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macintologist · Jul 19, 2006, 07:10 PM

It's global warming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

molala · Jul 19, 2006, 07:36 PM

I'm actually relieved that we have a "real" summer now. I had to carry a light jacket this time last year (or even a few evenings last week). But the drought, heat srokes, melting roads part isn't good.

nforcer · Jul 19, 2006, 10:58 PM

90F is not hot. My bedroom does not drop below that in the summer, even at night (well maybe sometimes 88F but you get the idea). It's currently 96F and I'm fine. I'd say only over 110F can be considered hot. But it's very poor design for anything to start falling apart below that.

nonhuman · Jul 19, 2006, 11:29 PM

Originally Posted by nforcer

90F is not hot. My bedroom does not drop below that in the summer, even at night (well maybe sometimes 88F but you get the idea). It's currently 96F and I'm fine. I'd say only over 110F can be considered hot. But it's very poor design for anything to start falling apart below that.

Yes, but different people have different thresholds for heat and cold. I, for example, prefer temperatures that are generally much lower than those that other people like. I would consider 65° F at the upper end of comfortable and am perfectly comfortable in a t-shirt all the way down to the low 40s and sometimes even the 20s (it doesn't really get cold until -15° F). When I was a kid my family went to Switzerland on vacation and I toured the ice palace at the top of the Jungfraujoch (I'm sure I spelled that wrong) in a t-shirt with no problem. When I was in college in Minnesota I would often go out in sub-zero temperatures comfortably wearing little more than a sweatshirt, and the summer absolutely killed me. This has nothing to do with being coddled with an air conditioner either, I have never lived in a house with air conditioning, whether it was when I was living in New Jersey or now in California.

As for the roads and such, different paving materials are suitable for different clients. The British Isles rarely get temperature as high as what they're seeing now, so there was never any need to use materials that were able to withstand these temperatures. Although it's certainly not as though roads in the US have never melted due to a heat wave.

- - e r i k - - · Jul 19, 2006, 11:46 PM

What is this heat that you speak of? Currently we are enjoying a cool wave of just 19�C down here. I don't look forward to next summer though. Gets up to 40�C easily here.

Oh well, in the meantime I'm just enjoying this "winter".

Kitschy · Jul 20, 2006, 12:49 AM

70s are cold. 80s & 90s are nice. 100s are hot.

Jawbone54 · Jul 20, 2006, 01:47 AM

Originally Posted by nforcer

90F is not hot. My bedroom does not drop below that in the summer, even at night (well maybe sometimes 88F but you get the idea). It's currently 96F and I'm fine. I'd say only over 110F can be considered hot. But it's very poor design for anything to start falling apart below that.

Are you in Hell?

ism · Jul 20, 2006, 02:17 AM

It's raining now. Cruddy English weather.

Monique · Jul 20, 2006, 10:50 AM

Originally Posted by ism

It's raining now. Cruddy English weather.

Please do not complain about rain. Here in Calgary we did not have any rain or snow for years (well little to count on); the rivers were low, the water costs a fortune, everything was yellow and brown; it rained for a while in June and now once in a while which is good for nature and man. And when you do not have any rain, you skin is dry and you look 100 hundred years old, you do not feel well because you need moisture. Now, look outside your window at the beautiful gree, the beautiful healthy trees, at your beautiful gardens and tell me can you live without those beautiful things.

Gossamer · Jul 20, 2006, 10:56 AM

Originally Posted by Monique

Please do not complain about rain. Here in Calgary we did not have any rain or snow for years (well little to count on); the rivers were low, the water costs a fortune, everything was yellow and brown; it rained for a while in June and now once in a while which is good for nature and man. And when you do not have any rain, you skin is dry and you look 100 hundred years old, you do not feel well because you need moisture. Now, look outside your window at the beautiful gree, the beautiful healthy trees, at your beautiful gardens and tell me can you live without those beautiful things.

The only way to moisturize your skin is from rainfall??

Peter · Jul 20, 2006, 11:06 AM

Originally Posted by Monique

Please do not complain about rain. Here in Calgary we did not have any rain or snow for years (well little to count on); the rivers were low, the water costs a fortune, everything was yellow and brown; it rained for a while in June and now once in a while which is good for nature and man. And when you do not have any rain, you skin is dry and you look 100 hundred years old, you do not feel well because you need moisture. Now, look outside your window at the beautiful gree, the beautiful healthy trees, at your beautiful gardens and tell me can you live without those beautiful things.

...

buy some moisturiser?

pics btw

Dakar · Jul 20, 2006, 11:15 AM

Originally Posted by Jawbone54

Are you in Hell?

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Monique · Jul 20, 2006, 11:37 AM

Originally Posted by Peter

...

buy some moisturiser?

pics btw

Funny guy it is not the same, and I do buy some moiturizer. Have you ever gone in a desertic area like Phoenix, you would see what I mean.

Peter · Jul 20, 2006, 12:07 PM

Originally Posted by Monique

Funny guy it is not the same, and I do buy some moiturizer. Have you ever gone in a desertic area like Phoenix, you would see what I mean.

yes i've been to desert areas, of a smaller scale i just spent a few weeks in the southern spain the area where it is under severe desertification, i see what you mean, but there are alternative methods to put the moisture in your skin.

molala · Jul 20, 2006, 12:18 PM

I had to switch moisturizers two weeks ago at the start of the heat wave. Had to use something lighter when my skin felt itchy. I spent part of December last year in Michigan and had to switch moisturizers there too to something heavier because it was about 10°C colder than here.

The thing I like most about hot humid places is that there is no need for lotion.

Gossamer · Jul 20, 2006, 12:22 PM

Originally Posted by molala

I had to switch moisturizers two weeks ago at the start of the heat wave. Had to use something lighter when my skin felt itchy. I spent part of December last year in Michigan and had to switch moisturizers there too to something heavier because it was about 10°C colder than here.

The thing I like most about hot humid places is that there is no need for lotion.

I'll trade you your lotion for this weather.

nforcer · Jul 20, 2006, 12:42 PM

Originally Posted by Jawbone54

Are you in Hell?

No, just the asshole of California (the central part).

badidea · Jul 20, 2006, 01:39 PM

It's 35�C (95�F ?) right now in Hamburg (7.30pm) and since Hamburg is not a very famous hot town we also don't have any AC in the office!

Can you imagine how hot it gets in a 40sqm office with 25 workstations in there?

My crappy HP C8000 workstation already collapsed once and yesterday one of our servers gave up because of the heat!

Dakar · Jul 20, 2006, 01:42 PM

Originally Posted by badidea

It's 35�C (95�F ?) right now in Hamburg (7.30pm) and since Hamburg is not a very famous hot town we also don't have any AC in the office!

Can you imagine how hot it gets in a 40sqm office with 25 workstations in there?

My crappy HP C8000 workstation already collapsed once and yesterday one of our servers gave up because of the heat!

I hope you're allowed to wear shorts

badidea · Jul 20, 2006, 01:48 PM

Originally Posted by Dakar

I hope you're allowed to wear shorts

Sure - that's no problem!
(I just don't do it when I have important meetings)

Eug Wanker · Jul 20, 2006, 01:59 PM

Originally Posted by nforcer

90F is not hot. My bedroom does not drop below that in the summer, even at night (well maybe sometimes 88F but you get the idea). It's currently 96F and I'm fine. I'd say only over 110F can be considered hot. But it's very poor design for anything to start falling apart below that.

Depends on the humidity. 90F with very high humidity feels very hot to me. 90F with very low humidity feels much nicer.

I have no problems sleeping with 82F when the humidity is low. I don't sleep well if it's 82F with high humidity though.

nforcer · Jul 20, 2006, 05:40 PM

Originally Posted by Eug Wanker

Depends on the humidity. 90F with very high humidity feels very hot to me. 90F with very low humidity feels much nicer.

I have no problems sleeping with 82F when the humidity is low. I don't sleep well if it's 82F with high humidity though.

Very good point. Not too much humidity here.

Angus_D · Jul 20, 2006, 05:51 PM

I'm sure I heard on BBC News that it had hit 50�C on the tube, but I can't find any reference to that online. Anyone care to help me?

ambush · Jul 20, 2006, 05:58 PM

I'm sweating liters in the paris subway.

Heck, I thought I'd faint yesterday in Amsterdam. The sign read 45 deg. C. I thought I was having hallucinations.

WTF is going on

Peter · Jul 20, 2006, 06:32 PM

Originally Posted by Angus_D

I'm sure I heard on BBC News that it had hit 50�C on the tube, but I can't find any reference to that online. Anyone care to help me?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/n...ationworld-hed

47 degrees it lists. Ridiculous.