5 Summer Objects I Only Encountered After Moving to America
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- Earlier this year, I made a video called 5 Winter Objects I Only Encountered After Moving to America. This is its summer equivalent.
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"Why don't Americans just open a window"
Bugs. Especially in the South. Where average insect size ranges anywhere from "oh fuck thats a biggun" to "Prehistoric Megafauna"
Now imagine a swarm. Welcome to the Deep South y’all!
Mind the kids at play, their very likely to fly off.
Screens
Because we aren't an island.
@CreativeHandle I hate palmetto bugs soooooo much. RAID? They eat it for breakfast. But original ammonia-based Windex will kill them! And the further south you go the bigger they get. The ones in NYC might mostly forget they can fly, but not the ones down south. Those f*uckers will dive-bomb you in the dark.
Maniac in the woods? Fine, where's my machete... It's nighttime? Hell no, those palmetto bugs will get me!
And don't count on some rain to cool things off because all the rain does is just make the heat wet.
You get rain? Lucky duck. There's zero precipitation where I live from early May to mid November
You live in Georgia too huh?
@@ChristinaLedl Houston....
@@ChristinaLedl As someone who lived in South Georgia for several years, you said what I thought before I could.
Sometimes you can't count on rain to come at all
Come to the south where the humidity is over 90% in summer and you'll realize why ACs are non negotiable house fixtures haha
How did they survive before like ww2?
I live in Pennsylvania but my family visits my grandparents in north carolina in the summer.
So we go down to visit them and as soon as I step into tge house I'm just like JESUS. My grandfather had THE HEAT ON I was dying. IT WAS ALREADY HOT AND HUMID.
I hate the heat. I need 65°F weather to be comfy The most I'll do is 72°F. I also wear flip flops when it's like 32°F out so I really love the cold. Hate the heat. AC and fans are treasured in summer lol
I felt this, I live in Florida and when Irma came around and I lost power for 2 weeks even though you get used to the heat you never realize how fucking hot it actually is untill you gotta live in the heat 24/7. I could barely breathe going to sleep it was that hot.
@@notno3585 Fuck dude that florida humidity has got to be killer too. I was thinking if I got a lot of money I would move just outside las vegas. It is hot af there but no humidity.
Yup may not be as bad as Florida but living in Virginia (southern part) I’ve learned to deal with the heat rather well but the HUMIDITY is what kills me
There just isn't anything like front porch sittin'. My Grandfather passed away in 2014 but Google Maps street view hasn't been updated in a long while there so I can still go see him settin' in his chair on the front porch where he would wave at passers by and talk with the neighbors who would see him out and stop to visit.
so cool .
Not sure if you see this, but even if they do update the street view, Google Maps has a feature where you can look at previous street view captures from that street. So you should always be able to see him on the porch even if they update street view on that street.
@@zeroeffortmemes Yes, I saw that feature a few months ago while looking something up for a friend in NYC. However, in regards to the location area my Grandfather was in, even being a major road in that area it wont be updated till they have drones doing fly by photographing.
I'd screenshot it, print it, and frame it.
Make a screeenshot, they may blur it
Seriously though air conditioning has literally been a life saver in the US. Heat-related deaths here have dropped 80% since 1960.
You say that like it's a good thing.
@@NotSoHeartBroken Well generally people not DYING DUE TO THE HEAT IS A GOOD THING YA FUCKIN SADIST
@@NotSoHeartBroken I....it is?
@@NotSoHeartBroken settle down, edgy
I work in an Ice bagging plant and 10/10 can confirm that they are indeed made by wizards
😅😂
Knew it
If you don't mind me asking what is the average salary of a worker I'm just curious sorry if that is too personal
I make my own ice.
@@Lorinisacutiepie it depends, I worked in a small town facility that only produces about 16 tons or so. I made $14 an hour which was only a few cents more then my states minimum wage. Bigger facilities might pay more but usually the whole process is automated. For us we had a machine making the ice and another machine to dump ice into bags and a large stapler but we had to manually store and load everything. Typically with larger facilities the entire process is almost entirely automated
"Why don't you open a window?"
*Proceeds to crack open window only for face to get burned by 90 degreed hot wind*
Yeah...I'll stick to the AC
Same in Greece in the summer! You go out and suddenly you heat a wall only instead of bricks, it a wall of HEAT!
Not only that, you can have unwanted visitor's. Like murderers
Dude, it's 80-odd at midnight, windows won't be opened until October
Where I'm from it's humid as fuck too, opening a window you just immediately get hit with a wave of sauna air
90 degrees? HA try 118 degree heat from Arizona
Most ceiling fans I've had basically have two speeds... 1 "is it even on" 2 " it's going to fly off the ceiling and murder me in my sleep"
BAWHAHA
I'm surprised the issue didn't come up of reversing the fan rotation depending on the season... I have told people that have lived here their whole lives about it and didn't even know what that little hidden switch did or why!
Jack - I'm in FL & just experienced my 1st ceiling fan Without a direction switch & I hate it SO much. It's going wrong way for my tiny room n sucks all the hot air from my leaky patio door & blows swampy air around
2 fan speeds! SO TRUE! I laughed so hard when I read this.
I've never seen a 2-speed ceiling fan.
“42 years ago in the winter of 2020” haha what a true statement.
Impossible. It cannot have been such a short time ago.
He have aged so gracefully in the last 42 years. Like a fine Wine.
Hard to believe he's 76.
Seriously. I often wake up feeling like i no longer know what day of the week, what month or what year it is
Omg, I love this!
I must suck worse at math than I even suspected.
When the temperature gets really high in the summer, old people start dying. No joke. And that’s in Canada. Air-conditioning literally saves lives.
They die over here too from our little heat
Yeah that's what old people do.
Ontario (a province in canada) just passed a law that requires nursing homes to have AC
@@klaykid117 thats fantastic. Here they just leave a jug of juice next to their bed which is useless as they can pour their own juice or they shove jelly down them. "its fluid". Ok
Probably because Canada has less AC than the USA
“I’ve become comfortable with America’s obsession with being comfortable.” 😂
Chronic Christy comfort is key
Sorry being uncomfortable makes no sense. Unless you are a masochist.
Thats why Americans are so comfortable ( comfortable= bloody FAT).
His dry humor is fantastic in these crazy days
The strangest thing..lol
*Opens a window in the American south during the summer
Every bug in a 50 mile radius: it's free real estate
Has screen technology not made it to the south yet?
@@hmmmmmmmm754 it has, at least I’ve seen them in Florida.
@@hmmmmmmmm754 do you guys not have small bugs?
on the mississippi we'll open a window and if the screen isn't epoxy'd to the frame, junebugs will just vibe on it until they gather enough numbers to pop the retaining cord or clips and collapse your screen like a 10 minute rain storm on a 110 degree day will collapse your soul
@@homfri111 This... sounds like it might be from personal experience.
"Why don't you just open the window?"
*stares in Phoenix
It gets significantly hotter if you open the window in the summer in Arizona. You will die.
Most houses I remember from living in Arizona are made of cinder block to help keep them cool.
The 114 from last week used both air cons and I was looking to buy 8 more. I was told no, so I just sat and sulked under my ceiling fan.
*rolls down window in az*
Me: where are my eyebrows?
Crafty Lady Linda only old houses are made of blocks or brick. The new track homes they’re putting up everywhere are just a wood frame with drywall and stucco. Pretty expensive to keep cool in the summer.
“Summers can get over 90 degrees Fahrenheit”
*laughs in Texan*
I think he must have meant to say that summer temperature gets over 90 degrees by 9am. Yeah, that must be it, because we start hitting 90 degrees here around early April.
*laughs in south central texan* *continues to melt*
He forgot to mention when the nights don’t get below 85 which feels like 90 because of the humidity.
Yep, 90° is a cool day in Texas.
@@kherbert02 I'm in Miami🌴, and anything below 80° at midnight is a cause to celebrate.
Even Americans can't remember how many times to pull the cord to get to the desired fan strength.
Get one with a remote
Hold the cord taut and you can feel in the cord if it’s off or right before off! I JUST learned that a month ago and I’m 40!
I have a remote, I don’t know this problem.
All you have to do is hold the cord once you pull it to feel the settings, then overtime you'll just remember it
Right. Because some fans start on high and go to low with each pull. Some start on low and go up a bit with each pull on the cord.
"Crack open a window and listen to the sounds of nature"
*Laughs in Florida*
The heat and humidity aren't the only problem either. Leaving open a window here is a good way to get impressively sized bugs, spiders, snakes, and weird neighbors crawling into your house.
That’s why all my windows have screening 😡 sad though cause I can’t go through it
Same in Georgia! My grandmother kinda lives in the countryside and she had a snake slither through a wall socket on time. Another time she had them in her washing machine on the back porch!
Fl man strikes again!
YUP! My answer to nearly every one of these was just one word: FLORIDA!!!!! And for people who keep commenting "just get window screens", yeah.... RIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT.... For that two and a half weeks out of the year when the weather is perfect (here in Jacksonville, anyway) where it would be otherwise nice to be able to open the windows down here and we sometimes risk it, these people apparently aren't experienced with how incredibly clever the local multi-legged (and zero-legged) critters are at getting past them! I mean really, I can imagine those palmetto bugs, spiders, lizards, and other stuff you name it including snakes attending night-time seminars on how to get past those window screens!!! :D HMMM--I wonder if it's unique to FL that it's common to be on a first-name basis for your pest control guy so much so that you not only keep them on your favorites list on your phone but also trade Christmas cards? :D
Same in Texas
My grandfather was from Ireland and from what I’ve been told, hated air blowing on him. So when he passed away in 1989, my grandmother immediately went out and got central air conditioning installed.
That was cold...
In Texas and other states you can't rent out an apartment or house without A/C, by law. Without A/C the Texas population would be a tenth of what it is, maybe less.
same with Arizona, I'm pretty certain that all the folks who die from heat stroke, do so from the walk between your car, and wherever your headed to.
Look at the proportion of electoral college votes from 1960 onwards and Florida had as many people as Colorado has now. There most certainly is a "great migration" happening from northern to southern states and it's not just retirees.
Considering how many people die each Summer without AC due to poverty, unless they get lucky to get a ceiling fan from a charity, that sounds about right in population percentage.
@@maxpowr90 Indeed. In 1900 Miami was just a fishing village. If the heat didn't kill you, malaria would.
Same with Florida.
American houses, particularly older ones, have a lot of front porches precisely because of how hot it gets. Before AC it was a way to cool off in the evenings.
But why not put it in the back? Who wants strangers to see them?
@@alexturlais8558 because we're a friendly folk and enjoy visiting with our neighbors.
@@alexturlais8558 a lot of them also have porches in the back. and some have porches that completely wrap around the house. a covered porch shades the walls of the house which is what cools the house down
@@alexturlais8558 back patio's in porches are very popular here as well it's just that most houses also have front porches
@@alexturlais8558 It's simply a part of American culture in many places to be out in the front of the house, expressly to interact with neighbors and even strangers. It's becoming less common now and mostly in more rural areas, but it used to be that even in cities people would spend more time outside chatting with everyone around.
I’m dying already about the overhead fan. We bought a house without one and it was automatically the first thing he wanted installed.
Also, air conditioning is life.
About not knowing how many times to pull the string...
I'll just pull the string taught, so that i can feel the vibration of the motor. If there's a lot, it's on high. If i don't feel any, it's off.
As a homebuyer, a house HAS one, NEEDS one, or sometimes both XD
British people in Britain about American AC: "Americans are so non-ecologically minded, obsessed with the artificial and precious, why do they need AC?" British people after spending five minutes outside at Disney World in July: "where is the damned AC and can it be turned up higher?"
Oi mate if you turn the a/c up you're only going to increase the temp. You gotta turn that shit all the way down to get cold
(snicker) we in Flolrida DO know where the control knob is on the temperature. It's how we get rid of the snowbirds! "Come again at Thanksgiving! Bring lots of money!"
@@geraldfrost4710 not any time soon mate. You'll gonna die from covid. You havw surpassed every country for deaths and infections rates. You have to be told not to inject disinfectant. Your country is a mess. Your president thinks that if you dont test for something it doesnt exsist. I'll keep my money right at home. Where it'll be spent on free health care.
@@JuanWonOne Living in front of CNN, or the equivalent or worse, will damage your braincells, also, you'll begin to believe the lies that you have been forced fed.
Having said that, the numbers you see are because of testing, not the lack of. The death numbers are skewed severely to covid19 because of reasons. Look them up if you care.
We had a covid death nearby, she was 87 years old, had walking pneumonia, and a few other health issues.
If you saw the president say, drink this cleaner, well mate, you shouldn't be allowed outside on your own.
Just remember "only Joe Biden can defeat Joe Biden" actual quote from Joe Biden.
"In a few minutes, I'm going to go into the next room, strip down to my underpants, and stand right in front of the AC."
Me: Your transition to "Americanization" is proceeding perfectly...
Reading through the comments in my underwear, under the fan.
That cracked me up because right before I played the videos I had just stripped and layed under the air vent.
Leaving your shirt on catches the ac and it goes up your shirt. Feels really good
😂😂
I was thinking the same thing! xD
How many times to pull the string: Once, then pause and wait to see if you like it. There's an amazing sort of panic when the fan starts moving like it wants to kill you.
Or you could just replace it with a digital software operated ceiling fan which are oddly not that expensive anymore, after making sure they are selling you any other generation other than 1, you're safe to install it in your home or have an electrician do it for you! Once on the network, no more string pulling! YAY!
Yes! Get that sh!t off of tornado mode
One night the fan right above my bed started shooting sparks. Never jumped out of bed faster
😅😅
lmfao!
All I could think when he was pulling the fan's strings was "So...Has anyone told him about summer mode and winter mode?"
He only knows alamode.
@@wayneessar7489 😂
Make sure you clean those blades before reversing, or you're cleaning the whole room!
Yeah I was gonna say, wait until he finds the small reverse switch for winter.
Has anyone in the history of the universe actually used winter mode? I doubt it.
The AC part reminds me when I read an article a few years back that a British runner had passed away from heat exhaustion while running a marathon because it was just so hot. It’s was like 21-24degree Celsius. I did the conversion I was like ohhh only 75. That’s like not bad at all. Then continued the article and the article said it was one of the hottest summers ever. And there I was in SoCal in over 110 degrees outside on black concrete working the drive thu line...
I remember this. A year or 2 later I ran a half marathon in 90 degree weather. I obviously didn’t learn anything from the article, lol
@@hannahsenders6462 America's built tough because CHRIST ON A STICK it can get hot in the Southwestern United States
The difference is humidity. The heat in SoCal is very dry, but Britain is VERY humid. In humid heat, the body can’t efficiently cool itself with sweat, so you can die of heat stroke at much lower temperatures. 80 degrees in humid heat is much much more fatal than 100 in dry heat.
@@boxtank5288 SE US TOO! FLORIDA!
@@kennygreen good to know that it’s Humid in Britain. I’ve never been, other than a layover on my way back home. That does put it into perspective about them saying how hot it was. Thank you ☺️
I'm so used to people from other nations telling us Americans that everything we have and do is stupid. It's a nice change to hear that we have good ideas.
I've always figured they're all just jealous that they didn't think of the things first, so have to childishly pout about it.
@@jb6712 it seems like it. I want to love europeans but all they seem to do is crap on us then copy our culture
@@CousinBowling This is a spectacularly stupid stereotypical "American" comment.
I hope you were going for satire, if so then fair enough.
@@wyterabitt2149 typical european reply. You didn't even explain how i was wrong.....
@@CousinBowling The part of your statement thats wrong is that culturally we steal everything. America was literally built off of stealing shit from everybody else. Thats why you sound stupid.
I just looked it up and the average July temp in the UK is 70 Fahrenheit, while here in Kentucky it’s 85-92.
Lucky brits
But our average summer humidity is 80%. In this Humidity your sweat doesnt evaporate to cool you down, you stay wet and miserable.
@@xxxYugooxxx I'm in Kentucky right now it's 9:30am and it's already 82 degrees Fahrenheit and 75% humidity.
@@kingofopossums Yeah that does suck. Dry heat isn't that bad. Is high humidity that sucks!
in my hometown it would often get to over 110...
Front porches are related to our current obsession with air conditioning. Before AC was invented and/or widely available, the hot humid summers were horrible. The house would heat up all day long and take hours in the evening to cool off. Hence, a front porch where the family would gather while waiting for the house to cool a bit. Then, it became common to walk up and down one's street, talking to one's neighbors, who were also sitting on their front porch. When AC became common in the last forty years, people stopped sitting on their front porch for the most part, and people also began not to know their neighbors very well. There are actual research papers written by sociologists that discuss this phenomenon on how technology and architecture affect social systems. Britain never needed porches because for the most part, their summers are bearable. And I suspect that population density being what it is in Britain, especially since the urbanization caused by the industrial revolution, made Brits a bit more careful to protect what little privacy they had.
Correct. Not too many houses built in the U.S. in the past few decades have a big front porch for this very reason.
If you had a large enough property you might even have a summer house. Sort of like a gazebo with no walls, just mosquito screens all around. People would spend the days there or even sleep in them if it got hot enough.
If you look at many American homes, the area to sit outside the home has moved to the back in the form of a deck or patio. It's not that we've stopped enjoying the comfort of relaxing outdoors in the open air, or even having a place outdoors to sit if it gets too hot, but I think it's more a result of suburban life and the space it provided for larger yards and home designs more suited to what the owner actually wants. It shows what everyone deep down knows, but many never really like to admit... Nobody actually enjoys, or has ever wanted to, interact with their neighbors if they don't have to.
I think people misconstrue neighborly interaction in the past like how they misconstrue the idea that Midwesterners are "friendly."
@Bazookie,
I disagree. I grew up in the average sized, overcrowded house in Chicago.(60's, 70's) Back when noone had central air. We had a great time with the neighbors and looked forward to it. You may be right about present attitudes but it hasn't ALWAYS been so.
Nothing crazier than being in Europe in the middle of Summer and realizing that ice is basically non existent.
Not having ice in cold drinks is completely uncivilized! Of course having a stein or a pint of good European beer to chilled too cold is uncivilized also.
It hit 30 C with no AC or ice!
Is there a fridge? You can have it both ice cold and not watered down.
A house without AC in the summer in Britain:
*slightly warm, still pleasant for the most part*
A house without AC in the summer in most of the US especially in Arizona:
*a public health risk that has led to many fatalities per year due to dehydration and heat stroke even while indoors*
Most of the south. I would rather take a heat wave in Arizona than say Georgia or even Texas
elrond3737 try 130 weather. May not be humid but let’s just say it tried to rain. The rain evaporates as it nears the ground. Making it worse. Also. Dry heat at high temperatures is just as bad. It makes you sleepy and exhausted quickly. Wet heat makes you sweat it out and that keeps you awake and irritated but the dry heat is a silent killer and it’s a very common risk every summer and sometimes even in the spring for people whom live in the desert.
Grew up in Philly, the northeast/Mid-Atlantic thick and hot!
Fire, that's closer to the truth.
I live in Arizona and I approve this message. There will be days that even at mid-night it’s 90 out.
Yep in Dallas summer is over 100 degrees with that 80% humidity, people literally die without AC.
Bruh imagine sitting on I 75 in rush hour traffic with no ac in the summer
@@truenanashminitdapressure1708 been there, done that and it was horrific!! The worst is when your home AC goes out in the middle of a hot summer night and you wake up in a sweat soaked bed. Then you have no choice but to open the windows and put the box fans in them to cool off that hot, wet, air. Once you get the AC back on, it can take almost an entire day of running it full blast to dry out the house again. That’s the stuff of Texan’s nightmares right there my friend! 😂🇨🇱☀️🥵
I'll never forget the summer of 2005 in Cyprus...35°C with 95% humidity! Lol
And hubby and I, then fiance, sleeping holding our pinkies! Can't take the body heat! Hell, when I was a kid in Greece, one summer we had a heat wave, it got up to 53°C in the shade! Over 2000 people died that summer...that's 127 in Fahrenheit!
My mom was dropping off my sisters guinea pig from Los Angeles to the valley during peak summer, she had no AC so had to just roll the windows down. The poor animal had heat exhaustion and later died that day. It only took an hour of sitting in that car for the poor thing to die. Imagine being a homeless person in LA with no where to go, more people actually die in LA during winter & summer than in New York who get snow.
This is the first video I watched on your channel. At the beginning I was "he's weird" and then I clicked subscribe after "In the UK inflatable mattresses are as popular as inflatable people. sometimes we use them both at the same time".
The dead pan delivery and that joke made me stay.
That’s exactly how I felt! I subbed to him two days ago
I that if British cats could talk they would sound just like Lawrence.
Plus, we like our tea on ice.
So you realized your weirder than he is?
"americans go camping to have fun"
british: *shocked pikachu face*
Not all of us love camping lol
Just came down out of the San Gabriel Mountains. 6 mile hike, set up camp, spend the night, 6 mile hike to the car. Great stuff.
Why else would you camp?
I can't think of a logical way to explain why camping is fun, but I just love it
Well this American hates camping
I like how the only options for weather in England are "light drizzle" and "downpour".
I've spent a lot of time in England, and I can assure you that these are in fact the only two choices. 95% of the rain in London is a light drizzle, but there are occasional downpours.
I love (really) how we get Tropical Storms for days (like Monsoon season) here in Miami.
Sounds like I should move to England then *curses at L.A. neverending days of sunshine*
Ironically, we never use the abbreviation “air con” in the USA (as far as I know)
I think it’s regional here in the US. I’ve always said “air con” and so does my entire family. And when I say it while talking with friends, none of them ever seemed confused.
But when I visit certain places and order a “pop” I definitely get funny looks if it’s a state that normally says “soda” lol
Please speak American......it’s A/C. Kinda like the band! Lol
Yeah in Texas we mostly just say A/C.
My grandpa uses “air con”, my parents mostly use “a/c”, I usually only use “air conditioning”
I just use the abbreviation A/C
Can't wait until he figures out about the refrigerators with personal ice wizards inside
Bags of ice at a gas station served a purpose. It was to keep your cooler cold. When going camping or just a summer visit to a beach/ park families brought their own food to cook. To keep that cooler/traveling ice box fresh large bags were needed. So if it took you a few days to get to your destination…a stop when refueling would be necessary. You add a bag or two of ice in the cooler empty the water and viola traveling fridge.
I have NEVER heard any one call it "air con" before.
Before AC, people would sit on their porch, on the side away from the sun, hence the wrap-round porches and swings across the country. No one uses them much any more. They're just decoration.
I hear Phillippino people say Air Con all the time. AC works for me.
I have central air, non of this ac in a window.
I believe air con is (*shock!*) a more British term, where most in the US just call it A/C. As for central vs window, that all just depends on where in the country, and the age of the building/home. I live in a pretty old neighborhood, with some houses dating back close to or over 100 years. It can really add up to try and retrofit central air into those old homes.
I spend a lot of time on my porch. In the swing. Anytime it’s between say 50 and 90 degrees. It’s the best place to read a book or drink with neighbors,.
Aussies says Aircon as well
If you're getting a new house, check to make sure it has central air. THAT is AC and heating at it's BEST.
it's also WAY more efficient then a window unit, from both an effectiveness and energy standpoint.
Yup, when I lived in the Mojave, almost every house had central air. You need it for the desert, where it can be both hot and cold. It very rarely felt uncomfortable. Until the central air unit broke one summer. That was fun. :)
Brian Jr Spero ... I still use a evap cooler only had air for a couple years.. temp here can get to 110 but normally mid 90s in summer. 71 at 8am on way to mid 90s by noon. If an evap is set up correctly most are not, they work fine, but only in low humidity. Most DIY set it on stand and hook up water turn it on, WRONG. needs to check amp draw 10.8 is usually max, mine is set about 9.5, adjustable pulley must be adjusted for proper fan speed and it also affects amp draw. I
Minisplits ftw
@M Detlef Here in Houston TX central air is definitely not a waste, and is damn near a requirement. Its currently 94F with 47% humidity and that is a downright mild day for here in the summer. When its over 100F and 85% humidity central air is a blessing. Heat stroke is a real potential danger here.
As someone who’s lived in america my whole life and had a overhead fan my whole life even I don’t understand the strings
As a non American who grew up my whole life in the UK and seen them almost EVERYWHERE (My house has one) I know they have 2 strings one for strictly controlling the lights attached to them and the other just controls fan speed with usually 3 speed settings and an off setting as a fourth just like 90% of non ceiling fans meant to cool a whole room
Callme stupid. I don't understand summer and winter mode is that up or down. And yes I live in the but in of Kansas 100°
@@kathysharpe7339 it’s to do with direct draft, when blowing down you get a cold (or cooler) breeze, when pulling air up no (or at least less) draft
There's no mode for winter/summer just lights and speed. I personally go by the vibrations I feel when holding the chain. If they stop then it's off!
@@ArtsyMagic239 it’s the up or down switch (or clockwise / anti-clockwise, yours may not have it) one way pulls air up, the other pushes air down
Front porches are a throwback, to before air conditioning, because it was cooler on the porch, than inside the oven like house. Many houses used to have porches, which completely surrounded it, but as air conditioning became more common, the side porches were either taken down or enclosed to become extra rooms. Sometimes this was also done to the back and/or the front porch as well. Depends a the regional weather and the age of the house.
In many places here in the south way back before A/C was even thought of they built what where called "shotgun houses" where you could open the front door, and the door to every other room to the back door, and they would all line up in a straight line for good airflow, so on warm summer nights people would leave all the doors open except the screen doors to keep the houses cooler. In fact Augusta, GA still has some of those old houses.
Also I inherited my grandparent's home which was built in the 50's, and the original back porch that was screened in at the time is now a closed in laundry room, hallway, and 1/2 bathroom, with a gameroom/family room attached to the backside of the house, so you ain't kidding about the porches being changed far as A/C to that room due to the original foundation of the house, and soft sandy soil in our region, we could not drill/cut into it to run A/C duct work from the central unit, so we have a small Window Unit but found it a hassle to put in, and take out, so we run our ceiling fan on high, keep a box fan in the doorway pulling in cool air from the rest of the house, along with blacking out the windows, and found that works well enough, and in the Winter we use a quartz heater unit that can roast you out of the room if you are not careful lol.
@@CommodoreFan64 to add to this during the colonial period in the especially in places such as VA and North Carolina it wasn't uncommon to see 20-30' or higher ceilings in homes, which served to keep the home cooler as it allowed the warmer air to rise within the home.
@@mr.meatty Yep, same here in South Carolina, and GA even into the early - mid 20th century as my late step Nana over in GA had a small carpenter style home in a very nice small town, and the ceilings were taller than some of the rooms where wide for that very reason, as in the old days they did not have A/C just ceiling fans, and portable fans if they were lucky, as A/C as she called it was for the rich people who drove Cadillacs, and Lincolns.
I still have a wraparound porch but I live in a 120 year old fixer upper farmhouse
@@CommodoreFan64 🌬Those shot gun homes are pretty smart for air circulation. Proving even a more modest man's house can use passive design to bring down energy costs & make home more comfy to live in.
🌞Some CA craftsman style bungalows knew a bit about airflow w/transom windows & petite root cellars that cleverly drew cooler air from outside to circulate inside. 👍
👏Clerestory windows help improve light & airflow in high density living while maintaining privacy too. While a view is nice, what good is it if you have keep blinds closed to protect yourself from the scorching sun &/or prying eyes!? I don't need to show off my furnishings or habits. Having grown up w/memories of the Nightstalker, I don't like leaving lower windows open when sleeping either. They don't seem to design houses that give a thought toward safety & security of more vulnerable inhabitants like single women & mothers or the elderly who are more likely to be targeted by predators.😉
💲Doesn't take more money to orient a house in a certain way to take better advantage of local wind patterns & exposure to sun. 🌳Or, strategically add shade trees that won't either grow too deeply into sewer pipes or remain shallow to become a tripping hazard.
💟Love a covered porch. Totally dig sun & rain protection when outdoors. We can also use them practically year round. Unfortunately, what few front porches we have in SoCal are increasingly subject to petty thievery here🕵️♀️. [Sigh]
💭Dream of a screened porch bcos of our growing mosquito problem. Loose or not, it's a drag to wear long sleeves, pants & socks at sunrise & sunset when blistering hot out to avoid getting bitten. Hate putting on harsh chemicals too. Plus, it would be nice to keep lizards & snakes at a distance too. Nothing worse than having a rattler sunning itself on your door step.🐍
Also, ceiling fans often can change directions if desired. One direction draws cooler air up and across the ceiling. The other direction draws warm air down across the floor.
you’re gonna blow is mind with that one
One for summer and one for winter
As an American this is the first I've ever heard of this. Like, would you have to reinstall it in a different direction when you want the switch? I'm so confused lol
@@breecheese its a small on/off switch near the blades. I've never seen a fan without it.
Yep. They typically have switches on them for reversing the direction.
American here: Even after 20+ years of being around ceiling fans, I still don't know how many times to pull the string. This is a problem that should be addressed immediately by the U.N.
Why can't it be a gradient like a dimmer switch
@@boneclawwalker3778 I actually had a ceiling fan like that once!!
Once for high. Twice for medium. Three times for low. Flip the switch somewhere on the unit to reverse blade spin and heat the room (something most ppl still dont know about).
@@btnhstillfire you just blew my mind. I've just ignored the switch on the fan for 36 years.
Just pull the chain once check the speed. Repeat until you have the speed you want. Problem solved
I see old videos of the outside of theatres proclaiming "Air Conditioned" in the the 1930s. That must have been amazing to watch a movie in the summer, if only for a few hours at 72 degrees. Seriously, I know that there are many milestone inventions in the 20th century, but air conditioning has got to be in the top 5. No way Arizona could have become a state without it.
haha, you're right
Air Conditioning Patent year: 1902
Arizona admission to the union: 1910
@@xxxBradTxxx 1912.
My mother told me that when she was growing up, they would go to a movie theater in the Summer for the air conditioning. The daytime ticket prices were cheaper than in the evening and you could sit through as many showings as you liked. That was still true in the 1970's. There was a movie theater near a homeless shelter and the homeless could only use the shelter at night. In bad weather or the cold of Winter, they would beg for coins to get enough money for a daytime movie ticket. Then they would sit in the theater until closing and then head to the shelter.
This guys dry humor is really well delivered. Going to go on a Lost In the Pond binge.
Me, too!
I’m an American and I just don’t know how people survived before air conditioning.
Buildings and homes were built with ventilation in mind. A lot of plantations have a bunch of windows and doors because of this. It would still be hot and for me, still sucky, but I know some people who'd be fine with it.
In college in Maryland the dorm rooms didn’t have AC. It was as miserable as it sounds.
@@MacGuffinExMachina Spot on.
You don't miss what you never had
Spent a summer in Norfolk, Virginia with no AC. You take a lot of showers, you buy a fan, and you sleep naked with only a sheet, or you die.
Wait till he come to Iowa and learns about Porch Couches
But you can’t leave them out in the winter or it’ll smell horrible like a wet dog
And in some places porch recliners 🤣
or any college town in the USA
We do that in Michigan, but only in select locations.
David Murphy I KNOW EXACTLY EHAT YOURE TALKING ABOUT HAHA
I think it's worth mentioning that most American homes now use central air conditioning, which is a unit completely outside usually hidden away behind the house so they're less intrusive both visually and auditorily.
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Growing up in south west Michigan, my dad had suffered for years with summer hay fever. When they discovered that I had it too, my dad decided that was good enough reason to get central air conditioning. Not only does it cool your house equally, it also filters the air, keeping out most allergens. I've never lived without it.
Hey, fellow SW Michigander! I use my AC to cut the humidity so I can breath. It's like breathing through a soaked sponge.
I’m from SW Michigan too:) A/C is sadly needed here, especially this coming week. But I do like the week we have between winter and summer when it feels nice to have windows open.
@@kellysueballard7654 NE Ohio here and that's exactly correct. The humidity is the reason I use my A/C. Like today. It wasn't very hot out but the humidity...I run the A/C for little while to pull that out. And my term is "breathing soup". Haven't had a soup day yet - but they're coming.
Kelly Sue Grimm that’s how it is here in Chicago burbs. Like being under a sweaty blanket. 🤢
Yes! SW Michigan! But, it is so humid here! AC (humidity control) is especially important when you have musical instruments in your home. My hubby will turn on the AC for the piano and violin more than for us! ha!
We call it AC. Air Con is a movie about convicts on an airplane.
My thought exactly! 😄
It's aircon In Australia 😊
@@FionaEm LOL!!
Pacific islander here. My family and I says air con.
What a terrible comment lol
One think AC does besides reducing temp is to reduce indoor humidity. The cool air dries out the air. Or your bumside would stick to all sitting surfaces.
very true
i think a *more* American thing to mention would be "swamp coolers"
Which is odd because I have central air and my indoor meters say the house is around 25% humidity while outside it's hovering around 2%.
But, I have 50 gallon fish tank. that might be where the extra moisture is coming from.
Melissa dry air pulls moisture from ANYWHERE it is present. Just like a vacuum is an area of low pressure, the higher pressure air wants to travel to that small area of low pressure thus the air gets “sucked”, the same thing happens with moisture. If the air in your house is very dry, a giant 50 gallon fish tank will release a lot of moisture back to the dry air because the difference in humidity is so large. If you had humidity of 70% and above, the effect would stop as that is high saturation. But the drier your air is, the more it will continue to pull it out of your water tank. Everything is always trying to be in “equilibrium”. Storms work the same way. Low pressure meets high pressure in the atmosphere and presto! You have yourself a strong winds, cold fronts, and storms with rain..
jpoopist, we had swamp coolers in central Texas in the 50s and 60s but in the late 70s they seemed to be less effective. My mom swore the Burnet Texas area was getting more humid. Maybe we were just getting used to AC in other homes and businesses. 😎
jpoopist Swamp coolers a southern thing. He needs to do field trips to others parts of the US
I grew up with central air conditioning in the South. It keeps the humidity out and makes the summer bearable. When I joined the military and moved to different parts of the country, I was shocked that all houses didn’t have central air.
Now when I move, a house MUST is central air and gas heat.
In the northeast quarter of the country many/ most houses were built long before a/c was even invented. They are heated by one-pipe, LOW pressure steam systems. There is no ductwork at all. Also, the older a house is, the more likely it is to have gas for heating, cooking, and hot water. Therefore there is NO 240v service in the house. That's why the older a home is, the more likely people use window a/c units.
I live in Arizona and without AC this place would be almost uninhabitable.
Yeah its literally illegal for a restaurant to deny free water in AZ lol
I lived in AZ for 10 years and A/C is an absolute must. Couldn't imagine living there with it
its a cool today only hit 99F/37.2C degrees😂
The seasons in Arazona are warm, hot, really hot, and "are you F'ing kidding me!"
@@drewtravels4451 Not true, Google it. And don't mindlessly believe everything you hear.
Working for an ice factory that operates 7 days a week in the summer, I can attest to the how much Americans love their bagged ice in the summer
Job security.
The fan pulls are as follows. From off, first pull is high speed, second pull is medium speed, third pull is low speed, forth pull is off.
Mine has high, low, off only. I still get confused. Apparently it can also spin both ways? I never use it.
We have 10 ceiling fans. The eight in the house are all on a wall switch with a slider instead of the round knob. The garage and the workshop are on strings. Sure saves on the AC units.
Screened windows and doors should've been on this list. Screened windows in particular is a technology that Britain sorely, sorely needs. Imagine it: being able to open all your windows and never having to deal with flies, bees and wasps coming in. It's pretty wonderful!
"just crack open the window" 😂 that will just make it even hotter!
in my basement this is 100% true. Its 90° outside right now, in my basement with the doors shut its a cool 70°. If i opened the doors it would jump up to 80° or so.
If Laurence is surprised by bagged ice just imagine when he finds out that Americans have refrigerators/freezers that make their own ice.
Not just America. Down here in New Zealand and Australia too!
@@arthurgordon6072 not surprising, can get pretty damn hot down there too
His head will explode 😵
😂😂🤣🤣🤣
even better, with some of them you don't even have to open the door to get ice, just put your cup / glass there and push a button, boom ICE.... from wizards, in your fridge!!
I feel like we dress more comfortably because of our wild weather/temperatures. layers are also a necessity too. Maryland sometimes goes through at least 3 seasons in a day sometimes.
I absolutely LOVE porches with ceiling fans, as well as a good wrap around.
Honestly, it's like that in Britain too though. The weather changes constantly.
My ceiling fan has a remote. No string pulling for this guy 😂
All the newer ceiling fans are remote. Best thing ever!
@@lauragwillim1055 Ugh, I hate my fan's remote. The buttons don't work well anymore so it can be a PITA to use. Pull chain switches just work and work for decades.
Most of this just equates to "America is hot as hell!". Rightly so, honestly. I grew up in Arkansas and now live in New England, which is far cooler most of the year and that is a big part of the reason why I am here.
Yeah, I understand but those long and cold NE winters are a turn off to this Texan
@@williamclark6555 We barely got a foot of snow this year its crazy
@@williamclark6555 Cold, yes. Long, no. At least here in southern New England. 80-100 degree summers, 10-40 degree winters. We usually only get, like, 1 week of a lot of snow.
@@williamclark6555 my son lives in Austin and I can't get him to move back to MA because of our weather. Winter is my 2nd favorite season, 2nd to autumn. I hate, hate, hate hot weather. Right now I have the AC set to 62 degrees and have 2 fans on, one pointed at me and the other pointed at my heat-hating dog. If you bump into my son, tell him to go back home. His mum misses him. lol
I seriously laughed when you said "Certain people need to check themselves before they wreck themselves." 😂😂😂
So did I, I can't wait for Laurence to use that one in GB.
In Florida the first thing to disappear from stores is bags of ice when a hurricane is approaching. The trick is to prepare your own ice at home, bag it and then wait for the moment the power goes out!
My mother always just filled empty gallon jugs with water and shoved them somewhere into the freezer. All the ice contained so you don't end up with a bunch of tainted water at the bottom of your cooler while camping and ice cold water as it melts.
Cathy Audette @ you are so right 😂 crank up the ice maker and fill up the zip locks and pray it goes somewhere else.
Freeze water bottles in any size that works best for you. But I have a commercial freezer so this is not a space issue for me. I also saw crazy russian hacker try to float a "keg cup" full of ice in a pitcher of beer to keep it cold but it would have been better to drop a frozen 16 oz water bottle in the pitcher. gallon jugs for camping, 16 oz for small coolers. When it melts you have bottled water to drink.
When my Air National Guard squadron deployed for Hurricane Katrina relief, one of the things they did was distribute bags of ice to all who needed them.
This really pissed off the people who were charging $10 a bag or more, and put a stop to their gouging in short order.
@@ajgensel9359 and when the water melted, you had clean water ... helps when the power goes out after a hurricane. BTDT
In Arizona, our houses are mostly built with air conditioning ducts throughout the house instead of those window units. It hit 118°F this week with no sign of rain anytime soon 🥵
We did get rain last month! It was awesome! Well, except for the humidity lol.
Man, that's like hotter than the sun! I don't do heat very well, my feet would catch fire in my shoes just walking across a blacktopped parking lot.
In indiana houses are built with AC. You are likely to run into window units in rental properties and older homes dating back to the 1800’s. I grew up in a house built in the 1840s, there was no AC or heat. We had a wood burning stove in the living room and the whole family slept in the living room in the winter.
As someone who was born and raised in Louisiana I cant imagine living in a house without AC... I keep mine going until Nov. I hear about elderly people dying of heat stroke every summer so its definitely a necessity here.
My family has been living with a single (dying) ac unit since 2009... we had to buy multiple box fans to scatter around the house and pin a fat comforter over the doorway to the kitchen to make summer somewhat bearable. And sleep in the living room during the hottest night. The kitchen is hell and is only relieved by opening the back doors on days when it really windy before the rain comes
Due to my husband’s asthma, our bedroom ac runs all year and we live in NJ
I grew up without air conditioning in America. (We weren't rich.) I remember the 90+ days of summer. Close the drapes a couple hours before noon, keep the sun out. Wait for the temperature outside of the house to drop below what's in the house, and put fans in the windows to pull the cool air into the house. Take a cold shower to cool you off. Maybe put some ice in front of the fan to blow on you. And make sure to close the windows in the morning. The first thing I did when I got my first professional job was buy my mom an Air Conditioner to put in the window.
Even when we got AC, we did a lot of this to keep cool without paying for the electricity!
We got stuck with a Swamp Cooler that stopped being useful after 90°
You must be really old or grew up up North. In SC I grew up living in a used single wide mobile home sleeping on a mattress laying on the floor. We still had a window AC though.
@@ChinchillaQueen My parents last house just had a swamp cooler.
@@neilis2405 was about to say the same I grew up in one of the poorest regions of the U.S., Central Appalachia, lived in extreme poverty and our trailer had an HVAC
I want one of those old aluminum ice trays with the huge lever on it that we had back in the day. ...I think I finally figured out how it works.
LOL I remember those.
Oh my God but the sound of it- far worse than nails on a chalkboard. I still use ice cube trays.....thank God for plastic.
Lord no! They never worked 😂 if it was hot as soon as you took it out of the freezer they would melt enough to stick to the dividers & when you pulled the lever they wouldn’t release or the pull arm would bend & break! I hated those things! They were such a pain! 😩🤣
Lol, I remember those. I still see them at thrift stores from time to time. Remember defrosting the freezer? OMG. What a mess!!!🤯
My supervisor just bought one of those aluminum ice cube trays from Amazon. The one she got is 3 rows of cubes instead of the vintage 2 rows of cubes.
When you showed the old timey ac, i was confused at first cause i'm used to centralized heating and cooling systems that don't obscure windows.
Just got back from Boston where they were everywhere. Think of apartments.
I just looked it up and it looks like centralized air conditioning is more common in newer buildings (1960s and after getting more common). It makes up ~60% vs ~30% wall/window. Apartments and homes near where I live were built in the 70s or later.
That's not old timey. Just less expensive and more obtrusive.
Since he is from britian he doesnt know what central air is lol. And for visual showing the window unit makes more sense anyway
Yea not an old timey ac its the poor people ac
The invention of air conditioning actually had a big impact on the US. Before AC was everywhere, all of the 10 biggest cities in the country were in the North. After AC, the North only has 3 of them.
lol, above 90F, that's our mild Spring here in Phoenix.
Yep. I can verify that.
Thats pretty chill.
I had a difficult time to not laugh when I watched a video not long ago from another British youtuber who said she was roasting and fanning herself. She was actually turning red from being warm, but when I translated the C to F temperature, it was only 66 degrees.
And it's normal to have a solid three months of days with the high above 100F in Phoenix as well. Four in a bad year.
My brother lives in Anthem 😘
How many American and British differences can be chalked up to it being hot as balls over here? Probably most.
A lot of the US gets very cold in the winter compared to the UK, too. They whine about the temperature being "below zero and soooo cold!!!" when *their "zero" is our 32F. Here in the middle of the country we can go from 115F in the summer to -20F and that's not even taking into account the wind chill factor, and the wind is usually blowing at least 30 mph in addition to that -20F for a "feels like" of -30F or even colder.
@@bunnyslippers191 what do you mean "their 'zero'". There are literally 3 countries in the world who use Farenheit, the rest of us use Celcius. If anything, your "zero" is the odd one out.
@@bennybooboo6789 I think the point was his zero is your -17C and -20F is -28C So really very cold. As an added aside the 90F mentioned in the video is 32C. And for bonus may I mention Phoenix has an average high-temperature of 106.2°F (41.2°C) in July. Go look up the RUclips videos of residents cooking eggs on their cement walk ways.
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AC is VERY different throughout the USA
Most new homes in the south have central air so you don’t see that box in the window.
Yankees might not have air because “we only need it two months a year”
Well in southeast Texas I only need my furnace one month a year but I for damn sure have one!
Here's another surprise for you about ceiling fans:
There's a summer mode and winter mode on most of them. One of the modes blows the air up and the other blows it down away from the ceiling.
Just look for the little, tiny black switch, usually above the blades.
In the South bigger houses had "sleeping porches" for the summer time because of the heat. Hey we're screened in.
What about the basement? I've found that the basement stays cooler than the outside at night
Hannah Pryor You absolutely DO NOT want to be in an American basement in the summer unless you want crickets, cockroaches, spiders and house centipedes crawling all over you at night while you sleep. A brown recluse could bite you and you could lose a limb to necrosis. Not to mention the basement collects moisture which breeds mold and is very unhealthy to breathe for any length of time.
Hannah Pryor The south doesn’t have basements, the ground is too moist
Kris Kringus Umm...I live in the south and have a basement. So do lots of other people.
Cecily Erker if you have a finished basement and/or keep your basement clean it’s fine. I had a friend who had a bunk bed in the basement just for sleeping in during the summer
Most of my life it’s been central AC, but as a little kid we lived a couple places that had window units. And it WAS quite satisfying to strip down to undies and stand in front of the AC.
I grew up on the high desert in N. Arizona. In the summertime I slept on the floor, under a window.
That moment when you're literally dying because you push mower the whole property in the 100° heat with no breaks and you have to stand there near naked swallowing ice cold air to survive. Good shit.
Yeah, but do you know about the "good ice" when it comes to bagged ice? It matters.
You get the good ice from Sonic.
Crushed ice is the best
I like my ice from Maine. But then my partner is from Maine - and she feels blissful about the ice - sooo
Sonic ice is great if you use it all right away. The problem with it is once its been in the freezer for a couple of days it all forms one big solid piece that's hard to break up
The good ice. Sonic ice and hospital ice.
"Open a window..." Well here in Chicago the gunshots get real loud and quite bothersome, then you ask yourself - "Should I get down on the floor in case of strays or just turn up the volume on the TV?" Being able the hear the TV usually wins.
Yeah, send any Brit to Louisiana in the summer, and I guarantee they will see the need for AC and fans, especially central air. Window units don't work as well and only cool one room.
Even old houses built for air flow just make the heat and humidity bearable.
Scottish RUclipsr Shaun came to NOLA at the worst time of year last year lol. He can tell you how necessary AC is. Poor guy was wet with sweat the whole time. Fall, Winter, and Spring aren't so bad. Winters don't usually fall below the 20's and 30's. Some years, we barely have cold days.
I love the culture here but hate the weather... although, I love the feeling of being in the heat and coming into an air conditioned building. Oh my god, that is the best feeling. I just wanna take a nap right there when that happens.
I agree with this. Plus being born and raised here.
That feeling is great, until you realize you left something in the car and have to run back outside again...
I went to Louisiana once in June and thought I was going to die from the heat. The locals laughed and suggested I come back in August. I declined. But! I ordered a root beer in a restaurant and they served it in a glass that they pulled out of a *freezer*. Genius.
I'm from MS and, yeah, the humidity really makes it feel awful. You pop out with sweat dripping off your chin.
Last summer I encountered 2 guys in the quarter from Vegas who asked how the hell we handle the heat, said they were ready to back to their 114° heat. 😂
We call a porch in the back yard either a patio (usually a ground-level concrete slab) or a deck (elevated wood platform).
Also, "swing benches" made me laugh, I've only ever heard them called "bench swings"
Porch Swings down here
We have a back porch
There are actually back porches. A patio is something different.
or porch swing
Down where I live a patio is concrete or brick ,a deck is the elevated wood platform - and a porch is a wooden (or concrete, or brick) base with a roof on it. If it's a porch, it has a roof. And yeah, they're called porch swings here too. I had actually never heard bench swing.
I'm from south Africa and everything he mentioned is normal for us. Especially the ceiling fan and bags of ice cubes
Born and raised in America I still don't know how many times you pull the damn chain on the ceiling fan
Me, either! My house doesn’t have a ceiling fan. It used to but we preferred a pretty light fixture :)
It's easier if you feel the vibrations of the chain and if they stop it's off.
just gotta pull it till it feels right, as with most things lol
Omg he nailed it! I'm watching this in my underpants under my ceiling fan with a glass of iced water on my inflatable mattress in my ac, because it was too hot on my porch swing.
Gota say kinda creepy.
This is me putting tape over my phones cameras and now..
Hey neighbor!
My idea of camping is a 4 star resort
7 up
LOL I've been telling friends that my idea of camping is a Holiday Inn with a broken air conditioner. But I've been lying all this time. I would never stay in a room with a broken air conditioner. Hell I won't even stay in hi-rise Hilton hotels where the A/C is a building-wide system as opposed to individual rooms. And I won't stay in a hotel where they have "locked down" the thermostats in the rooms where you can't really adjust them. I don't go camping - real or otherwise. I live in South Texas - I know what hot is. I grew up in the LowCountry (SC) and I know what humidity is. I don't do either.
I'm 73 years old and I've only been camping once and that was with my grandparents. My parent's idea of camping was 2 rooms at a Holiday Inn.
Mine too, 😄😄😄
My idea of camping is a 5-star hotel that only has a 50 inch TV in every room and not a 60 inch TV in every room. (and a jacuzzi)
FYI- helpful tip for ceiling fans. If you hold the pull cord you can feel if the motor is running or not. No need to count. Just slow down and wait to feel if the motor shuts off
I was born and raised part of my life in Florida and let me tell you about our heat.
It's typically 95-100⁰F (about 35-38⁰C) by 11am in the summer. In the "winter" the afternoons are 80⁰F (about 28⁰C).
Not to mention the 90%+ humidity that makes the heat stick to your skin. And the snakes that can come through your window.
AC is not optional there
As a Brit can I thank you for putting that in Celsius too!
@@blotski I use celcius quite a bit, so I typically put both. It's really useful
Ceiling fans actually have 4 settings, mostly... OFF -> High -> Medium -> Low. So, when you need to cycle through, it is helpful to think in terms of four.
Which is why he generally needed to pull the string three times: to get from High to Off.
You just shattered his brain
I feel from the chain if it’s still on
@@helenf.7221 Yep, me too. you just hold it so that it doesn't have much slack and you can tell by feel if the small motor is running.
Not seen one with a string pull all ours have a wall switch next to the light switch
AC really depends on what region you're in. In the PNW, most houses don't have AC. Largely this is because our weather is nearly identical to britain's. Extremely moderate with lots of rain. Personally, I have a window ac unit because I hate the summer but even so, our summer is so moderate and only lasts 3 months or so.
I was shocked at how beautiful the weather is in the PNW in the summer. I live in the midwest, where summer is unbearable. I was walking around Seattle thinking, "THIS is why people love summer!"
Then there's the southwest, but east of the Cajon pass, where summer lasts for 10 months out of the year.
It's the same in Ohio.
Same in San Francisco. It was in the 50’s this morning and cloudy. After the clouds cleared the temp went up to the mid 60’s.
@@chrisandersen5635 im from Texas and it was 103F yesterday 🙁
British guy saying "check themselves before they wreck themselves"
Had me dead. +1 sub from Detroit.
“Glamping” is a kind of newer thing lol. When I camped we had a tent ant sleeping bags blankets pillows and a campfire to keep us warm lol
Grew up in an old house that didn't have central AC. We had a couple window units and a network of fans throughout the house. Still spent far too many afternoons in as little clothing as Mom would allow trying not to move.
Same. Then we moved to a house that had central AC...but our Dad wouldn’t let us use it because of the electric bill impact.
Bear in mind I grew up in the Southeast US, where summer temperatures get routinely close to 100F and humidity is about the same.
This is when my insomnia started.
@@HEDGE1011 That's sounds just this side of child abuse. Good lord.
Swinging beneath a tree on a hot summer's day. Preferably half the time out over the creek. Kids know how to keep comfortable!
@@geraldfrost4710 On a hot summer's day, I'd rather be *in* the creek.
I didn’t realize “glamping” was considered a thing. I’ve camped with an air mattress, and I’ve camped with just a sleeping bag, and I’ve never distinguished these as two different types of camping. 🤷♂️
Me neither I camped in the 90s and 00s in groups of 10-50 people, and i only saw an air matteress a couple of times. Maybe it's more common now.
@@sluggo206 It's more common with old farts like me. Sleeping bags on rocks is rough on the back! And of course, "You're not getting on me when I'm on rocks!" is not a rejection you can ignore.
Same
It's been a "thing" for nearly ten years now. It's all over the Internet, especially Pinterest.
Ok but the struggle of living somewhere for 3 years (me) and still not knowing which pull string is the fan and which is the light (me)
The one that is lower is the light. Usually, it's at the very bottom of the fan's housing.
Mine is actually the exact opposite (the shorter is the light) (I will forget this in 15 minutes)
When I moved into my house 15 years ago, I took a big sticker and wrapped it around the pull for the ceiling part. It's still there, and I still use it to remember which is which when I want to use the fan. (It also keeps the noise down from the pull knocking against the inconveniently located light that it's right next to.
@@oliviarose6590 You misunderstood. It's not longer/shorter, it's higher/lower. As I said, the light switch is usually on the very bottom, whereas the fan switch will be mounted on the side somewhere. Every ceiling fan that I've ever seen - and that's quite a lot of them - was made this way. There will also usually be a reversing switch on the side, which does not have a string attached, it's just a little black slide switch. Push it up and the fan will blow upwards, push it down and it will blow downwards. It's best to stop the fan prior to switching from one mode to the other; it puts less strain on the motor and wiring.
@@katemorgan8551 That's not the problem that Olivia is having. But, you're right. The fourth pull is OFF.
We didn't have air con until a teenager. We only had an "attic fan" (something southern homes have more often than not) which was a beast of an air mover.
This is the dry British humor I've been searching for.
The problem with ice trays is when you're too lazy to refill it and then you have no ice lol!
And they spill going from the sink to the freezer (or maybe I just shake like a leaf)
@@jeffhiggins541 depends on what time I started drinking in relation to the trays needing to be filled.
I just have an Ice maker in my refrigerator like most civilized people.
@@WalrusWinking So unlike 99% of Brits then...
You can buy ice in bags in supermarkets, but they taste funny.
I have friends who go camping take a generator to plug in the small a/c they take to cool their tent. Glamping.
Guillermo, You need to find friends who take their air-conditioned R V'S, with ice-making refrigerator/freezers and memory foam mattresses!
"Glamping" is a British word, though: "The word 'glamping' first appeared in the United Kingdom in 2005 and was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2016. The word is new, but the concept that 'glamping' connotes, that of luxurious tent-living (or living in other camping accommodations), is not." IIRC, it started at festivals like Gastonbury.
I’m from Alabama and I have used AC basically every month of the Year sometime in my life.Your car in January can still get quite Hot even then along with Indian Summer and unexpected and early or late Heat waves in the Deep South is Common and Expected.
Wait till he gets to Arizona where your rubber soles will actually melt on the asphalt in the mid-day sun 😎
I've lived in AZ, and I approve this message......but it's a dry heat.
I live in Vegas and we aren't much different on the temp from AZ. I hate the dry heat. At least with humidity if a breeze comes by it's like a swamp cooler and not a blow dryer
116 degrees in Glendale 😎😎😎
@@Toaster81 At least in the dry heat, while you can still sweat, it actually does something... Out here the damn stuff just uselessly drizzles off you.
...AND you feel like you still need damn gills to breathe. ;o)
Lived in AZ for 15 years, now I live in TX.
Dry AZ heat isn't as bad as TX humid heat....
I have very fond memories of summers at my granny's house, and sitting outside on the porch swing. My granny and her sister would sit out there on nice afternoons, wave at passing cars, and chat up neighbors walking by. That was their entertainment, back before the internet and social media. Sometimes I miss those days! :)
Seeing as I was the one playing with toys or Legos inside away from people. I wholeheartdly disagree f*ck u and all the other extroverts normalizing human interaction.
I won't have it!!!
Brits: “America’s obsession with AC is so wasteful and extravagant”
America: *has most of the country experience summer temperatures that are 10-20 degrees C higher than Britain’s average summer temps*
Brits: “.....I take it back, also how high can we crank this AC unit!”
And east of the Rocky Mountains, often accompanied by over 70% humidity. 🥵
Sacto1654 I’m in New Jersey. It’s been pretty bad lately with the humidity.. It’s 91 degrees and the humidity is 58% (not the worst, but def sucks)
Astolfo Lets just face it... The planet itself is crazy being able to have these crazy and drastic temperature changes. Doesn’t matter where you’re from, we can all agree on that.
@Astolfo ummm. "All the time?" We have in some places 6 months over 90F, up into the 100+s for weeks, and 80s a lot of the time it's not in the 90s.
3 days in a row - only? What a gift that would seem in Places like Miami, San Diego, states like Florida and New Mexico..
@Rowan Melton Why would having a pool bundled with a house for cheap be a bad thing? We have the space to give most American homes and backyards room for a pool to be included. You can’t do that in the UK as easily due to size and land restrictions, hence it’s a luxury product.