AIBU to be fed up with the heatwave panic?

[Iwanttobeafraser]

I'm fully aware that ots of people are goign to tell me I am BU but my god, I am so tired of the trauma over this heatwave.

The endless facebook posts (and MN) about if someone dares to take a dog out in the heat - my local page had pictures of three dogs, looking pretty relaxed, albeit with their tongues hanging out, and a story about how she cornered the woman who had gone into the shop (to buy fags! [gasp]. If that's even true.) and then the woman was rude to her and basically 500 posts agreeing how awful those poor dogs must be finding things.

The people who can't leave the house because it's too hot.

The trauma about whether the kids should be allowed out because it's too hot for them.

Blah blah blah.

It's hot. Yes, it means you have to adjust a few things. Yes, you might not lke it. But it's not the end of the bloody world. I don't like the cold. But it doesn't cause me to be completely unable to do anything, go anywhere, or let my children do anything.

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it's almost like everyone should listen to the health advice and act according to their health, age, lifestyle and heat tolerance.

I still think someone is a cunt if they take their dog out in 34C heat though, even if you think your dog is 'fine' in those temps, there's just no need other than to BE a cunt... because we don't have this weather that often to know the dog is fine, and just because they were LAST summer, doesn't mean they are THIS summer, and is your dogs health and wellbeing worth the test?

I don’t go out because the heat would make me vomit. It’s fucking deeply unpleasant for me, roll on the fucking winter!!!!! And no I don’t complain about the winter…..

Someone said to me but it’s glorious

no not in my opinion. It’s HIDEOUS.

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stupid bitch!!

if factor 50 helped health conditions ud be bathing in the bloody stuff.

sometimes, some people bring out the absolute worst in me & I could happily wish on them the medical issues that affect the person they're being like that about!

it could be them one day, my stroke happened out of the blue, literally overnight. I'm lucky in many ways I know that (I'm still cognitively ok, speach is ok, it could have been much worse! But it has changed my life, & future, beyond recognition.

being told to 'be quiet & make the most of the heatwave' (that's making me ill) just makes me realise how dense some people are.

We had a message from our water company. Not to use any water except for cooking, drinking and 2 minute showers. 'Because everyone using the water is making their pipes run low on pressure & causing some people to be without water'.

nothing at all to do with huge bonuses & not much spent on maintaining the infrastructure then?

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hope you don't lids your supply & the rest of your town gets theirs back soon!

And it’s gone tomorrow.

Exactly. It's shit, but at least we understand it's time limited & we're not 5. She should be out having teddies picnics in the shade & playing in her paddling pool, not lying on the couch feeling so ill, poor wee mite 💕

Thankgod

It’s because our country isn’t designed for hot weather in the slightest and very few places have aircon, homes certainly don’t and insulation often traps the heat in which makes things worse. There’s nothing we can really do about this since it’s only hot for a month or two every year at best, just have to get on with it.

I haven't seen any panic do not sure what you're talking about and your thread isn't really about that either

youre right & it's probably better for me to just roll my eyes & not engage with the thread, but it's difficult not to at least try to educate them.

Can’t you buy a portable air con unit and a mini fridge for the Medicines? They only seem to chill to about 5C anyway!

You could also get one of those foil rolls and tape up one room’s window so it’s cooler.

What??

None of us with medical problems have asked others not to enjoy the nice weather if they can. Nor 'told them off for posting how much they're enjoying it'

However, being told to 'be quiet & make the most of it' is fucking rude & ridiculous.

& in the winter the BBC say about people dying in cold snaps.

I'm finding it too hot but I do answer my front door - if you want to add me to your stats on the issue.

Thanks wow the bare faced cheek of that message. Unreal!

100% agree @Iwanttobeafraser It's ludicrous. It's nearly summer, (just a few more days,) and it's hot. Hot weather shouldn't be 'breaking news' but it is! 🙄

So we have had the hottest May day since records began (today,) fabulous. It was 35C , not 50C. And the way the media bang on and on about 'the heatwave,' as if we have never had one before is batshit.

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Its been pretty bloody awful here in the NHS mainly because of peoples damned stupidity in the hot weather. I needed an urgent ambulance for my patient today and I mean urgent. I work in an outlying clinic and had to wait 5 hours because they were all busy rescuing people off beaches. The burns unit is working overtime.

That's awful, I hope it's cooling down a bit where you are & your kids are feeling a bit better.

its wreckless enough they went ahead with the sports day, but with so little provision it's neglect & id be writing a very strongly worded letter to the Board of Govenors ' ( or whatever you have)

@DoubleFunMum how stupid and reckless of the school No common sense shown there at all.

Not here it's not, forecast to be 32°

You norty gurrrl.

My dog went out at 7:00 this morning before it got to hot, he’s been in and out of the garden all day and knows how hot it is outside. He came to ask me at 3:00 to go out for a walk because he won’t toilet in our garden- so I took him. If that makes me a cunt so be it.

I'm sure @Credittocress that the majority of dogs are intelligent enough to know when it's too hot for them. You're not a c^nt!

It is very hot though? I came to Paris for a few days. Omg I've never been as hot in my life