Here are some things I got off the net!
Go to the nearest burger joint to chill out,get free airconditioning.
Make your own icepack (plastic bag filled with ice cubes).
Buy a spraybottle,fill it with water and mist your face and arms when hot.
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more ideas later!
Put your clean underwear and socks in the freezer before you take your morning shower.
Get a real job ( 
), so you can sit in an airconditioned office all day instead of waiting at the bus stop for hours, in the heat and pollution, commuting to various, sundry conversation classes.
Wear no underwear, put talcum powder on your body, and get a girl to sprinkle you with liquids.
Move out of MY room immediately into something that actually has windows and ventilation.
What happens when they start to defrost? I’m thinking knarly, soggy crotch.
[quote]Get a real job ( ), so you can sit in an airconditioned office all day instead of waiting at the bus stop for hours, in the heat and pollution, commuting to various, sundry conversation classes.
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Get a job teaching kids, 2 minutes from your house, so that you can wear shorts and sandals to work, and don’t have to walk/ride/drive more than 2 minutes to get there
Brian
Get some dirt on Blueface so that you can blackmail him into supporting you in Bali in a manner far, far better than that to which you are accustomed.
beer is one sure fire method.
my advice: nipple plasters and thongs.
seriously, as a brit, i recommend complaining. its the sure fire thing.
The sunny days must fly by. ( to misquote edmund blackadder)
Escape. Fresh mountain springs anywhere’ll do just fine. Same goes for clean beaches merging with pristine refreshing oceans.
None of the above remedies can effectively combat the lust-induced heat caused by the sight of scantily-clad hot summer bods! 
All this talk is getting me excited about the upcoming summer. Bring it on!
(Wish they had daylight savings/summer time).
Brian
A trick I learned working outside on the road crew during those hot, humid, sultry Southern summers:
a) wear a hat (keeps the sun off)
b) apply cube of ice or sprinkle ice cold water around the rim of the hat
c) slap hat on forehead
Alternately I suppose you could do the same to your motorcycle helmet. Cooler heads prevail.
Speaking of which: I’ll be in Taiwan (Taipei and Hualien) in May, and I’m wondering what the weather is going to be like. Is it hot as heck, or will I be okay in a pair a jeans and a t-shirt?
Air conditioning is bad. Learn to revel in the heat. Walk around naked as often as circumstances allow, and avoid burger joints like the plague.
Danimal, jeans suck at any time of the year. The most impractical item of clothing on the planet, except for a tie. Buy a nice pair of cotton pants, and long-sleeved shirts. Light coloured materials are best, but they show the dirt - and there is a little bit of that here.
Hats: I used to own more hats than I did underwear. Hats are great for shielding you from direct sunlight, but in the city they just keep your head warmer than it needs to be. Hey, and when the sun shines you need a good pair of sunglasses. It’s almost impossible to buy good sunnies here in Taiwan, and I eventually had to go to HK for mine. Come prepared!
He, he, he. I’ve got a “do li” (my terrible pinyin for those bamboo hats worn by rice farmers and street sweepers) and it’s great. It gets so hot here in the summer that I have worn that hat occassionally on mountain hikes, of course leading to lots of stares and comments by locals but when it’s that bloody hot I don’t care – it works great. Baseball caps are totally worthless by comparison. I haven’t yet worn the do li to work (with a suit and tie), but I’ve been tempted, although my wife has told me she’ll walk 10 paces behind me. 
A cold country!
Don’t you make her do that anyway?
Teaching your lady to kneel beside you and cool you with an ostrich-feather fan is also helpful. She can be naked if you like, but I think that adorning her with a few jewels and minimal clothing adds to the effect. And baby oil.
Beer is crap!! Anybody who believes otherwise is a victim of advertising. Alcohol dehydrates you, which is not good in weather that makes you lose liquid through sweat. The same goes for anything with lots of caffeine, and I’m told that sugary drinks are also bad. (This from a guy that drinks Bacardi and Coke 
)
You need to maintain your liquid levels when you sweat by drinking plenty of water - but not just water, as it effectively flushes all the minerals out of your body. Fruit juice, or fresh fruit, is good. I remember reading that fresh fruit is good for the skin.
Going a bit off-topic, I don’t get out much these days (you can probably tell that from my posts!) and when I do then sunburn is a big potential problem. Good sunscreen is not easy to come by here, and a good tan provides a good defense anyway. But to tan healthily you need moderate exposure over a longer time, not to just go out in tropical sun with no protection. So, stupid question nr47 is: is it possible to buy a free-standing tanning lamp that can shine away on me when I’m walking around naked at home at night? If so then I can enjoy my occasional forays into the sunlight much more, and have a nice brown willy as well.
A black umbrella is very useful on hot summer days. I’ve used one in Taiwan and many other places (such as the Gobi in summer) and it really works a treat.
Strag wrote
You’ll be going straight to hell!! 