Lmo

It's one of the things you all do best. On top of that, it serves a purpose. It tends to serve as a tracking device. Awake or asleep, I can usually find him just by listening of following my nose.

slagburn

What the hell is a duvet?

papa-bear

we solved the duvet problem by having two. The snoring thing is another thing all together. Still trying to work it out.

JulianW

A duvet (pronounced /duːveɪ/, from the French duvet /dyvɛ/ "down") or continental quilt is a type of bedding— a soft flat bag traditionally filled with down or feathers, or a combination of both and used on a bed as a blanket. Duvets originally came out of rural Europe and were made from the down feathers of the Eider duck, which is well known for its usefulness as an insulator. In Spain and Latin America a duvet is known as edredón.


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Lmo

Slag, a duvet as Julain and company use it, is a comforter or quilt or filled blanket. As we, in the US use it, it is a cover to be put over a comforter to change the appearance of it. If you have a nice down comforter and want it to look different, but dont want to buy another comforter, you buy a duvet, which is like a bag the comforter fits into. Some peope call duvets 'comforter covers'. Casa de Slag probably has no need for a duvet since 1. it is in CA, where it does not get cold enough for a comforter and 2. the appearance of a comforter probably does not matter since it is a Grobian's hangout.

slagburn

Why can't y'all just say blanket?

Lmo

It's that UK influence, I'm telling you. These are the same folks that have bonnets on their cars and wWC's instead of toilets.

P.S. Grobians might find that they like duvets since they could just change the duvet instead of washing the comforter.

JulianW

You have a 13.5 tog rated blanket do you?

And before you ask.



The tog is a measure of thermal resistance, commonly used in the textile industry, and often seen quoted on, for example, duvets.
The Shirley Institute in Britain developed the tog as an easy-to-follow alternative to the SI unit of m2K/W. Launched in the 1960s, the Shirley Togmeter is the standard apparatus for rating thermal resistance of textiles, commonly known as the Tog Test.
A tog is 0.1 m2K/W. In other words, the thermal resistance in togs is equal to ten times the temperature difference (in °C) between the two surfaces of a material, when the flow of heat is equal to one watt per square metre.
According to British retailer John Lewis, Britain-centric tog guidelines for duvets are as follows:[1]
Lightweight summer duvet:4.5 togSpring/Autumn weight duvet:9.0 - 10.5 togWinter weight duvet:12.0 - 13.5 tog

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slagburn

I could never live there with their strange version of english - I would be screwed up looking for the boot, duvet and other togmeter.