How are all you Escapebrits beating the heat?
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Back when I lived in a tiny room, I would keep cool by getting in to bed and clinging flat to the wall like a lizard. Now I have a spacious house, I don't have a hope of doing that without pushing around the furniture. Which I will never do in this heat.
Another dutch person chiming in (sue me!)
Bloody hot, and over here where I live it will only get hotter. And considering my chance at blacking out increases durign such weather I'll be calling in sick from work. Again.
I wish it was winter.
Bloody hot, and over here where I live it will only get hotter. And considering my chance at blacking out increases durign such weather I'll be calling in sick from work. Again.
I wish it was winter.
Right now, ceiling fan, windows and a swamp cooler 
It's *just* this side of bearable, but only just.
It's *just* this side of bearable, but only just.
The hardest question is; to ice-cream or not to ice-cream? Once you have one, the returning heat feels worse as it envelopes you like an overly huggy chubby nan who hasn't seen you in a decade. So you got to have more to stave of the creeping suffocation. And it turns into a vicious consumerist cycle where your dealer is the local corner shop with over-priced mini-milks and soleros. I can almost hear them cackling with laughter as I weakly throw my change at them from the sweaty heap on the floor that used to be me. Where's the fucking wind at?? I'll accept anything! Even a low flying seagull's breeze...anything!!
And social anxiety is no friend of heat, I can tell you, reptilian humanoids.
And social anxiety is no friend of heat, I can tell you, reptilian humanoids.
I can't stand heat, always been a man for cooler temperatures...
I've been surviving by moving very little, or just to a nearby park and failing at drawing, and when at home having a rotation of bottled water in the freezer, it probably makes me sweat even more due to drinking so much, but sod it, at least it gives me some respite.
I swear, heat paralyzes me so much, if I was in an rpg my fire/heat resistance stat would be -99999999
I've been surviving by moving very little, or just to a nearby park and failing at drawing, and when at home having a rotation of bottled water in the freezer, it probably makes me sweat even more due to drinking so much, but sod it, at least it gives me some respite.
I swear, heat paralyzes me so much, if I was in an rpg my fire/heat resistance stat would be -99999999
I moved all my furniture so I could move my PC desk into the single breeze in my house, as opposed to being a frustrating two feet from it.
Now I'm being attacked by the billowing curtain. It engulfs me.
Now I'm being attacked by the billowing curtain. It engulfs me.
31C? That's spring temperatures! Wait til you get summers that reach 45!
With regards,
Australia
With regards,
Australia
Barely at all.
The days are hot enough by themselves but I work in a kitchen and temperatures are well over 50˚c in there.
Every part of me is drenched in sweat by the end of the first hour. I could just about tolerate it but then I get the customers who come in and say "bet it's warm for you in there". NO, I was thinking of putting a damn jumper on because I am cold.
The days are hot enough by themselves but I work in a kitchen and temperatures are well over 50˚c in there.
Every part of me is drenched in sweat by the end of the first hour. I could just about tolerate it but then I get the customers who come in and say "bet it's warm for you in there". NO, I was thinking of putting a damn jumper on because I am cold.
I freely admit that I live across the pond from you English but it's just as hot here as it is anywhere.
Worse still is that I'm a clinical microbiologist by profession so I spend three to four hours out of every workday inside of a hazmat suit with an oxygen tank strapped to my aching back. There's absolutely no cooling inside the suit (of course) and the air I'm breathing is just hot air recycled out of my own lungs. I get drenched in sweat less than thirty minutes in and the best bit is that I cannot wipe any of the sweat off my face- because my soaking skin is inside the suit!
It's gotten to the point where I need to bring an extra shirt to my lab just so I can change out of the dripping sop that was once a clean shirt I wore before going into the suit. My colleagues are sympathetic enough to not crinkle their noses at my downright foul body odor but still... no-one sits next to me at break.
Worse still is that I'm a clinical microbiologist by profession so I spend three to four hours out of every workday inside of a hazmat suit with an oxygen tank strapped to my aching back. There's absolutely no cooling inside the suit (of course) and the air I'm breathing is just hot air recycled out of my own lungs. I get drenched in sweat less than thirty minutes in and the best bit is that I cannot wipe any of the sweat off my face- because my soaking skin is inside the suit!
It's gotten to the point where I need to bring an extra shirt to my lab just so I can change out of the dripping sop that was once a clean shirt I wore before going into the suit. My colleagues are sympathetic enough to not crinkle their noses at my downright foul body odor but still... no-one sits next to me at break.
See above. I feel you, man. At least I don't have to deal with morons telling me stupid guff like that so... small mercies.votemarvel said:
Shouldn't you be devouring salmon and various fauna right now? That winter blubber's not going to grow itself, you know.Xsjadoblayde said:
What's the point of air-con when you'd use it 5 days out of 365? Makes perfect sense that it's not really that common in the UK.mad825 said:Ezekiel said:
Or maybe this?
I have never really known anyone in the UK with sophisticated AC apart from the commercial sector, it makes going to Tesco seem like a little blessing. It all seems pretty ghetto me tbh.
OT: I'm actually in LA on holiday at the moment, temperature's around 30 here too, so it's hardly cooler, but this being America there is air con so I'm surviving pretty decently
Ha, I laugh at your pitiful summers. Was in Netherlands a week, was warned about how hot summer was and it was pretty much equal to a cold, drier day back home. It even got cold at times.
Of course, homeland just finally got out of a year and a half long summer (Thanks El Nino, you bastard) and was having daily forest fires so I was used to it.
Hopefully after this, there'll be less complaining about colder seasons now as you'll see how cool (heh) those are to someone like me.
Of course, homeland just finally got out of a year and a half long summer (Thanks El Nino, you bastard) and was having daily forest fires so I was used to it.
Hopefully after this, there'll be less complaining about colder seasons now as you'll see how cool (heh) those are to someone like me.
I'm used of the high humidity of previous years. Canada is pretty dry right now so the heat is fine. Humidity is low. I like that. The nights have been fall-like cold so I can quite enjoy that as well, an open window is all I've needed.
Winter 2015 was absolutely cold at -15 so it's not like I'm terribly against warmer weather. Just stay out of direct sunlight and the noon-ish times to avoid burning.
If need be, I'd get myself another AC unit. My current one seems to be out of commission and would probably cost as much to fix as to replace entirely.
Winter 2015 was absolutely cold at -15 so it's not like I'm terribly against warmer weather. Just stay out of direct sunlight and the noon-ish times to avoid burning.
If need be, I'd get myself another AC unit. My current one seems to be out of commission and would probably cost as much to fix as to replace entirely.
It is 4am. I only just managed to get to sleep within the last 3 hours.
I am very much not beating the heat. Just had to turn my fan on so I can cool down and try to sleep some more after some sort of fever dream/nightmare. Similar story during the day. Need the fan on at all times.
I am very much not beating the heat. Just had to turn my fan on so I can cool down and try to sleep some more after some sort of fever dream/nightmare. Similar story during the day. Need the fan on at all times.
Days like these, it's even worth going to work to get air conditioning. The only issue becomes sleeping when it's about 30 degrees indoors.
On the bright side, it still doesn't seem as bad as earlier in the year when we had 90% humidity, and everything got hazy and smelt of weed in the evening (or was that just my estate?).
On the bright side, it still doesn't seem as bad as earlier in the year when we had 90% humidity, and everything got hazy and smelt of weed in the evening (or was that just my estate?).