I DIDNT KNOW WHAT THIS WOULD BE SO I CLICKED PLAY AND MY MOM IS RIGHT NEXT TO ME AND MY COMPUTER IS ON FULL VOLUME I HATE EVERYONE
for whenever I fuck up
If I ever say “fuck this shit” it’s to this tune. Just. For your mental voice of me.
I'm eyeing the temperatures we're expected to get here in The Netherlands today and tomorrow, and I've compiled a list of tips that should work for my boyfriend. Since these are actual life-threatening temperatures for you, I thought I'd quickly give it here too, in the event some of this is new information.
Tips for Getting Through Heat, Especially Without Air Conditioning:
Rule 1: The Bathroom Is Your Friend
Showers. Tiles. Water. In a heatwave, the best room in a well-insulated house — which, near as I can tell, is every house north of Spain in the Northern Hemisphere — is the bathroom. But assuming you can't just camp in the bathroom all day (though if feasible, freaking DO) — here's how to maximise it.
1) Showers. Plural. As in, multiple, short, lukewarm to cool showers throughout the day. (If you've got long hair, bonus.) The water will help mentally, as well as physically, as your body lowers temperature to adjust. Do NOT make it a cold shower, though; I don't care how tempting it is, type body WILL overcompensate.
2) Get a large salad bowl, a basin, whatever. And soak your feet in lukewarm or coolish water. You know how in winter, you always need a good pair of slippers, or UGG boots, or thick socks? Because otherwise, your not properly warm? Same thing here in reverse. If your feet are in water, that's half the battle.
3) honestly not sure how well it works, especially in horses that have less ventilation than Sydney standard build— but my Dad's favourite standby is to wet a bunch of towels, and lay them against the bottom of doors, windows, essentially every draft point in the house. Cooling whatever air makes it into the house.
4) when in doubt, there's always wetting a washcloth, or putting something cool in the fridge, and rolling the cool surface against your skin, for some relief. Hell, wet a T-shirt, let it dampen, and then put it on, if you really want to go big.
Rule 2: Stay In Place (When You Can't Get to Air Conditioning)
5) Stay inside until AT LEAST early evening, wherever possible. I can't emphasize this enough. Do NOT to outside in the heat, once it's peaked, if you can possibly avoid it. Don't go out BEFORE the peak if you know you have trouble with heat.
6) What that means is, whatever you need to get done, get it done as early or as late in the day as possible. You're basically on mandatory resting in place for most of the daylight hours. That's how a heatwave works. If you've got groceries, try to get them literally just after the shops open, or as late in the piece as possible.
Rule 3: Hydration
6) Hydrate. I'm not just talking water! Fruit juice, water with salt and some honey or sugar — heat makes your appetite, energy levels, blood sugar, and mineral levels all go whack. Making sure you drink plenty and a variety of fluids is part of the process.
Stay safe, everyone, take care of yourselves, and, pardon my profanity, be like bad coffee: stay fucking close to water.
This is great advice!
Gonna make a proper addition to this instead of just rambling in the tags:
I grew up with extremely hot summers (110-115 f; 43-46c) with very dry heat. Sometimes it would get so hot you would look outside and it would be wavy and wobbly like in a cartoon. Gross.
Here’s a few additional tips that might help out:
You need to always have some water with you. Hydration is #1 no matter what. Avoid sugary drinks like soda and diuretics like coffee.
Never leave young children/animals alone in a car, not even for a minute. Bring your pets inside. Check on your elderly relatives/friends; they are oftentimes the victims of heatwaves because they’re more vulnerable to the heat.
Here are the symptoms of heatstroke. I have had heatstroke before. It’s awful and can be very dangerous. Be aware of these symptoms not only in yourself but others.
Wear sunscreen, even if you “don’t burn.” Just trust me on this one. Please please please wear sunscreen, no matter what color your skin is. I learned this the hard way.
Your city/region may have cool zones where they blast the AC on hot days and allow people to come cool off. My region does this at all of our libraries/rec centers and they offer free transport to these places. Look around to see if your region has these services available.
Oh! And don’t use your oven! Don’t even use your stove if possible; just rock some canned food or microwaved food or sandwiches for a few days. Cooking will make you feel 1000x hotter.
How dare you leave that in the tags?
Vampire amoeba
I looked at the reblogs and died laughing
Considering it appears to be taking Everything, this is less a vampire and more the single cell equivalent of The Thing
I think more people should draw toothless like an amorphous void the way we do with black cats
“It’s so nice to see that the cast, they’ve all become such good friends. You don’t know if that’s gonna happen, they might all hate each other, but in this case they just really bonded, like immediately.” - Alice Oseman
My mother accepts anything I refer to as "my baby" as her grandchild. This includes, but is not limited to, my actual kid, all of my pets, my sword, and all of my houseplants.
She calls my aquariums her grandfish. Icon behavior.
does anyone have that picture of that fucked up looking white kitten that looks like this
this crinkled tissue??
YES!!!!!!!!!!
This is literally the funniest photo I’ve ever taken of gunne in my life
Baby want SHRAMP
Humans with siblings have better survival skills because they’ve had experience in physical combat, psychological warfare, and sensing suspicious activity via interactions with the other spawns of their parents.
Just for once I’d like to tell the gate agents and flight attendants that my folding wheelchair is going into the onboard closet and not have them tell me there’s “no room”. Bitch that’s a wheelchair closet, not a “your bags” closet. Move your damn bags where they belong.
Ok, so according to my friendly aviation expert, this is a Big Fucking Deal. In fact, if an airline argues with you about putting your wheelchair in the wheelchair closet or even suggests there may not be room, unless there is already another passenger’s wheelchair in that closet, they have violated federal law.
CFR Title 14, Chapter II, Subchapter D, Part 382, Subpart E, Section 382.67, Subsection (e)
“As a carrier, you must never request or suggest that a passenger not stow his or her wheelchair in the cabin to accommodate other passengers (e.g., informing a passenger that stowing his or her wheelchair in the cabin will require other passengers to be removed from the flight), or for any other non-safety related reason (e.g., that it is easier for the carrier if the wheelchair is stowed in the cargo compartment).”
This is hugely important because it means that if this happens to you, you should report their asses to the DOT. Why? Because these statistics are published every year for every airline, and the airline gets a huge ass fine for every violation. If we want to see change, we need to make airlines literally pay every time they treat us this way.
@annieelainey you should share this with your followers! This is important info!!
To my mutuals on wheels, print out the law before you fly and whip it out at the gate if they don’t accomodate your wheels.
Thanks a lot for posting this, bro! Flying while crippled is already difficult enough without people pulling this kind of shit. Also, make sure that if there is a piece of your wheelchair or something important missing off of it, that you make a big fucking deal out of it! I’ve had pieces fall off of my wheelchair and nearly lost a decoration I had on it that meant a lot to me because people were careless with my chair. Don’t let them mistreat your wheelchair.
Non-wheelchair folks:
Now that you know, speak up.
You never know when you’re going to see someone who needs an ally.
“Sorry, sorry!”
“Are… are you apologizing to a doll?”
“Toy Story messed me up.”
I mean, that’s nothing like what we’re doing. You’re nothing like him. This is completely different.
Today I got to go on one of our runs to more rural shelters to help relieve overcrowding there. We ended up bringing back 21 kittens and 10 dogs. So fun day. But this morning, while I was getting stuff together in preparation for the 90 minute drive…. This happened.
Excuse you Tiniest Opossum, but you are NOT allowed to escape through the front bars of the cat carrier we were housing you in. I’m going to put you back.
“NO!”
I am going to catch you and put you back and you have no say in this matter.
“NO!”
Catching you and putting you back now.
“NOOOOOO!”
Aaaand back you go. Let go of the purple towel and go in the cardboard box.
“Noooooooooooo!”
Happy 5 year Opossumversary!
being an adult is just saying to yourself “this is the weekend i’ll clean my [x]” and then proceeding to not do that because it’s the weekend and you deserve to relax, goddamnit
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