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The Random, Meaningless Announcements Thread 3!
- Thread starter Me Myself
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"Windchill" isn't a real temperature.
The media invented it to make things sound more outrageous.
The media invented it to make things sound more outrageous.
How is it I didn't get a single notification of any updates on this thread for two days, and suddenly, after I hunt it down and read, I start getting notifications again?
Or, maybe I did and it's just the meds deleting short-term memory...
What was I just talking about?
It's a practical joke I suggested to staff.
It's not the only one.
Let's peek in the women's lav to see how the clear plastic on the toilet bowl trick is working out.
@Revoltingest , what ARE you talking about? What's a practical joke? I mean other than the juvenile lavatory prank you just mentioned.
Wu Wei
ursus senum severiorum and ex-Bisy Backson
Go stand in it in your Hawaiian shirt and a pair of shorts and then come back and tell me about the fake temperatures
I worked the tree farm in th mountains of Pa. one winter, outside, on snow shoes, at -60F windchill.... it may not be real to you...but it was darn cold to me... but the bouvier des flandres that was with me was having a great time chasing the occasional leaf that blew by.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
****ing Papa Johns still hasn't called me back, even though I called them back, and was told again they'd call me back. Christ! I thought with my experience delivering newspapers and railroad crews it would be an easy job to get, especially considering they have that they are hiring drivers literally plastered all over their entrance window. The damn nursing home isn't hiring me. I really hope my sister's husband is blowing smoke out of his *** when says he knows a guy looking for help to finish putting his store together and then running it.
Draka
Wonder Woman
Do you have food prep experience? In many places delivery drivers are cooks as well. In such a place you must be quick on your feet, constantly moving, know your orders well. When pizza places are looking for delivery drivers they aren't just looking for people to drive, they are looking for people to make the orders and then run them out the door.
-60F actual temperature is very different from -60F "windchill".Go stand in it in your Hawaiian shirt and a pair of shorts and then come back and tell me about the fake temperatures
I worked the tree farm in th mountains of Pa. one winter, outside, on snow shoes, at -60F windchill.... it may not be real to you...but it was darn cold to me... but the bouvier des flandres that was with me was having a great time chasing the occasional leaf that blew by.
The huge difference is that "wind chill" temperatures apply only to unclothed water jugs.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a14283/the-ridiculous-history-of-wind-chill/
For clothed people, any relief from wind, eg, the lee side of a building, the much higher actual temperature is what we experience.
And the effect upon machinery is strictly the actual temperature.
So -60F in still conditions is far more dangerous than a higher temp in a breeze.
Draka
Wonder Woman
That bitter cold wind is colder than when you are blocked by a building though. And I'm sorry, but the entirety of my face, including my eyeballs, is not completely covered when in that wind. It's like ice daggers to the face. And if you don't have at least two layers of pants on then the cold cuts through your jeans as the blow against your skin. Windchill will still make a difference as to whether or not I want to leave the confines of my house at all.
Certainly, wind increases heat loss from us humans (note that I include myself).
It's just that real temps are more dangerous than "wind chill" temps.
And the latter aren't accurate for clothed people.
Here's a practical example.
I once went snowboarding in high wind at -5F.
Winds were so strong that I couldn't board upwind on blue runs....I was immobile.
It was in the -40F range according to wind chill.
Mittens & a face mask were important to avoid frost bite.
But me boots were right on the snow, where the wind speed dropped greatly.
With ordinary boots & socks, me feet were toasty warm.
They wouldn't have been at -40F actual temp.
And when I went thru glades, the wind speed dropped, lessening the heat loss.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
Yup. McDonalds, Arbys, and Rallys/Checkers. The real ****ty thing is, I have a college degree and my best prospect has been a pizza joint! I can do pretty much anything on a computer that any legal job can do (I was a hacker (or more accurately a cracker) back in high school), but I can find no jobs on a computer. I have a degree in psych, but I can't even find social work. I've been doing carpentry since I was old enough to hold a hammer, but nothing (I do have to have an understanding boss with that anymore given my bad knee, and now even IBS).
Sad thing is, I am very, very, VERY tempted to start dealing pot because I know I can easily make a ton of money doing it, the risks in my situation are minimal, and it will get me income, now, rather than hoping I can jump through the correct hoops to impress someone enough to get a "real" job, whenever that may be. My tax refund will be more than enough to get me started, I know plenty of people who know people, and the remote locations I'd be doing the transactions at combined with keeping it extremely limited to who I will deal directly to makes it virtually a zero-chance that I'd get popped for it. Or, I could keep hoping to get a job, trying to get a job, and getting no where. I've tried SSI, but because they look at the "national economy," rather than what you actually face in your own life and not something hundreds of miles away, I can't even get that.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
I know this loan offer in front of my face isn't the best way to move, but in all reality, even if I move and totally sink in Seattle, at least there isn't my ignoramus sister and her rude and screaming kids to add to my stress, and the winters are much warmer and the summers are much cooler, and a constant raining all the time is better for my knee the varying shifts in barometric pressures here.
I've never had problems with lightheadedness and dizziness from stress, but it's happening quite a bit lately. And on top of that, my blood pressure is now on the high side.
I've never had problems with lightheadedness and dizziness from stress, but it's happening quite a bit lately. And on top of that, my blood pressure is now on the high side.
A college degree is no guarantee.
You've too much on the ball to suffer such dismal results from a job hunt.
I recommend a brutally candid & thorough evaluation by someone who knows recruiting / hiring / job placement.
- Your marketable skills
- Appearance
- Work history forensic analysis
- Interview performance
- Areas to develop
Then you'll have a strong sense of where you stand, & actions you might take.
My own inadequate opinion is that you'd do better somewhere more like Portlandia.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
That is where I suffer, and where I can't get it through people's heads that I really need help with it. I have all the basic stuff down, but making that awesome lasting impression that gets jobs is something that eludes me. I'm smart as hell, I am extremely talented and skilled, I learn very quickly, and my only real limitation is my knee, and the fact that people see "over thinking" as a real thing that is somehow a problem, and that I can't strike up a conversation and make that phenomenal first impression to get myself remembered. I've tried and tried and tried with writing and editing, where I can have my work do the talking for me, but even that has been a dead end.
I wouldn't say it's an inadequate position. Pretty much everyone that knows me, including my therapist, has said I'd do much better in a bigger and more liberal city where there are both more resources to help the socially-impaired getting work as well as opportunities to use the skills that I do have. Such as computers - I wrote a program, in high school, for the billing department of a local hospital. I also wrote a program for teachers to calculate grades when the school switched from six-week grading periods to nine. Granted my math teacher is the one who hooked me up with those, but even with IT being a "mega-field" to get into, there aren't even any jobs for data entry (and I can type at about 85-90 WPM - without any practice or making it a daily routine). The only things I really can't do is sit or stand for more than a few hours at a time, or do heavy lifting (or pushing when I recently tried a food processing plant) because if I do I am really going to be hurting because my knee gets stiff and sore.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
In my own areas, I'm even skilled enough to spot that your point here is worded incorrectly, as forensics is dealing with criminal investigations. Even with professional stuff, I see so many **** poor editing jobs that I wonder where these jobs are at and how to get them, because I know, objectively and for a fact, I can do better. My plan was to offer my services to the myriad of churches around here, because I know for a fact that they don't edit their stuff or even bother to make it look like someone who has a firm grasp of the English language wrote them, but nope, they're all perfectly content in looking they are dumb****s who can't even pass a fifth grade English test.
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