On Thursday, 30 November 2017 17:21:52 UTC, Roger Hayter wrote:
whisky-dave wrote:

On Thursday, 30 November 2017 12:29:34 UTC, Martin Brown wrote:
On 30/11/2017 11:55, whisky-dave wrote:
On Thursday, 30 November 2017 08:33:15 UTC, Martin Brown wrote:

- convection heaters are useless unless you live on the ceiling where
all the warm air accumulates.

How comes those in charge of the buiding services and building
managment didn't know this ?

They are probably as dumb as you are.

No where near as dumb as you for supporting paying nearly half a million
to a uni chanceler.

Where is this dodgy university?

http://www.qmul.ac.uk/


The thing is I've been complaining for years aboout the lab adn the
running . last year I complain because 3 female students compalined to me
and asked me why they can't have heaters in the lab as it was 14C (hardly
cold I've worked here when it's been 5C). I sent an email around asking if
athena swan . https://www.ecu.ac.uk/equality-charters/athena-swan/ can
help (as women suffer the cold more than men) the head of department sent
me an email claiming that I am being sexist and that he recieved a
complaint and that he has put on my record that I have been sexist. If I
want to know what he;s said I have to pay £10 to an outside company, and I
can NOT defend the claim that I am sexist. Uni's dont; like critasm
haven;t you noticed check out the Russel group that we are part of .

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...-accused-of-im
porting-sports-direct-model-for-lecturers-pay

Do you have any evidence for your somewhat harmless but undoubtedly
sexist suggestion that women feel the cold more than men?

Yes, from teh TV program looking at the differnce between the sexes which was on the very same week and was a repeat of teh program I saw a year ago.

women feel the cold more because their biological systems are designed (yes you can blame a male god for this) to keep the heat in the central part of the body in order to protect the reproductive organs, this means blood is divered from the limbs and other extremities. It's as much as 2C, this is why women are more likely to pull the duvet off their male partners. They might do this to female partners too, but that would just end in a bitch fight ;-)


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33760845

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...odies-men.html

http://www.slate.com/articles/double...old_hands.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-st...-a7998241.html

http://www.sciencefocus.com/article/...-cold-more-men


This has not
particularly been my experience. Perhaps at some point in your life
you have identified concern for the health of small children as a
particularly female characteristic? I'm only guessing.


Of the 4 people that complained to me about the cold conditions 3 of them were female one was mature or rather she had a 8 year old kid and was married and she complained with her hat & coat on when the lab was at 22C