# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Barrington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Barrington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barrington)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-england/410327/41 "2007-07-03T17:34:01Z")
It’s mostly blue above the rooftops here near the East Coast. That’s because I’m indoors, using my computer. Every time I go outside to bask in a few rays, some bloody great big cloud covers up the yellow thing and I come back in. By the time I’ve sat down and my monitor’s come out of sleep mode, hey, it’s nice out there again. So you see - even without a hammock, it’s possible to make some local changes to the weather. ---
**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-england/410327/42 "2007-07-03T18:08:30Z")
BBC news has just been showing pictures of a white countryside. This is due to massive hail storms. It looks more like January than July. ---
**Author:** ![Sal\_Ammoniac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-england/410327/43 "2007-07-03T18:22:20Z")
I have a theory that if **Rayne Man** asks the mods nicely to change his screen name, the whole thing will stop. And I will note that here in NEW England, it hasn’t rained a drop for a month now, it feels like. I’m kind of sick of having to water the garden. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-england/410327/44 "2007-07-03T19:13:30Z")
I’m sorry to tell you all this, but I feel obliged. You aren’t getting a sunny, scorching, dry summer because I’m not going to England this summer. I was there last summer–right about the time it got so hot the railroad tracks warped. Previously, I was in Moscow when it got so hot a power station exploded and half the city was stuck in the subway, and in northern Italy the summer it got so hot the Alps melted. So you see, it’s obviously me. Sorry. If you wanna pitch in for my plane tickets and hotel, though, maybe we could work something out. ---
**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, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-england/410327/45 "2007-07-03T19:22:15Z")
[QUOTE=Sattua] Previously, I was in Moscow when it got so hot a power station exploded and half the city was stuck in the subway, and in northern Italy the summer it got so hot the Alps melted. So you see, it’s obviously me. Sorry. If you wanna pitch in for my plane tickets and hotel, though, maybe we could work something out. [/QUOTE] Are you… anywhere near Toronto? Just askin’… ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-england/410327/46 "2007-07-03T19:29:41Z")
For the last few hours it’s been gloriously sunny here. With all the rain recently, everything is an incredibly _stunning_ shade of green. ---
**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, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-england/410327/47 "2007-07-03T19:49:20Z")
[QUOTE=Sal Ammoniac] And I will note that here in NEW England, it hasn’t rained a drop for a month now, it feels like. I’m kind of sick of having to water the garden. [/QUOTE] \ There’s a _ **new** _ England? \ ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-england/410327/48 "2007-07-03T19:53:58Z")
How come those of us blessed with a superabundance get no sympathy? L.A. got _three_ inches of rain _this year_. I feel like the skinny girls when everyone says “Oh, I hate you. You can eat anything.” ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-england/410327/49 "2007-07-03T21:20:30Z")
[QUOTE=cher3] How come those of us blessed with a superabundance get no sympathy? L.A. got _three_ inches of rain _this year_. I feel like the skinny girls when everyone says “Oh, I hate you. You can eat anything.” [/QUOTE] Poor me…I’m too skinny and my $100s don’t fit in my wallet. I mostly just wanted to jump in and say that I love reading Anglothreads. Brits are freakin’ funny people. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-england/410327/50 "2007-07-03T21:27:00Z")
Hmmmm. At work today I was wondering whether the school really should be continuing their sports day, with two separate very active thunderclouds in the near vicinity. Didn’t seem like a very sensible time to be out in the middle of a field. And it turns out two kids got struck by lightning at another school nearby. ---
**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-england/410327/51 "2007-07-03T21:56:25Z")
Our local cricket ground, which is only a couple of hundred yards from where I live, has been under two feet of water for the last week, with no sign of it receding. Luckily there is an earth flood bank between it and my house. Does anyone know the rules for under-water cricket ? Here in Nottinghamshire we had twelve inches of rain in June, which is six times the average. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-england/410327/52 "2007-07-03T22:04:12Z")
[QUOTE=Rayne Man] Does anyone know the rules for under-water cricket? [/QUOTE] Reversal at **Oval** , providing diagonals are void? ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-england/410327/53 "2007-07-03T22:41:01Z")
Oh god. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-england/410327/54 "2007-07-03T22:44:27Z")
I did hesitate before posting that. But just couldn’t help myself. After all, **Rayne Man** had fallen right into the Williamson Trap via the City branch. (Edit: I wonder how long before we get a ‘Mornington Crescent threads belong in the Pit’ rule?) ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-england/410327/55 "2007-07-03T22:54:33Z")
> [@](#): > > Reversal at Oval, providing diagonals are void? I believe that Winston issued a pertinent directive (via the Cabinet Office in '41), and I quote: > [@](#): > > In this time of grave national crisis all games of significant topological complexity are hereby forbidden, lest the Hun uncover our deepest machinations. Please, everyone, gather your belonging and report to room 46b at the Foreign Office. ---
**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, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-england/410327/56 "2007-07-03T22:58:28Z")
No Mornington Crescent. That’s an order. > [@chowder](#): > > Oh and jjimm you’re starting to annoy me, don’t make me come to Oxford to sort you out You couldn’t afford the Megabus, granddad. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-england/410327/57 "2007-07-03T22:59:46Z")
[QUOTE=Struan] Please, everyone, gather your belonging and report to room 46b at the Foreign Office. [/QUOTE] You’ll find me at [**Down Street**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_street) 😃 ---
**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, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-england/410327/58 "2007-07-03T23:02:34Z")
I already had a name in mind, but you know, I’m tempted to paint my boat sunshine yellow and name it ‘TITTYBISCUITS’. My wife would never speak to me again if I did that though, and it might not go down too well at the cub scouts canoeing club. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-england/410327/59 "2007-07-03T23:21:09Z")
All hail the good ship “Prosternedabiscuits”, maybe a bit _too_ classical. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2007, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-england/410327/60 "2007-07-04T06:14:34Z")
[QUOTE=jjimm] No Mornington Crescent. That’s an order.You couldn’t afford the Megabus, granddad. 😉 [/QUOTE] Right that’s it you southern tart, now I’m really mad. Expect me in my 50cc zimmer frame at any time now, be afraid, be very afraid [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-england/410327.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-england/410327.md?page=4)