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Old 08-02-06, 03:15 PM
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A word for the east coast messengers...

HAHAHAHAHA!!! How about this heat? JERKS!
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It's hot as balls. Even more respect than usual for the fellas out there.
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It's hot as balls. Even more respect than usual for the fellas out there.
+infinity
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yeah, i STARTED WORK on monday, and my first day on the streets of downtown rva alone was tuesday, the hottest day of the year... christ, my skin feels like it's turned to sand and i want to sleep for six days straight. but i'm loving it.
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you can not add infinity, as infinity is not a number, but yet a representation of a theory. to say "+infinity" is on par with saying "+aliens". please keep your childish theories out of basic mathmatics.
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I hate this. At one point today I told my dispatcher, "I'm taking a break and I don't care if these packages are late." [they weren't]. This is far worse than when I discovered my jacket was not really waterproof during a blizzard.
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I'm not a messenger and I don't live on the East Coast, but
I usually spend about four hours a day outside here in the
Midwest, and it's been brutal. This is not counting my ten
mile one-way commute, or the part during the ride home
at 3:00, during the absolute worst part of the afternoon,
where I climb ten consecutive miles of hills facing the sun.
God it sucks.
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Originally Posted by dustinlikewhat
you can not add infinity, as infinity is not a number, but yet a representation of a theory. to say "+infinity" is on par with saying "+aliens". please keep your childish theories out of basic mathmatics.
hey, what are you implying about aliens?
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Originally Posted by dustinlikewhat
you can not add infinity, as infinity is not a number, but yet a representation of a theory. to say "+infinity" is on par with saying "+aliens". please keep your childish theories out of basic mathmatics.
-infinity
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I'm totally saying "+aliens" from now on.
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Originally Posted by dustinlikewhat
you can not add infinity, as infinity is not a number, but yet a representation of a theory. to say "+infinity" is on par with saying "+aliens". please keep your childish theories out of basic mathmatics.

yet infinity +1 is greater than infinity---go figure

infinity is utilized to represent sequences in mathematical models, so technically it is possible to add infinity to another numeric value
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Originally Posted by hyperRevue
I'm totally saying "+aliens" from now on.
+compassionateconservatives?
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+compassionateconservatives?

No that won't work---whilst aliens do exist compassionateconservatives do not
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new york.

100 degrees

heat index of one million.

sweating.
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I am soooooo glad I am not working until next Thursday. At least when it's monsoon season it's FUN..
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ahhhhhhh New York summer .
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Originally Posted by michael rexy
new york.

100 degrees

heat index of one million.

sweating.
yeah i am not a messenger but i deliever a bunch of **** for my boss all day around midtown on my bike. Yesterday i got sunburned and today i kept applying sunscreen and it would just fall right off. gotta drink a gallon of water every 2 hours or else you will die.

if you can ride in the shade, it makes about a 4% difference but believe me its more than welcome.
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Originally Posted by michael rexy
new york.

100 degrees

heat index of one million.

sweating.
i hate looking at the "Feels Like" temperature on weather.com
103 thanks to the lack of foliage and soil. ugh...
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Originally Posted by visitordesign
i hate looking at the "Feels Like" temperature on weather.com
103 thanks to the lack of foliage and soil. ugh...
yeah, I don't like that either, "feels like" they got some weenie standing outside and every now and again they'll ask him how hot he feels. suckahs don't know how hot it feels to me! Well I guess they do, but dammit put it up as a heat index or humidex or something else bah

heat rocks! I love this weather, except indoors, specially since there's no AC in the homes of most people I know. sleeping is the hard part, or rather getting to sleep
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yeah *******s, now you see what kind of ungodly heat i put up with him hell all the time!
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i died today. 5 drops from 4:30 - 5:00. a billion degrees. rush hour. market street. against traffic. fun!
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Hot town, summer in the city
Back of my neck getting dirty and gritty
Been down, isn't it a pity
Doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city

All around, people looking half dead
Walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head

But at night it's a different world
Go out and find a girl
Come-on come-on and dance all night
Despite the heat it'll be alright

And babe, don't you know it's a pity
That the days can't be like the nights
In the summer, in the city
In the summer, in the city

Cool town, evening in the city
Dressing so fine and looking so pretty
Cool cat, looking for a kitty
Gonna look in every corner of the city
Till I'm wheezing like a bus stop
Running up the stairs, gonna meet you on the rooftop

But at night it's a different world
Go out and find a girl
Come-on come-on and dance all night
Despite the heat it'll be alright

And babe, don't you know it's a pity
That the days can't be like the nights
In the summer, in the city
In the summer, in the city

Hot town, summer in the city
Back of my neck getting dirty and gritty
Been down, isn't it a pity
Doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city

All around, people looking half dead
Walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head

But at night it's a different world
Go out and find a girl
Come-on come-on and dance all night
Despite the heat it'll be alright

And babe, don't you know it's a pity
That the days can't be like the nights
In the summer, in the city
In the summer, in the city
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Originally Posted by SamHouston
heat rocks! I love this weather, except indoors, specially since there's no AC in the homes of most people I know. sleeping is the hard part, or rather getting to sleep
I came up with this new trick, where I put a pillow in the freezer before using it. It worked well the last few nights out here, but then the heat FINALLY broke, and hopefully I don't need to do that much anymore...
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quit *****ing about the weather...skinny dipping every night, **** yeah.

the worst part is going in and out of the AC. sweat soaked shirts get all clammy and uncomfortable.

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we moved apartments yesterday...the movers were pissed at us. just about the only sentence they spoke to us in their broken english was "why you move on hottest day of year?"

biking in the early early morning is awesome these days. i leave the house by six and enjoy the shade in central park...
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