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Everything You Need to Survive Summer \u2014 Badly<\/h3>\n

Adventure race<\/strong>: A Guant\u00e1namo-inspired torture device designed for people who can\u2019t sit still even on vacation.<\/p>\n

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After-sun lotion<\/strong>: Beach-scented lotion used to pick up dates when you\u2019re alone. Unless you\u2019re Inspector Gadget, there\u2019s no way to rub it onto your own back without ending up in the ER.<\/p>\n

AI<\/strong>: Technology that lets you record yourself on a boat surrounded by bikini-clad supermodels while singing \u201cLa Barbacoa\u201d with Georgie Dann, under the watchful and bewildered gaze of Elvis Presley, who is in turn holding a tiny Nicol\u00e1s Maduro playing the maracas.<\/p>\n

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Yoga: A practice consisting of imitating the recumbent posture of certain shorebirds at siesta time and believing you\u2019re spiritually connecting with the Taj Mahal.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Air conditioner<\/strong>: Device commonly used to argue with the rest of the family about the ideal temperature inside the house or the car. Not quite as effective outdoors.<\/p>\n

Beach bar<\/strong>: The heart and soul of summer vacation. Temple. Sanctuary. Beginning and end.<\/p>\n

Barbecue<\/strong>: Incandescent contraption used to char meat in the backyard moments before ordering three family-size pizzas for delivery.<\/p>\n

Beach umbrella<\/strong>: A device designed to protect you from the very thing you came looking for: the sun.<\/p>\n

Beer<\/strong>: Man\u2019s best friend.<\/p>\n

Bug spray<\/strong>: Perfume for those vacationers who have somehow grasped the great philosophical truth of summer vacation: nature does not love you.<\/p>\n

Camping<\/strong>: A place to share your filth with other grime enthusiasts and pretend you\u2019re having a wonderful time.<\/p>\n

Dehydration<\/strong>: A sharp drop in the amount of beer in your bloodstream.<\/p>\n

Disconnection<\/strong>: When you drop your phone overboard in the middle of a boat trip through the estuary.<\/p>\n

Daiquiri<\/strong>: A highly dangerous substance with a very easy way in and a very difficult way out.<\/p>\n

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Fan<\/strong>: A device designed to keep you awake at night, whether it\u2019s on or off.<\/p>\n

Float<\/strong>: A bathing accessory that floats perfectly well as long as you\u2019re not sitting on it.<\/p>\n

Free Wi-Fi<\/strong>: A connection slower than the one a standard modem provided in 1997.<\/p>\n

Gazpacho<\/strong>: A typically Spanish dish consisting of pureed rabbit food that is strangely delicious on hot days.<\/p>\n

Hangover<\/strong>: The usual state of a vacationer from dawn until the day declines.<\/p>\n

Heat wave<\/strong>: The trailer for Hell.<\/p>\n

Ice cream<\/strong>: A summer dessert invented by paper-napkin manufacturers.<\/p>\n

Jet lag<\/strong>: A great Beatles song. I think.<\/p>\n

Jellyfish<\/strong>: The main predator of surfers. They don\u2019t sting overweight people for fear of angering the sharks.<\/p>\n

Operation Bikini<\/strong>: In February, too early. In August, too late.<\/p>\n

Operation Burkini<\/strong>: A definition censored by the Ministry Against Hate Crimes of whichever European country you happen to be in.<\/p>\n

Sand<\/strong>: Everything you take home from the beach that isn\u2019t your towel, your umbrella, your family, or your sunburn.<\/p>\n

Seaweed<\/strong>: Eukaryotic organisms that involuntarily chase, trap, and gag you at the water\u2019s edge.<\/p>\n

Sunglasses<\/strong>: Where did I leave them again?<\/p>\n

Swimming pool<\/strong>: A large and inviting bathtub, but shared with other animals.<\/p>\n

Tan<\/strong>: An intermediate skin tone, extremely difficult to achieve, somewhere between albino white and peach-red.<\/p>\n

Towel<\/strong>: A magic carpet that, on windy beaches, requires six or more people to set up properly.<\/p>\n

Tourism<\/strong>: What tourists come to hate after spending two days at their destination and already considering themselves locals.<\/p>\n

Vacation rental<\/strong>: A place where you bury three months\u2019 salary in a single week.<\/p>\n

Yoga<\/strong>: A practice consisting of imitating the recumbent posture of certain shorebirds at siesta time and believing you\u2019re spiritually connecting with the Taj Mahal.<\/p>\n

Zone of swimming<\/strong>: Delimited by lifeguards, it is a strip approximately three millimeters wide on beaches more than six miles long, containing three to four million bathers packed together in overlapping layers.<\/p>\n

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