Well… it beats eating it, I suppose!

  • ishartdoritos@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    Coming from Australia where not single house I’d ever been to had air conditioning.

    This is fucking hilarious.

    Mate, worse comes to worst get a bucket, to damp a towel, and a tiny fan.

    Jesus Christ. Don’t spread fuckin yogurt on your windows you dumb cunts.

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      For those who might not know, the towel, bucket of water, and fan method works via evaporative cooling.

      However, it does not work well in higher humidity, and may not even seem to work at all since it would increase the humidity even further. I’m guessing most of Europe is too humid for this to work and is why it usually doesn’t come up in these kinds of articles.

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        Yeah this wouldn’t work on the UK, the reason the great hits garde here is because of how humid it is. It becomes almost rainforest like.

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      Curious about what parts of Aus because everywhere I’ve been since the 2000’s has aircon

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        3 days ago

        Queensland, late 90’s left in 2008. Open doors with fly screens and most definitely no air cond anywhere except shopping centres.

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      Don’t know where you are, but I’m in Melbourne, and we have plenty of AC for cooling. What we are lacking though is a proper summer where it’s worth turning that on.

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        Yes, and now on google maps, I can see that a lot of houses have solar panels. It was not the case when I grew up in Queensland 40+ degree heat, in a house made of plywood and fly screens in Nerang and the coolest place around was Pac Fair.