Most people are babies who can’t live without A/C

[George Lucas]

I put ceiling fans in every major room of my house and can set my thermostat to 80° and feel fine. Then I hear about people who can’t stand anything above 72°. What the fuck is wrong with people? Why is it that every office in the world is ice cold? I can understand a retail establishment wanting to attract customers and equipment needing to be in a certain operating temperature, but truthfully even electronics can stand higher temperatures than humans in 99% of use cases. OSHA suggests a 76° maximum set point. That’s a suggestion, not a requirement.

While I may be a freak of nature who isn’t bothered by heat (in fact, I personally favor cold weather, my favorite outdoor weather being around 32 to 42 degrees, dry and sunny), I think there are a combination of factors here.

1. Lolfat. Fat people get hot quickly. The first person to always complain about temperature is some fat hamroll sweating and munching on a hot dog. Maybe lose a few pounds and you wouldn’t be so hot all the time.

2. Sheer laziness at cooling methods. People can’t be bothered to use fans. Hell I know people who already have ceiling fans and can’t be fucking bothered to use those, let alone use other kinds of fans, open their windows, etc. I think people just get into a routine. ‘I feel stuffy, time to run the A/C at maximum power and then complain about my bill later.’

3. Lack of basic understanding of HVAC theory coupled with shitty building practices. Thermostats in hallways. Oversized units, undersized units, buying the cheapest portable A/C instead of a window unit or mini-split or whatever. Not understanding how the thermostat operates or what the limitations are (i.e. get room sensors or zone your house). Not understanding that humidity is worse than absolute temperature. Not understanding that a fan doesn’t cool the room and you need to increase the set point to actually save power, etc.

Suggestions: if you feel too hot in your house, start by losing weight. Identify hot spots and address with insulation (it’s relatively cheap) or new windows (not that cheap). Use awnings. Use solar screens. Check the humidity, if it’s too high even with A/C, your A/C is actually too powerful. Put ceiling fans in every room you spend a lot of time in (get good ones, not the Home Depot clearance bin), and try turning the temp up a few degrees. Get a good thermostat (I swear Honeywell thermostats somehow work better than anything else). Use an external sensor(s) if your thermostat placement is trash. Consider window units or a mini-split if you only need cooling in a small area. Learn when the best time to open your windows is (cool and windy) and actually open them (admittedly not useful in a few climates).

 

[Haloperidol]

Heat tolerance is for jungle people.

edit: I thought this was in a shitposting subforum but I’m still right.

 

[McMitch]

Heat tolerance is for jungle people.

edit: I thought this was in a shitposting subforum but I’m still right.

This is incorrect. Direct sun tolerance is for jungle people, but whites are capable under heat. Part of the problem is people don’t go outside, and they jump straight from running the heater to running the A/C without opening a window.

 

[Epikusername4]

i live in an attic without an ac in like 90% humidity and am fat. its not that bad with a fan

 

[Turquoise]

I don't know how anyone sleeps with air con on. The low rumbling sound plus the horrible dry air drives me insane. I just put towels on the bed and sweat like Vaush in a sting operation.

 

[*Grunts Softly*]

can't help it bro, i'm a hot-blooded stud

 

[Detective Carey]

Dating should be moving apartments, if you don't have an active move then you can rent a fake one like those smash things up rooms in Japan. That way you know right off the bat if you like the way they stink or not. Plus you can weed out the lazy people. This is a perfectly cromulent idea, and no one will ever interpret any part of it as weird.

 

[Hellwalker]

Any debate about being able to handle the heat will fall on deaf ears for me because I recently had to experience what a non-AC cooled house feels like in the Arizonian summer.

Never again.

 

[merpalerpaherp]

I think it's different person to person. I can deal without A/C but I fucking hate it whereas I love winter and colder temps. I'd love it to be like 25 degrees year round tbh.
My thing with heat is also just humidity, dry heat is whatever but humid heat is miserable.

 

[I'm Retarded?]

what is this fad with people acting like not using A/C is some kind of ultimate flex. congratulations, you have the constitution of a field nigger. it's unironically good that you're saving money on electricity but like, why do you want a cookie for it? does the heat drive you to act like an attention-seeking faggot?

 

[Detective Carey]

Insert has anyone seen Texas lately meme

 

[Fly in the Ointment]

I don't really have an argument here - I can't fucking stand heat and humidity and will gladly fork over some extra money to my absolute joke of an electric company in order to not spend the day stewing in my own sweat. On the flipside though, I don't even start to get uncomfortable until the indoor temperature starts dipping below 60 or the outdoor temperature goes below 30.

Also posting this to dunk on the faggy yuropoors that swarm to this topic like flies to shit every time it comes up:

 

[Fanatical Pragmatist]

Define "can't live"?

On one hand, I can sleep outside in hot, humid, bug-ridden bullshit and will do that shit when necessary - but if I'm paying rent/mortgage/power bill/hotel room, I better have some AC and sleep cozy.
Yeah, I can do it, but would I choose to do it over a preferable option? No.

On the other hand, Bongs and other northern Euros literally fucking dying of heatstroke at 74F will never not be humorous to me.

 

[Meth Dick]

OP is gay, this is now a Snow Miser thread

 

[Señora Airi]

Try living in the deep south during July/August and attempt to keep that same attitude.

 

[Dawdler]

TLDR: Op is afraid of technology he can't understand

 

[Town Drunk]

I spend about 20 bucks a month more in the hot/cold season so that that the house I live in is comfortable.

I'd never poor shame, but time is money. How much time are you wasting regulating you environment? Instead of you know, trying to shave that 20 bucks off your electric bill and still being less comfortable?

 

[eDove]

You know what makes you intolerant to heat? The latter half of pregnancy. With both my kids, I couldn't sleep with a blanket on me because it was so unbearably hot. I had my first in the dead of winter and I still felt too warm.

There are all sorts of considerations person-to-person. Circumstances play a factor. Genetics. Adapting to your region's climate. Sure, we're more coddled than our ancestors were thanks to heating and air conditioning, but you can say that about a lot of things.

Your post has the same energy as this throwback.

 

[Sparkletor 2.0]

Humans were somehow able to survive for thousands of years without air conditioning. When we stopped letting evolution take it's course, the weakest members of our species were able to survive to adulthood.

 

[Dawdler]

Humans were somehow able to survive for thousands of years without air conditioning. When we stopped letting evolution take it's course, the weakest members of our species were able to survive to adulthood.

And the stupidest ones brag about heat tolerance instead of inventing air conditioning.
Congrats, you cannot evolve past a mud hut.

I put ceiling fans in every major room of my house and can set my thermostat to 80° and feel fine.

You are compensating for lack of cool air with increased airflow. It will work to a point if humidity is low.
But overall, it is stupid. Modern inverter split AC's burn less power than a big ceiling fan and running costs are in 1-2USD/Unit/Day range. Price for a cheap split is same as for a big ceiling fan.
And good luck getting some sleep with open windows during night and niggers blasting music, cars and other abos doing their shenanigans with their riced up vehicles.
People have to work and good luck doing anything with lack of sleep which will kill you faster than heat will.