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Fun Stuff => CHATTER => Topic started by: valley_parade on 25 Nov 2009, 09:18
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I have a job. And a few friends. You know. Things you need to leave your house for.
Sometimes, I even go out to eat, or to a bar for a drink.
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I actually fall into this category. I leave my house to work out and go to work but that's about it nowadays.
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I stopped going to the gym, which sucks 'cos I've put like 10 pounds back on since this summer.
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(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/27/43095053_889e58b078.jpg?v=0)
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postin' in this thread to make myself feel like less of a recluse.
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(http://marcio.net/photos/cd0009/echo_park-one_legged_duck-0797.jpg)
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Birds standing on one foot just freak me out. It never looks like their centre of gravity is anywhere near over their feet.
(http://imgur.com/9oNdM.jpg)
Stupid bird. Fall over already.
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What is wrong with you people
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They got out of the house too much.
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They didn't get out of the house enough.
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I am never leaving my house again.
Or not at least until it's sunny after 8pm. It's dark out!
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Yeah! That's the attitude Linds! Stay home, stay scared, people.
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Outside?
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Yeah, you know. Into the hallway.
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I am never leaving my house again.
Or not at least until it's sunny after 8pm. It's dark out!
Try 4pm. I rarely fuckin' leave this joint. I leave it for work and the occasional grocery shopping trip, and maybe a cigarette run when I run out (which has started to become more and more frequent, which makes me really uncomfortable). And the fucker only comes up at like 9am. Less than 1/3 of the day is lit in this godforsaken state. Fuck being outside, least I can see in here.
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Yeah, there's no way I'd live in Alaska. I would go insane. It's bad enough when it's dark by 6pm, let alone effing 4pm.
You have my sympathies.
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Hehe, thanks. But you see? Smoking IS good for your health. I get more fresh air as a smoker than I ever did as a nonsmoker.
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If by "fresh" you mean "smoke filled".
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FRESH smoke.
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I am constantly out. Work, school, and avoiding my family keep me from being there between the hours of 10 am and midnight.
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I go outside for work, to shop, sometimes to walk around, and to go meet friends (but this isn't very often).
It could be said that I am sort of a shut-in.
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Yeah, there's no way I'd live in Alaska. I would go insane. It's bad enough when it's dark by 6pm, let alone effing 4pm.
Look at the bright side: In the summer it will be sunny at 11PM or so (I don't know what part of Alaska he is in, or care enough to look up average sunrise/set times for June in Alaska).
It has been getting dark around 4:30 now, not quite completely dark, that tends to happen when I am not looking at some point between 4:30 and 5. And I hate the dark. Our poor dog hasn't been getting much in the way of walks recently, I'm not going out after it gets dark to walk the dog. Not only am I scared of the dark, this time of year it gets damn cold once the sun goes down, that bone-piercing chill that doesn't go away until half an hour after you are back in a heated house under three blankets drinking something hot.
I leave my house for school, Parkour, and hanging out with close friends. Sometimes when I've got money for gas I'll go drive around in the mountains for a few hours. I'm not a shut-in, I'm just an apanthropist (I love that word).
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What's an apanthropist?
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An apanthropist seems like a misanthrope, if I can take this similar french word (http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/apanthropie) to be a synonym.
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Compelling. L'enfer c'est les autres, heh.
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It is an older word, you don't see it even in some modern dictionaries (they have to make room for pop culture words somehow). It shares a root with Misanthropy, but instead of mis-(hatred), it is apa-(not caring about, where we get apathy).
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But you spend copious amounts of time on a forum chatting with people many of whom are virtual strangers. Maybe you're just picky? Or shy? Why don't you make yourself comfortable and tell me about your childhood.
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I didn't have a childhood. I came into being fully grown in exchange for my ability to grow facial hair. I think I got the short end of that deal.
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Your mom's vagina must be huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge.
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I reread my post and I'm sorry that I said your mom's vagina must be huge. I've never met your mom and I am sure she is a very classy lady. She may have had you through a C section or perhaps had vaginal reconstruction surgery. I am sure her vagina is quite svelte.
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Naw he was born greek god style.
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You mean cranially?
(http://www.softassteel.com/myth/story3/7.jpg)
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yup
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I'm really enjoying that you just compared Nodaisho to Athena, virgin goddess of wisdom and just war.
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Man, what the hell have I gotten myself into?
I wasn't born cranially, I wasn't even born, I just became, among a chorus of angels, for nothing but a direct act of god could create such wonder. Like I said, though, not worth it. Take Jesus for example, he was born normally, but dude had a huge beard, definitely worth it. Poor sucker went for the divine powers package, though, didn't know what he was getting into.
I think my church just excommunicated me.
Seriously, though, online you can pick who you interact with, and if you don't like them, you can ignore them on most forums, and I don't run into as many people that annoy me online. If I don't like the people or the place anymore, I just shut the browser window. And my apathy is more for humanity in general than all people, same with misanthropes, you don't see anyone that gets described as misanthropic actually hating every single person. I would be misanthropic, but I just can't bring myself to care enough about people I don't like to hate them, it takes too much effort to keep a good hate going.
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Abstinence only works what, 99.9% of the time?
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Depends on whether you are looking at it as pregnancy prevention or overpopulation prevention.
And have you just been posting in subfora I don't go in, or have you not posted for a year?
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She hasn't been around in a while. Good to see her back though.
Hi RWS.
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I left my house roughly 14 hours ago and made some Bad Decisions.
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Hope the kid turns out fine. It was nice knowing you, Em.
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Guys, it's below freezing. I may never go outside again.
Except for ice skating. But you probably won't be able to see my face behind all the mass of layers I'll be wearing.
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Linds it has been around zero hero for the past few days and I haven't even added an extra layer or a hat from what I was wearing when it was 40.
Basically I am saying "SACK UP."
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Liz, I'm sorry I don't live in the frozen wastelands of the north.
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How do people go outside when it is below zero?
Doesn't the moist air in your lungs freeze up and you die? Won't the liquid in your eye sockets go solid and you're left a staring, rock hard frozen version of yourself?
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That's why I whine when I'm outside and run around looking like a walking ball of coat.
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It basically never gets below 50 degrees here.
Suckers.
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That's why I whine when I'm outside and run around looking like a walking ball of coat.
Like this:
(http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/4890/snowsuit.jpg)
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Yes, pretty much, but about 6ft tall.
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How do people go outside when it is below zero?
Doesn't the moist air in your lungs freeze up and you die? Won't the liquid in your eye sockets go solid and you're left a staring, rock hard frozen version of yourself?
Don't forget, temperature is measured in Farenheit here. 0 degrees Farenheit is 32 degrees Celcius.
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Joe Hocking I am educated enough to know that you are telling fibs.
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The only scales where temperatures below zero are always bad are Kelvin, Rankine and Delisle.
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And redundant posts.
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Bah. Ninja edit.
I'll always remember Rankine for the very fact that one of my friends learned thermodynamics using that scale. Gotta love the US Navy.
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I'm pretty fond of winter. You get to see natural selection at work.
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one of the things i love most about winter, and frequently spend entire days looking forward to, is taking a hot bubble bath after enduring a horrible biting -30 celcius winter day that leaves you chapped and numb and crushed and broken and all you can think about is just giving up and lying down in the snow to die but instead you lurch your way back home and stagger into the bath and slowly come back to life and suddenly everything isn't so bad anymore, in fact everything is so NICE and man it's just about one of the best things to do ever. it's so great. baths are the best. that wonderful feeling alone makes horrid frozen wastelands like canada at least somewhat worth enduring i think.
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Joe Hocking I am educated enough to know that you are telling fibs.
well okay but did you almost believe me?
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I'm pretty fond of winter. You get to see natural selection at work.
Clearly the summers where you live are too mild for your own good.
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I used to not care about the cold at all, but the last few years I have been much more sensitive to it.
Might have to do with until this year not being very able to go skiing as frequently as I did in the past. Hmmm. Yes. That follows.
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Clearly the summers where you live are too mild for your own good.
I'm not sure you understand how bad the car accidents get in Minnesota during the winter. The summer just kills off the elderly when a brown out hits. The winter you tend to get more "I dunno, I thought I could make it there" cases that make absolutely no sense whatsoever.
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My implication was not that your winters aren't lethal, but that your summers aren't.
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They're plenty lethal. We get tornadoes and flooding in the summer along with some 90+ degree plus weather and ridiculous humidity. It's just a relatively minor thing relative to the winter. At least we don't really get wildfires though.
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Here's how summer went in '08 at my old hometown.
(http://climate.umn.edu/img/journal/austin_flooding_2_june_2008.jpg)
Nobody actually died though; the worst one we've had in my memory was the '04 flood and I think that only killed 2 people.
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How do people go outside when it is below zero?
Doesn't the moist air in your lungs freeze up and you die? Won't the liquid in your eye sockets go solid and you're left a staring, rock hard frozen version of yourself?
Not sure if you are seriously wondering (Australia doesn't get all that cold, as I understand it), but your body's internal temperate is normally around 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit (37C), and your skin shouldn't be much cooler than that, if it is there is a problem. Your body heats up the air you breathe in, and the liquid in your eyes never cools down that far until you are already long dead since your body is heating itself. It isn't uncommon for us to get days that never go above freezing, and we don't have it as bad as places farther north, especially not as bad as places farther north with more wind.
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How do people go outside when it is below zero?
Doesn't the moist air in your lungs freeze up and you die? Won't the liquid in your eye sockets go solid and you're left a staring, rock hard frozen version of yourself?
Shut up Lunchy below zero weather is the most beautiful weather ever. It's cold and awesome and ice falls from the fucking sky it is incredible! You hang out and wear lovely coats and scarves and gloves and drink hot chocolate and then you go inside and it's all warm and comfortable and stuff. Northern Hemisphere winter is the best winter.
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Okay thankyou! Nodaisho it is something I seriously wondered. I have never been anywhere below freezing ever, but Squiddy my love I do not believe you because no matter how much clothes there is, outside in Winter is always, always awful.
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Australia doesn't get all that cold, as I understand it
Depends where you are. Australia's a continent with all the geographic diversity that implies. In the far south (Tasmania) it can snow in summer; in the not-so-far south and inland and some way above sea-level (Canberra, for instance) it regularly gets below freezing in winter; in the desert far inland it can get fucking cold at night, just as in deserts everywhere.
Lunchy: below freezing point can be pretty entertaining. For instance, if you do a load of washing and hang it on the washing line your clothes will freeze solid on the line!
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Okay thankyou! Nodaisho it is something I seriously wondered. I have never been anywhere below freezing ever, but Squiddy my love I do not believe you because no matter how much clothes there is, outside in Winter is always, always awful.
It probably has more to do with humidity where you are. Cold and wet is a lot worse than the same temperature in dry weather. I personally quite like cool wet days, but humid and below freezing would be awful, and I don't expect that winter dries out the air too much when you live in a coastal city.
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I don't think it's possible to be humid and below freezing. The moisture would freeze and precipitate out of the air; that is what snow is.
Also, Chicago counts as a coastal city (the Great Lakes are basically fresh water seas) and it's pretty dry here right now. New York is a coastal city and I recall winter there being pretty dry too. So that's first-hand experience responding.
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Here's the thing, air has a certain capacity for dissolved water, and that capacity is not reduced to zero when the temperature gets below freezing. However, it is much lower than the capacity when air is heated to a reasonable temperature, so whenever you go inside the air is very dry. It can still be at near 100% humidity outside without any snow (once it gets over 100%, then it precipitates out and freezes as it does so).
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I don't run into as many people that annoy me online.
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED, YOU DOG FUCKER
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I don't think it's possible to be humid and below freezing. The moisture would freeze and precipitate out of the air; that is what snow is.
BB is correct (mostly):
Q: Why isn't relative humidity zero when the air is below freezing? Shouldn't all the water in the air freeze below 32°F?
A: Most people are taught that water freezes at 32°F. The truth is that 32°F is the temperature at which ice melts, not water freezes. While flat surfaces like freshwater ponds or ice cube trays do indeed freeze at 32°F, the small spherical droplets of water that make up clouds do not freeze at 32°F. In fact, supercooled droplets of water have been known to remain as a liquid at temperatures as low as -40°F.
With water remaining in its liquid and even vapor form at temperatures below 32°F, relative humidity values will not drop to zero below 32°F.
See more here (http://www.usatoday.com/weather/resources/askjack/archives-humidity.htm).
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That is really interesting and I didn't know that. However, I never said that the humidity would be zero, only that it wouldn't be high (when someone says "it is humid" they mean the humidity is high, not simply that the humidity is greater than 0.) That is, I simply disagreed with nodaisho's supposition that below-zero coastal cities can be humid (neither of us was sure, we were just thinking out loud.)
Incidentally, is there a similar unexpected reason why the humidity in the desert is not zero? I recall from camping trips in Egypt that while the desert is very very dry, you'd still be covered in dew in the morning after sleeping outside.
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I'm not sure how high the humidity really gets, but I have encountered freezing fog (http://www.theweatherprediction.com/habyhints/359/) while cross country skiing and it certainly feels humid despite being below freezing.
As for dew in the desert, yes it's apparently quite common (http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/pp/faculty/seem/magarey/leafwet/dew_negev.html). That Cornell paper I linked gives three sources for the dew: air, soil, and plants. I note a fourth ickier source: the human body releases (depending on a number of factors including your size and physiology) between 1/2 lb and 2 lbs of water during sleep through respiration and perspiration. One would imagine that the water released would then immediately condensate during a cold desert night.
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However, I never said that the humidity would be zero, only that it wouldn't be high
It might not be high as in volume of water contained within the air, but it can definitely be high as in percentage of water that can be contained within the air. Your body will react the same way in either case.
Also, the desert absorbs tons of water during the day, which is a very small percentage compared to how much solute it can contain. However, when the air cools down as much as it tends to do in the desert, the air can no longer contain as much solute as it used to, so it precipitates out as dew.
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What the hell are we talking about the weather?
Let's get back to the original subject: our pathetic, lonely lives.
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But we're already doing that in like, 3/4s of the other threads.
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But we're already doing that in like, 3/4s of the other threads.
So the other day, it snowed and I stressed out about my car getting towed for violating the parking ban, which was dumb because I was parked in the emergency snow parking already. I like that it is getting wintery, I missed it!
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I went to a party on saturday and got a girl's phone number.
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Okay thankyou! Nodaisho it is something I seriously wondered. I have never been anywhere below freezing ever, but Squiddy my love I do not believe you because no matter how much clothes there is, outside in Winter is always, always awful.
It probably has more to do with humidity where you are. Cold and wet is a lot worse than the same temperature in dry weather. I personally quite like cool wet days, but humid and below freezing would be awful, and I don't expect that winter dries out the air too much when you live in a coastal city.
Welcome to Atlanta where the playas play.
I don't think it's possible to be humid and below freezing.
Hiya.
(Thanks, pilsner.)
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Liz, I'm sorry I don't live in the frozen wastelands of the north.
Please oh god please somebody pay me some attention 'cause I live somewhere colder
That's the tl;dr of what I was about to post
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So do I. Let's pay attention to each other, fellow folks of the north!
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33 degrees Fahrenheit outside (0.5 centigrade), humidity at 82%. So it isn't exactly cold to really speak of, but the cold certainly bites harder than it would if it were this cold in, say, Phoenix.
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Patrick it is currently -4F (-20C) with a wind chill of -15F (-26C). Fargo is a frozen hell hole.
Also, Kris- wikipedia tells me average temperatures are lower here.
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Please oh god please somebody pay me some attention 'cause I live somewhere colder
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Please oh god please somebody pay me some attention 'cause I live somewhere colder and will survive the zombie apocalypse because up north the zombies will freeze during the winters giving the survivors a much needed chance to regroup and marshal their energies.
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I WIN.
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Guys I have a trump card, I live on an island. There are only 8,000 people on this isla-- HEY WAIT A SECOND HERE YOU DID THAT ON PURPOSE
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Patrick, your relationship thread tribulations seem all the more irrelevant. I'd be fucking everything that couldn't run away fast enough just to keep warm.
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Patrick, I don't care if it's colder in Fargo, there's no effing way I'm living in Alaska. You're cold and REALLY FREAKING DARK in the winter and WAY TO FREAKING LIGHT during the summer. I don't care if you have moose and wolverines and shit.
Also, what Tommy said.
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Fargo is a frozen hell hole.
Yeah, from a climate perspective, the Dakotas are basically Minnesota, but slightly worse.
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Liz is pretty much from Frozen Hell Hole x2, since she lives in Fargo but is from Minnesota. Basically, Liz, you're screwed! Move to a warm, sunny place, eh?
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I'd be fucking everything that couldn't run away fast enough just to keep warm.
Liz is pretty much from Frozen Hell Hole x2
Suddenly it all becomes clear.
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The more populated areas of Minnesota actually end up with more sunlight than much of the north east, so if you have SAD or something you can actually do quite a bit worse; it's rather sunny right now, actually.
But yeah, it does get pretty cold.
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No wonder the dude in your avatar wears that sweater all the time.
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Actually, he lives in Arizona; maybe the interview was done up here or something. I couldn't tell you.
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I'm actually kind of disappointed that isn't you.
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Patrick, your relationship thread tribulations seem all the more irrelevant. I'd be fucking everything that couldn't run away fast enough just to keep warm.
Why do you think I have still been doing my ex even though it causes extreme feelings of guilt, Tommy?
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Actually, he lives in Arizona; maybe the interview was done up here or something. I couldn't tell you.
Wait, that's not you??
I loved that sweater, I always hoped to see you wearing it.
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If I made millions of dollars and sported that sweater+mullet combo, I'd probably be too busy drinking and voting Republican to post here.
But we can pretend if you like.
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Eccentric millionaires abound, I don't make assumptions.
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Suddenly it all becomes clear.
Tommy are you suggesting that I'm promiscuous?
Honestly.
Liz is pretty much from Frozen Hell Hole x2, since she lives in Fargo but is from Minnesota. Basically, Liz, you're screwed! Move to a warm, sunny place, eh?
I'm going to move to California and be Bryan's neighbor.
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I'm going to move to California and be Bryan's neighbor.
Give him a hug and then just stand there and smile at him until he gets uncomfortable. Once that is acheived, tell him it was from me and not to worry, that's how I greet everybody.
Hi there.
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I think I can manage that. Making people uncomfortable is one of my many talents.
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That is, I simply disagreed with nodaisho's supposition that below-zero coastal cities can be humid (neither of us was sure, we were just thinking out loud.)
I was assuming that you still get moisture blown off of the sea, since it doesn't freeze due to there being so much of it keeping the rest warm. I haven't been to any coast much, though, and not at all during the winter, so I could be wrong.
It probably has more to do with humidity where you are. Cold and wet is a lot worse than the same temperature in dry weather. I personally quite like cool wet days, but humid and below freezing would be awful, and I don't expect that winter dries out the air too much when you live in a coastal city.
Welcome to Atlanta where the playas play.
I don't think it's possible to be humid and below freezing.
Hiya.
From my experience, Atlanta in the last weeks of December and first weeks of January is what I was thinking of when I said cool and wet. I played basketball on new years day until the sun went down there last year, I just needed a light jacket. I sat out on the screen porch for quite a bit of my time there, enjoying the weather. Sure, it seems miserably cold when that is what you are used to, but when you are used to temperatures that have highs in the teens, temperatures that are above freezing for most of the day seem wonderful. My mother is an Atlanta native, and she had to admit that after 20 or so years of CO winters, Atlanta wasn't nearly as bad as she remembered. Liz would probably go around in Atlanta in the winter in a t-shirt and shorts, and wonder why everyone was acting so strange.
I'm going to move to California and be Bryan's neighbor.
Frozen hellhole to burning hellhole. Interesting decision.
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I am odd in that I would rather sweat profusely than be a little chilly. When it gets up to 95 here I am so happy.
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Oh, I wasn't thinking of the temperature so much as how the bottom half of the state has the interesting habit of lighting on fire every summer. And the hellhole part varies depending on your political views and what part of the state you live in, I suppose (you couldn't pay me to live in LA).
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My fiancee is contemplating buying a condo in Sonoma Valley. That part of the state is real purty.
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Not to mention that it has some of the best vineyards in the State (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_River_(California)).
Two questions:
(1) Will it have a guest bedroom?
(2) Have I ever told you how much I admire and respect you?
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Joe, you've been engaged for like six years, either get married or
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or
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Joe, you've been engaged for like six years, either get married or
Turtle: This is where you should be living, Vince. In a kingdom, like a prince.
Eric: Don't you mean in a kingdom like a king, you idiot?
Vince: Nah, E. Everyone wants to kill the king. But the prince, he just sails along telling all the ladies, "One day I'm gonna be king."