No wonder the rest of the world laughs at us Brits moaning about the weather

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Just seen a clip on BBC news of an Asian bride walking down a flooded aisle after a typhoon. Everyone is smiling and just getting on with it.

Yet we are moaning about a bit of rain at the moment. We really have no resilience and considering our weather is going to get more dramatic, we need to change our mindset and coping strategies.

I don’t hear people complaining about the weather in real life. I see clickbait on the tabloid websites telling us how hot it’s going to be, how next minute everything is going to get washed away in a deluge, how giant Asian hornets are invading the South Coast.

But that’s not real life.

Most people seem to be getting on with it.

In my (limited) experience, people from places with 'better' weather tend to laugh/take the mickey about our rubbish weather rather than laugh at the actual Brits complaining about it. Always happens during Wimbledon tournament when matches are cancelled all over the place on the outside courts due to rain, it's all "Oh, the silly Britsh weather!" Etc.
One good thing that I've found is when you're having to chat to someone you don't know very well and there isn't much to say, at least the British weather is something we can talk about, lol.

It's not just us Brits, I have just come back from the Smokys in Tennessee and they were moaning there about the rain. It's something that people do.

Smug posters telling people to wear the right clothes and wellies and go and splash about in puddles doesn't help either. Some of us would like to get out of our winter clothes and rain gear for a change. And the novelty of splashing about in puddles soo wears off.

The only posts I have seen about cancelling holidays are from posters who have holidays in the Med where there have been fires/is a risk of fires and people who planned to go camping in the UK/Northern Europe.

At least we aren't getting the "I hate summer" posters complaining that the thermometer has topped 17 degrees. Perhaps we should be telling them to lose weight and wear less in the heat?

This. My SIL is Australian. Her family live in Perth. They think its hilarious that she will talk about having a BBQ if it's nice but have a plan B if its throwing it down. In Australia if you plan BBQ on the beach ,you just have one. We don't have their weather. We have to have a plan B. Very few things here are capable of killing us. Every damn thing in Australia is capable of killing you. They moan about that. We moan about the weather

Not really sure about that I think the perception come from other countries. I currently live in Switzerland, where people refuse to do thinks unless the weather conditions are perfect.

Also myself and a German colleague were discussing the amount of rain Zurich has. We googled it, it turnout Zurich more rain on average than the UK average. So as I say it is a perception.

My favourite type of moaning. Moaning about moaning. A meta moan.

Quite.

At least we aren't getting the "I hate summer" posters complaining that the thermometer has topped 17 degrees. Perhaps we should be telling them to lose weight and wear less in the heat?

Some of us posters run naturally warm and are heat intolerant through no fault of our own, are a healthy weight and if we wore less, we would be naked.

I actually love the weather here (in SE England) I grew up with extreme heat (cold, tornados, floods, and heavy snowfall) that made me ill and caused fainting spells as a child because the heat along with just moving around would drop my blood pressure regardless of how appropriately dressed I was for the weather.

I love a brew and a moan.

I'm sure countries who suffer tornadoes complain too and so on.

I'm in a walking group. We walk twice a week on a famous set of hills . We have member who is a Hong Kong refugee. She has been through all kinds of enormous stress to get here and to be safe. Her teenage daughters are now at school here and she said they couldn't believe teachers actually wanted their opinion and accepted a different one to their own. In school in Hong Kong you agree ( outwardly) with what you are told. Dissent isn't a good idea. She doesn't come with us when it rains. She doesn't like rain. Is she a pathetic whinger too Op.

Of course she is going to smile, its her wedding and imagine the pictures if she was scowling?! That doesn't mean that she was happy it was flooded tho, does it? Im from a country where monsoon season is a real thing, ALL of us complain about it, but we carry on with our day.

I love the rain! The other day one of my friends cancelled on me because of the rain! We were meeting another friend too so is two just got on with it, rain and all.

True

The rain has stopped my grass from turning all brown so it’s only just picked up

Gets warmer next week

Anyway I’m with majority op yabu the ‘rest of the world is laughing at us’ is a bit lame and old hat

The rest of the world doesn't care about you. What makes you think the rest of the world focuses on the British so much?
I read things like this all the time on mumsnet and it's baffling.
People from other countries are concerned about their own country/immediate area/lives. They don't concern themselves with you.

Ludicrous, rest of the world laughing at us?? They were stunned 😳 that we voted for Brexit but the weather? I don't think so.....

Its disappointing I think .We have a long winter and Summer makes it better somehow.Children have broken up and have 6 weeks to want to do things. We had a lovely month in June and I certainly dont want a heatwave! We have a national pastime of commenting/complaining about weather conditions here!

I'm sure countries who suffer tornadoes complain too and so on.

You’re a bit too busy trying to get to safety to complain tbh.

I'm very resilient.

Loved and worked and travelled all over and experienced extremes of weather we don't see in the UK as well as being in natural disasters.

I still get out and about whatever the weather because I dress appropriately.

Im still gonna moan when so far summer has consisted of 3 weeks of rain

This

This sort of thing always makes me wonder, where does it end?

We can't moan about the school holidays been a bit shit this year because the rain and weather because others have typhoons.

Well, they can't moan about typhoons because some people get Tsunamis.

That mindset means no one can moan about having a cold, cause some one has the flu.
Can't moan you broke your foot, someone broke their back.
Can't moan about having a migraine, someone has cancer.

Can't moan about your car breaking down, someone had an accident and wrote their car off and now they can't walk anymore.

Etc.

Like my dad used to say, even if someone else has a broken arm, it doesn't mean your stubbed toe doesn't hurt like bastard.

Your dad was a wise man @KateJohns

I don't think people having a moan about the summer holiday weather is at all comparable to getting married in a monsoon. And also, how do you know that all the wedding guests weren't having a good old moan about the weather and their wet feet.

Parent's on here are having a moan about their European holidays being ruined by extreme heat or holidays at home being a washout and therefore requiring a lot more effort and money...and yes I know I can make them put wellies on etc but a lot of the free easy things like skate parks, picnics beach days etc become less fun and more effort in the rain!