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[SueH]

[Aramas]

Pale-skinned blondes. What's difficult to understand about that?

[denise]

[Hod]

[Aramas]

One the one hand, Eastern Europe has dreadful food and worse weather. On the other, the most beautiful girls in the world.

Hmm...that's a tough one

The tropics are overrated. It's pleasant as long as one doesn't actually have to move, but any physical activity whatsoever causes the pores to go into 'gush' mode, and a slimy slurry of sweat and grease is not an attractive look, nor is having concentric rings of salt crystals around one's armpits and crotch. Not to mention the collection of fungal infections and parasites that one can't help but succumb to after a few months. It's ok for the NGO gravy trainers, since they only have to deal with a few minutes a day in unprocessed air, but for us lesser creatures it's just horrible.

Further, while my maternal grandfather's birth certificate says he was born in Pennsylvania, I suspect that it may have been a missprint - if my pointy eye teeth, pallid complexion and aversion to sunlight is any indication. I'm definitely a night person, although it's been months since I've bitten anyone.

After three years in the tropics, I probably just need a few months of truly dismal weather, swollen joints and a dripping nose before I start singing the praises of tropical climes.

[merlin]

[Guy Courchesne]

Solar Vitamin D

[naturegirl321]

At least in cold climates, you don't get sunspots, like here in the tropics.

[merlin]

Speaking of spots, a lot of people with vitiligo (speling?) just can't handle lots of sun because of the lack of pigmentation in their skin.

[Khrystene]

Hod and Aramas are cordially NOT invited to Central/Eastern Europe after their remarks.

And yes, as Merlin said, women in CEE are taller than Asian women, hence the weight difference...

Aside from that, what the HELL has weight got to do with it?!

Rub your brain cell a little...

Me, I'm pale [not tanned or solarium orange], not a size 14 [in AU, UK or USA], and have dark hair, like the cold, have a helluva brain, a great sense of humour, and can speak, read AND write English rather well. And I'm a Pole.



"Here we are now, entertain us..."

[Scott Denham]

I think I would do much better someplace that got into the negative C range than someplace that was hot and muggy. I'm from Utah, where it actually doesn't get that cold, but anytime I was someplace really cold a pair of long underwear, thick pants, and nice gloves could get me to the bar. The trick might be to skip the pub crawl and get drunk enough at one spot so that it doesn't feel as cold.

When I even visit Virginia in the summer it's too hot and humid for me!

[khmerhit]

Wow. Are you doing anything Saturday night, Khrystene>?

[Lady Penelope]

[Hod]

[Aramas]

After a couple of decades in Melbourne and Tasmania I had those spider-webby veins visible on my cheekbones and had a cold or flu as often as not. After a few years in the tropics the veins are nearly gone and I haven't had a cold or flu here at all. I can't imagine how seriously a Euro winter would trash my face, and health in general. Still, I avoid sunlight like the plague, so I'm probably not a typical tropic dweller. I suppose that Dengue and Ross River Fever sort of even things out a bit, but I don't seem to have caught either yet.

I suspect that the only reason humans settled in places where it snows was because they were running away from war and/or disease, squealing like little girls.

Air conditioners are for pussies. Ceiling fans are the way to go.