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Post by Confessor on Jun 11, 2020 20:52:33 GMT -5
Humidity here in England, especially down south near London, is pretty bad. Of course, we don't often get really scorching weather, but when we do it can be unbearable. And very few places over here have air conditioning.
To give you an idea, the average relative humidity in a southern State like Alabama in July is around 70%, but in London in July, it hovers between 70% and 92%.
This was certainly my own experience when we visited the South during high summer temperatures of 35°C (95°F) last year. I kept hearing about how oppressive the humidity was down there, but my wife and I actually found it more bareable than at home. Plus, of course, you guys have air con just about everywhere, which is wonderful.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Jun 11, 2020 21:12:23 GMT -5
Humidity here in England, especially down south near London, is pretty bad. Of course, we don't often get really scorching weather, but when we do it can be unbearable. And very few places over here have air conditioning. To give you an idea, the average relative humidity in a southern State like Alabama in July is around 70%, but in London in July, it hovers between 70% and 92%. This was certainly my own experience when we visited the South during high summer temperatures of 35°C (95°F) last year. I kept hearing about how oppressive the humidity was down there, but my wife and I actually found it more bareable than at home. Plus, of course, you guys have air con just about everywhere, which is wonderful. You folks don't have A/C very much over there?
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Post by Confessor on Jun 11, 2020 22:19:46 GMT -5
Humidity here in England, especially down south near London, is pretty bad. Of course, we don't often get really scorching weather, but when we do it can be unbearable. And very few places over here have air conditioning. To give you an idea, the average relative humidity in a southern State like Alabama in July is around 70%, but in London in July, it hovers between 70% and 92%. This was certainly my own experience when we visited the South during high summer temperatures of 35°C (95°F) last year. I kept hearing about how oppressive the humidity was down there, but my wife and I actually found it more bareable than at home. Plus, of course, you guys have air con just about everywhere, which is wonderful. You folks don't have A/C very much over there? Barely anywhere. I mean, you will find it in some hotels, some high street shops, and (if you're lucky) some resteraunts or bars, but it's really not common. Certainly not compared to its ubiquity in the U.S. Then again, we're lucky if we have more than a week a year where you'd actually need air con!
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 12, 2020 14:23:48 GMT -5
Happy Loving Day! It's the 53rd anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in Loving v. Virginia striking down miscegenation laws in the U.S. Love is for everyone.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 13, 2020 15:43:38 GMT -5
Hit an estate sale and a storage unit sale today. Mentioned the records in the music notes thread. Also picked up an original 1959 edition of Risk. The box is a bit rough (though not bad). The game itself is complete and the wooden armies are pristine. For a buck.
Also grabbed a 12-inch 8-quart Lodge cast-iron Dutch oven that appears to have almost never been used for $17.
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Post by Prince Hal on Jun 13, 2020 15:45:17 GMT -5
Hit an estate sale and a storage unit sale today. Mentioned the records in the music notes thread. Also picked up an original 1959 edition of Risk. The box is a bit rough (though not bad). The game itself is complete and the wooden armies are pristine. For a buck. Also grabbed a 12-inch 8-quart Lodge cast-iron Dutch oven that appears to have almost never been used for $17. I always root for Irkutsk.
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Post by tartanphantom on Jun 13, 2020 16:19:41 GMT -5
Hit an estate sale and a storage unit sale today. Mentioned the records in the music notes thread. Also picked up an original 1959 edition of Risk. The box is a bit rough (though not bad). The game itself is complete and the wooden armies are pristine. For a buck. Also grabbed a 12-inch 8-quart Lodge cast-iron Dutch oven that appears to have almost never been used for $17. I always root for Irkutsk. But you must remember one of the two classic blunders-- "Never get involved in a land war in Asia".
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2020 22:43:16 GMT -5
Hit an estate sale and a storage unit sale today. Mentioned the records in the music notes thread. Also picked up an original 1959 edition of Risk. The box is a bit rough (though not bad). The game itself is complete and the wooden armies are pristine. For a buck. Also grabbed a 12-inch 8-quart Lodge cast-iron Dutch oven that appears to have almost never been used for $17. Ah, the memories of playing pass-out Risk in college-take a shot every time you lost an army, last one conscious wins...? -M
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Post by BigPapaJoe on Jun 16, 2020 8:52:00 GMT -5
Hopefully this isn't too political to post. Just thought it was a little relevant given the times. Cool find. I think the drawing is by Wayne Boring?
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Post by Confessor on Jun 16, 2020 9:06:13 GMT -5
^^ That's been doing the rounds on social media for years now. I think it's been posted here at the CCF a few times as well. You certainly can't argue with the sentiment though.
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Post by Batflunkie on Jun 16, 2020 17:20:00 GMT -5
I remember a similar bit in the end of Cap's Bicentennial Battles. Which truthfully is the only part of Kirby's return to Cap in the 70's that I liked (Felt too much like a continuation of concepts from and ideas inspired by OMAC than an actual Captain America story tbh)
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Post by Duragizer on Jun 16, 2020 22:12:18 GMT -5
I'm 80% certain one of my cats is intersex. She's quite furry and semi-feral, so I've never been able to closely examine her. But she's never had a single litter of kittens in her nine years of life, and today while she was cleaning herself, I'm pretty sure I saw a sex organ which isn't typically found on females.
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Post by Farrar on Jun 17, 2020 8:14:29 GMT -5
Thanks BigPapaJoe and Confessor . I remember seeing that Superman and kids image a few years ago, not sure if it was here or somewhere else online...but I remember wondering about its origin, so I'd looked it up and found that it was a colorized version of an image that was originally created for distribution to schools, as a book cover for students. Here's a link to a 2008 auction that includes some information about the above item 2008 Superman auction
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Post by Bronze Age Brian on Jun 17, 2020 22:37:44 GMT -5
Stan was the man. He wrote this in 1968. And here we are today, in 2020, where it seems ever more relevant.
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Post by Cei-U! on Jun 17, 2020 23:19:27 GMT -5
Hopefully this isn't too political to post. Just thought it was a little relevant given the times. Cool find. I think the drawing is by Wayne Boring? Nope, that's Win Mortimer, who was DC's go-to cover artist on the Superman and Batman books in the mid-1950s and drew a ton of PSAs for the line as well. His faces are quite distinct.
Cei-U! I summon the artistic ID!
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