To get really annoyed by people who live in hot countries claiming that the UK is not hot

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I have some relatives who are in Australia and I'm friends with some of them on Facebook. Apart from their finding the whole Boris Johnson/Brexit thing awfully amusing, they're generally nice people, but there's one of them in particular who can't bloody leave it alone if I post anything about the weather. The other day, I posted about how it was supposed to be the hottest day on record, and she was straight onto it with comments about "That's not hot, that's like a winter temperature for us, you Poms are so soft". She thinks 18°C is "freezing", btw

I'm only mildly irritated by this, but I just don't get why people do it. I know it's ridiculously hot over there and all the wildlife is venomous and all that, but what is the actual point of telling people that all the time when they're just trying to have a whinge about being too warm?

I bloody love the hot weather, I'm in the UK and have never lived elsewhere. I didn't used to love it, in fact for most of my life I've spent hot days getting myself stressed out and hating it. I don't know what changed, only a number of years ago I started to enjoy it. It did coincide with losing a considerable amount of weight so I'm not sure if being larger I felt even hotter.

Anyway, of course people are just used to what they're used to. It's no different to joke at Australians finding 18 degrees Celsius cold, than them laughing at us finding 38 very hot.

Australians do not start to deploy mass national whinging, Facebook misery posts and demands for public action in workplaces when temperatures go below 18, however. We fully acknowledge central heating would be pointless and wasteful so just ride out cooler temperatures without the peculiarly British protests demanding aircon in the opposite circumstance. Yes, you may know some exceptions to this rule, but the Brits on my FB and IRL are by infinite measure far more incapable of putting up and shutting up about temperatures outside 10-18 degrees than the Australians.

Just really struggling to understand how anyone’s skin could feel uncomfortably cold in 18 degrees C.

Not saying people are lying. But it’s weird. Could anyone’s blood be that thin?

I don't see this much with the heat and hot countries, but its much more evident in winter. Snow = national emergency. Schools shut, workplaces shut, shops run out of cat litter...

Why are people so mean!

My internal thermostat seems to have broken. I get out of the shower, dry myself and am then dripping wet again. I go outside got five minutes and the sweat is pouring down my face.

I don't give a shiney shite who's got the worst weather, I'm not coping in the humidity.

And if this is our future with the temp rising year on year then we need to be acting now, not bickering amongst ourselves although I'm not doing any acting today because I'm sat in front of a fan and only intend to move to go to the loo and get a drink

@ElphabaTheGreen is spot on again
It was 6 degrees when I got out of bed this morning, you just crack on.
I often read comments like ‘Australians all have aircon’, this could not be further from the truth. Also, for the ones that do, many find it difficult to pay their electricity bills (as I’m certain is the same in the UK with heating bills). That is prohibitive for just ‘turning on the aircon’. I roughly only turned mine on on days over 39 degrees last summer.
When I was growing up nobody had aircon, including many shops. It was hell working in a windowless shop in summer as a teen!
Anyway hope you all survived the day !

I think that people don't realise quite how much we talk about the weather. That it's just a national topic of conversation, a reliable small-talk subject.

I've lived a lot of places (mainly hot), and yes, it's true that it's different because the hot places are more used to it, but it's also true that when somewhere's 35 degrees for a month that it feels different because everything is 35 degrees - the whole land becomes a radiator so it's never cooler, whereas here, this morning I actually had to close the window because the breeze was making me chilly (it's already warmer now).

For me, the difference between the UK and so many other places I've lived is how unreliable the weather is. We have to prepare for anything, and it ends up that we're prepared for nothing.

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I think people who live abroad forget we deal with these temperatures without air con in buildings/on transport that are not equipped for this heat. It makes a huge difference IMHO.

Why should they care? People in developing countries are dying in the heat, why should people abroad care if the UK doesn’t have AC?

It's easy to cope with and even enjoy the hot weather. Use full sun block, hydrate frequently, water is best. Siesta between 2 and 5 if you can. If you can't, try and do the stuff that needs physical activity early morning or late evening. Get the hosepipe out for fun with the kids.A good soaking in cpold water is great.

Yes those people on this thread that have said ''oh it's a different type of heat in Australia though, don't get the humidity''

Erm NO!! I have never ever in my life experienced the same level of humidity in the UK that we had day in day out where I lived in Australia. The humidity here pales in comparison 😆

Wow people clearly don’t know what humidity is if they think humidity in UK is bad.

its 38 in london so can everyone with their its not hot just fuck off now thanks

It's not that hot though, we're just not used to it. We lived on the east coast of NZ for nearly 5 years, and it was hotter there, but we acclimatised to it. We had a pool but no effective air con, so it was a bit uncomfortable by moments, and you haven't really lived until your flip flops get stuck to the road on sticky tar day (The first really hot day of a NZ summer, where the tarmac gets sticky it's so hot)

To be fair though, if you've posted on social media that it's hot, you have to accept that people will comment.

Australians do not start to deploy mass national whinging, Facebook misery posts and demands for public action in workplaces when temperatures go below 18, however. We fully acknowledge central heating would be pointless and wasteful so just ride out cooler temperatures without the peculiarly British protests demanding aircon in the opposite circumstance. Yes, you may know some exceptions to this rule, but the Brits on my FB and IRL are by infinite measure far more incapable of putting up and shutting up about temperatures outside 10-18 degrees than the Australians

Could you write that in Standard Australian? Seriously. Can not understand what you're saying.

Pnuemonia coz its 18 degres-you can get pnuemonia anytime

We don't have air con. That's pretty much the start and finish of it. Having family in US and having visited them in summer, you go from air con house to air con car to air con place outside your home.
When they visited here they found it really hard because air con isn't everywhere. Imagine a world without air con in cars - that's my childhood.

its 38 in london so can everyone with their its not hot just fuck off now thanks

we've heard the "it's too hot" complaint since the temperature passed the 20s bar, so we're just bored of the complaints. It's summer, some of us love it, let's make the most of the 3 or 4 days of decent weather we have, shall we?

It will be back to grey and miserable soon, and same moaners will complain again anyway.

Return of Saturn I said that about the humidity in Oz, because I live in WA where humidity is low. QLD and NT are very different. If you’ve lived here, you must know there’s more than one climate here.

I complain about any year over about 21 C. That's too hot for me. I get frustrated. But then I'm not one to complain about snow/rain/grey days/cloud/the cold because I don't mind them - I'll take anything over a hot day! I dread the summer every year.

I've been on holiday to Jamaica, and I'd take Norway over that any day!

Back to the OP. You're so right. It's fucking silly for those overseas to say yada yada bollocks/hotter where we are back in the day, etc., etc.

What matters is where it's happening, i.e the UK. It's hot.

If, by comparison temperatures hit 50 in Australia, you'd hear the yelping in outer space.

Or re-read the earlier post with a rising inflection at the end of every sentence? Like everything’s a question?

echt Ya peeps are farkin soft whingers maaaaaaaaaaaaaaate.Better?

No. Your grammar was well fucked. I am not Australian,, though I live here and am a citizen, so less of your mate shite.

Just link this video every time she comments.

OP I am in Oz and your relative is probably just jealous of the hot weather as it’s winter down here at the moment. It was only 14 degrees here in Melbourne today and will get down to about 8 degrees tonight. I’m rather jealous of the uk heatwave right now.