AIR CONDITIONING: HOT OR NOT
leisurebandit
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I say, "NOT". peace, 'bandit...
leisurebandit
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My boss might not appreciate that. HOT!!
No AC in Virginia would be a bad look. Shit my apartment in philly had no AC and that shit was horrible. It was second story and would get so hot I couldn't wait to go to my shitty job. Now I own a house with central air and I will never go back.
Spoken like someone who's never experienced a blazingly scorching 95+ degree NC day with 80%+ humidity.
I've also heard you can get these fans to pull cool air out of the basement and another push the hot air out through the attic.
Ain't NEVER going to bash that shit, though.
Seriously, in the summer it gets muggy, and when it's muggy I can't concentrate properly, and people's tempers are short and shot (rent Do The Right Thing). The only way I could see somebody doing without a/c is if you live in Alaska. Or if you're in the middle of a winter snowstorm. But when summer is at it's height, like right now, goddam right we need some air conditioning. Don't be gettin' on some high-and-mighty "coexist w/nature" trip.
My sister's boyfriend grew up without a/c and his house had an "attic fan" of which you speak. He says basically its a huge fan in the attic that sucks in air through the house and out of the top. You keep all the windows in your house open and it simulates a breeze coming in.
just FINE without AC for years - and everything was
hotter back then!! How entitled do you people think
you are to conditioned air?? Do you think the government
should just PROVIDE you with air conditioning??[/rockadelic]
And I like it collllld!
15 Yards for flagrancy on this one.
He lives in Texas, where AC is indeed an inalienable right.
Getting the hot air out is just as important as bringing the cool air in. I can't afford an attic fan yet but I put exahust fans in the windows of our second floor and it has really made a difference this summer.
[kala]YOU ARE ALL HOT BECUAS EOF ALL THE FACIST GROWN MEAT PRODUCTS IN YOOUR GUTs.
AIRKKKUNTIONER KILLS NATIONS!!! PUSSIES LIKE hKKRUNT NEED AC. POST BEATZ.
have you evar fuckkked a Brazilian woman in sloppy sweat?
[I HAVE]
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[/kala]
Thats funny because my 92 year old grandmother just got a window unit for her bedroom but doesn't have AC in the house. She almost never turns the air on.
although I wouldn't mind it ... my house is incredibly
old and has terrible/archaic electrical wiring, and I'm
afraid AC would cause blackouts at best, burn the place
to the ground at worst. I spend alot of time in front of
a fan, and my windows are always open.
1. Refrigerator
2. A/C
3. Kettle
4. Toaster Oven
5. Blender
6. Iron
we have learned that if you use any combination of more than three of these it blows the circuit breaker, and I have to go down five flights of stairs into the rat infested garbage (and I mean actual garbage, like old banana peels and coffegrounds, and thrown out food and shit) strewn basement in the pitch dark, with a flashlight (and a big stick) to pop the switch.
need the same amount of electricity as it takes to
light a minor-league baseball stadium ... I had one
for awhile in an apartment where the stove was broken,
and anytime I tried to run it and the Foreman Grill
at the same time, BOOM! Out go the lights!
Yeah, I grew up in a house with one of those as well. It does work pretty well, or at least well enough for me. In later years, I did have a window a/c, but I didn't use it all that much and eventually just stopped hauling it up and installing it in the summer altogether.
These days, my apartment can get kind of hot (second floor, west-facing windows, and when I have the computer/turntables/mixer/monitors/SP1200 all on at once, that's a lot of heat getting kicked out), but nothing I can't handle. I have no particular need for a/c. I don't even use it in my car.
It is all about the humidity and night time temps though...I was in Paris for 2 weeks during the massive heat wave that killed all those folks a few years ago and being from the South it wasnt that big of a deal...yeah it was hot, but it cooled off at night so you could sleep. My apt. didnt have A/C but with fans and the windows open, not a big big deal. I think a Southern US esque heatwave in Europe would wipe out tens of thousands of folks. But I have A/C and keep it COLD in the house, nothing like a good nights sleep with it being about 67 or so and a ceiling fan in the bedroom...
Seriously. There's a reason mankind evolves and we invent things like AC.
Spoken like someone who's never experienced a blazingly scorching 115+ degree LV day with 0% humidity.
- spidey
a friend of mine's dad was talkin' to a dude from out of town...it was about 90 or so here in Memphis with 70-80% humidity at the time, the out of town dude aksed "How in the fuck do you live here? it is hot as hell" my friend's dad asked him where he was from, and the dude said, "Las Vegas"...