hey so i can’t believe i only now remembered this graphic and it’s fucking midway through july but
european folks who are unused to heat waves: PLEASE PAY ATTENTION TO THIS
heat stroke kills people here in the southern usa where we get these temperatures every year consistently and are theoretically poised to deal with it every time.
if you see someone who has been out in the sun or heat awhile and:
has skin that’s hot to the touch
has skin that is dry
is not sweating
may have a headache or be confused (it fucks with ya head)
call medical help for them. just do it. y’all have functioning medical systems over there in europe, far more than usa, lol. just get them to a doctor. you can diy it at home but this shit will kill you, go to get help.
this goes double if they are elderly, are young, or are disabled. heat stroke can kill and it can kill a lot more quickly than you would expect. there are also a LOT of medications that have as a side-effect a decreased tolerance to heat and dealing with heat (many head meds fall into this category!) – if they’ve got other health issues making it so their bodies are a little fucky to begin with, they can get heat stroke even more easily. be on the lookout for people that might need help.
stay in the shade. if the humidity is low enough, consider setting up a swamp cooler (fan + ice/cold water for evaporative cooling). you can use cold compresses (or ice packs, or bandanas/scarves drenched in cold water) to help keep you cool, too – place them on pulse points like the inside of your wrist and back of your neck.
and STAY HYDRATED. if you don’t have a drink, get one. no really. be sipping something CONSTANTLY. maybe stay away from caffinated stuff just so you’re not up until assbutt o’clock in the morning, but if it has sugar, that’s fine, if it’s a ‘sports drink’ like gatorade, that’s also fine. water is also absolutely fine. fuckit, even beer’s probably okay, if you’re cool with getting tipsy. (yeah, some things technically are a bit ‘dehydrating’ but quite frankly, the bottle of shit that you do drink > not drinking anything, y’all. fuck it, even a glass of hot tea is a-ok. it’s still mostly water. the whole of india can’t be entirely wrong, eh?) HAVE A DRINK THAT YOU’RE WORKING ON ALL THE TIME. if the glass is empty, go get a refill. don’t be shy about it. be sipping something pretty much constantly.
popsicles? also great. (maybe don’t eat lots of ice cream if you’re super hot, though. mostly because heat stress will make your tummy wibbly, and that dairy will sit there like a fucking ton of bricks, and you will regret it.) if it’s too fucking hot to eat, consider stuff like salads. especially if you like cucumbers in there. might as well eat some of your hydration, after all. now’s a great time to pick up a watermelon, too. eat light, your tummy will thank you. don’t try to do huge heavy meals.
and if you get a sunburn – sunscreen is great, but let’s be real, a lot of us forget it – only use 100% aloe on it. the aloe will feel amazing, especially if you put the bottle in the fridge or freezer for a little bit to cool down. but if you see a “cooling spray”, don’t tangle with it, it’s likely a vasoconstrictor type dealio and you will get shitty rebound when it wears off. just stick to aloe, and try to wear cotton on top of it if you can. and if it’s very severe – again, see a doctor.
mostly, be on the lookout for heat exhaustion and heat stroke. including in yourself!!
As someone that has grown up surrounded by beaches and done surf life saving, I know how the sea works. Lots of people dont. Every summer multiple tourists die here because they don’t respect the sea, if you’re going to the coast, here’s a thing I saw on Facebook.
wow.
reblogging for all of us that grew up in land locked states, then visit the ocean and are used to just plunging into a lake.
The Riddler hijacks the local TV airwaves and appears onscreen holding a comically long roll of paper. After dramatically clearing his throat, he proceeds to read from it.
“The following is a list of people who can suck it. Number One: The Joker. I don’t think I need to explain that one. Number Two: Cluemaster. Fuck you, you stole my bit, and I will be like a plague unto your house. Number Three: King Tut. You also stole my bit, but did it while killing people and got me arrested for murder. Also, I’m, like, 93% sure you’re a white guy and your costume is racist.
“Number Four: The Scarecrow. I know you ate my leftover Chinese, Jon, even though I wrote my name on it. I was saving that for lunch. I had to eat a goddamn peanut butter and jelly sandwich like a five-year-old. It was all you had in the hideout. For fuck’s sake, go shopping, not all of us can live like a bridge troll.
“Number Five: The Penguin. You- No, no, wait, wait… That one should be crossed out. He replaced that and apologized. Never mind, Oswald, you’re fine. Drinks at 7:00 tomorrow, right?
“Anyway, where was…? Ah, yes. Number Six: The Mad Hatter. You carded me and left me like that for six hours because I, and I quote, ‘would not stop talking about Mythbusters.’ Well, excuse me for trying to make intellectually stimulating conversation on a level you could understand. I suppose every time you prattle on about mome raths and borogoves it’s goddamn Shakespeare? Well… Well, it’s Carroll, but… Oh, you know what I mean!
“Number Seven: Catwoman. You left me hanging by one hand from a ledge five stories up and holding a twenty-pound bag of jewels and very pointy
objets d’art while you ‘distracted’ the Dark Knight. I know you were making out with him, Selina. You were gone for fifteen minutes. My shoulder almost dislocated. Very unprofessional.
“Number Eight: Kite Man.”
Here the Riddler pauses, lifting his narrowed gaze to glare at the camera, voice dropping to an ominous tone.
“You know what you did…”
His demeanor shifts quickly, and he’s back to reading from his list almost cheerfully.
“Number Nine! Th-”
He’s interrupted by a crashing noise in the background and looks over his shoulder just an instant before a deep voice angrily growls, “Riddler!”
“Oh, for the love of-” He turns to glare at the camera, speaking quickly. “Number Nine: Batman! Interrupting me while I’m on television making very important- Hm-mmph!”
He’s reduced to muffled curses as a black gloved hand covers his mouth and pulls him out of frame. The camera tilts, a cracking noise is heard, and the broadcast turns to static.
KITE MAN’S CRIMES WERE NUMEROUS AND TERRIBLE
If I were batman I’d give him like a five minute warning, because this actually sounds theraputic.
Batman: Riddler, you’ve hijacked the TV airwaves and you know that’s wrong but I think this is actually theraputic. So I’m giving you five minutes, and then I’m taking you to Arkham
Robin: Geez get a facebook account for this crap, hell if you wanna vent to millions of strangers just get youtube.
“RIDDLER YOU CAN’T JUST GO ON TV AND SCREAM AT PEOPLE
THAT’S WHAT YOUTUBE IS FOR”
Riddler takes this advice. He gets his own youtube channel called RiddleMe_Th15. It starts out as being purely therapeutic, a platform for publically calling out those who have annoyed him. Then someone leaves him a pathetically easy riddle to solve in the comments, and he spends his next segment ranting about it, and then posing a better one.
This starts a dialogue with a number of other youtube users who both attempt to answer his riddles and pose their own riddles in return.
Riddler has found his people, and his hit count is climbing.
Seriously, Riddler would KILL IT (metaphorically speaking) on YouTube. He just does those weird animated puzzle videos where he poses lengthy, overly complicated puzzles, game theories, and riddles, then gives away…fuck I don’t know…Amazon or iTunes cards to whoever gets them right.
“Riddle me this: How can I ensure there are more videos like this one? The answer, my little quest solvers, is simple: Like and subscribe, and consider donating to my Patreon! Which isn’t much of a Riddle, but seriously I’m down to eating crackers and ramen right now and YouTube keeps demonetizing my videos because I used to be a supervillain.”
Bringing this back because “YouTube keeps demonetizing my videos because I used to be a supervillain” has to be shared and because I have some followers who have not experienced The Riddler Post.
Seriously, if you ever need a good time, just read all the responses in the notes. This post still ranks as one of the best things I’ve ever done.
It doesn’t matter how terrifying or monstrous or deadly you make your eldritch monster, there’s gonna be a person who hauls themselves out of the sewers to tell you that they will personally fuck it.
This post has so many notes and it’s mostly people calling out their friends for being sewer-dwelling awful cryptid fuckers and I love it. Expose them.
giovanni: look, ash, i wish i could tell you what the deal is with those two, i really do
giovanni: like, one time i walked in on them in a supply room in just their underwear and i was sure that i had finally cracked the jessie and james case
giovanni: but actually they had just tied their clothes into a rope so that they could escape an upper level room they had accidentally locked themselves in.
giovanni: they had, of course, ended up in another room locked from the outside. i think they were trying to use their meowth’s forehead coin to reflect sunlight into a morse code distress signal
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