The Vent and Rant Thread - Page 2421

poohbear_nc · 06-18-2023, 12:35 PM

I forgot about the air quality advisory warning and took a brisk walk -- now I have a very sore throat and a pounding headache ... sigh ...

JSWolf · 06-18-2023, 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by HLS

I am glad I can go without air conditioning unless its in the 90s and humid. My apt is on the 9th floor and in a shadow so it remains probably 10 to 20 degrees cooler than outside. I think we are spoiled. I grew up with no air conditioning. Not even a window unit. All we used were box fans. My desk is by a window, i can just have it open with a fan and im good

Speaking of air conditioning. The first time my wife and I moved after we got married, we moved on a very hot and very humid day. We had a smallish window AC unit. But it didn't do much in the humid weather.

Not long after having moved, I jumped online and went to Best-Buy's website. I found a medium-large (I forget witch) AC unit that did dehumidifying. I reserved it. We jumped in the car went and got it and installed it. It made one heck of a difference.

Another thing that happened that day is my mother gave us some watermelon and we put it in the fridge. When we took it out, it was almost frozen because we didn't check the settings on the fridge. Given how hot and humid it was, it was the best watermelon ever.

Hitch · 06-19-2023, 10:19 AM

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Originally Posted by JSWolf

Speaking of air conditioning. The first time my wife and I moved after we got married, we moved on a very hot and very humid day. We had a smallish window AC unit. But it didn't do much in the humid weather.

Not long after having moved, I jumped online and went to Best-Buy's website. I found a medium-large (I forget witch) AC unit that did dehumidifying. I reserved it. We jumped in the car went and got it and installed it. It made one heck of a difference.

Another thing that happened that day is my mother gave us some watermelon and we put it in the fridge. When we took it out, it was almost frozen because we didn't check the settings on the fridge. Given how hot and humid it was, it was the best watermelon ever.

I grew up w/o A/C, in the Northeast (USA), but I now live in Phoenix, AZ and the chance of me even thinking about living without a/c are non-existent. Not. A. Chance.

hITCH

John F · 06-19-2023, 02:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Hitch

I grew up w/o A/C, in the Northeast (USA), but I now live in Phoenix, AZ and the chance of me even thinking about living without a/c are non-existent. Not. A. Chance.

hITCH

I grew up in south Northeast without A/C and now live in south Northeast. I wouldn't want to live with A/C in home or car. I could, but I wouldn't want to. In the house, for me, I probably only have it 10 days during the summer. In the car late spring through early autumn A/C is usually on, sometimes with the windows down.

CRussel · 06-19-2023, 06:48 PM

We finally broke down and bought a portable A/C here. With climate change, we're getting more and longer hot spells where it's really challenging for my DW. Frankly, if we had the $$ we'd be investing in a good heat pump, but as it is we make do with a pellet stove in the winter and fans in the summer except for prolonged hot spells (over 30 C.) My eggplants and peppers really like the heat, but the rest of us have problems with it.

neil_swann80 · 06-20-2023, 07:21 AM

Can we all agree that people that don't use their turn signals should be trebucheted into the Grand Canyon?

Terisa de morgan · 06-20-2023, 08:23 AM

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Originally Posted by neil_swann80

Can we all agree that people that don't use their turn signals should be trebucheted into the Grand Canyon?

YES! I agree.

Hitch · 06-20-2023, 10:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan

YES! I agree.

Hey, I live in AZ. Could you trebuchet them someplace else, please? :-) I agree with the sentiment--just not the target location.

Hitch

neil_swann80 · 06-20-2023, 10:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Hitch

Hey, I live in AZ. Could you trebuchet them someplace else, please? :-) I agree with the sentiment--just not the target location.

Hitch

Are you concerned there's enough offenders to fill-in the canyon? I'm sure coyotes and mountain lions will be able to take care of the clean-up operation.

Hitch · 06-20-2023, 11:15 AM

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Originally Posted by neil_swann80

Are you concerned there's enough offenders to fill-in the canyon? I'm sure coyotes and mountain lions will be able to take care of the clean-up operation.

Nope, that's not my concern. Any of you ever actually been there? Seen it with your own eyeballs?

Hitch

neil_swann80 · 06-20-2023, 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Hitch

Nope, that's not my concern. Any of you ever actually been there? Seen it with your own eyeballs?

Hitch

Yeah. It's pretty roomy.

ApK · 06-20-2023, 12:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Hitch

Nope, that's not my concern. Any of you ever actually been there? Seen it with your own eyeballs?

Hitch

Yup, when I moved out to CA for a year back in '89, we stopped by on the drive. Somewhere I have videotape of me jumping out onto a rock outcrop and shooting straight down into the canyon. No safety line, no one holding me. I was incredibly lucky. I need to find that tape and digitize it, because even just remembering it has been a reminder to me to never be that recklessly stupid again, and I should show it to my kids.

It was awesome, BTW. Very...um...grand.

BTW, I'd suggest the bottom of the ocean as an alternate trebuchet target, but that's where the lawyers will go.

DNSB · 06-20-2023, 01:02 PM

I agree with the sentiments but not with the target. The other question is if the driver goes alone or in the car?

Hitch · 06-22-2023, 04:49 AM

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Originally Posted by neil_swann80

Yeah. It's pretty roomy.

That it is!

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Originally Posted by ApK

Yup, when I moved out to CA for a year back in '89, we stopped by on the drive. Somewhere I have videotape of me jumping out onto a rock outcrop and shooting straight down into the canyon. No safety line, no one holding me. I was incredibly lucky. I need to find that tape and digitize it, because even just remembering it has been a reminder to me to never be that recklessly stupid again, and I should show it to my kids.

It was awesome, BTW. Very...um...grand.

BTW, I'd suggest the bottom of the ocean as an alternate trebuchet target, but that's where the lawyers will go.

It is, indeed, grand. I lived here for IDK-how-many years, without realizing just how extraordinary it truly is, until I had family come out, that just "hadda" see it. I contacted a pilot friend, arranged to license a plane for however-long, and off we went. I didn't expect to be as gobsmacked as I was--but in truth, seeing it from the ground is just...nothing, nothing at all, compared to seeing it from the air. It is freaking remarkable. It should not be filled, via trebuchet or any other method, with crappy people, cars, or anything else. It's...just amazing. Truly.

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Originally Posted by DNSB

I agree with the sentiments but not with the target. The other question is if the driver goes alone or in the car?

Yes. Very excellent question!

Hitch

neil_swann80 · 06-22-2023, 05:49 AM

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Originally Posted by DNSB

I agree with the sentiments but not with the target. The other question is if the driver goes alone or in the car?

Driver alone, the car is an innocent victim.

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Originally Posted by Hitch

but in truth, seeing it from the ground is just...nothing, nothing at all, compared to seeing it from the air. It is freaking remarkable. It should not be filled, via trebuchet or any other method, with crappy people, cars, or anything else. It's...just amazing. Truly

Agreed. But the Canyon is roomy enough not to even see the odd human lump catapulted in. The local fauna would have a tasty treat as their reward for cleaning up the evidence. AND there'd be a smaller percentage of people in existence that do not use their turn signal.

We could even dress the guilty in camo before serving the justice of the trebuchet upon them.

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06-18-2023, 12:35 PM	#36301
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,818 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	I forgot about the air quality advisory warning and took a brisk walk -- now I have a very sore throat and a pounding headache ... sigh ...

06-19-2023, 06:48 PM	#36305
CRussel (he/him/his) Posts: 12,298 Karma: 80074820 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Sunshine Coast, BC Device: Oasis (Gen3),Paperwhite (Gen10), Voyage, Paperwhite(orig), iPad Air M3	We finally broke down and bought a portable A/C here. With climate change, we're getting more and longer hot spells where it's really challenging for my DW. Frankly, if we had the $$ we'd be investing in a good heat pump, but as it is we make do with a pellet stove in the winter and fans in the summer except for prolonged hot spells (over 30 C.) My eggplants and peppers really like the heat, but the rest of us have problems with it.

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neil_swann80 0000000000101010 Posts: 5,897 Karma: 12981955 Join Date: Mar 2023 Location: An island off the coast of Ireland Device: PB632 [HD3]	Can we all agree that people that don't use their turn signals should be trebucheted into the Grand Canyon?

06-20-2023, 01:02 PM	#36313
DNSB Bibliophagist Posts: 47,216 Karma: 171291588 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Vancouver Device: Kobo Sage, Libra Colour, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos	I agree with the sentiments but not with the target. The other question is if the driver goes alone or in the car?