to ban the words ' in this heat"

[TealFanClub]

fgs folks MAN UP

I'll remember the 'man-up' and 'enjoy it while it lasts' while I'm boiling and about thirty seconds away from passing out in my 43 degree celcius kitchen today. I like the sun, just not the stifling nature of this heat.

How childish.

I am glad people don't tell me to 'man up' when it is cold and I feel really ill with it because I feel it so badly.

Last week my heating kicked in (I left it at 15), today it is going to be 30. I am pretty good in the heat but my husband hates it. He is uncomfortable and gets really bad headaches and lethargic. Guess he should woman up.

Can we ban 'man up' first? Daft phrase.

I live in Australia. I have no sympathy for anyone sooking about the heat for a couple of days over summer. It's SUMMER! It's supposed to be hot.

I can't stand comments like that. The heat in England is NOT the same as the heat in Australia - I know, I was born there.

Australia has air con in every car and building, for starters, and it's a VERY dry heat. Nothing in England is built to cope with 35 degree heat because we only get it a couple of days a year. Most buildings don't have air conditioning, so workplaces are like heat boxes, houses don't come with air-con as standard and if you're in a flat with no outdoor space, you're buggered.

Australian houses are generally more open plan and are designed to be as cool as possible. English ones are designed to trap the heat because most of the year it's bloody freezing. You really can't compare the two countries in that way. They're both designed differently!

My thyroid is playing silly buggers which makes me struggle but I refuse to complain about this heat.

Its so bloody rare and shortlived to get it here in the UK.

Yesterday I was off to hopsital mid afternoon in my car, with the air conditioning dead. What a day for it to die on me! I was sat in traffic for an hour coming home at 6pm, getting sweaty and rather hotbut there is still something about this heat I just love, because it is so rare.

YABU it gets above 40c in our place of work as soon as the outside temperature goes above 27c so YABU.

So.....In this heat we all feel ill and most can't sleep at night leading to even more exhausted, hot & grouchy staff the following day.

I second googoodolly - I have family who live in Asia that I've stayed with, and their routine is basically air conditioning all day, house/car/office - then maybe go for a walk in the late evening once it's cooled down. It's not the same here! Plus when we go on holiday and it's hotter most of us spend most of the time swimming/playing/eating ice cream, not getting on the tube in a suit....

It bugs me when people compare the two! I can cope fine with Australian heat but I struggle here when it gets muggy and people always say to me "but you're Australian, you should be used to it!" - well, yes, but in Australia I'm not sat in a building designed to keep the heat in with no air conditioning! I can go to one of the many outdoor pools, go inside to an air-conditioned cafe or restaurant if it's too warm and even if I went to work, it would be in a nice cool shop or office.

It's not the same!

We can't open our windows and we live in a first floor flat. Even if it only lasts a week or two, last year it lasted months, it's very difficult for us. My DD is almost 3 and absolutely hates the heat, she gets covered in a rash and is miserable and she can run around naked. I'm use to it being 72 degrees in the house no matter what the whether is outside. I really do think English houses should be built with air conditioning. DH reacts badly to the heat, he seems to run hotter than we do and really struggles with the summer and any heat.

Ok OP I'll just tell my two week old to man up shall I?

Getting on the frigging tube and them come back and tell people to man up

It's horrible. We have no gradual build up or preparation because our weather is so stupidly erratic. We're not used to it even tho it does happen every year - it's only for a few days. Our buildings aren't designed for it. Our lifestyle isn't designed for it. Our transport isn't designed for it.

People are not used to this heat, and don't have the clothes, buildings, appliances (air-conditioning/ fans) or habits to deal with it.

YABVU. "In this heat" is a useful phrase, for reminding people that they need to be more mindful in this heat.

I love being in this heat, fantastic. The office is air conditioned, I love the feeling of walking from the cool into a blaze of light and hot air!!

This weekend I'll be canoeing on the river & swimming - only fun in this heat.

I'm looking forward to walking the dog at lunchtime & sitting outside the pub in this heat and then sitting out in my warm garden this evening without having to put a top on.

I hope it lasts through to the end of September personally!!

Not all of Australia has a dry heat. Queensland gets very humid.

When people 'tell me off' for not liking such hot weather, I secretly wish that that would suffer from my medical condition for one day in this heat. They'd be begging for mercy.

I wish people would fuck off with their assumptions.

Australia has air con in every car and building, for starters, and it's a VERY dry heat

Are you actually serious?

That said, I agree Britain isn't set up to deal with hot weather and people don't have strategies or are used to coping with it.

That includes a presumption that you stay out of the sun between 10-2 / 11-3 (depending on your state).

Not all of Australia has a dry heat. Queensland gets very humid.

True, but the buildings etc are still built for it. Air-conditioning inside makes a BIG difference when it's warm outside. It's hard in England because you can't really escape it. Inside, in the shade, whatever, it makes no difference and it's STILL hot and sticky. At least you can cool down inside in Australia!

I am serious, I lived there. The heat there is generally nothing like it is in the UK. I've never been in a shop or cafe without air-conditioning over there, for starters.

I missed a paragraph there! Should read that Australians do have strategies for dealing with the heat, including etc etc.

And understanding how the fucking sun works. Can never quite believe the number of kids going off to school in summer without hats 'because it's not really that hot'.

My house has Australian school rules. No hat = no outside play in summer.

I'd sooner ban the ridiculous phrase 'man up'.

I'm on a little campaign here so please excuse - but can I remind everyone 'in this heat' to look out for babies or young children left in cars?

I know we don't have a big history of children dying in cars in the UK but our car was 39 degrees inside after 20 minutes parked this morning, at 9.15am.

So it is worth keeping an eye out for children. And dogs.

Thank you