It makes no difference. Geez, man, similes and things.

Wat?

I refuse to answer to this.

On another note, not really a proper life trick, but whenever I go on holiday or somewhere where I will only shower with flip flops, like in hotels I always take two pairs of flip flops with me, one to shower with and one to walk around the room with and with things.

Probably just as well.

Your previous posts on this subject have not added anything of worth.

is drinking cold water not really bad for your kidneys?

No.

It does not go directly to your kidneys. It first enters the blood stream and will thence be at blood temperature. Your kidneys have no way of knowing the temperature at which it was ingested.

Jesus, where are you going on vacation that you can't shower with bare feet?

out of drugs? leave a fruity looking martini at a bar for 5 minutes and hey presto, free hit

creeptastic? smarmasaur? didsian?

When you've eaten half a bag of chips, before clipping it away for next time, use a scissor and cut the top half of the bag off. Next time you won't have reach deep into the bag and risk getting your hand/shirt oily.

If you want to see a bunch of guys who registered for an internet forum before 2007 quibble... you just have and are.

I feel like garcia is nitting it up by saying that it's negligible because the 4 C represents a best case scenario vs no water intake or 37 C water intake. In which case, I agree, but still, no one is stopping you from drinking 8 cups of ice cold water a day in addition.

Only your mom is the size of an olympic sized pool?

No, because your body is already burning the energy you get from food you eat.

I don't see how this is difficult for people to understand (nor do I understand why ~22000 Kcal/year seems to be omgunbelievable). You are a person. Your daily caloric intake and requirements are, let's say, 2200 Kcal a day. If you drink 2L EXTRA of 4 C water your body now has to heat up that extra 2L of water, from 4 C to 37 C. 33 * 2000g = 66 Kcal. So now your intake is 2200 Kcal and your requirements are 2266 Kcal. Caloric deficits are how people lose weight.

I'm sure in practice the effect is less - people don't always drink 2L of water a day, let alone 2L of water extra, and the difference between ice cold water and room temp water isn't 33 C, etc. It doesn't change the difference that 22000 Kcal is roughly 6.5 lbs of fat that you either lose or don't gain.

Sometimes in the morning if I really don't want to turn the light on in the bathroom to take my shower, I'll light a candle and put it in there, which provides just enough light, and puts me in a much better mood.

6.5 lbs of fat over a year is totally insignificant.

For example, if you type for an hour a day, you burn about 37,000 kcal/year. Using your math, that's 11 lbs/year! Should I spend an hour more per day at my computer to try and lose weight?

Sometimes to wind down at night I'll take showers in pitch darkness. I've found it to have the same effect.

If we're going to continue to nit up this topic -- drinking water doesn't replace other activities you could be doing. Being sedentary at a computer replaces being active in another way, so unless you're only talking about watching tv for an hour vs being at a computer the analogy isn't perfect.

Anyway, you shouldn't drink super cold water because it will make the fats and oils you've eaten solidify and you will die.

The analogy's not perfect, but I think it makes it pretty clear that the gain is totally insignificant.

LOL. I'm not sure if you're serious or not, but I know people who actually believe this.

Yeah, just like fasting for 10 days in a year is insignificant.

**** you

Should have added a at the end of that.

If you're tired of your car stereo sounding the same all the time, and want that "at a live concert with shltty sound" quality, turn the bass way up and the treble way down.

Adjust the fade to all the way in the back speakers or at least half-way. It will sound more "raw" this way, like you're at a live performance.

If you want to read a subscription only article like http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...673674598.html

Go to Google and type in cache:http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...673674598.html

It will then show you the article in full because the Googlebot didn't need a login.

You can also use a firefox addon to modify your useragent but this is easier in some ways.

I used to use bugmenot, but this seems way better. Thanks.

That will become more and more useful as newspapers move toward mandatory online registration with them as well.

I posted this in an old browser thread, but here it is again:

With Firefox (and other browsers) it's easy to do keyword searches, a technique that'll save you a lot of time on searches you do a lot. As an example, imagine if you searched 2p2 a lot. To set up a keyword search for the 2p2 search, you would go up to the search box that appears when you click the little down arrow next to 'Search', right click it, and hit 'Add a keyword for this search'. A dialog will come up, asking you for the name (what it is), where to store it (stored in the form of a bookmark), and what keyword to use. So name it TwoPlusTwo Forum Search, and add the keyword '2p2'.

Now whenever you want to search TwoPlusTwo, no matter what site you're on, you can type in 2p2 [search terms here] into the address and it'll search for you. I use it for loads of sites -w wikipedia, ud urban dictionary, d dictionary, gf google finance, yf yahoo finance, fg fangraphs, a amazon, etc.

And then dramatically less useful shortly afterwards when newspapers protect their content. Some large media company already started complaining about that, I think it was the Murdoch family of content producers. I'd be surprised if that works this time next year.