# Too Damn Hot or Not Hot Enough: July Minirants **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 1, 2011, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516 "2011-07-01T15:43:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 21
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/401 "2011-07-21T14:47:00Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Definitely. 100 degrees is the temperature of boiling water! 32 degrees is a nice hot day! See, now, that’s just effed up! 😃 \*\* looks at Mr. D’s time stamp \*\* My God, man, are you an insomniac or just in some exotic time zone? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/402 "2011-07-21T14:50:16Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > See, now, that’s just effed up! 😃 > > \*\* looks at Mr. D’s time stamp \*\* > > My God, man, are you an insomniac or just in some exotic time zone? IIRC, **Mr. Dibble** lives in South Africa. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/403 "2011-07-21T15:32:10Z")
It is supposed to reach 38C with humidity pushing that to feel like 44C here in Toronto. That’s 100 F and 111 F, respectively. Too damn hot. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/404 "2011-07-21T15:47:29Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > I subscribe to a lot of thread so I can just click on the link to read the new posts. However, roughly 1 out of 50 times the link goes to the FIRST post on a page. Which means I _have_ to click on the button for the previous page because otherwise I can’t be _sure_ that I haven’t missed a post. How do you get your update alerts? I have mine as emails, which means when a new post comes in, the post is included with the email. That way, I just look for that specific post, so if it appears at the top of a new page, I know I don’t have to click back. :science: > [@blondebear](#): > > My pit today is for the Southwest Airlines baggage handler that stole food and some magazines out of my checked luggage. It’s not worth it to file a claim…my guess is that the thief figures (s)he can get away with ripping off stuff like that without ever getting caught. You know, if everyone else who’d had small things stolen had reported them, the thief might have been caught by now and your stuff would have been left alone. Couldn’t hurt to just call in and explain that you don’t want to spend a lot of time filling in forms, but you wanted to alert them to the theft. Side note: Could have been TSA and not a baggage handler. > [@MrDibble](#): > > Definitely. 100 degrees is the temperature of boiling water! 32 degrees is a nice hot day! Freaks. All of you. > [@Malthus](#): > > It is supposed to reach 38C with humidity pushing that to feel like 44C here in Toronto. Honestly, what’s the point of living in the frozen tundra wasteland that is Canada unless you don’t also have to deal with ridiculous heat waves? ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/405 "2011-07-21T15:54:32Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > IIRC, **Mr. Dibble** lives in South Africa. Which is a perfectly normal timezone, it’s y’all who are in weird places (says the Spaniard). ---
**Author:** ![villa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc79bd/32.png) [@villa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/villa)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/406 "2011-07-21T16:10:00Z")
Really. 3 goddamn weeks of we love you, you are perfect for the job, we just need to get you in to meet with the partners in that group, we don’t want to waste your time so we will only bring you in when we can get them all together at once… Then today - we’ve decided to leave the position unfilled. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/407 "2011-07-21T16:19:26Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > How do you get your update alerts? I have mine as emails, which means when a new post comes in, the post is included with the email. That way, I just look for that specific post, so if it appears at the top of a new page, I know I don’t have to click back. :science: Er. Yes, I suppose that would work. \ ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/408 "2011-07-21T16:20:19Z")
Good grief. I just checked the cooling tower water temperature – that’s the cooling water supply which is supposed to prevent all our chemical reactions from getting too hot and going boom. It’s running 37°C. That’s 98.6°F. That’s almost _steam_. Our cooling water supply is, in fact, _heating up_ the chemical processes it’s supposed to be cooling down. This is not good, no. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/409 "2011-07-21T16:28:07Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Which is a perfectly normal timezone, it’s y’all who are in weird places (says the Spaniard). Side note: People from Spain get the best suffix in English to describe their nationality. -An, -ish, -ese: boring. -Iard: _awesome_. > [@villa](#): > > Then today - we’ve decided to leave the position unfilled. :smack: > [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > Er. Yes, I suppose that would work. \ It’s not foolproof–my own peeve is when the link in the email sends me to the top of a page that does not contain the new post from the email. 99% of the time, that means that the new post (which I already read or skimmed in the email) was just the last post on the previous page. But I still have to click back to make sure… and then swear because I wasted three seconds because there was nothing else new. > [@Lightray](#): > > Our cooling water supply is, in fact, _heating up_ the chemical processes it’s supposed to be cooling down. Eesh. Good thing you checked, eh? I’m surprised a system like this doesn’t have automatic alarms. Heck, our data room has temperature alarms, and frying a server would just mean lost data (which is backed up, anyway). ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/410 "2011-07-21T16:31:09Z")
Time to dig a 50 foot deep hole for that cooling water supply? Get it down around the ground temp constant. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/411 "2011-07-21T16:34:08Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Eesh. Good thing you checked, eh? I’m surprised a system like this doesn’t have automatic alarms. Heck, our data room has temperature alarms, and frying a server would just mean lost data (which is backed up, anyway). It does have controls that automatically put the process into “hold”. But lots of things can put the process into “hold”, so I got a hey-chemist-explain-this message. And, yikes. Fortunately, I remembered that today is safety meeting day for that process unit, so they’re not running now anyway. But it’ll make a nice topic to discuss at the safety meeting… and at our process hazard review next week. But even so, didn’t need that extra moment of sweating today! edit: 50-ft hole here would be in the Mississippi – we’re on the floodplain. Digging holes either leads to sinkholes or hidden streams and flooding. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/412 "2011-07-21T16:50:22Z")
Remember when I said we have nice cool evenings here, good for sleeping? My furnace was on this morning. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/413 "2011-07-21T17:10:59Z")
Can we please just build a pipe between our homes? ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/414 "2011-07-21T17:19:30Z")
> [@villa](#): > > Really. 3 goddamn weeks of we love you, you are perfect for the job, we just need to get you in to meet with the partners in that group, we don’t want to waste your time so we will only bring you in when we can get them all together at once… > > Then today - we’ve decided to leave the position unfilled. Thanks. Jebus. My condolences. ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/415 "2011-07-21T18:14:10Z")
> [@anya\_marie](#): > > I can’t get my niece to go to bed so I can go to bed myself, and I am sooooooooo tired. I am sitting here to try and stay awake so i can keep an eye on her. > > I just had to listen to a tantrum from her because i wouldn’t make her a sandwich. I offered her a nutri-grain bar, because I don’t want to make another mess in the kitchen now. I gave her a sandwich before bed , she shouldn’t be that hungry… How old is your niece? It sounds like she’s saying she’s hungry to stay up. Any way you could just let her have her tantrum in bed? At my house, the rule is, “I can’t make you go to sleep, but I can make you stay in bed.” If she’s going to throw a fit, she might as well throw it there. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/416 "2011-07-21T18:16:56Z")
It is 98 with a heat index of 112 in Dearborn, Mich. In case your geography is weak, that is the north. It is not done yet. It is supposed to break 100. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/417 "2011-07-21T19:17:08Z")
Look, I get that it’s hot. I get that you think that flip-flops are comfy and all. But if your toe-nails are long enough to stab people with, please do not wear them. ---
**Author:** ![Sally\_Mander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@Sally\_Mander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sally_Mander)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/418 "2011-07-21T19:19:38Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Remember when I said we have nice cool evenings here, good for sleeping? My furnace was on this morning. I’m on my way. It’s 95F here, with THE GOD-AWFUL HUMIDITY, the heat index is 116F. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![gregorio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@gregorio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gregorio)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/419 "2011-07-21T19:26:24Z")
Yep. Looks like we’ve had our two nights of summer. Get any of that hail? > [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Remember when I said we have nice cool evenings here, good for sleeping? My furnace was on this morning. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/420 "2011-07-21T19:37:30Z")
It’s in the low 70s again, with rain. Yesterday, the weather gods trolled us, as it was so nice I actually wore shorts. I thought Summer had finally arrived. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516.md?page=20) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516.md?page=22)