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[labellementeuse]

Fire and Ice

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

-- Robert Frost


Or: damn, it's cold, and it's only March.

Comments

[sixth-light.livejournal.com]

But you are a Kiwi! You must put aside these foolish notions of cold - after all, if you weren't sitting at your computer you wouldn't be cold! You must get up and exercise briskly, or, if you refuse to move, put on another jersey. Heaters are for those overseas types. Show them what real Kiwis are made of.

(Yes, this is pretty much verbatim the speech I recieved every time I mentioned the cold throughout my entire childhood. Minus the patriotic aspect.)

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

I've had that speech too, a lot, and we're one of those bizarre families thaqt actually does have central heating.

... I kind of buy into the propaganda, though. Heating in a student flat is probably obscene. ;)

[sixth-light.livejournal.com]

But, see, there's a difference between being smart and energy-saving and having super-low energy bills (which we are and do) and actually freezing to death (see the Otago Flat Internal Temperature Story). And it seems in NZ that most people fall on the side of freezing.