Dude, the thermometer goes above 85 here all the time. And congrats on proving my point, which was that people make false equivalencies about weather (ice melts, hurricanes destroy neighborhoods) in an effort to feel better about themselves. Nothing that I wrote in that comment didn't happen last week, so I'm not…

All good. You're right that people shouldn't make such broad assumptions - I think it's dumb that people go beyond lightly making fun of each other for these regional weather things, since we all know that nobody handles it perfectly. It's perfectly fine to laugh a bit at the way that others handle things, because…

It wasn't my level, dude - I made general statements, and you responded by calling me, specifically, "disgustingly smug". Your level. It's fine to be defensive, but don't pretend that other people spurred your behavior.

Wow, it's interesting that this conversation originally started because you thought I was smug. "Sweetheart"? When arguing about how nobody is nice to you and it makes you feel bad because people above the Mason-Dixon line are horrible, it helps to actually be a person who is not just that. Adios.

Not you, and I didn't say you, and you know that - you were clearly referring to that article/thread last week that blew up about weather, where people brought it up allll day, all night.

We don't disagree on that, because nobody disagrees about that - obviously there are different things that different people are unprepared for. But comparing a snow storm (while, yes, they were understandably unprepared) that will melt and leave most things good as new to a storm (Sandy) that literally destroyed…

I absolutely do not think that - I love the South. Pointing out that this isn't the right opportunity to make fun of the North because the reaction is not close to the same doesn't make me smug, it makes me right, because nobody here has a) written an overlong essay about how it's no fair to make fun of not having…

I know, right? And they're allllll here to false equivalency all over us about it, too.

Call me when we start defensively begging people to pity our plight in 30 paragraph essays, or comparing running out of salt and driving on a slippery road to multi-billion dollar natural disasters that destroyed people homes and killed people. Oh, wait...we won't be doing that.

There are lots of 17-year-olds in the world who aren't racist dipshits, actually. Not everyone was the same kind of idiot kid, just like not everyone is the same kind of idiot adult.

Good lord, this is ignorant. Knowing how to speak another language doesn't mean you don't know how to speak English, just that you're not speaking it at the moment. The vast majority of immigrants, even those who eventually do learn functional English, learn to speak the language of the country they're emigrating to …

Yeah, whenever people say that, I'm always surprised that it doesn't occur to them that you doing that means that they didn't have to.

Obviously there's a market for this so some people get it, but I just do not understand the desire to be touched by somebody you don't know in this fashion. Like, how does it not make you squirm? If people want to do it, more power to them, but I'm curious whether someone can explain what the draw might be. I…

The funny thing is that the person who started this particular thread didn't say that at all, yet boy did it bring out defensive crazies in droves.

It's not that it isn't serious, it's just that it isn't the same thing, and plenty of people on here (whether they donated money or not) ARE making fun of it. You yourself called people who freaked out about losing their homes, their businesses and - in some cases - family members, ridiculous. Sheltering in a school…

So I'm assuming you hate this article, because the appropriate response to infrastructural un-preparedness is to laugh, yes? As long as you also think it's great that Northerners might be laughing at you, then cool.

The funny part is that this was an article about why people shouldn't be "tripping like this" (and should be understanding about infrastructure in other places), yet so many of the comments are from Southerners who are all "THANK YOU! Now watch me do exactly what this article says not do do about other people! …

For God's sake, "the North" isn't just New England/the Northeast. Those people freak out about tornado sirens, maybe, but people from plenty of places north of you are intimately familiar with tornadoes.

We do, in fact, know about heat index. It's that thing that happens when you live in a place like New York City and it feels like 110 outside, with 85% humidity, because concrete traps heat and you still have to wait 25 minutes for a train or walk 6 miles each day. It doesn't have to be a pissing contest, but at…

You do know that this makes you sound like an asshole, mostly because the elderly and very young children die of heat exposure in hot places too, right?