Tyrion Posted January 12, 2009 Posted January 12, 2009 Yeah, I know how much winter sucks. It was a pretty frigid 60 degrees Fahrenheit over here in Southern California a few days ago. We actually don't get winter. We just have spring, a long summer, and autumn. Leaves are still turning red and yellow, for Christ's sake!
Kjølen Posted January 12, 2009 Posted January 12, 2009 Congratulations, Kjølen, you get the Cold as F*** award. Enjoy your ass before it freezes off. Thanks. You know how much I hate to lose.
RoxStar Posted January 12, 2009 Posted January 12, 2009 Yeah, I know how much winter sucks. It was a pretty frigid 60 degrees Fahrenheit over here in Southern California a few days ago. We actually don't get winter. We just have spring, a long summer, and autumn. Leaves are still turning red and yellow, for Christ's sake! Cold is better than fault lines and earthquakes!
Darth Groovy Posted January 12, 2009 Posted January 12, 2009 Cold is better than fault lines and earthquakes! I draw the line here. It is not my fault you have earthquakes.
Q Posted January 12, 2009 Posted January 12, 2009 Ohh, right. Wind chill. Well, that brings it down to -40 for Duluth. Is that Fahrenheit or Celsius? You decide. But it's a "dry" cold. Seriously, I grew up in northern Indiana where it could get pretty cold, but it was after moving to southwest Virginia that I experienced how bad "wet" cold weather can be. It rarely gets really cold here, but when the temperature hovers around freezing the air stays very humid and soaks into your clothes and generally gives you that wonderful "bone-chilling" effect. I frequently find myself hoping that it actually gets colder just to knock that humidity out of the air. I like to call it "pneumonia weather".
MrWally Posted January 15, 2009 Posted January 15, 2009 It's -20 (without windchill). Pretty cold outside.
TiE23 Posted January 15, 2009 Posted January 15, 2009 It's a comfortable 39 degrees outside at the moment. There is actually sun in Western Washington today. The birds are singing and I'm having fun just lazing about.
EnderWiggin Posted January 16, 2009 Posted January 16, 2009 3F right now where I live in PA Windy too - my ears froze. _EW_
DarthAve Posted January 16, 2009 Posted January 16, 2009 My windows are still broken, so when I emerged from my warm bed to check the news to see school was still on, I felt the brunt of -12 in nothing but my knickers.
Tyrion Posted January 16, 2009 Posted January 16, 2009 My windows are still broken, so when I emerged from my warm bed to check the news to see school was still on, I felt the brunt of -12 in nothing but my knickers. Knickers? Knickers? What are you, a 40 year old British woman?
IG-64 Posted January 16, 2009 Posted January 16, 2009 Oh no.. we have to save Rhett, he's stuck in the 90s!
IG-64 Posted January 16, 2009 Posted January 16, 2009 There are worse places to be stuck... You're right. Like the 80s!
TiE23 Posted January 16, 2009 Posted January 16, 2009 You're right. Like the 80s! No, 1340's in Europe would suck more. Bubonic plague man, not cool.
Q Posted January 16, 2009 Posted January 16, 2009 Oh no.. we have to save Rhett, he's stuck in the 90s! There are worse places to be stuck... You're right. Like the 80s! No s***. I grew up in that decade, and I wouldn't want to go back there. No, 1340's in Europe would suck more. Bubonic plague man, not cool. Speaking of which: has anyone seen that church in eastern Europe with the interior completely decorated with the bones of thousands of plague victims? I think I saw it on the History Channel. It's got to be one of the most macabre things I've ever seen. OT: Well, it's now hovering around +5 degrees F here in southwest Virginia, so it's now the coldest that it's been here in recent memory, but at least it's dry.
MrWally Posted January 17, 2009 Posted January 17, 2009 but at least it's dry. Personally, I can't stand the dry cold. I've constantly been applying lotion and chap stick all day, but my hands are so dry that they've begun to crack and bleed, and my lips feel the same. Not good. But to be fair, I've never really experienced a "wet cold." I don't think.
leXX Posted January 17, 2009 Author Posted January 17, 2009 You're right. Like the 80s! No s***. I grew up in that decade, and I wouldn't want to go back there. Hey, I loved the 80's! My favourite decade in fact, the music was awesome.
Boba Rhett Posted January 17, 2009 Posted January 17, 2009 Yeah, what's with the 80s hate? They rocked just for Reagan alone. Oh and the cartoons, THE CARTOONS. But I digress. Man it's cold.
Q Posted January 17, 2009 Posted January 17, 2009 Personally, I can't stand the dry cold. I've constantly been applying lotion and chap stick all day, but my hands are so dry that they've begun to crack and bleed, and my lips feel the same. Not good. Get a humidifier. But to be fair, I've never really experienced a "wet cold." I don't think. Sure you have. It usually happens in the Spring up there. It's any time that the temp is >32F but <40F and the humidity level is high. The reason that you don't notice it so much up there is because it gets so friggin' cold (and stays that way all winter) that anything above freezing feels warm. The reason I bitch about the "wet cold" so much is that it usually doesn't get much colder than freezing down here (now being an exception) but the air stays damp all winter long unless it does, and, being a transplanted Yankee, I'm used to "dry cold". Hey, I loved the 80's! I'm sorry. My favourite decade in fact, the music was awesome. You'll have to go into specifics here, but I sincerely hope that you're not referring to 80s pop, because I think that the vast majority of it sucked balls. Repetitive, repetitive, repetitive crap. Towards the end of the decade I wanted to seek out and kill the ****in' moron whose brilliant idea was like "Hey, let's see how many times we can repeat the same 7- to 9-note tune and the same 7- to 9-word phrase in one song. I'll bet it becomes a trend." Well, unfortunately it did.
Tyrion Posted January 17, 2009 Posted January 17, 2009 It's a known fact that 80's pop songs were known for their lyrical eloquence and subtlety, harmonically and contrapuntally complex music, and their total lack of flamboyantly homosexual overtones.
IG-64 Posted January 17, 2009 Posted January 17, 2009 But to be fair, I've never really experienced a "wet cold." I don't think. You wouldn't like it. "Wet cold" is not a very good description, try "piercingly horrible cold." Also, yes, the 80's had Regan and some (some) good entertainment, but agh, it's the culture that bothers me.
Boba Rhett Posted January 17, 2009 Posted January 17, 2009 Well that's too bad because the 80's are coming back, baby, so hold onto your headbands.
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