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The thing I hate most about the heat is...

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Tryphena Absent

22:35 / 21.07.06

It will end soon, I advise you walk along the road with your arms in the air grinning because soon they'll be huddled around your shivering bodies.

paranoidwriter waves hello

22:47 / 21.07.06

I would but I've run out of deoderant and I don't think the shiny people of Stoke Newington would approve.

But you're right. This is slightly better than mid-January when I was sitting at my deask wrapped in a sleeping blanket, wearing three jumpers, and barely able to move my arms because of the bulk.

I'll stop moaning.

22:59 / 21.07.06

The heat... it is upping the libido big time. Im trying to work on a few pieces of art and my mind is going places that are REALLY not conducive to maintaining the integrity of what Im working on.

Grrr. Thud.

23:24 / 21.07.06

Hey, this might help some of you: how to sleep comfortably on a hot night!

23:30 / 21.07.06

The heat... it is upping the libido big time. Im trying to work on a few pieces of art and my mind is going places that are REALLY not conducive to maintaining the integrity of what Im working on.

Grrr. Thud.

The Heat does not up the libido, being horrible sweaty and brain-melty (or perhaps that's just me) does not make one more sexy or more sexually inclined. No, the libido factor comes from the simple fact that people wear much, much less clothes when it's hot. The upshot? You're left mentally gagging for it but if any single one of the beautiful half-naked people you're surrounded by ever actually stopped, looked, lowered their shades, and said, "So, how about it then?" you'd be forced to babble some excuse and run away because you're convinced (and probably correct in your suspicion) that you smell because it's incredibly hot, you've spent all day fucking sweating, you've got the energy levels of an asthmatic ninety year old and you feel like a baboon!

The Sun sucks. It should be a banned. Who's with me?

23:47 / 21.07.06

No. ITS. JUST. YOU.

(or maybe ITS. JUST. ME)

23:57 / 21.07.06

Sweat Is Sexy.

Shiny: Well Over Thirty

05:16 / 22.07.06

The heat makes me feel much more fighty than I usually am, which was a great thing at work when it caused me to bully management into dropping the dress code and buying more fans for the office – but it’s not so productive once all the good fights are won and I go looking for any fight and don’t even realize what I’m doing till I’m in a blazing row with someone I usually get on with over some pissing tiny point that I’m probably basically in the right over, but that really, really isn’t worth it.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

07:16 / 22.07.06

It's a bit daft at work, there's a theoretical lower temperature which, if we duck under, we have to close the library. There's no upper temperature. Being public servants we work in old buildings where a couple of fans are considered 'a state of the art ventilation system' and most of the windows have been nailed and painted shut. However, I did have to travel from one library to another via public transport at lunchtime the other day so working inside the sweaty library is definitely preferable to walking around it outside. Mad dogs and all that...

07:37 / 22.07.06

I like it, personally. But it *is* a bit sweaty.

09:33 / 22.07.06

More heat! More heat! Plus de chaleur svp!

09:47 / 22.07.06

The other day it was hotter on public transport in London than you can legally transport livestock. My friend fainted on the tube.
Luckily I live in Brighton so we went to the beach, woohoo!

14:20 / 22.07.06

I live in Brighton and was in bed, sick as a dog. It was bloody awful.

Shiny: Well Over Thirty

23:19 / 22.07.06

Okay, the thing I'm now hating most about the heat is the fact that it's the middle of the bloody night, and it patently still too hot to even attempt sleep. This is going to result in me sitting up till around dawn for no more reason than I can't arsed trying to sleep - it will then probably be even hotter when I finally get so tired that I attempt to sleep, by virtue of it being daytime......

15:20 / 23.07.06

Our office got shut down by environmental health as a health risk, and rightly so, we were getting numerous cases of heatstroke each day.
Now management have been forced to spend some money on opening windows and fitting ventilation. It's a nice feeling that the bosses only bothered to safeguard our wellbeing and think about our working environment when forced to by law. It really makes you feel like a valued part of the team.
Bastards.

19:19 / 23.07.06

You should call the fire prevention people, too. I have never worked for a company yet that checked all the fire exits and emergency lighting worked more than once every five years. Could get you an afternoon off.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

19:23 / 23.07.06

The real drawback with the heat is that if you go camping and it befuddles you and clouds your reason to the extent that you do at least twice as much booze and drugs as you were planing to, it can be very unforgiving the next morning, and it seems unwilling to share the responsibility.

Brigade du jour

17:29 / 24.07.06

... the fact that I can't buy a bunch of bananas because they all melt after about 36 hours.

I would complain about the other stuff, but I'm tired of complaining about it as it wouldn't be so bad if I lost a bit of weight!

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

17:30 / 24.07.06

I'm not taking the piss, my freaky darlings, but just how hot is it over there?

Is it, say, reaching 99 degrees as it is over here?

ONLY NICE THINGS

17:38 / 24.07.06

High point last week was 97 and a bit in London (hint for Americans - learn centigrade. It is actually easier). However, London is a city of 8 or 9 million souls, with no air conditioning on the underground railroad and no real provision for those kinds of temperatures. Actually, London utterly sucks, on reflection.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

17:44 / 24.07.06

I have never understood the no a/c thing. I mean, I have it in my house but in my car. Is there any particular reason that you resist one of the "greatest sins"?

ONLY NICE THINGS

17:47 / 24.07.06

In the case of the Tube, it's too deep down for it - you wouldn't be able to vent the heat anywhere. In the case of civilian dwellings, it still isn't hot often enough to justify it.

Also, air conditioning sucks up electricity, which is produced by power stations which usually burn fossil fuels, which throw greenhaouse gases into the atmosphere, which make it hotter, which means you need more powerful a/c. Who wins that fight?

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

17:59 / 24.07.06

Apparently, power stations do.

Anyway, I was just curious. Go ahead and sling the "a/c-having greedy American" arrows.

(Joke, by the way.)

18:16 / 24.07.06

Most Brits simply couldn't justify the expense, Kali. I mean, would you shell out hundreds, if not thousands of dollars to deal with a problem that rears its head for - at the very most - a few weeks every year? Most of us would prefer to spend the money on stuff we genuinely need, like central heating.

Also, the fact that we make such a fuss is unstandable - we're simply not used to temperatures in the thirties.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

18:21 / 24.07.06

I more or less figured that the lack of air-conditioning in your country was because you rarely endure such temperatures, whereas parts of the United States go through them on a regular basis that it necessitates the need of such a luxury.

18:30 / 24.07.06

I do not use a/c in my home in the US for similar reasons. Sure the cats melt a few times a year but we've learned to cope. I was tempted to install it for my spouse as hir work schedule often means trying to sleep during the hottest part of the day but the shack windows won't accept a unit. The non hanging out the window types have poor reviews so we said 'fuck it' and sucked it up.

The cats get wiped down with wet towels a few times a year. Punk rawk angry mini-lions!

Honestly I hate a/c in my office as it means the windows stay shut. Last week I was sweating buckets just sitting in the house but I was able to use it to justify extra nap time and ice cream.

Getting in and out of the car when it is a wee inferno is fairly horrendous especially when my hands get seared on the steering wheel. It's 81/27 here today which is fine with me.
It's when it is in the higher temps that I consider staying in the tub and gambling my life with the use of a laptop.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

18:37 / 24.07.06

I only run the a/c when I'm at work. When I get home, the house is sufficiently cool and I open up the windows and let the evening breeze come through.

I do hate not having it in my car, though.

18:43 / 24.07.06

I actually like the heat, but I also am in favor of passing a law that says that in any days temperature reaches 30ºC, working and school becomes optional.

(hint for Americans - learn centigrade. It is actually easier).

Here's a quick aproximation guide:

15ºC - it's cold

20ºC - it's acceptable

25ºC - it's getting hot

30ºC - you want to go to the beach

35ºC - it's too hot to go to the beach (it's gonna be to crowded anyway)

36.5ºC - human body temperature

40ºC - you're in a oven

45ºC - you're dying...

Shiny: Well Over Thirty

18:56 / 24.07.06

Another thing I dislike about the heat is that my computer seems to pump out about as much heat as a radiator, which is fine and possibly even an advantage in January, but is really, really annoying in the heat, especially as if I'm staying up, not sleeping because of the heat I'm going to want to be doing something on my computer to pass the time, but in doing so I'm making my room even hotter. It's a bit of a catch 22 situation.

19:09 / 24.07.06

15ºC - it's cold

That's bloody English spring, that is.

19:17 / 24.07.06

I dunno if it is easier DM, easier tends to be one's cradle perceptions.

For me it will always be easier to say "hot enough to fry an egg on the sidewalk" or "colder than a witch's nipple ring*".

*this tends to lead to laughter and offers to warm me up.

ONLY NICE THINGS

19:26 / 24.07.06

Go ahead and sling the "a/c-having greedy American" arrows.

OH NOES! The air conditioning has sucked in the arrows, cooled them, and then, when they have grown warm, is expelling them again... right back at us.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

19:35 / 24.07.06

I'm gobsmacked, I am.

Thanks, Haus.

19:51 / 24.07.06

15ºC - it's cold

That's bloody English spring, that is.

Which is the reason why the English decided to build an armada and conquer the world, once upon a time: to find good beaches

I dunno if it is easier DM, easier tends to be one's cradle perceptions.

Hey, it was Haus who said it was easier*, I was just providing some very "objective" parameters, so the Americans could have an idea.

*I'm a big fan of the metric system, but celsius scale, not so much. The Celsius scale, as I'm sure you know, uses water freezng point - 0ºC - and boiling point - 100ºC - as references, but it only works this precisely at sea level atmospheric pressure, so it's not that important.

19:59 / 24.07.06

Oh yeah, and it's all about habit, ain't it? We only got 15ºC twice a year in day time where I live (the few hour before dawn can be colder, but we're usually asleep or to drunk to feel it). And we certainly don't have 45ºC summers all that often either.

Envy me, you British ice-people*, I feed on it.

* or ice-identified people of any nationality, of course.

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