Phoenix Thing: Organizational Nonsense

[Phildo]

Besides, the black widows keep the neighbourhood children away.

[Yoru]

Confirmed. As long as you're drinking (water) regularly, the heat isn't so bad. It's like an enormous sauna with a breeze. Once you get used to it, it's quite livable, especially when you have an air-conditioned, climate-controlled bubble to retreat into. Now, if you're not being watered, you're going to be fucking miserable.

[Sky]

Fuck that shit. Not because I'm a pussy, but because I hate heat. Come up here in January and we'll talk about it :)

[Yegolev]

Negative, I was in Chicago last January.  That shit is inhumane.  Phoenix is eight hundred times more awesome in July than Chicago is in January.  Maybe if I had hair like Cousin It, I'd come up, but I don't.  In Phoenix, I can drink some water and stand under a tree, but up north you can't really do anything to stave off death other than stay inside your bunker until the spring thaw.

[Sky]

up north you can't really do anything to stave off death other than stay inside your bunker until the spring thaw.

...because you're a pussy :P

Some of us are genetically inclined for the cold. And having a shaggy mane doesn't hurt. But it's mostly genetics and conditioning. Viking blood.

[Furiously]

Blame the Viking!

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[Yegolev]

up north you can't really do anything to stave off death other than stay inside your bunker until the spring thaw.

...because you're a pussy :P

Some of us are genetically inclined for the cold. And having a shaggy mane doesn't hurt. But it's mostly genetics and conditioning. Viking blood.

Hehe, you are taking this pretty personally!  I'm a Scot by descent, so there must be some other explanation.  Cherokee blood maybe.  Seriously, I did spend a lot of time walking around Chicago in 8 degree weather, but on a comfort-level basis that was much worse than Phoenix.

Actually I am 100% sure that there is also an acclimation per person.  I am fairly acclimated toward the heat, but not nearly as much as I was when younger, growing up in south Alabama without air conditioning.  When I visit my parents these days, I keep my ass inside as much as possible otherwise I'm liable to drown in the sweat rolling off my head.  The Sonoran Desert is easy-mode compared to where I grew up, if you keep water on you.

The trick is to acclimate without dying.

[Phildo]

I agree with Yegolev on this one.  I have russian ancestry and grew up in Pittsburgh, which gets pretty cold in the winter.  And Phoenix has the best climate of anywhere I've ever lived.

[naum]

Phoenix in July > Buffalo in January

Lived in both places, albeit in Buffalo for a very short duration.

Stay out of the sun from the hours of 10p-6p. Stay in the shade, cool drinks, all is good. And when the monsoon season kicks in, which typically extends 2nd week of July - 2nd week of September, give or take a week or two, and possible splotches in betwixt, you can watch groovy electrifying lightning storms from your porch as you consume chilled frothy beverages and smoke cigars (or $OtherDesiredSmokableOrChewableElement).

[Yegolev]

Oh, yeah, I got to see a storm on the horizon while driving around lost in the evening.  It was neat-o.

[Signe]

It's because it's so dry.  When I lived in New Mexico, 110 wasn't nearly as nasty as a humid 85 in PA or NJ.  I used to also love seeing weather from a distance, too.  I also really enjoyed the night sky.  It feels like the stars are all around you.

[Sky]

My band acclimated by two to eight mile hikes in subzero temperatures and by jumping into snowbanks naked in the morning. I dunno, I guess I sought out the cold enough so that it doesn't bother me. You can always throw on another layer, but the heat traps you inside with a/c. Driving in the snow hasn't ever really been a problem for me, either, and that's a big part of it for a lot of people.

My favorite conditions when I was a kid was a subzero blowing windstorm with lots of snow. I should take up skiing.

On that Bodog music show (which sucks btw), they had two bands standing in the cold. One band was just kind of hanging out and the other was all red-faced, shivering and blowing into their hands. It was hilarious and reminded me of this thread ;)

[murdoc]

You haven't experienced cold until you've been in Winnipeg in February.

[HAMMER FRENZY]

I really enjoyed the climate in Mexico when i was living there summers when I was young. The climate was nice and the beach was nearby, and the food owns. And the GIRLS.....The  girls.....

[Lantyssa]

You haven't experienced cold until you've been in Winnipeg in February.

Does January in Edmonton count?

[Bunk]

That would be somewhat close, but even we refer to it as Winterpeg.

Plus at least Edmonton has a big mall to hide in.

[murdoc]

You haven't experienced cold until you've been in Winnipeg in February.

Does January in Edmonton count?

It sorta counts and as the Alberta representative on these boards I apologize that you had to go to Edmonton. Edmonton sucks. Edmonton is a place where sweat pants and dress shoes is dressing up for a night out.

[Yegolev]

I really enjoyed the climate in Mexico when i was living there summers when I was young. The climate was nice and the beach was nearby, and the food owns. And the GIRLS.....The  girls.....

Mexico is huge.  Were you west coast or gulf side?