Cultural Differences and Forum Moderation
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Posted on: 2009-07-31 22:06 in The European Lounge
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Would the 45 C we had last week here be too much?
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Originally Posted by dreamweaver_EU
Roasting I don't mind, and define as anything over 32 deg C.
What I hate is being steamed - it's been only about 25 C this last week, but horrifically humid. I'm not a beanpaste bun. Very glad that the only time I need to think about the Tube at the moment is when trying to explain and promote the fine and ancient game of Mornington Crescent to the colonials, dontcherknow. |
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I think that's about 3 degrees past my melting point. Seriously, just get out the wet and dry vac, pour me into a tube, freeze-dry me and mail me home.
That would be Texas, would it?
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One of the reasons I love Poland so much is that it's got proper seasons like I remember Britain used to have in my childhood. The Polish Summer is long, hot and sunny, and then we ALWAYS get snow in the Winter. 2 years ago, it went down to minus 35 for a bit, however, and that was a tad extreme. I was like 'What's that really wierd feeling i'm getting in my nose?' to my students, and they said 'ah, that's the hairs inside your nostrils freezing solid and breaking off.'
It was incredible, really lol. every time i was outside, i was compelled to RUN to wherever I was going so i could get inside as quickly as possible. God knows what it's like in the icy cold dead vacuum of Space in the shade!
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Arizona. We are a nice cool 40 C today, it is kind of nice out.
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Originally Posted by dreamweaver_EU
I think that's about 3 degrees past my melting point. Seriously, just get out the wet and dry vac, pour me into a tube, freeze-dry me and mail me home.
That would be Texas, would it? |
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weather report for Las Vegas is:
today's high, a comfortable 37 C
currently, a mild 36 C
tomorrow's forcast high: 39 C
rising temperatures through the week with 41 C expected by Wed.
brought to you by the Impish Kat on a Hot Tin Roof...
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I like Vegas, and your temps are not far off from ours Just a couple degrees below Phoenix. They have some pretty nice magic shops there too.
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Originally Posted by Impish_Kat
weather report for Las Vegas is:
today's high, a comfortable 37 C currently, a mild 36 C tomorrow's forcast high: 39 C rising temperatures through the week with 41 C expected by Wed. brought to you by the Impish Kat on a Hot Tin Roof... |
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The heat isn't so much the issue as the humidity. It's not been above 27c this weekend where I am, but it's been about 98% humidity, and for someone of my... stature... That's pretty unpleasant.|
Originally Posted by Oyasumi_Nasai
Care to define roasting? I always wondered what is considered hot for weather over in the UK.
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45c would likely kill me..
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Originally Posted by FloatingFatMan
The heat isn't so much the issue as the humidity. It's not been above 27c this weekend where I am, but it's been about 98% humidity, and for someone of my... stature... That's pretty unpleasant.
45c would likely kill me.. |
The phrase we live by down here is, "Oh, but it's a DRY heat".
Humidity is a major factor for heatstroke in animals and humans alike.
A friend of ours, who is also a rather large person, was once sent to work a convention as a costumed character in Chicago during one of the worst heat waves that city had seen in many years. Despite that he was working in an air conditioned environment, the character costume didn't "breath" well and he suffered heatstroke from wearing it. Basically, the costume didn't allow his sweat to evaporate fast enough to keep him cool. It was so bad, that he actually had a relapse in our home 4 days later. High humidity can have the same effect as our friends' costume.
Moral of the story? If you're a "furry", be sure your costume has plenty of ventilation.
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Exactly right. Temperature alone doesn't really mean anything. When I was in Alice Springs we had around 45C, and it didn't feel too bad. At home, I die when the temp crawls close to 30C.|
Originally Posted by FloatingFatMan
The heat isn't so much the issue as the humidity. It's not been above 27c this weekend where I am, but it's been about 98% humidity, and for someone of my... stature... That's pretty unpleasant.
45c would likely kill me.. |
I have a friend from Egypt. His family refuses to come visit him here during the summer - and they are used to temperatures more than twice what we usually get here.
So really, lots of factors.
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Everyone else has covered the heat thing, but the cold thing is just laughable.
For some reason, whenever we get the temporary dandruff that counts as snow, people go berserk. Yes, it's mild compared to Europe and North America, and yes, it only lasts 24 hours, but when you consider that just a slight smear of drizzle causes major roads to become gridlocked in this country, you have to question the intellectual capacity of the British people as well as the knackered transport infrastructure.
It's almost as if the slightest sniff of rain forces people who would otherwise stay indoors to leap into a car and drive slowly along the nearest trunk road until either traffic has ground to a halt or everyone but the oblivious has murdered one another in a frenzy of exasperation.
I can't stand cold weather. I just can't. Maybe because I was born and raised in Florida/Georgia. The heat and humidity doesn't really bother too much as long as I've got some water.
Oh, right now it's 30.6 C / 87.1 F (be glad I switched it to celsius for y'all) with a heat index of 37 C / 99 F, humidity is 71% and the dew point is sitting at 25 C / 77 F.
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At some point the UK Met Office started calling it Celsius instead of Centigrade. I don't know why. Nor do I really care, since I grew up with Fahrenheit, and that's the one I'm personally used to. I'm in a minority in the UK, I expect, actually preferring Fahrenheit to Centigrade/Celsius and Imperial units to that lazy Metric nonsense |
Originally Posted by Lady_Athyna
I can't stand cold weather. I just can't. Maybe because I was born and raised in Florida/Georgia. The heat and humidity doesn't really bother too much as long as I've got some water.
Oh, right now it's 30.6 C / 87.1 F (be glad I switched it to celsius for y'all) with a heat index of 37 C / 99 F, humidity is 71% and the dew point is sitting at 25 C / 77 F. |
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The name change is in honour of the guy who intorduced and began using Celcius. Me I actually tend to use the celcius instead of farenheight but I am familar with both.
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Originally Posted by Bindweed
At some point the UK Met Office started calling it Celsius instead of Centigrade. I don't know why. Nor do I really care, since I grew up with Fahrenheit, and that's the one I'm personally used to. I'm in a minority in the UK, I expect, actually preferring Fahrenheit to Centigrade/Celsius and Imperial units to that lazy Metric nonsense
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I know exactly what you mean. Today hasnt been much better either. Took a shower and then had to run to an apiontment. I wondered why I hadnt done it the other way around. Perople outside Britain really dont appreciate just how opressive the humidity is in this country. Mind that said when looking at certain Asian coutries and tropical areas the thought make me feel all sticky. So I do realise we get it mild in comparison.
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Originally Posted by dreamweaver_EU
Roasting I don't mind, and define as anything over 32 deg C.
What I hate is being steamed - it's been only about 25 C this last week, but horrifically humid. I'm not a beanpaste bun. Very glad that the only time I need to think about the Tube at the moment is when trying to explain and promote the fine and ancient game of Mornington Crescent to the colonials, dontcherknow. |
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Having lived in East Texas, Louisiana and southern Mississippi, I as well as our friends between there and Florida can understand where you are coming from. I moved to Arizona to get away from all of that humidity. I will say that there becomes a point where hot is hot and you just want to stay inside humid or no. I will take 32 C and humid over the day we hit 50 C any day though.
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Originally Posted by Lodestar_1977
I know exactly what you mean. Today hasnt been much better either. Took a shower and then had to run to an apiontment. I wondered why I hadnt done it the other way around. Perople outside Britain really dont appreciate just how opressive the humidity is in this country. Mind that said when looking at certain Asian coutries and tropical areas the thought make me feel all sticky. So I do realise we get it mild in comparison.
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Oh yeah, what about this then|
Originally Posted by MrCaptainMan_NA
Well you're entitled to your opinion of course, but I disagree, and think that comparing the movie industry to swallowing poisons is a little extreme lol.
I sympathise with you, and i agree it would be lovely if there were more films made showing the wonderful tales of heroism from all nationalities that have happened over the years (my own personal wish would be to see a film made of the story of The Orzel http://orporzel.prv.pl/) It's not just the US that rewrites history in order to make it more entertaining for its audience, however. Enigma, the movie supposedly showing how the Enigma Machine was cracked in WWII, makes the traitor Polish, when in reality the only traitor at Bletchley park was British, and the Poles had a great deal to do with the cracking of the Enigma machine in reality. In was an American funded film, but the screenplay was written by the British playwright Tom Stoppard, and the book its based on, which also makes the same IMO grevious affronts to Poland was written by Richard Harris, a British novelist. Going back further, plenty of British films do the same thing. The 1969 British film The Battle of Britain marginalizes the Polish air squadron 303 which was in fact responsible for the highest number of enemy casualties in the entire Battle. The great film Zulu makes the Swedish missionary Otto Witt out to be an alcoholic coward, when in fact he was neither. The Bridge Over The River Kwai's treatment of Risaburo Saito is historically innacurate as well. So when you're banging on about the US and their penchant for being historically innacurate, remember that you can't claim that the UK is innocent of the exact same thing you're complaining about. Eco. |
What I hate is being steamed - it's been only about 25 C this last week, but horrifically humid. I'm not a beanpaste bun. Very glad that the only time I need to think about the Tube at the moment is when trying to explain and promote the fine and ancient game of Mornington Crescent to the colonials, dontcherknow.
Is it time for the dance of joy yet?