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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Stunaep on August 06, 2003, 10:04:06 am
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Well, actually I don't, I live in Estonia, which I have repeated to you upteen times. But can you truly call a country, where temperature hasn't dropped below 20 C in the last three weeks, where you have to endure 34 C in the mornings, noons and evenings, where the water temperature in the three beaches that are within 20 km of my dacha range from 24 to 30 C, where it either doesn't rain at all, or we get the flood of the century (tm), complete with thunderstorm and flying cows, TRULY a northern country?
I mean, Finland is 50 km away from our capital. Do you know why Finland is called Suomi in finnish? Because it has SWAMPS. Which indicates that there should be RAIN. and COLD WEATHER. We're fricckin' 500 km away from the POLAR for pete's sake. AND I'M DYING OF HEAT. WARM BEER! BIKINIS(okay, maybe it's not that bad)! CANNOT SLEEP!
Even the water is too hot. At least we've got our ol' Sauna, with 100 C in it to relax. After that, 30 C feels refreshing.
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yesterday, I looked at the temperature, it was 35° in shadows and a w00ping 49° ( yup, 49°, no typo ) in lightened places. In Normandy, you know, the place in France where it's supposed to rain 300 days out of 365. Where even summers are cold.
I hate heat.
Today, I don't even dare checking the temperature anymore :p
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and in many parts of the states, we're getting record rainfall :p
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The media sais that so are we.
But I haven't found any of these places.
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The US is stealing thw world's rain with their insidious weather machines
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Its true!
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Seriously though, here in Toronto we had out hottest days about 3 weeks ago. It was hot and humid. Thats the thing about weather here, its very humid. We got around 30-35 each day, though never over 40 I think.
Venom: 49? Are you kidding? Thats like, woah!
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it actually rained one day last week. other than that, I've had about 25C or more all summer, including the 4-5 weeks I was on vacation to the north of sweden.
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they say it's an unprecedented record for a week. ( french record since meteo temperature record exists: 42° in shadows at Toulouse in 1923... )
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Bah, deal with it, it's been the ****in' rainforest here the last two months. Nail a blanket over your window to keep the light and heat out, sleep all day and go out at night when it's colder, switch to higher-proof alcohol (evaporative cooling will keep the temperature down long enough to drink), and borrow a camcorder to leave out all day so you don't miss the bikinis entirely.
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lol, sleep all day. can't even sleep at night because of heat, so the day... :p
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...Is what you get a fan, a blacked-out window, and if you can wrangle it the freon pipes from the back of a used minifridge for. But then, I've got a bad draft that's for some reason perpetually ice cold under my bed as a last resort, so you might be kinda screwed.
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Actually the rest of the United states are stealing the west coasts rain. Western Washington havs't seen any rain for several months still.
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So we're hot and wet. Whoopee. Sure, it'd be exciting if we were naked women or something, but since the only women around are inbred country hags, that's not really a plus.
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*laughs at Stryke*
*takes cell phone, calls up gang, goes to beach*
*notices another thunderstorm outside*
*calls of beachgoing, sits inside and hopes that the UPS holds*
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It's rained here for the first time in almost two months today.
Everyone has been ordered to conserve water. Apparently the city of Vancouver alone uses over 2 billion liters of water a day...
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Stunaep, I know your pain. It's been one hell of heat wave. This week's been quite cool howewer.
But anyway, let the heat come, I am ready. :D *pats his 16" fan*
np: Changin' My Life - Smile
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Pussies.. I don't even see why you'd want to complain about the temperature untill you get to about 43c
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Did I mention already that the average temperature in an estonian sauna is about 100-110 C
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KT: Uh huh. And you'd better not be moaning when winter comes around and the temperature drops in the negatives. I'll be perfectly fine, will you?;)
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-26 here last year. So cold that school was cancelled.
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Negatives? I'd have to go to Tahoe, in the middle of the Winter night, during a snowstorm, and if I'm lucky, I might get into the negatives. :p
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Originally posted by Stunaep
-26 here last year. So cold that school was cancelled.
ONLY -26 and school was cancelled? :wtf:
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Christ man... they dont cancel it in Nova Scotia till it hits -40... and thats only if its snowing...
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
Negatives? I'd have to go to Tahoe, in the middle of the Winter night, during a snowstorm, and if I'm lucky, I might get into the negatives. :p
if you're in the middle of a snowstorm, there might be chances you're already in the negatives, but maybe that's just me? :doubt:
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We had to run Cross-Country in the ****ing snow. It'd hit -20 and the teachers would be like "Well, we'll let you wear tracksuit bottoms if you've got them."
This one time there was fog so thick that, I swear to God, you could only see maybe 4-5 meters, and even that was hazy. And they're like "Oh, you'll be okay, you all know the way". Thing was, not everyone did. One of the fastest guys in the whole year came damn near last because he got lost and had to wait for the fog to clear some before he could find his way to the finish.
And to cancel school entirely! Damn. Not a chance. We'd have bomb threats and they'd be all "Well, the police have finished searching half the school so we're going to let those who have classes in those areas back in to lesson". Coz it's not like a bomb would affect areas that'd been searched by the police :doubt:.
Only times I remember school being cancelled was once when there was so much snow, only 6 teachers (outta some 50-odd) could get in. And another time when it was -20, the boiler was ****ed, it was pretty-much pitch black outside, the windows were rattling and cracking with the wind and sleet, and someone rang the firebell. Thankfully, they realised that making us stand outside while they checked for a fire would probably end up in fatalities and just let everyone WALK home early.
And now you see why I hated school.
Oh and it was like 30 here today, and now I'd say it's about 20.
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Bah, my high school did the same thing, and it was on a hill. Only for hill, read mountain. Every heavy snowstorm, the town below would just get buried, and the entire road up would freeze solid with an inch of pack ice, so we'd have to walk up this 45* slope for about twenty minutes to get there. On the other hand, sometimes little kids would slip and slide all the way back down the road, which was pretty funny to watch- the rest of us having had the good sense to bring heavy boots for digging footholds in and all.
Also, there'd always be this little jumble of SUVs whose owners were dumb enough to believe the bullcrap you see on the ads about their cars lying at the bottom of the hill at the end of the schoolday, which always made me feel good.
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I bet, on days to dangerous to do out-side ****, they never made you do 'country-dancing'.
That was humiliating and degrading for all involved.
The only highlight in the few times they made us do it was when my pal behind me thought it'd be funny to keep treading on my heels. I warned him once. He laughed and did it again. I warned him twice. He laughed and did it again. I warned him a third time. He laughed and did it again. I turned around, punched him, chased him around the room, kicking him in the back, got grabbed by a teacher, purposely thrown into a cluster of about 50 sharp, metal music stands and given a detention.
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(what the ****? my post didnt go through...)
Unless you're on the west coast Stryke, its not a mountain.. its a hill...
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Originally posted by Venom
if you're in the middle of a snowstorm, there might be chances you're already in the negatives, but maybe that's just me? :doubt:
Americans.
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um.. no.. try like 5 - 25 fareinheit :wtf:
And stryke, you already sound like an 80-year old. 45* is rather steep, hill or mountain. :p
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Thorn: Uneducated provincial West Coast yokels... ever hear of the Blue Ridge? The Appalachians? What they lack in altitude they make up for in steepness, impassability, and per-acre hillbilly population. This wasn't on one (God forbid, the BR mountains are actually fun to hike on, provided you're well armed and don't mind rock climbing), but it was on one of the steeper foothills.
KT: Well, maybe it was 30* in parts. We never actually measured it, but it certainly was uncomfortable to stand on flatfooted and rolling things down the hill (balls, small children, cars with their brake lines cut... well, the last bit woulda worked if the punks in my class weren't such goody-goody pussies, even tried to take my Swiss Army Knife away...) attempting to gain record speeds was a school pasttime. We musta beat 30 with one kid, he didn't flail his arms so much as the others so it was an unimpeded roll...
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
um.. no.. try like 5 - 25 fareinheit :wtf:
0 Celsius = 36 Fahrenheit. 0 Fahrenheit equals -28 Celsius
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Never mind that there isn't invariably a storm cloud about whenever it's bleeding cold out, and ignoring completely that it can actually get "too cold to snow" anywhere a bit north of where I live...
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Actually I'm an East Coast "yokel"
I just moved out here last September..
I've seen the Appalachians. The Appalachians "dont got ****" on the Rockies. You want steep? Try climbing Mt. Garibaldi or Mt. Baker. Christ... Baker is an active volcano. If it ever decides to blow it'll fill the entire Fraser valley.
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Originally posted by Stunaep
0 Celsius = 36 Fahrenheit. 0 Fahrenheit equals -28 Celsius
O celsius = 32 Fahrenheit. 0 Fahrenheit = -17 (.7778) celsius.
other than that, so?
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Thorn: And an active volcano ain't got **** on rednecks who make the movie "Deliverance" look like a best-case scenario. Your point?:p
And if you know where to look, you can get 300-foot cliffs out here. If there's much steeper on the West Coast, I don't particularly care, as I'm never likely to climb even that myself and geography makes for the lamest pissing contest ever, removing any benefit to be had from much higher.
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
Thorn: Uneducated provincial West Coast yokels... ever hear of the Blue Ridge? The Appalachians? What they lack in altitude they make up for in steepness, impassability, and per-acre hillbilly population. This wasn't on one (God forbid, the BR mountains are actually fun to hike on, provided you're well armed and don't mind rock climbing), but it was on one of the steeper foothills.
Damn East Coast Puritan... the Appalachians are large hills not mountains :p
Real mountain ranges have snow all year round, glaciers, and are so steep and inhospitable that only the few YUPIs doing some climbing ever go there ;)
And if you know where to look, you can get 300-foot cliffs out here. If there's much steeper on the West Coast, I don't particularly care, as I'm never likely to climb even that myself and geography makes for the lamest pissing contest ever, removing any benefit to be had from much higher.
Well at least we have geography. The only way anyone can tell where they are in the east is wether or not a U.S. or Confederate flag is being flown :ick
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Originally posted by Ace
Damn East Coast Puritan... the Appalachians are large hills not mountains :p
Real mountain ranges have snow all year round, glaciers, and are so steep and inhospitable that only the few MS reps and Starbucks CEOs doing some climbing ever go there ;)
Dont forget the "mostly solid rock" bit... no trees... trees cant survive that high up...
If it isnt hard for you to breathe at the top of the thing, after doing no exercise, its not a mountain....
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Originally posted by Ace
The only way anyone can tell where they are in the east is wether or not a U.S. or Confederate flag is being flown :ick
Actually, anywhere in the South outside of Georgia and Mississippi it's generally both simultaneously. You gotta love ambivalence spawned by ignorance.:D
And that's not true at all. If all you see for miles around is old people, you're in Florida. If you see corn, you're in Alabama. If you're getting hung from a streetlamp for no readily apparent reason, you're in Mississippi; getting eaten alive by mosquitoes the size of B-2 bombers, Georgia; lost in fog, Massachusetts; unable to breathe, New Jersey, getting rained on, another part of New England. And, of course, you know you're in Virginia if you get hit by four cars in succession, then have your lifeless body dragged off and cornholed for a day straight by a deranged trucker who stinks of vomit and cheap beer. It's rather the feeling of living in the entire region, that.
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I just want to tell you its bloody hot in Scotland this week. :D
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And very rainy in NY too
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i love swimming in warm water. 30c would be great, problem is critters also like warm water.
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You want hot? hike to the bottom of the Grand Canyon in july. it was about 130 F in the sun (shade? there was no shade!), 0% humidity, and i had a big ass pack on my pack. I did drop to 95 at night though, so that was nice.
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it's around 23C here at 2:32am. Way to hot to sleep. and i have to work in a few hours.
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move to darwin, that's winter temparatures
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It is fairly hot around here too (84ºF/29ºC), although it is better than about a month ago. But I'm not sure why it would matter when you're sleeping and so on; just turn on the a/c units or a fan or something.
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It's rather strange temperatures here. It's been chilly for several days when there's supposed to be a heat wave. :confused: Ah well.