Because I care what Europeans think
Europe to America: Your love of air-conditioning is stupid. Because progress is frowned upon. Of course, I live in a state where people without air conditioning die.
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August 12th, 2015 at 8:55 pm
The last 2 times the krauts tried to impose their will on the US it didn’t work out too well for them. They need to STFU and mind their own business. Isn’t Berlin about the same latitude as Newfoundland. I think Atlanta and Beirut are about the same. It gets hot in the US.
August 12th, 2015 at 9:01 pm
When the Europeans start chilling their beer, they can talk to me about my Central Air.
August 12th, 2015 at 9:12 pm
Send those whiney Euros to Phoenix Arizona for a week in midsummer and deny them AC. I’m sure that they would agree that having AC would be a great thing… If any of them are still alive.
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“many Europeans visiting the U.S. frequently complain about the “freezing cold” temperatures inside buses or hotels.”
Hell, we’re just paying ’em back for freezing our asses off when visiting their crappy countries.
August 12th, 2015 at 9:18 pm
HA HA HA The europeons need to be shown their place. And NO, I don’t care what they think.
August 12th, 2015 at 9:29 pm
Two tourists from France died last week in NM. Hiking less than 2 miles at White Sands, fell down dead from the heat. America is peopled with descendants of the Europeans who didn’t die within the first 6 months here. Australia too.
August 12th, 2015 at 9:35 pm
My manager is from Poland, he’s only been over here (North Carolina) since November. In April he started complaining about the heat and asked if it was going to get any warmer. He loathes the weather now that summer is on us. Most of Europe shares a latitude with Canada, while the American South has the same latitude as North Africa.
August 12th, 2015 at 9:55 pm
The actual temperature in Orlando today was 102F, according to my truck. Add in the fact that the dew point is 75F, and that makes the heat index 116F.
In comparison, Berlin’s high today was 87F, with 45% humidity, meaning the heat index was 89F.
That means the heat index is 27F hotter here. Let me see any Berliner try to survive here without air conditioning.
Berlin is at 52.5 degrees North latitude, or about the same as Ketchikan, Alaska. I bet people in Ketchikan don’t have air conditioning, either.
August 12th, 2015 at 11:27 pm
The Europeans are making a virtue of lack of affordable electric power. Their electricity rates, like their gasoline prices, are about four times those of the U.S..
And yeah, most of Europe is in Canada latitude-wise, with Sweden being the Yukon. Greece is the exact same latitude as Illinois.
August 13th, 2015 at 1:14 am
102F in my part of Texas today. Eff ’em.
August 13th, 2015 at 7:03 am
This is all about the Cent-a-Grade, isn’t it?
I did a back-of-the-envelope conversion, and told some Belgians that it occasionally gets to 40 here, and they flat-out called me a liar.
August 13th, 2015 at 9:16 am
Having lived a great deal of my life in the South, Deep South, and surrounding areas, I’ve often wondered at just how the hell humans survived here before the advent of air conditioning…
August 13th, 2015 at 9:28 am
Writing from France here. Most of the dumbasses who bitch about AC in the US are people who indeed don’t live in scorching heat and aren’t exposed to the hot *and* humid climate of the south eastern US states.
Another case of “hey, *I* can go to work with my bike or with the underground; let’s ban cars !”.
And there are many many people in the hotter parts of Europe who’d love to have AC. But it would just be too expensive in terms of utility costs and most houses aren’t even remotely designed to handle AC.
So yeah we can kindly ask them to die in a fire.
August 13th, 2015 at 6:54 pm
Came over here from Tam’s site.
Have to admit I agree 100% with both of you.
All too often the Euro-Peons turn their noses up at us in their self-assured moral superiority, and make their pronouncements without knowing the facts, or having a single shred of evidence.
Let them live in Southern Illinois during July and August, and watch them wilt…..
August 13th, 2015 at 7:00 pm
Doesn’t fucking Europe take all of August off?
Well, come on over Hans and Pierre. I’ll put you to work in a greenhouse during an Indiana August Humidityfest. I’ll let you sleep there and avoid the air conditioning.
August 13th, 2015 at 8:54 pm
“The U.S. is somewhat unusual in being a wealthy nation much of whose population lives in very warm, humid regions,”
No shit. Try living on the Gulf Coast without an air conditioner in August. Today was one of the first days in about a month that the heat index didn’t hit triple digits (that I can recall).
The humidity is no joke, and a big difference from those deserts where the temperature rapidly drops at night. Here it almost never cools more than a few degrees in summer, overnight — tomorrow is going to be a freakish day with a heat index of 69 at dawn… it’s almost a holiday.
August 13th, 2015 at 9:31 pm
Mercedes-Benz, USA pleaded with management in Germany “Put air conditioning in our cars!” “Nein! Ve haf 100% exchange of air 4 times a minute! Ve don’t need air conditioning.”
So … M-B, USA flew a few execs and engineers to L.A. and headed east. By the time they reached El Paso the Germans were “Ya! Ya! Ve need air conditioning.”
“OH NO!” said the Americans. “We still have the Gulf Coast.”
With Heat AND Humidity clearly impressed on the engineer’s minds M-B, USA got A/C in their cars.
August 14th, 2015 at 8:45 am
I’m an hour south of the Mouse; wifey and grandbabies love the place and go often. I loathe it, and generally entertain myself watching and listening to the furriners. Never have I detected krautspeak without it being accompanied by really stupid looking outfits and constant puffing and wiping of sweat. I’m sure at those times the very last thing they’re thinking is, “Gott hoffe ich, dass das Zimmer nicht zu kalt ist, wenn wir wieder dort angekommen!”
August 14th, 2015 at 12:09 pm
It’s so cute, how Europe still thinks their opinion matters.
August 14th, 2015 at 12:58 pm
In San Antonio this week, it hit 105 with a heat index of 109. Last time the Euro-Trash faced heat like that was with the Afrika Korps got its ass kicked by the Limeys at El Alemein. I’ll keep my A/C.
August 14th, 2015 at 4:15 pm
America to Europe: We don’t care what you think. Haven’t you figured that out by now?
Euros talking about our climate and air-conditioning sounds a lot like Euros talking about our crime rates and guns; i.e. a thick slice of ignorance between two pieces of snobbery.
August 14th, 2015 at 6:52 pm
Hold on, I power my air conditioning the same way I power my new Tesla, and I was told this is “zero emissions”. I do donuts all day in my 700 hp electric car because I thought it was good for the environment. Now they’re telling me it’s not?
August 14th, 2015 at 10:16 pm
So please remind me how many elderly people died in France from the heat a few years ago? Just askin’.
August 14th, 2015 at 10:56 pm
in 2003 it was easily over 10k of the elderly in France that died in that heatwave.
August 14th, 2015 at 11:36 pm
Bunch of sweaty nasty hairy pigs with hairy-women and high electricity costs – and some stinking patchouli oil. I’ve been there, a lot – forget them, they’re lost.
August 15th, 2015 at 1:29 pm
117* in Phx yesterday, the low this morning was 91.
And ‘monsoon’ moisture has been coming in from the south…fucking yippee.
August 18th, 2015 at 1:47 am
bob in houston Says:
August 14th, 2015 at 10:56 pm
in 2003 it was easily over 10k of the elderly in France that died in that heatwave.
according to wikipedia:
” Peer-reviewed analysis places the European death toll at more than 70,000.”
And these assholes presume to lecture us about energy use?