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Because I care what Europeans think

Europe to America: Your love of air-conditioning is stupid. Because progress is frowned upon. Of course, I live in a state where people without air conditioning die.

26 Responses to “Because I care what Europeans think”

  1. wildbill Says:

    The last 2 times the krauts tried to impose their will on the US it didn’t work out too well for them. They need to STFU and mind their own business. Isn’t Berlin about the same latitude as Newfoundland. I think Atlanta and Beirut are about the same. It gets hot in the US.

  2. rickn8or Says:


    The divide isn’t limited to Berlin and D.C.: In fact, many Europeans visiting the U.S. frequently complain about the “freezing cold” temperatures inside buses or hotels.

    When the Europeans start chilling their beer, they can talk to me about my Central Air.

  3. Huck Says:

    Send those whiney Euros to Phoenix Arizona for a week in midsummer and deny them AC. I’m sure that they would agree that having AC would be a great thing… If any of them are still alive.

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    “many Europeans visiting the U.S. frequently complain about the “freezing cold” temperatures inside buses or hotels.”

    Hell, we’re just paying ’em back for freezing our asses off when visiting their crappy countries.

  4. FiftycalTX Says:

    HA HA HA The europeons need to be shown their place. And NO, I don’t care what they think.

  5. Tasso Rampante Says:

    Two tourists from France died last week in NM. Hiking less than 2 miles at White Sands, fell down dead from the heat. America is peopled with descendants of the Europeans who didn’t die within the first 6 months here. Australia too.

  6. Leatherwing Says:

    My manager is from Poland, he’s only been over here (North Carolina) since November. In April he started complaining about the heat and asked if it was going to get any warmer. He loathes the weather now that summer is on us. Most of Europe shares a latitude with Canada, while the American South has the same latitude as North Africa.

  7. Divemedic Says:

    The actual temperature in Orlando today was 102F, according to my truck. Add in the fact that the dew point is 75F, and that makes the heat index 116F.

    In comparison, Berlin’s high today was 87F, with 45% humidity, meaning the heat index was 89F.

    That means the heat index is 27F hotter here. Let me see any Berliner try to survive here without air conditioning.

    Berlin is at 52.5 degrees North latitude, or about the same as Ketchikan, Alaska. I bet people in Ketchikan don’t have air conditioning, either.

  8. nk Says:

    The Europeans are making a virtue of lack of affordable electric power. Their electricity rates, like their gasoline prices, are about four times those of the U.S..

    And yeah, most of Europe is in Canada latitude-wise, with Sweden being the Yukon. Greece is the exact same latitude as Illinois.

  9. mikee Says:

    102F in my part of Texas today. Eff ’em.

  10. comatus Says:

    This is all about the Cent-a-Grade, isn’t it?

    I did a back-of-the-envelope conversion, and told some Belgians that it occasionally gets to 40 here, and they flat-out called me a liar.

  11. Linoge Says:

    Having lived a great deal of my life in the South, Deep South, and surrounding areas, I’ve often wondered at just how the hell humans survived here before the advent of air conditioning…

  12. Calimero Says:

    Writing from France here. Most of the dumbasses who bitch about AC in the US are people who indeed don’t live in scorching heat and aren’t exposed to the hot *and* humid climate of the south eastern US states.

    Another case of “hey, *I* can go to work with my bike or with the underground; let’s ban cars !”.

    And there are many many people in the hotter parts of Europe who’d love to have AC. But it would just be too expensive in terms of utility costs and most houses aren’t even remotely designed to handle AC.

    So yeah we can kindly ask them to die in a fire.

  13. drjim Says:

    Came over here from Tam’s site.

    Have to admit I agree 100% with both of you.

    All too often the Euro-Peons turn their noses up at us in their self-assured moral superiority, and make their pronouncements without knowing the facts, or having a single shred of evidence.

    Let them live in Southern Illinois during July and August, and watch them wilt…..

  14. Shootin' Buddy Says:

    Doesn’t fucking Europe take all of August off?

    Well, come on over Hans and Pierre. I’ll put you to work in a greenhouse during an Indiana August Humidityfest. I’ll let you sleep there and avoid the air conditioning.

  15. Adam Lawson Says:

    “The U.S. is somewhat unusual in being a wealthy nation much of whose population lives in very warm, humid regions,”

    No shit. Try living on the Gulf Coast without an air conditioner in August. Today was one of the first days in about a month that the heat index didn’t hit triple digits (that I can recall).

    The humidity is no joke, and a big difference from those deserts where the temperature rapidly drops at night. Here it almost never cools more than a few degrees in summer, overnight — tomorrow is going to be a freakish day with a heat index of 69 at dawn… it’s almost a holiday.

  16. Stretch Says:

    Mercedes-Benz, USA pleaded with management in Germany “Put air conditioning in our cars!” “Nein! Ve haf 100% exchange of air 4 times a minute! Ve don’t need air conditioning.”
    So … M-B, USA flew a few execs and engineers to L.A. and headed east. By the time they reached El Paso the Germans were “Ya! Ya! Ve need air conditioning.”
    “OH NO!” said the Americans. “We still have the Gulf Coast.”
    With Heat AND Humidity clearly impressed on the engineer’s minds M-B, USA got A/C in their cars.

  17. JTC Says:

    I’m an hour south of the Mouse; wifey and grandbabies love the place and go often. I loathe it, and generally entertain myself watching and listening to the furriners. Never have I detected krautspeak without it being accompanied by really stupid looking outfits and constant puffing and wiping of sweat. I’m sure at those times the very last thing they’re thinking is, “Gott hoffe ich, dass das Zimmer nicht zu kalt ist, wenn wir wieder dort angekommen!”

  18. Ted N Says:

    It’s so cute, how Europe still thinks their opinion matters.

  19. MajMike Says:

    In San Antonio this week, it hit 105 with a heat index of 109. Last time the Euro-Trash faced heat like that was with the Afrika Korps got its ass kicked by the Limeys at El Alemein. I’ll keep my A/C.

  20. rocinante Says:

    America to Europe: We don’t care what you think. Haven’t you figured that out by now?

    Euros talking about our climate and air-conditioning sounds a lot like Euros talking about our crime rates and guns; i.e. a thick slice of ignorance between two pieces of snobbery.

  21. TS Says:

    Hold on, I power my air conditioning the same way I power my new Tesla, and I was told this is “zero emissions”. I do donuts all day in my 700 hp electric car because I thought it was good for the environment. Now they’re telling me it’s not?

  22. Dave Says:

    So please remind me how many elderly people died in France from the heat a few years ago? Just askin’.

  23. bob in houston Says:

    in 2003 it was easily over 10k of the elderly in France that died in that heatwave.

  24. NotClauswitz Says:

    Bunch of sweaty nasty hairy pigs with hairy-women and high electricity costs – and some stinking patchouli oil. I’ve been there, a lot – forget them, they’re lost.

  25. KM Says:

    117* in Phx yesterday, the low this morning was 91.
    And ‘monsoon’ moisture has been coming in from the south…fucking yippee.

  26. model_1066 Says:

    bob in houston Says:
    August 14th, 2015 at 10:56 pm
    in 2003 it was easily over 10k of the elderly in France that died in that heatwave.

    according to wikipedia:

    ” Peer-reviewed analysis places the European death toll at more than 70,000.”

    And these assholes presume to lecture us about energy use?

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