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I don’t need air conditioning, and neither do you
Washington Post ^ | August 18, 2016 | Karen Heller

Posted on 08/19/2016 1:15:56 PM PDT by C19fan

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To: C19fan

My Dad called AC the Yankee Curse.

It makes the Yankees think they can live in East Texas.


121 posted on 08/19/2016 7:15:53 PM PDT by Dryman (Define Natural Born Citizen)
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To: C19fan

It is downright stupid to have a reliable and affordable technology and refuse to use it in order to experience physical discomfort.

There is something seriously amiss with that mindset.


122 posted on 08/19/2016 7:26:57 PM PDT by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: RedWulf

Exactly. Exactly.

That is why I think people like her are mentally ill.

Liberals.


123 posted on 08/19/2016 7:30:40 PM PDT by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: Dryman
My Dad called AC the Yankee Curse.
"Air conditioning killed the Catskills" is a saying among the "seasoned citizens" who were born and raised up there. Typically in the summer just a few days when temps approach 90. On the other hand a mid-winter blizzard can make the Quickway look like an episode of Highway Through Hell.
124 posted on 08/19/2016 8:57:06 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: C19fan

Guess what people actually die without air conditioning. Many elderly cannot adequately regulate their body temperature in extreme heat and humidity and are prone to dehydration. Note that heat waves in Europe where home air conditioning is rare often produce thousands of heat related deaths.


125 posted on 08/19/2016 9:29:36 PM PDT by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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To: C19fan

Years ago my Grandmother told me the summer of 1947 was the hottest she could remember. Other than the post-war luxury high-rises going up on Park Av and very few mansions in Chappaqua and the other “snob zones” in Westchester, even most well-to-do people didn’t have AC yet. People in the older apartment bldgs. in daBronx and Brooklyn would sleep out on the fire escapes and the roofs. Not to mention none of the buses and subways were air conditioned, except for a few experimental R-11’s built by the Budd Co which turned out to be too expensive and unreliable.


126 posted on 08/19/2016 9:42:53 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: C19fan

I couldn’t give a sh*t less whether she has AC or not. It’s the fact that she gets to decide that we don’t need it either.


127 posted on 08/20/2016 9:53:56 AM PDT by nobamanomore
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To: Captain Compassion

Permission to borrow that graphic Captain, Sir?


128 posted on 08/20/2016 9:56:31 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Hillary Clinton has killed FIVE* more People than Three Mile Island. *revised...)
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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise

I would venture a guess that I have spent a bit more time stuffing hay bales in the top of a tin barn when it was 102. I grew up without AC, and even as a kid I remember waking up in an upstairs bedroom in a farmhouse, with dripping wet sheets from sweat. Yea, that’s really special.


129 posted on 08/20/2016 9:56:56 AM PDT by nobamanomore
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To: DoughtyOne

Remember one of the Back to the Future Movies where Marty was in the Old West and was eating at his Great Grandfather’s Shack on the Prarie.

Ther are glasses full of murky brown Water on the table that he looks at and he is horrified.


130 posted on 08/20/2016 10:01:28 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Hillary Clinton has killed FIVE* more People than Three Mile Island. *revised...)
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To: Kickass Conservative

Well sure. To a Leftist that’s progress.

We shouldn’t be damaging Mother Gia by using electricity or other forms of energy to purify water.


131 posted on 08/20/2016 10:05:19 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (He wins & we do, our nation does, the world does. It's morning in America again. You are living it!)
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To: SamAdams76

I grew up in Houston without a/c. We survived but we had no idea how miserable we were! I will give up my a/c when you pry it from my sweaty dead hands.


132 posted on 08/20/2016 10:06:46 AM PDT by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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To: Kickass Conservative

Feel free sir. Got stuff all over the place.


133 posted on 08/20/2016 11:26:12 AM PDT by Captain Compassion
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To: C19fan

She is absolutely correct.

Air conditioning should be abolished in all buildings in Washington DC immediately!

(and grab the popcorn) :-)


134 posted on 08/28/2016 10:58:33 AM PDT by cgbg
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