In the common law of crime in England and Wales, a common scold was a species of public nuisance—a troublesome and angry woman who broke the public peace by habitually arguing and quarrelling with her neighbours.The Latin name for the offender, communis rixatrix, appears in the feminine gender, and makes it clear that only women could commit this crime. The offense, which was exported to North America with the colonists, was punishable by dunking: being placed in a chair and submerged in a river or pond.
Rixatrix. Thank you for my word of the day!
But this woman is worse than a rixatrix, an annoyance. She is more like a Bellatrix: a Death-Eater.
France and Europe during the 2003 heat wave: 70,000 dead in Europe, 17,000 to 19,000 in France alone died from the heat wave, mostly elderly and people with respiratory difficulties stuck in non-A/C houses while their younger relatives took off for the mountain or the shore.
Hey, Karen Heller! Don´t need AC? Move to Europe, where you can reduce your carbon footprint but good, die promptly and efficiently, and oh-so cozy warm.