Heat (1 Viewer)

[ann post]

I wear those breathable outdoors trousers like some guy who buys a load crap from outdoors stores.

I recommend them for pale men who need shade and air

 

[therealjohnny]

'Too hot to work' law urged

The GMB union says workers need protection as a red warning for extreme heat in parts of England begins.

www.bbc.com

 

[therealjohnny]

A mate is working in a glasshouse today- 35 degrees


He's told everyone to get out

 

[David Kronenbourg]

'Too hot to work' law urged

The GMB union says workers need protection as a red warning for extreme heat in parts of England begins.

www.bbc.com

I'm too hot to work

 

[Space]

Buncha drama queens.

Thirty something every day in DC at the moment, and that's not really going to even cool off at night unless you're living by the woods.

And it's going to be like that until September or some shit.

This is Dublin not DC.

 

[nuke terrorist]

i remember wearing wellies working in heat like this years ago. saturated socks and soaked shins all day - yuck.
not terrible if yer not doing physical stuff but miserable if you are.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

It's glorious

 

[flashback]

Yeah but look at the state of America.

You're just jealous. No one's ever going to want to leave that paradise.

 

[seanc]

I've been sent away from my flat because she's sorting her stuff out, so I've taken the laptop to a local hub community workspace with wifi. i mean the pub.
This shit is brutal, I didn't want to leave the house. Forcing me out of the house today says a lot about her. It's just a bit shit.

Another note, on a recent hot day I was talking to a Jamaican and a Kenyan, they both said it gets hotter back home but the heat is different. London has "dutty heat".

 

[David Kronenbourg]

I've been sent away from my flat because she's sorting her stuff out, so I've taken the laptop to a local hub community workspace with wifi. i mean the pub.
This shit is brutal, I didn't want to leave the house. Forcing me out of the house today says a lot about her. It's just a bit shit.

Another note, on a recent hot day I was talking to a Jamaican and a Kenyan, they both said it gets hotter back home but the heat is different. London has "dutty heat".

grimey heat, pollution, vomit and fast food scraps baking in the sun

 

[flashback]

I've been sent away from my flat because she's sorting her stuff out, so I've taken the laptop to a local hub community workspace with wifi. i mean the pub.
This shit is brutal, I didn't want to leave the house. Forcing me out of the house today says a lot about her. It's just a bit shit.

Another note, on a recent hot day I was talking to a Jamaican and a Kenyan, they both said it gets hotter back home but the heat is different. London has "dutty heat".

Heat that comes off a concrete island is unrelenting, and comes up off the ground so even shade doesn't work very well. It doesn't stop at night, and it just piles up over the days. Then the buildings sort of stop any breeze from getting to you, unless you stand at the right junction or something.

So yeah, agree with dirty heat alright.

 

[chris d]

grimey heat, pollution, vomit and fast food scraps baking in the sun

Is that Mungo Jerry lyrics?

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Is that Mungo Jerry lyrics?

it's discarded rorschach dialogue from watchmen

 

[seanc]

Heat that comes off a concrete island is unrelenting, and comes up off the ground so even shade doesn't work very well. It doesn't stop at night, and it just piles up over the days. Then the buildings sort of stop any breeze from getting to you, unless you stand at the right junction or something.

So yeah, agree with dirty heat alright.

This pub is near the water, so at a certain time, around dusk, the air pressure from the city pushes through to here, and there's a mighty wind (yes, I said that) that would blow you away. It's mad experiencing man made weather phenomena.

But right now, the heat is just stagnant and inescapable,

 

[magicbastarder]

my wife walked through smithfield about half an hour ago, says it's even more unpleasant than usual. utterly baking and glary.

 

[flashback]

This pub is near the water, so at a certain time, around dusk, the air pressure from the city pushes through to here, and there's a mighty wind (yes, I said that) that would blow you away. It's mad experiencing mad made weather phenomena.

But right now, the heat is just stagnant and inescapable,

yeah, don't envy that. The heat was one reason (of many) I left the US. I was able to handle it if I was very very skinny and fit-ish, but even then the amount of water I'd lose was scary. I'd be weighing myself when I got home, and drinking electrolytes to get back up to weight. There was no other way to get a gauge on it, and you're invariably miles off. Sometimes it was so bad I couldn't really eat, I'd just get the fluids in and by the time that was back to weight I'd be asleep. Then you can't really ride back in on a full stomach either in the heat.

Like, i'd be losing several kilos on the ride home, no matter what I did. Drinking constantly in work. There was simply no way you can drink enough when you're out in it. If you're not careful you can go to bed massively dehydrated too, so you have to watch that otherwise you wake up with something like a hangover.

I dreaded the summers out there. Pile in the fluids Sean, you're more dehydrated than you think.

 

[seanc]

yeah, don't envy that. The heat was one reason (of many) I left the US. I was able to handle it if I was very very skinny and fit-ish, but even then the amount of water I'd lose was scary. I'd be weighing myself when I got home, and drinking electrolytes to get back up to weight. There was no other way to get a gauge on it, and you're invariably miles off. Sometimes it was so bad I couldn't really eat, I'd just get the fluids in and by the time that was back to weight I'd be asleep. Then you can't really ride back in on a full stomach either in the heat.

Like, i'd be losing several kilos on the ride home, no matter what I did. Drinking constantly in work. There was simply no way you can drink enough when you're out in it. If you're not careful you can go to bed massively dehydrated too, so you have to watch that otherwise you wake up with something like a hangover.

I dreaded the summers out there. Pile in the fluids Sean, you're more dehydrated than you think.

currently on two pints of water for every pint of beer. And I have no particular interest in drinking beer today.

If you think you're thirsty, you're already dehydrated. I do know this.

I just want to go home and hide with all the curtains closed.

 

[flashback]

although, you can't just drink water alone. You can only get away with a liter or two, then you start pissing it off without absorbing it somehow.
The way to get rehydrated I found was to get a piece of boiled potato, or bit of bread or pasta or something. Then mix the water with those fizzy tablet things. Normally the idea of food was nausiating, but if you chew something up and throw another pint of your water mix in it's way more effective than water mix alone. The tablets are much better than plain water though.

 

[chris d]

My pee is a lovely shade of blue Tipperary pure Irish still water.

 

[flashback]

I just want to go home and hide with all the curtains closed.

Then you can have very long cold shower and lying in the bed in the nip with a towel under you, another winner.