I was impervious to cold when I was growing up on the Allegheny Spur, but three years in the Mojave Desert spoiled it for me. Now I put on my long johns when the temperature drops to 70.
Glock Lesnar
My sister gets cold no matter the place or weather, it’s honestly impressive
Demoted Oblivious
Even in a hot tub? Or a sauna?
Demoted Oblivious
So I googled it, and came up negative for a geographic location for Allegheny Spur. I found spurs for cowboys, an arms dealer from the civil war and the county of Pittsburgh. Is it the little notch that pokes up from Pennsylvania to Lake Erie?
If it’s dry, I’ll put the trash out barefoot in the winter. I wouldn’t go on a three mile run, but asphalt is surprisingly tolerable on a sunny day in the middle of winter. Jagged rock salt crystals hurt worse than the cold.
If it’s wet though, you need at least flip-flops or something because it gets cold fast. Not directly touching the cold, wet ground makes a huge difference.
thejeff
I’ll still occasionally run out to the trash can (or the mail box) barefoot in the snow if I don’t have sandals handy.
It’s painfully cold but it doesn’t last once I’m back inside.
I’m pretty oblivious to temperature extremes – they affect me, I just ignore them. Sometimes, even to my detriment.
There’s also the fact that I’ve had severe second-degree sunburn (like, oozing pus-level damage) on my thighs twice in my life, so I wear jeans in 100-degree weather, even at the beach. My spouse thinks I’m insane. Yes, I’m pale and pasty, deal with it.
Depends on what part of Tennessee you’re in. Memphis area stays miserably hot a good chunk of the year, but you’d be surprised how many people move to the mountains and think it’ll never be cold. No, it gets cold, it’s just that we get ice rather than snow most of the time.
What? Not hardly. Even if we get Walky in Full Crisis for all 5-6 panels, then AT BEST thats 1 panel per 4 hours * 3600s/hr * 1 frame per panel = 1/14400 fps.
I’m side-eying Walky’s lack of hand-covering pretty hard myself. The snow present suggests sub-zero air temperatures, and that’ll freeze fingers pretty dang quick, especially if there’s any wind around.
I mean, your fingers’ll be chilly, but unless you’re hitting around -20°C or below for an extended period of time, you don’t really run the risk of frostbite, especially if you keep ’em dry.
foamy
Frost*bite* is unlikely unless he’s in a gale or out there for like an hour, but numbness and frost*nip*, where your fingers go all tingly once you get them in a warm place? Absolutely possible.
If it’s just a degree or two below, calm, and he’s only out for a few minutes, e.g. walking from one building to another, he’ll be fine. Start altering those parameters and you can end up in a lot of trouble.
‘course, I carry winter gear with me in high summer, so maybe I’m a smidge more paranoid about it than some :v
Falathar
And just for contrast’s sake, I lived in Minnesota and Wisconsin for nearly my entire life and I rarely ever wore a hat or gloves.
foamy
I’m from Calgary, Alberta. So I get the joys of 40C degree swings over the course of a single day :v
Teenagers and cold weather. Meh, makes me grumpy! Youth is wasted on the youth. If teens knew exactly how cool it is to be a teen, they’d be a lot more chill, and drive more carefully. And drink less.
So… if they knew they were cool they’d act more square?
Geneseepaws
It’s a paradox, when teens think they are being “in-crowd, totally cool” is when they are the most likely to pull a stupid and die. When they ARE the most kieewl and chill is when they are just being themselves, no masks, no put on pretentiions, just -real-.
I dunno, I grew up in SoCal and last time I bundled up to go someplace snowy, I ended up removing layers because I got too hot.
But my mom is from Minnesota and my great-grandparents were from Norway and Sweden so maybe my resistance to cold is genetic. XD
Truly I despise CA. It’s *November* and it’s still too freaking warm here right now. I’ve been running the AC all week. My Norwegian-Minnesotan grandmother calls November in California “sunbathing weather.”
I love the cold weather and tend to function better when it is cold. That being said, they are asking if you’re cold because they care Sal, and also because it’s more “normal” to be cold. 😛
I actually like the colder weather better. At least when it’s too cold you can put on more layers. When it’s too hot there’s only so much clothes you can take off before people start looking at you funny.
Shared office thermostats suck in the winter, too. Back in the Before Times, when that was a thing, I’d be sweating bullets while the folks I was trying to help were somehow shivering when the office was 70 degrees. I guess because it looks cold outside, it must be cold inside?!
Yuuuup. I don’t tolerate heat well and get hot too easily and I LOVE winter, but I live in California and summer is utterly miserable. I literally feel sick for the entire summer every year (headaches, sluggish, etc). I hate it.
It’s November and I’m still running the AC because anything above 70 feels too hot.
125 thoughts on “Math Squad”
Ana Chronistic
I miss having their imperviousness to cold, now I’m cold even in 80 degree weather in the sun while wearing a sweater
marcus erronius
Yeah, I used to wear short sleeves to school on sub-freezing days. Now 68 degrees is a bit nippy. That’s what I get for moving to a nice climate LOL
BarerMender
I was impervious to cold when I was growing up on the Allegheny Spur, but three years in the Mojave Desert spoiled it for me. Now I put on my long johns when the temperature drops to 70.
Glock Lesnar
My sister gets cold no matter the place or weather, it’s honestly impressive
Demoted Oblivious
Even in a hot tub? Or a sauna?
Demoted Oblivious
So I googled it, and came up negative for a geographic location for Allegheny Spur. I found spurs for cowboys, an arms dealer from the civil war and the county of Pittsburgh. Is it the little notch that pokes up from Pennsylvania to Lake Erie?
TParadox
One January morning in high school (Indianapolis) I saw a dude walking through the snow from the bus in flip flops and board shorts.
Needfuldoer
If it’s dry, I’ll put the trash out barefoot in the winter. I wouldn’t go on a three mile run, but asphalt is surprisingly tolerable on a sunny day in the middle of winter. Jagged rock salt crystals hurt worse than the cold.
If it’s wet though, you need at least flip-flops or something because it gets cold fast. Not directly touching the cold, wet ground makes a huge difference.
thejeff
I’ll still occasionally run out to the trash can (or the mail box) barefoot in the snow if I don’t have sandals handy.
It’s painfully cold but it doesn’t last once I’m back inside.
Deanatay
I’m pretty oblivious to temperature extremes – they affect me, I just ignore them. Sometimes, even to my detriment.
There’s also the fact that I’ve had severe second-degree sunburn (like, oozing pus-level damage) on my thighs twice in my life, so I wear jeans in 100-degree weather, even at the beach. My spouse thinks I’m insane. Yes, I’m pale and pasty, deal with it.
Galuna
FIND GARY BUSEY
lightsabermario
Your target is Gary Busey.
Mae
Hitman jokes, I love it!
not someone else
On the one hand I’m jealous of Sal for keeping her imperviousness to cold through Tennessee weather.
But mostly heee, twinsies.
gossamerwillow
Depends on what part of Tennessee you’re in. Memphis area stays miserably hot a good chunk of the year, but you’d be surprised how many people move to the mountains and think it’ll never be cold. No, it gets cold, it’s just that we get ice rather than snow most of the time.
JetstreamGW
Embrace your inner Busey.
Doctor_Who
The Walkerton twins run warm because they are both overclocked.
Sal uses it to be extra cool, badass, and intimidating.
Walky is none of those things, but can run Crysis at almost 10 FPS.
Demoted Oblivious
What? Not hardly. Even if we get Walky in Full Crisis for all 5-6 panels, then AT BEST thats 1 panel per 4 hours * 3600s/hr * 1 frame per panel = 1/14400 fps.
Jake'm
Walky is anxious faster.
Reed
sarah’s face here new profile icon when
JetstreamGW
Wait, wait fuckin’ wait!
Walky!
Is that a shirt with a goddamn horizontal yellow stripe!?
We’re watching you, boy!
Doctor_Who
Meanwhile, the IW! reruns are on the storyline where Mike fights the giant frosted mutant honeybun.
COINCIDENCE?!
Probably.
abysswatcher1993
SEMME doesn’t exist here… not that I know.
clif
Dorothy goes to Yale next SEMME.
Lynx
I cackled. Bravo!
Deanatay
Willis was waiting for the second semester to reintroduce SEMME.
It’s actually the last remaining silhouette in the character banner.
Kernanator
Math Squad: the hot new super team?
Stephen Bierce
I remember MATHNET on Square One Television. Of course I was almost too old to enjoy it back then.
Fiddler115
The story you’re about to see is a fib, but it’s short.
And you’re never to old to enjoy everything about Square One Television.
Needfuldoer
MathMan was the stuff of nightmares for tiny me. Rewatching it on YouTube now though, it’s hard to place why.
(Is that Don Adams doing the voiceover, or just a soundalike?)
Johan
Joyce is excited to see Walky?
drs
Why do you think that?
“Hello math squad” is within normal operating parameters for the JoyceBot. Besides, Sal is there.
ProjectXa3
I’m liking the Lighthearted Twin Banter, it feels nice.
tim gueguen
Don’t worry, Walky. You’ll never look as crazy as Gary Busey. Or Jake Busey.
saaaaam
As a rail-thin Californian I have always been very jealous of people who don’t get cold easily
Stephen Bierce
*looks for Jimmy Fallon’s “Whip My Hair”*
cookie1995
I am very jealous of Walky and Sal right now
If I was dressed them in that weather, I would up a human popsicle in 5 seconds flat
foamy
I’m side-eying Walky’s lack of hand-covering pretty hard myself. The snow present suggests sub-zero air temperatures, and that’ll freeze fingers pretty dang quick, especially if there’s any wind around.
Vabolo
I mean, your fingers’ll be chilly, but unless you’re hitting around -20°C or below for an extended period of time, you don’t really run the risk of frostbite, especially if you keep ’em dry.
foamy
Frost*bite* is unlikely unless he’s in a gale or out there for like an hour, but numbness and frost*nip*, where your fingers go all tingly once you get them in a warm place? Absolutely possible.
If it’s just a degree or two below, calm, and he’s only out for a few minutes, e.g. walking from one building to another, he’ll be fine. Start altering those parameters and you can end up in a lot of trouble.
‘course, I carry winter gear with me in high summer, so maybe I’m a smidge more paranoid about it than some :v
Falathar
And just for contrast’s sake, I lived in Minnesota and Wisconsin for nearly my entire life and I rarely ever wore a hat or gloves.
foamy
I’m from Calgary, Alberta. So I get the joys of 40C degree swings over the course of a single day :v
Needfuldoer
Eh, he’ll be fine as long as he doesn’t touch the snow. Cold, dry air isn’t as bad as cold dampness.
thejeff
It’s also quite possible it’s at least a little above freezing. Snow doesn’t disappear all at once.
Needfuldoer
Oh, if only it did…
foamy
True! But in full sunlight like shown, above-zero air temperatures will do a real number on it. And that looks like fairly freshly-fallen stuff, too.
NinjaNick
I’m ill-equipped to cold weather, coming from California.
I’m fine with Busey-hair or even bedhead, Walky. 😛
All-Purpose Guru
I’m from the part of California that gets snow. I’ve always been pretty impervious to cold.
Now I live in Texas where the mist can be cut with a knife.
Opus the Poet
Houston where they get all the ocean humidity from the Gulff the cooling effect.
Geneseepaws
Teenagers and cold weather. Meh, makes me grumpy! Youth is wasted on the youth. If teens knew exactly how cool it is to be a teen, they’d be a lot more chill, and drive more carefully. And drink less.
Pilgrim
So… if they knew they were cool they’d act more square?
Geneseepaws
It’s a paradox, when teens think they are being “in-crowd, totally cool” is when they are the most likely to pull a stupid and die. When they ARE the most kieewl and chill is when they are just being themselves, no masks, no put on pretentiions, just -real-.
Demoted Oblivious
If it’s any consolation, teenagers are the second most likely demographic to get hypothermia, after the very elderly.
Also, I’m pretty sure the cool kids right now are the ones who *are* wearing masks.
Autogatos
I dunno, I grew up in SoCal and last time I bundled up to go someplace snowy, I ended up removing layers because I got too hot.
But my mom is from Minnesota and my great-grandparents were from Norway and Sweden so maybe my resistance to cold is genetic. XD
Truly I despise CA. It’s *November* and it’s still too freaking warm here right now. I’ve been running the AC all week. My Norwegian-Minnesotan grandmother calls November in California “sunbathing weather.”
abysswatcher1993
By Sarah’s look I can say Joyce woke her up, or Sarah is always in that mood.
Wizard
That’s pretty much just Sarah’s default setting.
Kyrik Michalowski
I love the cold weather and tend to function better when it is cold. That being said, they are asking if you’re cold because they care Sal, and also because it’s more “normal” to be cold. 😛
Keulen
I actually like the colder weather better. At least when it’s too cold you can put on more layers. When it’s too hot there’s only so much clothes you can take off before people start looking at you funny.
cmasta1992
It just occurred to me we went through that entire intro chapter without Billie showing up at all.
clif
She died surfing the time skip.
clif
Surfing? Okay, let’s go with that.
Shen Hibiki
She forgot to do the Time Warp
Roborat
Again?
Lingo
Yeah, I thought for sure we’d follow Lucy to her dorm room and Billie would be there, but no.
thejeff
Yup. And without revealing the last silhouette in the cast picture.
Which may or may not be the same thing.
AeromechanicalAce
As someone who also runs unreasonably warm, it’s awesome in the winter, but it SUCKS in the summer.
Needfuldoer
Yup.
Shared office thermostats suck in the winter, too. Back in the Before Times, when that was a thing, I’d be sweating bullets while the folks I was trying to help were somehow shivering when the office was 70 degrees. I guess because it looks cold outside, it must be cold inside?!
Autogatos
Yuuuup. I don’t tolerate heat well and get hot too easily and I LOVE winter, but I live in California and summer is utterly miserable. I literally feel sick for the entire summer every year (headaches, sluggish, etc). I hate it.
It’s November and I’m still running the AC because anything above 70 feels too hot.
Bagge
I love how both Sarah and Sal take part of the conversation as long as they do it under protest.
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