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Eh this place I'm in is from the 30's and despite the 'renovations' to turn it into a disturbing number of bedsits for the size of the building, it still has it's original 'historically significant' wood framed, single pane sash windows, so along with the complete lack of insulation and piss poor ventilation, it ends up damp and freezing cold in winter too.

There are so many older buildings that have been done up 'slum lord' style like this in the uk, it's actually kinda scary how common they are. A lot of temporary/emergency housing is in buildings like this and the landlords make a huge amount of money by shoddily subdividing and renting to the council, and save an equally huge amount by avoiding doing vital repair and maintenance work till court ordered.

Your ancient glorified cave sounds wonderful, ngl.

That could be it, I've had spicy food in my diet since I was a little kid.

You're right, that's what I've seen too, and I've seen 'reactionary' used as well.

Lmao, in my haste to share the new thing I confused the 'R' with the one in the original acronym.

Irk? Keeps them nicely sectioned off from being associated with feminism too.

Oh, ok fair enough. It's never happened to me and I eat a lot of chilli.

GERM's is a better term I've seen around lately, stands for Gender Exclusionary ~~Radical~~ Regressive Misogynists.

Edit: thank you for the correction!

Is this like a genetic thing that only some people get? Or is it a joke that doesn't really happen but the gross factor makes it funny to some people, so it gets repeated?

Hands up, who else is stuck in an uninsulated and poorly ventilated housing situation?

I barely survived when we had 40c, it reached 50c in my flat and the humidity was truly horrific, it was like living in soup.

I have a dehumidifier now and lots more fans, but I'm still struggling in this heat we're currently having as this building is entierly uninsulated and the bedsits it's divided up into are very poorly ventilated. The heat rising from the floors and radiating through the internal walls is like being in an oven.

Please no, I don't want to survive the climate apocalypse.

2. I have been cooking alive in my flat. I appreciate the privilege I have to be hot and miserable without an audience though, that is nice. Unbearable but nice.

I just spent far too long looking for that old tumblr meme of Peter from family guy in his death pose, haphazardly surrounded by jpegs of fans.

Real talk though, get a flat, hard surface to sleep on that won't hold heat.

A wooden table is good but a board of mdf or something placed on top of your bed will work just as well. If you have the space and the right sort of bed, move your mattress off the bed and place the board directly on the slats, air flow under the bed will aid cooling. Board on top of the mattress works too though but it holds a bit more heat and can get a bit wobbly if you're a restless sleeper.

Cover the table/board with a bamboo/linen/cotton flat woven (not fluffy) blanket/sheet, and sleep with a bunch of fans pointed at your body.

A dehumidifier in the room will also really, really help too.

Bamboo and linen fabrics won't hold as much moisture as cotton does but if you're under a bunch of fans and on a hard surface, any sweat should evaporate fairly easily and cotton is easiest and cheapest to find usually.

Also remember that heat rises and buildings trap heat, so if you are living on any floors above ground level, sleeping on the floor will be hotter than sleeping a few feet above it as the room below will have been heating up all day and the floor will be radiating heat.

Having the window open, with one fan pointing at it and one pointing away from it will help circulate air into the room and get some of the heat out. If you have two windows this is easier as you can have a fan at each one, and bonus cooling points if they are on different walls as you can get a draft going.

If you have enough fans going bird song and car noise gets drowned out so it's not as much of a problem. Also a bit of vaseline in your nose will stop it drying out.

Vibes based spying