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[curefreak]

I know I ought to claim that I do the following because I am a Sociologist, thing is I don't think any of you would buy it, so I am going to just admit I do the following because I am just a little stranger than strange at times. I enjoy reading police crime logs

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[elizaswain]

I love the flag one. I mean, really? You can't, you know, walk in and talk to someone at the post office? You have to call the police? People frighten me with their stupidity sometimes.

But yeah, it shows you how seriously we Americans take our freedom and our flag! MERCA! FUCK YEAH!!

[curefreak]

I can picture the call now, "Hello, is this 911? Oh good, I've got a police emergency, the local post office aren't flying their flag at half-mast! Call in the swat team!!!"

[elizaswain]

Now you understand the American sense of entitlement!

I saw a Yahoo article the other day that the weather people had to invent a new color for the maps to represent how hot it was in Australia. I hope you're hanging in there!!

[curefreak]

Really? *lol* I didn't hear that. Yeah, the other day it hit 113 F, which is Homer Simpson hot! As in even Satan asks for a fan and you wish you'd spontaneously combust just to cool down! Weird, LJ's spell check doesn't recognise "combust", then again it doesn't recognise "LJ" either so.... We missed a record January record temperature by .7 of a degree Celsius - Not fair!

[elizaswain]

I guess the spot that need the new color was just above you. But they had to add purple and pink above the red because of it! Here's one article I found:
http://beforeitsnews.com/environment/2013/01/off-the-charts-heat-wave-brings-australia-its-hottest-average-temperature-and-new-map-colors-for-temps-above-122f-2458378.html

[curefreak]

Thankfully Australia was settled by the English, who had some sense (and no air conditioning) so they settled around the coast. The newly coloured areas are desert and pretty sparsely populated, though Adelaide's hot temperatures are when the wind blows from the North, which is basically across these deserts.

[elizaswain]

I love it when people use logic. It makes me so happy to imagine some ancestral relatives of yours arriving in Australia and thinkng, "Hey, it's pretty here. But it's hot. Let's lve near water."

But i can only imagine what it feels like when the wind blows from inland. When we get wind from the north, it's Canadian air, which is usually cold. Especially in January.

[curefreak]

It wasn't just a temperature thing. It was also transport and the fact that stuff tends not to grow very well in desert sand, also walking to the supermarket is nicer with a sea view ;P

I have literally gone to hang clothes out on the washing line and by the time I have got from one end to the other, the first lot of clothes I hung out have dried - It's actually quite eery!

[elizaswain]

Ooh, the laundry ghosts are at it again!!

[curefreak]

With their hairdryers and long extension cords!

[elizaswain]

They don't need extension cords! Don't ghosts have some sort of ability to manipulate electrical fields? They could just power the hairdryers with their ghostly abilities.

[curefreak]

Hmm, hadn't really thought about that. Now I want a ghost for my house to save on the electricity bill!

[curefreak]

The way this summer is going they are going to have to add black, as we will have all been fried to a crisp.

[elizaswain]

You can always come experience a New York Winter if it gets to be too much for you! :)

[curefreak]

Tempting, although locking myself in a meat freezer in my underwear would result in the same thing and be a little bit cheaper.

[elizaswain]

Cheaper, yes, but not nearly as fun. And you know, we do wear clothes up here in the Northern Hemisphere. Especially in winter. But I mean, feel free to go around in your underwear. Have you heard of the Naked Cowboy? You could be the Naked English Aussie. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_Cowboy