>Once in a while at work, someone will say to me that his office is so cold he's freezing in there. I go in and oddly enough, I don't actually freeze. "You could grow orchids in there" sounds like the same sort of hyperbole to me.

In winter, I keep our house at 18C during the day (using a programmable thermostat). When my wife gets home, she claims it's cold enough inside that you could see your breath. I tell her that if it was 18C outside, she'd be wearing shorts. Obviously, we have different ideas about what temperature is comfortable.

Doug