It’s officially cold here this winter! I went and bought a heater and I didn’t need that the past 3 winters. I’ll grant that today was lovely and warm even in the heart of Brisbane, even if it was colder than Logan. Last couple of weeks have been cold.
Anyway it’s Ekka week next week and the winds will be appalling and we will all catch the flu.
Did you know Cape Town has almost exactly the same annual rainfall as London - except that London’s is spread out over the whole year, just about evenly, while Cape Town’s rainfall is mostly confined to 3/4 months a year. So my beloved wife is correct when she moans that it “rains all the time in this <expletive deleted> country!!!”
Grim
I’m willing to cut the Brits some slack. Air conditioning is, as far as I hear from my Brit friends, really uncommon…and I remember living without AC in Texas summer.
You’ve never really been uncomfortable until you’ve begun to sweat in the shower.
Yes yes yes, Spitfire, cricket, WI jam, steam traction engine (1 million bonus points if it comes with Fred Dibnah attached, all hail King Fred)…
… but they aren’t exactly weather are they?
I’m sorry. That is against the rules of this thread. This thread is for bitch-slapping for the people who complain about a slight increase in temperature, not for cutting them slack 
OK. here’s some slapping o’ bitches:
I saw pictures of Europeans in midday (don’t you people ever work?!) frolicking in the fountains in the middle of Paris and London. Now, last year, when we had this real serious drought in New York, one of the first things they did was TURN OFF THE FREAKIN’ FOUNTAINS!! Bryant Park, Central Park, TIme-Life Building, Rockefeller Center, Washington Square, Prospect Park, all dry as bones with (in the more functional newer ones) the pipes all exposed like skeletons so when you walked by panting like a dog, you KNEW that there was a drought we had to all pitch in and fight, dammit!
Fountains=no drought. Suck it up.
Here’s a thing old chap…
When it isn’t like it is at the moment (90 degrees in London) it’s pissing down. we have no shortage of water. At the moment the papers are full of stories that it’s hotter in london than Cairo. Next week there wont be stories that its pissing down in penge and still boiling in Cairo.
Meanwhile: I am thinking about ploughing matches and skittle alleys in country pubs, red faced vicars judging the best turned out pet and displays by the local sealed knot.
It is also, in fact, currently hotter in London than most of the Caribbean.
(And I know why the vicar’s face is red: those rabbits certainly know how to get it on.)
OK, this has been going on too long. I have to say it now. I’m am utterly dismayed with all the Aussie dopers. A prime opportunity to indulge in one of the national sports (pommie bashing) and nobody turns up with a witicism or two.
For chissakes people, they are complainiung about 90 degree temperatures!?! That doesn’t even rate as mildy uncomfortable in the land where men are men are sheep are scared.
New rules of the thread - british dopers now allowed to pit Aussie dopers for their spectacular failure to come up with witicisms.
Yeah, you lame bastards can’t even come up with a decent insult. “Ooooh I’m so cold, it’s 20C”. Buncha whingeing marsupial pouch fuckers!
Now, now chaps, spitfires and steam trains and what ho. We are talking about the weather here, those things though absolutely necessary aren’t really meteorological phenomenon.
As for air conditioning this brings we to a question that probably requires its own GQ but…
Why do Indian and Chinese restaurants in UK often advertise the fact that they have their own air conditioning, whilst here in sunny California Indian and Chinese restaurants never have there own air conditioning?
Bally heck, not “what ho”, but “what not”, what what, cheerio.
Dear Lord (or Current Occupant),
Please turn down the heat you have placed on the UK and Ireland. Their rich cultural heritage, delicious wit, and yummy speaking voices are best served “Medium” and Not “Well-Done”.
Cheers.
-another damn Septic
Oh yes, it does make me giggle to think about people saying “94 degrees? I’m dyin’! It’s hot!”
But then again, my office has AC, my car has AC, my apartment has AC…
You don’t need AC to be comfy in the 90s, though. I’ve never been to England, so I’ve got to ask – is there such a thing as a ceiling fan in the entire nation?
So few as to be statistically insignificant. Hardly any fans of any kind, really.
And here in the Deep South US, legendary for a brutal summer mix of humidity and heat, we’re having a ridiculously mild summer. I mean, we’re having storm fronts come through here every other freaking day bringing cooler temperatures. It hasn’t broken 100 (38C) all summer (here,) and it’s already a week into August.
A whole summer with no Dog Days? Why, I never!
One word: Singapore.
Of course, my then-girlfriend happened to have the only apartment in the entire city without aircon. Or is was broken, I forget. Anyways, you’d get up at 7 AM, and the room temperature (and this is at daybreak) would already be some 36 degrees or so, with a humidity of about 6,000%. i was there for 4 or 5 days, showered at least 15 times, and never stopped sweating.
Interesting place, horrible climate.
For the two/three weeks a year in which it gets hot enough to warrent thier existance, it hardly seems worth it…
Having spent the weekend moving into our new flat on the top floor of a three-story terraced house with an external staircase, I for one am exceedingly grateful to be back at work in my climate-controlled office 
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Yesterday was the hottest day EVER -100F - and it was bloody horrible.
Thankfully better weather is on the way.
Oh, brother, testify! I’ve been there, Alaska in winter living in a tent. I was told that it was less than -50C, but didn’t have a thermometer to verify. It was damn cold, though.
Out here in Yemen it’s a balmy 39C. A nice little breeze, just enough to get the dust devils twirling (and you spitting dust out of your mouth for 20 minutes afterwards). It’s been a mild summer so far.