Heat-induced apathy.

[Revising Ocelot]

So, the temperature is 31C outside. Now I guess for the average American that's nothing, but my problem (and everyone else's problem around where I live) is that we're not American, we're English limeys. Even worse, I'm crazy and ginger which means I'm pale-skinned, can't tan properly and super-heat sensitive. Ultimately, when I step outside to try and do something like go for a bike ride, do some gardening etc. etc., I end up just falling over and melting like a slug.

So, er, what I guess I'm saying is that I can't go anywhere at the moment and I'm whining to you guys. Yeah. Perhaps some crazy ideas to fix this that have a 80% chance of killing me? I think I'm drunk on heat, if that's even possible.

[Geminex]

THROW A NUCLEAR BOMB INTO THE SUN.
THAT WILL FIX EVERYTHING.

[Doc ock rokc]

~87 F!~ Wow! Don't come to Texas in summer. we haven't had a day under 98F/~37C in a month. It Literally Rained yesterday and it only took the temp down 3 degrees from the now usual 102F

[Si Civa]

Go to sauna.

Or because you are a silly English type and you don't have (proper at least) saunas there, you can boil water in a kettle and swim in it (if you're tiny enough). After it you can drink tea.


Because I've that same kind of summer apathy, but hot, wet places are the best. Which means you need either drink coffee or go and fight a snowball fight.

[Toast]

The temp here in Georgia has been high 80s to mid 90s for the past couple weeks. That wouldn't be so bad by itself, but the humidity is also 60%+. I'm totally with you on the heat apathy thing.

Especially since my ac is on the fritz.

[Nikose Tyris]

Take a very hot shower.

Like, So hot your skin BURNS, and let the bathroom fill up with that steam and heat. Endure it as long as you can. Then dry with a towel, redress and go outside on your back porch for fresh air.

You will encounter the most amazing breeze from outside. It will be ~magical~ my friend.

This is an old Canadian secret for dealing with out 2 days of warm weather we get a year, when we must melt and rebuild our igloos. It is a tradition, of sorts, in this country.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Come to Scotland. It's like 2 degrees outside.

[Nikose Tyris]

Come to Canada. It's so cool, I'm wearing pants.

[EVILNess]

You have no right to complain until you have endured 115 degree (44 for non-Americans) weather with 90% humidity. For 3 months straight.

[Daimo Mac, The Blue Light of Hope]

I usually beat the heat by swimming in the pool.

[krogothwolf]

I usually beat the heat by swimming in the pool.

That's impossible! It's to cold up there even for indoor pool! Everyone knows edmonton only has ice rinks.

[Brainmeats]

Drink lots of water/Gatorade-ish type drinks. It helps the sluggish feeling.

Its only in the high 80s-mid 90s in Mississippi, but the heat index is in the 100s. Humidity by the MS river is atrocious.

*grabs snorkel to walk out to car-sub*

[Daimo Mac, The Blue Light of Hope]

That's impossible! It's to cold up there even for indoor pool! Everyone knows edmonton only has ice rinks.

And everyone knows that Calgary's streets are littered with cow shit.

[Nikose Tyris]

I usually beat the heat by swimming in the pool.

That's impossible! It's to cold up there even for indoor pool! Everyone knows edmonton only has ice rinks.

Yeah, you're too far north for liquid water to still exist. Unless your pool is filled with Cranberry juice, then maybe. That shit never freezes up here.

Also, try swimming in a pool of cranberry juice. It's fantastic and not sticky at all.

And everyone knows that Calgary's streets are littered with cow shit.

Woo-whee! Are they ever! From the bi-annual cattle stampede, right? Man, they can NEVER get that stuff all cleaned up! They even came over and borrowed Ontario's GOOD hose to clean that mess up.

[Brainmeats]

mmm...cranberry juice... I love cranberry juice.

must stick some in the freezer when I get home.

cranberry ice cubes + cranberry juice= not watered down but very cold juice.

[Aldurin]

If you don't like the heat, create a freeze-gun and create a cool-weather system within the bounds of your property.

[bluestarultor]

You Canadians have it good. Here in Wisconsin, we have a fish problem. As in our beaches annually get flooded with dead fish. The kids use them as flags for their sand castles. Walk down the beaches in Milwaukee in summer and they crunch under your feet. It's so bad we've thrown up our hands and made a party out of it. It's called the "Running of the Alewives."

[krogothwolf]

Yeah, you're too far north for liquid water to still exist. Unless your pool is filled with Cranberry juice, then maybe. That shit never freezes up here.

Also, try swimming in a pool of cranberry juice. It's fantastic and not sticky at all.



Woo-whee! Are they ever! From the bi-annual cattle stampede, right? Man, they can NEVER get that stuff all cleaned up! They even came over and borrowed Ontario's GOOD hose to clean that mess up.

Bi-annual? Try Bi-quarterly. those cows just keep walking through here like they own the damn place! the heat just makes it even ten times worse! But I'll take the cow crap roads over the no summer any day. Honestly, you'd think those Edmontonians would wise up and realize that not only does no one want to even play hockey there, they don't even get a break from the water freezing the minute they fill a pool up.

Thats why Im heading to burlington for a week, to get away from the pre-stampede stench!

[Daimo Mac, The Blue Light of Hope]

Yeah yeah you play the hockey card. But that is like the only card you got. Hell you guys wouldn't even have gotten your championship with out us. We helped you man.

[krogothwolf]

Yeah yeah you play the hockey card. But that is like the only card you got. Hell you guys wouldn't even have gotten your championship with out us. We helped you man.

I could always play the Chinook card, the football card, the richer city card, the better city card. The fact people want to live here card. :D

Point is, we get a summer while you don't, bwahahahahaha

[Daimo Mac, The Blue Light of Hope]

I could always play the Chinook card, the football card, the richer city card, the better city card. The fact people want to live here card. :D

Point is, we get a summer while you don't, bwahahahahaha

Right. You enjoy that while I go swimming.

[krogothwolf]

Right. You enjoy that while I go swimming.

Again, sliding around on ice isn't swimming.

[Daimo Mac, The Blue Light of Hope]

Again, sliding around on ice isn't swimming.

Now now. Let's stop confusing the Americans.

[krogothwolf]

Now now. Let's stop confusing the Americans.
Why? they should know that if they go to Edmonton they should expect a winter zone, even in the summer!

[Daimo Mac, The Blue Light of Hope]

Last time I checked, Calgary was only a 3 hour drive from here. And that means you are still in Canada, thus year long winter.

[bluestarultor]

Why? they should know that if they go to Edmonton they should expect a winter zone, even in the summer!

Screw ya'll. I'm from Wisconsin and know for a fact you're all winter wonderlands up there because it's a winter wonderland down here. The only person not living in an igloo is Lev, because he's in a magic faerie land with palm trees! :P

[krogothwolf]

Last time I checked, Calgary was only a 3 hour drive from here. And that means you are still in Canada, thus year long winter.

Bah, we have Chinook's, they give us warmth, making things much more bearable then the cold hell land up North.

[DarkDrgon]

Jersey's been barely pushing 90 lately, and the bennys will never stop complaining.

[mauve]

HEY GUYS IT IS CLOUDY AND 62 F HERE ON THE U.S. WEST COAST. It will probably start raining here in a few minutes, too.

Seriously, it's freakin' JUNE and we've had like two days of actual summer weather so far. This is really weird for us.

[greed]

So, the temperature is 31C outside. Now I guess for the average American that's nothing, but my problem (and everyone else's problem around where I live) is that we're not American, we're English limeys. Even worse, I'm crazy and ginger which means I'm pale-skinned, can't tan properly and super-heat sensitive. Ultimately, when I step outside to try and do something like go for a bike ride, do some gardening etc. etc., I end up just falling over and melting like a slug.

So, er, what I guess I'm saying is that I can't go anywhere at the moment and I'm whining to you guys. Yeah. Perhaps some crazy ideas to fix this that have a 80% chance of killing me? I think I'm drunk on heat, if that's even possible.


Goddamnit, I'm envious. 31C is pretty much perfect for me. But it's -2C here and I'm freezing cause we only have one heater (cause we only need it like a few weeks a year) and it's nowhere near this PC, so my hands which I can't cover cause I don't have any gloves or mittens are getting really fucking cold. Every year I think I'll get a pair just for these nights in July and August where it gets below 5C, but never get around to it.


Also not sure the red hair has anything to do with the heat problem, it's probably just the English thing. I'm also a red head and I'm not really comfortable unless it's over 28 or so. But then again I can actually tan to a fair degree so eh maybe my family's red heads are just weird.

[Revising Ocelot]

It's past 8PM, so I can actually go outside! Woot!


Also not sure the red hair has anything to do with the heat problem, it's probably just the English thing. I'm also a red head and I'm not really comfortable unless it's over 28 or so. But then again I can actually tan to a fair degree so eh maybe my family's red heads are just weird.


Regarding the hair, I'm the first person in my family to have this colour in living memory. Possibly the first ever. Of course, this has made me something of an anomaly in all aspects of life.

[Flarecobra]

HEY GUYS IT IS CLOUDY AND 62 F HERE ON THE U.S. WEST COAST. It will probably start raining here in a few minutes, too.

Seriously, it's freakin' JUNE and we've had like two days of actual summer weather so far. This is really weird for us.

Agreed. I live about 50 miles from the Mexican border, and it's only been recently that the desert's been getting over 90-100*F. Near the coastline they're about 30 degrees cooler.

Bright and sunny though.

[EVILNess]

I've noticed that it's not been as hot per se, but man oh man is there ever a lot of humid air.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

Over here in the Garden State (New Jersey) it's barely 95 over here. Though it's been storming quite a bit over here. (I'd swear we where hit by a hurricane yesterday If I didn't know any better).

[Corel]

Goddamnit, I'm envious. 31C is pretty much perfect for me. But it's -2C here and I'm freezing cause we only have one heater (cause we only need it like a few weeks a year) and it's nowhere near this PC, so my hands which I can't cover cause I don't have any gloves or mittens are getting really fucking cold. Every year I think I'll get a pair just for these nights in July and August where it gets below 5C, but never get around to it.


Same here really. If it's anything like it is here where buildings so far down South do not have insulation (Good for warm weather, bad for unexpected cold weather).

I enjoy the cold quite a lot, however only when I am outside in it.

-8 in your apartment when there is no insulation is not very nice.

[phil_]

What the heck? Guys North and South of me in this thread are cool, and it's been hitting 100F all week here. I go outside and start sweating. I can hardly keep it under 90F in my room because of the bad insulation. Add on that my shower ranges from scalding hot to just under scalding hot, and it adds up to it's hot in here!

Enjoy your freezing temperatures, people. I'll just keep commuting an hour to work and an hour back in 100 degree weather with no AC. At least my left arm's getting a nice tan.

[Bob The Mercenary]

Over here in the Garden State (New Jersey) it's barely 95 over here. Though it's been storming quite a bit over here. (I'd swear we where hit by a hurricane yesterday If I didn't know any better).

The sweat. It won't stop. Everything is wet.

Two days ago a front came through, but it was more like a false front [/joke] because it only increased the humidity, if that's even possible. Heat index was 100, btw.

[Yrcrazypa]

if it goes over 80 degrees, it's hot in my mind. I'm glad I work at night, since it's hot here in Jersey, and I have to work outside. Still extremely uncomfortable though.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

When the power was knocked out by the storm the day before yesterday we had to evacuate our home because it was so damn hot and muggy. Lucky for us the power was back on around 8 and most of the road blocks were gone so we didn't have to stay in a hotel for the night.

[DFM]

All this talk about chinooks being everywhere and keeping people warm made me think that Canada was the most awesome country in the world and then I realized they're probably not talking about what I think they're talking about.

[Daimo Mac, The Blue Light of Hope]

All this talk about chinooks being everywhere and keeping people warm made me think that Canada was the most awesome country in the world and then I realized they're probably not talking about what I think they're talking about.

Chinook is a type of wind that makes the area warmer then usual in the winter i believe.

If you really care, the wiki article is here. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinook_wind)

[Nikose Tyris]

DFM we are talking about exactly what you are thinking about


every single time

Edit: Except Mac but nobody else is thinking about what Mac is thinking about

[Revising Ocelot]

Chinooks are annoying helicopters that always pass over my house and make the windows rattle on their way to the Farnborough air base.

[Nikose Tyris]

Chinooks are a tiny indigenous people to Canada that follow us around and massage any bare skin they see as part of their initiation rites into adulthood. They are the Canadian equivalent to the Brownies from English legend.