# Today's small moment of irony.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-small-moment-of-irony/743449>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 17, 2016, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-small-moment-of-irony/743449 "2016-01-17T22:27:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2016, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-small-moment-of-irony/743449/1 "2016-01-17T22:27:59Z")

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Today I finally\* got around to putting up the heat shrinky type window film to to try to save a bit energy/money. I pondered my expected slow but steady savings as I ran an ancient 2200 watt hair dryer for over an hour as I shrinkyed the stuff.

\*Hey,What do you expect it was like 55 degrees until early January.

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**Author:** ![harmonicamoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/65b543/32.png) [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2016, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-small-moment-of-irony/743449/2 "2016-01-17T23:30:22Z")

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So, after you deduct the cost of running the 2200 watt hair dryer, will you see some savings? A good investment?

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**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2016, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-small-moment-of-irony/743449/3 "2016-01-17T23:45:25Z")

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I hope so, but unfortunately the god of weather seemed somewhat uncooperative when I submitted my request for a long period without variation to create control and new condition data for accurate comparison.

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**Author:** ![harmonicamoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/65b543/32.png) [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2016, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-small-moment-of-irony/743449/4 "2016-01-18T00:41:07Z")

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Yeah, it is difficult to control those weather gods.

Ask a farmer.