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Resource Consumer posted 07-01-99 10:59 AM ET
Being a relatively new person here, I have noticed over recent days, the arrival of a number of threads/posts across a lot of these forums (fora, I'm sure is correct ) on the lines of "I was here a few months ago and now I've returned".
Nothing wrong with that - good to see you. But I was wondering - why are you all returning at once? Biorhythms? Summer TV? Herd instinct? I'd be interested to find out the motivation.
MikeH II posted 07-01-99 11:00 AM ET
University holidays?
Resource Consumer posted 07-01-99 11:03 AM ET
MikeH,
Could well be - I never thought of that one.
So, why aren't they out working to fend off starvation for another year?
MikeH II posted 07-01-99 11:05 AM ET
And how come they can afford to be on the internet all day?
I didn't go on a march against student poverty for nothing! I went to get a �4 trip to London to go shopping and enjoy a nice walk round the landmarks of London.
Resource Consumer posted 07-01-99 11:19 AM ET
.. and as we know it's such a small village that must have taken you all of 1/2 an hour.
It takes me that to shuffle from one side of Piccadilly Circus to the other in my lunch
hour.
F**k all the tourists, just send us your money and stay at home. We'll forward the postcards to ya.
Resource Consumer
- advertising for Morgan Tourism -
Goobmeister posted 07-01-99 11:29 AM ET
I'd go up to Lake Havasu City and see the London Bridge and pretend I was over there, but somehow when it is 125 (degrees F, would that be 51 degrees C?) It just doesn't remind me of London.
Goob
MikeH II posted 07-01-99 11:32 AM ET
51 degrees C? Surely not! I remember when it was 90F here and the headline of the Sun was "PHEW WHAT A SCORCHER!" old people were literally dying in the streets of heatstroke.
When it gets to 25 here people start losing the ability to move, speak, think or work.
Resource Consumer posted 07-01-99 11:40 AM ET
That happened to me when I got to 25.
jsorense posted 07-01-99 11:46 AM ET
But its a "dry" heat. ;-)
Goobmeister posted 07-01-99 11:53 AM ET
Remember it is a "dry heat!".
Today it will be @110 F here in Phoenix, with a low of 86 F. The hottest it has been here since I moved I think has been 118 F.
There was one night, my first summer here in Phoenix, that I was watching TV about 10:00 pm and I thought I saw lightning outside, so I went out on the roof/balcony and when I opened the door I was hit by a blast of hot air. The house was on the out skirts of Phoenix and I could see the red glow of lights to the south of me and there was lightning flashing from cloud to cloud, and this dusty HOT wind was blowing across my face, it was as close a scene of Hell as I care to get.
When I went back inside and turned the weather I saw that it was currently 111 F at 10:15 at night.
Blech!!!
But hey when I am lying in the 65 F sun at New Years I tend to forget about the summers.
Goob
Goobmeister posted 07-01-99 11:54 AM ET
Doh! beat to the punch.
Oh yeah I meant to say that the towns on the lower Colorado River are even hotter, they tend to be a few degree off of Death Valley.
Goob
MikeH II posted 07-01-99 12:00 PM ET
Ah but we get snow over Christmas..... oh no we don't we get rain at Christmas and snow in May, my mistake.
Resource Consumer posted 07-01-99 12:04 PM ET
Nah, we get rain all year and still manage to squander it at least our water companies do.
MikeH II posted 07-01-99 12:05 PM ET
I'm sure it snowed on the first day of the Cricket season this year.
Cricket snowed off, only in England.
Resource Consumer posted 07-01-99 12:14 PM ET
About 20 years ago one match was snowed of in July....
... in Buxton

What do you expect.
Noisy posted 07-01-99 02:37 PM ET
Don't talk to me about snow and Buxton! I lived in Macc, and I got a call saying "Pick me up from the airport and take me to my Mum in Buxton." I only had a Mini at the time (Herb - BRG in colour, and faster than my TR7 along the side of Kerridge.)
Came the day of the flight arrival, and it was snowing like Hell. I called the RAC and police, and they said Buxton was cut off. I tried suggesting to my friend that she stayed the night with me ( ), but she only had a few days leave. The Cat and Fiddle was obviously out, so it had to be the long haul up from Stockport (the A6). Boy, was that a journey. Eventually got through, thanks to having the good fortune to follow a plough. Stopped the night in Buxton ... and found my Mini the following morning after three or four attempts at digging holes in the snow.
As I said, don't talk to me about Buxton and snow.
Noisy
Raven of Despair posted 07-01-99 02:48 PM ET
Philadelphia is also fun. It freezes quite a bit over the winter, and rains. And rains. In fact there are 2 seasons in Philly: Hot and wet and cold and wet.
In the summer we get to ninety degrees regularly. Ninety degrees, you say? Not that much? Then add 90% humidity. With that added in the heat index goes way up. 129F was the day I remember.
Oh, and one more thing: Philadelphia has very little in the way of air-conditioning. While newer office buildings have it, most homes do not. Ack.
Goobmeister posted 07-01-99 02:57 PM ET
That is the nice thing about Phoenix, almost everyplace has AC. Only some of the oldest homes in Phoenix and Tempe don't. They usually have Evaporative coolers that work great except in July, August, and early September when it gets more humid here (while still dry compared to anyplace back east.)
I have one friend who every summer day would stop on the way home from work, buy two blocks of ice at the store, put them in tubs in his bathrooms, place a fan behind them and blow the cooling air into the rest of the house, and then try to fall asleep.
Goob
Valtyr posted 07-01-99 03:10 PM ET
It never ceases to amaze me how unprepared the British are for snowy and cold weather. Every year I hear of people dying from freezing in their homes! That doesn't happen much here in Norway, where it's much colder and snowier.
MikeH II posted 07-01-99 03:18 PM ET
It's basically because we are stupid.
Valtyr posted 07-01-99 03:20 PM ET
Do you have double-glassed (?) windows? That would help.
evil_conquerer posted 07-01-99 04:54 PM ET
Hate to break into this great discussion here, but I have something about (oh my gosh) the original point.
Most people in this forum who are "active posters" (i.e. at least 1 per day) are probably aged 12-24. So all of a sudden, they all come back one day. Weather? Hormones? A prototype of total thought control? Migration patterns? Actually, it might be because school is out. I bet you anything that the vast majority of the regular posters just got out of school, so they use all their free time to go to the forums and play SMAC.
BTW, I'm 13
Nell_Smith posted 07-01-99 05:13 PM ET
lmao... this thread is funny...
When I was in Florida in January this year, the temp. went down to 60 one day, and the local stores actually sold out of space heaters... we were laughing our heads off as we sat in the swimming pool, wondering why it was so damned WARM! New Year's Eve in a swimming pool... that was so cool
And we were the *only* people in the sea at Daytona Beach the next day... the locals were walking around in coats and jumpers...
hehe
Nell... British and proud of it... hey what's with all the self-denigration, MikeH?
Nell_Smith posted 07-01-99 05:13 PM ET
PS: I'm errr NOT 13... hehe
Valtyr posted 07-01-99 05:50 PM ET
The weather here in Bergen, Norway today, July 1st: 13�C (!!!) and rain, rain, rain. This must be the rainiest summer for ages !
Krushala posted 07-01-99 05:59 PM ET
Ahh Summer is great. I love the heat. I've enjoyed extremely hot weather of all kinds. From Las Vegas to Florida To SC To Virgina and now Mississippi. If you wan't great summer weather with lots of mosquitos to brighten your day then this is the place. My transition to shore duty has given me plenty of time to post. Something I could not do on a ship. No smac or civ2 either.
Goobmeister posted 07-01-99 06:22 PM ET
The people who I see as "returning", are those who may have been away for a few weeks or more. Those that I recognise as long time posters are mainly somewhat older I think than evil_conqueror was supposing.
There are a bunch of us "old farts" in our 30's and (gasp) some other regular posters in their 40's. (OW, hide in shame please)
Goob
Resource Consumer posted 07-01-99 08:07 PM ET
Well, hands up to that.
I suppose you start to worry when even Newbies seem old
Resource Consumer
- having consumed 35 earth years and done little constructive ith them -
Nell, my neighbour, what's your excuse?
Nell_Smith posted 07-01-99 08:16 PM ET
RC, my fellow Bushwhacker, do we need an excuse?... OK, so I've only managed a paltry 30 years, but I've managed to fit in a varied selection of the following:
1. Raves
2. Parties
3. Raves
4. Computer games
5. Raves
6. Jedi candidates
7. Raves
errr... does anything else matter?
Nell... old enough to know better, young enough to remember NOT knowing better...
PS: Don't you think policemen are looking awfully young these days? hehe
OldWarrior_42 posted 07-01-99 10:03 PM ET
30's...40's...pretty much the same if you ask me and really I am only 12.
Alexnm posted 07-02-99 12:51 AM ET
OLDWarrior? Only 12? Boy, you must have been in a LOT of battles... (perhaps 42?)
Oh, I'm 28. (although my girlfriend insists that I'm far beyond 30).
Resource Consumer posted 07-02-99 02:42 PM ET
I think you really need to worry when judges look young.
Resource Consumer
- in contempt of court -
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Author	Topic: Waves
Resource Consumer	posted 07-01-99 10:59 AM ET Being a relatively new person here, I have noticed over recent days, the arrival of a number of threads/posts across a lot of these forums (fora, I'm sure is correct ) on the lines of "I was here a few months ago and now I've returned". Nothing wrong with that - good to see you. But I was wondering - why are you all returning at once? Biorhythms? Summer TV? Herd instinct? I'd be interested to find out the motivation.
MikeH II	posted 07-01-99 11:00 AM ET University holidays?
Resource Consumer	posted 07-01-99 11:03 AM ET MikeH, Could well be - I never thought of that one. So, why aren't they out working to fend off starvation for another year?
MikeH II	posted 07-01-99 11:05 AM ET And how come they can afford to be on the internet all day? I didn't go on a march against student poverty for nothing! I went to get a �4 trip to London to go shopping and enjoy a nice walk round the landmarks of London.
Resource Consumer	posted 07-01-99 11:19 AM ET .. and as we know it's such a small village that must have taken you all of 1/2 an hour. It takes me that to shuffle from one side of Piccadilly Circus to the other in my lunch hour. F**k all the tourists, just send us your money and stay at home. We'll forward the postcards to ya. Resource Consumer - advertising for Morgan Tourism -
Goobmeister	posted 07-01-99 11:29 AM ET I'd go up to Lake Havasu City and see the London Bridge and pretend I was over there, but somehow when it is 125 (degrees F, would that be 51 degrees C?) It just doesn't remind me of London. Goob
MikeH II	posted 07-01-99 11:32 AM ET 51 degrees C? Surely not! I remember when it was 90F here and the headline of the Sun was "PHEW WHAT A SCORCHER!" old people were literally dying in the streets of heatstroke. When it gets to 25 here people start losing the ability to move, speak, think or work.
Resource Consumer	posted 07-01-99 11:40 AM ET That happened to me when I got to 25.
jsorense	posted 07-01-99 11:46 AM ET But its a "dry" heat. ;-)
Goobmeister	posted 07-01-99 11:53 AM ET Remember it is a "dry heat!". Today it will be @110 F here in Phoenix, with a low of 86 F. The hottest it has been here since I moved I think has been 118 F. There was one night, my first summer here in Phoenix, that I was watching TV about 10:00 pm and I thought I saw lightning outside, so I went out on the roof/balcony and when I opened the door I was hit by a blast of hot air. The house was on the out skirts of Phoenix and I could see the red glow of lights to the south of me and there was lightning flashing from cloud to cloud, and this dusty HOT wind was blowing across my face, it was as close a scene of Hell as I care to get. When I went back inside and turned the weather I saw that it was currently 111 F at 10:15 at night. Blech!!! But hey when I am lying in the 65 F sun at New Years I tend to forget about the summers. Goob
Goobmeister	posted 07-01-99 11:54 AM ET Doh! beat to the punch. Oh yeah I meant to say that the towns on the lower Colorado River are even hotter, they tend to be a few degree off of Death Valley. Goob
MikeH II	posted 07-01-99 12:00 PM ET Ah but we get snow over Christmas..... oh no we don't we get rain at Christmas and snow in May, my mistake.
Resource Consumer	posted 07-01-99 12:04 PM ET Nah, we get rain all year and still manage to squander it at least our water companies do.
MikeH II	posted 07-01-99 12:05 PM ET I'm sure it snowed on the first day of the Cricket season this year. Cricket snowed off, only in England.
Resource Consumer	posted 07-01-99 12:14 PM ET About 20 years ago one match was snowed of in July.... ... in Buxton What do you expect.
Noisy	posted 07-01-99 02:37 PM ET Don't talk to me about snow and Buxton! I lived in Macc, and I got a call saying "Pick me up from the airport and take me to my Mum in Buxton." I only had a Mini at the time (Herb - BRG in colour, and faster than my TR7 along the side of Kerridge.) Came the day of the flight arrival, and it was snowing like Hell. I called the RAC and police, and they said Buxton was cut off. I tried suggesting to my friend that she stayed the night with me ( ), but she only had a few days leave. The Cat and Fiddle was obviously out, so it had to be the long haul up from Stockport (the A6). Boy, was that a journey. Eventually got through, thanks to having the good fortune to follow a plough. Stopped the night in Buxton ... and found my Mini the following morning after three or four attempts at digging holes in the snow. As I said, don't talk to me about Buxton and snow. Noisy
Raven of Despair	posted 07-01-99 02:48 PM ET Philadelphia is also fun. It freezes quite a bit over the winter, and rains. And rains. In fact there are 2 seasons in Philly: Hot and wet and cold and wet. In the summer we get to ninety degrees regularly. Ninety degrees, you say? Not that much? Then add 90% humidity. With that added in the heat index goes way up. 129F was the day I remember. Oh, and one more thing: Philadelphia has very little in the way of air-conditioning. While newer office buildings have it, most homes do not. Ack.
Goobmeister	posted 07-01-99 02:57 PM ET That is the nice thing about Phoenix, almost everyplace has AC. Only some of the oldest homes in Phoenix and Tempe don't. They usually have Evaporative coolers that work great except in July, August, and early September when it gets more humid here (while still dry compared to anyplace back east.) I have one friend who every summer day would stop on the way home from work, buy two blocks of ice at the store, put them in tubs in his bathrooms, place a fan behind them and blow the cooling air into the rest of the house, and then try to fall asleep. Goob
Valtyr	posted 07-01-99 03:10 PM ET It never ceases to amaze me how unprepared the British are for snowy and cold weather. Every year I hear of people dying from freezing in their homes! That doesn't happen much here in Norway, where it's much colder and snowier.
MikeH II	posted 07-01-99 03:18 PM ET It's basically because we are stupid.
Valtyr	posted 07-01-99 03:20 PM ET Do you have double-glassed (?) windows? That would help.
evil_conquerer	posted 07-01-99 04:54 PM ET Hate to break into this great discussion here, but I have something about (oh my gosh) the original point. Most people in this forum who are "active posters" (i.e. at least 1 per day) are probably aged 12-24. So all of a sudden, they all come back one day. Weather? Hormones? A prototype of total thought control? Migration patterns? Actually, it might be because school is out. I bet you anything that the vast majority of the regular posters just got out of school, so they use all their free time to go to the forums and play SMAC. BTW, I'm 13
Nell_Smith	posted 07-01-99 05:13 PM ET lmao... this thread is funny... When I was in Florida in January this year, the temp. went down to 60 one day, and the local stores actually sold out of space heaters... we were laughing our heads off as we sat in the swimming pool, wondering why it was so damned WARM! New Year's Eve in a swimming pool... that was so cool And we were the only people in the sea at Daytona Beach the next day... the locals were walking around in coats and jumpers... hehe Nell... British and proud of it... hey what's with all the self-denigration, MikeH?
Nell_Smith	posted 07-01-99 05:13 PM ET PS: I'm errr NOT 13... hehe
Valtyr	posted 07-01-99 05:50 PM ET The weather here in Bergen, Norway today, July 1st: 13�C (!!!) and rain, rain, rain. This must be the rainiest summer for ages !
Krushala	posted 07-01-99 05:59 PM ET Ahh Summer is great. I love the heat. I've enjoyed extremely hot weather of all kinds. From Las Vegas to Florida To SC To Virgina and now Mississippi. If you wan't great summer weather with lots of mosquitos to brighten your day then this is the place. My transition to shore duty has given me plenty of time to post. Something I could not do on a ship. No smac or civ2 either.
Goobmeister	posted 07-01-99 06:22 PM ET The people who I see as "returning", are those who may have been away for a few weeks or more. Those that I recognise as long time posters are mainly somewhat older I think than evil_conqueror was supposing. There are a bunch of us "old farts" in our 30's and (gasp) some other regular posters in their 40's. (OW, hide in shame please) Goob
Resource Consumer	posted 07-01-99 08:07 PM ET Well, hands up to that. I suppose you start to worry when even Newbies seem old Resource Consumer - having consumed 35 earth years and done little constructive ith them - Nell, my neighbour, what's your excuse?
Nell_Smith	posted 07-01-99 08:16 PM ET RC, my fellow Bushwhacker, do we need an excuse?... OK, so I've only managed a paltry 30 years, but I've managed to fit in a varied selection of the following: 1. Raves 2. Parties 3. Raves 4. Computer games 5. Raves 6. Jedi candidates 7. Raves errr... does anything else matter? Nell... old enough to know better, young enough to remember NOT knowing better... PS: Don't you think policemen are looking awfully young these days? hehe
OldWarrior_42	posted 07-01-99 10:03 PM ET 30's...40's...pretty much the same if you ask me and really I am only 12.
Alexnm	posted 07-02-99 12:51 AM ET OLDWarrior? Only 12? Boy, you must have been in a LOT of battles... (perhaps 42?) Oh, I'm 28. (although my girlfriend insists that I'm far beyond 30).
Resource Consumer	posted 07-02-99 02:42 PM ET I think you really need to worry when judges look young. Resource Consumer - in contempt of court -