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Jimmy Smallsteps wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2020 1:07 pm A winter's high of 12 here today in Melbourne.

However, like death and taxes, you can bet your boots that at some point in summer it will hit 40.

Why some people refuse to put a $500 reverse cycle heat / AC pump in their $1 million plus home is beyond me.

Suffer in your jocks, cheap cunts.
Do you soft buggers have cooling in your homes?

In any case it only ever happens over here one day every few years, and it’s just a boredism to scream Armageddon in the UK.
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Jimmy Smallsteps wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2020 1:08 pm
Longshanks wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2020 11:17 am I don't get sun worshipers at all, I'd prefer a cold winter's day to this.
Scottish?

Also

A freak?

A Scotsman calling himself Longshanks? Nae chance.
So I squares up, casual like.
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Ymx wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2020 1:11 pm
Jimmy Smallsteps wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2020 1:07 pm A winter's high of 12 here today in Melbourne.

However, like death and taxes, you can bet your boots that at some point in summer it will hit 40.

Why some people refuse to put a $500 reverse cycle heat / AC pump in their $1 million plus home is beyond me.

Suffer in your jocks, cheap cunts.
Do you soft buggers have cooling in your homes?

In any case it only ever happens over here one day every few years, and it’s just a boredism to scream Armageddon in the UK.
That's what cheap cunts always tell themselves when they can't sleep all through summer.

I have a split cycle AC system here in Melbourne, but I live in an apartment where it's basically a dealbreaker.
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Insane_Homer wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2020 12:22 pm

but I'm in of the office in London with aircon.
What kind of sap works in the office on a Friday?
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36 here, humidity at 80%, like walking into a wall of heat when you step outside. The low during the night is aruond 25 and humidity up to 90%.

Filthy weather.
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Jimmy Smallsteps wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2020 1:15 pm
Ymx wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2020 1:11 pm
Jimmy Smallsteps wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2020 1:07 pm A winter's high of 12 here today in Melbourne.

However, like death and taxes, you can bet your boots that at some point in summer it will hit 40.

Why some people refuse to put a $500 reverse cycle heat / AC pump in their $1 million plus home is beyond me.

Suffer in your jocks, cheap cunts.
Do you soft buggers have cooling in your homes?

In any case it only ever happens over here one day every few years, and it’s just a boredism to scream Armageddon in the UK.
That's what cheap cunts always tell themselves when they can't sleep all through summer.

I have a split cycle AC system here in Melbourne, but I live in an apartment where it's basically a dealbreaker.
Think you missed the pertinent point about it only happening one day every few years, not all summer.
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Sandstorm wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2020 1:19 pm
Insane_Homer wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2020 12:22 pm

but I'm in of the office in London with aircon.
What kind of sap works in the office on a Friday?
One with air con presumably
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Sandstorm wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2020 1:19 pm
Insane_Homer wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2020 12:22 pm

but I'm in of the office in London with aircon.
What kind of sap works in the office on a Friday?
a sap sat in nice cool aircon.

& I've had a 3 day week.

& Busy today. 8 people being let go. Lots kit being returned and accounts to be shut down.

& got 21st and 28th booked off this month too.
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mat the expat wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2020 1:10 pm
tc27 wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2020 11:19 am Days like this I wonder how Brits who migrate to Australia survive.

England is horrific at anything over 20C
Fixed.

I really need to emigrate to somewhere inside the arctic circle...
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35 degrees in Waverley. Anyone above that?
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Ymx wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2020 1:20 pm
Jimmy Smallsteps wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2020 1:15 pm
Ymx wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2020 1:11 pm

Do you soft buggers have cooling in your homes?

In any case it only ever happens over here one day every few years, and it’s just a boredism to scream Armageddon in the UK.
That's what cheap cunts always tell themselves when they can't sleep all through summer.

I have a split cycle AC system here in Melbourne, but I live in an apartment where it's basically a dealbreaker.
Think you missed the pertinent point about it only happening one day every few years, not all summer.
London? I worked in Soho a few years. Gets very fucking warm for weeks on end with all those buildings and virtually no green space.
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Not many of us have houses/flats that central, let alone own them and be able to install AC...
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36 now.
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22 and cloudy here in S Somerset.

We had an hour of hot, then it rained and it all went cooler, heavy cloud now.

Bit like the last friday where Heathrow hit 37.8 or so
warm to start and by the aftenoon it was down to 19 and the overnight low was 7c.
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About low 20s here on the Lancs coast
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JM2K6 wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2020 1:49 pm Not many of us have houses/flats that central, let alone own them and be able to install AC...
Fair enough. We didn't either back then. Lived in a one bedder with Mrs Jdogscoop in Ladbroke Grove. The bedroom was the best bit about it as it was out the rear with a window we just kept open close to the Hammersmith and City Line trains coming out from the city. Generally pretty cool and we got used to the subway rocking up every 10 mins in summer.
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I am on the lash tonight - tomorrow with the kids, a hangover and this heat is going to be fun.....
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sockwithaticket wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2020 1:25 pm
mat the expat wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2020 1:10 pm
tc27 wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2020 11:19 am Days like this I wonder how Brits who migrate to Australia survive.

England is horrific at anything over 20C
Fixed.

I really need to emigrate to somewhere inside the arctic circle...
That's no guarantee:
Summer temperatures are exceptionally high for such a northerly area, being far warmer than the tree line threshold. The highest temperature ever recorded in Alaska occurred in Fort Yukon on June 27, 1915, when it reached 100 °F or 37.8 °C.[11][12] This was also the highest temperature recorded north of the Arctic Circle until June 20, 2020, when it was finally exceeded by a 38 °C or 100.4 °F reading at Verkhoyansk[13][14], a location similarly known for its extremely continental climate.
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tc27 wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2020 2:20 pm I am on the lash tonight - tomorrow with the kids, a hangover and this heat is going to be fun.....
Don't you go two on two off with the significant other?
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tabascoboy wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2020 2:36 pm
sockwithaticket wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2020 1:25 pm
mat the expat wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2020 1:10 pm


England is horrific at anything over 20C
Fixed.

I really need to emigrate to somewhere inside the arctic circle...
That's no guarantee:
Summer temperatures are exceptionally high for such a northerly area, being far warmer than the tree line threshold. The highest temperature ever recorded in Alaska occurred in Fort Yukon on June 27, 1915, when it reached 100 °F or 37.8 °C.[11][12] This was also the highest temperature recorded north of the Arctic Circle until June 20, 2020, when it was finally exceeded by a 38 °C or 100.4 °F reading at Verkhoyansk[13][14], a location similarly known for its extremely continental climate.
That is distressing. The vacuum of space it is, then.
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I just got back from a short bike ride round Richmond Park. It's warm but dry so no problems.

I might have stopped in the pub before returning home.
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Dinsdale Piranha having dialed up appreciably from the comparatively sober Dinsdale of PR fame?
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Honestly this is not the first thing I'd have thought of
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Might be time to put some sunscreen on the dog’s balls #hottestdayoftheyear
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mat the expat wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2020 1:10 pm
tc27 wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2020 11:19 am Days like this I wonder how Brits who migrate to Australia survive.
If I was loaded, I'd live in the Snowfields during Oz Summers.

But, having said that, at least we have AC here.

England is horrific at anything over 28C
It's not like AC is expensive though.

People are in 5 million Holland Park homes now sweltering because they won't pay 499 quid for a unit. And the power bill.

I do not get it.
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Jimmy Smallsteps wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2020 3:42 pm
mat the expat wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2020 1:10 pm
tc27 wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2020 11:19 am Days like this I wonder how Brits who migrate to Australia survive.
If I was loaded, I'd live in the Snowfields during Oz Summers.

But, having said that, at least we have AC here.

England is horrific at anything over 28C
It's not like AC is expensive though.

People are in 5 million Holland Park homes now sweltering because they won't pay 499 quid for a unit. And the power bill.

I do not get it.
Because it’s only days like today we remember.

Then we forget again.
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32oC according to weather station and it's not directly in the sun. House is a cool 22oC as I didn't open any curtains this morning. When I parallel parked the car getting home the stones probably in my tyre treads scraped up some of the road. Got to walk the dog shortly hopefully she'll have a pee quickly. Leaving it as long as possible so we can walk on the shady side of the road.
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tabascoboy wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2020 3:35 pm Honestly this is not the first thing I'd have thought of
laura @laura25254425

Might be time to put some sunscreen on the dog’s balls #hottestdayoftheyear
That's pretty funny for a bot.
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Why is England so humid?
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Lemoentjie wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2020 4:53 pm Why is England so humid?
It's surrounded by water that flows from the tropics.
And are there two g’s in Bugger Off?
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Lemoentjie wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2020 4:53 pm Why is England so humid?
Not all of England is that hot, just London and the South East the Midlands and the North more like 22 23, Cornwall and Devon 25ish, its humid here in Wales just south winds pushing up from Spain come midweek it will cool down.
but moaning fuckers who complain about it should be set on fire.
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Jimmy Smallsteps wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2020 3:32 pm Dinsdale Piranha having dialed up appreciably from the comparatively sober Dinsdale of PR fame?
I am not often accused of being comparatively sober, but yes.
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It's difficult to describe 'heat' in the UK as for me, its a somewhat unique phenomenon. I lived in the ME for 12+ yrs, returning to the UK only recently. When I lived in Muscat, it was regularly 50c and more, but also, because the city is surrounded by hills and on the coast, the humidity would be 80%ish - a truly horrible combination and cliched as it is, truly "like walking through treacle". Back in the UK though, and this is where I'd need some help from the boffins on here, 30c sometimes feels almost as bad as Muscat (albeit nowhere near as humid) because of the lack of breeze and weirdly intense sunlight - as well as lack of AC. I guess its replicated in many countries globally not known for being hot, but until you've experienced the uncomfortable stickiness of a UK summer, it's not easy to explain. High of 33c today in South Bucks.
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Wyndham Upalot wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2020 5:20 pm It's difficult to describe 'heat' in the UK as for me, its a somewhat unique phenomenon. I lived in the ME for 12+ yrs, returning to the UK only recently. When I lived in Muscat, it was regularly 50c and more, but because the city is surrounded by hills and on the coast, the humidity would be 80% and more - a truly horrible combination and cliched as it is, like walking through treacle. Back in the UK though, and this is where I'd need some help from the boffins on here, 30c sometimes feels almost as bad as Muscat (albeit nowhere near as humid) because of the lack of breeze and weirdly intense sunlight - as well as lack of AC. I guess its replicated in many countries globally not known for being hot, but until you've experienced the uncomfortable stickiness of a UK summer, it's not easy to explain. High of 33c today in South Bucks.
The UK is a pretty wet country and we don't often get long periods of hot dry weather so when you get hot days there's a lot of moisture in the air. When we get a few weeks of warm weather then it eventually dries out. The humidity was pretty low in London today so it didn't feel too bad.

Mind you, I spent 6 months in Southern Israel many years ago and that moved my idea of what was hot up by 15 degrees.
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Jimmy Smallsteps wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2020 1:08 pm
Longshanks wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2020 11:17 am I don't get sun worshipers at all, I'd prefer a cold winter's day to this.
Scottish?

Also

A freak?
It's just not pleasant
You give me somewhere between 15C and 25C and I'm a happy man. But today was just orrid
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It's ridiculously humid in the South. Gonna absolutely piss rain sooner than later.

Not fun trying to get to sleep.
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Longshanks wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2020 5:47 pm It's just not pleasant
You give me somewhere between 15C and 25C and I'm a happy man. But today was just orrid
Same, though an upper limit of about 20C would be warm enough for me.
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Supposed to hit 34 tomorrow in Southampton. I shudder to think what it'll be like around London.
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At university in California for a year, no problems with the heat. Came home in summer and I couldn't get past the end of my street for about 10 days, the humidity floored me.
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I'm a scotsman living in Northern Ireland. What the fuck are you all talking about?
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And 1 guest wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2020 6:03 pm I'm a scotsman living in Northern Ireland. What the fuck are you all talking about?
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