Posted on 08/19/2016 11:15:32 AM PDT by PROCON
It’s time to come out of the closet. Or, more precisely, the sweat lodge.
My family lives without air conditioning, except for one antique, semi-comatose window unit that “cools” the bedroom to approximately the same temperature as Dallas at dusk.
Our house in Philadelphia was built in the 1920s, when people were tough and resourceful. For most of the year, the house is cool and pleasant, as long as there isn’t a mash-up of continuously scorching days and epic humidity, when the air is putrid, stagnant and, if it were a color, would definitely be mustard.
Which would be this summer. Which, so far, is the fourth-hottest summer on record in the Washington area. Emphasis on so far. NASA reports that July was the Earth’s hottest in recorded history. Cheer up, people say to those of us without air conditioning, September’s coming. Except people forget that most of September is still summer.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
asceticism + self-denial + self-sacrifice + sanctimonious holier than though attitude = libtard environmentalism = negation of life and human values
No one had air conditioning when we were growing up....just like no one had TV! Geesh...she is an IDIOT!
OMG!! Now I KNOW she doesn’t shave!! EYE BLEACH!! WHY are Liberals all UGLY?
When I was young, the older residential streets of major cities were often lined with elm trees, which provided a cool green umbrella.
The elm trees were pretty much wiped out by Dutch elm disease in the early 1970’s.
Tell him he does not need a Furnace in the winter
What fools live in this country
Bet the air conditioner uses less energy than the furnace
We have a boat in Ventura. No air. I can muddle through on it when it gets about 83 inside. If it gets worse I go take a nice, long, cool walk up and down every aisle of Lowes. Lol. Our house is another story. It was 110 a couple of weeks ago. Our air runs at 78 all summer long. They can kiss my bohunkas.
I have COPD as well, and need A/C everywhere. The corridor in the hospital leading to the cafeteria is not air conditioned well for some reason but oh well. The food’s good and cheap as well, I always eat lunch there before PT...
“How many elderly and ill would die without air conditioning?”
Tens of thousands. That’s what happened in France in 2003: France heat wave death toll set at 14,802: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/weather/news/2003-09-25-france-heat_x.htm
https://weather.com/weather/monthly/l/USPA1276 shows Philadelphia’s average temp for July, the hottest month, is 87.
August is the hottest month where I am in TX and the average temp is 99. Now, let’s talk about a/c.
Don’t you just love that “Dallas at dusk” hooey? Dallas, TX doesn’t cool off below 90s at dusk.
I don’t think it is BS.
I don’t have AC, have never had AC, except in an apartment I lived in for about a year.
I installed one (large window unit) in the first home I bought, the electric bill went up over 400 extra dollars a month (I remember the dollar amount 40 years later because my wife never let me forget it).
Tore out the AC unit and just installed ceiling fans.
My wife and I started out kind of poor and needed every dollar we had for more important things.
The kids always bitched about no AC, told them if they paid for it I would install it, guess it just wasn’t THAT important to them either.
Why are liberal wimmen always skaggie looking dogs??
Bow wow wow
No wonder liberals always have a certain malodorous (stink) about them. You can "sweat it out" but don't push it on me.
>Living without affords its own strange luxuries. True, life is harder, but also more sensual. Stern loves the freedom that heat bestows to reclaim summer as a slower season. “If you’re living without air conditioning, you can’t do stuff,” she says. “It’s enforced relaxation and stupefaction.”
See? It’s also the perfect excuse.<
More sensual?? I would think being, ahem, sensual, would be miserable without A/C in many parts of the country. So is Karen asexual? The perfect excuse for not being able to do stuff indeed.
My uncle did not like a/c. He said to us that the ocean air will come ashore around 3pm. It was more like 6pm.
Meanwhile it was miserable. Any time I visited I would stand in front of the fan the whole time.
Another Luddite speaks. But not content with living in the nineteenth century herself, she wants to force us to join her.
Good times!
The period 1871-1914 is my favorite, especially 1880-1900.
But this woman is worse than a rixatrix, an annoyance. She is more like a Bellatrix: a Death-Eater.
France and Europe during the 2003 heat wave: 70,000 dead in Europe, 17,000 to 19,000 in France alone died from the heat wave, mostly elderly and people with respiratory difficulties stuck in non-A/C houses while their younger relatives took off for the mountain or the shore.
Hey, Karen Heller! Don´t need AC? Move to Europe, where you can reduce your carbon footprint but good, die promptly and efficiently, and oh-so cozy warm.
The 1995 Chicago heat wave was a heat wave which led to 739 heat-related deaths in Chicago over a period of five days. Most of the victims of the heat wave were elderly poor residents of the city, who could not afford air conditioning and did not open windows or sleep outside for fear of crime.
The heat wave also heavily impacted the wider Midwestern region, with additional deaths in both St. Louis, Missouri and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Source: Wikipedia
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