>>>>Besides, when you guys say, "It's cold out there - must be 20 degrees" it sounds daft.
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>>>20 degrees, cold? That's still short sleeve t-shirt weather here!
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>>T-shirt weather? You wusses! We're skinny-dipping in the sea!
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>I've recently read an article (in Cyrillic, sorry, no link) about life in Yakutsk. They it's not really cold until it goes below -40 C; below -60C is when it really gets interesting. The common way of suicide is to just get out and sit. They open their windows only for a few weeks in the summer. There's crude oil leaking from a deposit under the lake; they just go out with axes, cut a slab, take it home to melt and use that as fuel.
I think I saw a ducu on that. Is that the place where kids can only play out for c. 30 mins?
Ha ha! Throw another lump of oil on the fire!
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