"Duke of URL" <macbenahATkdsiDOTnet> wrote in message
news:101489gtjjsfb21@corp.supernews.com...
> In news:buspvu$m39s2$1@ID-101276.news.uni-berlin.de,
> Ryan Ginstrom <ginstrom@hotmail.com> radiated into the WorldWideWait:
> > Yes, the kotatsu with the charcoal braziers (hibachi) have
> > thankfully gone the way of the dodo. They still have kotatsu, but
> > now they have electric heaters bolted to the underside of the
> > tabletop.
> > They are quite warm and cozy. The problem is when you have to go to
> > the bathroom -- the rest of the house is an icebox.
>
> Well, if you'd quit building houses with those silly paper walls...

Actually, most houses where I live are concrete. My own house is
steel-reinforced poured concrete.

More important down here to withstand typhoons than earthquakes, doncha
know.

-- 
Regards,
Ryan Ginstrom