So. The Heat doesn’t bother You, eh?

[Ripley]

What Heat?

You might ponder about it as You sit inside Your chauffeured limo from mansion to office. From office to Heli-pad. From Congressional office to limo. From Private Jet to Private Spa. From Air Force One to the Eco-House on a pig farm.

Hell. The American citizenry is just a bunch of fucking pampered tools. Lookit India. Lookit Africa! They don’t have central air! Suck it up. Drink more water. You might even lose weight!!!

Freaking loud-mouth Ozone Man hadta make that piece of shit movie. Puttin’ IDEAS into people’s minds.

No. The heat does not bother me, because my Gardener has adapted our Solarium. My indoor pool suits me just fine. Who breathes outside, any way?

(The above should be taken as a sarcastic reference to the rich muthas who rule not only our Country, but the World.)

I don’t know about yall, but I keep thinking about that Twilight Zone where the Earth is moving closer to the Sun and the Artist keeps painting canvases of the big Sun until the day the paint simply melts down her canvas. And She melts, too.

Eeek.

[Speck Tater]

1. Yeah, but in that Twilight Zone episode...

She awoke to find that it had just been a nightmare. In reality the Earth was frozen solid and getting colder every day.

Maybe all we need to do is wake up from this nightmare and everything will be hunky dorey.

[NYC]

2. She was asleep because she had a fever.

That's why she dreamed of the heat.

That was an excellent episode. Unfortunately, I feel like I've been living it.

[Ripley]

4. Yup.

I wish I was only dreaming it.

[I_Make_Mistakes]

3. Actually, I spoke to my neighbor (originally from India and here

for quite awhile, maybe 20 yrs.), he told me that the weather in India was way hotter than here. He than proceeded to say that even tho the heat in India is stifling, that his cassettes never melted in his car there (last yr. he went back for at least a month), yet they do here.

His explanation, which I believe could be true, is that US, because of ozone destructing products, is in far worse shape than other parts of the world.

[Ripley]

5. That is just um.

Dumb. Sorry, no offense. But heat is heat. What are ozone destructing products? Maybe You meant something different, I just don't understand. If You mean the ozone has more holes over America than other places, that is not true. South America and New Zealand have had the most damage, I believe (but could be wrong), by holes that opened in the ozone layer. (Blindness, livestock deaths, skin cancer rates, etc.)

[I_Make_Mistakes]

10. Actually, I am not that naive. My sister and I both tan very dark

she gets the Am. Indian red (some in our history) and I get very dark brown. It was almost 10yrs ago that we had a conversation about how dark we were getting very early in the summer (both of us were on the swim team, so we went for our 8:00am practice and most days stayed through dinner time when we went home to eat and back to the pool), and with far less time in the summer and not all day at the pool were so dark it scared both of us.

I went to Cancun 2 times for a week in 1995 (one in May and one in June), that summer I was so tan that I actually looked dirty to myself when I looked in the mirror. Since that phone conversation, neither of us purposely tan anymore, something we used to love to do just scares the crap out of us.

I may not have the scientific knowledge of what is going on, but I do have the anecdotal (pictures for reenforcement) of what I have experienced.

[Karenina]

20. The heat is on...

"...I was so tan that I actually looked dirty to myself when I looked in the mirror." :shrug: Dark skin makes you look "dirty"??? :wtf:

[Ripley]

23. I second that WTF?

And what is Am Indian Red? GEEBUS, this place is freaky.

[Karenina]

25. Must be the heat.

;-)

[EFerrari]

6. My roses are scorched. I'm in a fog belt and sure the End is near. nt

[Ripley]

7. YIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIKES!

I miss Rod Serling. He'd lead us out of this scorched rose Hell, now wouldn't he?

[EFerrari]

8. I am so not kidding. When we were kids, we'd never even THINK

of going to this beach. It was always fogged in and freezing.

Not any more.

Paging President Al Gore

[Ripley]

13. I know.

You ain't kidding. I knew it was no joke back in the 1980's when I worked around glaciologists and especially this one scientist who spent a lot of time in Alaska. Back then he was documenting the melting permafrost. Today You can look at new ponds/lakes in Alaska with telephone poles falling over where they used to stand in firm ground for the last few decades.

Cascading events are underway.

[EFerrari]

14. Damn that Bill Clinton. n/t

[Ripley]

15. Damn them all.

For pretending to represent us. Hah! We all KNOW they represent big business and money. Line their pockets.

They feel NO pain.

[Ripley]

9. The Very Wealthy GAIN by this, folks.

They never personally suffer the consequences of Heat Waves (or should they now be called Heat Pools, or simply Helltimes?)

They make profits off of Disasters such as record-breaking Heat. Sick and disturbed those humans are that rule the world. They count their little fucking special coins in their private little enclaves, KNOWING that people suffer at their expense. According to the guy who fixed my furnace last year, they sit around naked playing poker for piles of cash in hundred dollar bills. Ack. (okay, that's just local weird shit.)

They. Control our Government. They. Do NOTHING to alleviate this.

We are ALL on our own. Despite the fact that they suck your tax dollars out of your paycheck. EXPECT NOTHING IN RETURN.

[bridgit]

11. we had our heat cycle last week, 110+ for like 2 weeks that sucked...

too many elderly, shut-in, poor folk without cooling systems, and like-people here in town died from the heat exposure...not good the way such events separate us socio-economically

[Ripley]

16. Death toll from heat is record breaking

in USA. But it appears that a movie star's lifestyle is waaaaay more important.

Celebrity worship is absurd and it is SOOOO obviously followed here.

KMAMG

[bridgit]

17. here? here-here? you mean DU here?

:shrug:

[Ripley]

18. Hi friend!

I was referring to others, not you. And this place is kinda crazy now, the freaking neighbors are lighting off , what, bombs? shit.

I hate where I live.

Boom.

[bridgit]

19. oh...sorry, little slow on the uptake here...here-here, where i am...

:blush: :hi: my neighbors are smoking dope or whatever & making a big ole racket too x(

[RB TexLa]

12. I don't do any of those things and the heat doesn't bother me

but I guess growing up in Louisiana helps, it feels the way it's supposed to feel.

:)

[Theres-a]

21. Me too

I saw that episode last month,now this.Totally bizarre.

[blindpig]

22. Fat Old Sun

"Fat Old Sun"

When that fat old sun in the sky is falling,
Summer evening birds are calling.
Summer's thunder time of year,
The sound of music in my ears.
Distant bells,
New mown grass smells so sweet.
By the river holding hands,
Roll me up and lay me down.
And if you sit,
Don't make a sound.
Pick your feet up off the ground.
And if you hear as the warm night falls
The silver sound from a time so strange,
Sing to me, sing to me.
When that fat old sun in the sky is falling,
Summer evening birds are calling.
Children's laughter in my ears,
The last sunlight disappears.
And if you sit,
Don't make a sound.
Pick your feet up off the ground.
And if you hear as the warm night falls
The silver sound from a time so strange,
Sing to me, sing to me.
When that fat old sun in the sky is falling,
Summer evening birds are calling.
Children's laughter in my ears,
The last sunlight disappears.


Pink Floyd

Don't quite know why I pasted that, Guess cause I just love summer. I spend every free moment outside(not nearly enough of those), sit on the car port late into the evening as the encore of the Wood Thrush gives way to the Chucks Poorwill, the katydids' drone and the occasional owl hoot. The heat I can handle, temps around here are a bit above normal but not extraordinary, it's the rain patterns which are really awry, the lack of reliable late winter and early spring rains over the past two decades has greatly decreased the populations of vernal pond breeding amphibians. This dearth of early rain sets up the local ecosystem for decreased fecundity, less food for hatching birds and reptiles, summer rains cannot really make up the difference. Some species have disappeared due to 150 years of settlement and intensive agriculture, more are blinking out because of sprawl, and now this. When our fauna and flora finally relaxes to equilibrium it is going to be a poor thing.

[RebelOne]

24. The heat doesn't bother me unless I'm outside in it.

I go from my air-conditioned house to my air-conditioned car to my air-conditioned office and vice versa in the afternoon when I get off work.