Blank Sun

[Dr Mordrid]

SpaceWeather.com reports this;

The sunspot number is zero for the 10th day in a row. If the sun remains devoid of spots for one more day, it will mark the longest string of blank suns since 1996. 1996 was a year of deep solar minimum, featuring blank intervals as long as 37 days. 2007 is shaping up the same--a nadir of the solar cycle.

Maybe that's why we're freezing our arses off in April

[Brian Ellis]

Maybe not, because Europe has been roasting in April!

[Umfriend]

Europe? What's that?

[Gurm]

Europe? What's that?

It's where smelly cheese (and smelly women) come from.

[Dr Mordrid]

It's where smelly cheese (and smelly unshaved women) come from.

[Gurm]

So I was on the train recently, the Green Line in Boston. And I saw this GORGEOUS girl. She was ... just, honestly the most beautiful girl I've ever seen in person. (No offense, Julie my sweet!)

I wasn't ogling, but as the train got more crowded I gave my seat to an older person and stood up in the entryway, which put me closer to her. And then I noticed it... the "stinky unwashed no deodorant hairy armpit European woman" smell. Then I noticed she was speaking French.

*sigh*

Why? Why can't they shower? The whole country smells rank! WTF? Is it so hard? You take a nice hot shower in the morning, put on some deodorant, and all day long you smell nice! HOW GODDAMNED HARD CAN IT POSSIBLY BE?!?!?!?!?!?!?

[Brian Ellis]

Quite frankly, I don't know what the hell you are talking about. I have lived in Europe most of my life, and I have travelled widely over quite longish periods in the N. America and Asia. I have detected the great unwashed in roughly equal proportions everywhere I've been, and certainly just as much in the USA as in W. Europe. In Boston, the chances are that a French-speaking person is Acadian just as much as European-French, anyway.

What you are saying is racist prejudice.

[Dr Mordrid]

Racist? Nobody defined this as an ethnic problem, there are numerous ethnicities in Europe, but a regional one. Maybe being around it so much has just dulled your senses, but there are some regions of Europe that are a bit....aromatic

Maybe in some regions people don't shower daily but every 2/3/4 or whatever number of days for water conservation or custom, but most everyone I've talked to who has gone to Europe has noticed it.

Some are just plain woof, and class had little to do with it.

[rylan]

Well you were on the T in Boston. The smell of body odor is pretty much saturated into the material inside the train cars. I think the green line is the busiest from all the college people taking it also, so that makes it smell even worse.
But, its not like its hot this time of year, so theres no excuse for people smelling bad unless its been a week since they showered.

You could always take the Red line south to the end in Mattapan and see how long it takes before you hear a gunshot

[Fat Tone]

Maybe Europeans smell, but at least they aren't all fat.

Touche?

[Gurm]

Maybe Europeans smell, but at least they aren't all fat.

Touche?

Like I said, she was GORGEOUS. But in terms of being offensive to others, smelly trumps fat.

[Admiral]

Maybe not, because Europe has been roasting in April!

Roasting ? Not here, we've been having the most ****ed up weather, all we need is snow and you can say we have all seasons in one day. Temperature differences during the day between 10-15C. Maybe roasting because the sun seems to burn when there's under 20C... something wrong with the ozone layer ?
So the sun is burning, when it shortly gets obscured by clouds it gets chilly, you can suddenly get hit by strong wind and you never actually know when it's going to rain.

And I wouldn't trust weather forecasters in this country, they've almost totally missed in the last year.

[Jon P. Inghram]

IMHO it's not global warming or cooling, it's just that the seasons are somehow trying to reverse themselves. Soon August will be winter in the northern hemisphere.

[Dr Mordrid]

You should be in Michigan, which is known for schizophrenic weather anyhow.

40F in December, freezing our arses off in April and only 3 days over 90F in summer when 2-4 weeks worth plus several 100F plus days is normal.

My sinuses are in total uproar

[Umfriend]

I think some pieces are coming together here. There is an expression "you are what you eat" and, as is know, what you eat actually does influence the odour one emits. Take that together with the sensitive nose the Americans have and you understand why food in the US is bland. Moreover, it is assumed that the development of human brains occured at the cost of, amongst others, the sense of smell. Either you get the point or you feel europeans smell.