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Fairfax House

January - March is when it snowed in york this year, but it didn't snow before that because it was too bloody cold :smile:

Reply 41

Jakob

hmmm... so what sort of temperatures do you get in the winter? (Celsius)

Reply 42

Barny

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Can't imagine it went lower than 0 other than at night :smile:

Reply 43

Jakob

ok then....

Well, where i come from it gets a wee bit colder... So york sounds pretty good to me.

Reply 44

Barny

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Well, thats probably because you live in bloody Sweden, I wasn't saying that it was the coldest place on earth, just very, very, cold :smile:

Reply 45

oli4uk

imasillynarb

York is bloody freezing, especially when its windy, only place I've been thats colder is Poland.

Obviously never been to the scottish highlands during winter, bloody freezing!

Reply 46

james555

okay then, a question that i am not sure if anyone will know the answer to:-
What is mobile reception like around York, especially fairfax house. I am looking at getting a mobile contract, and 3 seems to be so much cheaper than the others, but where I live 3 reception aint great, even though according to 3 it is meant to be good.

Reply 47

oli4uk

O2 pay as you go = 300 free minutes & 300 free evening weekend minutes i you top up £30, 150 free mins & 300 free txts if you top up £15, you keep the credit, i have about £90 spare on my phone at the moment, you also get 10% of your credit back every quater and if you pay £5 a month you get half price calls and txts to 3 numbers :biggrin:

+ reception is usually good!

Reply 48

Sallykins

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imasillynarb

January - March is when it snowed in york this year, but it didn't snow before that because it was too bloody cold :smile:

Yay snow! We don't know what snow is down here in Berkshire (appart from that one time when we had a thunderstorm, it threw it down with rain and THEN it chucked it down with snow so we had a good few inches - that was magical!)

Reply 49

Barny

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Snow is fun....for a day, then you just want it to go away, very quickly.

Reply 50

oli4uk

my mate saved on his heating no end by drilling a hole in the wall through to his neighbors room (somewhere were t couldnt be seen) it wasnt too big but he put a fan over the hole to pull all the hot air into his house, genius!

Reply 51

Interrobang

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Yay snow

Living near the coast i don't get it much :frown:

Reply 52

tomoose

adamp1

Yes Fairfax House will have Net acces by Oct, I was worried about this and rang up.

Yeh I did that as well. As you may have guessed I got into fairfax, room 004 and I expect you to all say hi to me next week :biggrin:

I have one question tho, whats TV reception like in Fairfax? I assume being closer to the main city, Freeview reception will be better? Also will i need a portable aerial do you think?

Reply 53

tomoose

imasillynarb

Yeh, unfortunately, they allocate colleges according to their social background

I'm not snobby and I got put in Fairfax :P I hope the breakfasts are decent :biggrin:

Reply 54

Sallykins

OP

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Brilliant - nice to meet you Tomoose. I'm in room 149. I think I like you already - good taste in music - Muse rock!

Reply 55

tomoose

Awesome, there isnt a Muse appreciation society at York is there yet?

Reply 56

oli4uk

I wouldnt say york was that cold, if your coming from the south though it will feel like it!

Reply 57

savvo

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oli4uk

my mate saved on his heating no end by drilling a hole in the wall through to his neighbors room (somewhere were t couldnt be seen) it wasnt too big but he put a fan over the hole to pull all the hot air into his house, genius!

That sounds like a lie... If it were true my computer's processor fan would certainly be able to heat my room:
* The CPU area is certainly larger than any hole you can hide
* The CPU is certainly hotter than anything a person can survive (mine at the moment is around 130F)
* And finally, there's an 80mm fan over my CPU

So, hey, give your friend a fiver... across the face :cool: