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JongnoGuru



Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep

PostPosted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 4:23 pm    Post subject: By *beep*, but it's pleasant right now! Reply with quote

and nasty.

Been outside yet? Got up, took a shower, yogurt/apple/toast/tea, went out to water the garden for maybe 10 minutes.... then had to come in & shower again. How can it be so ridiculously hot and unpleasant at 8 in the morning??

Everyone I see outside, at any hour, is sweating from the face and looking miserable these days. Is it me or have the past few days been abnormally, global-warmingly wretched? It feels much worse than other summers.


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Alan_Partridge



Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Location: in the posh part of town

PostPosted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 4:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I know what you mean, the walk to work was a change-of-clothes affair...
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Zyzyfer



Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 5:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It doesn't feel any worse than normal to me. I think the catch is that we had a longer spring and summer didn't really get going until just now, in AUGUST.

Luckily, I have a near door-to-door bus service between work and home and A/C at work, so I don't notice the heat much until about 8 pm. By then, it's bearable. Twisted Evil
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Grotto



Joined: 21 Mar 2004

PostPosted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 5:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

and people wonder why I tell newbs to demand air con Laughing
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michinkorea



Joined: 27 Jul 2006

PostPosted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 5:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well I'm in Southern Ontario, Canada (Hamilton) and yesterday it was 36C - 47C with the humidex. Thankfully we had a crazy storm last night and today it was only 31C Rolling Eyes
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JongnoGuru



Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep

PostPosted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 5:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

damn, air conditioning isn't a luxury by any means in this weather.

last night in one of my rooms i had all the windows wide open, a huge factory-use floor fan blasting away... and at 1 a.m. it was still a stifling 31 degrees in there.

the trick is to localise your all activities in one single small room and then crank the A/C in there. screw trying to keep a whole house or even a few large rooms bearable, i'd go broke doing that. the kitchen & living room were especially beastly. i dread going home. and i really do think this summer is more oppressive than others.
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OiGirl



Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: Hoke-y-gun

PostPosted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 10:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Discuss: is it or is it not a long, hot summer because the Korean calendar has a leap year with two Julys? Laughing
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Alan_Partridge



Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Location: in the posh part of town

PostPosted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 10:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

[quote="Zyzyfer"]It doesn't feel any worse than normal to me. I think the catch is that we had a longer spring and summer didn't really get going until just now, in AUGUST.quote]

Yeah, I'd go with that. Up until this week this summer had been fairly tame. Also for me, this is my first summer with fully air-conditioned apt and classroom...what a difference that makes!
On a related note: can anyone remember when the cicadas stop their racket? It's already driving me nuts....(ugly suckers, too)
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semphoon



Joined: 18 Nov 2005
Location: Where Nowon is

PostPosted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 11:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

[quote="Alan_Partridge"]
Zyzyfer wrote:

On a related note: can anyone remember when the cicadas stop their racket? It's already driving me nuts....(ugly suckers, too)


Man, they keep waking me up at 6.30. I hate them. I have to have the window open because I only have a fan. I dont want to die of fan death which means those ugly little bugs give me a morning call.

I want fall to come tomorrow. When does it get cool again?
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Zyzyfer



Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 12:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Maybe mid-September? My seasonal detection system has three levels: hot, ok, cold.

6:30 am wake-up calls from the cicadas don't bother me, but hearing them at 2 am when it's still completely dark out makes absolutely no sense. For some reason, a few of them near my house like to party into the wee hours along with me.
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numazawa



Joined: 20 Mar 2005
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 12:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh damn... it appears my apartment is now flooded after I took that six-pack of beer out of the fridge ten minutes ago.

Let this be a warning to you, people. One bottle at a time only, and keep the mop handy.
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ForceOne



Joined: 25 Aug 2005

PostPosted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 10:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

As I mentioned before..."Sweatier Than Patrick Ewing in Double OT"

"And if you don't know, now ya know"...

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numazawa



Joined: 20 Mar 2005
Location: The Concrete Barnyard

PostPosted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 12:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That avatar isn't helping any.... okay, I give up.
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igotthisguitar



Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)

PostPosted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 12:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Honestly almost passed out in class a number of times today Rolling Eyes

Showered 3 times, just to cool off & clean all that sticky sweat off my poor dehydrated bod.

numazawa wrote:
That avatar isn't helping any.... okay, I give up.


FORCE ONE's wiggly-jiggly "avatar" isn't helping Laughing
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Doogie



Joined: 19 Jan 2006
Location: Hwaseong City

PostPosted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 3:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

numazawa wrote:
That avatar isn't helping any.... okay, I give up.

Yea, you're right. ForceOne, that's one heck of an avatar..........Damn, I've got to take another cold shower. I"m already taking enough with this heat.
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