I guess you may aswell pit a certain cough New Yorker, too.
You lucky bastards!
Down here I’m having to cope with everybody whinging at the ridiculously cold temps, gets down to as low as 17C during the day, brrrrr, wrap up well lads. Nobody going out at night, not at 7C, freeze the balls of… (Well the freezing point of brass is about 900C, which is quite warm really, but you get the point).
P.S. Canberra officially recorded its lowest temperature at 55 Kelvin.
Hey, look who’s back from the dead! A man with whom I had a beer or two in Amsterdam, on St. Patricks day, 2 years ago now. How’s it going down under?
That’s nothing, try 50ish to 60ish below, without such pansy excuses as wind chill.
A beer or 2 or 20. Life’s good thanks, hoping that stinking heatwave will last another week or two, until I get to London for a summer break.
jjimm – That’s so disgusting I can’t even contemplate coming back with something competitive. Dear oh dear … . .
Anyway, well spotted, Coldie; He is the messiah!.
Last I heard you were off to some god-awful piss pot in the middle of the Pacific, and it wasn’t even Oz ( 
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Hope you’re holding the natives at bay - what are you doing in Queensland ?
L_C, that piss pot was Vanuatu, I can only handle the place a few weeks at a time, too little to do, too much kava to sup, (a drink that tastes even worse than jjimm’s little thirst quencher). Came to QLD to get back to civilization, (itself in short supply along with water and good pubs, here on the gold coast).
Well, okay, this winter, but this was the coldest it’s gotten in the eight years I’ve been here - and I know that because it was the first time the winter here reminded me of Winnipeg.
I’ve been seeing a lot of media bitching about how ‘hypocritical’ etc we Brits are for moaning about how poor the summers are then whining about the real heat as soon as it comes.
Clue for the clueless: The people whinging about too little / too much heat are DIFFERENT SETS OF PEOPLE. Not the ‘same people’ at all.
Count me in the ‘too much’ camp this week - I can’t stand the heat. But you’ll never hear me complaining about too little. I like it that way.
Just when you think you’ve seen / read it all… jjimm, you are beyond disgusting and should probably be hanged for that remark! It’s lucky for you that the few remaining royalists aren’t the kind of minority that bitches and whines about ‘offence’.
You think the English are bad? The Irish are complaining about the heat here - it’s up to 25 this week :rolleyes:
You’re right. I’m calling bullshit on myself. Bloke on the telly said it, see, and I took him at face value. I’m starting to suspect he was talking about the in-the-sun temperature rather than the shade temperature. According to this:
That’s only 113.9°F.
And meanwhile, in the far north of scotland, it’s 16 centigrade.
I tell you, this heatwave’s killing me. If it keeps up like this I’m going to have to take my jumper off.
Here’s another claim from the press, a little higher:
[QUOTE]
*Originally posted by messiah *
L_C, that piss pot was Vanuatu, I can only handle the place a few weeks at a time, too little to do, too much kava to sup, (a drink that tastes even worse than jjimm’s little thirst quencher). QUOTE]
Vanuatu ! That was it. God, it sounds very fringes of civilisation/empire.
Presumably there’s runnning electricity but no hope of Internet, etc.
Anyway, nice to see you still around !
Bollocks ! The feckin’ weather made me do it . . .
Come on, anything over 16C is ‘shorts only’ weather. 25C is crazy hot for us. My skin starts to panic when it reaches 20C.
It’s all relative. 
Well, I’m just glad I now have my own office where I can control the climate myself. I’m sure my former boss has the AC set to Arctic temperatures this week.
it’s 100 bloody degrees in London today. That’s just not acceptable. Thank god for pubs.
ps Coldfire: Marijuana is legal here too. So are hookers.
'twill be a good year for the blackberries though; this heatwave came at just the right time.
I can. Haggis.