# This is England **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 3, 2007, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-england/410327 "2007-07-03T09:03:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-england/410327/21 "2007-07-03T10:47:06Z")
Will you all stop fucking around with my TBHSYTITS…right! ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-england/410327/22 "2007-07-03T11:02:01Z")
[QUOTE=TheFury] THIS RAIN IS FUCKING UP THE ORDER OF PLAY IN WIMBLEDON! [/QUOTE] TRIFUTOOPIW? ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-england/410327/23 "2007-07-03T11:09:14Z")
We already had our summer, chaps - it was in April! Cast your mind back, remember April? Parts of the southeast had not a single millimetre of rain for the whole month. My lawn was parched and brown. The temperature hit 80F. I had breakfast out in the garden. Then, I’m sorry to say, in early May I bought a new hammock for the garden. Literally as I walked out of the shop carrying this big heavy bloody hammock the heavens opened. It has barely stopped since… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-england/410327/24 "2007-07-03T11:59:05Z")
I’d trade stepping out of my house and sweating profusely in oppressive heat at 6:30 freakin’ AM for ceaseless rain and chill any day. Throw me in that briar patch! ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-england/410327/25 "2007-07-03T12:03:07Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] Will you all stop fucking around with my TBHSYTITS…right! [/QUOTE] No, I won’t. By the way, I just stepped outside and saw TITTYBISCUITS, briefly. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-england/410327/26 "2007-07-03T12:03:42Z")
Blame it on GWB and global warming! ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-england/410327/27 "2007-07-03T12:03:59Z")
[QUOTE=Colophon] We already had our summer, chaps - it was in April! Cast your mind back, remember April? Parts of the southeast had not a single millimetre of rain for the whole month. My lawn was parched and brown. The temperature hit 80F. I had breakfast out in the garden. Then, I’m sorry to say, in early May I bought a new hammock for the garden. Literally as I walked out of the shop carrying this big heavy bloody hammock the heavens opened. It has barely stopped since… 😉 [/QUOTE] Ahaha, so it’s your sodding fault is it? If you hadn’t bought that hammock we’d be basking in temps of around 100F. April, April? that was light years ago matey ---
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-england/410327/28 "2007-07-03T12:04:20Z")
This weather’s great. No more mega-hayfever ruining my summer! ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-england/410327/29 "2007-07-03T12:52:30Z")
The rain just lashed down with thunder and lightning, and then the TITTYBISCUITS came out again. ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-england/410327/30 "2007-07-03T13:03:09Z")
Well, I’m going to Marseille next week, so no doubt from the 10th to 19th July southern Europe will have flash floods, while your TITTYBISCUITS will come home to roost in my absence… ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-england/410327/31 "2007-07-03T13:09:51Z")
> [@](#): > > Last year about this time we had TBHYSTITS (The Big Hot Yellow Shiney Thing In The Sky) and all was well in the land, people were happy, girls walked around half nekkid and we all sweated cobs whilst consuming vast quantities of falling down water in a vain attempt to keep cool. > > Where is TBHYSTITS now? You need to sacrifice a Black Ram to Apollo. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-england/410327/32 "2007-07-03T13:52:51Z")
Sorry, I think it may be the fault of those Spaniards who don’t live from tourism. Most of them are happy that this year we don’t have people dying from heatstroke… Now if they’d kindly send me some of that damn heat, I’d appreciate being warmer in July than I was in April, damnit! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-england/410327/33 "2007-07-03T14:04:11Z")
Can we have some of our rain back? You guys keep hogging it. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-england/410327/34 "2007-07-03T14:06:23Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] Ahaha, so it’s your sodding fault is it? If you hadn’t bought that hammock we’d be basking in temps of around 100F. April, April? that was light years ago matey [/QUOTE] _goes in search of a big stick with a nail in it_ ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-england/410327/35 "2007-07-03T14:30:44Z")
It rains a lot here (Louisiana–“It’s too humid to be hell!”–my mom) in summer (especially this summer), and it’s hot. So there. You stand still long enough and mildew starts growing on you. Or maybe it’s grass. When it’s short like that, it’s hard to tell. ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-england/410327/36 "2007-07-03T14:31:07Z")
Are you positive that you don’t live in, say, Texas or Omaha, Nebraska? ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-england/410327/37 "2007-07-03T15:22:52Z")
What I wouldn’t **GIVE** for English rain. I spent today wandering Calcutta in knee deep road sewage. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-england/410327/38 "2007-07-03T15:35:07Z")
[QUOTE=Sitnam] I spent today wandering Calcutta in knee deep road sewage. [/QUOTE] You lucky, lucky bastard. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-england/410327/39 "2007-07-03T15:36:35Z")
[QUOTE=Sitnam] What I wouldn’t **GIVE** for English rain. I spent today wandering Calcutta in knee deep road sewage. [/QUOTE] Why? Oh and **jjimm** you’re starting to annoy me, don’t make me come to Oxford to sort you out ---
**Author:** ![Capt\_B.Phart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc29f/32.png) [@Capt\_B.Phart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt_B.Phart)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-england/410327/40 "2007-07-03T15:42:53Z")
It’s just been frikkin’ hailing here, thunder and lightning, and now bright sun. My lawn looks like a rain forest because I haven’t been able to cut it. I got a bellyful of rain at Glasto and now I’m bored with the whole precipitation thing Would burning a Wicker Man restore the natural balance of the seasons? - not that I’d know where to find enough wicker round these parts, nor a willing virgin (maybe I’ll see if I can find one of those[all night wicker places](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFynjrjZG_w) in the phonebook) [QUOTE=Mangetout] By the way, I just stepped outside and saw TITTYBISCUITS, briefly. [/QUOTE] [Boosh](http://putawaythosefierybiscuits.ytmnd.com/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-england/410327.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-england/410327.md?page=3)