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.

"Let's work together to improve our lives"

"Wow what a bunch of pussies"

How sad that that's your reaction

Where are you getting this every half century from? How peculiar. It’s every year now and it’s weeks over the spring and summer, not a few days. Have you been living in a cave?

Excuse me? Pussies take one hell if a pounding. I think it’s ‘cock’ that you are thinking of.

Everyone going on about how it hasn’t been this hot since the 70’s or whatever, when we have a heatwave it’s usually 30 degrees and that’s way too much too !

Well of course you just have to get on with it, but the well organised will have bought aircon units. All my neighbours have had portable ones for over 10 years, as the bedrooms are in the loft. Others will have buried their heads in the sand then moan non stop. 1976 felt worse as we have less gadgets to help cope with the heat.

I can’t imagine any government forking out £5 billion to install air conditioning in every classroom in the country, let alone pay the electricity bills needed to turn them on!

I'm of that generation but I work my bollocks off. So thanks for stereotyping an entire generation. What's the average age of people on Mumsnet I wonder? I expect most of them are considerably younger than me and yet judging by the sheer apoplexy many of them express at the idea of tax increases to improve society I think you could be a little more inclusive with your "blame game".

We do what we can to get though it, like we do with everything else.
I have AC in 3 rooms best thing I've ever spent money on.
My flat is currently at 22.

We have to help ourselves instead of relying on the government or other people.
I have no idea about schools as I have no kids.

Tbh this sort of heat is just going to become the normal.

Climate change induced heatwaves that are predicted to become commonplace are not ‘minor inconveniences’.

Two children vomited from the heat in my child’s class of 22 today. My husband got dizzy while driving to school pick up (it was 52 degrees in the car and the air con is not fast at cooling). My mum is a home carer to those with dementia and one was hospitalised after she put on a jumper and her central heating, despite someone having corrected it an hour before. In the May heat wave my husband’s grandmother passed out on a park bench, was found by a passerby and had to be hospitalised.

Try looking outside yourself.

Yes, imagine thinking that something that inconveniences literally everyone and kills or hospitalises others might be something with which the government wants to concern themselves

Google: ‘The 1976 heatwave reached its highest temperature of 35.9°C (96.6°F) on July 3 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. The summer remains a historic benchmark due to its intensity and a record-breaking 15 consecutive days with temperatures exceeding 32.2°C (90°F).’

Do you have a point?

It's only a few weeks a year. It's tiring hearing people moaning all the time. It's usually the same people who moan about everything, whatever is affecting them at that specific time.

'Just get on with it' is the equivalent of 'just stop moaning, we're all in the same boat, whinging about it won't make it better'.

You're right, we should just let people die

Unfortunately Mumsnetters absolutely love a bit of ‘get on with it’.

1976 was a really miserable summer for some of us. I have hyperhydrosis which meant my shoes rotted from the inside from my sweaty feet and I was dripping sweat all over the classroom from my hands. My armpits weren’t quite so bad but I definitely got quite smelly by the afternoon. I wasn’t particularly popular with either teachers or other pupils during that heatwave!

I'm equally fed up with hearing about the bloody heat, but there you go.

No doubt the same people will be complaining about the rain/cold/whatever in a few weeks! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Yes we need to adapt and part of that is improving the infrastructure. Insulate Britain, irritating though they were, had a point.

And some posters need to develop some empathy. Heat of this nature can be dangerous for the elderly, babies, people with heart and lung conditions etc.

1976 was an anomaly at that time. 2026 is not an anomaly at this time.

Maybe the comparison ought to be the 70's and 80's with the 2010's and 2020's. I'm wasting my energy aren't I?

I'm becoming aware that people think Gen Xers are all morons going on about 1976 and that feels strange to me as a Gen Xer although I don't necessarily disagree. I was four at the time and can't remember it but I do remember what the weather was like in the 1970's and 1980's and it certainly wasn't like this.

So true. It's ridiculous that houses are built to such low standards.

I don't know why we have a culture that we should put up with low standards and discomfort, rather than improving our lot.

And we do have the money if we levy the correct taxes and spend it wisely.

I was also 4 in 1976 and I can't remember it. DH is a bit older and he remembers being on holiday and everything being parched. I think the big thing that year was water shortages.

I can't remember being ridiculously hot in school but I think most of the time I was in older buildings. I was in portacabins some years but maybe they were just cooler years (or we'd broken up by the time it got hot).

Also we wore summer dresses and I never had a uniform with a tie or blazer.

As a freelance worker, WFH, what do you specifically want the government to provide when it's hot?

I think you have missed my point entirely

I do find it interesting that in a fair few of the schools I work money seems to be found for air con in SLT offices.

These are generally large trusts where funding ever increasing layers of management is far more important than buying the odd fan for wilting children, let alone air con.

The money’s there OP, it’s just siphoned off at the top. I imagine similar in NHS and care homes.

That's exactly it, it's the culture. That's what's got me thinking about unions who went on strike, demanded change. They knew their value and fought to make their lives better. Why do people now just shrug their shoulders and snap at others to stop moaning and get on with it?

Don't let the b**tards grind you down!