My Canadian sensibilities were not made for this city
September 15, 2014
2:22 am
I live in Los Angeles and my house doesn’t have AC and it was like 40 Celsius today, I thought I was going to die, I spent all day lying on the floor like a dead fish with an icy wet towel on my head trying to do something that resembled work.
40 Celcius? Whats that, you been playing too much Destiny? Makin up gobbledy-gook technobabble words?
I’m Canadian, we use real units of measurement.
Fahrenheit makes more sense. 0 F is really cold, 100 F is really hot. 0 C is kinda cold, and 100 C is dead. Which is better than Kelvin, where 0 is dead and 100 is still dead.
Water freezes at 0. Water boils at 100. Makes sense to me.
At sea level, sure. But at anything other than 1 ATM, that’s wrong.
Yeah, sure, but the same is true for the measurements F is built around.
And really, when you still use feet and inches, I don’t think you get to talk about logical measurement systems.
Brine freezes at 0 F, as does Sodoium cloride (another chemical salt) at a rate of 1:1.
F is for salts freezing.
Ammonium Chloride*
Whoops
Whoa. The squid said “real.” No body said we were bringing logic into this. That’s a whole different debate.
I never quite get this reasoning. The 0/100 thing is awesome if i was like a scientist or something, but if i look at a thermostat seriously how often is it going to be higher than 40ish.
“Ooo goody, water is not boiling outside today, hooray!” said no one ever.
I’m not saying Fahrenheit is any better, but this is not an aspect the celebrates of elevates Celsius as a measurement of how “hot” it is.
My cheap mercury thermometer shows temperatures from -10° to 40°. Just cause the Celcius scale is based on freezing and boiling water doesn’t mean you measure everything relative to that. And there’s a lot more things to use a scale of temperature for than “the weather outdoors” and “science”, so I don’t know what might be so bad about using the consistent, versatile and reasonable one.
0 C is freezing, 100 C is boiling.
This is a lot more ‘sense making’ than rather arbitrary sounding numbers in Fahrenheit.
Also, 0 degrees would be ‘pretty damn cold’ by my standards, but I admittedly come from Australia.
Ah Australia, where Winter is hot and Summer is hotter
Well, depending on where you live of course.
One time the tarmac of my street was so hot that it hissed and steamed when you threw water on it.
Also, sometimes roads melt in straya.
The answer is simple: Learn how to convert between all three and you win the internet. o3o
Pfft, 0 degrees would be ‘standard’ by my standards, and 20 would be fudging ‘omfg I am melting’.
In Celsius, -10 is freezing, 0 is cold, 10 is cool, 20 is warm and 30 is hot. People are capable of measuring units on other scales than just 0-100, you know.
Oh man its starting! I new this would happen! *gasp!* I needs my effing gummy bears! No one can enjoy this sober! Oh and in case this cultural difference isn’t enough fuel for the fire need I remind everyone that Holland dissed us! http://youtu.be/GlOu7MJALQ4
IMEANCOMEON effing Holland. Thinks she’s all that.
This… is a joke? right?
Nope. American, used to F, understand C, sounds right to me. Anything above 30C is too damned hot. 0C is right about the time I put on a jacket.
at 0C i am still outside in a t-shirt and maaaybe some shorts. Alaskan here :P temperature around here in the winter frequently reaches -28.8C or -20F as a wet cold up farther north in the interior it gets to -51C or -60F as a dry cold
Brit here. I just gave up and now i never take off my coat. It’s twenty degrees outside but it could drop to minus three at any minute.
Northern Brit here and the coats don’t go on in this city until there’s ice on the ground (and sometimes not even then.) Personally, coats happen once it’s under 15°c due to the North East’s ability to conjure very cold winds without prior warning. Over 20° and I’m complaining about unseasonal heatwaves, even in summer.
That sounds like my home state here in the US…”If you don’t like the weather now, just wait 5 minutes & it’ll change.”
You’re from NE too? Senior year of highschool it was 65ish Christmas Eve, and we had a foot and a half of snow for Christmas.
As not just a Canadian, but a Winnipegger, I consider anything over 0 C to be t-shirt Weather… But then that’s because Winter in Manitoba consists of -40 C, -50 with Windchill :P
You’re from Tennessee too?
Nope & nope.
Keep trying; you only have 48 more states to guess with.
;)
Clearly you are from Illinois.
Florida the land of five minute showers
You’re gonna have to be more specific, a lot of states have that saying
That’s part of the point i was making…It’s irrelevant where I live no matter how many guesses people try.
Yeah, about that…
The problem with human sensation instead of COLD hard facts is that it varies from person to person.
For example, anything under 30ºC is cold to me…
Right? where I live we hit 95 F, 35 C, daily. I’m so used to it anything under that seems cold to me.
Same here, I have to wear a jacket if it is slighlty below room temperature. Two if is actually cold.
And humidity. And how many clouds are in the sky. And wind. And personal preference.
30 would actually be decently warm. Human body temp (98.6°F) is 37°C.
Fun fact: Fahrenheit isn’t entirely useless unlike the rest of the Imperial system compared to metric. It’s more made for hospitals and whatnot tho, 0 F is the freezing point of salt water and 100 F (at the time) was the average human body temperature.
Then we chilled out a bit.
To be completely honest, it’s the body temperature of cows that’s at 100 F, this measurement was taken from the cows by the Scientist Fahrenheit through the cows’ back ends. Why? Because cows don’t protest as much as people when you stick things in their butts.
Nah, he used himself. Thing is, he had fever.
The actual usage of Fahrenheit for body temp is crap, though. Aside from the scale originally being pegged on an inaccurate measurement, the accurate measurement is 99, because actual normal body temp has at least a 1 degree F variance. The 98.6 number that gets quoted all the time comes from blindly converting the Celsius temp of 37, without taking significant figures into account.
I’m American, and I think the metric system works better than the imperial system. Any time you need to measure a small distance, using a smaller unit is better than ‘0.00whatever of an inch’. Sure, I agree that I find Fahrenheit easier for me to understand the temperature outside, but it’s because of exposure, not simplicity.
As someone who’s barely even used systems of temperature measurement on any regular basis:
Kelvin makes more sense to someone for whom mathematical precision must be absolute (or, to someone who wants to see real numbers). Kelvin is not measured in degrees (which are relative and leave room for error), but is rather measured in points.
Fahrenheit makes more sense to many Americans, since that’s what they use in weather reports the nation over. Fahrenheit is measured in degrees, and is therefore an inaccurate system of measure.
Celsius, likewise, is measured in degrees, and in the same manner it is also inaccurate.
I was inaccurate in calling those last two things inaccurate; I rather meant to say imprecise. Mods, please fix?
One degree Celsius is that exact same variation then one point of Kelvin.
-40 Celsius = 233.13K
0 Celsius = 273.15 K
40 Celsius = 313.15 K
Actually, Kelvin was based on Celsius, but considering absolute 0 as the “zero degrees”. This means that in order to convert Kelvin to Celsius, all you need to do is add 273 degress, and there you have it…
This also means that the scientists who decided to use Kelvin agreed that Celsius made more sense than Farenheit, since they used one system as the base and not the other.
It’s degrees Celsius + 273.15 = Kelvin. But yes, the conversion still involves simple addition and subtraction of a consistent value, which is far more simple/useful than the conversion of Fahrenheit to Kelvin (which involves multiplication).
Also, Fahrenheit makes very little sense to me, as a Canadian. Perhaps it’s because there’s not much use of it here, but on any scientific basis it just becomes a confusing unit to measure or work with.
I don’t understand why everyone argues over which is superior. -40 in either is the same dang thing–cold as hell–and if that’s not good enough, why argue pointlessly over it?
And if it’s too hot, blow some air around and cool it down. That’s what I do.
Metric is based on water. 1 centimeter cubed of pure liquid water = 1 milliliter = 1 gram. 0 Celsius pure water will freeze and boils at 100C (at sea level) .
Imperial lengths were originally based on the measuring of the ruling monarch. After strife because of the constantly shifting values it was standardized to certain sizes. They’ve changed slightly over the years (i.e. imperial gallon = 4.2L, US gallon = 3.8L) , but still are similar to the original. With Fahrenheit, 0f was based on the cooling of a salt brine and 100f was the average temperature of the human body. Again this has standardized over the years.
Kelvin is based of Celsius, and uses the same measurements. 0 Kelvin, or absolute zero, is the theoretical point at which all molecular motions stops.
*coff-coff*
^lc^ls
Fun fact humans make typos sometimes.
And the internet is there to punish them for it.
The people on the internet who do are generally insufferable pedants identifying themselves as people to avoid.
That’s a little harsh, no?
Not really when you’re talking about people think they’re cool dudes for “punishing” strangers over asinine typing slips.
Typo? I don’t see a typo. No, really, what are we talking about? (I’m American, if that has anything to do with it.)
Let’s be honest though, the English language, both in speech and writing, is basically a train wreck at this point.
The english language may be a mess, but it allows for the best use of language. What I mean, is that the same phrase can be said many different ways and have the same meaning but a different nuance.
This has allowed for English to be the best language for poetry in the world. We can use words from other languages generally speaking for meanings that we don’t have without twisting the purpose of it. Schadenfreude for example. For other nations, they took our term Disco and attached it to all their dance clubs, even if they don’t play disco there.
Now this does highlight some issues with the language, and it should be considered a required read by all those that use it.
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I rest my case.
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@Bane
Yay language games.
“She told him that she loved him.”
Now insert the word “only” in any point in that sentence and it completely changes the meaning.
I think there are friendly ways to correct spelling on the internet.
Like, you have to actually be friendly about it.
And it super-helps if you send a private message instead of posting it in comments. That way the only person who knows you feel the need to correct them is the person you’re correcting, and you’re not doing the equivalent of shouting on the street corner, THIS PERSON CANNOT SPELL.
My brother is dyslexic. Learning the difference between a friendly correction and a not-so-friendly one took me a lot of time and maybe hurt his feelings more than once.
And maybe typos aren’t so important as to hurt feelings over, is what I’m saying.
‘claps’
I thought the Internet was for porn?
the internet is made of cats
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi8VTeDHjcM
paid for porn
Not only that, but you really can’t rely on Wikipedia anyway. Since it’s primarily a user-edited forum & they really don’t have any organized, systematic application for fact-checking, college students have been known to post info there that supports their thesis papers…Regardless of actual facts. In other words, their thesis papers could be full of crap & marks references to the same kind of crap they post at Wikipedia.
Yeah, the occasional typo creeps in too…
That’s when the monkeys who follow edits to the page jump on top of your head and start screeching. [Citation Needed] they scream.
Wikipedia is not a valid thesis reference anyway, something Wikipedia goes out of the way to point out themselves. Trust but verify.
Finally, units of measurement that actually tell me how hot it gets in Los Angels! And yes, that is damn hot. Is it humid on top of that? Here in Brisbane we get temps up to about 35+ in the height of summer, but even at lower temperatures the humidity really kills.
Note, I really would like aircon sometimes.
30 C in Southern California is pretty typical for Summer, but not the hottest it gets.
It typically gets above 40 C for three or so weeks of the year where I live (In Southern California, but I won’t be more precise than that). The hottest I have ever seen it where I live was 48 C.
The record high temperature in Death Valley is 56.7 C.
I’m American, I prefer real units of measurement, I wish we’d switch. Goooo Celsius~! *pom pom cheer pose* ^.^
I think F is better than C for 1 reason, sensitivity. C is 0 = freeze, 100= boil; F is 32 = freeze, 212 = boil. this means F has more degrees in between so at smaller temp differences C wont detect it. for example if I see the weather is 70 i might put on a long sleeve t shirt. if it is 65 i put on something slightly heavier.
Here in Brazil the C sistem is standard.. these last days the temp has been increasing a bit too much (as Winter is ending here).. real problem will be in 3 months when Summer finally hits with temps 40º+C and high humidity levels to make it worse (not kidding, it felt like 45º+ last Summer for weeks)
Here here!
I’m Canadian and god damn, if water’s liquid, what the hell are you even doing with pants on?
Je spécifie, Québécois, alors ouais, tant que ta tuque est pas gelée sur ta tête, t’as pas d’affaire à avoir autre chose que des bas et des sous-vêtements!
Also, butter should be cut with a sharp knife and leverage at room temperate; anything else already counts as cooking!
I will concede to the metric system for measurements of length and volume (I am ambivalent towards kg vs lbs), but the Fahrenheit scale is more intuitive with how the human brain thinks
Of course this only applies to everyday life, when scientific measurements are needed I go with SI for everything
Fahrenheit is about as useless for temperature as centimeters are for approximating height, the difference between degrees is so incremental I always end up round off to the nearest ten or twenty, which defeats the purpose of being “so intuitive”.
Seems to depend on how warm the place you’re in is though, if you live in an are that’s normally below zero Fahrenheit is useless garbage because you spend most of the year measuring your temperature on a scale of “32 to -50” or some bullshit like that, as opposed to a much easier “0 to -50”. If you’re in a hot place Fahrenheit is easier to measure temperatures in “how far off 100 they are”.
Hahaha best comment ever. Real units of measurement are always superior.
“In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade – which is one percent of the difference between its freezing point and it’s boiling point. An amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it.
“Whereas in the American system, the answer to ‘How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?’ is ‘Go fuck yourself,’ because you can’t directly relate any of those quantities.”
But to answer your question, a bit over 100 degrees in your funny numbers.
Celsius was a scientist (astronomer, I believe). He said “0 = water freezes, 100 = water boiling, divide the gap by 100 increments, done.” Easy to remember.
Fahrenheit was a mathematician. He froze water, made that point A, boiled water, made that point B, and connected them with a straight line. In math, a straight line is 180 degrees, so he divided his scale by 180 degrees. Making 0 below “freezing” was more of a “how cold can I make this water before it freezes by adding solutes” thing.
The Celsius scale definitely makes more sense in science, but Fahrenheit gives a greater number of degrees between qualitative temperatures like “warm” and “hot” (one could say it’s more useful in weather for this reason). In Celsius, 10 degrees of difference separate warm (25 C = 77 F) and uncomfortably hot (35 C = 95 F), whereas 10 degrees in Fahrenheit gives you the difference between warm and a bit warmer.
/end rant
Using fahrenheit to measure temperature is like using millimeters to measure height, it gives you such an unnecessary number of increments.
When you measure the temperature, Mother Nature can sense your weakness, and that’s when she strikes.
It really is true that you can’t disrespect Mother Nature with any kind of impunity. She goes by a self-enforcing set of Laws that run their course *regardless* of anything humanity does…Or *doesn’t* do, for that matter.
If Fahrenheit is wrong because it uses too many numbers, isn’t kilometers also wrong because it uses more numbers than miles? While we are at it, why is the SI unit for mass the “thousand-gram” and not the “gram”? And why does Britain insist on calling 112 pounds a “hundredweight”?
All units of measurement are arbitrary. Metric is just easier to translate between different forms of measurement (e.g., 1000 cubic CM is 1 liter which if water weighs 1 kilogram and takes 1000 calories to raise by 1 degree Celsius).
Late to the party, but as someone who lives in a part of the US where humidity is the primary source of feeling miserable, the difference between my house being 66 degrees F and being 67 degrees is not only noticeable, it can outright prevent sleeping, forcing me to wake up with the neck of my shirt soaked in sweat.
Actually, Prof. Celsius originally had it so 100 was freezing and 0 was boiling, but then his colleagues told him he was being stupid.
*the more you know*
And I hope they said it just like that. Prof. Celsius, you’re being stupid.
Unless you live within view of the beach, living in So Cal without AC is nigh unto attempted suicide. Especially when it’s hovering around 40 C/100 F. I went to the fair this weekend. That was a mistake….
Also, doing C to F conversions really isn’t hard to do, even mentally.
I live in Indonesia & we use Celcius as a unit. But yeah, most people in the world use Fahrenheit, can’t blame them.
But most people in the world don’t use Fahrenheit, The only country that use the Fahrenheit scale as their official scale are the United States, American Samoa, U.S. Virgin Islands, Bahamas, Belize, the Cayman Islands and Palau, Guam uses both Celsius and Fahrenheit
Destiny isn’t that great. Well, I mean it’s a good game but I don’t really see how it’d be worth that time investment.
You too huh? Apartment isn’t too great with air circulation at the best of times but I’ve been without A/C for a little over a week because the company who manages the place forgot to call the vendor. So yeah, spent this weekend sucking down ice water and praying my freezer could make ice faster than I’d consume it. I am a being of sticky and sweat.
You know you’re really in trouble when you can’t even take a cool shower because the water pipes get too warm…
In “Rocky” they claim he is punching the meat hard enough to break the rips. Seems like a rather unhygienic way to train.
Not if the guts & intestines already removed, mind you ^_^
They would of been removed already. That gets done very early in the process.
…Although it was probably difficult for Stalone to perform that scene effectively without his guts & intestines…
Bravo.
I keep several ice packs in the freezer for just such an emergency. Preparedness is key to surviving the summer.
Or you can just lock all the door in your house & lay naked on the cold tile floor. May result in fever & cough ^^;;
40 Celsius roughly equals out to 104 Fahrenheit. Too hot to do anything, especially with no AC! Hang in there, Coelasquid!
I feel for you. It was 102 in our house today, no A/C. At this point the deep freeze in supermarkets sounds refreshing.
We got off easy down closer to the coast here, it was only 90’s tops. Still a miserable day, was breaking a heavy sweat doing laundry.
Ah, one of many reasons I moved from Florida. The charm of Fahrenheit is that you can use 90+ for both temperature and relative humidity.
Here in Seattle, I’m surrounded by people who think it actually rains here. A wet year in Florida has rainfall measured in meters.
I hear that…I went to Navy boot camp in Florida, right during the middle of the summer. You could almost set your watch by the regularity with the afternoon rainstorms. And they weren’t just “rainstorms” either; You could be standing on the sidewalk in full sunlight & watch a huge wall of gray move at you…A few seconds later, you’d be literally soaking wet.
Got any soap & shampoo handy?
Coelasquid, you’re from Manitoba, so you know what it can get like. It can occasionally hit around 40 here in the summer. So you know I know how much I sympathize with you. TOO HOT!! I would die in LA.
By the way, how well did you do with that whole “trying to something that resembled work” thing?
Anyway, here’s hoping you can get yourself a window unit or something in the future. Best of luck out there.
At that temp, I’d consider “regular breathing” to be heavy labor…
See also: beer storage areas, pools, wind tunnels and surprisingly, morgues.
Or go take a trip to the currently snowy Alberta:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/september-snow-falls-in-calgary-western-alberta-1.2759092
I think morgues being cold makes sense if you think about it. You don’t want a bunch of rotting corpses stuck in a room together.
Also, the snow just melted and now it’s back to summer temperatures (well, Canadian summer temperatures). But 20C-ish is still better than 40C. I don’t know if I would manage that heat well.
Morgues, huh? You can get chill by:
– the low temperature to preserve the bodies
– the ghost who dwells in the morgue. *shivers*
Has anyone noticed the creepiness inherent to both morgues and walk-in meat lockers?
Maybe I’ve just played “I have no mouth and I must scream” one times too many, but whenever I see this comic I immediately think of the meat locker in Gorrister’s scenario.
Hey Coela, San Diegan chiming in here. What you want to do is get fans. All the fans. It won’t help you with the sweatiness all that much, but it’s better than the alternative!
And yeah, it gets miserable down here in the summer…and the fall. Sometimes winter, too. Global warming’s a bitch.
Fans and a spray bottle filled with water – that’s how this Aussie (down south, so low humidity) gets through hot summer nights.
I know it won’t help you feel better, but it barely cracked 20°C here in Fort Smith the past couple days.
Los Angeles native here and yes, it does get pretty dang hot. You may not believe we have seasons here, but we do. In the summer, it gets skin crackingly hot, autumn is arsonist season, winter is rain if we’re lucky, and spring is only memorable to me in that I don’t remember if anything special happens in springtime. If it’s any consolation, I don’t think I could handle your Canadian winters. I would probably be sick, shivering, slipping on sidewalk ice, and wondering why my water doesn’t work.
And by skin cracking, I’m talking about lips specifically. Or if you’re stupid and forget to hydrate.
Winters are easy… You can always put on more layers. The problem is, in the summer, you can only take off so much…
That is what I told all of my friends and family when I moved from Southern California to Minnesota. They still thought I was crazy. Who’s laughing now, with the beautiful fall weather? Huh?? HUH???
Bah, Canada knows how to handle winter. You’d barely even notice that it was winter. Aside from the bone-chilling cold, anyhow.
Weird, I live around LA too, and I’m convinced there’s only 2 seasons: “kinda hot” and “really hot”. The first one coincides with what the calendar calls “winter”. Just the calendar. Nothing else.
That said, it has been a little hotter than expected around here, so I feel your pain. Were I Commander with my own personal meat locker, I would totally use that to take advantage of the AC. (The one time I walked into the produce section at Costco, I didn’t want to leave. It was somewhere around 50F/10C. It was a dream.) I use Fahrenheit because I’m more used to it; I’m not saying either is inherently better.
And I feel for everyone who lives in the Central Valley. There, it’s even worse.
Really? I remember many winters where I went “ARRGH! IT’S TOO COLD” and bundled up as if I were going skiing when the temperature was 60’s. If that’s your definition of “kinda hot” then you must not have been born and raised in LA. I’m also one of those wusses who breaks out the umbrella in drizzling weather. …Actually, I break it out when it’s nothing but sun sun sun outside too…
To clarify, 60’s in Fahrenheit, so that’s between 15.5 and 20.5 in Celsius.
Where I live, 15.5 degrees is hopeful in the summer. We often get rain and 10C in the Summer and down to -1C in the Winter. Hottest I’ve had is 23 or so
60F isn’t my definition of ‘kinda hot’; 70 is (but 70 is bearable). I don’t actually live in LA, just near it. 60F is actually my definition of ‘perfect temperature’, though times like that do not happen very often.
Then again, I did spend some of my early years in the UK (so I end up preferring cold to hot) and wear shorts and a T-shirt everywhere no matter the temperature (unless it’s below freezing or something, which is essentially never), so I’m pretty sure when it comes to adapting to temperature, I cheat at life.
Are those giant chickens?
They look more like pig to me.
No airconditioning? Do I have a solution for you!
Step 1: Set up a fan.
Step 2: Put a bowl of something ice-cold in front of the fan (eg. actual ice, freezer packs, that meat you’re defrosting anyway)
Step 3: Turn on the fan, and enjoy the icy airflow around your room!
I’m amused how you put him in the worst possible stance to punch anything. It’s like he positioned himself such that his punch would only hit the meat at the longest extensions, when there’s no power left in the punch. :)
For comparison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A6O-4q6n3s
yeah okay.
His actual stance by itself is almost textbook perfect for a martial-arts type punch. On the deep side, but depending on your school that’s actually normal during non-sparring practice to build up leg strength. My only nitpick would be that his punching arm is over-rotated with the elbow up and the fist turned over inward. There are punches that work that way, for punching over someones upraised arms, but they’re kind of rare, and are more hooked in the vertical plane.
He does look too far from the meat and overextended, but IMO it’s also implied we’re seeing the meat at the apex of being pushed away by the punch. With the kind of form he’s using (barring the arm twist), you actually don’t need to be big at all in order to literally lift someone off the ground with a good body hit, and he is quite big (and genetically modified), so it’s not hard to think he could shift a side of beef like that.
But also this is a comic, so dramatic body movements being rendered a lot broader than IRL is normal in much the same way (and for the same reasons) as with facial features and expressions. I feel like that should go without saying, but you can never tell sometimes.
I’m so happy! Winter is coming! More layers, wool shirts, scarves, a real reason to wear an hat (tuque!), no sweat, the light on the snow on sunny days, lipbalms, chicken broth and hot chocolate in front of the fireplace after a whole day outside….Wind, snow, blizzard….
Another good point for cold temperature: to sleep well, it has to get hotter under the blanket, if you know what I mean ;)
Also…NO BUG SWARMS!
As a fellow Canadian who got back from LA a few weeks back, I feel your pain.
Meanwhile, in Calgary, we just had a freaking snowstorm. At least with cold, you can put on extra layers.
And I have to move there this week in a 20 foot truck all the way through the mountains.
It all melted away during the weekend, and now it’s supposed to be back to summer-ish temperatures for the week. It’s like the snow never even existed, except for the broken trees. Temperamental weather is the norm for Alberta.
Temperamental weather?
…I see what you did there…
Is it just me, or has Jared’s hair just been steadily getting longer over the course of the comic? It seems a lot longer than when he was introduced.
Canadian? Los Angeles? For some reason I assumed you were Australian.
I find it hard to believe the people claiming to be Angelenos actually are; though weather is different depending on your placement in the basin and valleys, it’s definitely NOT “hot to hotter” anywhere all of the time. July-October is the hot (and sometimes humid, like now) period, and November to April is Cool-Warm with occasional hot. May and June are the best because of the fog that keeps the temperature down most days. Temperatures in the 50s are not uncommon. The whole temperature range is about 65-80 by monthly averages, which by world city standards is pretty damn consistent for not being muggy equatorial hotness.
Yes, that’s all in Fahrenheit. It’s what I know, oh well. People argue about temperature scales, but the truth is, they all suck. Fahrenheit pinned his values to water at weird numbers (no one definitively knows why), but picked good degree spacing. Celsius pinned his values to water at logical numbers, but bad degree spacing (when you can be fine or feverish depending on whether the degree is .0 or .9, the range is too wide). Both pegged their values to water, which is silly. Kelvin made the mistake of using Celsius degrees, plus making all experienced temperatures multi hundred degrees is kind of off putting. Rankine is closest to decent, pegged to absolute zero like Kelvin with Fahrenheit degrees, but the large numbers are still off putting. What I want is a Rankine+500 scale, which would put the zero around 40 degrees Fahrenheit or 4 degrees Celsius, so the zero matches up with human comfort AND has a reasonable degree spacing. Rankine for SCIENCE, Rankine+ for weather and living. You heard it here first, folks.
…And probably last…
Sheesh, 40. Didn’t know LA could get that hot. We reached 37(South Africa, Free State) at one point last week, and it broke my motorcycle. I suspect it’s not a coincidence.
Point is, you have my sympathies. I try to cope by trying to induce a breeze in the house, and lots of cold drinks.
it’s kind of awkward to punch with your opposite side while you’re in a front stance. the commander would know better.
Reffed a photo of a dude in a boxing match when I drew it so whatever.
There sure are a lot of armchair fighters throwing criticisms around in these comments.
sorry I didn’t mean to be snarky. I can’t really tell from the photo, but it looks like the boxer has a narrower stance. it’s the depth of his stance and the extension on the commander’s punch that would make the body mechanics awkward. you’re a great artist and you depict bodies really well, so, this is just food for thought on depicting martial arts.
I hate to join the critisism train but there really isn’t anything wrong with that punch the commander is doing. Especially if it’s the second punch in a combination then you usually do a back punch and it could be the end of the punch explaining why the meat is that far from the commander (i.e. he pushed it back that far with his punch).
Not that any of this matters because it in no way adds or detracts from the joke in the first place, which itself is pretty funny. Freezer’s feel so good on a hot summer day I can sympathize with the commander.
I’m from the state of Washington. I feel your pain.
I guess I’m the only one glad to see Balrog has gotten a job at the MGDMT headquarters as a personal trainer. I’m hearing Commander shouting a number as he clocks the meat.
Also, my wife is Floridian and thinks 70F is “cold”.
Huh. Jared’s having a good hair day.
Don’t understand why so many people are complaining about the position the Commander is in – it’s one frame of a quick motion, there’s nothing to suggest that he’s been (over) extended the whole time or that the punch isn’t a decent solid one. Seems perfectly fine.
Also whenever measurements come up and people use cm, mm and the like my mother keeps asking them to give that to her again in “real money”.
So . . . 40C is . . . 40+32 . . . 72F? Hm . . . It might just be because I grew up in a moderate climate, but that sounds just about perfect weather-wise. *shrugs*
F = 1.8*C +32
1.8*40 +32 = 104
40C is 104F. By any stretch of the imagination, that is pretty hot.
(Fun fact: the ‘normal human body temperature’, 98.6F, is exactly 37C. Nifty conversion factor. So if you’re dealing with C temperatures above that, well…)
Speaking as a SoCial native, whenever someone says “California has great weather” they’re either tourists or are rich enough to live on the ocean. Go inland and the weather is awful.
40??? How are you not dead? DX
I work with a woman who lived in SoCal for most of her life, and now she lives in West Virginia. Any time it drops below 70F(21C), she’s putting on one of those big puffy winter jackets, running a space heater, and complaining about how cold it is. And I just tell her to move back to California if she doesn’t like it. And I’m serious every time. It doesn’t help that she’s worthless at her job and just makes more work for everyone else, so no one likes her to begin with.
Then I also have a friend who lives in North Dakota, who went to Los Angeles for a few weeks and discovered that people do that kind of thing all the time out there. He said it was about 60F(15ish C) and he was walking around in shorts and a t-shirt, and the friends he was staying with were wearing pants and sweaters, asking him how he wasn’t cold. He said most of the people on the street were dressed the same way.
15C is spring/summer weather in Canada. 21C is hot enough to go to the beach. Perhaps I should try visiting some southern state during whatever-time-people-consider-cold. It must be nice.
Jared’s hair.
Jared’s HAIRRRRRRRRRRRRR.
LOOK AT IT.
BEHOLD THE GRACE OF ITS SHEEN AND LENGTH.
Anyways, noticing the argument between Celsius and Fahrenheit towards the beginning. Can we all just come to the conclusion that it was feckin’ hot and leave it at that, instead of instigating an argument with her? Sheesh, guys.
I sympathize, no AC where this broke fucker lives. Spent a lot of time with a whole box fan aimed at me.
I’ve had more experience in non-AC heat than I care to admit. Here’s some advice.
When you’re sitting in crazy high heat, applying ice to yourself is a waste. It will melt quickly and won’t spread within your body fast enough, and the expenditure of effort will only make you sweat more. If you can get a passive comfortable temperature on your shoulders that’s good, but it’s not worth it if you have to adjust every few minutes.
Laying down will reflect your body heat back from whatever you’re laying on. Instead, sit comfortably on the edge of a chair. You want to flex as few muscles as possible while sitting, but not rest on the back of the chair.
Use a fan if it evaporates your sweat. If it’s only blowing hot air around or the air is moist then too bad, you get to feel yourself sweat until an escape appears. Drink plenty of ice water. Also try to swallow whole ice-cubes if you can, it’s more effective than swallowing crushed ice. Good luck.
I live out near Death Valley. The weather has started to cool off here, it was only 105 in the shade yesterday afternoon. You should have been here in late July…..
Actually, I don’t even think I have to spell out the double entendre here.
Depending on the various things, an Evaporative Cooler (swamp cooler, evap) is a possible short term solution during fairly low humidity high temperature seasons. As a resident of one of them whacky desert states I use an Evap most of the summer months.
I use this chart/website as a helpful guide to effectiveness. http://www.lumacomfort.com/blog/does-evaporative-cooler-work/
As of this posting, at this momment in space-time, based on the 99°F (37°C) and 28% relative humidity, an Evap Cooler would be getting you 82°F (28°C) air. Not great, and it’ll be a touch sticky. But its survivable with good ceiling or deskfans and light house wear.
Depending on your house construction (and/or HOAs) and size you can get window mounted unit that is fairly easy to install. The unit I have pushes enough air to blow open my exterior doors if they aren’t latched proper, and I mean all they open from a “closed” position. You can also get “shop” or “floor” Evaps as well.
Another options is a smaller portable AC, again that run venting out a window. Less cost effective and only good for really a single room cooling, but is an option.
Am I the only one seeing that scene in “Rocky” movie, while watching him punch the meat?
Aaaaannnnnnd…As the commander praised Jared earlier, he’s making his workout work for him now. Not only that, but he’s also tenderizing the meat for the cafeteria!
Although I should point out that working up a sweat in a cold environment is not a very good thing to do to your body…Just don’t let your sweat start to freeze & you should be okay.
I live in a city just 200km East of LA, and it was 43C here that day.
I live in Cali, and I can attest, it’s like 106 F here. For those unfamiliar with F, 40 is almost freezing, 70 is comfortable, 100 is really, really hot.
mmmm… think of the flavour all of that manly sweat will impart!
I feel you my fellow canuck! I spent a year managing a computer store for a friend in Albuquerque, and coming from the lovely cool weather of Canada to 100+ weather every day… I thought I was baking inside my own skin
I live in Dana Point and the ocean humidity with the heat has turned the simple act of walking outside into slowly wading through hot funk soup.
Ok, everybody laughs at me when I say this, but it works. Put on a wet t-shirt. Gets your core temperature right down. Really. Try it.
A wet washcloth folded up & draped across the back of your neck works too; it helps keep you from getting hot-headed. Best used when among company that don’t really want to see you wearing a wet T-shirt…Although such people are best avoided in social situations anyway.
Happy Birthday Coelasquid!
As an American, it took me a moment to remember that when you said it was 40 degrees you were complaining about it being too hot.