Off Season Question Of The Day.

[nefansince75]

It's just the humidity!

When people say "it's not the heat, it's the humidity" they usually don't mean "it's not the heat", but really do mean "it's the humidity".

I remember 105 in Stockton, CA and being amazed I wasn't seating. But put me in 89 on a humid New England day and I'm sweating like a pig.

Lesson for the non science types. In dry air sweat evaporates and evaporation has a cooling effect. In moist air sweat does not dry and you don't get cooling effect and you do stay wet. It's why they have something called the dew point to measure the cooling impact of a temperature.

 

[sharkymcwrath]

When people say "it's not the heat, it's the humidity" they usually don't mean "it's not the heat", but really do mean "it's the humidity".

I remember 105 in Stockton, CA and being amazed I wasn't seating. But put me in 89 on a humid New England day and I'm sweating like a pig.

Lesson for the non science types. In dry air sweat evaporates and evaporation has a cooling effect. In moist air sweat does not dry and you don't get cooling effect and you do stay wet. It's why they have something called the dew point to measure the cooling impact of a temperature.

As much as I prefer the east coast overall to the west coast I gotta say this dry SoCal air has its advantages(as well as some disadvantages).

As already mentioned the dry air isn't as "hot" and there are quite literally NO mosquito's. My wife and I sit out by the pool pretty much every night 365 days a year unmolested by insects.

 

[Southieinnc]

When people say "it's not the heat, it's the humidity" they usually don't mean "it's not the heat", but really do mean "it's the humidity".

I remember 105 in Stockton, CA and being amazed I wasn't seating. But put me in 89 on a humid New England day and I'm sweating like a pig.

Lesson for the non science types. In dry air sweat evaporates and evaporation has a cooling effect. In moist air sweat does not dry and you don't get cooling effect and you do stay wet. It's why they have something called the dew point to measure the cooling impact of a temperature.

I rode my motorcycle to Santa Rosa, CA one summer. It was 105.
That was the day I found out that below 98.6 air flow cools you.Above 98.6 the hot air blowing on you is like a blow torch.
In the heat of the afternoon, had to quit wine tasting and jump in the Russian River for the afternoon.

 

[Yankee Traveler]

It's just the humidity!

Saw a guy at a gas station that day run in the convenience store for a drink.
When he came back out, the heat wave hit him...poor bastard, his balls exploded.

Just, boom! right there on the concrete, his nuts just went off like giant popcorn kernels.

 

[nefansince75]

I rode my motorcycle to Santa Rosa, CA one summer. It was 105.
That was the day I found out that below 98.6 air flow cools you.Above 98.6 the hot air blowing on you is like a blow torch.
In the heat of the afternoon, had to quit wine tasting and jump in the Russian River for the afternoon.

No doubt and by no means was I suggesting 105 wasn't hot. Actually, I may have been suggesting it but only as hyperbole. To be exact, my amazement that day was the lack of sweat and how 105 only seemed painfully hot and not deathly hot, as opposed to the uncomfortably hot 89 and humid.

 

[BigKen]

112 Cam Rahn Bay Vietnam 1970 in a friggin monsoon. Raining so hard that helicopters could not lift off the ground.
No one gave a shit about the heat, we were all afraid that we would drown. Even the VC seeked shelter.

 

[YankeeRebel]

You are allowed one cheat for one year, this is all forgiven if you eat pasta each day you gain no weight, if you cheat on your spouse all is forgiven, if you daily torture someone that abandoned their children all is forgiven.

What is your cheat?

 

[Southieinnc]

You are allowed one cheat for one year, this is all forgiven if you eat pasta each day you gain no weight, if you cheat on your spouse all is forgiven, if you daily torture someone that abandoned their children all is forgiven.

What is your cheat?

Give me an AK , some grenades, and some C-4 and let me at some drug dealers.

 

[YankeeRebel]

Give me an AK , some grenades, and some C-4 and let me at some drug dealers.

Great answer. For me it's rapist and child molesters let me hunt them down and kill them as many as I can each day.

 

[Southieinnc]

Great answer. For me it's rapist and child molesters let me hunt them down and kill them as many as I can each day.

Hard to catch in one day. Drug dealers are everywhere, I could bag a shitload in 1 day.

 

[nefansince75]

Give me an AK , some grenades, and some C-4 and let me at some drug dealers.

There's legal and moral. While it may be illegal to hunt down drug dealers, I don't at all think it's immoral. If you add up all the harm that addictive drugs create, never mind the countless lives lost from overdoses, I think the world is far better without them.

In most situations I view everyone as responsible for themselves. However, I think addictive drugs prevent people from being responsible and society as a whole should be allowed to band together and eliminate this threat.

 

[Southieinnc]

There's legal and moral. While it may be illegal to hunt down drug dealers, I don't at all think it's immoral. If you add up all the harm that addictive drugs create, never mind the countless lives lost from overdoses, I think the world is far better without them.

In most situations I view everyone as responsible for themselves. However, I think addictive drugs prevent people from being responsible and society as a whole should be allowed to band together and eliminate this threat.

My 2nd wife became mentally ill and drugs became one of the symptoms. It was a very dark time in my life and one of the ways I coped with it was by putting dealers in prison - a lot of them. It would perhaps been more fun if I could have gone further.
Some people see dealing being like the pot dealer down the street trying to pay for his habit. in truth, those guys don't exist anymore. The market is cornered by dangerous and very evile people. You can hope they change but "correctional institutions" don't correct evil.

 

[YankeeRebel]

Hard to catch in one day. Drug dealers are everywhere, I could bag a shitload in 1 day.

Yeah but you get to do this everyday for one year. Maybe I did not word it well enough

 

[BigKen]

Give me a Kinta, my nine inch pike, Colt 1911 .45 cal, unlimited ammo and allow me to go with Southie.

I've lost 55 lbs and my motab is starting to crank up, I'm too old screw around anymore and the equip. doesn't work half the time anyway.
Let the mental gremlins lose for a year and all Southie has to do is watch my 6 and enjoy watching me play.

 

[Southieinnc]

That does change things.

 

[nefansince75]

My 2nd wife became mentally ill and drugs became one of the symptoms. It was a very dark time in my life and one of the ways I coped with it was by putting dealers in prison - a lot of them. It would perhaps been more fun if I could have gone further.
Some people see dealing being like the pot dealer down the street trying to pay for his habit. in truth, those guys don't exist anymore. The market is cornered by dangerous and very evile people. You can hope they change but "correctional institutions" don't correct evil.

So... were the drugs a symptom or were they part of the cause? It's not exactly a chicken vs egg thing where she may have had signs of some mental illness, then the drugs showed up and completed a circuit.

 

[Southieinnc]

Give me a Kinta, my nine inch pike, Colt 1911 .45 cal, unlimited ammo and allow me to go with Southie.

I've lost 55 lbs and my motab is starting to crank up, I'm too old screw around anymore and the equip. doesn't work half the time anyway.
Let the mental gremlins lose for a year and all Southie has to do is watch my 6 and enjoy watching me play.

I'm too valuable to just watch. You would have enjoyed watching me work!

 

[YankeeRebel]

Give me a Kinta, my nine inch pike, Colt 1911 .45 cal, unlimited ammo and allow me to go with Southie.

I've lost 55 lbs and my motab is starting to crank up, I'm too old screw around anymore and the equip. doesn't work half the time anyway.
Let the mental gremlins lose for a year and all Southie has to do is watch my 6 and enjoy watching me play.

This begs the question are you and Southie opposed to legalized recreational marijuana ?

 

[nefansince75]

Give me a Kinta, my nine inch pike, Colt 1911 .45 cal, unlimited ammo and allow me to go with Southie.

I've lost 55 lbs and my motab is starting to crank up, I'm too old screw around anymore and the equip. doesn't work half the time anyway.
Let the mental gremlins lose for a year and all Southie has to do is watch my 6 and enjoy watching me play.

BK, I've questioned you speaking of violence in the past, but here I'd say "take my credit card for the ammo, and keep using it and the meals are on me too".

 

[nefansince75]

This begs the question are you and Southie opposed to legalized recreational marijuana ?

You should also be asking me, and my answer lies in my first statement "addictive drugs". While Mary Jane has some addictive qualities, it's not the same. It doesn't zap every ounce of ambition beyond acquiring the next high like meth and opioids.

I never smoked much but am fine with it be a jurisdictional referendum issue where recent history speaks for itself.