Last summer did indeed suck but this summer is great so far. We're up to four pool parties already, beating last year's total of *ONE*. And my tomatoes are already five feet tall!

West Coast!

Playerslight: Joe_diGriz: And there are still people who are trying to convince us OMG!! GLOBAL WARMING IS HERE!!!


/am i doing it right?

I think I've heard the "global-warming my ass" argument at least 3 or 4 times in the last week from people who I've never heard comment on the issue. Does anyone have a clever, succinct response that I can give them in 10 seconds without having to get into explaining anecdotal vs theoretical vs statistically valid vs measurable etc etc etc?

Bonus points for creativity. I don't care about ideology, as it really doesn't matter in this instance (i.e. I want to be able to use it when it's really hot or really cold).

Tell them to get their asses down to Texas. I can't wait for this miserable summer to be over. It's global pissed off weather is what it is.

threedingers: Pxtl: 1) Women, particularly my wife, are not dressing to beat the heat.

Yeah, that part does kinda suck. But then again, I work in a mostly-male office and live in an "aesthetically challenged" town, so I'm not missing much.

HAHAHA!!! Suckers! I work on a college campus in Rhode Island. We have undergrad classes and precollege classes. The pre-college are highschool kids.

The girls practically have contests to out-slut one another, even in only 70 degree weather. Walk across the main green and you see more flesh than at a beach

Oogling is one of the few benefits of working in a higher education environment.

Shostie: Oh, boo farkin' hoo. "It's too cold this summer." "Shut the hell up," I say while enduring 100+ degree afternoons with 1000% humidity and little to no rain.

And to you we say "Shut the hell up, we'll take your heat, whiner, and we'll stockpile it to combat the -40C winters."

iollow
Lower Canada (where almost all Canadians live) and the upper U.S. are experiencing a more-south than usual jet stream this year, bringing cool weather from magic land.
I'm in Philly, it's been mid-80s for 3 months straight. Lovin' it. By this time of year there's usually 2 days of 95+ with the occasional 100+ a couple times a month.

If Philly weather's anything like western PA's, then here's hoping that these weather patterns can persist for another... four weeks or so.

/going camping
//not a hot-weather fan

Playerslight: swaxhog: Warm days, cooler nights, the grass isn't dead. WTF more do you want.

Dead grass, actually. I'm farking sick of mowing my lawn every three days.

Well I'm with you there. I'm 1 more dandelion away from tearing out the front lawn and putting in a rock garden. The new no lawn pesticide bylaw sucks ass I should of stockpiled.

ObscureNameHere: I would have thought Farker Ghastly would have gotten Steeltown all fabulousized by now. Guess these things take time.

Despite travelling in some of the same social-circles as Ghastly, I haven't actually met him. The only gay Hamiltonians I know are bears.

Playerslight: sparrow794: You could ask them if they are able to accurately define global warming.

You're overestimating my willingness to actually converse with these people. I'm trying to blow them off so I don't actually have to talk with them.

No, I get it. It's my experience that this question shuts people down; or, if they actually attempt it, stop them halfway through their stammering definition and ask them to stop commenting on an issue they clearly have no understanding of, and simply walk away.

Or, you could just point in a random direction, shout 'TALIBAN!', and run.

Pxtl: Fist-bump.

Heya! Go Ticats!

/hahahaha

San Diego weather rules! Been in the mid to high 80's for the last few days, before that it was low 80's / high 70's and not a cloud in the sky.

ObscureNameHere:

*clicks profile*

You can come up to Canada. We have cool summers and running water.

RUNNIN' WATER?

Well golly gee! I'll be right there!

IWood: Guess ya shouldn'ta been born in Canada then, huh?

WHERE IS YOUR SMUG NOW?

or...something.

Northwest PA here and every day this summer has been about 10 degrees below average. We've had maybe just a a couple of days above 90 degrees.

The Global Fail is strong in this thread.

Civchic: threedingers: BTW, I don't know where you plan to go, but McMaster has an excellent neonatal unit.

That's where I'm headed! I'm a Mac grad so I know the place (feel comfy there), plus that's where my midwife practices.

Good luck! Hope everything goes smoothly for you.

The advantage of suffering through the summer heat in her third trimester was that Mrs. Threedingers was able to take the kids out for lots of strolls in the fall. Helped her shed the baby weight (although she only gained 30 lbs, if you can believe it) real quick.

Canadian Weather Forecast (new window)

If you live in Canada and are complaining about the cold, move to Osoyoos. It's in BC and part of the same desert system as Vegas.

Its been over a 100 degrees for the last few weeks, trade ya.

/Austin

Fat Horny Black and Joe: Abstruse: It's farking 104 in the shade here.fark you Canada. fark you.

No shiat...I'd kill for some relief right about now. Sweaty and humid here in SWFL. To hell with this summer bullshiat.

Is in SWFL also, trying my best not to melt.

My car's A/C is on the fritz too, so driving anywhere is an endurance test.

Whatever Canada, quit complaining and eat some TimBits

Just to add my own two cents, it's currently 104F/40C here in sunny south central Texas.

Time to go fry some eggs on the sidewalk :P

Pxtl: Good call with the midwife. Mac is fantastic at the saving-your-life parts, but less so at the making-your-stay-not-miserable parts. My wife farking hated that maternity ward, the nurses seem positively _trained_ to drive you barking mad.

I'm hoping my midwife gets me sprung from there at the earliest possible hour. :) I went there for an ultrasound, they sent me to the wrong waiting room, it's loud and noisy. But again - great at saving your life and all.

CnFlght: threedingers: Pxtl: 1) Women, particularly my wife, are not dressing to beat the heat.

Yeah, that part does kinda suck. But then again, I work in a mostly-male office and live in an "aesthetically challenged" town, so I'm not missing much.

HAHAHA!!! Suckers! I work on a college campus in Rhode Island. We have undergrad classes and precollege classes. The pre-college are highschool kids.

The girls practically have contests to out-slut one another, even in only 70 degree weather. Walk across the main green and you see more flesh than at a beach

Oogling is one of the few benefits of working in a higher education environment.

I hate you.

Believe it or not, move farther north. It's been anywhere from 70 degrees to 90 degrees across interior alaska with light smatterings of rain here and there. It's been a marvelous summer so far.

so the beer stays colder longer eh ?

Hey Canada!

Florida here, how's it going?

Great, great...

Look, while I've got your attention, you know how you always say of screwed up my personal life is? How crazy my habits are? How horrible my people are? Well, I've got something to tell you.

It's the weather.

You don't like your lack of a season? Oh, no summer? Boo-hoo...

Yeah, well Florida dosen't have seasons, buddy. We have hot, hot and wet, hot and dry, and wet. They don't follow any particular pattern, either. Sometimes it's hot and wet in the "winter" some times not. It's pretty random all in all.

When you face that kind of random, horrible weather, it does something to a man. Makes him go mad. Makes him do crazy things. Makes him lose it a bit.

So, next time you throw up the Florida tag, remember. It's horrible here.

Is this that global warming I've been hearing about?

Well, at least it's a dry cool.

*Heh* Our heat index in Dallas will be around 110-115 today.

Y'all Canadians are prolly still calcualting wind chill factors.

threedingers: CnFlght: threedingers: Pxtl: 1) Women, particularly my wife, are not dressing to beat the heat.

Yeah, that part does kinda suck. But then again, I work in a mostly-male office and live in an "aesthetically challenged" town, so I'm not missing much.

HAHAHA!!! Suckers! I work on a college campus in Rhode Island. We have undergrad classes and precollege classes. The pre-college are highschool kids.

The girls practically have contests to out-slut one another, even in only 70 degree weather. Walk across the main green and you see more flesh than at a beach

Oogling is one of the few benefits of working in a higher education environment.

I hate you.

Note: the above bolded text is always better when said in Gollum's voice.

Isuldirs: A little cool toady

threedingers: The advantage of suffering through the summer heat in her third trimester was that Mrs. Threedingers...

Good lord, I hope she's not a school teacher with that name.

Donde esta el "Global Warming"???

DasRaven: As have my fellow Phoenix residents, I'd like to invite you all to STFU and GBTW.

PHX 10-day forecast highs = 112,107,110,111,113,112,110,108,108,106

/August is going to be worse.
//At least my new solar system is driving A/C costs down.

I spent 20 years in MN. (aka: the Canadian Deep South) I'll take these AZ summers over a MN winter any day.

Hiro's Protagonist: If you live in Canada and are complaining about the cold, move to Osoyoos. It's in BC and part of the same desert system as Vegas.

Same as Vegas? The same Las Vegas where if you stand in the sunlight this time of year for more than, say, 10 minutes, your nuts dehydrate into pine cones? NO THANKS!

95% of scientists in the fourteenth century agreed that the earth was flat.

95% of scientists in 1970 believed there was no water on the moon.

95% of scientists today agree that global warming is valid and that industry is mostly to blame.

/third time's a charm

global warming is global warming, not "Cold Lake" warming

lesliessexxy: ObscureNameHere:

*clicks profile*

You can come up to Canada. We have cool summers and running water.

RUNNIN' WATER?

Well golly gee! I'll be right there!

Score! I knew that when we re-directed the river through our longhouse that it would bring all the females to our encampment!

motobvious: 95% of scientists in the fourteenth century agreed that the earth was flat.

95% of scientists in 1970 believed there was no water on the moon.

95% of scientists today agree that global warming is valid and that industry is mostly to blame.

/third time's a charm

95% of eungenecists believed Aryan traits represented the finest in human evolution.

/in America
//100% true stat
///wirklich!

motobvious: 95% of scientists in the fourteenth century agreed that the earth was flat.

See, this one is just plain wrong, and kind of invalidates your argument... besides the fact that it is a completely stupid threadjack.

Stranded On The Planet Dumbass: It's the hottest Summer of all time in Texas.

It's been a 100 damn degrees every day for the last three weeks and is projected to stay that way for the foreseeable future.

We will very soon be having prayer vigils to summon up a hurricane.

/ THIS, This, and so much this.

motobvious: 95% of scientists in the fourteenth century agreed that the earth was flat.

That's false

motobvious: 95% of scientists in 1970 believed there was no water on the moon.

Apollo 11 brought back soil samples in 1969

motobvious: 95% of scientists in 1970 believed there was no water on the moon.

Yes. And?

TheBigBadCrystallineEntity: yea its only 103 here in okla. come on down Canadians!

According to weather.com Tulsa has 1 more day of 100+ before a cold front moves in. Saturday's forecasted high is 85. Shiat, at this point I'd be happy with below 95.

motobvious: 95% of scientists in the fourteenth century agreed that the earth was flat.

95% of scientists in 1970 believed there was no water on the moon.

95% of scientists today agree that global warming is valid and that industry is mostly to blame.

/third time's a charm

I don't think that first "fact" is actually true. I'm gonna go with [citation needed] here

Playerslight: motobvious: 95% of scientists in 1970 believed there was no water on the moon.

Yes. And?

Water you arguing about?

expobill: global warming is global warming, not "Cold Lake" warming

Globally, it's been colder than average lately. But I saw that movie, so I know how this works. We're all gonna die in a giant ice hurricane...because of the global warming.

expobill: global warming is global warming, not "Cold Lake" warming

good point. I'll update my doco....

ObscureNameHere: Score! I knew that when we re-directed the river through our longhouse that it would bring all the females to our encampment!

It's true. There's nothing more enticing, more exhilarating, more intoxicating than the female beaver.

JollyMagistrate: Hey Canada!

Florida here, how's it going?

Great, great...

Look, while I've got your attention, you know how you always say of screwed up my personal life is? How crazy my habits are? How horrible my people are? Well, I've got something to tell you.

It's the weather.

You don't like your lack of a season? Oh, no summer? Boo-hoo...

Yeah, well Florida dosen't have seasons, buddy. We have hot, hot and wet, hot and dry, and wet. They don't follow any particular pattern, either. Sometimes it's hot and wet in the "winter" some times not. It's pretty random all in all.

When you face that kind of random, horrible weather, it does something to a man. Makes him go mad. Makes him do crazy things. Makes him lose it a bit.

So, next time you throw up the Florida tag, remember. It's horrible here.

Hot + wet = "crotch-pot" cooking?

Also, I noticed that if you were to substitute the name of a "memorable" ex for "Florida" in that post then you've got, uh... well, something.

Here is Houston's weather forecast for the next few days.
Tuesday 97° F | 79° F Partly Cloudy Chance of T-storms
Wednesday 97° F | 77° F Partly Cloudy Chance of T-storms
Thursday 95° F | 77° F Partly Cloudy Chance of T-storms
Friday 94° F | 76° F Partly Cloudy Chance of T-storms
Saturday 94° F | 76° F Partly Cloudy Chance of T-storms

griffer: Water you arguing about?

What a lunar moto is.

Pxtl: motobvious: 95% of scientists in the fourteenth century agreed that the earth was flat.

See, this one is just plain wrong, and kind of invalidates your argument... besides the fact that it is a completely stupid threadjack.

Correct me. What was the percentage of flat-earthers among the scientific community in the 1300s?