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SO I RUBBED MYSELF WITH AN ONION, WHICH WAS THE STYLE AT THE TIME. NOW, TO TAKE THE TUBE COST FIVE POUNDS—
They’re completely clueless on what to do when it’s hot but they also built their entire society and infrastructure on the idea it would never be above 75F.
I’d take 100F in Florida over 85 in London. Florida knows it’s hot and we designed our society for that. Unfortunately that means car dependent infrastructure but still. In
Florida in the summer you leave the air conditioning only for short stints where usually your next air conditioning is known. I walk from my door to my car. From my car to the grocery store. Or even at worst from my door to the bus, and bus to my work. If you’re gonna be outside for an extended time it’s probably for a water based activity like a pool or beach.
In England there’s no escaping it. You’re hot at home because there’s no AC. You’re hot outside. You’re hot on the bus. You’re hot as fuck in the underground station. You’re hot on the train. You’re hot at your workplace. Grocery stores in my limited experience did usually have AC but basically nothing else did. They barely know it’s possible to put ice in water to make it colder.
They’re gonna have to figure it out real quick if they want to stop fucking dying every time a warm breeze blows towards that cursed island.
The gulf stream made a relatively mild and temperate year round climate a reality for like, what, 10000+ years? Then perfidious Albion had to go and invent capitalist industrialization and look where it got them, couldve been better if the English working class had risen up and seized power at some point in the last 150 years but I guess pretending they were still a world-bestriding empire and the treat train were more important.
The problem with home AC is that we literally can't afford to run it at these energy prices. I actually have one, sitting next to me right now, picked it up 4 or 5 years ago when it was a bit more affordable to run. I will not run the thing because it will cost me an arm and a leg now.
Yeah to use AC to make your society not crumble you need to prepare the infrastructure for that to work. That doesn’t just mean having air condition in buildings, it also means having energy security, a functional grid, etc.
If only the UK had half a century+ to prepare for this and build energy infrastructure like nuclear plants so that things wouldn’t completely collapse if a country across a continent/an ocean (Whether you blame Russia or the US) decides you can’t have natural gas anymore
It's wild that the Egyptians and Persians invented passive cooling three millennia ago and architects still build the same rectangular boxes to this day because that's economical somehow.
Deep water source cooling is also neglected because everybody in a coastal city running a AC in the same atmosphere is somehow more economical then pumping cool water from the oceans.
Despite all this, capitalism isn't dying fast enough to stop it taking the planet with it.
It’s wild that the Egyptians and Persians invented passive cooling three millennia ago and architects still build the same rectangular boxes to this day because that’s economical somehow.
Don't worry, mayos will catch on in a few years and claim they invented it
What makes it even worse is that it's temperate year round. Like I think cold places might be better equipped to deal with a (low humidity) heatwave, since at least closing your windows at sunrise with good insulation with keep your home cooler than outside for a while.
Cor blimey guv'nor, it's hotter than a welder's arsecrack, best rub me pits with a raw onion!
I think the idea is that onion juice evaporates a bit easier than sweat/helps evaporation somehow so it’ll help you feel cooler. But you know what also does that? Fucking lotion, a substance designed to be put on your skin
Evaporation does lower temperature though. That is how sweat works. This has to be more akin to the effect of icy-hot or menthol.
Oh yeah I’m not saying it wouldn’t work, it’s just that if you do lotion instead of a fucking onion you won’t smell like onion
I think it's best if the official advice makes Br*ts even more unshaggable.
What lotion? I've never heard of one to evaporate. Usually it's to keep the skin wetter, not dry it
Yeah I’ll be honest I don’t understand the mechanics of it because you’re right, but put lotion on and stand in front of a fan and you’ll know what I’m talking about
That might just be the liquid evaporating because it's present, same as water in your hands. Migjt not be faster than sweat, just more available to evaporate.
onion juice evaporates a bit easier than sweat/helps evaporation somehow
wtf
seriously wtf
are you telling me that knifebinners actually believe that because the sulfur fumes vaporize immediately from onions and make you cry, that the liquid in it evaporates better?
is this why they suggested that? bongs literally CRYING because they can't understand basic science
It’s an island nation that can’t afford to feed itself and produces nothing of value
what did you expect
When famine hits the UK we'll read inane articles in tge Wall Street Journal about how they wasted food by rubbing it all over themselves to stay cool instead of eating it.
How to stay cool in the coming heat domes:
- Sink England back into the azure wave whence it came.
They do enjoy reminding people that they rule the waves. Cue Dethklok “go into the water”.
Crazy unprecedented weather that came out of nowhere huh? Good thing is is just a one-off event that will never gets worse.
Soaking in a bath of baked beans to beat the heat
Oí… you got a… loicense… for those peas dies of heatstroke
Please constable ave only had an expired loicense for a fortnight. Needed a few more quid for the renewal fee yeah
TERF island being punished by god with temperatures that the average American lives with for 50% of the year
Rubbing an onion on your body can also be used to repel some types of ghosts and French people.
Been living out of the south for a long time now, but damn if it isn't still funny hearing people start to complain when it hits like 75 F
It’s very funny, 75 is what I set my AC to in the summer, and to me is a beautiful spring day.
I've had a few friends that lived near San Francisco and then migrated to less hospitable climates and holy shit you'd think the world was ending when it's in the mid 80s.
Holding a grudge until one day it goes below freezing in one of these amerikkkan states located in hells asshole so I can laugh at people for slipping in their driveways and sliding off the roads because no winter tires.
Didn’t that happen in Texas last year? And the power grid was in such bad condition that people froze to death in their homes due to power outages? But don’t worry, office buildings downtown still had power.
given the general trajectory of temperature, there's going to be more boiling brits than slipping southerners
i've lived and worked outdoors in a wide range of climates and have kind of an obsession with microclimates and their regulation. if i had infinite money and time, i would legit go to some top-tier industrial/commercial/residential HVAC school just for edification, though i am more of a passive (shade sails, building orientation/design), green infrastructure (trees for evapotranspiration, shade and windbreaks), casual (attic fans, dehumidifiers) type of guy by desire, education and experience.
i was all over Caledonia (gorgeous, would happily live/die there) somewhat recently. typically in early summer the urban/developed areas i guess are like 55°-65°F (let's say 12°-19°C), but there was a high pressure system / heat wave that took temps up to 75°F (24°C) some days, which made many indoor spaces stuffy and upwards of 85°F (29°C). because as others have said, the focus seems to have been on making/keeping places impervious to rain/wind and be warm and cozy since there is a lot of wind and water blowing around out doors during the year. 100% understand that focus. for those laughing at the UK from the desert southwest, i've seen your roofs. any clown can design a house to keep the sun out. a kid could make that shit out newspaper and cardboard. lots of steady water and wind is an engineering nightmare. especially if it might go through a freeze/thaw cycle.
in the northern UK, they don't have insane humidity and heat there like the southeastern/malarial US, so the requirement to homogenize air with good flow to avoid mold or high RH discomfort hasn't been a big driver it seems. there are certainly damp places, but the heat just doesn't seem to have historically been there to push it into the red zone. most people can tolerate a week or so of discomfort, when they get 50+ weeks of relative comfort. you just go outside, roast a jay, and drink with the lawn sprinkler on you while you lay in a kiddie pool with a white tshirt, athletic shorts, and a bucket hat on. i used to live in savannah, ga with no A/C and do extremely trashy shit like that in view of the neighbors. the genteel types judge, but the non-snooty types know you're a goddamn wizard.
i have no doubt there's like a community wind/solar offset option packaged with an array of high SEER rated A/C geothermal systems that could be coupled and installed on behalf of councils for housing, hospitals, etc and like regular ass people to be alright with an added benefit of like improving housing ventilation and air filtration in the not-hot-as-balls season. if some firm put the pieces together and didn't try to gouge, they could probably be printing money in a few years.
the US, especially in some of the far southern environments has made an incredible amount of technological progress in high efficiency A/C systems. though, where the US is hodge podge as fuck (even with like 30 compressors individual compressors and meters for 30 housing units instead of one, integrated system with multiple zones), the UK as a late arrival to the A/C party could avoid a lot of extremely stupid mistakes and save a lot of old peoples' lives.
not to mention, high temperatures make for hot tempers.
the US, especially in some of the far southern environments has made an incredible amount of technological progress in high efficiency A/C systems.
If I understand right it’s to the point that heat pumps (which are basically just AC units but reversed) are more efficient than direct heating.
Congratulations boomers, as usual, you got what you wanted.
Why boomers insist on destroying the environment is beyond me.
Why boomers insist on destroying the environment is beyond me.
They won’t have to live with the consequences. Same energy as assholes letting their kids make a huge mess when they go to eat out - the minimum wage idiot will have to clean it, not my problem!
