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http://trilema.com/2020/inherit-the-wind/ << Trilema -- Inherit the wind |
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| 03:51 |
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http://bimbo.club/2020/05/work-report-5122020/ << Bimbo Club -- Work Report - 5/12/2020 |
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| 14:32 |
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http://ossasepia.com/2020/05/13/fashionable-hopefuls-the-river-of-eyes/ << Ossa Sepia -- Fashionable Hopefuls: the River of Eyes |
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| 15:24 |
jfw |
I'll be out most of tomorrow, heading up the coast to help with spring opening of the 'dacha'. |
| 15:27 |
diana_coman |
jfw: sounds like a fun break at least so have fun! |
| 15:27 |
jfw |
thanks! |
| 15:31 |
dorion |
jfw nice, enjoy! will you dare dip in the ocean ? |
| 15:32 |
jfw |
dorion: not likely (the access anyway is to a river estuary but close enough) |
| 15:33 |
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diana_coman cannot understand being next to water and *not* dip! |
| 15:34 |
dorion |
yeah I mean at least wade in, lol. |
| 15:35 |
jfw |
I'm not much of an ice cold showers type. Spoiled Americans I guess |
| 15:37 |
diana_coman |
jfw: eh, you haven't known then southern Italians, lol; but no, it's more to do with water than with temperature. |
| 15:40 |
jfw |
well you can't quite have one without the other. |
| 15:41 |
diana_coman |
indeed; but you can care about one and not about the other. |
| 15:44 |
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jfw enjoys watching lava flows too but can't quite bring self to not care about the temperature |
| 15:45 |
jfw |
it's true though, there are those who don't mind the frigid waters. |
| 15:46 |
diana_coman |
lol, lava flows and frigid waters; at least it's clear you certainly care about temperature first and foremost, what. |
| 15:49 |
diana_coman |
but yeah, it's fun to get those used to the Baltic/North Sea to some warmer waters ("it's like swimming in the soup!!") and the other way around ("it's like getting into the freezer!!!") |
| 15:50 |
jfw |
I can't quite imagine someone not liking the warmer waters but will have to try that sometime. |
| 15:57 |
diana_coman |
so many likes are a matter of habit (and deeper than that - a matter of wider specific adaptation really) that it's not really all that hard to throw people off if you want to; part and parcel of having lived in many places though is getting to see just how much of what people claim otherwise as fixed and "the truth" and all that is in the end just a matter of context really. |
| 16:05 |
jfw |
had to read a couple times but I think I get that. |
| 16:05 |
jfw |
we like what we're familiar with & able to handle |
| 16:07 |
diana_coman |
comfortable to handle even, yes; and that comfortable can be quite genuine especially in this sort of physical matters - it's what the body has already adapted to, simply; as a concrete example, brits tend to genuinely dislike "hot weather" which is nowhere near "hot" by Italian standards |
| 16:08 |
diana_coman |
and the main reason for it as far as I can tell is that the temperatures here tend to be relatively *stable* so there's way less adaptation to handling quick changes, whether up or down |
| 16:10 |
diana_coman |
for that matter, after 10 years here, I noticed that I don't handle all that well anymore e.g. 30+ & humid in my home town although I never used to mind it *that much* before. |
| 16:11 |
diana_coman |
but the lesson in all this is simply that one can adapt a whole lot more than one might think at first - it just takes time. |
| 16:12 |
diana_coman |
(the 30+ is Celsius) |
| 16:14 |
jfw |
somehow I seem to have got less tolerant of the tropical 30+ every day & variably humid after living there a while, and enjoying the swings up here |
| 16:16 |
diana_coman |
that sounds more like boredom with the lack of change, lol |
| 16:16 |
diana_coman |
(and yeah, I still miss a proper winter for instance and more specifically the contrast, indeed) |
| 16:17 |
jfw |
yeah, need adaptation plus a bit of challenge / novelty. |
| 16:18 |
jfw |
although the year-round-spring places don't sound too bad. |
| 16:18 |
diana_coman |
dunno, I quite like autumn and winter; after a while spring genuinely gets on my nerves, lol |
| 16:19 |
jfw |
I hear ya. |
| 16:21 |
diana_coman |
poor deedbot, what's with its connection today |
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| 16:53 |
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http://younghands.club/2020/05/13/jfw-plan-week-of-11-may-2020/ << Young Hands Club -- JFW plan, week of 11 May 2020 |
| 16:55 |
jfw |
and with that, I take the lead for most articles published on YH.C, muahahaha! |
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| 21:34 |
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whaack raises an eyebrow as he outlines an article to break his silent streak. |