Ok, I moved here from Seattle 6 years ago. It rains here a lot, it’s way far north, it’s on the same latitude as Moscow. It’s dark, it’s grey, and it’s cold. I get it, I really do.
But what the hell happened to summer this year? It’s fucking August, I’ve already got seasonal affective disorder, I’m wearing a sweater and jeans and wool socks IN MY FLAT, and it’s pissing down rain and cold as hell out side. Global warming my speckled arse.
What.
The.
Fuck.
Look, England - I don’t bitch about the winters. I don’t bitch about the food. I even don’t bitch too much about the chavs and the scumbags. I don’t bitch about the high prices, crowds, or drunken scum picking fights and throwing kebabs and cans of lager about outside the train station at 2am.
But this is just taking the piss. Sort this out immediately, or I promise you, England, action will be taken!!
Its not just England, its all of North-Western Europe I think. I mean, come on, I was explicitly warned about the Parisian summer. From my experiences this summer I think they were all taking the piss. Its not much different to a typical British summer…
We had the central heating on this weekend - mid-August and the radiators were cranked up to full. :mad:
Our team’s cricket season has consisted of exactly one single match since May… every other game has been rained off.
We’d better see some decent snow this winter to compensate, otherwise I’m going to go buy the most carbon-hungry appliances I can find to make sure we get these blazing summers the climate-doom folks are promising.
My work jumpers are coming out of the wardrobe this weekend - I was freezing in shirt-sleeves this morning, but our office heating won’t be on until the autumn.
North Scotland’s weather is completely borked as well. Any sort of outdoor activity now requires you pre-pack gear covering 4 standard seasons, with a good chance you’ll use the lot in a day.
Climate change - no shit, it changes ever 10 fucking minutes. I’ve had bike trips where I’ve gone from t-shirt and shorts to jumper, waterproof overtrousers and jacket, back to t-shirt and shorts, then back to waterproofs, all in a matter of minutes. I was beginning to feel like a mountainbiking cabaret act.
Yeah, right when I was on holiday. My flatmate laughed at me and told me I ‘missed summer’ when I got back, but fuck - at least I had a bit of a tan from being Stateside for 3 weeks.
I’m in Boston, and it’s not any better. I’m on vacation this week, and I’d planned on spending every day at the beach. Since Saturday, it’s been partly cloudy, windy, and the temperature hasn’t risen above 70F. I am Not Amused.
Fucking jet streams. Bastards come over here with no respect for the way we do things. The whole country is going to hell in a hand basket because of the likes of them.
You well, truly, and thoroughly suck. I think I may even hate you a little bit.
MSN is what sunny Ol’ London town looks like today.
garius - definitely the bloody foreigners. Can’t stand them, coming over to this fair isle, talking their gibberish and making with their foreign ways and stealing proper English jobs and women and making the weather turn to shite! Toss the lot of them out, I say.
Oh, wait, what was that? I was one of the filthy foreign horde 6 years ago and am dating a fair English rose meself? Oh, well…
