The only topic of conversation that exists today is the one about how f**king cold it is outside today. I have heard three references to how this must be what it's like in the mid-west. I've heard four separate conversations in which people try to one-up each other with their choice of adjective and how will it conveys their amazement with the cold weather. I was even unable to stop myself--when someone told me that the high today would be 18--from saying, "Eighteen! That's not a temperature! That's an age!"