"Oh Gods It's Hot!" or "So What Are You Doing To Keep Cool?"

[Seil]

I think my exact Facebook status was "So what are people doing to keep cool that doesn't involve moving?"

Yeah.

Gosh darn it's warm.

[Menarker]

If I just needed a 'quick' relief, I'd probably put a dry shirt and shorts in the freezer so they'd be chilly when I pull them out later.

[Krylo]

A/C

[Arhra]

I think my exact Facebook status was "So what are people doing to keep cool that doesn't involve moving?"

Yeah.

Gosh darn it's warm.

To keep cool I'd just have to remove a layer of clothing.

It's freezing here!

[synkr0nized]

A/C

^

[Revising Ocelot]

I'm not sure I've ever been in a building with air conditioning. Heaters, plenty.

My workplace has heaters that I can't turn off - HP laptops on display. Sweet sweet 70-90C laptops. And I'm expected to be able to sell these cheap pieces of crap.

[pochercoaster]

Unfortunately, there are a lot of dwellings in colder areas where having A/C isn't the norm. The last apartment building I lived in (in Brampton) wouldn't turn on the A/C till mid-July, so the residents has to spend at least 6 weeks enduring 80% humidity with temperatures around 30 degrees celsius... which, besides being massively uncomfortable, seemed cruel to the older and younger residents who have a lower tolerance for extreme heat. I'm not sure what the laws are regarding A/C in Ontario, but they probably need some revision.

Since I live in Las Vegas now all I have to do to stay cool is go inside since everywhere has A/C. Summers in the desert are honestly more comfortable than the humid, sticky, A/C-less summers in southern Ontario that I used to endure.

Also, water. Drinking lots and lots of water.

Edit: I work in a kitchen that blows in air from outside. Outdoors heat + multiple grills, ovens, steamers, and a 500 degree gas fire pizza oven being used all day = awful. We are required to wear shitty polyester chef's coats but for the last month me and all my co workers have pretty much disregarded this and gone with aprons because fuck you, you try standing in front of a fire for 8 hours when the A/C doesn't work.

[Azisien]

A/C is the best. If for some reason I lived in a place without A/C I would just buy a window/portable unit. So much quality of life.

Southern Canada does have the worst heat I've felt in my life, though I haven't been everywhere. But I've been to Dominican Republic, Italy, France, and Spain, all in mid-summer. Ottawa is still the fucking worst at its worst, just a giant bowl of geography designed specifically by evil intelligent tectonic plates and force fields to make it hold 3000% humidity in July.

This summer has been all right though, we've only had one 7-day streak where it was in the high 30's C + humidity. Guess global warming isn't true after all HUR HUR HUR

[mauve]

It must suck not to have some kind of a/c Most homes where I live don't have A/C, since there's generally only a week or so a year that gets up into the 90's. So when it gets hot around here, your best option is to go to the mall or some business that has A/C. Alternately, open all your doors and windows in the morning to let in the cool air, then close everything around 10 am or so to trap the cooler air inside.

Yesterday it was in the mid-90's outside. Today it's hailing and I'm wearing a sweatshirt. What the hell??

[BB]

English homes tend not to have AC either, because then the weather would be tolerable and we'd have nothing to complain about. My window faces the sun for the afternoon so I find putting up a couple of those sun reflectors for car windshields works really well.

[BitVyper]

I think my exact Facebook status was "So what are people doing to keep cool that doesn't involve moving?"

Yeah.

Gosh darn it's warm.

I'm in Surrey and working in the downtown core every day, so pretty much feeling the same heat wave as you right now.

[Flarecobra]

It's been oddly cool where I am... it should be in the low-mid 90s, but for most of this month, it's been hovering between 86-89F.

Sure as hell ain't stopping the humidity from making it feel like it's in the triple-digits though.

[synkr0nized]

Oh, I get that some areas don't really call for an A/C, or it's just not a worthwhile purchase or the like. And I love being able to open up the house for cool nights.

But for me I empty-quoted Krylo 'cause that's the best way, and simple.

Unfortunately for me so far I have only lived in places that get pretty damn humid in the summer. I much preferred the summer heat in places out west, for example, where triple-digit (F) temperatures are still way better than the 80-90-degree humid-heat many of us deal with in summers.

[Terex4]

I take slightly longer to order supplies for my freezer and fridge at work. The fact that we can't wear anything shorter than regular pants makes it far worse, especially with the fryer.

[Ryong]

I spent the entire summer linking friends a video on youtube that none of you will understand, but which I'm linking anyway because it sums up the situation perfectly.

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TRANSLATION: "My god...What heat..."

[Flarecobra]

By the way, something funny.

https://31.media.tumblr.com/7256ea908b8a36c170d57656f895a4c3/tumblr_n8o4ickTNw1ru89vdo1_500.png

[Aerozord]

Before I had a portable AC unit I used wet towels. Just soaked them and draped them over myself. It was a horrible solution and required frequent re-moistenings, but better than splaying myself on my bed like a lizard

[phil_]

I spent the entire summer linking friends a video on youtube that none of you will understand, but which I'm linking anyway because it sums up the situation perfectly.I get enough Spanish daily from my manager, who is coincidentally my second mom, to understand four words perfectly fine.

As for those stuck at 30ºC, I feel for you if you're at work and under the tyranny of clothing. But it has been in the nineties Fahrenheit here for a while, and wearing nothing takes care of the heat rather nicely. I suppose I should be grateful for Virginia's variable weather, as I'm used to everything from blizzards to 100ºF droughts. Sometimes you have to stock up on water, but it's survivable for a youth my age.

[Nique]

I built a DIY 'air conditioner' for $50. All I needed is a Styrofoam cooler, a 6" fan, two dryer vents, 40 lbs of ice, and my wife to call me an idiot and to put all that shit back and buy a real a/c

[Aerozord]

I built a DIY 'air conditioner' for $50. All I needed is a Styrofoam cooler, a 6" fan, two dryer vents, 40 lbs of ice, and my wife to call me an idiot and to put all that shit back and buy a real a/c

I really feel bad for those that use what is essentially and inverted space heater (basically a fridge with a fan) and I am just going. Times like this are why physics is applicable in "the real world"

[rpgdemon]

I built a DIY 'air conditioner' for $50. All I needed is a Styrofoam cooler, a 6" fan, two dryer vents, 40 lbs of ice, and my wife to call me an idiot and to put all that shit back and buy a real a/c

I had roommates who tried that. All it accomplished was blowing pieces of styrofoam around their rooms.

[Revising Ocelot]

I'm in Surrey

You made me panic for a second there.