It's So Damn Hot
DB_Cooper
Manhatin' 7,823 Posts
Going to feel like 100 at some point today in NYC. Please to share cooling tips and general tactics to escape the heat.
This year I have really embraced linen pants. I'd never really messed with them before, but my lady picked me up a couple of pairs, and I am now a convert. I've been rocking them with polos made of thin t-shirt material, and at least I'm not sweating my brain out over here. So I got that going for me. Which is nice.
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Natural fibers are a must, DB. People were talking sh*t about linen in that suit thread, but I'll take wrinkles over sweat stains and monkey-butt any and every day.
time to put your ice carving skills to the test and fashion yourself a stylish ice sculpture helmet.
Damn right. My skin's trying to breathe over here. I can't imagine wearing any sort of suit in this weather though. Multiple layers sounds suicidal.
And conversely, if you drink a hot drink on a hot day, you'll actually feel cooler as a result. Cause the air around you feels cooler.
I used to hate summer heat... I'd get hot like a motherfather cause I'd always be trying to escape and avoid the heat whenever possible.. so the minute there was any heat at all my body would feel it big time.
So, I decided to try doing the opposite of keeping cool.. I decided to get used to temperatures hotter than what I was trying to avoid...
For the first few days I thought I was going to fuckin faint and then all of a sudden my body started to acclimatise.
Oddly enough, it worked and now I love heat (NRR).
I believe its called Exposure Therapy in the real world... although I thought I was inventing it at the time.
100 degrees doesn't even faze me.
Go for a run in it to get a good sweat on.
Then swim.
Then shower.
Drink ice cold Mexican beer.
Crank up the a/c.
Smoke something.
?
Stay cool you all.
Not crank as in meth, but crank as to turn on.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/top-10-bodega-cats-keeping-cool
between april and october i never leave the house without a handkerchief/sweat rag in my back pocket.
freeze grapes, freeze cut-up mango and pineapple chunks, freeze whatever you can, then eat it. make your own healthy popsicles, then eat them.
actually drinking frozen daiquiris helps a lot too...
"On Tuesday's and Thursday's, you better watch for the sweep, look them people gone act an ass if you get caught in the street."
Shit, nigga betta hopskip, and jump on the block on tuesdays and thursdays better run from the block
b/w
I'll take 115F over -15F any and every day.
Living in SF has made me downright soft serve when it comes to heat. On the rare occasions it creeps into the 90s here, I don't enjoy it, but that's due in large part to the fact that no one has air conditioning here. Hard to sleep when your pinner fan is just blowing hot air on you.
No doubt. Go for a cotton/linen blend if the wrinkles really bother you. I've become a stay-cool junkie in this heat, even my ties are linen.
These shoes are less humiliating than flip flops? I don't know about that...
Do you rock them with a matching mesh tanktop?
Yo those are tite as shit. What are they?
For the next few months I'm wearing as little clothing as possible. Shit is out of control in NYC today.
AND IT'S NOT EVEN SUMMER YET
I've been eyeing them for a minute. dirt cheap too.
edit: cheap if you can find them on sale...
a/c is kind of a cop out. sure it feels nice, and if youre mad old, might be necessary.but then when you go outside you are going to be even less tolerant of the real weather. learn to live, i say.
what tips do people have to actually deal with it??
i move slow, work more in the mornings and late afternoons...do paperwork and computer stuff in the blazing heat. dont eat too much. drink a lot of water. try to get the house breezes going ( i have no a/c). its not too bad. plus, i got a bidet to take care of inevitable swampass/monkeybutt
i second having a hand towel when moving about outside. crucial element.
for real though people, dont be afraid to sweat once in a while. we're supposed to
a/c.
Sayin'