To be fed up of hearing 'just get on with it'?

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This kind of 'just get on with it' RE the heat is all over Facebook. People talking about the heat in 1976 and saying 'we just got on with it' or 'we muddled through' (as if people didn't die as a result of that heatwave)

My issue is - shouldn't we as a society be aiming higher than just getting on with things and muddling through? We should be campaigning for better infrastructure, better working practices.

I just think we have all this technology, we're supposed to be a rich country, let's fight to make things better rather than just managing. What happened to the spirit of the first union workers who demanded better conditions and rights? I want to see that spirit back.

Well exactly...so we torture staff and patients with extreme heat...it makes it even more vital we act

It's bloody hot and I'm sick of it already.

2018, it was 30+°C for weeks and we had a drought. It reached 38°C in 2019 and 40°C in 2022. So it's definitely happened since 1976 and it's been hotter.

But then you’re moaning without discussing how to make change happen. Because the answer is extra tax.

Loads of people are just plain cunty these days, aren't they?

They get their kicks from moaning about wokies and snowflakes and teenagers and gays/browns/flags/poor people and are just generally exhausting great arseholes who seem to have forgotten that the 70's/80's were also shit.

There are high temp records breaking daily but to hear them speak it was so much worse 'back in their day'.

Fuck ooooofffffffff.

I have a family member in the hospital at the moment and they’re not even allowed a fan due to blowing germs around. It’s utterly awful for them.

How lovely that the ‘well organised’ can afford to buy and run air conditioning 🙄

Exactly The gaslighting is off the charts

DS was born in July 2024, the maternity ward was roasting and I was glad to go back to my basement flat which was nice and cool in comparison!

I do find that we’ve hit a place where a lot of previous generations who suffered seem to now want the next generation to suffer. I thought we’d want better for future generations but you see it all the time on social media comments. You can see why younger gen’s are starting to really resent and openly criticise the older gen’s.

As an aside it’s like the funded childcare debate, you’ll always see in comments lots of older women saying “well I didn’t get it free so you can’t whinge” even though other parts of their lives were very different to today’s economic circumstances. They say all this as opposed to wanting better for future Mothers because they believe they suffered. Such a crabs in a bucket mentality.

Yes, the annual suffering with these heatwaves. Time to get air conditioning in the U.K. and Europe to not melt alive. 😣

It’s just the usual emergency with a different excuse reason

You are definitely not unreasonable. The "just get on with it" attitude means no changes for the better are made despite being badly needed. I don't know, maybe the 40% of MNetters who decided you're unreasonable are just masochists who enjoy boiling heat, or maybe they commute in air-conditioned cars to air-conditioned offices.

And despite some denying it, the UK IS a rich country - with one of the highest GDPs in the world. That the government has no clue or will to distribute this massive wealth fairly and use it for everybody's good is a completely different problem.

1976 has gained a mythical status, yet we have been experiencing higher temperatures regularly in the recent years. It's not normal, and not something to "just get on with" with this country's pathetic infrastructure.

Yanbu. That twat on lbc who said we are raising a nation of melts by shutting schools really irked me. Try teaching 30 kids in 38 degree classrooms! It’s awful. The kids are in a bad way and they’re little - shouldn’t just “get on with it.”

The 1976 heatwave was significant because it lasted for over 2 months.

This current heatwave will probably be less than 2 weeks.

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The only woman ever to be pregnant, I suppose.. 'boomers gonna boom'? WTAF are you talking about?

And yet loads of people I know want to ditch net zero coz diesel.

that twunt Nick Ferrari who is usually on This Morning

I think you forget that most of the govt are wealthy so they won’t shoot themselves in the foot.

When the mansion tax came out by Reeves it conveniently changed the limit so that Starmer and Lammys houses didn’t get sucked into it.

Look how much people like Cameron and Blair are worth. Look at their business conflicts on the govt pages and you’ll see a lot of it matches the policies they force through (Cameron and wind farm subsidies, his FIL owned wind farms I believe which he had investment in).

Wealth has legs and for all the chatter about taxing it, you won’t catch it due to havens like Monaco. You risk those business owners and wealth creators (whether you like them or not they create jobs) just leaving Britain which a lot have/are. Look at James Dyson for example and now JCB and Rolls Royce are talking about it. So eat the rich, tax the rich etc is just an ideological view in my opinion (just an opinion).

We do however need to drastically reduce spending and put a rocket up the economy which is a mess. Wasn’t it something like 25% young people are NEETS? That’s ridiculous.

@glitterpaperchain Because there is no sense of the collective anymore.

@Dinosaurhearmeroar in what way are they in a bad way please? Poor kids.

Air conditioning is not for the rich though. We're not rich by any means, got an old car, don't go on foreign holidays etc, but we bought a unit when we had our DD 5 years ago, it was £500, you can buy the units now for £250/£300 and they are honestly a game changer.

We also have dogs and after years of putting up with in and 'getting on with it' I decided to bite the bullet and have never looked back. I honestly don't know why so many people torture themselves in the heat when the option to have air con in your house is so cheap now, we only use ours around 10-20 days in the year but I wouldn't be without it now.

This!! There’s so many people that lack empathy

I think we're in this position because they "just got on with it" in 1976.

I often find those who want change, want it for people like themselves and sod everyone else. They're happy to order out because its too hot for them to cook, sod the chefs. They expect food in the supermarkets at a low cost, sod those working in the fields. I can't imagine they'd be happy with all of the armed forces upping and going home.

Changes aren't always practical or even possible. Where they are there will be a increased cost to everyone. And then i'm sure itll be the same people moaning about the cost of living increase.