{"id":67537,"date":"2020-08-14T15:23:48","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T14:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/?p=67537"},"modified":"2025-07-12T21:58:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T20:58:47","slug":"define-bodge-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.hellyer.kiwi\/ryanhellyer\/2020\/define-bodge-job\/","title":{"rendered":"define: bodge job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Berlin summers feel a little like hanging out in Satan&#8217;s anus. To make matters worse, ze Germans don&#8217;t seem to believe in air conditioning.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, the gods invented cheap portable air conditioners, so I bought one ready for last summer. The pipe it came with was too short to reach my living room though so I was only able to have it blow the cold air towards my living room. The pipe is also not insulated, so a lot of the heat leaks back into my kitchen, ironically leaving my kitchen hotter than it would be without the air conditioner.<\/p>\n<p>This was annoying the crap out of me today, so I headed to the hardware store. Some duck tape and budget ventilation tubing later and I had a lengthened exhaust pipe \ud83d\ude42 Then I wrapped the pipe up in spare bedding, and now my kitchen is 10\u00b0 C cooler and my living room (which I was actually trying to cool) is at a perfect 20\u00b0 C. Mission accomplished \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2020\/08\/bodge-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2020\/08\/bodge-1-510x680.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"680\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-67538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.hellyer.kiwi\/ryanhellyer\/files\/2020\/08\/bodge-1-510x680.avif 510w, https:\/\/wordpress.hellyer.kiwi\/ryanhellyer\/files\/2020\/08\/bodge-1-675x900.avif 675w, https:\/\/wordpress.hellyer.kiwi\/ryanhellyer\/files\/2020\/08\/bodge-1-768x1024.avif 768w, https:\/\/wordpress.hellyer.kiwi\/ryanhellyer\/files\/2020\/08\/bodge-1-250x333.avif 250w, https:\/\/wordpress.hellyer.kiwi\/ryanhellyer\/files\/2020\/08\/bodge-1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2020\/08\/bodge-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2020\/08\/bodge-2-383x680.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"383\" height=\"680\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-67539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.hellyer.kiwi\/ryanhellyer\/files\/2020\/08\/bodge-2-383x680.avif 383w, https:\/\/wordpress.hellyer.kiwi\/ryanhellyer\/files\/2020\/08\/bodge-2-506x900.avif 506w, https:\/\/wordpress.hellyer.kiwi\/ryanhellyer\/files\/2020\/08\/bodge-2-197x350.avif 197w, https:\/\/wordpress.hellyer.kiwi\/ryanhellyer\/files\/2020\/08\/bodge-2.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 383px) 100vw, 383px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/bodge_job\">(bodge job definition)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berlin summers feel a little like hanging out in Satan&#8217;s anus. 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