Basically anyone who doesn’t silence their phone outside of the comfort of their home or automobile deserve to be shot into space. Or placed in a room filled with the sounds of millions of phones beeping and blapping at them for a straight 24 hours.

Yes, all the time. It’s mostly kids whose parents give nary a shit about paying attention to them, thus forcing the entire cabin to listen to whatever obnoxious cartoon is popular at the moment. Every once in a while you get a particularly clueless adult. It is INFURIATING.

Dipshits, c.2006: “(Black) athletes are role models. They need to start acting like it. smdh”

People who don’t silence their phones/watch movies on planes without headphones deserve to be shot into space.

The book “Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don’t Play Baseball” by Jennifer Ring covers this subject in great detail. A significant reason was the influence of sporting goods magnate and baseball promoter Albert Goodwill Spalding, specifically his declaration that baseball was off limits to women.

You know weird people.

Only responding to the Balotelli comparison. It seems audacious IMHO to draw parallels between a player who, at 21 had already transformed into a punchline for his lack of maturity and professionalism, to a player who is playing a more intellectually and physically demanding role. Pogba may have been ineffective in…

And then you go to a bodega that isn’t well cooled down, before you head to the bar which is insanely crowded and hot too, then wait to get a drink... etc and so on.

I think if I was just setting the temperature in a sealed box, it’d be the same year round. In the summer, the walls and furniture grow warm. In the winter, everything defaults to cold. I guess if I could do 71 year round I would but it takes a little push one way or the other to counteract things like snow and sun…

Go to one of those subway stations that’s deep underground (preferably one with multiple rings of hell / levels of track) - the heat / humidity increases exponentially.

Say what you will about inequality in NYC, but at least there, unlike LA, rich and poor people have the same weather.

Amen to that. It’s the concrete effect.

Ceiling fans are bullshit in any kind of heat. I mean high powered fans you point directly at your body.

There certainly are — but there aren’t many hotter and humid-er places that almost exclusively rely on walking and crowded underground transportation systems (with un-airconditioned stations) to get around.

As a person who used to live in Houston and now lives in New York, I will say that yes, the heat and humidity is much worse in Houston than New York. However, because of that, it’s pretty much a guarantee that most buildings in Houston have AC already installed, whereas in New York, if you want AC in your apartment,…

this is the way to do it

Stripped down to loincloths and hung out in the hills for the summer, is my guess. Winter in lodges with lots of fur and fires.

I live in South Florida and I went to Gainesville last year in June and holy hell does the ocean make a difference.

People are crazy about the level they set it though. People need to accept that they live in a hellishly hot place and try and adapt a little. With a floor fan and ceiling fan there is no reason to drop that AC below 80, at the coldest. Adapt people! Our resources are finite. (Dont’ even get me started on water usage)…