too effing hot

Biggest pet peeve I have with the Weather Channel - How they say, "Over here in the plains, we're seeing snow." YOU'RE IN ATLANTA, SAY OVER THERE.

"Weather Network" :: German hand gesture for "three" - hope I never have to go undercover up there.

I should've known. But ours networks out to all the provinces? /shrug One of those things I grew up with and thus never really examined.

The Weather Channel is nationwide in the U.S. Though it is a cable channel, not network.

I'm not saying that The Weather Network's name is intrinsically weird, just that it sounded funny to me b/c it's so close to "The Weather Channel."

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"You may remember me from television work like 'The Weather Network' and 'Cable News Channel!'"

And yet, it's still called a Quarter Pounder up there. Outside of Quebec, at least.

This could go in the IA thread, but it's prob better here.

Yesterday and today I saw people eating on sidewalk patios in the stinking, ungodly heat; today (95F/34C) there were people sitting in partial sunlight. I was savoring my disgust at those people, and I realized it's similar to my disgust at the thought of people drinking urine. I think both are really fucking gross, but I can sort of get why some people would do it (sexual fetish, health quackery).

Canadians still weigh themselves in pounds and measure their height in feet/inches. Metric nation, my foot.
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More centimeters than inches, fewer kgs to pounds, Canadians just don't want to seem like they're being misleading.

Seeing people sit in the sun on days like today just gives me the rage.

Also: haha Jesse drinks pee

Canadians still weigh themselves in pounds and measure their height in feet/inches.

Quite true for my students, anyway. They don't know Fahrenheit, and they'll estimate the length of a table or a room in metric. But with their own height/weight, they revert to imperial.

I neither drink pee nor do I sit on a sidewalk in the horrible heat!!

Honestly, all joking aside, I believe that - within in the context of a "meaningful," trusting sexual/romantic relationship - I am more likely to let someone pee in my mouth (though I would not swallow) than I am to ever choose or agree to eat and drink outdoors when it is humid and 95/34º+.

the call the quarter pounder "les quatre bouf royale kilo"

I went to a nice quebec mcdonalds and had poutine

Honestly, all joking aside, I believe that - within in the context of a "meaningful," trusting sexual/romantic relationship - I am more likely to let someone pee in my mouth (though I would not swallow) than I am to ever choose or agree to eat and drink outdoors when it is humid and 95/34º+.

― Je55e, Tuesday, July 17, 2012 5:11 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm just going to quietly file this away because I have a feeling it's going to come in handy some time in the future.

p. sure that's McPoutine xp

thought u were joking but nope

http://images.mentalfloss.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/poutine.jpg

when I ordered poutine in a zoo the girl laughed at my French uncontrollably - it was awkward, though she didnt come acorss as condescending. it must have been like someone saying "I may please purchase your fine and wonderous fry of france now?"

Do they do a poutine shake for Canada Day or anything like that?

they just add maple syrup

Back Bacon Shake on Canada Day, of course.

mcdonalds poutines are so terrible

Harvey's is better, for sure.

inject Tim Horton's in yer netherhole

1/4 kilos of beef royal???

you speak French!!

1/4 kilos is like 5/8s of a pound though no??

i dont know why i keep pluralizing kilo but there it is

how about grande baise boeuf grande pour l'homme la graisse

the a.c. broke in my office and won't be fixed until maybe tomorrow #swampass

Canadians do do Fahrenheit, when baking, and when measuring temperature of swimming pools.
It is 96 in Toronto right now

why did i ride my bike to work today??? :(((

not leaving the goddamn office til it goes down to 93

when I ordered poutine in a zoo the girl laughed at my French uncontrollably - it was awkward, though she didnt come acorss as condescending. it must have been like someone saying "I may please purchase your fine and wonderous fry of france now?"

― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Tuesday, July 17, 2012 6:26 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

did you maybe ask her for a prosititute (putain)?

if i were a little kid outside in a stroller today i would never stop crying

as an adult i only took a break for lunch

Only took a break from crying for lunch?

yes

now i'm even more dehydrated

There were two toddlers in a double stroller on the train platform yesterday, girls judging from the shoes, and they were stripped down to their underpants and just sprawled out as much as possible in a heat-induced stupor. Poor kids!!!

After I got to work today I was not outside again until I left to bike home at 4:30, at which time the time/temp sign downtown read 93, and with the humidity it felt like about 100. That was a looooong 8 miles.

oh man you know those econo double strollers with like a claustrophobic hammock underneath? if i were in that i would stop crying and just bang my head against anything available.

Everyone at the office was pissy and curt today, except me. Instead of being cranky, I was just operating at ultra-minimal mental bandwidth, which sucked b/c in my torpor I messed up and got confused a lot, inflaming the others' irritable moods. Nothing terrible, but it sucked the rest of the life out of me and now all I want to do is figure out which movie I can watch that will help me cry.

Ha, I just posted on the Chicago thread why heat makes me dumb.

too effing hot imo

Have any of you seen a squirrel splayed out on the sidewalk, trying to stay cool? It looks hilarious.

Today, when I was watering the tomatoes, a beautiful red cardinal flapped down to romp in the hose.

^ my plans for tonight, tbh

would romp

too effing hot

hot

Have any of you seen a squirrel splayed out on the sidewalk, trying to stay cool? It looks hilarious.

This is a common sight on my porch these days.

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is that fire in the background

ghost fire

Just made disbelieving "AWWHAWHAWWWWW" noise re squirrel. I'm in wuv.