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Seriously. It was 70 degrees in Chicago today and I'm pretty pissed about it. I'm in favor of winter, nuclear if necessary. Do I hear an Amen?

― whiskeytangofoxtrot (unclejessjess), Sunday, 12 March 2006 08:34 (twenty years ago)

Not from me you won't. Bring on the sun and heat, cause it's still too damn cold here!

― ALLAH FROG (Mingus Dew), Sunday, 12 March 2006 08:54 (twenty years ago)

Winter is better than summer, amen. But it's oddly cold here in Portland. People kept telling me I brought the cold weather back from Chicago. I was like, it wasn't that bad in Chicago! But I might have brought it back from when the train stopped in Shelby, Montana.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 12 March 2006 09:06 (twenty years ago)

Seasons, ranked:

1 (far and away)-Fall. Autumn. It's so awesome it needs two names. It should have many more names, like God's son has.
2 - Winter. I don't ever want to be hot again. Winter is like sitting in front of the A/C vent.
3 - Spring. Because it's still cool, but I hate it because it leads to....
4 - summer. summer. Barf. I used to love the heat, but I've always hated summer. Always. I hate everything about it. I hate bright days, I hate the nasty hyperreality of it all. And most of all I hate being hot. I'm 5'6" and 155 lbs. I'm built like an Eskimo; I retain heat. I hate summer.

― whiskeytangofoxtrot (unclejessjess), Sunday, 12 March 2006 09:25 (twenty years ago)

Well now! I see. In times of hotter days, we felt more sorrow, so now we "wanna stay cold". Oh, but remember, the cold brings too it's sad feels, it's seals, it is the king kong dorky. The winter can make a man's erection becoem malicefull and strange. If santa came in summer her melty mind oozes for him, but still th emagazines we read depict the man in insulting poses! HA! I now know so much, my wisdom has bceom nearly infinite.

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Sunday, 12 March 2006 09:36 (twenty years ago)

You're so right Mr Jones. I stand erected.

― whiskeytangofoxtrot (unclejessjess), Sunday, 12 March 2006 10:00 (twenty years ago)

"The Flesh Icicle."

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Sunday, 12 March 2006 10:05 (twenty years ago)

i just want permanent autumn. 10 months of of autumn, maybe, a month of winter and a month of spring.

― baby, disco is fuck (yournullfame), Sunday, 12 March 2006 10:26 (twenty years ago)

Summer is lovely! Long and lazy afternoons, perfectly warm nights, barbeques and drinking, going swimming or basking out in the sun and baking like some sort of reptile, not to mention the way the ladies dress. Unbeatable.

― ALLAH FROG (Mingus Dew), Sunday, 12 March 2006 10:45 (twenty years ago)

Jesse. This is garbage talk.

― gbx (skowly), Sunday, 12 March 2006 10:45 (twenty years ago)

Summer, summer. summer, summer...

It's been raining/sleeting here for five days. That's not good winter weather. You can't go out, the kids can't go out, the car doesn't like it, everything looks like crap, even litter looks worse when it's like this. Bring on the summer and make it hot.

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Sunday, 12 March 2006 10:55 (twenty years ago)

try a new jersey summer sometime. it's like being trapped in an armpit's armpit.

― baby, disco is fuck (yournullfame), Sunday, 12 March 2006 10:57 (twenty years ago)

Maximal temperatures expected next week in New York City (centigrade):

Monday: 22
Tuesday: 18
Wednesday: 6
Thursday: 7

― Momus (Momus), Sunday, 12 March 2006 13:23 (twenty years ago)

(Average maximal temperature for New York in March is 7 centigrade.)

― Momus (Momus), Sunday, 12 March 2006 13:25 (twenty years ago)

I saw pictures of it snowing around phoenix yesterday! and it was over 70 here in st louis and I even got to go outside in it. I have effectively missed this winter since I had a baby in early december (in the first snowstorm naturally) and haven't much left the house since. Which is totally cool, I'm not much for the cold and I can handle even the nastiest bits of summer pretty well. So screw the oncoming summer, with great affection and tender words and lube and whatnot.

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 12 March 2006 13:26 (twenty years ago)

Why the hell are you posting temps in CENTIGRADE??

I am unmoved by your descriptions of the Devil's Season.

In summer I get depressed and spend most of my time indoors trying to avoid the oppressive sauna outside. Also summer is expense because I spend a lot on electricity for A/C (running 24-7 for most of the summer) and cabs.

I'm upset.

― whiskeytangofoxtrot (unclejessjess), Sunday, 12 March 2006 15:42 (twenty years ago)

fukk it!t! both ways, anyways. always. fukk it. yew. yes.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 12 March 2006 15:47 (twenty years ago)

It was 90 degrees here in Austin the last couple of days. This is fucking MARCH! By August, when it usually is past 100, it will be past 120 if this keeps up.

I didn't sign on for Phoenix. Fuck this shit.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Sunday, 12 March 2006 15:49 (twenty years ago)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 12 March 2006 15:51 (twenty years ago)

CENTIGRADE is the only way to go. Fahrenheit is all hype. ooh, 100! ooh, 30! Why so many numbers? Simply Your Life with Celsius.
xpost

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Sunday, 12 March 2006 17:24 (twenty years ago)

Simplify.
I mean.

why is morning so hard? It wouldn't be so hard if it were summer.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Sunday, 12 March 2006 17:26 (twenty years ago)

Farenheit is way more precise than Celcius. Sure, fine, you say it's 27 degrees out. But for us Farenheiters, that could be anywhere from 80.6 to 82.4!

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Sunday, 12 March 2006 17:28 (twenty years ago)

Summer would be okay, if it'd just shut up. It's a horrible in yer face season.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 12 March 2006 17:32 (twenty years ago)

try a new jersey summer sometime. it's like being trapped in an armpit's armpit.

truth-- but the worst are the days that you go into the city and it is just DRY HEAT EVERYWHERE

my favorite summer has been a new hampshire/vermont summer... it gets really hot but there's a river where for some reason it's always a solid 15 degrees colder than elsewhere. relaxing as hell

― nervous (cochere), Sunday, 12 March 2006 17:32 (twenty years ago)

"Farenheiters"

you're so caught up in the details. you're missing life. you're all numbers, you people.

i like the aggression of summer. sometimes. it tells it like it is.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Sunday, 12 March 2006 17:37 (twenty years ago)

i've realized that most of the music i instantly think of as 'summery' has a lot of high-end. i think it has something to do with the heat

― nervous (cochere), Sunday, 12 March 2006 17:38 (twenty years ago)

i love summer! even the heat. and I dont have A/C. winter is STUPID.

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Sunday, 12 March 2006 18:04 (twenty years ago)

mandee winter is NOT stupid but it can be much more annoying at its worst points than summer, i think

― nervous (cochere), Sunday, 12 March 2006 18:06 (twenty years ago)

Metric is fine for some things like weights, but for distances and temps it's wack. Especially for temps because 1) it's arbitrary--based on freezing and boiling temps, not on a base 10 system and 2)it's imprecise.

― whiskeytangofoxtrot (unclejessjess), Sunday, 12 March 2006 18:09 (twenty years ago)

Chicago's beautiful forecast (after today's repulsive warmth)

Mon 52/25 with sleet
Tue 43/22

― whiskeytangofoxtrot (unclejessjess), Sunday, 12 March 2006 18:15 (twenty years ago)

but i know what boiling is. i know what freezing is. 10? i don't even know what that means.

oh, i LOVE the metric system. but weather is something else. weather can't be held down by your base 10 system, man.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Sunday, 12 March 2006 18:15 (twenty years ago)

Are you mocking me?

― whiskeytangofoxtrot (unclejessjess), Sunday, 12 March 2006 18:41 (twenty years ago)

no, winter is stupid!

actually i dont mind the snow so much, lately.

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Sunday, 12 March 2006 18:44 (twenty years ago)

How often do you need to know when something is at boiling temp? freezing, yes. Everyone knows that 32 is freezing, and who cares about boiling? In order to be as precise and meaningful as F, you would have to talk about C temps with at least 1/2 degrees, and that would be kind of dumb. Celcius is clumsy. Like having a hand with 3 fingers. Or a clock with only an hour hand.

This is esp. important when measuring people's temps.

xpost

― whiskeytangofoxtrot (unclejessjess), Sunday, 12 March 2006 18:48 (twenty years ago)

MANDEE OTM

xpost, robyn also otm

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 12 March 2006 18:51 (twenty years ago)

No! You're all wrong. God! Oh God! Why can't they see?

― whiskeytangofoxtrot (unclejessjess), Sunday, 12 March 2006 18:56 (twenty years ago)

haha, jesse, i'm not mocking you.
xpost
omg, funnily enough, if you said 32 degrees to me, I wouldn't immediately understand it as freezing! This is how I lost those two fingers in the first place. Pls stop making fun of my hand.

i am, however, glad to be otm.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Sunday, 12 March 2006 19:00 (twenty years ago)

rochester was really mild before i left and here in sc it's in the 70s already and i feel horribly cheated, like i never got an adequate winter this year. and summer in rochester was nice, but sc summers are AWFUL. hot, humid, mosquitos, and sunburn. ba;lskdj. and i'm already starting to get sinus congestion and post-nasal drip here, whereas if i were in a nice, wintery climate i could avoid that nuisance for another two months or so.

― tehresa (tehresa), Sunday, 12 March 2006 19:04 (twenty years ago)

To summarize my very core beliefs:

Summer bad
Farhenheit good but hard to spell
Crash was a really bad movie

― whiskeytangofoxtrot (unclejessjess), Sunday, 12 March 2006 19:07 (twenty years ago)

xpost-- I found summers in NC to be easier than in Chicago. Though they were longer and generally hotter, you drove absolutely everywhere (even 1 or 2 blocks, for shit's sake) and everywhere had AC. In Chicago you walk more and a few godforsaken places (like my dry cleaners!!!) don't have AC.

― whiskeytangofoxtrot (unclejessjess), Sunday, 12 March 2006 19:08 (twenty years ago)

i got so used to the non-a/c life in new york, though, that now a/c bothers me. and i am so fucking sick of driving everywhere.

― tehresa (tehresa), Sunday, 12 March 2006 19:14 (twenty years ago)

nyc? no a/c?

― whiskeytangofoxtrot (unclejessjess), Sunday, 12 March 2006 19:18 (twenty years ago)

Farenheit is actually the name of a guy! Who invented it! (Out of thin air!) I know this b/c once in London I did a pub quiz (with some people who hang around these parts and who are great) and the question was about "this temperature measurement's namesake" or something. And I said, jokingly, oh, haha, it's Celsius! Then I said, oh, hm, maybe it's Farenheit? I was kyboshed! The point of this story is to show how right I can be, esp re: weather. Don't worry, it's an innate skill, not everyone's born with it. (winky face, etc.)

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Sunday, 12 March 2006 19:19 (twenty years ago)

xpost

n order to be as precise and meaningful as F, you would have to talk about C temps with at least 1/2 degrees, and that would be kind of dumb.

Although your point about measuring people's temperatures for medical purposes may have some validity, anyone who thinks that the extra precision of "It's 51 degrees F, not 50 or 52" -- which is what C comes down to -- is actually useful to any of us.

― Mitya (mitya), Sunday, 12 March 2006 19:20 (twenty years ago)

Fahrenheit. I mean.
I agree with your last two core beliefs, totally, J.
xlandpost

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Sunday, 12 March 2006 19:21 (twenty years ago)

no, new york state... rochester (as mentioned above)
xpost a lot

― tehresa (tehresa), Sunday, 12 March 2006 19:24 (twenty years ago)

It matters to me. 51 is different from 50 and 52. I was raised with an expectation for exactitude wrt temps and anything less than F's level of precision is a felony.

xpost-- I thought you (rrrobyn) were in the Celcius camp.

― whiskeytangofoxtrot (unclejessjess), Sunday, 12 March 2006 19:28 (twenty years ago)

I'm switching to Rankines. Scottish Absolute Zero, yo.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Sunday, 12 March 2006 19:28 (twenty years ago)

Fuck everything. I'm measuring temperature in inches.

― whiskeytangofoxtrot (unclejessjess), Sunday, 12 March 2006 19:29 (twenty years ago)

As in "It was cold today--2 inches--I'm going out tonight and I'm hoping for 12 inches by midnight." WAH WAH WAGHHHH.

― whiskeytangofoxtrot (unclejessjess), Sunday, 12 March 2006 19:30 (twenty years ago)

Ah, I only agree with the 'hard to spell' part. and the Crash sucking part. Celc/sius still rules and Rankines rock. The rain still falls, the sun still shines. you know.
xpost
INCHES! haha

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Sunday, 12 March 2006 19:30 (twenty years ago)

At last we can all agree on something (core belief #3).
IF I was to rank Crash in Celsius I would give it a -32º.
Precise enough for you??

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 12 March 2006 19:54 (twenty years ago)

I measure Crash in cubic liters of dog diarrhea. Unfortunately it is beyond what current dog-diarrhea meters can measure.

― whiskeytangofoxtrot (unclejessjess), Sunday, 12 March 2006 19:58 (twenty years ago)

wow, crash was dumb too, wasnt it?

its snowing out! its kinda PEACEFUL, but only because i can stay inside and watch it from the window like a LOST SOUL.

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Sunday, 12 March 2006 20:43 (twenty years ago)

Fall is my favorite. Summer is my least favorite. Spring is nice. Winter is fun at first but makes me tired eventually.

Very cold is easier for me to deal with physically and emotionally than very hot. Also, when it's winter and everybody is bundled up, there's less chance of actual skin to skin contact with strangers on the train. Once last summer I wore a t-shirt and skirt on the train and was on the inside seat when HUGE woman in a tank top and shorts sat next to me, taking up a seat and a half and I spent the entire ride pressed against the window with full arm and leg bare skin contact and I had to peel myself off her to get out of the seat and exit the train.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 12 March 2006 22:33 (twenty years ago)

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 12 March 2006 22:34 (twenty years ago)

I can't be the only one here who has to shovel snow. Or pay heating bills. Winter is gay.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 12 March 2006 22:52 (twenty years ago)

i had the best hookup before i moved south - my roommate owned the house so i payed her a flat fee every month which included utilities... meaning, when the heating bill went up, it didn't affect my bank acct.

― tehresa (tehresa), Sunday, 12 March 2006 22:57 (twenty years ago)

also, i will take snow shoveling over lawn mowing any day.

― tehresa (tehresa), Sunday, 12 March 2006 23:10 (twenty years ago)

If you don't like winter, get the hell out of Canada, surely. Or move to Victoria.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 12 March 2006 23:15 (twenty years ago)

I still like winter. It makes summer even better. And it makes Spring an absolute TREAT. Fall is also nice.

(keys to making winter easier on a person in Canada (outside westcoast, obv): don't own a car, don't own a walkway that needs shoveling, own knee-length down-filled coat, own wooly hat that comes way down over your ears, understand the power of wool socks, save money to pay heating bill in winter b/c it's nothing in summer, own a bike for summer, make friends with people who have cottages outside the city, go there. Some other stuff. oh, and understand that temperature is just another number, man, in another SYSTEM.)

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Sunday, 12 March 2006 23:26 (twenty years ago)

Also, I don't like sleeping with the AC unit on because then I can't hear anything and it dries out my head but without the AC unit, it's too damn hot to sleep. Winter = better sleeping. Thus, it rules summer.
-- Nutsy the Squirrel
I can't be the only one here who has to shovel snow. Or pay heating bills. Winter is gay.

-- Thermo Thinwall

I neither shovel snow nor pay heating bills! Hooray for being me! (Many Chicago apartments have heat included.)

I sleep best when the A/C is on. Yesterday a friend called me and asked me to go out to the Italian Village. I said no, but she obviously knows me well because she pulled out her ace and said, "They have air conditioning on!" I love A/C more than my own life. And the noise is good for sleeping.

― whiskeytangofoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 13 March 2006 08:56 (twenty years ago)

Crap. I meant to post this too:

National Weather Service County - ILC031

WNSWOU7
WOUS64 KWNS 130703
WOU7

TORNADO WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE FOR WT 77
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
103 AM CST MON MAR 13 2006

TORNADO WATCH 77 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 AM CST FOR THE
FOLLOWING LOCATIONS

― whiskeytangofoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 13 March 2006 08:58 (twenty years ago)

(Fuck! Why are my posts not showing up in their entirety?)

I had said that the preceding was one of the only cool things about spring and summer. I absolutely love severe weather.

― whiskeytangofoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 13 March 2006 08:59 (twenty years ago)

fuck yeah, that same front is gonna blow through austin tomorrow, returning temperatures to normal! all this 90 degrees in march bullshit can go to hell. i don't wanna see 80 again until april!

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Monday, 13 March 2006 10:20 (twenty years ago)

I had my first iced coffee of the season today. Misha's makes it a bit strong for my taste though.

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 13 March 2006 20:22 (twenty years ago)

Austin Still otm upthread. I'm not a huge fan of winter but this global warming shit's got to stop. Austin (TX) will be pure hell by the 4th of July.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 13 March 2006 20:26 (twenty years ago)

Global warming doesn't exist where you live, remember?

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 13 March 2006 20:30 (twenty years ago)

I like that this is the "introducing Jesse to the rest of ILX" thread.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 March 2006 20:36 (twenty years ago)

guys this is crazy. Bring on the global warming, I say. I only like weather that is very hot, these days. Fuck some winter clothes.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Monday, 13 March 2006 20:37 (twenty years ago)

let's swap places Ally.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 13 March 2006 20:45 (twenty years ago)

Fuck some sweatiness! Hot weather is the devil's own work unless one is within sprinting distance of a body of water. I'm with Jesse, I'm built for long-term survival & generate/retain heat to an uncomfortable degree.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 13 March 2006 20:57 (twenty years ago)

Rrrobyn there's also the opposite frequency-response with music! High end = white, cold, brittle, snowy: winter. Low end = slow, muddy, languid: summer.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 13 March 2006 20:58 (twenty years ago)

relief... austin is sunny and 76 with cool cool breezes.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Monday, 13 March 2006 21:06 (twenty years ago)

It's like 85 here today, and a bit humid!

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Monday, 13 March 2006 21:09 (twenty years ago)

teeny did a tornado throw your car on a roof? If so, I saw you on the news last night.

― andy --, Monday, 13 March 2006 21:12 (twenty years ago)

eight years pass...

Definitely summer in NYC today. How I hate it.

(currently 83, "going up to 80" -- never change, weather.com)

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 16:06 (eleven years ago)

nine years pass...

i hate it so much

― mookieproof, Thursday, 23 May 2024 05:06 (one year ago)

either skip me ahead four months or kill me

― mookieproof, Thursday, 23 May 2024 05:18 (one year ago)

forecasted high this Sunday in Austin is 101... was gonna go to Neil Young but it's an outdoor show and fuuuuuuuuck that

― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Thursday, 23 May 2024 05:35 (one year ago)

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