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wo buxihuan hanguoren
Joined: 18 Apr 2007
Location: Suyuskis
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 Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 11:34 pm Post subject: Cor Blimey It's Blimmin' Hot |
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Jesus, actually took the day off work today (I work part-time for the most relaxed Korean guy I've ever met, so I can do stuff like say, Hey, I will teach on Monday, not today and get away with it).
But crikey Moses man, just went to the store, got scorched, and I'm from Africa - we don't have heat like this back in Africa, folks, but we can drink the tap water.
Pizza. |
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wo buxihuan hanguoren
Joined: 18 Apr 2007
Location: Suyuskis
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| Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 12:28 am Post subject: |
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| No reply means agree? If that is so thank you all these while I am so sad |
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chris_J2
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
Location: From Brisbane, Au.
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| Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 12:44 am Post subject: Hot |
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| What part of Africa? Durban in RSA gets pretty hot & humid in the summer too. Last August was worse. A relentless blue sky & 2 weeks of 38c temps. |
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wo buxihuan hanguoren
Joined: 18 Apr 2007
Location: Suyuskis
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| Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 12:47 am Post subject: Re: Hot |
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| chris_J2 wrote: |
| What part of Africa? Durban in RSA gets pretty hot & humid in the summer too. Last August was worse. A relentless blue sky & 2 weeks of 38c temps. |
Yuck! You're talking about the coast - Joburg all the way, toots! |
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indytrucks
Joined: 09 Apr 2003
Location: The Shelf
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| Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 1:13 am Post subject: |
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I made the mistake of going to Umhlanga last January. By Christ, I thought I was melting.
Not as bad as here, though. |
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IncognitoHFX
Joined: 06 May 2007
Location: Yeongtong, Suwon
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| Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 1:14 am Post subject: |
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Really? You're from Africa, and you think its hot today?
I complain about it incessantly, but as a Canadian I'm allowed to complain. I come from the land of eskimos and snowshoes.
I thought that despite the fact that I found it terribly hot, people from warmer climates (Australia, Africa, California et cetera) would find it more on the cold side of warm and not hot at all.
Actually, on the hottest days I've ever experienced here, my friends from warmer climates (ie: Australia) still say its not nearly as hot as an average Aussie day. |
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wo buxihuan hanguoren
Joined: 18 Apr 2007
Location: Suyuskis
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| Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 1:17 am Post subject: |
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| IncognitoHFX wrote: |
Really? You're from Africa, and you think its hot today?
I complain about it incessantly, but as a Canadian I'm allowed to complain. I come from the land of eskimos and snowshoes.
I thought that despite the fact that I found it terribly hot, people from warmer climates (Australia, Africa, California et cetera) would find it more on the cold side of warm and not hot at all.
Actually, on the hottest days I've ever experienced here, my friends from warmer climates (ie: Australia) still say its not nearly as hot as an average Aussie day. |
Humidity, humidity, humidity.
Actually my one uncle is Irish (lives in SA now), he stayed in Canada for a few years, he always told me that one will complain more about the heat and humidity in Canada than the cold. Go figure I guess. |
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therooster
Joined: 11 May 2007
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| Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 1:28 am Post subject: |
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Actually it's not as bad as the east coast in summer...but it's bad .
South Africa must have the world best climate...barely ever too hot or cold.....340 days of temperate sunshine ...West coast barely goes under 20 or over 30 (celcius) for 9 months months of the year .. After living in both hot and cold countries I'll never take South Africa for granted again . |
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chris_J2
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
Location: From Brisbane, Au.
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| Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 2:22 am Post subject: Hot! |
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people from warmer climates (Australia, Africa, California et cetera) would find it more on the cold side of warm and not hot at all.
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I'm from Australia, & the summer heat & humidity in South Korea are every bit as bad (if not worse) than Brisbane, Qld (similar climate to Louisiana & Florida), or even Bangkok in Thailand! A shirt I wore on 13 August was soaked in sweat, after only an hour outside. And it can get up to 42c in Brisbane. (only twice in my lifetime, though). The climate extremes in Korea are unbelievable. Snow in winter, & typhoons & tropical humidity in summer. |
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wo buxihuan hanguoren
Joined: 18 Apr 2007
Location: Suyuskis
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| Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 2:27 am Post subject: |
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| Yeah I had this Canadian guy keep telling me that the Highveld has the best weather in the world or some such crap, poor little fella had never been shot at or owned a gun, weather be damned... |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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Speaking of South Africa. There is an airline deal for 800,000 with less than 100,000 tax in addition, from now until November.
I looked into it for Chuseok, but the Hong Kong connection is booked and its impossible. Anytime else around there, it would be a great ticket and chance to go for a vacation. |
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icicle
Joined: 09 Feb 2007
Location: Gyeonggi do Korea
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| Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 2:53 am Post subject: |
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| IncognitoHFX wrote: |
Actually, on the hottest days I've ever experienced here, my friends from warmer climates (ie: Australia) still say its not nearly as hot as an average Aussie day. |
I am from Australia ... and on some of the days when people mention the heat I wonder what they are talking about because it doesn't feel hot ... But sometimes the humidity does get me, more than the actual temperature does ... I can feel like it isn't hot at all ... but be almost dripping in sweat ... and that is a different sort of heat to the extremes of an Australian summer ... I have also just spent most of my summer vacation sitting inside the teachers office at school rather than actually outside ... and the airconditioning and fans ... have helped to keep that cool ... so maybe I have also missed out on some of the extremes of the heat ... So maybe that is some compensation for time spent at school as required ...
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chris_J2
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
Location: From Brisbane, Au.
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| Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 3:07 am Post subject: Hot |
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| 'icicle' must be from tropical Cairns or Darwin, where it's humid for 6 months of the year. I not only was "almost dripping in sweat" but was saturated with sweat. I am on vacation though, & outdoors touring a fair bit. Gwangju was also very humid. |
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MarionG
Joined: 14 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 3:08 am Post subject: |
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| No reply means we all melted... |
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MarionG
Joined: 14 Sep 2006
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IncognitoHFX? Those people who try and tell you that this is just spring weather (or fall down under I suppose) are just jerkin' yur chain!
I'm from North Carolina, and thought I'd be prepared for the heat and humidity...silly me! |
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