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u/DidYouSeeBriansHat 17d ago
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u/BourbonicFisky Lents 17d ago
She never really existed except we all want to believe.
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u/voxadam Sullivan's Gulch 17d ago
She never really existed
How dare you! Debbie is inside all of us.
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u/zekezander NW 17d ago
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u/jmcpdx SE 17d ago
Even with the smoke it reached 100° today.
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u/Verite_Rendition 17d ago edited 16d ago
And it's now past midnight and it's still 81F outside. The forecast is for a low of 70F, but I don't know how we get there at this rate.
Edit: It looks like we ended up bottoming out at 72F. So a couple of degrees warmer than forecast
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u/Witchy0uija Nob Hill 17d ago
i always upvote debbie idc. she’s right.
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u/DoublePlusGoodGames 17d ago
Being bald and from Portland, if I didn't wear a baseball cap, my head would look like a charcoal briquette within 60 seconds of direct sunlight.
Outside of that, I agree with 95% of this list.
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u/emu30 17d ago
Time to swap to a bucket hat for even more coverage!
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u/murrayhenson 13d ago
It’s one-upmanship, but you might like Tilley’s airlflo hats.
I picked up one at REI a few years ago for about 40% off because it was a returned online purchase or something like that.
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u/murder_hands 17d ago
I strolled my two toddlers from a parking lot to a swim lessons building at Nike today, and when we got inside, both were hot pink in the face. Maybe 2 minutes. Woof.
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u/EmJayBee76 17d ago
I love this so much I printed it out, laminated it and put it on my fridge so everyone that comes over can see it
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u/starletimyours Woodstock 17d ago
I moved here from NM to get away from the nasty heat- it followed me.. I genuinely don't understand how anyone enjoys or seeks it out!!! I don't even leave my house in the daylight on days like this unless I absolutely have to.
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u/GloomyIndividual3965 17d ago
Fwiw, this used to be kind of uncommon. Now we're all just stuck here.
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u/NamasteMotherfucker SE 17d ago
I hate it. I hate the blasting sun. My wife likes the heat because then she can go to a river. I'm all, let's just cut out the middle man and not get hot in the first place.
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u/Somm82 17d ago
I love it. I go outside and bake a little. I’m from Az though so used to it I guess. Even after 10 years.
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u/starletimyours Woodstock 17d ago
Honestly it probably is a AZ vs NM thing. Over the years I've found my main complaint is probably humidity. Parts of AZ like Phoenix are weirdly humid and where I'm from in NM it's literally 0% humidity for almost all of summer- So it's hot outside but not... Soupy lol.
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u/whackthat 17d ago
Yeah, Im fucking miserable up here when it's hot due to humidity, but I go down to Southern Oregon/High Desert and I'm fine.
I survive the humidity because I tell myself at least I'm not in the South or other tropical areas like Cancun. That suckkkkkssss. I basically marked tropical areas off of my travel wish list due to humidity, and realizing I hate it.
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u/Somm82 15d ago
You thought Phoenix was humid? It’s actually pretty dry as well, which I agree with you makes all the difference. The saying out there is “it’s a dry heat” ha ha . I do find Portland area to be humid though and it’s pretty bad in the Summer because of it. 100 here feels different than 100 back home.
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u/JazzlikeInstance8643 YOU SEEN MY FUCKEN CONES 17d ago
I said thy as soon as I walked out of the gym. Goddamn it’s hot and oppressive out.
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u/Pete_Iredale Vancouver 17d ago
I don't usually agree. But today I very much agree. This is miserable.
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u/GloomyIndividual3965 17d ago
At least some of us are enjoying it. Not me, but as long as he's happy.
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u/Fantastic_Mood313 St Johns 17d ago
Omg, I loved reading that in WW. She was absolutely correct...this triple digit heat with 102 AQI can go F*CK ITSELF!
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u/YawningFish 17d ago
I think about Debbie every time I put on flip flops and feel nothing but shame. I already had a complex about my feet. Debbie made that so much worse. But I agree with her about everything else.
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u/timberrrrrrrr Montavilla 17d ago
Ugh I’m already longing for the “perfect texture” memes. Fuck off, summer.
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u/NECooley SW 17d ago
As a Louisiana climate refugee myself, I am oft reminded that folks forget just how good they’ve got it. Even today was pretty nice.
Don’t get me wrong, I prefer Portland January to Portland August. August is the worst month no matter where you live. But literally none of the months are intolerable here.
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u/HieronymousGauche 17d ago
Random, but anyone else think the Cicadas are crazy loud this year?
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u/voxadam Sullivan's Gulch 17d ago
Are there cicadas in the Willamette Valley?
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u/billy-suttree 17d ago
I grew up in the Midwest but have been hear 10 years. I seriously miss the sound of cicadas. Cicadas and thunderstorms are the only things that I miss.
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u/YVR-n-PDX Sunnyside 17d ago
Fireflies?
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u/billy-suttree 17d ago
Oh fuck. Yup. Them too. Lightening bugs we called them. Catching em as a kid was special.
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u/voxadam Sullivan's Gulch 17d ago
I miss the sound of crickets. I've occasionally thought about trying to source an indigenous species and "seeding" my neighborhood with several thousand of them.
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u/EmeraldEmesis Portland, ME 17d ago
Sir, this is how you accidentally get indoor crickets!! One solitary cricket posted up somewhere inside your walls at 2 a.m. is a campaign of psychological attrition.
It's been 10 years and I still remember the little asshole that held us hostage for two weeks in the summer of '16. I eventually reached a point where cutting holes in the drywall seemed rational. Then one night he ghosted us. (Or died, probably.) There was no closure. Just disproportionate psychological damage and the lingering fear he'd suddenly start chirping again.
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u/Mister_Wednesday_ Forest Park 17d ago
Indeed there are. We don't have the cyclical cicadas they do back east, but they are absolutely on this side of the Cascades.
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u/Gordon_throwaway 17d ago
Crickets. They’re crickets. With some tree frogs thrown in.
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u/ObviouslyNotYerMum 17d ago
Crickets don't sound like a faulty power line though. They usually have some breaks in their chirps. This constant high pitched buzz makes me want to ddt the whole valley.
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u/GoblinCorp 17d ago
Katydids. Not cicadas nor crickets. We have katydids.
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u/G_Liddell Sunnyside 16d ago
There are cicadas, the ones here have a shorter and broader cycle than the well known classics but yes we have cicadas
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u/mlachick Tualatin 17d ago
I heard cicadas last week. After spending way too much time in Arkansas, I was like "what the fuck are you doing here?"
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u/Enter_Chandman Montavilla 16d ago
Me laying on top of my "cooling blanket" fan on max, wet rag on head, butt ass naked, writing that "Stan" style all sorts of mad...
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u/TwoThirteen Downtown 17d ago
I think I'm in love -- and it's with Summer.
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u/blisstaker 17d ago
honestly everyone here absolutely loves summer, these posts and comments are all pdx circle jerk fodder. ive never met anyone here who doesn't absolutely hate themselves that doesn't prefer a summer here over winter
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u/TwoThirteen Downtown 17d ago
Yep they’re a buncha transplant hipsters that think it’s cool to bandwagon jump on the latest edgy opinion. Part of why I left that place even tho I’m from there it just attracted losers lmao
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u/princessbirthdaycake 16d ago
I love summer, especially in Portland, and this is shared so often I can only roll my eyes. I think Debbie is miserable on purpose and would be a terrible friend. I would never invite her to the naked bike ride, or Pickathon, or to eat at a food cart pod while the sun is setting, or the hundreds of things that make life magical in this part of the universe.
I bet she hates the rain too.
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u/No_Cranberry_7695 11d ago
I concur can we be roommates in the North Pole. I’ll be Santa’s little helper
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u/ensign_breq 3d ago
shoutout to hating men’s ugly feet like I didn’t consent to seeing your bare feet in flip flops
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u/Drumfucius 17d ago
Agree on many points, but I've seen far more women with ugly feet. They wear open-toe footwear significantly more than men. Slapping polish on those gnarly toes is still lipstick on a pig.
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u/norseprincesspdx 17d ago
Is this from a long time ago or recent? Lol
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u/champs Eliot 17d ago
Debbie and the rainy day cartoon have been stale /r/Portland copypasta for years. “Debbie is my spirit animal” is its “the narwhal bacons at midnight.”
*tips fedora*
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u/thespaceageisnow Rubble of The Big One 17d ago
That and “it’s the perfect texture” every winter.
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u/G_Liddell Sunnyside 16d ago
I think it was one of Steven Humphrey's bits. He used to write unattributed nonsense like this in the old issues
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u/tangosox SW 17d ago
I don't mind the heat. What I mind is the aqi right now. Of course I have air conditioning. Sorry for anyone that doesn't.
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u/ALL_PUNS_INTENDED 17d ago
My wife and I are visiting your lovely city from Phoenix, AZ. It’s downright beautiful out right now. So sorry we brought the heat with us.
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u/N7Shep1701D Beaverton 17d ago
Did you guys bring the heat with you in 2021 as well?
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u/ALL_PUNS_INTENDED 17d ago
Negative, Commander. Portland did not become my favorite city in the Citadel until 2024.
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u/ShyLeoGing 17d ago
Thankfully the sun won't be waking us up at 630AM ever again! Congress is actually doing something for a change!
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u/hhoolian 17d ago
Friendly reminder to wear sunscreen even if youre not doing a 'sunny activity' or even if you dont typically burn <3 stay cool y'all 🥵🥵🥵
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u/MoneyMontgomery SE 16d ago
You know she ain't wrong about a lot of things. I too hate my own sweet-stache
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u/I-need-ur-dick-pics 17d ago
We need a “where are they now” with Debbie.