THE MORNING RANT: We’re Scaring Our Children into Mental Illness

Safetyism is denying our children adventure and physical activity, but above all else it is harming their minds. Risk cannot be eliminated from life, but bubble wrapping children and telling them they are in imminent danger if they ever get off the sofa is guaranteed to cause them harm.

I was adjacent to a recent discussion at my office between two female co-workers who were talking about the heatwave here in East Tennessee. They lamented how it’s just not safe to be outside, especially for children. One of them spoke of her relief that her son’s baseball game had been postponed due to the dangerous heat, while the other despaired that she had never seen such a streak of 100+ degree days. In actuality, the temperature never broke 100 during the heatwave, and only exceeded 95 degrees on a couple of days. By my observation, the temperature was about 4 degrees above “average” each day during this “record heatwave.”

The conflation of “heat index” and temperature by the fear-pushers has been successful. A great many people no longer even know the difference between the two. The concept of “average” is also not understood by those who are catastrophizing routine summer temperatures. Weather is reported as if any temperature above “average” is abnormal, oblivious to how average is calculated.

For what it’s worth, these co-workers are not the affluent, Whole Foods type of women for whom climate is a religion, rather they are practicing Christians who are demographically Trump voters. But they are succumbing to the climate propaganda.

Temperatures in the mid-90s during July and August are common throughout the country during heatwaves. But in the South, a day in summer without temperatures in the 90s has always been a rarity. Yet the various media organs are now in full “heat alert” mode every single day unless it’s raining. Our computer screens are flashing “Heat Alert” on the task bar, local TV and radio are warning to take “heat precautions,” the national and cable news make a prominent news story each day over any place that has “dangerous” above-average temperatures or triple-digit “heat indexes.”

Do you know what is much more dangerous for children than playing outside in the heat of summer? The answer is: keeping children inside to watch screens and play on electronic devices.

Here are just a few of the countless news stories from recent days:

“Heatwave halts summer fun: Outdoor activities canceled amid rising temperatures” [WUSA – 7/16/2024]

WASHINGTON — With temperatures reaching record highs, local authorities have been left with no choice but to cancel numerous outdoor activities on Monday. According to recent weather reports, the ongoing heatwave poses significant health risks, prompting swift action to prevent heat-related illnesses and ensure public safety.

Regular summer heat is being treated like Covid in March of 2020.

Washington DC has always been known for its intense heat and humidity during summer…and people visited and sweat. But now it’s suddenly too dangerous to go outside in DC when the temperature is in the 90s? Something changed, and it’s not the weather.

This next one is from the Deep South state of Georgia, where children have always enjoyed hot and humid summers:

“Heat alert: Clayton Co. schools cancel outdoor activities, cooling centers open” [Fox 5 Atlanta – 7/08/2024]

The school district says that school officials should adhere to established protocols for Red Level status during this time frame and parents/guardians should take this into consideration when planning any outdoor activities this week. They should also make sure their children are dressed in appropriate clothing, have access to water and are properly hydrated.

What constitutes “Red Level Status” in Georgia? This National Weather Service tweet was in the Clayton County school cancellation story:

Happy National Freezer Pop Day (yup, real thing)! With a Heat Advisory in effect this afternoon for the south and east portions of the area due to heat index values at or above 105, it's not a bad day to take a break in the shade to enjoy a popsicle. �� #gawx pic.twitter.com/XH75wMOKB8
— NWS Atlanta (@NWSAtlanta) July 8, 2024

Mid-90 degree temperatures are normal and expected in Georgia in July. Launching a heat-alert panic is beyond preposterous.

In my Texas childhood, where summer days were routinely over 100 degrees (actual degrees, not the “heat index”, not once did a parent tell any of us kids to stay inside because of the heat. My first summer job during my high school years was doing landscaping in the brutal Texas summer heat. We sweat, drank a lot of water, and benefited from physical activity, while shoveling dirt, pushing wheelbarrows, and hauling rocks and timbers. It boggles my mind to think that someone would argue it would have been “safer” for me to be inside eating snack food and watching Gilligan’s Island, or whatever we did when not outside.

Violet Affleck, the 18-year old daughter of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner was in the news recently for her impassioned plea to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to maintain the ludicrous Covid protocols. The spectacle of this fear-ravaged teenager was offered up by many in the media as brave and inspiring. No, it was tragic and heartbreaking. Here is some of what young Ms. Affleck had to say. The full video is below.

“I contracted a post-viral condition in 2019,” she continued while wearing a face mask. “I’m OK now, but I saw firsthand that medicine does not always have answers to the consequences of even minor viruses.”
“The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown that into sharper relief,” she added.
“‘It stands to exacerbate our homelessness crisis, as well as the suffering of many people in our city. It hits communities of color, disabled people, elderly people, trans people, women and anyone in a public-facing essential job the hardest.”
“To confront the long COVID crisis, I demand mask availability, air filtration and far-UVC lights in government facilities, including jails and detention centers, and mask mandates in county medical facilities,” the teen added.
“We must expand the availability of free tests and treatment and, most importantly, the county must oppose mask bans for any reason.”

Children are being told they’ll be dead from global warming before they’re adults, that Covid is still going to harm them, that it’s not safe to be outside in summer, etc. This has to stop, and we must stop giving the fear-pushers any credibility as they try to push children into a permanent state of terror.

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Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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1 Nooded.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 19, 2024 11:00 AM (O7YUW)

2 Present

Posted by: tankdemon at July 19, 2024 11:02 AM (B0G6a)

3 Mine runs around outside for hours at a time.

I think he's gonna be fine.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at July 19, 2024 11:02 AM (GBKbO)

4 Celebrities love to sacrifice their children.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 19, 2024 11:02 AM (JeYYB)

5 1st?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 19, 2024 11:02 AM (v6JzV)

6 Who's this "we?"

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 19, 2024 11:02 AM (Q4IgG)

7 Hot in here

Posted by: Don Black at July 19, 2024 11:03 AM (/7KEl)

8 Coulda been first but had to stop and shed a sock.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 19, 2024 11:03 AM (LxER7)

9 I have not come here to praise the king, I have come here to condemn him!

Trump is going to blow up the world and fondle your children!

Mark my words, all of you crazy MAGA republicans can suck my wienie!

Posted by: Rupert Pumpkin at July 19, 2024 11:04 AM (2UBPP)

10 Yeah

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 19, 2024 11:05 AM (EGSGm)

11 I frickin' hate high temperatures. Anything above, say, 82. Yet I accept it as a fact of life here in Northern Virginia.

Deal with it, people.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 19, 2024 11:05 AM (v6JzV)

12 If you swallow your gum, you'll get appendicitis.

Posted by: BignJames at July 19, 2024 11:05 AM (AwYPR)

13 Give it some time. The National Weather Service will name heat waves like they do hurricanes.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 19, 2024 11:06 AM (2UnvF)

14
IMF says U.S. should raise taxes

Posted by: You won't believe this at July 19, 2024 11:06 AM (bILdU)

15 We didn't have A/C at home in the vicious Lousy-ana summer until I was twelve, and this in the city proper in a patio apartment with no breezes except that from window fans. No screens on the windows, either, and my brother and I woke up all summer with mosquito bites. Our schools had no air either. The band and vocal music rooms in high school did, but that was to protect the instruments, not the students.

Somehow, I'm still here.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 19, 2024 11:06 AM (J2vNu)

16 We have 2 family members that have been absolutely ruined by the hysteria their parents raised them under. A 25 year old nephew and my granddaughter. Their severe anxiety doesn't allow them to function normally. In the case of our granddaughter her issues were reinforced by the CA government programs that allowed her to be schooled at home so she didn't have to face being taught in a regular school environment. You know the environment where you learn how to deal with people, issues and sometimes adversity. She still mat 22 years old cannot take a test in a classroom environment.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 19, 2024 11:06 AM (2NHgQ)

17 Rub some dirt on it and walk it off.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 19, 2024 11:06 AM (B0G6a)

18 Good rant. The subreddit for my city is filled with garbage like, "this will be the coldest summer of the rest of your life."

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 19, 2024 11:06 AM (16NmB)

19 The whole SEEFTY thing is but one of many of the mass 'marketing' tools used by the asshoes.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 19, 2024 11:06 AM (VavZF)

20 Oh no it's summertime and it's exactly like every other summertime ever.

Posted by: Moron Robbie promises not to say told you so about the tranny shooter at July 19, 2024 11:06 AM (tHxO3)

21 Mine's about two months old. He's a terrorist. Runs around attacking Sassy, the ball of string, the maus. Shows off by going berserk. Knocked over the plant water bottle. At least he likes the litterbox. Not sure on a name yet.

Posted by: torabora at July 19, 2024 11:06 AM (RReG+)

22 I'm convinced a huge amount of the Global Warming hysteria is locusts moving down from their northern cities into the humid South and suddenly deciding that it's Global Warming that made their world much hotter.

Posted by: Moron Robbie promises not to say told you so about the tranny shooter at July 19, 2024 11:07 AM (tHxO3)

23 11 I frickin' hate high temperatures. Anything above, say, 82. Yet I accept it as a fact of life here in Northern Virginia.

Deal with it, people.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 19, 2024 11:05 AM (v6JzV)

Nice out today, tho, and at least we got some rain Wednesday. My lawn weed & feed service even decided it was worth showing up this morning.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 19, 2024 11:07 AM (LxER7)

24 My first duty station was Marine Barracks 8th & I. Wearing dress blues in the summer heat of DC was no fun. I reckon I was killed a half dozen times.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 19, 2024 11:08 AM (2UnvF)

25 Brace for Winter. We are all gonna die.

Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at July 19, 2024 11:08 AM (Z8Yh2)

26 It's important to remember that prior to the advent of air conditioning, no one survived the summer months anywhere.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 19, 2024 11:08 AM (KbCG3)

27 I make sure I only drink three glasses before taking little Asher and his friends to soccer practice. We're safe.

Posted by: Wine Box Karen at July 19, 2024 11:08 AM (/U5Yz)

28 This will be the summer of misery and death. Because you didn't get boosted.

Posted by: Jotato at July 19, 2024 11:08 AM (RReG+)

29 The Cultural Marxists Seminaries have moved into Kindergarten

Posted by: Skip at July 19, 2024 11:08 AM (xNujt)

30 Much rather deal with heat than cold.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 19, 2024 11:08 AM (qZEuM)

31 “To confront the long COVID crisis, I demand mask availability, air filtration and far-UVC lights in government facilities, including jails and detention centers, and mask mandates in county medical facilities,” the teen added.

She demands? Bless her heart.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 19, 2024 11:08 AM (16NmB)

32 Also, celubutards and their spawn can eat shit and die.

If by some extraordinary luck OrangeManBad does win in November, I want him to create a (temporary!) Department of Deporting All You Fcking Attention Whores Who Said You Were Going to Leave if I Was Elected and staff it entirely with Morons.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 19, 2024 11:08 AM (VavZF)

33 Safetyism is denying our children adventure and physical activity...

I remember when my son was about 10 or 11, he saw a video of how you could take a tightly knotted piece of cotton, soak it with lighter fluid, light it, and hold it in the palm of your hand without getting burned. He wanted to try it so I went and bought a small can of Ronson's. To this day (he's 27 now) I don't know if his mother knows about that.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 19, 2024 11:09 AM (/y8xj)

34 "Be home in time for dinner"

How many kids today have heard this refrain once so common in our childhood?

Posted by: Halfhand at July 19, 2024 11:09 AM (xdrSQ)

35 Another agenda item for Project 2025: Children will have normal childhoods free from this crap.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 19, 2024 11:09 AM (BpO1e)

36 LOL. I've only spent about 4-5 summers in this region yet, but I did notice this summer was Extra Spicy. That's it. Sweatier when I mow the lawn. Not deadly.

This week, I traveled to Carolina Beach with the fam for some R&R (it was great). Hotter and muggier than south Appalachia (Smokies, Blue Ridge, etc.) was. Nobody was dying.

The children were running in the surf, the ladies were sipping margaritas, the men were peering mournfully into their wallets, just like always.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 19, 2024 11:09 AM (0FoWg)

37 I went to Austin, Texas public schools. The first time we had air conditioned classrooms was when I went to a brand-new high school in 1968.

My parents' house in south Austin didn't have A/C when we moved in. It was added later.

And, yes, we played outside all summer I don't remember ever even noticing how hot it was. It's just what was.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at July 19, 2024 11:09 AM (FEVMW)

38 Dennis Prager was speaking about this a year or two ago, and was familiar with one mother who wouldn't allow her children to walk on the sandy beach barefooted.

[As I've been saying since the Clinton Scum first darkened The White House:] The emasculation and infantilization of America continues apace and unabated.

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024, Now #1 With a Bullet! at July 19, 2024 11:10 AM (qC/Q1)

39 >>> 16 We have 2 family members that have been absolutely ruined by the hysteria their parents raised them under. A 25 year old nephew and my granddaughter. Their severe anxiety doesn't allow them to function normally. In the case of our granddaughter her issues were reinforced by the CA government programs that allowed her to be schooled at home so she didn't have to face being taught in a regular school environment. You know the environment where you learn how to deal with people, issues and sometimes adversity. She still mat 22 years old cannot take a test in a classroom environment.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 19, 2024 11:06 AM (2NHgQ)

Is she looking for a job?

Posted by: Kim Cheeto at July 19, 2024 11:10 AM (VavZF)

40 32 I want him to create a (temporary!) Department of Deporting All You Fcking Attention Whores Who Said You Were Going to Leave if I Was Elected and staff it entirely with Morons.

Dammit. I really wanted to retire in 2-3 years and you go ahead and throw out that great idea.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 19, 2024 11:10 AM (BpO1e)

41 Everything is a play date.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 19, 2024 11:10 AM (FKP0Y)

42 Children are being told they’ll be dead from global warming before they’re adults, that Covid is still going to harm them, that it’s not safe to be outside in summer, etc.

...and that's it's cool and normal to be neurodivergent, on multiple anti-anxiety and ADHD medications, and mutilating your genitalia will help you feel better and more accepted.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 19, 2024 11:10 AM (JCZqz)

43 The Daily Mail did a breakdown of a family that lived in some town and their history...

The great grandfather used to hike and camp overnight to visit relatives in another town.

The grand father spent his summers exploring the woods around their town.

The father spent his time going all over the town.

The current child has never left his house/backyard without adult supervision.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 19, 2024 11:11 AM (oZhjI)

44 I'm gonna' go mow some grass. In the heat. BBL

Unless I die of climate change in the next 3 hours.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 19, 2024 11:11 AM (Q4IgG)

45 Much rather deal with heat than cold.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

I'm exactly the opposite. It's much easier to get warm than it is to cool off (absent HVAC).

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 19, 2024 11:11 AM (v6JzV)

46 The short story is that if your parents are pussies, you stand no chance.
Such is the state for a large percentage of our kids.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 19, 2024 11:11 AM (FCbAQ)

47 Feminism: if it isn't about you, destroy it. If you can't control it, destroy it. If you can't destroy it, hide from it.

Posted by: Tom at July 19, 2024 11:11 AM (ThYe7)

48 A celebrity's kid is mentally fucked up?

Say it ain't so Joe.

Posted by: Tatum O'Neal at July 19, 2024 11:11 AM (iziT8)

49 "Be home in time for dinner"

How many kids today have heard this refrain once so common in our childhood?

Posted by: Halfhand at July 19, 2024 11:09 AM (xdrSQ)

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For us it was "when the streetlights come on."

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024, Now #1 With a Bullet! at July 19, 2024 11:11 AM (qC/Q1)

50 What did we ever do without air conditioning?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 19, 2024 11:11 AM (evvc2)

51 “To confront the long COVID crisis, I demand mask availability, air filtration and far-UVC lights in government facilities, including jails and detention centers, and mask mandates in county medical facilities,” the teen added.

-

How would that "confront the long COVID crisis"? Long COVID is people that already had it.

(Plus it's looking more and more like long COVID is activation of dormant illnesses your body already defeated being reactivated by COVID and the shot, so...)

Posted by: Moron Robbie promises not to say told you so about the tranny shooter at July 19, 2024 11:12 AM (tHxO3)

52 Which kills you more quickly, extreme heat or extreme cold?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 19, 2024 11:12 AM (v6JzV)

53 47 Feminism: if it isn't about you, destroy it. If you can't control it, destroy it. If you can't destroy it, ~~hide from it~~ get a man to do it for you.
Posted by: Tom at July 19, 2024 11:11 AM (ThYe7)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 19, 2024 11:12 AM (VoAdT)

54 I drank water from a hose...what are the "long term" effects?

Posted by: BignJames at July 19, 2024 11:13 AM (AwYPR)

55 How many kids have ever seen a bicycle?

Posted by: eleven at July 19, 2024 11:13 AM (iziT8)

56 far-UVC lights in government facilities,

So does this actually work in killing viruses in general?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 19, 2024 11:13 AM (oZhjI)

57 High temp in Arlington, Va on this date in 1978 was 91. 85 in 1979 and 94 in 1980. Of course, Summer 1980 was political gasbag season.

Posted by: SFGoth at July 19, 2024 11:13 AM (KAi1n)

58 Michael Crichton wrote "State of Fear" a long time ago to warn people about this insanity but his one book could not counter the pervasive doom and gloom of the government and MSM.

I spent a lot of time in the deep south and Northern Virginia and if you don't expect hot and humid summers you are are just delusional. I lived in homes w/o AC as a child and in college.

I routinely ride my bike at 93 to 95F though I do make sure to take a bit of extra water along. I'm not dead yet.

Fearmongering is the main goal of government and their MSM minions. We appear to be losing the battle to them.

Posted by: WarEagle82 at July 19, 2024 11:13 AM (mQxC9)

59 41 Everything is a play date.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner

I saw a video where one of the moms sent the other mom a bill for the play date. She said she had to get toys and food and snacks ...

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 19, 2024 11:13 AM (/U5Yz)

60 49 For us it was "when the streetlights come on."
Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024, Now #1 With a Bullet! at July 19, 2024 11:11 AM (qC/Q1)

My mom had an old red schoolteacher bell that she rang. The sound from that carried very well.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 19, 2024 11:13 AM (BpO1e)

61 Great rant

My pet peeve- (one of many) is headlines that say something is happening "amid" something else, implying causation without saying it or, heaven forbid, proving it.
Gawkkk!!!

Posted by: LASue at July 19, 2024 11:13 AM (lCppi)

62 Before AC everybody slept outside in the summer. Even in NYC

Posted by: Common Tater at July 19, 2024 11:13 AM (u/QE9)

63 Heh. I tried to get my toddler to wear sandals on the beach, just because her skin is very soft, and I thought it might be uncomfortable for her in the hot sand - not needed, as she made clear. She barely wore shoes except in the house.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 19, 2024 11:13 AM (0FoWg)

64 JD is already wrapped in scandal. The wife of the VP nominee knew a guy 17 years ago who disagrees politically with her husband. Shame!!!! Resign!!!!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 19, 2024 11:14 AM (evvc2)

65 Had a student in my class one year who was going to do a project on global warming because he had heard "the Earth is boiling" and was concerned about it.

I managed to steer him onto a different project that was related to his discipline (electrical engineering) and it turned out to be a decent project.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 19, 2024 11:14 AM (7fElN)

66 " I drank water from a hose...what are the "long term" effects?"

Remember when mold was just mold?

Posted by: eleven at July 19, 2024 11:14 AM (iziT8)

67 I remember "we're gonna die from Global Cooling".
I thought at 3 yo that snowball earth would be the coolest thing ever as everyone around me had snowmobiles and I loved snow.
Moved to the desert a couple of years later and...

Posted by: Reforger at July 19, 2024 11:14 AM (xcIvR)

68 My mom had an old red schoolteacher bell that she rang. The sound from that carried very well.
Posted by: NR Pax

Yeah, we had a bell, too. Called it the "dinner bell." Could hear it practically all over my small hometown.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 19, 2024 11:14 AM (v6JzV)

69 I had the newly-hired bossman texting me that the condenser went out again on the breakroom A/C.

I told him the fan was running and he needed to climb his soft, pasty, fat, white ass up a ladder and blow out the heat exchanger.

Middle managers are useless cocksuckers.

Posted by: Rupert Pupkin at July 19, 2024 11:15 AM (2UBPP)

70 Last time we had a lot of 100 degree days, iirc, was in the early 1970's. I remember baling hay in those days, around 1970-73. But NASA has probably adjusted those temps down to produce their global warming agenda/farce.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 19, 2024 11:15 AM (Cus5s)

71 My gal runs the after hours HVAC company phone..."I have kids", "my dogs cant take the heat", "I have cancer".

People have lost the plot.

Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at July 19, 2024 11:15 AM (Z8Yh2)

72 To confront the long COVID crisis, I demand mask availability, air filtration and far-UVC lights in government facilities, including jails and detention centers, and mask mandates in county medical facilities,” the teen added.

Endorse. Replace all lighting in government buildings with unfiltered UVC.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 19, 2024 11:15 AM (evvc2)

73 68 My mom had an old red schoolteacher bell that she rang. The sound from that carried very well.
Posted by: NR Pax

Yeah, we had a bell, too. Called it the "dinner bell." Could hear it practically all over my small hometown.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 19, 2024 11:14 AM (v6JzV)

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We give Junior a walkie talkie.

He comes home when we call.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at July 19, 2024 11:15 AM (GBKbO)

74 I drank water from a hose...what are the "long term" effects?

Me too. That's how I learned that solar heating could have some real applications.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 19, 2024 11:15 AM (/y8xj)

75 I know a lot of people that moved from the North/Northeast to the South.

They all tell me that the summers are hotter then when they were young but rather then understanding that's because Georgia is hotter then Illinois they attribute it to global warming...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 19, 2024 11:15 AM (oZhjI)

76 We have a saying in my business:

If the occupant says "it's 80 degrees in here", ignore them, because it's probably 73 and they're an asshole.

If they say "it's a million degrees in here", go check it out, because it's probably 80 and a controller or a valve or something has actually malfunctioned.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 19, 2024 11:15 AM (VoAdT)

77 25 years ago heading to the sturgis ralley in august it was like camping out in satan's ass crack going across the country. 110+ degrees going through Illinois alone. Its called summer ya frigging climate pussies.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 19, 2024 11:16 AM (VwHCD)

78 Had a student in my class one year who was going to do a project on global warming because he had heard "the Earth is boiling" and was concerned about it.

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You get everything you want. Poof. It's done. Solar, EVs, no meat, everything.

Who did you help? Name the individual.

Posted by: Moron Robbie promises not to say told you so about the tranny shooter at July 19, 2024 11:16 AM (tHxO3)

79 My mom had an old red schoolteacher bell that she rang. The sound from that carried very well.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 19, 2024 11:13 AM (BpO1e)

We had about half a dozen different noisemakers in my neighborhood. My mom used a coach's whistle, mom across the street had an iron triangle, etc.

When they all went off at the same time, it got downright noisy.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 19, 2024 11:16 AM (LxER7)

80 Be home in time for dinner"

How many kids today have heard this refrain once so common in our childhood?
Posted by: Halfhand at July 19, 2024 11:09 AM (xdrSQ)

Or when the streetlights come on .

Posted by: LASue at July 19, 2024 11:16 AM (lCppi)

81 One of them spoke of her relief that her son’s baseball game had been postponed due to the dangerous heat, while the other despaired that she had never seen such a streak of 100+ degree days.

************

It's not just children being paralyzed by safetyism. The agents looking for the remains of my murdered F-I-L were called off the excavation after a single day of searching despite multiple K9-indicated potential excavation targets. The reason given was that their boss (a woman) did not want any of "her people" getting heat exhaustion out in the field. High daily temps in the area then were mid-80s, maybe barely touching 90. This after telling us for 6 months from Oct -Apr that it was too cold for searching.

I think she may also have been concerned about the slope of the land.

Posted by: muldoon at July 19, 2024 11:16 AM (uCfKO)

82 It’s all bullshit! ITotal purification. I love extra hot days. I purposefully delay my 10k everyday to afternoon, to get the hottest weather- never feel any knee or joint pain when it’s hot it’s like everything is smooth and lubed. I hydrate before and weigh before and after to gauge how much liquid I’m typically losing over 10k with a 40lb weighted vest (usually about 4 lbs, so half gallon). Northwest FL (Pensacola area) temps usually mid to high 90s.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 19, 2024 11:16 AM (fiUiH)

83 "Mid-90 degree temperatures are normal and expected in Georgia in July. Launching a heat-alert panic is beyond preposterous."

It's actually been a little cooler in the mid-state for the last few days.

Posted by: fd at July 19, 2024 11:16 AM (vFG9F)

84 59 41 Everything is a play date.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner

I saw a video where one of the moms sent the other mom a bill for the play date. She said she had to get toys and food and snacks ...

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 19, 2024 11:13 AM (/U5Yz)

My son (4) is obsessed with trucks and dirt. One of his buddies from school lives on a massive tract of land with dirt piles, access to a river, wooded trails, etc.

Their family invited us over so the kids could play and I felt so bad for my son that he didn't have what this kid did. Hell, even I was jealous.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 19, 2024 11:17 AM (KbCG3)

85 Turn off the tv. All it does is pump fear and apprehension into your homes. It's not good for kids either.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 19, 2024 11:17 AM (MeG8a)

86 How many kids have ever seen a bicycle?

Posted by: eleven at July 19, 2024 11:13 AM (iziT

None here, they've all got ATVs/golf carts.

Posted by: BignJames at July 19, 2024 11:17 AM (AwYPR)

87 If you swallow your gum, you'll get appendicitis.
Posted by: BignJames

Mikey from the Chex commercials died that way, dude.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 19, 2024 11:17 AM (IG4Id)

88 As I have related in the past, I live in the seacoast part of NH. Anybody who has gone to the beaches in NH and Maine know how cold, or shall I say refreshing, the ocean water is.

There was an article in the local rag where a mother wants to warn parents of the dangers of hypothermia to kids at our beaches. Apparently this AWFL mom's son spent too much time in the ocean water and came out saying he didn't feel well. Life guards and paramedics were summoned to which they said he had "cold shock" aka hypothermia.

I don't doubt this happened. I will freely acknowledge I'm not the smartest person in any room, but growing up I knew when it got to be too cold in the water so it was time to get out. Now she's a hit on social media and was also on the Today's Show.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 19, 2024 11:17 AM (N39Ws)

89 It’s almost a black /white issue these days.

Either your kid is a potential X games participant or you have him surrounded by bubble wrap.

Posted by: You know the answer at July 19, 2024 11:17 AM (B1dzx)

90 My gal runs the after hours HVAC company phone..."I have kids", "my dogs cant take the heat", "I have cancer".

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At my apartments in awful Denver, the property manager refused to fix the A/C in our building for an *entire year,* citing COVID. I installed a portable unit to keep it livable, as it was about 105-110 in there. But AFAIK, none of my neighbors died.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 19, 2024 11:18 AM (0FoWg)

91 My son (4) is obsessed with trucks and dirt.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

Like every other normal four-year-old boy.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 19, 2024 11:18 AM (v6JzV)

92 That's insane, Muldoon. They are waiting for the perfect climate to continue?

Posted by: fd at July 19, 2024 11:18 AM (vFG9F)

93 One of them spoke of her relief that her son’s baseball game had been postponed due to the dangerous heat ...

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Heh. When I was 15 (we're talking late 70s here), I was a baseball umpire in our local little league for the age 8-10 and 10-12 leagues.

One evening there was a tremendous wind storm, and it was occasionally bare skin-stinging when the dirt and dust kicked up. All the parents, and some of the kids, were yelling at me to cancel or postpone the game ... and I'm like "No way ... this is fun!"

I mean, we grew up playing football and all other sports in whatever outdoor conditions there were at the time ... and the messier, the better! Nothing like playing sports in monsoons rains ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024, Now #1 With a Bullet! at July 19, 2024 11:18 AM (qC/Q1)

94 Michael Crichton wrote "State of Fear" a long time ago to warn people about this insanity but his one book could not counter the pervasive doom and gloom of the government and MSM.

Posted by: WarEagle82 at July 19, 2024 11:13 AM (mQxC9)
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I just read that a couple of weeks ago. He has LOTS of data in his book, including charts and graphs, to support his case.

Though in his notes at the end of the book, he seems to support the idea of AGM to a certain degree.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 19, 2024 11:18 AM (7fElN)

95 Air advisory for Dallas. Don't breathe

Posted by: Ben Had at July 19, 2024 11:18 AM (5MvGY)

96 My son (4) is obsessed with trucks and dirt.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

God bless him.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 19, 2024 11:19 AM (/U5Yz)

97 It's like a sauna in here.

Posted by: Kramer in the Sauna at July 19, 2024 11:19 AM (SYTee)

98 52 Which kills you more quickly, extreme heat or extreme cold?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 19, 2024 11:12 AM (v6JzV)

You can stand outside on 120° heat a lot longer than 0° lack of heat.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 19, 2024 11:19 AM (B0G6a)

99 Mikey from the Chex commercials died that way, dude.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Mikey was in the Life commercial.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 19, 2024 11:19 AM (v6JzV)

100 A local TV station in Portland ran a story that THIS WAS THE HOTTEST JULY EVER IN PORTLAND.

Temps are expected to be somewhat cooler than normal for the rest of the month, starting in a couple of days, so the TV station had to get the story in before it stops being "the hottest July ever in Portland".

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 19, 2024 11:19 AM (uxCna)

101 There is nothing wrong with drinking from a hose as long as it is filtered fluorinated chlorinated BPA safe free range organic water

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 19, 2024 11:19 AM (evvc2)

102 If you swallow your gum, you'll get appendicitis.

But if you eat the potato chips with the green edges, it cures it.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 19, 2024 11:19 AM (/y8xj)

103 91 My son (4) is obsessed with trucks and dirt.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

Like every other normal four-year-old boy.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 19, 2024 11:18 AM (v6JzV)

I still have the metal Tonka trucks and tractors when I grew up. Saving them on the off chance there are grandsons in the future.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 19, 2024 11:19 AM (N39Ws)

104 The kid who shot Trump was "bullied" and his parents were both "counselors" . Says it all in a nutshell

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 19, 2024 11:20 AM (Zf6jY)

105 "Amen!" [to the rant]

Posted by: MrExcitement at July 19, 2024 11:20 AM (hOOi9)

106 Fearmongering is the main goal of government and their MSM minions. We appear to be losing the battle to them.
Posted by: WarEagle82 at July 19, 2024 11:13 AM (mQxC9)

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True, but there is fear mongering all around. Though I'd say most of it comes from the Left and they pretty much have all the organs of power to amplify it.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 19, 2024 11:20 AM (2fIO4)

107 >>> 95 Air advisory for Dallas. Don't breathe
Posted by: Ben Had at July 19, 2024 11:18 AM (5MvGY)

Maybe the NOAA should update these 'air quality' warnings to include the recommended number of masks to wear to be SEEF.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 19, 2024 11:20 AM (VavZF)

108 The same people who successfully managed to establish that Global Warming is a threat have also determined that the shooter acted alone and the government not only wasn't involved in any way but everyone did everything correctly.

Posted by: Moron Robbie promises not to say told you so about the tranny shooter at July 19, 2024 11:20 AM (tHxO3)

109 The UK is even more insane. BBC bloviates about record heat wave when it's 78F.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 19, 2024 11:20 AM (cX9q7)

110 Yet the various media organs are now in full “heat alert” mode every single day unless it’s raining.

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Ditto here in AZ. 100+ degree heat is usually just another day ending in "Y" all my lifetime, but now I get Android phone alerts every day for "Excessive Heat Warning!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024, Now #1 With a Bullet! at July 19, 2024 11:20 AM (qC/Q1)

111 Now she's a hit on social media and was also on the Today's Show.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 19, 2024 11:17 AM (N39Ws)

Your kid doesn't have "acute localized hyperthermia" because your dumb ass let him shove his hands into a hot oven.

Some asshole lets their kid swim in the cold ocean for too long and wants to pretend it's somebody else's fault. And she probably starts every sentence with "As A Mom..."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 19, 2024 11:21 AM (VoAdT)

112 >>> 108 The same people who successfully managed to establish that Global Warming is a threat have also determined that the shooter acted alone and the government not only wasn't involved in any way but everyone did everything correctly.
Posted by: Moron Robbie promises not to say told you so about the tranny shooter at July 19, 2024 11:20 AM (tHxO3)

Our response was FLAWLESS!

*runs away, up a set of stairs*

Posted by: Kim Cheeto at July 19, 2024 11:21 AM (VavZF)

113 98 52 Which kills you more quickly, extreme heat or extreme cold?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 19, 2024 11:12 AM (v6JzV)

You can stand outside on 120° heat a lot longer than 0° lack of heat.
Posted by: tankdemon at July 19, 2024 11:19 AM (B0G6a)

Only if you're a dumbass, and don't wear a winter coat in the winter...

Posted by: MrExcitement at July 19, 2024 11:21 AM (hOOi9)

114 "Turn off the tv. All it does is pump fear and apprehension into your homes. It's not good for kids either.
Posted by: gourmand du jour "

Pretty much this.

But when you say it you sound like an old fart with his belt under his armpits.

But it's absolutely true. TV has pussyfied and destroyed people.

Posted by: eleven at July 19, 2024 11:22 AM (iziT8)

115 Remember when the Left constantly accused conservatives of pushing and weaponizing fear and outrage when all anyone wanted was "hope"?

Imagine being fearful and outraged after something as dumb and trivial as the destruction of the Twin Towers.

Obama's "Hope" campaign was actually selling "Despair". It was so obvious, and it killed me to watch it.

Posted by: ... at July 19, 2024 11:22 AM (8s2gn)

116 I was 13 when my family owned their first home and it had central air conditioning! A couple of years later we had a color Tee Vee! Grew up with fans. Mom and dad had a window A/C in the bedroom. That was it.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 19, 2024 11:22 AM (n17eQ)

117 Summer in DC is hot, but the consistent days above 100 deg. was unusual.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at July 19, 2024 11:22 AM (ntk8v)

118 As kids we postponed games on 95+ days. And went swimming immediately!

I listen to anxious kids quite often. They learn they can't expect other people to accommodate them and all their fears. Perhaps Ms. Afleck needed some parental guidance with that.

Posted by: Driver in the rusty Oldsmobile Delta 88 at July 19, 2024 11:22 AM (90Vvv)

119 If I’ve learned anything in life, it’s that the fear of a particular thing/outcome is worse/more debilitating than the actual feared thing. Convincing people to cower over the weather. I’m thinking the pendulum is swinging back- fuck all this bullshit fear, cowboy up, grow a damn pair, go out and breed a woman and raise some hardy stock to replace these damn chicken littles.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 19, 2024 11:22 AM (fiUiH)

120 I know a lot of people that moved from the North/Northeast to the South.

They all tell me that the summers are hotter then when they were young but rather then understanding that's because Georgia is hotter then Illinois they attribute it to global warming...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 19, 2024 11:15 AM (oZhjI)

The old religions are better, even the kooky ones. I like a wrathful god coming out of the sky, smoting enemies, and giving permission for the potentate to sex up all the wimmins and children.

This new religion, it's all about the sky being hot.

Dum dum dum dum dum

Posted by: BurtTC at July 19, 2024 11:23 AM (CAOta)

121 But when you say it you sound like an old fart with his belt under his armpits.

But it's absolutely true. TV has pussyfied and destroyed people.
Posted by: eleven at July 19, 2024 11:22 AM (iziT

Old farts used to say that back when TV was awesome.

Now we say it because TV actually is as terrible as they used to say it was.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 19, 2024 11:23 AM (VoAdT)

122 It's not just children being paralyzed by safetyism.

Surely you don't expect us to get on that sloped roof!

We could get hurt!

Posted by: The DEI Secret Service! at July 19, 2024 11:23 AM (uxCna)

123 All through grad school we had a noon soccer match in Austin TX.

The record was set one summer for consecutive 100 plus degree days. I think we had over 60 consecutive.

After the game we would shower and go back to work in the structures lab which was an uncooled metal building.

It was fine.

Posted by: TexasDan at July 19, 2024 11:24 AM (pueBe)

124 One of them spoke of her relief that her son’s baseball game had been postponed due to the dangerous heat, while the other despaired that she had never seen such a streak of 100+ degree days.

Fucking pussies.
1980 - 42 consecutive 100+ degree days. Yeah.

Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 19, 2024 11:24 AM (/NEnv)

125 Now we say it because TV actually is as terrible as they used to say it was.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 19, 2024 11:23 AM (VoAdT)

And your music actually does suck.

And no, you can't borrow my Poison CD, piss off.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 19, 2024 11:24 AM (VoAdT)

126 The same people who successfully managed to establish that Global Warming is a threat have also determined that the shooter acted alone and the government not only wasn't involved in any way but everyone did everything correctly.
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Our response was FLAWLESS!

*runs away, up a set of stairs*
Posted by: Kim Cheeto

-

Notice how the Trump shooting was off the news even faster than Maui?

Posted by: Moron Robbie promises not to say told you so about the tranny shooter at July 19, 2024 11:24 AM (tHxO3)

127 As kids, we didn't care about being dirty or that our clothes got all sweaty. Mom took care of cleaning them. Now, as grownups, we care how we look -- we don't want sweat stains on our shirts or blouses; we have to clean our own clothes, or pay to have them laundered; and we have to sit inside eight hours a day, five days a week (sometimes more), with no summer vacation to speak of.

Of course we looked forward to summer back then!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 19, 2024 11:24 AM (J2vNu)

128 1980 in Texas, 60 + days of Temps over 100. Real Temps hit 112 to 118. You learn to live around it.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 19, 2024 11:25 AM (5MvGY)

129 local TV station in Portland ran a story that THIS WAS THE HOTTEST JULY EVER IN PORTLAND.
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Oh, is that how calendars work?

Posted by: ... at July 19, 2024 11:25 AM (8s2gn)

130 Right now according to science this is the SHORTEST FRIDAY EVER

Posted by: ... at July 19, 2024 11:25 AM (8s2gn)

131 I am, in fact, old.
I remember all the damn lies that spewed from the tv.
Get off my lawn.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 19, 2024 11:25 AM (MeG8a)

132 We used to do “2 a days” football practices in August here, and we got a water break maybe once an hour from a spigot. Sheesh.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 19, 2024 11:26 AM (fiUiH)

133 Actual comment from a thread in my city's subreddit complaining about the heat:

Vote D down the ticket. Republicans want us to burn in hell on earth.

Because voting Democrat will make it not summer, or something.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 19, 2024 11:26 AM (16NmB)

134 So, 1 hour after the shooting we had video of the shooter in the background of a blackrock video.

But we still don't know who the lady who flashed the "Biden fired" sign is, but she is definitely not the deputy director of the FBI.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 19, 2024 11:26 AM (evvc2)

135 I guess I am a bad parent then because my kid is going outside every day to play and go places.

Posted by: redbanzai at July 19, 2024 11:26 AM (JOR6L)

136 130 Right now according to science this is the SHORTEST FRIDAY EVER
Posted by: ... at July 19, 2024 11:25 AM (8s2gn)

At this rate, tomorrow is going to be yesterday.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 19, 2024 11:26 AM (VoAdT)

137 "Remember when mold was just mold?"

yeah, now they want to tear out drywall if it ever got a little damp/wet. I think the key is to dry things out, and keep them dry. The mold spores (?) seem to be ever present anyway.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 19, 2024 11:26 AM (Cus5s)

138 Summer in DC is hot, but the consistent days above 100 deg. was unusual.
Posted by: actually inside the beltway at July 19, 2024 11:22 AM (ntk8v)

I grew up in St. Louis, and they say DC weather is much like this godforsaken city here.

When I was younger, there were summers when it never hit 100, and there were summers where it was well over day after day after day.

Call me when it gets to 110 in May and stays that way until October. But don't call me if you're in Phoenix.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 19, 2024 11:26 AM (wjmSl)

139 Shit they have shade areas on jobsites now. The boss is supposed to supply water too.

Super gay. Zero credit to the individual.

Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at July 19, 2024 11:27 AM (Z8Yh2)

140 >>> 126
==
Notice how the Trump shooting was off the news even faster than Maui?
Posted by: Moron Robbie promises not to say told you so about the tranny shooter at July 19, 2024 11:24 AM (tHxO3)

It wasn't an assassination attempt, so what's the big deal?

Posted by: This... is XiNN at July 19, 2024 11:27 AM (VavZF)

141 If we didnt have fear, what could we monger?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 19, 2024 11:27 AM (evvc2)

142 Understanding the concept of risk is beyond the reach of many.

People over age 60 with A-fib are told that they have a risk of stroke and that Eliquis is what they need to take to "prevent this risk.

They are not told that with no meds their risk of stroke is about 7% per year. With Eliquis that risk goes down to about 3-4% per year. With aspirin (which has a much better side-effect profile and much lower cost) the risk is about 5% per year. Yet Eliquis is "significantly" better.

A reasonable adult might prefer any of those three options, if provided with that information, based on their own situation. But they are scared by their cardiologist into thinking they are eliminating the risk of stroke.

Posted by: muldoon at July 19, 2024 11:27 AM (uCfKO)

143 I grew up in Phoenix. I played outside when it was 110 every summer.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 19, 2024 11:27 AM (pgG81)

144 75 I know a lot of people that moved from the North/Northeast to the South.

They all tell me that the summers are hotter then when they were young but rather then understanding that's because Georgia is hotter then Illinois they attribute it to global warming...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 19, 2024 11:15 AM (oZhjI)

I was telling my kids NJ summers (when I was a kid) were way hotter than VA summers...and I was out all afternoon every day.

We'd have strings of 31 days above 90 routinely every summer...

Yep, they still have to take a walk every day here on top of our pool and bowling trips (we bowl when it rains - not b/c it's too hot)...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 19, 2024 11:27 AM (exHjb)

145 141 If we didnt have fear, what could we monger?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 19, 2024 11:27 AM (evvc2)

Fish.

Cheese.

Whores.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 19, 2024 11:28 AM (VoAdT)

146 So, 1 hour after the shooting we had video of the shooter in the background of a blackrock video.

But we still don't know who the lady who flashed the "Biden fired" sign is, but she is definitely not the deputy director of the FBI.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

-

Shut up conspiracy theorist!

Just because you've experienced the last ten years and that lady looks almost identical to the person in charge of insider threats to the government is no reason to question anything!

Posted by: Moron Robbie promises not to say told you so about the tranny shooter at July 19, 2024 11:28 AM (tHxO3)

147 133 Actual comment from a thread in my city's subreddit complaining about the heat:

Vote D down the ticket. Republicans want us to burn in hell on earth.

Because voting Democrat will make it not summer, or something.
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 19, 2024 11:26 AM (16NmB)

========

A carbon tax on Americans would have fixed everything, including the Philippines being the main trasher of the oceans!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at July 19, 2024 11:28 AM (GBKbO)

148 Safetyism is denying our children adventure and physical activity, but above all else it is harming their minds. Risk cannot be eliminated from life, but bubble wrapping children and telling them they are in imminent danger if they ever get off the sofa is guaranteed to cause them harm.

Yet insisting the world is the way it never was, and bitching that its not being practiced that way, is also counter-productive.

We got Boy Scout leaders and priests and teachers diddling kids fifty years ago - in no small part because conventional wisdom said you didn't question those authority figures. They were "good" - because they were what they were.

Should kids be shielded from all danger ? No. Did I let any of mine do the shit I did as a kid, because my parents simply didn't wanted a break and didn't care much that I was riding on a bike miles from home ? No. I did not.

Posted by: The Way Its Always Been at July 19, 2024 11:28 AM (rHvYF)

149 For the record, it has still never hit 100 degrees F in Buffalo, NY. The highest-ever temperature was 98.6 degrees F, I think in the 1940s.

Posted by: MrExcitement at July 19, 2024 11:29 AM (hOOi9)

150 A local TV station in Portland ran a story that THIS WAS THE HOTTEST JULY EVER IN PORTLAND.

Temps are expected to be somewhat cooler than normal for the rest of the month, starting in a couple of days, so the TV station had to get the story in before it stops being "the hottest July ever in Portland".

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 19, 2024

***
The problem is that these Portland and Seattle people didn't install even a window unit A/C after the *last* heat wave, so they don't have it now. Sucks to be them.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 19, 2024 11:29 AM (J2vNu)

151 Mentioned earlier, but the "diddling priests" was an op to remove focus from teachers that were sexually abusing children at 100 times the rate of church officials.

Posted by: Moron Robbie promises not to say told you so about the tranny shooter at July 19, 2024 11:29 AM (tHxO3)

152 If we didnt have fear, what could we monger?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

***********

Fish

Posted by: muldoon at July 19, 2024 11:29 AM (uCfKO)

153 Because voting Democrat will make it not summer, or something.

There are lunatics in Portland trying to block freeway expansions who make it sound that global warming is the fault of the Oregon Department of Transportation.

They put out tweets along the lines of:

"Think there are too many forest fires in Oregon?

Better cut ODOT's freeway budget!"

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 19, 2024 11:29 AM (uxCna)

154 Which kills you more quickly, extreme heat or extreme cold?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Extreme heat. I can put enough on to stay warm.
I can't take enough off to stay cool.

Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 19, 2024 11:29 AM (/NEnv)

155 >>> 133 Actual comment from a thread in my city's subreddit complaining about the heat:

Vote D down the ticket. Republicans want us to burn in hell on earth.

Because voting Democrat will make it not summer, or something.
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 19, 2024 11:26 AM (16NmB)

Gotta have a commie hell to contrast with the commie heaven on earth that would happen If Only Everyone Would Just Do The Thing.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 19, 2024 11:30 AM (VavZF)

156 Mikey was in the Life commercial.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Thanks for fact-checking that.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 19, 2024 11:30 AM (IG4Id)

157 145 141 If we didnt have fear, what could we monger?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 19, 2024 11:27 AM (evvc2)

Fish.

Cheese.

Whores.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 19, 2024 11:28 AM (VoAdT)

While not endless, the list is extensive:-P

Posted by: redbanzai at July 19, 2024 11:30 AM (JOR6L)

158 117 Summer in DC is hot, but the consistent days above 100 deg. was unusual.
Posted by: actually inside the beltway at July 19, 2024 11:22 AM (ntk8v)

Yep. Also, we've been kinda spoiled the last few years with cooler, wetter summers than normal, at least as far as I could tell.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 19, 2024 11:30 AM (LxER7)

159
"Think there are too many forest fires in Oregon?

Better cut ODOT's freeway budget!"

-

Ha. Wait until maintenance crews are trying to clear underbrush with two batteries per employee per day.

Posted by: Moron Robbie promises not to say told you so about the tranny shooter at July 19, 2024 11:31 AM (tHxO3)

160 "If we didnt have fear, what could we monger?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy "

I'm a cat monger.

Posted by: eleven at July 19, 2024 11:31 AM (iziT8)

161 If we didnt have fear, what could we monger?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 19, 2024 11:27 AM (evvc2)

Fish.

Cheese.

Whores.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 19, 2024

***
Coster.

(In Brit parlance, a "costermonger" is a street seller of fresh fruit and vegetables, or a hawker of merchandise in general.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 19, 2024 11:31 AM (J2vNu)

162 69
‘ climb his soft, pasty, fat, white ass up a ladder’

Phrase it like that, did you?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 19, 2024 11:31 AM (tkRpE)

163 You should get a cat.

Posted by: eleven at July 19, 2024 11:31 AM (iziT8)

164 A carbon tax on Americans would have fixed everything, including the Philippines being the main trasher of the oceans!

How plastic bags became the number one destroyer of the oceans is amazing.

Plastic was introduced to "save the trees" and in the US/Europe they were buried in landfills.

Then some enviro-nut decided that we needed tor recycle plastic. Shortly thereafter local government drones found plastic recycling is horrible and shipped it to China. China in turn just dumped the crap in the ocean.

But the problem in all this is the bags not China or the environmentalists...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 19, 2024 11:31 AM (oZhjI)

165 i'm surprised the weather folks haven't started naming heat waves.

Posted by: anachronda at July 19, 2024 11:32 AM (edU/H)

166 Mentioned earlier, but the "diddling priests" was an op to remove focus from teachers that were sexually abusing children at 100 times the rate of church officials.

Which ignores the fact that priests were diddling kids. At what rate ? Who cares about the math ? I don't.

Priests were diddling kids for as long as time. The jokes and stereotypes exist for a reason. As were teachers. And politicians. And any other authority figure that generations choose to lionize.

What's your point ? That your authority figures diddled at a lesser rate than others ?

Posted by: The Way Its Always Been at July 19, 2024 11:32 AM (rHvYF)

167 Which kills you more quickly, extreme heat or extreme cold?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
*
Extreme heat. I can put enough on to stay warm.
I can't take enough off to stay cool.
Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 19, 2024

***
At least, not without being arrested.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 19, 2024 11:32 AM (J2vNu)

168 (In Brit parlance, a "costermonger" is a street seller of fresh fruit and vegetables, or a hawker of merchandise in general.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 19, 2024 11:31 AM (J2vNu)

Nobody knows for sure what a costnermonger does yet, because whatever it is they're only up to the first intermission so far.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 19, 2024 11:32 AM (VoAdT)

169 Then some enviro-nut decided that we needed tor recycle plastic. Shortly thereafter local government drones found plastic recycling is horrible and shipped it to China. China in turn just dumped the crap in the ocean.

-

The other one I enjoy is to recognize that one man - Jeff Bezos - is likely personally responsible for 25% or more of ALL household waste.

One man.

Posted by: Moron Robbie promises not to say told you so about the tranny shooter at July 19, 2024 11:33 AM (tHxO3)

170 >>> 153
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There are lunatics in Portland trying to block freeway expansions who make it sound that global warming is the fault of the Oregon Department of Transportation.
==
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 19, 2024 11:29 AM (uxCna)

Sounds like they're volunteering to be Oregon's first 15-minute city. Wall them in with *NO* entrances / exits and cut off all the power and water lines.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 19, 2024 11:33 AM (VavZF)

171 I grew up in St. Louis, and they say DC weather is much like this godforsaken city here.

When I was younger, there were summers when it never hit 100, and there were summers where it was well over day after day after day.

Call me when it gets to 110 in May and stays that way until October. But don't call me if you're in Phoenix.
Posted by: BurtTC

Don't forget that huge assed humidity generator running alongside the eastern edge of the city.

Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 19, 2024 11:33 AM (/NEnv)

172 75 I know a lot of people that moved from the North/Northeast to the South.

They all tell me that the summers are hotter then when they were young but rather then understanding that's because Georgia is hotter then Illinois they attribute it to global warming...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 19, 2024 11:15 AM (oZhjI)

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I actually, truly believe that people are that stupid, we are talking about Northerners.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 19, 2024 11:33 AM (2fIO4)

173 You haven't lived till you have experienced the Antioch, CA hills in the summer. Dry grass and wind. Like living in a hair dryer.

Somehow I made it.

Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at July 19, 2024 11:33 AM (Z8Yh2)

174 One incident, among many - I gave my grandson my water bottle to take a sip from.

His mother lost her mind.

Somehow, my little guy survived.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 19, 2024 11:33 AM (WXNFJ)

175 FWIW, forecast high here today is 75.

Posted by: SFGoth at July 19, 2024 11:33 AM (KAi1n)

176 I grew up in St. Louis, and they say DC weather is much like this godforsaken city here.
...
Posted by: BurtTC at July 19, 2024 11:26 AM (wjmSl)

I have lived in both, at around the same times, decades ago. I concur. The humidity in St Louis surprised me - it must be about 1000 miles from any large body of water. Their 4th of July celebrations back then had to be among the best in the country.

Posted by: MrExcitement at July 19, 2024 11:33 AM (hOOi9)

177 People are stupid, and teevee shows know numbers will convince people of things their lying eyes are not showing them.

Temp readings are not unlike the fastball myth in baseball.

What fastball myth? That pitchers throw harder today than before.

Then don't.

What they do is have "better" speed measurements, where a ball being released from a pitcher's hand will register at over 100 MPH, while the old radar guns would measure what was essentially an average speed from the pitcher's hand to the plate.

And guess what, the numbers are higher today! And then when the teevee shows a graphic where there's a flame behind the ball... well, these guys are throwing so hard. So hard. And their beards are because they've got more testosterone coursing through their veins.

Sure. Like I said, people are stupid. And it's not hotter now than it ever was.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 19, 2024 11:33 AM (wjmSl)

178 What's your point ? That your authority figures diddled at a lesser rate than others ?
Posted by: The Way Its Always Been at July 19, 2024 11:32 AM (rHvYF)

What about priests who are also cops?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 19, 2024 11:34 AM (VoAdT)

179 One of my biggest peeves is the "feels like" descriptor. If it's 95, then THAT is what 95 feels like.

It's no more true than Admiral Levine saying, I "feel like" a beautiful woman."

Posted by: muldoon at July 19, 2024 11:34 AM (uCfKO)

180 I saw a Smokey Bear PSA last night....dragging safety chains on boat trailers cause wild fires....I'm skeptical.

Posted by: BignJames at July 19, 2024 11:34 AM (AwYPR)

181 This country's insane obsession with safety and risk aversion is sickening. Even more so is the way so many youth not only go along but are happy, eagerly complying. Bike helmets is one typical example. If head injuries may have been reduced (was it even really that great a problem?) it is only because kids never ride bikes anymore expect close to home and/or under he supervision of their helicopter parents and with those with those stupid helmets. Another great childhood activity ruined by adults.

But they are going to make great Dem lemmings.

Posted by: Ripley at July 19, 2024 11:34 AM (GUOwU)

182 Trumps DEI Secret Service team was actually the DEI TSA Crotch Grabber team.

What are the odds of that and having a shooter on the same day?

Probably more likely than having the crotch grabbers and/or shooter EVERY day. So, not "oopsie".

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 19, 2024 11:34 AM (6TUIG)

183 Violet seems to be a very unhappy person.
I'd like to see her speak at the DNC next month along with all the other perpetually outraged who will have the mike.

Posted by: DAN at July 19, 2024 11:34 AM (rn2/h)

184 77
‘ camping out in satan's ass crack’

That’s a badass name for a campground.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 19, 2024 11:35 AM (tkRpE)

185 Cold kills several orders of magnitude more people than heat.

Sorry environmentals.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 19, 2024 11:35 AM (17s+e)

186 106 Fearmongering is the main goal of government and their MSM minions. We appear to be losing the battle to them.
Posted by: WarEagle82 at July 19, 2024 11:13 AM (mQxC9)

Finding crises for the government to "solve" means the bureaucrats can demand more money, resources and power for themselves. It's good to be an apparatchik in an emergency, but sometimes you have to create the emergency.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 19, 2024 11:35 AM (B0G6a)

187 Right now according to science this is the SHORTEST FRIDAY EVER
Posted by: ... at July 19, 2024 11:25 AM (8s2gn)

Stop teasing!

We are, however, nearly half-way there.

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at July 19, 2024 11:35 AM (JCLJi)

188 What's your point ? That your authority figures diddled at a lesser rate than others ?

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Calm down. The point was that everything is fake and gay.

It didn't have anything to do with responding to your comment, which is why it wasn't a response to your comment.

Posted by: Moron Robbie promises not to say told you so about the tranny shooter at July 19, 2024 11:35 AM (tHxO3)

189 Tech Sgt Chen. Been there, done that. It was even better when they had the paper mill

Posted by: Ben Had at July 19, 2024 11:35 AM (5MvGY)

190
Nobody knows for sure what a costnermonger does yet, because whatever it is they're only up to the first intermission so far.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 19, 2024 11:32 AM (VoAdT)

"When the coster's finished jumping on his mother (on his mother)
He loves to lie a-basking in the sun (in the sun).
Ah, take one thing in consideration with another (with another),
A policeman's life is not a happy one!"

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 19, 2024 11:35 AM (LxER7)

191 I actually, truly believe that people are that stupid, we are talking about Northerners.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 19, 2024 11:33 AM (2fIO4)

Hey, watch it.

I'm a northerner.

You have no idea just how stupid most of the zombies toddling around up here are.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 19, 2024 11:35 AM (VoAdT)

192 I concur. The humidity in St Louis surprised me - it must be about 1000 miles from any large body of water.
Posted by: MrExcitement

Um, there's kind of a big river that flows by it.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 19, 2024 11:35 AM (v6JzV)

193 I have lived in both, at around the same times, decades ago. I concur. The humidity in St Louis surprised me - it must be about 1000 miles from any large body of water. Their 4th of July celebrations back then had to be among the best in the country.
Posted by: MrExcitement at July 19, 2024 11:33 AM (hOOi9)

Define large body of water... cuz that river is pretty large.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 19, 2024 11:36 AM (wjmSl)

194 Give it some time. The National Weather Service will name heat waves like they do hurricanes.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 19, 2024 11:06 AM (2UnvF)

NWS: April Shower "Ultimate Disaster" is expected to dump almost 7mm of rain on the tri-state are throughout the day.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 19, 2024 11:36 AM (U7wke)

195 "They lamented how it’s just not safe to be outside, especially for children."

My personal belief is the heat hysteria is just an excuse to (1) whine and complain about something, (2) grab some victim status points, and (3) micro-manage their kids' lives, which they want to do regardless of the weather.

If it weren't for the "record heatwave" this week, it'd be something else.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 19, 2024 11:36 AM (iFTx/)

196 Shut up conspiracy theorist!

Just because you've experienced the last ten years and that lady looks almost identical to the person in charge of insider threats to the government is no reason to question anything!
Posted by: Moron Robbie promises not to say told you so about the tranny shooter at July 19, 2024 11:28 AM (tHxO3)

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You said IF yourself. So you have no idea.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 19, 2024 11:36 AM (2fIO4)

197 And no, you can't borrow my Poison CD, piss off.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 19, 2024 11:24 AM (VoAdT)

Has anyone really, actually asked to borrow a Poison CD from you?

Posted by: Reforger at July 19, 2024 11:36 AM (xcIvR)

198 We're heading out to Satan's Taint next weekend. Hot and swampy.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 19, 2024 11:36 AM (17s+e)

199 Satan's Ass Crack is prone to flash floods.

It's in Utah.

Posted by: eleven at July 19, 2024 11:36 AM (iziT8)

200 I was adjacent to a recent discussion at my office between two female co-workers who were talking about the heatwave here in East Tennessee.
-- Buck

Yeah, here in Cumberland County, for the past 4-5 weeks, we are at "near record temperatures" every day.

Imagine that - the upper 80's/low 90's in July in the South.

What ever shall we do?

Posted by: Tonypete at July 19, 2024 11:36 AM (WXNFJ)

201 It has been very cool this summer, for which my pregnant body has been grateful. If it were up to me, we'd have the windows open 24/7, but Pooky's meds make him overheat at night. What gets me is all the little old ladies in their sweaters asking me how miserable I am because of the heat. (Answer: Not very, it's not hot and I'll take it over being terrified of falling on the ice while pregnant, which did happen this winter.)

Posted by: pookysgirl, just chillin (literally) at July 19, 2024 11:36 AM (dtlDP)

202 Shut up conspiracy theorist!

Just because you've experienced the last ten years and that lady looks almost identical to the person in charge of insider threats to the government is no reason to question anything!

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You said IF yourself. So you have no idea.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken

-

+1

Yep.

And now the story is over. Faster than Maui.

That's probably unrelated, too.

Posted by: Moron Robbie promises not to say told you so about the tranny shooter at July 19, 2024 11:37 AM (tHxO3)

203 I had a very Huck Finn childhood in a small town in the Washington Cascades about 50 miles east of Seattle (spits). When it got hot, we went down to the swimming hole in the river. It even had a rope to swing out on. If we wanted to go fishing, we dug up some worms and went fishing. If it snowed, we grabbed the sled and went up into the local hills to sled.
All on our own.
No adults.
Be home by dinner time.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 19, 2024 11:37 AM (W/lyH)

204 1980 in Texas, 60 + days of Temps over 100. Real Temps hit 112 to 118. You learn to live around it.
Posted by: Ben Had

Yeah. 42 of those days were 100+ back to back.

Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 19, 2024 11:37 AM (/NEnv)

205 141 If we didnt have fear, what could we monger?

well, if we monged teco, we could be mungmongers.

Posted by: anachronda at July 19, 2024 11:37 AM (edU/H)

206 Has anyone really, actually asked to borrow a Poison CD from you?
Posted by: Reforger at July 19, 2024 11:36 AM (xcIvR)

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LOL. Ugh, I hate Poison.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 19, 2024 11:37 AM (16NmB)

207 The point was in the damn statement itself.

Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at July 19, 2024 11:37 AM (Z8Yh2)

208 Has anyone really, actually asked to borrow a Poison CD from you?
Posted by: Reforger at July 19, 2024 11:36 AM (xcIvR)

Well they ain't knocking down my doors for the Winger, i'll tell ya that much.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 19, 2024 11:37 AM (VoAdT)

209 Yea, back in my day during summer break in the 1980s, we all bolted out the door no matter how how it was. 100 degrees? Meh. If we didn't run out ourselves, our parents would have kicked us out the door.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 19, 2024 11:37 AM (iFTx/)

210 Wasn't the Maldives supposed to be underwater, something like 20 years ago? How can people be so stupid, for so long?

Posted by: MrExcitement at July 19, 2024 11:37 AM (hOOi9)

211 What about priests who are also cops?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 19, 2024 11:34 AM (VoAdT)

Why not the trifecta ? Priests who are cops who are also teachers ?

A little ugly story in my burg is a particular camp, run by "good hearted, God fearing cops", for at risk youth. Turns out, the cops were fucking the kids.

Me, looking at the story from the outside, said - "Well of course they were". Because you can trust nobody that wants to volunteer to help your kids. They ain't there to help.

Posted by: The Way Its Always Been at July 19, 2024 11:37 AM (rHvYF)

212 Not only has Violet been taught to fear everything, she's been taught that people care about what she thinks.

1. Go ahead and be scared of everything all your life.
2. No one cares.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 19, 2024 11:38 AM (2UnvF)

213 People used to tell me in Denver, "You don't need air in Colorado." Bull pucky. When it gets to 100 on a July or August afternoon, I don't care how dry it is, it's time for A/C. Restaurants and stores seemed to think it was optional, and the locals patronized them anyway (I didn't). Locals would sit in a window of a coffee shop or eatery with hot sharp sunlight sizzling across their shorts-clad legs. Insane.

Their usual idea of home cooling was those swamp or evaporative coolers. Yes, they got the inside temp about twenty degrees lower than outside; but if it was 100 out there, it'd be eighty inside, and you felt kinda sticky too.

To be fair, a lot of the older homes did not have the kind of windows you could put an A/C unit into.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 19, 2024 11:38 AM (J2vNu)

214 What's your point ? That your authority figures diddled at a lesser rate than others ?
Posted by: The Way Its Always Been at July 19, 2024 11:32 AM (rHvYF)

100 times is not a "lesser rate". I mean it is, but that's burying the lede if not smothering it with a pillow.

The point is you can't mention "priest" or really any Christian position without an accompanying comment or joke about child molestation, whereas teachers are of course the Real Heroes.

This was not natural or coincidental. It was an intentional operation on the part of the demonic left whether you like it or not. I'll leave my part in this discussion here because I'm pretty sure my next response is otherwise going to be very different than this one.

Posted by: ... at July 19, 2024 11:38 AM (8s2gn)

215 I have lived in both, at around the same times, decades ago. I concur. The humidity in St Louis surprised me - it must be about 1000 miles from any large body of water. Their 4th of July celebrations back then had to be among the best in the country.
Posted by: MrExcitement

*Mississippi River has entered the chat.

Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 19, 2024 11:38 AM (/NEnv)

216 Ditto here in AZ. 100+ degree heat is usually just another day ending in "Y" all my lifetime, but now I get Android phone alerts every day for "Excessive Heat Warning!"
Posted by: ShainS

Yeah, lmao at those alerts.
I find some shade, move my metal chair into it and then sit and watch the critters out in the sun.
Oh, I might douse myself in water if the humidity is low as well.
Good times!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 19, 2024 11:38 AM (wNbrz)

217 99% chance she vapes.

Posted by: sharps45 at July 19, 2024 11:39 AM (8mDaR)

218 Well they ain't knocking down my doors for the Winger, i'll tell ya that much.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 19, 2024 11:37 AM (VoAdT)

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I would knock down your door for KIP Winger. Not.his CD, though.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 19, 2024 11:39 AM (16NmB)

219 If the government didn't fearmonger, how would they remind us that we need them?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 19, 2024 11:39 AM (evvc2)

220 I have lived in both, at around the same times, decades ago. I concur. The humidity in St Louis surprised me - it must be about 1000 miles from any large body of water. Their 4th of July celebrations back then had to be among the best in the country.
Posted by: MrExcitement at July 19, 2024 11:33 AM (hOOi9)

Large body of standing water.
There is that itty bitty Mississippi river nearby.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 19, 2024 11:39 AM (FCbAQ)

221 I sorta have to bubble wrap my youngest. It frustrates me that I basically have to kick my older girl out of the house to go enjoy a sunny day. She has no debilitating condition keeping her at mommy and daddy's side, and all she wants to do is lay around in the house.

The boy does spend a lot of time outdoors tending his vegetable garden and stuff, though.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 19, 2024 11:39 AM (0FoWg)

222 I went to Austin, Texas public schools. The first time we had air conditioned classrooms was when I went to a brand-new high school in 1968.

My parents' house in south Austin didn't have A/C when we moved in. It was added later.

And, yes, we played outside all summer I don't remember ever even noticing how hot it was. It's just what was.
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at July 19, 2024 11:09 AM (FEVMW)

My kids grew up in "Adjacent to Austin". They, and most of their friends, shorts in winter, hoodies in summer. Hell if I can understand them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 19, 2024 11:40 AM (U7wke)

223 Me, looking at the story from the outside, said - "Well of course they were". Because you can trust nobody that wants to volunteer to help your kids. They ain't there to help.
Posted by: The Way Its Always Been

In my area the largest cause of kid trafficking are foster parents.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 19, 2024 11:40 AM (WXNFJ)

224 We're heading out to Satan's Taint next weekend. Hot and swampy.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 19, 2024

***
Oh, you're coming down here? Be wary when you go to the French Quarter!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 19, 2024 11:40 AM (J2vNu)

225 You haven't lived till you have experienced the Antioch, CA hills in the summer. Dry grass and wind. Like living in a hair dryer.
Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen

Sounds biblical.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 19, 2024 11:40 AM (IG4Id)

226 "It has been very cool this summer, for which my pregnant body has been grateful. If it were up to me, we'd have the windows open 24/7, but Pooky's meds make him overheat at night.
Posted by: pookysgirl, just chillin"

You're pregnant? I thought everyone here was like 80.

How refreshing.

Posted by: eleven at July 19, 2024 11:41 AM (iziT8)

227 >>1980 in Texas, 60 + days of Temps over 100. Real Temps hit 112 to 118. You learn to live around it.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 19, 2024 11:25 AM

I was here for it. I moved to New Mexico in October of that year and stayed for 30 years. Then, I moved back.

Posted by: huerfano at July 19, 2024 11:41 AM (VGOMa)

228 We are, however, nearly half-way there.
Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at July 19, 2024 11:35 AM (JCLJi)

Thank God

Posted by: ... at July 19, 2024 11:41 AM (8s2gn)

229 174 One incident, among many - I gave my grandson my water bottle to take a sip from.

--
You should have rinsed the bottle rim with whiskey from your flask first.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 19, 2024 11:41 AM (EGSGm)

230 >>> 221 I sorta have to bubble wrap my youngest. It frustrates me that I basically have to kick my older girl out of the house to go enjoy a sunny day. She has no debilitating condition keeping her at mommy and daddy's side, and all she wants to do is lay around in the house.

The boy does spend a lot of time outdoors tending his vegetable garden and stuff, though.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 19, 2024 11:39 AM (0FoWg)

Can you have chickens where you are? Several cities at least tolerate it if you keep hens only.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 19, 2024 11:41 AM (VavZF)

231 213 People used to tell me in Denver, "You don't need air in Colorado." Bull pucky.

If you have a basement and a laptop, then yes you can sleep downstairs in summer and hit the hills for work.
Not everyone has these options.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 19, 2024 11:41 AM (gKWVE)

232 I don't get it. The fear-mongering tyrannical scumbags pushing the "heat hysteria" are the same ones pushing the climate scam. But if we're all gonna be dead from global warming, then what's the harm in going outside in the heat? Could be our last moments on Earth.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 19, 2024 11:41 AM (iFTx/)

233 I have lived in both, at around the same times, decades ago. I concur. The humidity in St Louis surprised me - it must be about 1000 miles from any large body of water. Their 4th of July celebrations back then had to be among the best in the country.
Posted by: MrExcitement at July 19, 2024 11:33 AM (hOOi9)

Large body of standing water.
There is that itty bitty Mississippi river nearby.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 19, 2024 11:39 AM (FCbAQ)
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The Missouri River also passes through the city. Between the two rivers, they are constantly dumping moisture into the atmosphere.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 19, 2024 11:41 AM (7fElN)

234 178 What's your point ? That your authority figures diddled at a lesser rate than others ?
Posted by: The Way Its Always Been at July 19, 2024 11:32 AM (rHvYF)

What about priests who are also cops?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 19, 2024 11:34 AM (VoAdT)

Then they can handcuff and beat the kids while shouting "STOP RESISTING MY DICK," give each other confession and absolution, and go home safely with a clear conscience and pure soul. And qualified immunity.

Posted by: He made a furtive movement to avoid getting raped at July 19, 2024 11:42 AM (wY0ZM)

235 I have lived in both, at around the same times, decades ago. I concur. The humidity in St Louis surprised me - it must be about 1000 miles from any large body of water. Their 4th of July celebrations back then had to be among the best in the country.
Posted by: MrExcitement at July 19, 2024 11:33 AM (hOOi9)

Define large body of water... cuz that river is pretty large.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 19, 2024 11:36 AM (wjmSl)

One of the Great Lakes, the Gulf of Mexico, an ocean. I've never heard of a river - even a big one - effecting the weather (unless you call flooding "weather").

Posted by: MrExcitement at July 19, 2024 11:42 AM (hOOi9)

236 Oh, I might douse myself in water if the humidity is low as well.
Good times!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 19, 2024

***
In summer in CO, if I took a dip in the apartment complex pool, I had to be careful to sit in the sun as I dried off. In the shade I actually felt cold, even when the temp was 90 or more.

I miss that. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 19, 2024 11:42 AM (J2vNu)

237 The point is you can't mention "priest" or really any Christian position without an accompanying comment or joke about child molestation, whereas teachers are of course the Real Heroes.

This was not natural or coincidental. It was an intentional operation on the part of the demonic left whether you like it or not. I'll leave my part in this discussion here because I'm pretty sure my next response is otherwise going to be very different than this one.
Posted by: ... at July 19, 2024 11:38 AM (8s2gn)

As with anything, if corporate media is promoting a subject, you have to ask HOW they are lying, not IF they are lying.

In this case, yeah, they demonized religious orgs, which is fine, if you're also looking into all the secular orgs, where adults are preying on children. But if you're not doing that? You're lying.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 19, 2024 11:42 AM (wjmSl)

238 My first summer job during my high school years was doing landscaping in the brutal Texas summer heat.

mine was working at a driving range during the Texas summer

I would sweat through my clothes entirely within an hour of opening, it would dry working in the heat, and then sweat right through again

I never got into golf after that

Posted by: brak at July 19, 2024 11:43 AM (NGHTx)

239 216 Ditto here in AZ. 100+ degree heat is usually just another day ending in "Y" all my lifetime, but now I get Android phone alerts every day for "Excessive Heat Warning!"
Posted by: ShainS“

They should have an excessive “You live in Arizona! “ warning, “Do you know you live in Arizona? It’s hot there! We wondered if you knew!”

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 19, 2024 11:43 AM (wyMQY)

240 I blame gas stoves. Imma college educated, too!

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 19, 2024 11:43 AM (n17eQ)

241 The boy does spend a lot of time outdoors tending his vegetable garden and stuff, though.

That is a thing. An outstanding comment. Yours should be bolded.

Kids don't give two shits, anymore, about showing each other who can hit the ball the hardest, or run the fastest. You know - sports. The crack-cocaine of earlier generations.

And I'm pretty sure that's a good thing.

Give kids structure, though. And a thing where they can work and see results ? My kids did. And now we'll have to watch the "nice guys" that want to run and teach shop and start Four H groups.

That, unfortunately, is reality.

Posted by: The Way Its Always Been at July 19, 2024 11:43 AM (rHvYF)

242 People used to tell me in Denver, "You don't need air in Colorado." Bull pucky.

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Yeah. Ridiculous. You don't need it above about 7000ft. In Denver, if you don't have A/C you will be hot AF for about four months. If you're in a multi-unit structure with no A/C you'll be roasting like a chicken. Sitting at home in your underwear in front of a fan.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 19, 2024 11:43 AM (0FoWg)

243 There's a picnic area and hiking trail in the Colorado National Monument named Devil's Kitchen.

Posted by: muldoon at July 19, 2024 11:43 AM (uCfKO)

244 Define large body of water... cuz that river is pretty large.
Posted by: BurtTC
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I'm in Ky. The summer humidity in Louisville and Cincinnati is usually 5% or more above just 50 miles from the Ohio.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 19, 2024 11:43 AM (Dm8we)

245 What changed is that everyone got fatter and now none of their diabetic asses can breathe in the heat.

Posted by: XTC at July 19, 2024 11:43 AM (UnA8+)

246 133
‘ Republicans want us to burn in hell on earth. ’

I’ll settle for them burning in hell.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 19, 2024 11:43 AM (tkRpE)

247 I went to Austin, Texas public schools. The first time we had air conditioned classrooms was when I went to a brand-new high school in 1968.

My parents' house in south Austin didn't have A/C when we moved in. It was added later.

And, yes, we played outside all summer I don't remember ever even noticing how hot it was. It's just what was.
Posted by: Art Rondelet

St. Louis weather mimics Dallas weather for the most part within five degrees or so.
Growing up in STL, we had one window ac unit in the dining room. My elementary school and high school in STL did NOT have ac.

The heat hits differently after working inside for forty years.

Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 19, 2024 11:43 AM (/NEnv)

248 >>> 232 I don't get it. The fear-mongering tyrannical scumbags pushing the "heat hysteria" are the same ones pushing the climate scam. But if we're all gonna be dead from global warming, then what's the harm in going outside in the heat? Could be our last moments on Earth.
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 19, 2024 11:41 AM (iFTx/)

I assume they're trying to create a sense of urgency, "we have to DO SOMETHING, RIGHT NOW!!!" because a half century of propaganda still hasn't gotten the results they want.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 19, 2024 11:44 AM (VavZF)

249 OT-And in today's stupid leftist opinion by an academic (Or that I've read so far today anyway) Carnegie Mellon professor says assassination attempt was staged:

https://tinyurl.com/5hbn2p9x

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 19, 2024 11:44 AM (dTTBf)

250 Yesterday at 17:00, I had my 44 hours for week.

Today, in this 100 degree heat, I will enjoy my snooze wave and grill tasty animal flesh.

Posted by: Rupert Pupkin at July 19, 2024 11:44 AM (2UBPP)

251
Some sort of cyber-attack delayed my drinking this morning

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at July 19, 2024 11:44 AM (EFZgU)

252 One of the Great Lakes, the Gulf of Mexico, an ocean. I've never heard of a river - even a big one - effecting the weather (unless you call flooding "weather").
Posted by: MrExcitement at July 19, 2024 11:42 AM (hOOi9)

It certainly does. Among other things, as storms pass over the river, they pick up moisture, and then dump it at much heavier levels on the other side.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 19, 2024 11:44 AM (wjmSl)

253 To be fair, a lot of the older homes did not have the kind of windows you could put an A/C unit into.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 19, 2024 11:38 AM (J2vNu)

Wisconsin gets hot in summer. Really, it does.
But not all the time and it's tolerable until it's not.
3 times in my childhood I saw AC units pushed into and through windows to the ground as people waited until they were miserable before installing their units.
Made me laugh, which I learned to do in private, because hot angry people don't like to be laughed at.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 19, 2024 11:44 AM (FCbAQ)

254 In summer in CO, if I took a dip in the apartment complex pool, I had to be careful to sit in the sun as I dried off. In the shade I actually felt cold, even when the temp was 90 or more.

I miss that. . . .
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Humidity. How does this work?

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 19, 2024 11:45 AM (n17eQ)

255 Large body of standing water.
There is that itty bitty Mississippi river nearby.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 19, 2024 11:39 AM (FCbAQ)

And the Misery River. Er, Missouri.

Posted by: pookysgirl has had to visit Saint Louie in the summer at July 19, 2024 11:45 AM (dtlDP)

256 >>> Define large body of water... cuz that river is pretty large.
Posted by: BurtTC

Lake Michigan.
Lake Effect is known and fairly predictable.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 19, 2024 11:45 AM (6TUIG)

257 You haven't lived till you have experienced the Antioch, CA hills in the summer. Dry grass and wind. Like living in a hair dryer.

Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at July 19, 2024 11:33 AM (Z8Yh2)

Antioch? I think we went to the same church.

Posted by: The Mississippi Squirrel at July 19, 2024 11:45 AM (0eaVi)

258 >>In summer in CO, if I took a dip in the apartment complex pool, I had to be careful to sit in the sun as I dried off. In the shade I actually felt cold, even when the temp was 90 or more.

I miss that. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 19, 2024 11:42 AM

It's the lack of oxygen. I think that may be why politics in Colorado are so weird and awful these days. Lowlanders can't think above 3000 feet elevation.

Posted by: huerfano at July 19, 2024 11:45 AM (VGOMa)

259 The same fear-mongering tyrannical scumbags pushing the "heat hysteria" paranoia are the same ones screeching that AC is a bad thing that should be limited or banned.

This has nothing to do with public safety. They hate you and want you locked inside and sweating and miserable. They will of course be April fresh sitting under 5 ton AC units.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 19, 2024 11:46 AM (iFTx/)

260 Mon - Wed this week was 95 plus nasty humidity . Mowed mon, golfed Tues, two long walks Wed. Yesterday was 85 with a breeze and beautiful , golfed. Stayed hydrated and was fine even though I'm 29

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 19, 2024 11:46 AM (Zf6jY)

261 Pence really knew how to pick them:

Sofia Kinzinger, an ex-aide to former Vice President Mike Pence, tweeted that the pivot was a “perfect example of what the Trump White House was like- pure chaos.
“Planning was impossible,” added Kinzinger, who is married to former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.).

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 19, 2024 11:46 AM (evvc2)

262 Yeah. Ridiculous. You don't need it above about 7000ft. In Denver, if you don't have A/C you will be hot AF for about four months. If you're in a multi-unit structure with no A/C you'll be roasting like a chicken. Sitting at home in your underwear in front of a fan.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 19, 2024

***
If you're above 7K feet, you probably live in a house, and can open doors and windows for a cross breeze. Not so in apartments, as you say.

I didn't understand a lot of things about those people; and they were more sane in '97 to '01 than they are now.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 19, 2024 11:46 AM (J2vNu)

263 I assume they're trying to create a sense of urgency, "we have to DO SOMETHING, RIGHT NOW!!!" because a half century of propaganda still hasn't gotten the results they want.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 19, 2024 11:44 AM (VavZF)

Right, we have to get kids used to it by getting them outside for an hour every single day...increase their tolerance of temperature "extremes" that won't be going away anytime soon (see, if you can talk the left, you can beat the left at their own game)...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 19, 2024 11:46 AM (exHjb)

264 39. She fits one of the requirements, she's overweight.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 19, 2024 11:46 AM (2NHgQ)

265 All my horses have a simple old box fan. Keeps them cool.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 19, 2024 11:46 AM (5MvGY)

266 Among other things, as storms pass over the river, they pick up moisture, and then dump it at much heavier levels on the other side.
Posted by: BurtTC

Lake-effect snow has entered the chat.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 19, 2024 11:46 AM (v6JzV)

267 St. Louis weather mimics Dallas weather for the most part within five degrees or so.
Growing up in STL, we had one window ac unit in the dining room. My elementary school and high school in STL did NOT have ac.

The heat hits differently after working inside for forty years.
Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 19, 2024 11:43 AM (/NEnv)

In church and school, they had those big metal fans that swept the room. You'd wait for those fractions of a second when the sweep would pass over you, then wait for it to pendulum its way across the room, until it came back.

Excruciating moments...

Posted by: BurtTC at July 19, 2024 11:46 AM (wjmSl)

268 I love how they invent word and things to make their weather crap sound more ominous.
Heat Vortex
Atmospheric River
El Nina and El Nino...sounds harmless but foreign
Its all marketing for viewers and mouse clicks.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 19, 2024 11:47 AM (W/lyH)

269 This country's insane obsession with safety and risk aversion is sickening.

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This is the point I make about the assassination attempt. It completely relies on risk aversion. Cops are repeatedly told not to be heroes and making it home alive is the most important thing. That leads to procedures that rely completely on the chain of command for decision making.

Any conspiracy will rely on that fact and that is exactly what happened. The local cops said they relayed that someone was on the roof to the "open tactical channel" but never heard any orders back. With the chain of command silent, they didn't do anything.

The sniper on the roof behind Trump looks up almost as if wondering why the chain of command isn't saying anything.

Everyone just waiting on orders because of risk aversion.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 19, 2024 11:47 AM (2fIO4)

270 @261 im shocked, shocked that Kinzinger is married to a similar idiot

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 19, 2024 11:47 AM (Zf6jY)

271 1980 in Texas, 60 + days of Temps over 100. Real Temps hit 112 to 118. You learn to live around it.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 19, 2024 11:25 AM

I was here for it. I moved to New Mexico in October of that year and stayed for 30 years. Then, I moved back.
Posted by: huerfano

We moved to North Texas in August of '79 just before the great ice storm. Then we get hit with the Summer of '80.

If was almost like we never left St. Louis. LOL.

Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 19, 2024 11:48 AM (/NEnv)

272 My parents built their own house. It was (still is) underground. Imagine a walkout basement without any house above it. Just a steep-ish a-frame roof above ground. The main room is A great room style kitchen/living room. This is where the entry door is. There is a hallway to the bedrooms and bathroom. The windows in the bed/bath part of the house are eye level for someone standing up and with the ground outside. This is what we called the back of the house.
The only heat source was a natural gas heating stove in the front room and no a/c. Linoleum tile through out.
Temperature in the back was usually around 70 in the summer and 60 in the winter. Extra blankets and bedside rug in winter. In the summer there was a fan sitting in the hallway door blowing cool air to the front room. It kept the temps bearable. But the dehumidifier was running non-stop. And the bedside rugs were put away.
Dad and I were cold natured and comfortable in summer. Mom was warm natured and comfortable in winter. Thing one and thing two could be comfortable with both.
People are pussies now.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 19, 2024 11:48 AM (4XwPj)

273 But not all the time and it's tolerable until it's not.
3 times in my childhood I saw AC units pushed into and through windows to the ground as people waited until they were miserable before installing their units.
Made me laugh, which I learned to do in private, because hot angry people don't like to be laughed at.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 19, 2024

***
I'd have put my window unit in place in early May, tested it, then let it sit until it was needed. Waiting untl July or thereabouts is insane.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 19, 2024 11:48 AM (J2vNu)

274 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 19, 2024 11:44 AM (dTTBf)

Still amazes me that it missed his brain but hit his freaking ear, leaving no doubt as to any part of this as absolute reality.

I can only imagine the Left's lies had the shots totally missed Trump. "Crazy Republican jealous of fellow MAGA supporters!! Jilted gay lover of fireman!!!"

Not that I'm rejoicing over his pain and injury, I'm just amazed.

Posted by: ... at July 19, 2024 11:48 AM (8s2gn)

275 It's summer. It's hot as fuck. It's always hot as fuck during summer. The stupidity of these motherfuckers never ceases to amaze.

Posted by: Next you'll tell be it gets cold in Minneapolis in December at July 19, 2024 11:48 AM (wY0ZM)

276
Sofia Kinzinger, an ex-aide to former Vice President Mike Pence, tweeted that the pivot was a “perfect example of what the Trump White House was like- pure chaos.
“Planning was impossible,” added Kinzinger, who is married to former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.).

Bullshit. No way that Kinzinger is having sexual relations with a woman.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 19, 2024 11:48 AM (oZhjI)

277 I don't get it. The fear-mongering tyrannical scumbags pushing the "heat hysteria" are the same ones pushing the climate scam.

Go read periodicals from the 1800s. Or anything in the Wilson or pre-WW II FDR era.

America has been, for much of it's existence, Puritan. Welcome to the second coming of it. If you're not miserable, you're doing it wrong. That's, pretty much, Puritanism.

The irony is that the same fucks that were screwing in a mud-pit at Woodstock are now the biggest scolds. Which makes sense, in a way.

Posted by: The Way Its Always Been at July 19, 2024 11:48 AM (rHvYF)

278 From what I recall, I'd say the Mississippi is maybe 1000ft wide at St Louis. And assuming the wind is from the west, St Louis is not downwind from any moisture the river might contribute to the atmosphere.

I think the real story on the humidity there is that it comes from the Gulf of Mexico, and that I didn't realize how far away you could be and still be effected by it that way.

Posted by: MrExcitement at July 19, 2024 11:48 AM (hOOi9)

279
They should have an excessive “You live in Arizona! “ warning, “Do you know you live in Arizona? It’s hot there! We wondered if you knew!”
Posted by: Tom Servo

The small print:
If you don't like the heat, move away from AZ. If many of you move away the cost of buying a home will go down, so move now before the prices go down!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 19, 2024 11:48 AM (wNbrz)

280 Sofia Kinzinger, an ex-aide to former Vice President Mike Pence, tweeted that the pivot was a “perfect example of what the Trump White House was like- pure chaos.
“Planning was impossible,” added Kinzinger, who is married to former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.).
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 19, 2024 11:46 AM (evvc2)

Jeez.
So what?
Be adaptable.
Get yourself locked into a plan and you become predictable.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 19, 2024 11:49 AM (W/lyH)

281 No A/C in my school. No shorts allowed, either.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at July 19, 2024 11:49 AM (qZEuM)

282 We used to do “2 a days” football practices in August here, and we got a water break maybe once an hour from a spigot. Sheesh.
Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 19, 2024 11:26 AM (fiUiH)

Same. One had to really really want to be on the team.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at July 19, 2024 11:49 AM (g8Ew8)

283 The sniper on the roof behind Trump looks up almost as if wondering why the chain of command isn't saying anything.

Everyone just waiting on orders because of risk aversion.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken

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It's worse than that.

Turns out there were snipers on the second floor of the building the sniper was on, above the sniper, watching him from their windows the entire time. Apparently they could've just walked out and asked him what he was doing on the roof.

Or shot him, I guess.

Posted by: Moron Robbie promises not to say told you so about the tranny shooter at July 19, 2024 11:49 AM (tHxO3)

284 I tested in Yuma and 29 Palms every summer for seven years. Push liquids, mmmkay?

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 19, 2024 11:50 AM (n17eQ)

285 No A/C in my school. No shorts allowed, either.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at July 19, 2024 11:49 AM (qZEuM)

Yup.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at July 19, 2024 11:51 AM (g8Ew8)

286 I'm still betting the bulk of Trump's team that day were DHS and TSA metal detector level folks without any authority to shoot anyone.

I assume the ones that had authority were in on it.

Posted by: Moron Robbie promises not to say told you so about the tranny shooter at July 19, 2024 11:51 AM (tHxO3)

287 Antioch? I think we went to the same church.
Posted by: The Mississippi Squirrel

Is that where they keep the Holy Hand Grenade?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 19, 2024 11:51 AM (evvc2)

288 You anti-Biden folks are letting my Black community down. It's not just the politicians trying to erase my vote, but also DUers disrespecting votes cast and won.

They take our base of minority voters for granted; take our most dependable, women voters, for granted. Some 91% of black women voted for Joe Biden for president in the last election. Their votes are threatened to be cancelled out in this election by a minority of white men.

This is Jim Crow. This is tyranny.

This all reminds me of Reconstruction, where rules and obstacles were placed in front of black Americans by white politicians after it was discovered they had the ability to choose their own black leaders, and that backlash kept blacks from representation in Congress for decades and decades.

All this was opportunistically triggered by some politicians deciding that a debate where Trump lied his ass off meant Biden lost something and Trump won something. It's a con that assumes voters are rubes who are stupid and feckless enough not to know the difference between the two.

They may well trample on our votes - FAFO. Like I said, black Americans are not the wards of the Democrat Party.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 19, 2024 11:51 AM (JCZqz)

289 I love how they invent word and things to make their weather crap sound more ominous.
Heat Vortex
Atmospheric River
El Nina and El Nino...sounds harmless but foreign
Its all marketing for viewers and mouse clicks.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 19, 2024 11:47 AM (W/lyH)

Someone showed a side by side teevee still from somewhere in Euroweenieland, france or belgium or some other fruity country.

The numbers are in Celsius, but they show temps in the mid to upper 20s. Back in the olden days (like 2017 or whatever) the maps showed colors in green. Now with the same temps, the maps are flaming red.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 19, 2024 11:51 AM (wjmSl)

290 Turns out there were snipers on the second floor of the building the sniper was on, above the sniper, watching him from their windows the entire time. Apparently they could've just walked out and asked him what he was doing on the roof.

I saw one report that the local PD climbed up a tree since they knew where the assassin was but not what he was doing, and then dropped out of the tree when the assassin pointed his rifle at them.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 19, 2024 11:51 AM (oZhjI)

291 You're pregnant? I thought everyone here was like 80.

How refreshing.
Posted by: eleven at July 19, 2024 11:41 AM (iziT

Not quite 80.

It took over a decade of getting the government to admit they'd caused the problem *and* to get them to pay for the solution. Lil Pooky is two months away from making his grand entrance.

Posted by: pookysgirl, getting bigger by the day at July 19, 2024 11:51 AM (dtlDP)

292 Hey Sophia, if so it's better then the buttoned down current WH trying to keep the lie about a sentient joe biden alive. And I call bs on the PDT WH being chaos.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 19, 2024 11:51 AM (2NHgQ)

293 159
‘ Wait until maintenance crews are trying to clear underbrush with two batteries per employee per day.’

Artillery batteries? We were able to clear brush in a substantial portion of Flanders with them.

Posted by: WWI Artillery officer at July 19, 2024 11:52 AM (tkRpE)

294 Doom Goblins

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 19, 2024 11:52 AM (pIfcn)

295 Bullshit. No way that Kinzinger is having sexual relations with a woman.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 19, 2024 11:48 AM (oZhjI)

Hence "married to".

Posted by: spindrift at July 19, 2024 11:52 AM (OguvZ)

296 288 They may well trample on our votes - FAFO. Like I said, black Americans are not the wards of the Democrat Party.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 19, 2024 11:51 AM (JCZqz)

=========

They love Biden more than Obama!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at July 19, 2024 11:52 AM (GBKbO)

297 From what I recall, I'd say the Mississippi is maybe 1000ft wide at St Louis. And assuming the wind is from the west, St Louis is not downwind from any moisture the river might contribute to the atmosphere.

*cough Missouri River just to the north of the city cough*

Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 19, 2024 11:52 AM (/NEnv)

298 The thin air. Yup.

One thing that surprised me about moving to the South was the sunshine. Completely different.

I grew up at 8800'. Barely ever got above 80F.

Here, where it is *much* warmer, but the air is so very much thicker, I don't have to wear sunblock. Ever.

There, I wouldn't wear it either, but the first couple days of spring when I'd be out all day in the sun, I'd come home looking like a lobster and writhing in agony til my skin peeled off and left me with a base tan for the rest of the season.

The sun up there in that cool mountain air will flence your ass.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 19, 2024 11:52 AM (0FoWg)

299
Holy Shit - get your tin foil hats out. Assistant Director of the FBI is ID'd as smiling woman who picks up cell phone after Trump shot. Seconds before she had lifted her 'Fire Biden' sign up then lowered as if a signal.

48 hours but Holy Fvck if true.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 19, 2024 11:52 AM (RKVpM)

300 One grandchild was born in AZ in July and we were out to help. I could feel my skin lizardize just stepping outside.
Made TX feel like a leafy forest...

Posted by: sal at July 19, 2024 11:52 AM (4lnL8)

301 They may well trample on our votes - FAFO. Like I said, black Americans are not the wards of the Democrat Party.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 19, 2024 11:51 AM (JCZqz)

Prove it.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 19, 2024 11:52 AM (KbCG3)

302 You're pregnant? I thought everyone here was like 80.

How refreshing.
Posted by: eleven at July 19, 2024 11:41 AM (iziT

Hey, it's not that unusual.

Posted by: Sarah at July 19, 2024 11:53 AM (0eaVi)

303 Biggest temp swing in our part of Texas. Went to horseshow in Dallas and it was in the 80's
Next morning there was 6 inches of snow on the ground

Posted by: Ben Had at July 19, 2024 11:53 AM (5MvGY)

304 Sofia Kinzinger, an ex-aide to former Vice President Mike Pence, tweeted that the pivot was a “perfect example of what the Trump White House was like- pure chaos. “Planning was impossible,” added Kinzinger, who is married to former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.).

They hate Capitalism. They hate the idea that, instead of dictating things from a central location ... that 400 Million people can make 400 Million decisions every day, as small as they are individually - but collectively, those decisions carry weight.

Posted by: The Way Its Always Been at July 19, 2024 11:53 AM (rHvYF)

305 Some 91% of black women voted for Joe Biden for president in the last election.

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Nonsense.

They can't figure out how to shelter or feed themselves. There's no way they suddenly become civic minded and capable during elections.

Posted by: Moron Robbie promises not to say told you so about the tranny shooter at July 19, 2024 11:53 AM (tHxO3)

306 Don't get me started on shutting down schools for an inch or two of snow. This Michigan kid had to carve her way out of the front door snow drifts, clamber up a steep hill, and wait on a snowy country road for the school bus.

I have to think this is mostly about liability issues.

And speaking of liability insurance, reservations for Corsicana have been made!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 19, 2024 11:53 AM (kpS4V)

307 Bullshit. No way that Kinzinger is having sexual relations with a woman.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 19, 2024 11:48 AM (oZhjI)

Well, not an ADULT woman.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 19, 2024 11:53 AM (wjmSl)

308 I lived in Dover, DE from 6/74 to 8/82. Walked around Philly, DC, and NYC many times during summer. The second job I ever had was a summer job installing flooring for new base housing, which was un-airconditioned, as was the shop where we worked out of. It was f-n hot during those summers. We didn't care — we were outside playing baseball, riding our bikes, generally goofing off or in the pool. The gene pool has weakened considerably since I left.

I moved here to Texas that late summer of '82 (Amarillo), and even though it was at times 10 degrees warmer, as the line goes, "it's a dry heat!" Of course, now living in the D/FW area means it's no longer a dry heat, so when that gulf flow sets up with the heat dome, it do get moist! You'll never catch me in Houston, though....

Posted by: goozer at July 19, 2024 11:54 AM (aWAkn)

309 Look at that shirt the deluded Affleck daughter is wearing. Spouting "Girl Power" nonsense while wearing a face diaper and whinging about how frail she is. Why is ANYONE in society acquiescing to these twerps?

Posted by: red speck at July 19, 2024 11:54 AM (0Id0S)

310 Not quite 80. It took over a decade of getting the government to admit they'd caused the problem *and* to get them to pay for the solution. Lil Pooky is two months away from making his grand entrance.
Posted by: pookysgirl, getting bigger by the day at July 19, 2024 11:51 AM (dtlDP)

And he needs a hand-knit sweater, right?

Posted by: sal at July 19, 2024 11:55 AM (4lnL8)

311 It certainly does. Among other things, as storms pass over the river, they pick up moisture, and then dump it at much heavier levels on the other side.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 19, 2024 11:44 AM (wjmSl)

I lived in St Louis for three years, and never heard anything about such a thing.

That being said, the east side of the river is mostly farmland - not nearly as many people.

Posted by: MrExcitement at July 19, 2024 11:55 AM (hOOi9)

312 Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 19, 2024 11:51 AM (JCZqz)

She haz a sadz....or a madz?

Posted by: BignJames at July 19, 2024 11:55 AM (AwYPR)

313 From what I recall, I'd say the Mississippi is maybe 1000ft wide at St Louis.

Bank to bank is 2200 feet. According to the USGS.

Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 19, 2024 11:55 AM (/NEnv)

314 Like I said, black Americans are not the wards of the Democrat Party.

Six decades of kowtowing to LBJ's legacy says otherwise.

Posted by: spindrift at July 19, 2024 11:55 AM (OguvZ)

315 “Planning was impossible,” added Kinzinger, who is married to former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.).
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 19, 2024 11:46 AM (evvc2)

Planning what? Treason?

Posted by: ... at July 19, 2024 11:56 AM (8s2gn)

316 The small print:
If you don't like the heat, move away from AZ. If many of you move away the cost of buying a home will go down, so move now before the prices go down!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 19, 2024 11:48 AM (wNbrz)

Can we also have a notice that says "yes, all of Arizona is as hot as Phoenix, there are totally no parts of the state where temps are mild, and it's sunny almost every day. The whole state is an oven, and none of the houses have air conditioning. Stay away, for the children."

Posted by: BurtTC at July 19, 2024 11:56 AM (wjmSl)

317 Please let this be fake.

Too hard to comprehend.

https://x.com/atensnut/status/
1814293449148932343

/stitch together

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 19, 2024 11:56 AM (RKVpM)

318 Eris, will have drink in hand for you upon arrival

Posted by: Ben Had at July 19, 2024 11:57 AM (5MvGY)

319 That being said, the east side of the river is mostly farmland - not nearly as many people.

Posted by: MrExcitement at July 19, 2024 11:55 AM (hOOi9)

Lotta' farms in E.St.Louis?

Posted by: BignJames at July 19, 2024 11:57 AM (AwYPR)

320 Bank to bank is 2200 feet. According to the USGS.
Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 19, 2024 11:55 AM (/NEnv)

Yeah, I always thought of it as half a mile.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 19, 2024 11:57 AM (wjmSl)

321 I lived in St Louis for three years, and never heard anything about such a thing.

When you say St. Louis, do you mean city or suburbs? I was in South St. Louis city only a couple of miles from the river.

Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 19, 2024 11:57 AM (/NEnv)

322 One grandchild was born in AZ in July and we were out to help. I could feel my skin lizardize just stepping outside.
Made TX feel like a leafy forest...
Posted by: sal at July 19, 2024

***
In '85 we visited Mrs. Wolfus No. 2's grandparents in Tucson. In June. It hit 107 each day, and . . . get this . . . they were well-off people, but didn't have A/C in their nice little ranch home. Just a swamp cooler. Twenty degrees off of 107 is . . . you guessed it, horrible. I loved the landscape, was amazed by the dry dry ground, but I could not get comfortable.

If I ever go back again, it will be in winter.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 19, 2024 11:57 AM (J2vNu)

323 With aspirin (which has a much better side-effect profile and much lower cost) the risk is about 5% per year. Yet Eliquis is "significantly" better.

Ain't nobody getting kick-backs/bonuses for you taking aspirin, jack.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 19, 2024 11:58 AM (U7wke)

324 Lil Pooky is two months away from making his grand entrance.
Posted by: pookysgirl, getting bigger by the day

Got a name picked out yet?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 19, 2024 11:58 AM (v6JzV)

325 Not quite 80. It took over a decade of getting the government to admit they'd caused the problem *and* to get them to pay for the solution. Lil Pooky is two months away from making his grand entrance.
Posted by: pookysgirl, getting bigger by the day at July 19, 2024 11:51 AM (dtlDP)

Congrats!!!
I bet the Horde has all kinds of birthing advice!

Posted by: Diogenes at July 19, 2024 11:58 AM (W/lyH)

326 The Open is a train wreck. Only 10 are under par. Cut line looks like five over Mickelson and Dechambeau are at +5. McElroy, Woods are +12 and +14. Very windy

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 19, 2024 11:58 AM (Zf6jY)

327 {{{BenHad}}}

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 19, 2024 11:58 AM (kpS4V)

328 Lil Pooky is two months away from making his grand entrance.
Posted by: pookysgirl, getting bigger by the day

Got a name picked out yet?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 19, 2024 11:58 AM (v6JzV)

DIOGENES is a really great name.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 19, 2024 11:59 AM (W/lyH)

329 Violet Affleck's "post-viral condition" is known as stunned cuntitude.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 19, 2024 11:59 AM (6T/Ac)

330 As a child of the 1980s: First time, Bro?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 19, 2024 11:59 AM (8sMut)

331 Lotta' farms in E.St.Louis?
Posted by: BignJames

ESL isn't that big. Right outside of it, yeah. It's starts.

Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 19, 2024 11:59 AM (/NEnv)

332 You're pregnant? I thought everyone here was like 80.

How refreshing.
Posted by: eleven

Hey, it's not that unusual.
Posted by: Sarah

Heh, nice reference. btw, my SIL had her last baby when she was 51. (That would be #

In a wild coincidence, her name is also 'Sarah'.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 19, 2024 11:59 AM (WXNFJ)

333 326 The Open is a train wreck. Only 10 are under par. Cut line looks like five over Mickelson and Dechambeau are at +5. McElroy, Woods are +12 and +14. Very windy
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 19, 2024 11:58 AM (Zf6jY)

I thought the late group yesterday got little wind - thus, why the scores were so different.

Today, I thought both groups were equally screwed...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 19, 2024 11:59 AM (exHjb)

334 Can we also have a notice that says "yes, all of Arizona is as hot as Phoenix, there are totally no parts of the state where temps are mild, and it's sunny almost every day. The whole state is an oven, and none of the houses have air conditioning. Stay away, for the children."

You will have a hard time selling me the idea that Flagstaff and Phoenix share the same temperature.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 19, 2024 11:59 AM (rHxhM)

335 I lived in St Louis for three years, and never heard anything about such a thing.

That being said, the east side of the river is mostly farmland - not nearly as many people.
Posted by: MrExcitement at July 19, 2024 11:55 AM (hOOi9)

I don't know what to tell you, regarding what you heard. The Illnoise side of the river is NOT mostly farmland, until you get further away from St. Louis and the river. It's a metro area. Probably a few hundred thousand people, although I'd have to look it up. Maybe as many as half a million.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 19, 2024 11:59 AM (wjmSl)

336 328 Lil Pooky is two months away from making his grand entrance.
Posted by: pookysgirl, getting bigger by the day

How wonderful ! My youngest Grandchild is 16.. Oh to be young again... LOL

Posted by: It's me donna at July 19, 2024 12:00 PM (IyPmt)

337 Conduction, convection, radiation, the three forms of heat transfer.

As a mechanical engineer I think the best design for dryer climates is to have temperature controllable panels on ceilings utilizing radiative heat transfer. These can be set to much higher temperatures than typical AC which rely on convection (a very inefficient means of heat transfer). AC units typically cool air to around 45F to 55F. I estimate that panels could be set to about 80F and have the same cooling effect as AC units.

The biggest problem is condensation on the panels to the RH levels would have to monitored but I think in dry climates that would virtually never be an issue.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 19, 2024 12:00 PM (2fIO4)

338 Violet Affleck grew up to be an attention whore.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 19, 2024 12:00 PM (8sMut)

339 You don't want to go to East St. Louis. Trust me.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 19, 2024 12:00 PM (n17eQ)

340 Nood. Still a chance to get top ten comment

Posted by: tankdemon at July 19, 2024 12:00 PM (B0G6a)

341 And he needs a hand-knit sweater, right?
Posted by: sal at July 19, 2024 11:55 AM (4lnL

I'm working on a Fibonacci sequence scarf for his big sister. I'll probably knit him a hat once I'm done with her scarf. Tiny hats go really, really fast!

Posted by: pookysgirl, one one two three five eight etc at July 19, 2024 12:00 PM (dtlDP)

342 Ain't nobody getting kick-backs/bonuses for you taking aspirin, jack.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Word.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at July 19, 2024 12:01 PM (qZEuM)

343 Lil Pooky is two months away from making his grand entrance.

congrats -- I have two toddlers and haven't gotten a decent night's sleep in over 4 year. prepare yourself

Posted by: brak at July 19, 2024 12:01 PM (NGHTx)

344 Noodus biden power struggle

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 19, 2024 12:01 PM (J2vNu)

345 Can we also have a notice that says "yes, all of Arizona is as hot as Phoenix, there are totally no parts of the state where temps are mild, and it's sunny almost every day. The whole state is an oven, and none of the houses have air conditioning. Stay away, for the children."
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You will have a hard time selling me the idea that Flagstaff and Phoenix share the same temperature.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 19, 2024 11:59 AM (rHxhM)

Ok, then you passed the test, you're smart enough to live there. But tell all the stupid people you know that it's all one big fat hot steamy oven.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 19, 2024 12:01 PM (wjmSl)

346 Seconds before she had lifted her 'Fire Biden' sign up then lowered as if a signal.

48 hours but Holy Fvck if true.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 19, 2024 11:52 AM (RKVpM)

LMAO that sign is 5 to 10 feet in front of her. Watch the video. That is not her sign or hands unless she's Plasticman.

Please, I implore you, we can't get caught up in this stupid crap.

Posted by: ... at July 19, 2024 12:01 PM (8s2gn)

347 You don't want to go to East St. Louis. Trust me.

------------

Excuse me holmes!

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at July 19, 2024 12:01 PM (sX1BW)

348 I hereby name this heatwave "Pussy Grabber,"

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 19, 2024 12:01 PM (wBaIH)

349 From what I recall, I'd say the Mississippi is maybe 1000ft wide at St Louis. And assuming the wind is from the west, St Louis is not downwind from any moisture the river might contribute to the atmosphere.

*cough Missouri River just to the north of the city cough*
Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 19, 2024 11:52 AM (/NEnv)

Yes, and it runs east-west into the Mississippi. Every drop of water from the Missouri, flows past St Louis in the Mississippi, ergo the Mississippi flowing past St Louis is significantly larger than the Missouri.

Also, since it's north of the city, as you say - I think it's something like 5 or 10 miles - St Louis is not downwind from THAT river either, unless you want to tell me the the wind blows from north to south there...

Posted by: MrExcitement at July 19, 2024 12:01 PM (hOOi9)

350 Excellent point. And it extends to everything. Hell, a lot of these kids don't drive because of the fear mongering.

Posted by: CharlieGray'sDildo at July 19, 2024 12:02 PM (g0MSz)

351 I lived in St Louis for three years, and never heard anything about such a thing.

That being said, the east side of the river is mostly farmland - not nearly as many people.
Posted by: MrExcitement at July 19, 2024 11:55 AM (hOOi9)

Hi.

Posted by: East St. Louis at July 19, 2024 12:02 PM (8sMut)

352 Pookysgirl, the Horde can make you a push playlist to listen to. An invigorating mix of heavy metal, outlaw country, and Wagner.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 19, 2024 12:02 PM (kpS4V)

353 303 Biggest temp swing in our part of Texas. Went to horseshow in Dallas and it was in the 80's
Next morning there was 6 inches of snow on the ground

Posted by: Ben Had at July 19, 2024 11:53 AM (5MvGY

Blue Norther, those are amazing when they come through.

I remember being in Phoenix one summer afternoon about 7, it was still 108 so i was wearing shorts and a t-shirt with flip flops. We drove up to Flagstaff about 3 hours north - when I got out of the car at 10 that evening, it was 36 degrees there.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 19, 2024 12:03 PM (wyMQY)

354 286 I'm still betting the bulk of Trump's team that day were DHS and TSA metal detector level folks without any authority to shoot anyone.

I assume the ones that had authority were in on it.
Posted by: Moron Robbie promises not to say told you so about the tranny shooter at July 19, 2024 11:51 AM (tHxO3)

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I think the site commander would be the only one that would have to be in on it.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 19, 2024 12:04 PM (2fIO4)

355 One grandchild was born in AZ in July and we were out to help. I could feel my skin lizardize just stepping outside.
Made TX feel like a leafy forest...
Posted by: sal

YES!
Spread those words!
Please!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 19, 2024 12:04 PM (wNbrz)

356 339 You don't want to go to East St. Louis. Trust me.
Posted by: Pudinhead at July 19, 2024 12:00 PM (n17eQ)

I saw East St. Louis from a safe distance and it didn’t look like a place I wanted to go THEN. (Back in the 1980s). When my father was growing up there, according to him, it was a hellhole back in that time.

Posted by: Catch Thirty- Thr33 at July 19, 2024 12:04 PM (8sMut)

357 I grew up in Texas. I *know* heat. I've lived in DC for 11 years. In that time. I've never seen heat like this. It's been brutal and exhausting. Worst summer my lifelong-Marylander gf has ever seen too.

Posted by: Some Asshole at July 19, 2024 12:05 PM (MP/G7)

358 Yankee transplant: "Why can't you idiots drive on snow?"
Natives: 'And we would get experience doing that when?"

There was a lot of tension over this back in the Great Migration back in the '70s.

Posted by: sal at July 19, 2024 12:05 PM (4lnL8)

359 (Plus it's looking more and more like long COVID is activation of dormant illnesses your body already defeated being reactivated by COVID and the shot, so...)
Posted by: Moron Robbie promises not to say told you so about the tranny shooter at July 19, 2024 11:12 AM (tHxO3)

Long Covid is the fibromyalgia of the 2020's. Mostly, it's an excuse to not work.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 19, 2024 12:05 PM (G0Tgb)

360 You don't want to go to East St. Louis. Trust me.
Posted by: Pudinhead at July 19, 2024 12:00 PM (n17eQ)

While I lived in the St Louis area, they changed the stop lights in East St Louis because if you stopped at an intersection in your car, you would get mugged. The city was sued for somebody getting brutally beaten up in their jail, so they didn't have money to fix their flood gates before the legendary flooding that occurred back then.

So yeah, trust him when he says that.

Posted by: MrExcitement at July 19, 2024 12:05 PM (hOOi9)

361 The mold spores (?) seem to be ever present anyway.
Posted by: illiniwek at July 19, 2024 11:26 AM (Cus5s)

Like yeast. The fermentation guy said forget sterilizing your jars- it's everywhere.

Posted by: sal at July 19, 2024 12:07 PM (4lnL8)

362 They're also just gaslighting us with some of these "record" temperatures. I know in my town alone, when I pull up wunderground, they say the temperatures are 5-10 degrees higher than they actually are during the summer most days. Because when you go into the cross-tabs, they're pulling from a temperature censor downtown, and not any of the others across the town. SAID SENSOR IS INSTALLED ON A TAR ROOF. So many temperature sensors across the country are like this.

Posted by: Gaff at July 19, 2024 12:07 PM (jPS2y)

363 Ace nood

Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 19, 2024 12:09 PM (/NEnv)

364 That being said, the east side of the river is mostly farmland - not nearly as many people.
Posted by: MrExcitement at July 19, 2024 11:55 AM (hOOi9)

Hi.
Posted by: East St. Louis at July 19, 2024 12:02 PM (8sMut)

Hi, East St Louis! The only reason anybody has ever heard of you, despite having a much smaller population than St Louis is because you're quite the hell hole. We can all be glad that relatively few people live there, if we have any compassion in our hearts. I would end up there sometimes if I took a wrong turn, and it was always a tense experience.

Posted by: MrExcitement at July 19, 2024 12:10 PM (hOOi9)

365 @286

>>I'm still betting the bulk of Trump's team that day were DHS and TSA metal detector level folks without any authority to shoot anyone.

As has been said, this can all be ascertained with the security plan and tasking/assignment/RACI matrix for that event, and then you compare it to the last 100 events to track the changes and see what's what.

This is not some fly by night organization, this is the USSS we're talking about, it's not supposed to be jazz hands and spirit fingers.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 19, 2024 12:10 PM (XV/Pl)

366 People are pussies now.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 19, 2024 11:48 AM (4XwPj)

For me the #1 sign of this was when they decided to name winter storms.

Posted by: Catch Thirty- Thr33 at July 19, 2024 12:10 PM (8sMut)

367 202
‘ And now the story is over. Faster than Maui. ’

Then Trump and his surrogates should cut straight to the chase and accuse the Biden administration of causing the assassination attempt.
They did everything they could to put Trump in jail. They provided a shit SS team. They’re not cooperative in the investigation.It all adds up.
I don’t see the downside.

Posted by: WWI Artillery officer at July 19, 2024 12:11 PM (tkRpE)

368 Used to haul hay as a teenager in Texas during the summer. 25 cents a bale (square bales) moved several thousand a day. Sweated, dranl water, drank beer at the end of the day. We survived.

Posted by: Stacy0311 at July 19, 2024 12:12 PM (8LKg9)

369 I would end up there sometimes if I took a wrong turn, and it was always a tense experience.
Posted by: MrExcitement at July 19, 2024 12:10 PM (hOOi9)

How the hell do you manage that? There is a rather large body of water between St. Louis and East St. Louis…

Posted by: Catch Thirty- Thr33 at July 19, 2024 12:12 PM (8sMut)

370 95 Air advisory for Dallas. Don't breathe
Posted by: Ben Had at July 19, 2024 11:18 AM (5MvGY)

I did take that seriously, because it made me feel bad.
I'd check the news to see if it was a bad ozone day and I was usually right.

Posted by: sal at July 19, 2024 12:13 PM (4lnL8)

371 242 People used to tell me in Denver, "You don't need air in Colorado." Bull pucky.

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Yeah. Ridiculous. You don't need it above about 7000ft. In Denver, if you don't have A/C you will be hot AF for about four months. If you're in a multi-unit structure with no A/C you'll be roasting like a chicken. Sitting at home in your underwear in front of a fan.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 19, 2024 11:43 AM (0FoWg)

We heard this ALL THE DAMN TIME in CO too! My parents rented a house in Aurora that had NO A/C WHATSOEVER. And that place got hot in the summer. Denver routinely hits the high 90s in the summer and there, yes you do need A/C.

Posted by: Catch Thirty- Thr33 at July 19, 2024 12:17 PM (8sMut)

372 I was ten years old at the time of the Cuban missile crisis. I remember having fervent conversations with my friends on whether the Russians were going to nuke Chicago (our home town). *That* is fear, but it was fear of something real, something tangible.
The problem now is that it's possible to manufacture fear, and fear sells. Media profits by capturing people's attention and selling that attention to advertisers; and fear captures attention and holds it like nothing else. People grow tired of sex after time; joy and love are fleeting; but fear keeps us coming back for more.

Posted by: Nemo at July 19, 2024 12:43 PM (S6ArX)

373 I was 21 years old before I ever had air conditioning.

Kids today. Sheesh.

Posted by: DavidD at July 19, 2024 12:57 PM (unrw6)

374 I much preferred it when Chad Kroeger was talking at LA council meetings about the importance of house parties.

Posted by: Lex at July 19, 2024 01:38 PM (fMN7A)

375 People are scaring their kids because they fall for all the propaganda that is being used to scare THEM.

Posted by: RebeccaH at July 19, 2024 01:40 PM (Nvors)

376 BxoUJWnjbSfuEKF

Posted by: bEecINRAXVGqDtki at July 19, 2024 02:27 PM (heWrS)

377 Harry Reid now smells worse than the tourists he complained about years ago.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at July 19, 2024 02:46 PM (G1OAj)

378 My zip code is 93562.
Check out the 10 day forecast.
And it will be 8-10 degrees hotter next month.
I laugh at you.

Posted by: omm at July 19, 2024 02:49 PM (WCuBP)

379 Dr Anl water?

is that a regional soft drink?

By the by, I did the square bale routine when I was a kid too. $1/hr and it was the best game in town for a youngster.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at July 19, 2024 02:49 PM (G1OAj)

380 I have a 9 year old patient who is so fearful that she still insists on wearing a mask when out of her home, and wears a helmet riding in her family car.

Posted by: MammaB at July 19, 2024 03:39 PM (6d0do)

381 Telling them the Lie that Climate Change/Global R Warmings going to Flood the Earth and we all must return to a Primative Way in order to survive is wrong

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at July 19, 2024 04:56 PM (wGqjj)

382 Make sure your kids stay off of all slopey roofs too!

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