[Mentalist]

Incidentally, i'm incredibly happy to have gotten a haircut. That means I'm gonna sweat significantly less walking around in the glorious sun.

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

Ouch! To be fair, the immortal UK phrase of "'Tis grim up North!" doesn't really tend to include -40 temperatures

[Macros]

Anything over 30 can fuck right off. Give me -10 over 35 any day

[Macros]

Finished my Goodreads challenge of 60 books

[worry]

You guys are all weirdos. I prefer my temperatures right in the middle.

[Slow Ben]

No kidding. If i can wear shorts and a hoodie, its perfect.




I used to love summer. But now i'm old and grumpy and i hate sweating balls all day.

[Andorion]

Mentalist, on 08 September 2018 - 06:25 PM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 08 September 2018 - 06:06 PM, said:

TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 08 September 2018 - 05:12 PM, said:

Everything Silencer just said. Give me cold any day!

Spoken like a true Yorkshire lass I too love the cold. Heat is just uncomfortable.

spend a winter in Winnipeg and then I'd like to hear you praise the cold,

Don't get me wrong. Minus 40 is survivable. But it's waaay more uncomfortable than some sticky heat

Unless its in the 38 to 40 C range with 85% humidity. You feel like you are boiling. You can see the ceiling fan turn but the air doesn't touch you. You sweat all the time. The sweat gets into your eyes. You can't sleep or think. Taking a bath does nothing as by the time you are out of the bathroom you are back to your original condition.

[Silencer]

Mentalist, on 08 September 2018 - 05:22 PM, said:

You people are weird. Drink a cold beverage and find shade in the heat. 25 degrees of dry heat is the best weather ever (maybe add a light breeze to it). You can literally do anything in that. Wet heat is less enjoyable, sure, but it still beats minus 10 or minus 15 any day.

Cold beverage and shade doesn't do shit for heat. And there's a practical upper limit on how much you can drink, evenn if it did help. It helps even less when the air itself is hot, not just the sun. I've been in "30" degrees in some places where it's very different to "30" degrees elsewhere - the actual sunlight is closer to 40, and standing in shade is like standing in a dim oven. Anything over 30 and the only solution is air conditioning on high. Minus ten and I'm good to go for anything. I literally can't run in thirty degree heat. But I'll do a marathon at five below. XD

Mentalist, on 08 September 2018 - 05:59 PM, said:

Yes, I will also mention that I lived 3 winters (october-late April) in minus 40, and I worked 7 summers in humid 30+ outside. In my experience, heat is unequivocally better than cold.

Minus 40 is pretty extreme - but I am non-functional in 30+ humid. Literally unable to do anything but emulate a puddle. It's not even a case of which is more pleasant at that point, it's that there is absolutely nothing I can do to adjust my own temperature to a point where I'm able to function comfortably. Like, maybe wrapping myself in ice packs or something, but that's gonna end badly. Negatives can be fought by more layers, fires, heaters, blankets, and so on. Heat can't. I don't even know how this is a debate. Even if you like 25 degrees and sunny over say -5, you have to admit there are more and easier options to change your experienced temperature in the latter than the former. Like, if someone says to me, "Silencer, you need to go and dig this trench" in -5, I suit up, put on a coat, I'm golden. They say that to me in 25 degrees, I take off my shirt and...am still fucked? Find a huge industrial fan and some generator to blow air at me while I work? XD
Even putting aside my clear personal preference for cold, you've got to admit getting warm in cold conditions is easier than getting cold in warm conditions. Plus, if you're hot and you need to do physical stuff, you are more limited than normal. If it's cold, you can do way more for longer!

[Mentalist]

Still comes down to preference. I like doing stuff outside, (more specifically, playing sports outside) In the winter, I find it far more difficult to do so, as being indoors seeking heat is the best option. I can do way more stuff in +25 then I can in minus 5.

(There's also the fact that I have a healthy wariness of anything related to ice, having had a number of injuries due to slippery conditions; that MAY be coloring my perceptions).

Naturally, higher humidity makes things more uncomfortable. But I still manage that better than a high windchill factor.

I've worked in humid conditions, outside up to borderline heat stroke (where my body would no longer have enough moisture to sweat); I've also been outside in minus 40, trudging my way through snowed in emptiness for 30-40 min, where no matter how many layers you have the wind seeps in, robbing you of body heat with every step. I will definitely take heat over cold any day.

This post has been edited by Mentalist: 09 September 2018 - 04:01 PM

[Mezla PigDog]

Home grown success this year. I've had about 3kg of tomatoes so far. Today I skinned and froze another 3kg and there's still twice as many left on the plants. I've got 4 squash ripening. We've had 2 apple pies in the last 2 weeks and I've got 2 buckets of apples left. Courgette and chard on the side of everything and some chilies that will take your head off. Go me.

OK, it is getting annoying. I don't want to eat any more tomatoes or courgettes. And especially chard as those fuckers will last all winter. I also fell over my sons bike when I was pulling something up as he sneakily left it behind me. Mr PigDog said it looked like when Marlon Brando died in the Godfather films. I crushed my beans.

[Puck]

Silencer, on 09 September 2018 - 03:55 AM, said:

Mentalist, on 08 September 2018 - 05:22 PM, said:

You people are weird. Drink a cold beverage and find shade in the heat. 25 degrees of dry heat is the best weather ever (maybe add a light breeze to it). You can literally do anything in that. Wet heat is less enjoyable, sure, but it still beats minus 10 or minus 15 any day.

Cold beverage and shade doesn't do shit for heat. And there's a practical upper limit on how much you can drink, evenn if it did help. It helps even less when the air itself is hot, not just the sun. I've been in "30" degrees in some places where it's very different to "30" degrees elsewhere - the actual sunlight is closer to 40, and standing in shade is like standing in a dim oven. Anything over 30 and the only solution is air conditioning on high. Minus ten and I'm good to go for anything. I literally can't run in thirty degree heat. But I'll do a marathon at five below. XD

Mentalist, on 08 September 2018 - 05:59 PM, said:

Yes, I will also mention that I lived 3 winters (october-late April) in minus 40, and I worked 7 summers in humid 30+ outside. In my experience, heat is unequivocally better than cold.

Minus 40 is pretty extreme - but I am non-functional in 30+ humid. Literally unable to do anything but emulate a puddle. It's not even a case of which is more pleasant at that point, it's that there is absolutely nothing I can do to adjust my own temperature to a point where I'm able to function comfortably. Like, maybe wrapping myself in ice packs or something, but that's gonna end badly. Negatives can be fought by more layers, fires, heaters, blankets, and so on. Heat can't. I don't even know how this is a debate. Even if you like 25 degrees and sunny over say -5, you have to admit there are more and easier options to change your experienced temperature in the latter than the former. Like, if someone says to me, "Silencer, you need to go and dig this trench" in -5, I suit up, put on a coat, I'm golden. They say that to me in 25 degrees, I take off my shirt and...am still fucked? Find a huge industrial fan and some generator to blow air at me while I work? XD
Even putting aside my clear personal preference for cold, you've got to admit getting warm in cold conditions is easier than getting cold in warm conditions. Plus, if you're hot and you need to do physical stuff, you are more limited than normal. If it's cold, you can do way more for longer!

This, every word of it. My personal issues of heat-caused headaches just add to my hatred of anything above 20°C.


Making me happy is the amoung of sense I'm seeing on this an the previous page.

Making me even more happy is that I got a bread baking machine for free today. Didn't even ask. Just had it handed to me at the mention of baking bread. I have immediately proceeded to bake onion bread. Delicious.

[Cause]

What a day! I finally achieved success at work! Took a year and 11 days but I did it. By sheer coincidence I also got my raise today (yay they were not lying abour my raise coming in Sep, even though everyone else gets it in Aug)! Its even backdated by 6 months! Laslty the work success has happened literally one day before the bos has to go report on our progress to the people who give us funding. I'm sure he is happy too.


-I am sad I did not receive a bread making machine though, is chocolate chip, cinnamon bread a thing? Puck you should make that!

[QuickTidal]

It should be noted that -40 in Winterpeg is NOT the norm. That's an anomaly that happens in Manitoba on occasion. But Winterpeg is South south south Manitoba, and thus not indicative of the winter weather even a few hours north in the province, or any province.

To get -40 on the somewhat regular, you need to be closer to the heart of the Canadian shield , Hudson Bay, and the surrounds....and north of most habitable major cities and towns.

It's certainly not The Tyga, or anything like that.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 11 September 2018 - 03:56 PM

[Mentalist]

QuickTidal, on 11 September 2018 - 03:55 PM, said:

It should be noted that -40 in Winterpeg is NOT the norm. That's an anomaly that happens in Manitoba on occasion. But Winterpeg is South south south Manitoba, and thus not indicative of the winter weather even a few hours north in the province, or any province.

To get -40 on the somewhat regular, you need to be closer to the heart of the Canadian shield , Hudson Bay, and the surrounds....and north of most habitable major cities and towns.

It's certainly not The Tyga, or anything like that.

For the 3 winters I've been there, -35 was pretty common. And the only observable difference between -25 and -35 I've noticed is the decrease amount of time you can stay outside. After -25 you stop really feeling "degrees of cold" , in my experience at least.

[Tiste Simeon]

Holy crap I have an interview to start me on the path to become a detective. This is something I really want and I found out today that they are telling people pretty much as soon as the interview is over! This is all happening quite quickly - it's on Monday morning!

[Abyss]

Tiste Simeon, on 12 September 2018 - 02:39 PM, said:

Holy crap I have an interview to start me on the path to become a detective. This is something I really want and I found out today that they are telling people pretty much as soon as the interview is over! This is all happening quite quickly - it's on Monday morning!

Do you have the magnifying glass and deerstalker hat ready?

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

Tiste Simeon, on 12 September 2018 - 02:39 PM, said:

Holy crap I have an interview to start me on the path to become a detective. This is something I really want and I found out today that they are telling people pretty much as soon as the interview is over! This is all happening quite quickly - it's on Monday morning!

Best of luck Tiste!

WHMMHT: I'd thought that I possibly couldn't do the sponsored Yorkshire Three Peaks for the local lot who provided my counselling because of the wider charity structure (they sit under a huge umbrella charity) and they hadn't got back to my enquiry.

Got an email this morning from their community leader - not only is she furthering the question higher up about how to allocate sponsorship directly to the local counselling service (which is what I wanted!) but she also asked if they could sort the allocation out, would she and some of her team be welcome to join the walk and run a social media campaign promoting it as part of the charity's awareness stuff for the local area.

So unexpected, but how wonderful!

This post has been edited by TheRetiredBridgeburner: 12 September 2018 - 03:12 PM

[Macros]

I assume you'll be wanting the dead bodies cases

[Tiste Simeon]

Macros, on 12 September 2018 - 03:12 PM, said:

I assume you'll be wanting the dead bodies cases

Ahh not heard a good "Tiste the necro" joke in years. Makes me wonder what happened to snake...

[Macros]

And a load of the alumni really. Toby et al