Re: Time in South Dakota (Date and Time on Cindu)

Den 22. mai. 2008 kl. 08.55 skreiv Tristan McLeay:
> Incidentally --- one thing I've noted is that Scandinavians in
> Melbourne
> think it's cold here (lowest overnight low I've seen: zero degrees, in
> July), but Germans don't. Why? It doesn't make intuitive sense to me.
> Does snow have some warming effect, and it presumably snows less in
> (parts of) Germany, so the snowless cold of Melbourne is more
> familiar?
> Are Germans simply more reasonable in their expectation of Melbourne's
> weather (yes, we're Australia, no we're not Queensland), and therefore
> surprised less?
Scandinavians generally have warm and comfy homes, because they need
to. They like to be warm and comfy, and when they travel abroad, they
expect to come to a warm and comfy place, particularly if the
direction is southward. Melbourne perhaps is disappointing to them.
Germans don't have that urgent need of warmth I guess.

I know that if I went to somewhere in July, I wouldn't want to end up
in a place where it's zero degrees......

LEF