What if you lived in Australia?

[trailmaster]

Hi there. Kevin here. You guys are always yakking about how bad the heat is in Australia at this time of year. I wish I had that kind of heat in Chicago during my summers. I would just use a portable beach umbrella like in these pictures:

[Estreeter]

Originally Posted by trailmaster

I wish I had that kind of heat in Chicago during my summers.

I go back to that damn brickyard later this week, you add not 1 but 2 kilns both 248 metres long that operate at between 1100 and 1350 C, plus the temp of the day , trust me, you get sick of heat, I don't mind hot days up to about 37 or 38, but higher than that it's not real good down here in Victoria, when temps get that high and the highest I felt was 47 or 48 the winds are usually very high, not fun at all

[trailmaster]

Originally Posted by Estreeter

I go back to that damn brickyard later this week, you add not 1 but 2 kilns both 248 metres long that operate at between 1100 and 1350 C, plus the temp of the day , trust me, you get sick of heat, I don't mind hot days up to about 37 or 38, but higher than that it's not real good down here in Victoria, when temps get that high and the highest I felt was 47 or 48 the winds are usually very high, not fun at all

Can't you wear a heat resistant suit like the firemen wear like this:

[Estreeter]

Originally Posted by trailmaster

Can't you wear a heat resistant suit like the firemen wear like this:

Restricts mobility and dexterity if working

[Arturo2nd]

Originally Posted by Estreeter

I go back to that damn brickyard later this week, you add not 1 but 2 kilns both 248 metres long that operate at between 1100 and 1350 C, plus the temp of the day , trust me, you get sick of heat, I don't mind hot days up to about 37 or 38, but higher than that it's not real good down here in Victoria, when temps get that high and the highest I felt was 47 or 48 the winds are usually very high, not fun at all

Y'all realize that palo5 has absolutely no sympathy at all for you guys. Of course, I have no sympathy at all for somebody who would live where winter is 6 months long and the temps run to -40. But there is no place like home for most of us. The Fates have been very kind in dropping me off in a very comfortable place.

[Estreeter]

Originally Posted by Brian249x

Y'all realize that palo5 has absolutely no sympathy at all for you guys.

I couldn't stop laughing

But at the end of the day, he would give an arm and a leg to live here

[bloke57]

Originally Posted by Estreeter

But at the end of the day, he would give an arm and a leg to live here

He would, but the question is whose arm and whose leg?

[Estreeter]

Originally Posted by bloke57

He would, but the question is whose arm and whose leg?

Any of the freaks born near Chernobyl who have an extra one or four of each



And I don't care of it's in Ukraine palo, it was under Soviet control

[Sir Honkers]

Originally Posted by Estreeter

I go back to that damn brickyard later this week, you add not 1 but 2 kilns both 248 metres long that operate at between 1100 and 1350 C, plus the temp of the day , trust me, you get sick of heat, I don't mind hot days up to about 37 or 38, but higher than that it's not real good down here in Victoria, when temps get that high and the highest I felt was 47 or 48 the winds are usually very high, not fun at all

Oh do stop whining...someone has to pay for my age pension.

Originally Posted by Brian249x

Y'all realize that palo5 has absolutely no sympathy at all for you guys. Of course, I have no sympathy at all for somebody who would live where winter is 6 months long and the temps run to -40. But there is no place like home for most of us. The Fates have been very kind in dropping me off in a very comfortable place.

We just spent a week with my wife's Norwegian family. Several of whom live in this town where in winter, it's not only cold as cold can get, but because of it's location in a mountain valley it gets no direct sunlight for six months of the year...except for the town square which is lit by sun mirrors placed on the mountainside.

[Tmee2020]

Originally Posted by loosegoose

Oh do stop whining...someone has to pay for my age pension.


We just spent a week with my wife's Norwegian family. Several of whom live in this town where in winter, it's not only cold as cold can get, but because of it's location in a mountain valley it gets no direct sunlight for six months of the year...except for the town square which is lit by sun mirrors placed on the mountainside.

That place was featured on the ABC news here yesterday:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-07/rjukan-needs-mirrors-to-see--sun-for-six-months-every-year/9283984

I assume it's the same town.