to ban the words ' in this heat"

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fgs folks MAN UP

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.

Where did you live? Quite a big country to be making sweeping generalisations about the nature of the heat.

Agree with you on (metropolitan) shops and cafes. That said, when I left in 2005 only about half the suburban buses where I lived had aircon. Commuting was...unenjoyable.

x-post Jassy. I agree people in the UK could be more sensible re. hats, suncream and staying in the shade/indoors during the hottest part of the day, BUT I do think people go out because with the breeze, it's nicer than being stuck in a stuffy house with no air conditioning!

I'm not at work today (obviously because I;m on MN and at work I don't have time to scratch my bum)

But I work in NHS (who aren't famed for AirCon)
Patients (who, yes, do suffer 'in this heat' ) come into the waiting room and discuss "the weather" with every other patient.
Then they want a debate about it

"Do you like this hot weather"
"It's tooo hot"
"Warm enough for you"
"where can I get a drink , is there water" (I bring my own)

Whatever answer I give would be wrong. So I smile and say "I don't miind but i know some struggle"

I don't want a fecking debate with every single one.

And FGS wear enough clothes, I do not want to see expanses of leg,thigh,armits,moobs etc < vom.

I think ban discussing the weather full stop. In this heat my least favourite thing is topless men about town. I do not want to be nose to strange man's chest hair when going about my business.

Yy to wear enough clothes. Just because it zips doesn't mean it fits....

I saw a cyclist yesterday in shorts,shoes,helmet (with webcam) nothing else.

What if he came off his bike? His poor skin would be shredded

Though as an adult , his choice.

It's bloody ridiculous that we moan so much about the weather.

I'm in Scotland. What does "in this heat" mean, and if you lot don't want it, we'll have it. Thanks.

x-post Jassy. I agree people in the UK could be more sensible re. hats, suncream and staying in the shade/indoors during the hottest part of the day, BUT I do think people go out because with the breeze, it's nicer than being stuck in a stuffy house with no air conditioning!

I'm absolutely not arguing that Australia is better set up to deal with heat than Australia, particularly when it comes to the provision of public shade and cool public places in general. Though I never lived in a house in Australia that had aircon. My parents now have it in two rooms, as does one of my brothers, but it's definitely still not 'standard' in homes - even high end homes - jurging by some of the online real estate I've been browsing!

As a point of comparison - humidity in London today is hovering around the 45-50% mark. Due to drop back to 30-odd this afternoon Likely to go a bit higher later in the week with lower temps, but not much.

Average summer afternoon humidity in Brisbane and Sydney sits around 60-65%. Both are humid subtropical climates. Going outside in Brisbane in summer when the humidity hits over 70% (often) is like swimming.

Brisbane today is 23 degrees with 88% humidity and no precipitation risk. In winter.

It's not Singapore, or places like that. But it definitely can't be described as a very dry heat (which, having spent plenty of time in western Qld and NSW, is very enjoyable. Give me 38 degrees there any day over 28 in Brisbane.)

What if he came off his bike? His poor skin would be shredded

Wouldn't make much difference if he was wearing a t-shirt TBH.

I wear too many clothes. I went out in a long sleeved t shirt, jeans and leather trainers this morning, which was OK till about 9am then it got uncomfortable.

Now home and in same t shirt and shorts

Felt very sorry for workmen painting a building

They are going to roast.

I think it is perfectly reasonable to complain about the heat, it isn't much fun when you aren't allowed to take a siesta or stop work/school in order to adapt.

Like having to work in sub zero temps without a coat or something. You wouldn't make people do that.

All the fuss about the heat is pretty odd for any of us who grew up in much hotter places than the UK! Although I must say I seem to have grown pretty soft after all my years here, I have an airconditioner in my bedroom and an airconditioned car, and now feel both to be pretty necessary! Whereas, when I was a child, in far greater (and on-going) heat, neither would have been thought of! We just opened the windows and got on with it!

I remember well the summers of 1975 & 1976. Scorching heat for several months, crisp brown dead grass, empty reservoirs, water shortages and stand-pipes in the street. We had cracks in our lawn an inch wide that you could poke a 3-foot stick down and not get to the bottom. There were field fires that went on and on, my neighbour at the time was a firefighter and one shift lasted three days solid - they went from fire to fire and their families brought food and drink for them to the tenders out in the fields.

I remember those summers as well, taxi.

And mains water was turned off for all but 2/3 hours a day for a while.

Some people had no water & had to use standpipes in the streets.

Then a minister for drought was appointed (Denis Howell ???) & it started to rain the next day!

Oh yes I recall the summer of 1976. Not being allowed to flush the loo because the cystern wouldnt fill up due to the water being cut off.

I remember standing at the standpipe at the end of our street with my mum to collect our daily allowance of water.

I have photos of my sister and I playing in the garden. There is no grass just an expanse of dry mud/earth and in my mums flower beds - dead looking rose bushes. The Ford Cortina on the drive has a thick layer of dust/dirt over it in the pictures too, but ofcourse water was in such short supply no one would waste it on washing their cars.

That was one hot summer! It seemed to go on for ever as well. Tbh,I dont recall anything like that since, certainly for not such a long time and we have never had standpipes since.

I love the hot, sunny weather - at the weekend. At the weekend we can lounge around with the windows open, splash about in the paddling pool and sit in the garden and enjoy the weather.

I hate it during the week. I run three times a week and it's bloody horrible running in this heat. I'm a hot person normally and it's horrible trying to do anything quickly.

It's also horrible trekking uphill to school three times a day, I end up hot and sticky and it's a horrible feeling.

It wouldn't be half as bad if we got a gradual build up bit we go from needing the hearing on one day to digging out fans to be able to sleep the next. It's worse when it feels cold in the morning so send the kids to school with a jacket and no suncream and by lunchtime it's scorching.

Ooh I remember the summer of 76 too! My mum was pregnant. We managed with smiles on our faces tho, not like the moaning Minnie's of today!

I have a chronic illness that makes this heat totally unbearable, maybe I should man up too

Ooh I remember the summer of 76 too!

I remember the cracks in the ground - wide enough to lose toy cars in them!

Everything was brown & it just seemed to be hot & sunny forever!

Best summer ever.....

should my DH who is a welder and working IN THIS HEAT man-up when he's coming home with heat exhaustion because the amibient temperature in his weld pen is well over 100 degrees and he can't even go outside for some fresh air to cool down?

Should my autistic, sensory son man up when this heat causes him to go into sensory overload?

Should i man up because this heat triggers my asthma and i feel like i cant breathe?

I'm loving every second of it but don't feel the need to sit outside all day. My car has aircon, my children's school has aircon and the shopping centre I went to today has aircon. I've kept the blinds down upstairs and downstairs is fairly cool. The children are creamed up, none of them have moaned and I'm suitably dressed shorts and a short sleeved tshirt. Would be extremely happy for it to be like this for weeks. Mind you I detest the cold and the winter more than I could ever explain and then you do hear me moan

Can we have a winner declared for the "l feel the heat more than you do" competition? It's hot and l have a fan on, is it summer?

Please remember that IN THIS HEAT you must look after the vulnerable members of society who will suffer! Never leave your Goth outside for long periods and never leave them alone in a car!

I think you should MAN UP and live with phrases people use, op. Starting a bun fight in this heat is terrible.

Goth?