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redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

Reporting for shovel mission Sir.
How do you stay cool without AC during a heat wave?

Swamp cooler?
Basement?
Go to the movies?


Let me recommend the following if you can do it:

Open all your windows as soon as it's cooler outside than in (nighttime).
Close all your windows and your blinds as soon as it's warmer outside than in - this can be like 6 AM so you've got to act early.

Also, cold showers are a cheap and quick way to cool down.

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Sunshine Mix
Jun 11, 2009
Crank that poo poo to full blast because I can afford it and I love to tell mother nature to f*ck off

Meg From Family Guy
Feb 4, 2012
fans.

Three Olives
Apr 10, 2005

What if Hitler invented the BMW i3 Subcompact Electric car?
Rub your naked body with icy-hot, be sure and put it under the folds of fat for extra coolness.

BONE DOG
Jun 7, 2009

by Fluffdaddy
Pour a bottle of water over your head and face luxuriously in slow motion

Full Metal Jackass
Jan 22, 2001

Rabid bats are welcome in my home
Standing in front of the freezer with the door open

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

Reporting for shovel mission Sir.

Three Olives posted:

Rub your naked body with icy-hot, be sure and put it under the folds of fat for extra coolness.

No trolling in this thread, please. Serious responses only.

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

Ac units are like 150 bucks man.

a hole-y ghost
May 10, 2010

take a piss and enjoy the mini-chill you get

El Duderino
Mar 28, 2003

If you're not into that whole brevity thing..
Set your oven to cold.

Rapman the Cook
Aug 24, 2013

by Ralp
big cup of creamed piss

Three Olives
Apr 10, 2005

What if Hitler invented the BMW i3 Subcompact Electric car?

euphronius posted:

Ac units are like 150 bucks man.

They were selling them at the grocery store for less than that when I went last week, I think like just over $100.

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

Reporting for shovel mission Sir.

euphronius posted:

Ac units are like 150 bucks man.

What about the environment, man?

Also, it's good cost savings to reduce your heat with simple tricks.

For example, open your closets - there's cold air in there.

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

Move north. Or, alternatively, move south.

Nog
May 15, 2006

have your wife/girlfriend pee on your face

refreshing

Afro Doug
Aug 10, 2007

amphetamines

BONE DOG
Jun 7, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

redshirt posted:

What about the environment, man?

Also, it's good cost savings to reduce your heat with simple tricks.

For example, open your closets - there's cold air in there.

gently caress the environment its the environments fault we are in this situation in the first place

Full Metal Jackass
Jan 22, 2001

Rabid bats are welcome in my home
There are these bandanas that you can soak and freeze. You then tie it around your neck like 3 olives going to the local suck n gently caress down at the city park. They really keep you pretty cool even when it's scorching outside.

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

Reporting for shovel mission Sir.
Get a bucket of cold water, a towel, and a fan.

Soak the towel in the water, and wring out.

Then place the bucket of water directly behind the fan,
and drape the towel over the fan and bucket.

This will blow moisture out of the fan, effectively cooling
a small area a small amount.

Blurry Gray Thing
Jun 3, 2009
If you brutally murder someone their ghost will stay behind and make cold spots.

Three Olives
Apr 10, 2005

What if Hitler invented the BMW i3 Subcompact Electric car?

euphronius posted:

Move north. Or, alternatively, move south.

If you live below the equator also remember you need a fan that spins clockwise because one that spins counter clockwise for above the equator won't work.

Daikatana Ritsu
Aug 1, 2008

It's usually fine if you aren't a disgusting fat body.

Miss Cheggs
Mar 22, 2007



Try laying on the floor with no clothes on OP

Three Olives
Apr 10, 2005

What if Hitler invented the BMW i3 Subcompact Electric car?

redshirt posted:

Get a bucket of cold water, a towel, and a fan.

Soak the towel in the water, and wring out.

Then place the bucket of water directly behind the fan,
and drape the towel over the fan and bucket.

This will blow moisture out of the fan, effectively cooling
a small area a small amount.

They had a CSI episode about this, don;t do this unless you want to be electrocuted.

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

Has anyone mentioned lyieng on cool tile.

Also : panting

LifeSizePotato
Mar 3, 2005

does nobody have sexy bronzed manservants to fan them with palm leaves anymore???

Saalkin
Jun 29, 2008

when i moved away from home for college and took a summer term i'd avoid the heat and my cripping depression by sleeping

Mustang
Jun 18, 2006

“We don’t really know where this goes — and I’m not sure we really care.”
have enough money to afford AC and keep it well maintained

LifeSizePotato posted:

does nobody have sexy bronzed manservants to fan them with palm leaves anymore???

sadly this is a dying tradition as it is no longer seen as socially acceptable

Action Yak
Nov 9, 2008

Get naked and roll around in your own poo poo and piss.

Business Gorillas
Mar 11, 2009

:harambe:



get a large fridge and sit inside of it all day

buglord
Jul 31, 2010

Cheating at a raffle? I sentence you to 1 year in jail! No! Two years! Three! Four! Five years! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!

Buglord
Go outside for 5 minutes and then go back inside and it feels amazing for a bit.

The Kestrel
Dec 16, 2013
Put large buckets of water around your house.

a misanthrope
Jun 21, 2010

:burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug:
kill yourself and your body will cool down

your soul will burn in hell forever tho

VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005
Put boxers in freezer.

Business Gorillas
Mar 11, 2009

:harambe:



cut open icepacks and drink the goop that's inside of them

Saalkin
Jun 29, 2008

order a pizza kill the deivlery driver and cut open his body and crawl inside

LifeSizePotato
Mar 3, 2005

Mustang posted:

sadly this is a dying tradition as it is no longer seen as socially acceptable

stupid democrats

VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005
bathe in your toilet

Paramemetic
Sep 29, 2003

Area 51. You heard of it, right?





Fallen Rib
Properly ventilate your home. Open at least one upstairs and one downstairs window. If you live in an apartment, try to open two windows on opposite sides of the apartment and use a fan to encourage airflow.

Place metal pipes into buckets of water near the windows, point fans at them, to allow evaporative cooling (there is math to optimize this but it's way above my level).

But basically proper ventilation with air flowing from one room to another is huge and very useful.

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A_Bug_That_Thinks
Mar 16, 2011


ASK ME ABOUT HOW MUCH I LOVE BIG SAGGY POKEMON TITS
Naked. 100%. All the time.

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