiss alluded to... unless you live in a gravity-reversed area or have suddenly begun to exhale helium, wouldn't they just drift gently to the ground and make it that much more difficult to walk? (not that you'd probably notice, in the state you'd be in)... |
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or perhaps I suppose you could put a little dab of glue on the tops of them. but then what do you do when they deflate? even balloons do, after about 3 days... |
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Bliss, do you not have a space between your roof and ceiling? You would probably call it an attic. If you put them up in that space they are unlikely to fall to ground, unless you have a hole in your ceiling... |
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I really like this idae UniBaby hic, I thought I would give it a goooooaaaaa hic.
I done hic stages 1, and 2 AND 2 AND 3 AND 2
AND ITS SUCH FUN hic. now whats next hic ? |
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zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz |
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Weird thing is, it would work. You can make a rather efficient insulation batt out of two reflective layers and an air gap. |
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oooooohh my head, I feel so sick, never never again.. |
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did somebody have too much to drink? |
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aaaarrrrggghhhhh!
never again! |
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<so nice to see cp again, always had an affinity to big cp> |
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At first I thought this was an excellent way to utilize those mylar bags, but I've always had an aversion to the stapled up mylar sheathing for the above-linked reason. Too much trapped heat in the attic can create problems, as can trapped moisture (elsewhere in the above link). If the bags were still full of wine, you could drain them off occasionally for a hot vino jacuzzi party or some such. |
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Add cinnamon, etc. Mulled wine from your ceiling. When it gets really desperate just fire a shot into the ceiling and lie on your back under the resulting hole with mouth wide open. |
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The gypsum and fiberglass should give it a real kick... |
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