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# Woo!
Whoooooo. Whoosh.
Edit: a question about hot water bottles. These always carry a warning saying 'do not fill with boiling water'. Is this:
a) because boiling water will eventually destroy the rubber somehow - in which case I will stop doing it
or
b) because one day I will have a spastic hand movement and squeeze the bottle while filling it and squirt boiling water all over myself. Which is a risk I can tolerate, impetuous fool that I am.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Thu 30 Oct 2008, 20:28, archived)
# I suspect both.
(I helped save b3ta! We are the lemon irked your craw on, Thu 30 Oct 2008, 20:38, archived)
# Both reasons, but also because, like the mogwai, hot water bottles turn into monsters if you don't follow instructions!
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Thu 30 Oct 2008, 20:40, archived)
# does that mean my water bottle will soon start making acclaimed quiet/loud post rock ?
(I helped save b3ta! connor, Thu 30 Oct 2008, 20:45, archived)
# Yes, yes it will.
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Thu 30 Oct 2008, 20:49, archived)
# i can put up with that
(I helped save b3ta! connor, Thu 30 Oct 2008, 20:56, archived)
# Boiling water will burn you.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Thu 30 Oct 2008, 20:41, archived)
# Balls, they never get satisfyingly hot unless you use boiling water
or preferably superheated steam.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Thu 30 Oct 2008, 20:42, archived)
# i bought one yesterday and was wondering the same today
i suspect it must be health/safety thing rather than it ruining the bottle.
(I helped save b3ta! connor, Thu 30 Oct 2008, 20:46, archived)
# I've found out it's a legal standard, BS 1970:2006
and standards documents aren't given away free, and are only held in certain libraries. If I want to read BS 1970:2006 (Hot water bottles manufactured from rubber and PVC) in the hopes of discovering the reasoning behind it, I have to pay £80, or worse, go to Stoke on Trent.
Guess I'll just burn myself with boiling water, it's the best of the available options.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Thu 30 Oct 2008, 20:58, archived)