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Aella
@Aella_Girl
Rain seems the obviously superior weather to me. I only really enjoy being outside when it's raining. It drastically improves my mood. I love the feeling and the sound and the smell. I don't understand when people call it yucky weather. That feels offensive somehow.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
I'm looking at 'rain gifs' and like 80% of these are associated with sadness of some type - people crying in the rain or wanting the rain to stop. Wtf is this propoganda. When did we culturally decide rain was a sad thing? Didn't it used to grow fucking crops?
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Richard Harper
@harpersnotes
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@Aella_Girl
People buy negative ion generators. Pounding surf. The minutes after a heavy storm and the rain stops. The feeling after taking a long shower. Sitting next to large fountains. I'm not sure about the current science, there used to be a fair amount of articles about negative ions.
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The New Reactionary
@TNReactionary
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@Aella_Girl
Might be a working class experiential divide? If you've HAD to be in the rain, working as things get muddy and slippery and cold, that might change your view of it. When it's 'nice' out you can comfortably hang out and work without conditions steadily degrading.
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ZePompom
@SoTxBob
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@Aella_Girl
Wow, what dimension did you step out of? As for rain ... you should go thru a hurricane if you like rain so much. It still grows crops but it also increases humidity & mosquitoes, makes floods, creates erosion & soil nutrient loss, mudslides......