Dry heat vs humidity: when Sparkiepop visited me two weeks ago she couldn't believe how unbearable the heat was over here. "Isn't this supposed to be fucking SWEDEN?!" she pleaded. I tried to remind her that she's from LOS ANGELES where it's hot all the time, but she countered with the dry heat argument, and I'm buying it. We've had 70-80% humidity here combined with temps in the 80s (F), and it kills me. I can't stand much of any kind of heat, but when I was in Vegas, where it was at least in the 90s (F), I didn't complain once.
(That's why I kind of like the weather reports that says it's 85F, for instance, but it "feels like" 100F.)