Fuck the weather!

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  1. Maximus

    Maximus New Member

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    So what your really saying is you have 10 monthes of winter and two in summer? Where are you, Siberia?
     
  2. mathboy

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    He lives in Australia, everything is upside down down there.
     
  3. Sofokl

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    Regarding the size of Russia, quite near to it, but on the west side.
     
  4. Vorak

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    Damn, if it was -8 there you'd probably be wearing shorts and a T-shirt.
     
  5. Jungle Japes

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    I'd wear shorts and a T shirt in -8 weather. Just to try to look tough. Of course, it's hard to look tough when you have frozen snot on your upper lip.
     
  6. Sofokl

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    I'm not a Great Viking like some people here...Don't foget that my father was Cuban revolutioner...that's why wearing shorts while it's -8 would be the shortest way not to have girlfriend ever. :???:
     
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    Well if you did at least her nipples would always be hard enough to perve at.
     
  8. Wolfsbane

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    -8 ain't that bad. I couls wear shorts in -8. Celsius, that is, of course. But then again, I'm a Great Viking, so what the heck.
     
  9. Blinky969

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  10. Sofokl

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    But still you wouldn't go (in shorts while it's -8) for a 12-hour walk around the city? (I mean, if you don't have enough alcohol, of course)
     
  11. Blinky969

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    Alcohol expands your blood vessels and increases your rate of heat loss. The feeling of warmth is illusory and supplied by your mind; in actuality you would die of exposure FAR more quickly if you were drunk as compared to sober.
     
  12. Frigo

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    Yeah, some weeks ago I drunk a bottle of wine in a short time (<1 hours). I felt fucking warm for about one hour, and afterwards I almost freezeed! I had to put more clothes on, and it gave me the creeps.
     
  13. Sofokl

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    Yes, I know, scientifically you're right....but...have you seen hundreds of drunken-to-a-condition-of-unconsciouseness people in my city, who lie on the snow for a day while it's -24 (and they're not in warm clothes). I think alcohol makes them somehow "hibernating", when their life doesn't depend upon conditions such as temperature and irritators. Large amounts of "samogon" makes them almost invulnerable...
     
  14. Maximus

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    I've seen a report on the BBC recently stating that Russians drink beer on the way to work, thinking its a soft drink, and that Vodka has healing powers.... Of course, my grandfather (German immigrant) swore that any clear alcohol would help overcome sickness as well, so I cant talk.
     
  15. Wolfsbane

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    Blinky, you can walk in the cold 'cause you're a bloody polar bear. I might be a Great Viking, but my furr ain't that thick just yet.
     
  16. Sofokl

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    Well, about people drinking on the way to work BBC meant guys who work on numerous soviet factories. Large amount of them do not work (still workers get their wages...paradox...), so beer is just their "entertainment". But as for part of society where I live, nobody does this cause work discipline in the "middle-class" is strict. And as for Vodka...this is right....it heals fever sometimes.
     
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    Here in Simi Valley, CA, it's perfectly normal when it's 110°F.
    :???: Nope, no rain here...
     
  18. Frigo

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    In this extraordinarily hot summer, it is around 30°C at 20:00 (!), so I rather spend my day sleeping, and my night at front of my computer. I'll have some troubles at the start of school, that's for sure.
     
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