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[–] [email protected] 80 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I'm all for pedantry, but any human metaphor is clearly referring to a human perspective, and it's very reasonable to call any temperature that is too high to sustain human life hot.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago

500 Kelvin is a hot oven that severely burns you if you touch the tray directly. 1000 K is a nice campfire. 1500 K is the upper end of Magma. 2500 K is beyond normal blast furnace temperatures.

5000 Kelvin is ridiculously hot.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

30°C in the summer is hot. I want my winter NOW. GET ME OUT

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

It's 30° in winter here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Comments like this make .me angry even though I know you can't actually make it happen

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The silly thing is comparing the 'temperature' of one's love to it. I mean I get poetic overstatement and I get his idea is to melt the heart of his woman of desire, however this is maybe a bit too literal.

He should read up on Baudelaire

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You certainly don't need 5700K to do that. Garden variety Summer is enough, every year.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's not a metaphor, it's a comparison, which is when you state a difference between two things.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Saying that your love burns hot is a metaphor, because love does not burn. The comparison is irrelevant.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Oh, good point.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What if love had a spicy burrito for lunch?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Then it remains a metaphorical burrito.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

No, probably carnitas.