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catmandu57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 10:23 AM
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Let the air conditioner war begin
I can hear it now, when Marshmallow comes home today It's hot, turn on the air. To which I'll reply it's not that damn hot sit under the fan and you'll be fine.
I don't mind sweating in the summer especially now, if you don't get used to the heat now, you'll die when it hits the nineties and above.
She just doesn't understand it, I'm trying to conserve energy, keeping the heat low in the winter and air off as much as possible in the summer.
I hate turning the air on because once I do the house gets closed up and I prefer the air circulating freely, but I can feel it in my bones because the temp is supposed to hit the mid eighties, that the first scirmish in the air conditioner war comes today.
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 10:34 AM
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1. Fans are no help when it is in the 80s and 90s.
All they do is recirculate the hot air.
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Left_Winger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 10:41 AM
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2. I was raised without AC
and I have never used it. I actually have to take a sweater with me when I go shopping, to a restaurant, etc. It's the cold I cannot tolerate.
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catmandu57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 10:44 AM
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3. We've been spoiled
I never had air conditioning until about ten years ago, and I'm still alive when it hits 97 and above I'll seek it out but I'd rather get adjusted to the heat.
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Left_Winger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 10:53 AM
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4. Yes, most have
My fondest memories are laying in bed at night in my grandparents' home and listening to the spinning of the attic fan.
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China_cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 10:56 AM
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5. It's been found that women feel hot and cold
more than men do.

But, beside cooling, most air conditioners also dehumidify...taking that nasty stickiness out of the air.

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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 10:59 AM
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6. I prefer the air on.
:D

It makes me irritable to be overheated and sweaty.
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 12:32 PM
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7. Yikes!! We have to have the AC on in Mississippi in the summer!
Edited on Tue May-23-06 12:33 PM by Shell Beau
It gets some kind of hot here. Miserably hot. But conserving energy is always a good thing! :)
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RubyDuby in GA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 12:43 PM
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8. Here in GA too!
I've got it set so low that my husband shivers at night - big puss! I'd like to see him 37 weeks pregnant and think that it's too cold in the house. Hmph! :P

AC goes on in mid-April and doesn't come off until mid-October, sometimes into November. Anyone who has it and doesn't use it here in the Deep South is considered somewhat "special" by the rest of us!
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 12:47 PM
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9. Same here!!! Sounds like you are about to pop!!
I know you must be excited, nervous, and antsy!! Good luck!
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 02:18 PM
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25. I'm in GA, too, but I usually don't
have to turn my air on until May. Right now, it is running 24/7 because the temps are in the 80s. I leave on during the daytime for my 2 dogs.
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Cruzan Donating Member (806 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 12:58 PM
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10. Jesus Cher-Rist!! It's not the heat, it's the humidity!!!
You don't know hot, sweating, stinking clothing sticking to you before noon! So just fucking take it, ya pussy!

Anyway, let me clear the Master Blend fog (fucking benoak girlfriend (why they like the whiskey so much?)). Look, the solution is multiple fans, strategically placed (yeah, just like the game, ya fuck!), then ya don't need no aircon. You got a fan, the girl's got a fan, everybody's happy (cow-jow-mai?. If you want to fuck with expensive aircon, up to you, but I'm just saying, ya don't need to spend the bucks to be sabai-sabai.
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 01:00 PM
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11. Are you incoherent or something like that?
:o

Or is it just me not understanding what you are saying? :shrug:


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Cruzan Donating Member (806 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 01:11 PM
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13. It's you not understanding *everything* I'm saying
Try living with a girl whose first language is not your own then you'll get it. Weird, but the sex makes up for it.
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 01:12 PM
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15. Well that is good to know!
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NoPasaran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 01:11 PM
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14. People get that way
Babbling incoherently is part of the fun of heatstroke!
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Cruzan Donating Member (806 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 01:15 PM
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16. No, it's not babbling
It's just a smooth brown girl who drives you crazy but you stay with her just the same. It's what happens at the outlying end of coherence, as your language melds with her's. Oh, and it's also the booze.
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Cruzan Donating Member (806 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 01:26 PM
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19. Oh, BTW, all this happens more easily if you're not in the U.S.
Seems to come hand in hand with most Third World countries, especially in Asia.
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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 01:05 PM
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12. I turned it on for two days when it was in the nineties
this spring and it was only so that my daughter didn't get overheated. Otherwise, ceiling fans it is.
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Reciprocity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 01:18 PM
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17. I do the opposite here in Texas.
For the last three winters I have not turned on the heat. My house is well insulated and with using one oil heater and the fireplace, I have managed to keep the temp a warm 65° even when it was in the thirties outside.

So for all of you who don't use the air, how low does the temp get at night?
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catmandu57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 01:24 PM
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18. I can understand humid, it's not humid yet
Our weather pattern has turned into a moisture conveyor belt yet, it's just starting to get warm. hell, even I will run to turn it on when it's sticky nasty out, but 81 isn't hot enough yet.
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Reciprocity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 01:27 PM
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20. The humidity is only 58% not bad for around here.
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Cruzan Donating Member (806 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 01:34 PM
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21. But do you get those 'feels like' temperatures?
Like at about 120 degrees Fahrenheit or so. Seems to be a specialty of theweathernetwork.com and the like. Although the sweat is certainly pouring down me after a short walk, I'm not sure 120 is fair. Seems like you'd soon die if you stay out when it's that warm.
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Reciprocity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 01:48 PM
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23. Hot is hot no matter what the humidity is,
but it does make it worse. You don't take you clothes off at the end of the day you peel them off.
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Nicholas D Wolfwood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 01:43 PM
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22. You're MUCH better off running the AC all day
It takes more juice to turn it on and turn it off than it does to just run it constantly at the same temp.
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catmandu57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 01:52 PM
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24. I know I'm just not ready to turn it on yet
Sometime next month maybe, right now it's not humid and mid eighties is warm, but, not that warm.
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