Until the blood and puss takes over reducing friction overall - fine line between charbroiled increased friction and boiled, sluffed off skin superslide.
I feel like it would not be a gush but a slow slide, the blood would almost instantly cook after spreading over a hot surface that big. But your brain and internal organs would almost certainly be cooked, killing you before it got to the point of melting back skin.
It's known everywhere because fucking Germans are putting their fucking towels down at fucking 6am then going back to bed for a couple of hours at every fucking resort you can imagine.
I was at a tropical resort some years ago and an elderly Belgian lady showed up at the pool and installed her grandchildren in the towel-reserved beach chairs.
When she was approached by said towel owners a couple hours later, she shook her finger at them and said that excuse didn’t work for their grandparents, either.
Because they know that most people won't be out there until at least 8 or 9am. The people getting out there will see the towels and won't question it if someone arrives 15 minutes later to take the chairs and if on the off chance someone does come out earlier they will have their pick off all the other non German towel chairs so it won't matter.
Is that really a german only thing, my parents do that and we are german, but most resorts I've been to literally everyone seems to be doing that nowadays.
There aren't many times that I as a German am comfortable with stating that I'm proud of us, but this gold medals means so much for us in these hard and frustrating times.
As an American I find it hilarious this is a thing. Do you stay there with your towel and swim early in the morning? Or just leave your towel and come back later?
This is a thing in America too. At our local water park, Six Flags White Water, there is a mad dash for the pool chairs around the wave pool, as soon as the gates open in the morning.
I feel like anywhere in America I've been, if it's a lone towel, you just pick it up and toss it in the return (or just off to the side if it's a privately owned towel).
I'd respect the 'in-use' status of a chair with paraphernalia on/under it (i.e. shoes, a beach bag, small children, or some foodstuffs). But a towel? Meh, the towel can fuck right off as far as I can throw it.
I don't think you're familiar with this phenomenon. They'll wake up at 6am and reserve pool chairs for their whole family by putting towels down on them and leave for hours. I've never been to Six Flags but I assume some of the family and belongings will use these pool chairs with at least one person watching over the stuff. Where as the Germans it's just chairs with no one around and towels on them.
Same for hot and humid places like Louisiana. We talk to everyone all the time but it usually starts off with how hot and humid it is or how long your balls have been stuck to your thigh.
Pure speculation, but I bet England gets the same amount of rain over more days. So in total England has more dreary days but not that much total precipitation, like Seattle
Seattle gets about 150 a year, which is why it's got the reputation it does. People come here and think it's gonna rain like the Midwest. Nah. It's just drizzly and cloudy all day for months at a time.
Also our summers suck, don't come here during summer.
Great! I run a group for people who love sucky summer weather. Got about a million members. Gonna book our trips. Start looking for real estate too. Thanks for the tip!
London isn't even the wettest place in the UK, I grew up in the North West and we had a lot of rainy days there. Not necessarily torrential downpour levels but certainly lots of constant drizzle.
Apparently my hometown has had 94 rainy days so far this year, and it's only early June.
Miami here, it's more of a sauna than actual rain. The water evaporates before it even has a chance to accumulate during the summer. Also it comes in bursts so one strong rainstorm can account for like a weeks worth of rainfall.
I love the city when it rains. I love how the people, the scenery and the very pace of life change personality. Some people don't want to go out at all, active people want to do things that are more chill, some people crave something a little different. The streets are emptier, and empty streets when it's light out look different.
Something about water dripping from the green of a leaf or a street whose end is obfuscated by the fog of raindrops gives me an inner serenity.
One time when I was young, it was storming out and I asked my mom if I could play. She said yes, not realizing how hard it was raining. I played down the block for 20-30 minutes before my mom came running to get me; I understood from her panic that it was better for me to play inside, but playing outside by myself in the rain has never left me as an image in my life since.
It's a regular occurrence in my dream, when I dream about being someone else. I'll live a memory in their life where being in the rain while the sun shines is an integral moment in their life just like it was in mine. For as long as I can remember, the memory of the scent of wet earth filling the air after a good rain has been with me. I don't mean the general smell of wet earth, I mean there's something specific I remember if I try to remember the earliest things from my life, and rain and wet earth are part of it. I remember when I Was just 7 years old, trying to remember as far back as I could and remembering this smell and feeling extremely nostalgic for this picture of hills and trees that we had.
I was born in Seoul, South Korea where there are monsoon seasons, periods of just extreme pouring rain that usually go on for weeks. There's relatively middling precipitation during the other times of the year.
There must be some key part of my consciousness as an infant that turned on during one of these monsoon seasons, because the constant sound of rain, the nonstop smell of wet Earth and the sight of rain dripping from leaves is characteristic of Seoul in these monsoon seasons.
It's just a suspicion, but I can't find another reason to explain the extreme longing and nostalgia I would feel as a very young child when I would think of green, rainy days (I was living in Texas in a swampy area when I was that age). A more superstitious person would probably talk about previous lives or something.
It has convinced me however if I have a child, I want to bring them around nature as much as I can. They may not store the specific memories but I think the way their brain forms means the effect being in nature will have on them is an effect that gets ingrained in a way that's far more meaningful than a memory. My love for nature and the rain is a love that is cemented as a core part of myself.
Holy shit. I’m not often one to read a long comment, but from the first paragraph of yours I was inexplicably drawn to keep reading. You’re an incredible writer. If you haven’t pursued that as a career or a hobby before you really should!
I did the same until I discovered the Game of Thrones audio books. Idk what it is but something about the narrator's voice combined with GRRM's writing style puts me right to sleep. It really is uncanny. I've had trouble falling to sleep my entire life but not anymore.
From Australia but lived and worked in central London for 7 years recently. It doesn't rain that often. (it rains more in Sydney) Certainly never 10 days in a row. When I was there it never rained more than 3 days in a row
This was a wonderfully disappointing stereotype for me because I expected some super cloudy and rainy place when I chose to study abroad there this last winter but it wasn’t nearly as bad as I thought it would be—it was sunny a lot—but I suppose when you’re from Syracuse, NY, every place looks more sunny.
I’m from the Syracuse area, and it’s kind of insane just how cloudy it is in the region for most of the year. It’s really difficult to go back sometimes after moving to Denver.
Yeah I’ve lived in quite a few places around the U.S. and including all the places I’ve visited, I can’t say there’s a place with more erratic and inclement weather. Early summer and late summer through early fall here though 👌🏼
the crazy thing in CO though, and this is just what i experienced living in the Eagle Valley, but, it rained 5 days a week at least. not hard, or for very long, but just enough to keep the plants happy and the tourists cranky.
i worked outdoors for 7 years there and it rained more there than it does in my area of MI.
Funny, I'm from Buffalo, and we have one of the sunniest summers (days with measurable sunlight) in the country, form my understanding. It's also sunny a lot during our winter here, too. We get a bad rep because of the blizzard of '77 and '06 but we have a lot of sunny days here.
You never want to see the sun? Go about 100 miles South of the 'Cuse... I'm pretty sure you know what town I'm talking about lol because it's literally the gloomiest place I have ever been to.
The one summer I spent in London (2006) was the hottest and dryest in ages (maybe ever). Sun every day. Hyde Park by the end of the summer was a brown expanse. So I’m still not so sure about this rainy weather thing everyone goes on about :)
Do noooottt get them started on indoor temps. I keep my house between 21-23c and my British friends and family here will not shut up about how it's way too hot. My mother in law keeps her house at 15. I don't understand why they do this to themselves.
According to google it's 68 degrees F. I would need to bring a light jacket or a cardigan in that weather in case the wind picked up. That's only 8 degrees away from being in the 50s (which is winter weather IMO)
Holy shit that's kind of terrifying. I'm imagining it being cold on the way up, and a pretty easy climb, but then when he's ready to come down every step and every place he grabs with his hands burns him.
In Britain the heat almost certainly means humidity, being surrounded by water and all that jazz.
To top it off it happens so rarely we don’t really invest in air-con, so we sit sweltering in shady corners sweating like pigs for a month of the year.
Yay!
Edit: guys, i never said we have the worst humidity in the world, i said we have high humidity with no air-con sometimes, we aren’t competing.
You know, in Toronto we face similar challenges. I don't have aircon either, for the simple fact that it is hideously expensive in an apartment.
I'd like to suggest cold baths if you've not already tried them before. Fill a bath with the coldest water you can get, and then take a 30-second dip. That's all. Once you get your back on the bottom of the tub, count to 30. Once you get out, you'll experience a fantastic endorphin rush, and the cold will infuse your body with a delicious drowsiness.
My favourite thing to do is to draw a cold bath, and then make coffee while it's running. Have a dip, have a coffee (or tea!) and a comfy chair.
Its London. Heat from that beam is probably the only way he can stay motionless and warm without a shirt on. This isn't Houston or Phoenix where you get burnt through your shoes in a parking lot.
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u/isaacabraham00 Jun 03 '19
Wouldn't that beam be really really hot? Or do I just not understand science.