Things Noticeable this week

[cicciobuki]

Originally Posted by Brecht

It's horrible and impossible to sleep. We've had temperatures up to 36°C and it's not gonna change next week. And people think only good things happen when the sun shines. Fuck summer! / No, I don't. Just open windows. It's usually not that hot to require air conditioning.

Fuck summer indeed.


I am a window-opening person as well, though i have to admit that this month i have been considering a (portable) airco... i'd rather not, i like 'real' air, as polluted as it may be.



Max temp here was 33 (and a bit) inside the house. I'm getting tempted to invent rain gods to pray to.

[CARLTON BROWN]

Originally Posted by wildtig2013

What the fuck was wrong with this idiot?

https://nypost.com/2018/08/03/man-ar...d-gas-station/

The name rather sums up the whole thing. Obviously someone with serious mental problems. How surprising!

[charliels531]

Originally Posted by trailmaster

Don't you have some kind of air conditioning units in your apartment or house. Their very commonly used in America?

Only in some parts of the country. Very few in the Pacific Northwest. Our weather is the same as Western Europe.

[Reclaimedwg]

Originally Posted by CARLTON BROWN

The name rather sums up the whole thing. Obviously someone with serious mental problems. How surprising!

I did see his name but I didn't want to say anything and generalize an entire group of people and religion based on the action of a few.

[TheBare]

Was Toronto’s Danforth shooting a symptom of so-called ‘mental illness’ OR was it an ISIS attack linked to one of the largest chemical weapons busts in North American history?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...&v=E8My6wXlyjI

[Roubignol]

Originally Posted by Brecht

It's horrible and impossible to sleep. We've had temperatures up to 36°C and it's not gonna change next week. And people think only good things happen when the sun shines. Fuck summer!

Here is an interesting map of the Swiss institute of meteorology.

Evolution of average temperatures per year from a basis calculated between 1961 and 1990.



More red are the pictures warmer were the average temperatures, more blue, cooler were the average temperatures.

2011, 2014 and 2015 were 2.5°C warmer than the basis average temperature.

About the last observations in 2018.

Sécheresse et Chaleur

La Suisse connaît, à l’heure actuelle, la période avril-juillet la moins pluvieuse depuis près de 100 ans. Le manque de pluie s’accompagne d’une chaleur record qui dépasse même celle de l’année caniculaire 2003.

google translate

[B] Drought and Heat [/ B]

Switzerland is currently experiencing the least rainy April-July period in almost 100 years. The lack of rain is accompanied by a record heat that exceeds even that of the year 2003.

I just need to mention.
According to a speech I listened given by a specialist of energetic challenges (Jean-Marc Jancovici), 40'000 years ago, Central Europe was covered of huge glaciers.
The average temperature of the planet was... 5°C lower than the average temperature of the last century.

What could produce a temperature of 5°C warmer than the average temperature of the last century ?

Probably massive extinction, brutal conflicts between people who were good friends in the past.
We will not move 600 million European people with their houses, their cars so easily.

According to Jancovici, if we want a good world for the next generations, it's surely time to take intelligent resolutions now and not in the next 30 years.

Originally Posted by trailmaster

Don't you have some kind of air conditioning units in your apartment or house. Their very commonly used in America?

We rarely have this kind of units in European private houses. We didn't need it in a recent past. (And maybe still don't need them, because it's only 15 to 30 days per year). You will find them more in big stores or public buildings.
But it slowly appears in more and more private houses too.
That's a problem, because energetically and environmentally speaking, these units are not good.

[Estreeter]

This week, I noticed .......

I have wasted approximately 70 hours doing nothing productive

[DTravel]

Originally Posted by Estreeter

This week, I noticed .......

I have wasted approximately 70 hours doing nothing productive

So you had a typical work week?

[Estreeter]

Originally Posted by DTravel

So you had a typical work week?

Exact opposite,
Posted this in another thread, I got suspended from work

Originally Posted by Estreeter

Not enough IMO

I've said this there before but only this time said it in front of the wrong Manager then continued it in his office in private during my "talking to"

I'm entitled each financial year $1000 worth of shares, have never once taken then as have thus far refused a total of $9000 worth, apparently it's wrong for me to openly say it but OK to do it without speaking ....

I will never own shares in any company be it I buy them myself or if they are given to me for free no matter how profitable the company is if I wouldn't buy or use the companies products or services for my own personal use ....meaning I think they are inferior

I thought I have morals and standards and they think I have a bad attitude we couldn't agree on who was right so was given a roster off without pay

I still couldn't care less, for me it's just a few extra days holiday

[DTravel]

Originally Posted by Estreeter

Exact opposite,
Posted this in another thread, I got suspended from work

You are enjoying your work situation more than I am currently. I'm in the middle of a two week vacation I scheduled about six weeks ago. Two days before I start my time off the client calls me to tell me that they don't have as much work for my team so they are cutting the contract from five people to two. Passed that up to my manager and two team members were let go on Friday and a third will be let go when I get back from vacation.