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How the hell do so many of you not understand that some people actually have work manual labor outside in the sun?
“sTaY iN tHe sHadE aNd tUrN oN a fAn lol”
people have to do that all over the world, including in places where 79F is a nice cool day. British who can’t handle a warm day are a joke, I grew up laboring hard in Egypt. Guess what, we didn’t have AC
This is the weather in my birthplace right now, and it’s not a “heat wave” just normal temperature. It doesn’t even get below 79F at night during lows half the time! What a joke Britain!
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So do people just not understand that temperature tolerance is a limited thing based on your climate and any deviations can feel significant?
No, they do not, and most of them aren’t willing to understand, either.
People, or at least NT people, with higher temperature tolerance are almost always assholes about it - I have weird heat sensitivity, I suspect on account of my Autism, and I only stopped getting constant shit for it once I basically entirely stopped talking to NTs.
The people in this thread are just seizing on an excuse to shit on people they perceive as weaker, or an excuse to shit on the English as if they are actually inherently evil just by existing. Or both.
It’s an byproduct of this site’s podcast fandom origin. Some people don’t understand that Chapo’s “bullying is cool” bit is comedic irony aimed at wealthy journalists and politicians on twitter who never actually experience bullying and just have no context for seeing negative feedback to their broadly unpopular opinions.
It’s also just common regional chauvinism. The same people here who say stuff like “just open a window dipshit, it’s worse where I live and I think it’s comfortable!” will go on to lament the seriousness of climate change elsewhere, then go right on to another post about low temperatures in winter and comment something like “just put on a sweater dipshit, it’s worse where I live and I think it’s comfortable!”
Yeah. The worst is how they always double down when confronted. It’s the same shit libs do when confronted on their bigotries.
Maybe you just look really pathetic to people who have lived in third world countries where this a cool evening temperature
I’m from a climate that’s typically 30-35c 70-100% humidity that has single digit days under 20.
26c is a cool evening to me because I’m fairly used to it. Not everyone is me though, and being over the age of 10, I have a thing called “theory of mind.” Which is the ability to conceptualise that other people are also people. You should work on that, it’s fairly vital.
I am imagining myself as a pathetic angloid, I feel slimy and red and bloated with cheese. Ok back to my normal body
shit on the English as if they are actually inherently evil just by existing
Death to America
Ableism is, unfortunately, extremely common on hexbear.
I think that the shitting on the British is just overcompensation for having been really into Doctor Who and Sherlock in their Tumblr phase. I’m Australian, so I do love to insult the British, but people just overdo it.
I’m Chinese living in Australia, so I have 2 reasons to insult the British.
If I ever get power I’m flooding the UK with opium.
Uncritical support in your noble and brave quest.
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Yeah, the disabled deserve to suffer because they were born into a collapsed empire.
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What news outlets publish any kind of article about the suffering of disables people due to the environment?
Genuinely I would like to know if you hear about how post covid disabled people suffer in any kind of mainstream media?
Just because you construct an ideal justified victim of the UK heat doesn’t actually excuse you from the reality of who will be victimised.
It’s been hotter than this “heatwave” in my home country (with no AC) every day for the last 20 years
I am not going to cry for Angloids because you have put a progressive spin on your whinging and self-victimization at lukewarm temperatures
This is pure first-world-problems and chauvinism, the article is centering the conversation on Britain as a whole being under duress, it doesn’t say anything about disabled people. It’s another in a long line of white people being the center of the world and any minor inconvenience to them being a huge deal everyone else has to consider and worry about. I don’t give a fuck if Britain is 80 F. Literal non-story that has wasted my time, yet another anglo imposition of specialness
Disabled people exist wether or not a shitass news org covers them, dipshit.
It’s progressive to be concerned over disabled people in the imperial core, you are literally just being ableist.
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It is interesting to see high heat and associated sweating as quite a powerful stimulus which often causes overstimulation particularly in people with neuro divergence. So sometimes it’s not even a heat tolerance problem but an overstimulation problem which NTs seem to have a hard time understanding.
Also like others have said, perception of temperature changed is largely dependent on where your current baseline is.
I have fibromyalgia and autism so it’s a combo for me. Heat makes pain worse, discomfort increases sensitivity, etc etc bad times.
Even just new meds can fuck with your ability to process heat. When I started prozac I would feel hot and get sweaty from basically any activity, which then meant I’d get cold, shiver, sweat more. NTs are fucking weird
We used to be able to shit on the English, now we can’t because of woke ☹️
There are valid reasons to shit on the English (eg. their queerphobia)
Also their milky complexions, cheese bloat & frail constitutions that collapse during a warm breeze
Not to mention that just from person to person within the same climate there are significant differences, probably genetic at their core. Two people can be sitting in the exact same spot and one will be burning up and the other freezing cold and neither of them are “wrong”
Bit idea: Flying to the UK in the middle of a 79F heatwave and asking, “don’t you feel a bit chilly” to rando Brits
Great thread to prove my theory that Americans aren’t actually real people, but just homonculi built with an inherent compulsive desire to be the greatest white people on the planet, and absolutely no restrictions on being dumb assholes about it.
as an Egyptian, this thread reads like two types of milky white people arguing whether doritos nacho cheese or cool ranch is spicier
For those wondering why this is bad in the UK, it’s currently 3am and the humidity is 85%.
We have a very wet country. These temperatures are very difficult to cool down in with this kind of humidity.
Comrade, that amount of humidity is normal in many parts of the world.
The British have colonized parts of the world where people work in these conditions on the daily, but they didn’t take any knowledge of how to live and work comfortably in this kind of heat back home with them because the British solution was “make the locals do it”, hence the Schadenfreude.
Jaysus wept on such an accursed country…
26C “heatwave” 😂
Bitch, my AC is set to 28C right now, and the outside temp is 38C. It’s the coolest day of the week, the other day it was 40C IN THE FUCKING SHADES! Flip flops are literally melting under your feet as you walk on the sidewalk.
It’s not the heat it’s the humidity. Also we don’t really do AC in our homes.
I’ll defend the islanders and their weak constitutions.
At high enough humidity you can’t cool down from sweat, so a 88°F/31°C wetbulb temperature can be lethal. Add in sunlight, combining radiation with convection, which gives the extra 9°F/5°C needed to kill you. Humidity and direct sunlight can make 79° lethal, especially when combined with physical exertion.
It’s not just the gout and aristocratic inbreeding that’s killing them I swear!
The weirdly low dangerous wetbulb temperatures are actually arrived at with extremely low humidity and a very high dry bulb temperature. As long as the dry bulb temperature is below body temperature you can still passively cool especially with moving air, although obviously it gets much worse the closer both numbers get to body temperature. A dry bulb that’s 20 degrees below body temperature will always be cool regardless of how efficient sweating given the humidity.
I’m aware, but you’re ignoring solar gain. A dry bulb in shade will read differently than a dry bulb in direct Sun; sunlight can easily add enough heat to raise the dry bulb from 79°F to 88°F because you’re getting heat from radiation in addition to convection.
Then add in physical activity and poor air flow, add in people unprepared to dress appropriately and poor hot-climate infrastructure, it’s entirely possible for 79°F to become dangerous - especially to vulnerable populations.
“If you’re wearing a parka, and doing heavy exercise in the sun, and not drinking water, and also you have other health problems too, then this otherwise cool and pleasant temperature would become a problem” isn’t a very sound argument. Like yes, if you’re actively overheating yourself and also dehydrated and also overdressed and also you don’t do anything at all to mitigate these things you’re actively doing then you’re in for a bad time, but you can also mitigate this by not doing that, by drinking enough water, and by having an electric fan. You should never just passively have trouble with a temperature that’s 20 degrees below body temperature, that’s colder than an air conditioned space should be. Like here the temperature outside actually is 88F, it’s passively 85F inside, and after running the AC for a while I stopped it at 82F because it was getting chilly.
“If you’re able to do x y and z to mitigate the heat then this is a cool and pleasant temperature” is not a sound argument either.
Public health warnings are not about naked people sitting perfectly still in the shade in front of a fan. Try doing manual labor in the Sun while wearing PPE and your boss will fire you if he catches you sitting down or taking too many water breaks. Warnings like this give workers the power they need to stand up to their boss because, if they are injured, liability falls back on the boss. We aren’t just talking about people “passively” having trouble, we’re talking about the entire population.
79F isn’t even “you need to mitigate this” weather. It’s cold, and only if you do things that would be dangerous at even colder temperatures does it hypothetically become a problem. You can give yourself heatstroke while standing knee deep in snow if you try hard enough, that doesn’t mean freezing temperatures are dangerously high.
Ok let’s not over exaggerate lol. 79F is not cold weather lol. It’s not even chilly.
That just opens you up to mocking from the other direction.
It is below the temperature of my air conditioned room.
embarrassing country, fucking christ i hate england
Death to America
Bro our houses are built like ovens
Sure but these are not dangerous temperatures. Go outside
How does that help if you work in a kitchen?
i would simply not wear a sweater
But gram made it just for them. It’s the third doctor, Jon Pertwee, and the mark 2.07 Tardis.
Its fucking consistently 40 c where I am. Fuckin oi bruvs
No need to worry. $500,000,000 will be sent to ukraine to solve this problem
How in the world did the British have so many tropical colonies
Slaves
Yeah but somebody still had to give the orders without keeling over and dying of heatstroke on a mild spring day
Many of them actually did died, but those were the rank and file up to middle management at most so disposable. Those that were more adaptable stayed. Also A LOT of local compradors, usually landowners with their own personnel and the like.
didn’t they have administrative capitals in like small resort towns in the himalayan foothills so they could govern from a bearable 16 degrees
No idea but i wouldn’t be surprised, though it would be also for the upper echelons.
turns out i was thinking of Shimla, but yes the average anglo bueurocrat would just stay on their post and melt I guess
I heard they had villages in the mountains of India where they’d go to avoid the worst of the heat.
Ngl i get sweaty and uncomfortable in like 20°c so i get it
