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Oh.
They sent me to "training places". They were about as much use as a fridge in the Antarctic.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Thu 7 May 2009, 20:01, archived)
A fridge would be useful in the Antarctic if you wanted to store something at between 0 and 5 degrees Celsius mind

(I helped save b3ta! mns 2️⃣2️⃣9️⃣0️⃣7️⃣, Thu 7 May 2009, 20:03, archived)
no it wouldn't.
you'd have to run the pump backwards, and it would struggle to maintain anything like that kind of temperature gradient. And that's if the exchange fluid doesn't just freeze.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Thu 7 May 2009, 20:05, archived)
Unless of course it was inside a heated building.
Like most fridges in the world are
(I helped save b3ta! mns 2️⃣2️⃣9️⃣0️⃣7️⃣, Thu 7 May 2009, 20:21, archived)
but it wouldn't be,
because it would be in the Antarctic. Like I said.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Thu 7 May 2009, 20:26, archived)
Maybe in your hypothetical scenario
But not in mine
(I helped save b3ta! mns 2️⃣2️⃣9️⃣0️⃣7️⃣, Thu 7 May 2009, 20:44, archived)
My metaphor,
my hypothetical scenario.
Jeez, I should have said chocolate fireguard, that would have attracted less criticism, despite the fact it has one very obvious use.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Thu 7 May 2009, 20:46, archived)
You could use the heat exchanger
as a source of warmth. Having plugged it in to one of those Antarctic plugs.
(I helped save b3ta! Flapjack I spay a little mare for you, Thu 7 May 2009, 20:03, archived)
Only if it were somewhere warm, of course. Inside, maybe.
With the plugs.
(I helped save b3ta! Flapjack I spay a little mare for you, Thu 7 May 2009, 20:04, archived)
or an air-conditioning unit where the outlet exhausts into the same room it's supposed to be cooling.

(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Thu 7 May 2009, 20:03, archived)
Training places aren't meant to be useful.
They're meant to look like somebody somewhere is doing something useful.
(I helped save b3ta! Neptune A dole queue dosser and foul mouthed chav., Thu 7 May 2009, 20:06, archived)
they're meant to get you off benefits for 13 weeks,
so it looks like nobody has been on them for more than however long they like, but the money still comes from the same place, only under a different budget.

EXCEPT they still kept me on 10p of JSA a week, otherwise I'd have lost my housing benefit and free prescriptions, so it's all completely pointless anyway.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Thu 7 May 2009, 20:08, archived)