Can i bum a heater

Posso scroccare una sigaretta? Russ: Can I bum a smoke? Can I bum a smoke from you? Excuse me, can I bum a cigarette? Mr Wickers, can I bum a dime of your time? Professor Wickers, posso rubarti un minutino? Mi presteresti una sigaretta? Can I bum a heater? Posso masterizzare un riscaldatore? Posso avere una sigaretta? Posso rubarti una sigaretta?

Mi dai una sigaretta? People use them for back pain for a few months and do it every night. It's a combination of duration and repeated use, long-term use.

Unfortunately, repeated exposure to even moderate heat -- and car seats can reach an upper limit of degrees -- can cause a net-like mottled pigment change in some people's skin. Some people will get it sooner with the exact same exposure. They're more sensitive.

Heated car seats and heating pads aren't the only culprits when it comes to toasted skin syndrome. According to the case study, hot water bottles, heat packs and heating pads can cause erythema ab igne or EAI on the abdomen, lower back or other sites. Open fires, electric space heaters and steam radiators can cause damage to inner thighs or shins. And laptop computers can cause toasted skin syndrome to the anterior thighs and breasts.

There have even been reported cases of furniture-induced EAI caused by heated chairs. While the year-old woman Mostow treated experienced only subtle color change and a bit of itching both of which went away after discontinuing use of her car's heated seat warmers , other cases of EAI can be much more serious. We are trying to Heat The Outdoors. There is no way I can say this that makes it sound any smarter.

The British seem to be the only place that cares about patio heaters. The environment minister was quizzed in parliament about the GHG emissions about , tonnes per year across the United Kingdom and Wyevale , a garden centre chain has stopped selling them.

Deliberately turning away from a half million in sales, Jim Hodkinson, Wyevale's chairman, said: "Phasing out the sale of gas powered patio heaters is not just the right thing to do, it also demonstrates our determination to establish and adhere to a meaningful green agenda in every area of Wyevale's business.

So what would be a smarter way to stay warm in the cold weather? Oh maybe being indoors , with a nice well-insulated wall and some double-pane windows between you and the cold. Or, I once enjoyed an al fresco dinner at a Vancouver restaurant that had blankets folded over each patio chair.

You could also put on a hoody, a vest, a jacket, a shawl, a toque or perhaps some nice fingerless gloves. The Japanese use a heated table, called a kotatsu , to keep warm in the winter. A quilt is draped over the table frame and the table top is placed on top. Charcoals or an electric heater keep you toasty underneath. They are much more efficient since only the space under the quilt is heated. As opposed to the whole outdoors. Let's get even more imaginative, as we need to do if we want to die old and happy, and from something other than climate chaos.

Restaurants have lots of waste heat, in liquid form from the incessant dishwashing, and as hot air rising from the oven and range. Martin Air Systems, a Burlington, Ontario company, fits waste heat recovery systems. They have been able to cut restaurant gas bills by per cent. Considering that our Kyoto reduction targets were 12 per cent, making a 35 per cent cut that pays off in one or two years seems like a pretty good idea.

How about we circulate that heat through a bench on the patio? A warm bench on a cool summer evening? You would never want to leave. Don't try to tell me this isn't possible, warm air was circulated under floors in ancient Rome. What about the poor restaurant owners, unable to compete without the extra seating space?

As a former restaurant owner, I have remarkably little sympathy, in fact this may be the only time you will hear me support the free market. Suppose a restaurateur had a dream of a little joint that serves only dry toast.

This place -- named, I am sure, White or Brown? When White or Brown? Of course not. So why should we chip in part of our national carbon allowance for patio heaters? That would be dumb. Finally, and here is where my eyelids lose their battle and my eyeballs actually pop out of my head, what about the ardent barbequeist?

You know, the one with the big stainless steel barbeque, and the stainless work surface, and the bar-size stainless refrigerator -- a whole outdoor kitchen that must be kept warm as the sun goes down with a nice stainless patio heater. This is wrong on so many levels that I can only hope lightning is attracted to all the stainless steel.

First, there are many people, not just in other countries, that don't have a kitchen, let alone an extra kitchen.