I've studied this picture in detail and have come to the conclusion that the model has been touched up.

Tongue lolling and spittle drooling in a Homer Simpson style...

Sod the bulgarian airbags, we're all gonna die!

Agree. And even the touching up could not disguise that it is more likely to be Liverpudlian than Bulgarian.

Here is how a high quality Bulgarian airbag carrier is supposed to look like (though judging by the family name and town of origin this particular sample may have a significant portion of Russian "improvement"):

http://www.missworld.com/galleries/item?item_id=751

reading the story on daily star site it seems that it'll be a bit of a heat wave during the day with temperatures between 20 and 40C.

Maybe the Daily Star needs to invest in a website which can handle the degree symbol. -13degC to 2 to 4deg C...

... because somebody has to. Someone stuffed up with fonts or cut-and-paste: the degree symbol has been converted to a zero.

But I guess that's cold comfort now.

er...... I thought we used celcius here, not farenheight? Or is this the typical reporting standard for the Daily Star - I don't soil my eyes with reporting of that caliber normally.... just the 3rd page XD

Well if we are in for minus 130C then I suppose we should all go to mexico......

mines the one with the copy of the day after tomorrow in the pocket

yes -130C: you read it right... we could see temperatures drop to their lowest ever in recorded history this week as typos abound and suggestible readers don't use their noggins

If you read the article (rather than just looking at the picture) it's pretty obvious that they've just replaced all the degree symbols with zeroes.

I knew that it was a mistake to buy the editor of that newspaper a copy of The Day After Tomorrow. I told him that although Al Gore had endorsed it, it wasn't a documentary. Gotta love the print media's understanding of science.

Bollocks will it!

how, exactly does one go about getting qualified for doing the 'work' that Lester Haines does, and are there any additional such positions open at Vulture Central?

Paris, 'cause it seems that Lester knows her almost as well as I'd like to.

the met office website is forcasting down to -4 C

as is accuweather.com and the bbc

i think they may be mixing their F and C as im pretty sure the average temperature for this time of year if no 20 -> 40 C. 20 -> 40 F is more reasonable as 30F is ~ 0C

THE NATION MUST BE SAVED! STOCK UP ON CANNED GOODS AND KEROSENE HEATERS, THE BIG FREEZE IS COMIN AND WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!

mmmn, panicky sheeples.

'Nuff said.

(Paris for obvious reasons)

that in Siberia when it hits -60, it's cold enough to freeze your eyeballs in your head. Guess it'll make New Years a little more exciting than usual though :)

nearly as cold a one of SWMBO's "frosty" glances after I've been down the pub^W^W^W discussing world events with some colleagues.

The BBC news website sometimes struggles with temperature too. I've seena couple of items about Global Warming saying things like "Average temperatures will increase by 2C (36F)"

I believe that ° is the symbol that people are expecting to see. (ALT + 0176)

You mean there were words near the picture? That said, the young lady is clearly at least a DD and calling it -130C is something up with which I shall not put! Don't worry lass, an injustice such as this won't go unanswered. Just leave everything in my warm hands and everything will be fine.

Dry ice snowball fight! Can't beat that. Just don't rub your nose, it'll probably shatter.

... that work at ambient temperature.

I was out skiing last weekend at -20 F, with a windchill of -70 F... life goes on. Just dress up for it, don't undress for it.

Where the hell did the phrase "bulgarian airbags" come from anyway - I think it was a comment on a story, but i'm not sure...

Paris, because you'd love to put your pric^W pin in them too !

"If you read the article (rather than just looking at the picture) it's pretty obvious that they've just replaced all the degree symbols with zeroes."

You mean there was an article?

the copy was pre -written, he just had to fill in the values from the met...

> so -1 , -3 quickly turns into - 1 3 deg, ie -130..... ROFL....

same with - 6 up north...

If we get 130C, it'll be the coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth: people will begin flocking to the Arctic instead of Spain next summer!

According to http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2000/YongLiLiang.shtml , the lowest temperature ever recorded was around -89C at Vostok, Antarctica. We'd be thrashing that by -40C.

Dimwits at the Daily Star. Nice picture, though. If the Beeb and the Daily Star got together - Beeb doing the news, the Star doing the photos, we'd be on to a winner there, boys.

"If you read the article (rather than just looking at the picture) it's pretty obvious that they've just replaced all the degree symbols with zeroes."

There's an article . . . ?

Funny, she doesn't look like a witch.

Grabbing my coat before the front hits...

. . . . to type in ALT + 0176

-130C??? What??? Has she got that tattoo'd somewhere that I'd missed?

I dare you!

...as she is stacked pretty much as that fair model, but with shorter hair and, um, no snow.

130 degrees below zero? Impossible with something so hot.

OK, I am bragging. I am truly, truly blessed.

...greetings from a 81°F Hawaii.

Hanging up my coat and getting out my surfboard...

What has this got to do with tub girl?

"But I guess that's cold comfort now."

Absolutely fantastic. People in the hall outside my hotel room are wondering what the hell was so funny now.

"If you read the article (rather than just looking at the picture)"

Sorry.....there were words?

@Hollerith

Pics, or we don't believe you.

*Yes I am a coward.

To go along with A/C's "O RLY?" post @Hollerith, can El Reg provide a magic upload form - for times when words just don't express it.

Actually, @Hollerith, it would be fun to see a picture of said woman in ASCII -- good luck.

-130F is still -90C...

We won't have to worry about CO2 emissions when it all freezes at -57.

"Carbon capture technology" will be a shovel and wheelbarrow.

"You mean there was an article?"

It did raise a couple of interesting points.

Yes I know it's obvious what they meant, but don't use ALT+whatever on web sites - it's &degr; or just use Kelvins which don't need a degree sign.

Next it'll be Regchan, and were will we be then?

Mine's the one with /b in the pocket

Now that's what I call a cold front...

Just managed to read the words (look to the right lads, there are some faint smudges visible if you put your hand over the... illustration). "A cold snap" - there will be, if she starts moving at those temperatures. Probably several, in fact. What a shame.

@Steve: quick, grab a patent, you'll be rich in no time flat!

and global warming? What has happened to the dry wit I've grown so used to whenever I flip to the comment section?

Flog me now with those Bulgarian airbags.

Unfortunately even this uncharacteristically cold snap won't stop Mr. Gore whinging...

-57°C is actually the triple point of carbon dioxide not the freezing point (it will freeze, and liquify, at that temperature but only at a pressure of 5.11 bar). At standard pressure you are looking at -78°C ish for it subliming directly from gas to solid (or vice versa), but even then unfortunately the vapour pressure of solid carbon dioxide at -130°C will still be above the ~0.4 millibar partial pressure of the standing concentration of the stuff in the atmosphere (~400ppm) so solid carbon dioxide exposed to air at -130°C will gradually sublime away to a gas, not the other way around.

Damn, we're doomed.

The phrase "Bulgarian airbags" was coined a couple of years ago when a bulgarian woman with implants crashed her car, rupturing her implants which acted like an airbag and saved her life.

Hope that clears things up slightly.

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Global warming? Screw -130 im certainly warmed up looking at that picture.

/Fading fast from lack of blood flow to my brain

/Can we get more pics of her in other random articles to spice them up some?

About the comments is that there weren't more offers to warm up this poor young lady. i, for one, welcome her snow-covered / frosty bulgarian airbags and would make sure they were suitably treated to avoid frostbite (and, of course, any other exposed portions).....(of course, better half would probably put ME in the freezer then)..

time to overclock the prescott p4's and bask in their warm glow ;)

mines the coat charred to a crisp from being to close to the prescotts heatsink

"oxygen rains"

They mis-quoted the Met Office

“We have already seen overnight temperatures as low as minus 130C in the Scottish Highlands this month and at the end of November.”

somehow i doubt that applies to the rest of the country, just the highlands... but seriously, lovely work, almost as good as the headlines in actual tabloids, *claps*

i hate marketing

Sorry, was there a story too? Did'nt get past the picture.