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Is it hotter in Africa or Korea?

 
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mikekim



Joined: 11 Aug 2006

PostPosted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 4:46 pm    Post subject: Is it hotter in Africa or Korea? Reply with quote

Came up in teacher workshops today? WTF anybody from Africa to testify.
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jaganath69



Joined: 17 Jul 2003

PostPosted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 4:47 pm    Post subject: Re: Is it hotter in Africa or Korea? Reply with quote

mikekim wrote:
Came up in teacher workshops today? WTF anybody from Africa to testify.


Africa's a big place. Do you mean Algeria in the middle of the Sahara, the top of Kilamanjaro in Tanzania or the high veld in South Africa?
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mrsquirrel



Joined: 13 Dec 2006

PostPosted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 4:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It ain't too hot here.

It's a little bit warm.

The poster above knows what warm is much like me, Indo, Thailand, Darwin.

There is hot and a little bit then there is farking hot. It ain't farking hot here.
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therooster



Joined: 11 May 2007

PostPosted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 5:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's generally hotter in South Africa in the hottest months...and it's way hotter over the rest of the year ...which is probably the coldest place in Africa.....so I'd say sure it's hotter in the rest of africa..

it's not hot in Korea...just a few humid months...you ought to try living in Thailand....
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indytrucks



Joined: 09 Apr 2003
Location: The Shelf

PostPosted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 8:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Try Windhoek in January or February and tell me if Korea's hot.

That being said, Africa's a big place, like another poster mentioned.
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bosintang



Joined: 01 Dec 2003
Location: In the pot with the rest of the mutts

PostPosted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 8:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

THe hottest temperature ever recorded was in Libya at 57 degrees.

Temperature by itself doesn't mean much without factoring in the humidity factor..Still, 57 degrees. You won't live too long exposed in heat like that.

Thailand is hotter and more humid, no doubt, but for some reason it's a "nicer" heat. I don't know why. It feels like it's almost hard to breathe in Korea sometimes. Maybe it's not the heat but the pollution.


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whatever



Joined: 11 Jun 2006
Location: Korea: More fun than jail.

PostPosted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 8:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nope, it's one country. Ask any of your students...they'll set the record straight. Wink
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Yu_Bum_suk



Joined: 25 Dec 2004

PostPosted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 8:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There's something about the Korean summer that just zaps the energy right out of me the way no other place I've lived has. After work I don't want to do anything but watch TV with A/C doing the best it can to cool down a house a bit too big for one A/C unit.
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mrsquirrel



Joined: 13 Dec 2006

PostPosted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 8:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thailand it's hot all year (other than the coolish season)

Korea you get used to the cold then it heats up again. Taks about 3 months for your pores to open properly and let you cool.
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pkang0202



Joined: 09 Mar 2007

PostPosted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 8:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mostly Canadians complain about the heat in Korea.

I'm from Virginia and +33C 100% humidity summers is a norm for us. We got mosquitoes that would eat Korean children whole.
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Mr. Pink



Joined: 21 Oct 2003
Location: China

PostPosted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 8:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

pkang0202 wrote:
Mostly Canadians complain about the heat in Korea.

I'm from Virginia and +33C 100% humidity summers is a norm for us. We got mosquitoes that would eat Korean children whole.


I am curious about those mosquitoes. I saw some MONSTER size ones when I was in Singapore...they were typically 10x the size of the ones i've seen here in Korea.
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mrsquirrel



Joined: 13 Dec 2006

PostPosted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 8:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hotter climate = bigger insects.
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crazy_arcade



Joined: 05 Nov 2006

PostPosted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 10:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I would've gone into a spiel and lectured about what I learned in Elementary School about longitude and latitude. I would've made great care to emphasize "ELEMENTARY SCHOOL" at every chance possible.

hahaha....apu-ree-ka.....hahahaha
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blaseblasphemener



Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be

PostPosted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 10:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Canadian mosquitos are farking terrible. They may not be terribly big, but they are the equivalent of 100 ajjumas swarming a 3,000 scarf table at Galleria. Watch out.
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luv2dance79



Joined: 01 Jun 2007
Location: Suwon

PostPosted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 2:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

mrsquirrel wrote:
It ain't too hot here.

It's a little bit warm.

The poster above knows what warm is much like me, Indo, Thailand, Darwin.

There is hot and a little bit then there is farking hot. It ain't farking hot here.


I couldn't agree more...everyone is complaining how hot it is...HA...spend 27 summers in Florida with unbearable humidity...then you'll realize that Korean summers are a breeze...I just got back from Hong Kong...and it was way hotter there. Although, they do have a sub-tropical climate...reminded me of home.
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