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No but sunblock does I go outside all the time in the sun and have never had skin cancer
Why are you even responding to my post when you don't know what was being discussed?
tijlover challenged people in MN to stand outside naked during the winter, so I challenged him to stand outside when it's 115°F in the summer to see which was more bearable. Sunblock, A/C, and swimming pools are precisely the things I was talking about, people adapting their environments to suit themselves rather than the other way around.
If society came screeching to a halt tomorrow and we were left without computers, electricity, running water, and so forth, how do you think AZ would fare compared to MN? If MN gets cold they can chop down a tree and have firewood, if they get thirsty they can drink from the thousands of lakes and rivers in the state. What do you guys do when you have no A/C or natural bodies of water?
I think I would be very depressed living in an area that is cold and cloudy with nothing green growing outside. People in cold climates get clinically depressed [S.A.D.] and have to have sun lamps to get enough vitamin D. It just doesn't seem normal to be restricted indoors for months. At least a person in Arizona can go outside once the sun sets and swim all day and night during summer. Mini golf courses are lite up for night golf and people BBQ and enjoy being outside at night. In Minnesota days are colder than the night temps in Phoenix during winter. You really can't do anything comfortably outside day or night in an "ice box".
Have you lived many winters up north though? Obviously you don't like cold weather, which makes perfect sense, but a lot of it comes off so "doomsday" for northern winters than the reality for people who deal with them on a yearly basis. I've never been restricted indoors for months on end, and I've been in the upper midwest for over 30 years. Sure there are days where it really sucks to go outside, but you can normally count them on your hand each winter. Otherwise just throw on a few layers and you're fine. I don't even know what bad humidities are I guess, but in this area and up in MN they average the upper 50%'s during the summer. Normally it's like winter with the random "bad" days as far as the random "bad" humid days during the summer.
This garbage couldn't and will never happen in cold climates. I've always said, cold keeps the garbage out.
First of all, you shouldn't upload photo's like this, as many intuitive Americans are keenly aware we're on a sure path to becoming a third world country. Tick-tick-tick goes the clock! One day, in a similar forum in India, they'll be uploading photo's of some of the worst areas of this country. And there are already photo's they could upload, if they did a little digging.
I said, India and Brazil may very well emerge (key word) as super powers one day. India has nukes already.
Garbage? Garbage haulers going on strike for a week or two in Minneapolis?
Wouldn't be a pretty sight!
Why are you even responding to my post when you don't know what was being discussed?
tijlover challenged people in MN to stand outside naked during the winter, so I challenged him to stand outside when it's 115°F in the summer to see which was more bearable. Sunblock, A/C, and swimming pools are precisely the things I was talking about, people adapting their environments to suit themselves rather than the other way around.
If society came screeching to a halt tomorrow and we were left without computers, electricity, running water, and so forth, how do you think AZ would fare compared to MN? If MN gets cold they can chop down a tree and have firewood, if they get thirsty they can drink from the thousands of lakes and rivers in the state. What do you guys do when you have no A/C or natural bodies of water?
Have you lived many winters up north though? Obviously you don't like cold weather, which makes perfect sense, but a lot of it comes off so "doomsday" for northern winters than the reality for people who deal with them on a yearly basis. I've never been restricted indoors for months on end, and I've been in the upper midwest for over 30 years. Sure there are days where it really sucks to go outside, but you can normally count them on your hand each winter. Otherwise just throw on a few layers and you're fine. I don't even know what bad humidities are I guess, but in this area and up in MN they average the upper 50%'s during the summer. Normally it's like winter with the random "bad" days as far as the random "bad" humid days during the summer.
I don't have any experience with cold weather I do know that a person can't play croquet in the snow! The ground is frozen solid anyway and the grass is dead. So even if the snow was removed it wouldn't be possible to play sports like that in the northern states. People are outdoors during winter in Arizona, playing golf or volleyball\ basketball [you name the sport and it can be comfortably played outdoors in Arizona]. On the other hand, people don't normally play those games during the summer heat of the day in Arizona but do outdoors at night.
I don't have any experience with cold weather I do know that a person can't play croquet in the snow! The ground is frozen solid anyway and the grass is dead. So even if the snow was removed it wouldn't be possible to play sports like that in the northern states. People are outdoors during winter in Arizona, playing golf or volleyball\ basketball [you name the sport and it can be comfortably played outdoors in Arizona]. On the other hand, people don't normally play those games during the summer heat of the day in Arizona but do outdoors at night.
You're doing a lot of generalizing. ''People in AZ" "People are"...
Look, I'm not acting like Minnesota is some super-active mecca in the Winter, but it's not like the place is Sibera. It's only really unbearable for about a 90 day period. Not everybody lays low and sits inside all day. Yes, the cold gets to be a major pain. Seriously, it sucks. But you try and make the best of it by doing activities and just rolling with the times. Actually many people are too busy with school, work and other obligations to really worry about a 90 cold period. Actually we're lucky if we get to take this all in!
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The ground is frozen solid anyway and the grass is dead. So even if the snow was removed it wouldn't be possible to play sports like that in the northern states. People are outdoors during winter in Arizona, playing golf or volleyball\ basketball [you name the sport and it can be comfortably played outdoors in Arizona]. On the other hand, people don't normally play those games during the summer heat of the day in Arizona but do outdoors at night.
