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Post by dogbot on Jun 15, 2022 12:26:42 GMT
Re: flies. You need some Venus Flytraps and Monkey Jugs near your windows.
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Post by anephric on Jun 15, 2022 12:29:51 GMT
I've been reading some Reddit threads about Dallas and Houston and what they currently think are acceptable and unacceptable temperatures there and it's driving me a bit insane with heat anxiety.
I really can't imagine it. I've been in Death Valley in a not exceptionally hot year and it made me desperate for a bit of good old Blighty weather.
I've worked outside in the UK at 35°C and got heatstroke.
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Post by dmukgr on Jun 15, 2022 12:33:13 GMT
Conversely, the only thing I don't like about summer is wasps. Mozzies I can handle, just. But wasps are pointless creatures who just annoy me. True that wasps can do one. My issue with Mozzies is when trying to get to sleep and you suddenly hear that whine next to your ear. They love me the buggars as well. The wife rarely gets bit, even if lying fully nude on top of the sheets, whereas if I have so much as a finger or toe sticking out it will be bit to shreds and all swollen and itchy the following morning. |
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Post by askew on Jun 15, 2022 12:35:31 GMT
Heat acclimation must play a part. I imagine that Texas is pretty temperate year round… apart from those incredible winter storms which took our their power grid
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Post by Ulythium on Jun 15, 2022 12:39:02 GMT
Yeah, wasps can well and truly do one. (Mildly ironic, as I support the rugby team of the same name, but such is life.)
I got stung a couple of years ago - surprisingly painful, I have to say. More so than I'd remembered.
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Post by retro74 on Jun 15, 2022 12:48:52 GMT
Hot weather - I hate it. Anything above 20 degrees is too warm for me as I am comfortable wearing shorts and t-shirt in winter
Winter > Spring > Autumn > Summer
The things I do like about summer are ice cream, more time for golf and scantily clad ladies
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Post by dfunked on Jun 15, 2022 12:49:43 GMT
Strip clubs usually have AC so not a bad shout in fairness.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jun 15, 2022 12:50:25 GMT
Its flies for me. Its why I wont get rid of spiders despite living with two arachnophobes. Spiders are the infantry in our war against flies and I defend their right to live amongst us.
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Post by Ulythium on Jun 15, 2022 12:56:10 GMT
Despite my aforementioned distaste for flies, I fucking HATE spiders. I'd rather deal with the airborne intruders myself than enlist one of those eight-legged bastards to do it for me.
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Post by H-alphaFox on Jun 15, 2022 13:08:33 GMT
Heat acclimation must play a part. I imagine that Texas is pretty temperate year round… apart from those incredible winter storms which took our their power grid It does I'd say, up until the day I posted this thread I was thinking I hadn't experienced truly hot weather for the 10 years I've been here. It's not hot until you hit 36 and even back in the day we'd still have to work all day out in the vineyards. Might start earlier and get an early minute but if you want to be paid you go in even if it's 40. |
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Post by スコットランド on Jun 15, 2022 13:25:46 GMT
The biggest factor IMO is the low temperature of the day, not the high.
Even if it's high 30s, if it cools down to under 20, ideally 15ish then you're laughing.
If it's in the 20s at night then you don't get a break from the heat really and it's harder to sleep etc.
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Post by mcmonkeyplc on Jun 15, 2022 13:26:12 GMT
Having a fever while it's hot means I don't feel hot at the moment.
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Post by 😎 on Jun 15, 2022 13:56:51 GMT
Heat acclimation must play a part. I imagine that Texas is pretty temperate year round… apart from those incredible winter storms which took our their power grid It does I'd say, up until the day I posted this thread I was thinking I hadn't experienced truly hot weather for the 10 years I've been here. It's not hot until you hit 36 and even back in the day we'd still have to work all day out in the vineyards. Might start earlier and get an early minute but if you want to be paid you go in even if it's 40. Yeah, I acclimated pretty quickly. Before I moved to the US I was in the “omg a bit of heat absolutely not”, but now I’ll happily go toil in the garden in the mid 30s. The only thing I don’t like is when it’s over 38ish/100f for weeks at a time, and still in the 30s overnight. We had that last summer and it just got annoying after a while, doubly so because that’s beyond the weather to take the dogs for a walk even after the sun sets. |
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Post by drhickman1983 on Jun 15, 2022 13:58:20 GMT
I also hate having to use sun block. Hate that greasy disgusting crap.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2022 14:20:04 GMT
Is this love of heat a British thing, excuse me to all the non Brits here, only because when I lived in Vietnam all the locals that I knew absolutely hated the summer because of the heat. Isn't it heat + humidity though which changes everything? I'm in a weird situation where I was born into the wrong environment for me. So here in California, it's a dry heat. And everyone around talks about how great the weather is, and that it's hot but it's at least a nice dry heat and not humid like other places. But whenever I take trips to more humid areas like Hawai'i, Florida or Cancun, I feel much better. I can breathe better, my lips don't chap, things of that nature. But yeah, a lot of people's issue with the heat is usually when you add humidity to it, but I guess everyone's different. I'd like to live somewhere with some variation at some point. |
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Post by H-alphaFox on Jun 15, 2022 14:32:38 GMT
It does I'd say, up until the day I posted this thread I was thinking I hadn't experienced truly hot weather for the 10 years I've been here. It's not hot until you hit 36 and even back in the day we'd still have to work all day out in the vineyards. Might start earlier and get an early minute but if you want to be paid you go in even if it's 40. Yeah, I acclimated pretty quickly. Before I moved to the US I was in the “omg a bit of heat absolutely not”, but now I’ll happily go toil in the garden in the mid 30s. The only thing I don’t like is when it’s over 38ish/100f for weeks at a time, and still in the 30s overnight. We had that last summer and it just got annoying after a while, doubly so because that’s beyond the weather to take the dogs for a walk even after the sun sets. Yeah it's those long heatwaves that you get that seems to be missing for me. No doubt I have acclimatised to living without them so if we go back it's going to be brutal. 38+ is brutal enough really. |
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Post by khanivor on Jun 15, 2022 15:50:33 GMT
It s cones down to humidity. Right now can’t see mountains on other side of valley, about 6-7 miles away, because of the haze.
Thank fuck there’s an atypical level of breeziness as at least that gets some sweat to evaporate.
Mid to late spring is lovely. Not humid, can get hot but cools right down in the evening, bugs aren’t out on the rampage yet.
Then June rolls around and it all goes to shit.
Wearing a shirt over my t-shirt in June back home in Scotland sounds fucking delightful right now
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Post by drhickman1983 on Jun 15, 2022 15:58:18 GMT
Re: flies. You need some Venus Flytraps and Monkey Jugs near your windows. Hehehe... Monkey Jugs... |
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Post by Danno on Jun 16, 2022 17:29:08 GMT
THERE IS A MAN ON THE BUS IN A JUMPER AND A BEANIE
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Post by Vortex on Jun 16, 2022 17:42:37 GMT
THERE IS A MAN ON THE BUS IN A JUMPER AND A BEANIE But its my favourite jumper... 😢 |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2022 17:44:14 GMT
THERE IS A MAN ON THE BUS IN A JUMPER AND A BEANIE I'm wearing a flannel shirt. In California. The AC is on though. I'll regret it when I go grab lunch. |
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Post by Danno on Jun 16, 2022 17:45:55 GMT
THERE IS A MAN ON THE BUS IN A JUMPER AND A BEANIE But its my favourite jumper... 😢 It is 28 degrees in the shade you maniac |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2022 18:10:29 GMT
THERE IS A MAN ON THE BUS IN A JUMPER AND A BEANIE I'm wearing a flannel shirt. In California. The AC is on though. I'll regret it when I go grab lunch. Khaki's and chucks for the classic LA look? |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2022 18:16:17 GMT
I'm wearing a flannel shirt. In California. The AC is on though. I'll regret it when I go grab lunch. Khaki's and chucks for the classic LA look? Black jeans and Air Force Ones. |
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Post by dogbot on Jun 16, 2022 18:20:54 GMT
Khaki's and chucks for the classic LA look? Black jeans and Air Force Ones. I'm guessing you are used to Cali weather though. That's what has Britons so confusticated about tomorrow, it's a really rare event. |
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Post by Danno on Jun 16, 2022 18:28:35 GMT
I'm wfh tomorrow at least
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Post by simple on Jun 16, 2022 19:00:46 GMT
Me WFH today  |
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Post by Danno on Jun 16, 2022 19:09:00 GMT
Hawt
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jun 16, 2022 19:45:39 GMT
Me WFH today The fucking pins on that |
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Post by Danno on Jun 16, 2022 19:49:46 GMT
That's a premium bumbag too
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