bitching and moaning

[veronica_rich]

Not doing it on this entry! Aha, gotcha!

There was this fun little item linked on Yahoo News - people from consistently hot parts of the world being interviewed to give advice to the U.S. (and others who might be similarly affected, I suppose), which is undergoing sweltering temperatures and humidity right now. It's not "news" in the sense of something immediate happening you didn't already know about, but it's just a nice little neutral-positive "man on the street" reaction story that shows we're really not all that different in basic things, despite the cultural tidbits you learn about in their comments.

Comments

[the-dala.livejournal.com]

Thank you for sharing that, it does make the day a little bearable. Word on the ice cream and the frozen beer, heh.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Do you know, I can't drink beer on a hot day. Not even the really cold stuff; I'd rather have water, given the choice. I have never figured out what magical property cold beer holds (except maybe if you dump it on your head, LOL).

[the-dala.livejournal.com]

I can only drink beer when it is super cold, so it doesn't hold my interest for more than a few minutes on a hot day, really.

[janamelie.livejournal.com]

Nice little item. Yes, most of the advice is common sense, but that's beside the point really. It's nice to be reminded of our common humanity. :)

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

I think the Internet has done two things that has kept the level of hostilities in the world roughly equal to what it was before the Internet was widespread:

1. Yes, it's shown us that among ethnicities and countries, we're not really all that different.

2. It has, however, showed people how much they don't have in common with people of their own nationalities, after all.

LOL!

[janamelie.livejournal.com]

Good point. I cringe every time I make the mistake of reading comments on Yahoo and other news sites, which come from Brits as often as not. :(

[gobsmacked.livejournal.com]

I cringe every time I make the mistake of reading comments on Yahoo and other news sites
That should be one of the top 10 Commandments of the Internet. Right after "Thou shalt not click on any links from anyone claiming to be part of a 'Mail Team'"


which come from Brits as often as not. :(
Word! on that one. I read an op-ed on "torture porn" from a British news site and was astonished and gobsmacked to find more than one commenter who actually thought that Sex and the City was worse for young girls than watching horror movies in which the torture and mutilation of attractive young females is part of the titillation. (Of course, it could have been one commenter with a bunch of socks, but somehow I have a niggling doubt that this was the case.)

[janamelie.livejournal.com]

Ironically my comment was prompted by reading someone automatically assuming that the Oslo bomb was the work of Muslim terrorists before there was any proof and now it turns out to have been an extremist right-winger who describes himself as a Christian.

I feel absolutely no pleasure in having my caution before rushing to judgement justified, though. I just feel horrified and sad for all the victims and their families and friends.

[gobsmacked.livejournal.com]

The Oslo massacres have given rise to a quote circulating amongst those I know:
"When a terrorist is one of us he is a madman - when a madman is one of them he is a terrorist"

[moonbeamdancer.livejournal.com]

Dude, I live in Texas, the heat bites. But yeah, I hear of people in the northern part of the U.S. bitching about 80 being hot, and all I can do is laugh. 80 is nice and warmish compared to 100 and up all summer long.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Here in the Midwest, it's been upwards toward 100 the past several days, with humidity percentage not too far below that. I'm not really opposed to dry heat - it's the humidity that fucking kills ME.

[gobsmacked.livejournal.com]

Here in eastern Canuckistan, the heat index has kept it hovering around 100 for most of this week and next. Yesterday, the forecast in my city was for 49C - aka 118F. It actually hit 51 degrees Celsius, or 124F! The only people I know who have dealt with temperatures like that regularly are in Sudan.

[moonbeamdancer.livejournal.com]

Humidity is terrible here too, but at the moment, we've got a dry heat going on.