Posted on 01/25/2015 8:57:51 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine
My dearest wish is to one day have the pleasure of living in a small cabin in the frigid wilderness. There I will spend my nights covered in heavy wool blankets, eating smoked fish and dried fruit. Over time, my beard will grow to the point where I’ll be indistinguishable from a medium-sized woodland creature. The villagers I’ll come to know during my rare visits to town will call me “the wolfman,” not least because I will communicate solely by howling and scratching out messages with my clawlike fingernails. For now, I live in a big city, where such unconventional grooming habits are frowned upon, but I make a point of using very little heat.
I’ve suffered for living the no-heat lifestyle.
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
Is this the start of propaganda to prepare us for the Obama blackouts starting next winter due to carbon regs?
I’ve heard the story that “white man build big fire, sit way back while Indian build small fire, sit up close” as a recommendation to conserve available energy but this guy seems to be saying “build no fire and freeze your a$$ off”.
There ya go!
Think of cold homes as chic and new wave!
I don’t understand why he’s not living his “dearest wish”. I sure wish he would and stop wasting precious bandwidth with his drivel.
I could never live an urban lifestyle after calling Eagle home, but with 2 woodstoves, my cabin hangs around 75 degrees; my old bones need the heat. NOthing better than drinking coffee sitting nx to my big cookstove, I have fight with the dogs for the best spots.
Anybody can live a rural lifestyle; it's a personal choice. We left Pa over 20 years back; can't imagine that I called back East home half my life?
I’ve lived in Montreal, Canada, I’ve lived in Bozeman, Montana, I’ve lived in several parts of California. I’d sleep in a gutter in Los Angeles before I would ever move back to snow and ice and freezing rain and the rest of it.
At first I suspected this guy was just an environazi but after reading the article and looking at the titles of some of his other articles (it seems he’s supported to be a “conservative”), I’m convinced he belongs in a padded cell.
Reihan Salam is a conservative American political commentator, columnist, and author. He is the executive editor of “National Review” and a columnist for Slate, as well as a contributing editor at National Affairs and interviewer for VICE.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reihan_Salam
“I get allergic smelling ice.”
LOL!
Supported = supposed
call me a sybarite but I do like running water
There’s scientific data that cold showers can be healthy. I was planning to try it out ghe next time I get a bad cold or flu.
The first paragraph there at Wiki suggests that he lives in a cesspool. Colbert? Pissy Chrissy? Wet Panties Bill Maher? NPR, of all ungodly things???
Yuck!
I actually do. The lake's frozen over - sorry, "froze up" in the local vernacular - and there's a couple feet of snow outside. So I'm not talking from the realm of fantasy here.
Cold kills. When I return from an extended absence the interior temperature is in the low 50s and while wearing three layers of clothing until the heat comes up makes it perfectly fine it's awful nice to be able to use my bare fingers on, say, a keyboard or to turn a page. I don't wish to disappoint the author with a dose of reality here, but if you're shivering, you're hypothermic and no, it isn't really the physiological equivalent of a trip to the gymnasium. Not unless you've gone to the gym to die a slow death.
When it's five below outside - the coldest it's been this winter so far - it is simply exquisite to close the door, open the coat, and bask in human civilization. Let the snow melt off the boots, the coat, and my nose. Mother Earth doesn't mind a bit, honest. She'll still be around long after I've assumed a temperature more acceptable to the author. Who really ought to try out his fantasy of living like Og The Caveman in any one of a number of unheated abodes I could point him to within a mile of this place, before recommending it to anyone sane. Triple pane windows, baby. They beat wearing a bearskin and hey, they're eco-friendly.
National Review and Slate share executive editors and columnists?
Man, NR has slid into the abyss even further than I thought.
I remember Jimmy Carter recommending sweaters.
My thermostat is fine at 74 in winter and 77 in summer.
I took one during a heat wave once, refreshing.
I’ve always said that the best way to lose weight is to reduce the ambient temperature. The bulk of our metabolic expenditure is devoted to keeping up our body temperature, so it just stands to reason. The catch is that you will probably have to keep active to keep your metabolism up. It’s not an automatic thing.
Of course, I exempt myself. I recall a few years ago when a furnace guy was at our house and I told him we kept the thermostat at 72. He intoned in a sympathetic and knowing tone, “72 is good. That’s a good setting.” I say knowing, because I know very well that Doctrine says it should be 68.
Yer a pussy and wouldn’t last 48 hours.
Me? I freakin love cold weather.
I currently sleep with the windows open and occasionally sleep outside.
But, that’s just me.
Not good in summer though.
It’s fine for the young, but dangerous for the elderly. Cold temperatures are a stroke hazard. You can drink more water to combat the lack of A/C during the summer. Only warm temperatures can lower stroke risk.
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