British people in hot weather

Pah!

PS. it was inspired by The Fall song Mark. And I bet it's even more true than it was 15 yrs ago.

But, as bad as Americans can be, which I readily I admit, we are much better than many with dealing with the kinds(!) of casual clothing you have to wear in hot weather. **Except new yorkers who look pathetic in the summer.** When it gets hot in britain you see men in shorts that are too short wearing handmade leather dress shoes and black socks. Ditto women with bikinis and high heeled shoes like they're in a beauty pageant. In the summer in italy, men seem to think they have to wear color coordinated matching "sportswear" which gives them the look of inmates from an expensive mental institution out on a day trip. Germans think that sportswear means you actually have to participate in some sport, and will accordingly have every gadget known to man attached to themselves.

Americans, in the main, have a better intuitive sense of what to wear in the following situations:

1) waterskiing on the lake
2) playing beachvolleyball
3) Getting drinks with a group and sitting outside in the summer

ludicrous

What does Luda have to do with Brits?

1) waterskiing on the lake
2) playing beachvolleyball
3) Getting drinks with a group and sitting outside in the summer

4) Sexually humiliating Arabs

I loved coming up to London for Mr & Mrs Carsmile's party, but I had to shut my eyes on the bus to avoid seeing all those shanty towns off the Westway.

Play to your strengths!

(it is a little amusing to hear people complain about it being too hot and all than, until you get on the tube and remember that the reason it's bearable in america is that EVERYWHERE has air conditioning. not so here. i mean, last summer i went to the cinema to cool down, and it didn't have AC! i couldn't believe it. however, the weather like it is right now is lovely and perfect and it is a little strange to see people dramatically underdressed on the streets of london)

yeah I remember that. True to some extent in NYC as well. Not everywhere has AC though. Many people live without it (there are charity drives in the summer to get AC/fans into homes with children and the eldery as there are many deaths each year b/c of the heat.)

Also not having A/C in your car almost makes one want to knock yourself off. This will be my fifth texas summer in a row with no a/c (the car i have now had some that lasted till around June last year *sob*). I practically have to take an extra set of clothes to change into when I get wherever I go.

Orlando, Florida

Everyone dresses like shit there (guess there's no point in wearing decent clothes in such stifling humidity); the weather is not fit for human habitation.

But the worst of the worst are the British tourists in Orlando. I suspect that there are cut-price travel agencies in Britain who specialize in selling package tours to the most vulgar working class inbred Wallies. Where these people come from is beyond me. I'm always reminded of those early Fall songs about evil, out-of-the-way English villages that MES was so rightly disgusted by and terrified of. ("Hard Life in the Country")

These Village Brit tourists, though! They're incredibly stupid, gaudily dressed, pushy and rude, and just plain UG-LEE on every level. These people always seem to buy shorts and t-shirts that are obviously three sizes too small. Does anyone really want to see the outline of the crotch and saggy tits of a chubby pubescent Britkid? There oughta be a law.

(Lest you think I'm being too harsh, the American tourists there aren't too far behind in the vile sweepstakes.)

Heard recently from my roomate from Wales about how he'd heard that many Brits relocate to Florida. That struck me strange as I'd never heard of that phenomenon before. How come I can't name a single good band from Florida, then? Not saying there aren't any, you understand, but I've never heard of one.

It's horrible in Hong Kong at the height of the summer. It's hot enough as it is, but then you get all the hot air from air conditioning, and it's unbearable to walk around outside.

Later we'll get down to business.

How does fahrenheit work? (I'd actually like to know what it's based on.)

we should not refer to the Centigrade scale as Celsius. Celsius did devise a scale with one hundred units txixt the melting point of ice and the boiling point of water, but on his scale, 100 was the melting point of ice and 0 was the boiling point of water! Another Swede, Linnaeus, better known as the devisor of biological binominal taxonomy, devised the scale with 0 as the colder temperature, so we should we really refer to the Linnaeus scale and °L.

'I wish it would rain'

'I'M BOILING'

yes it's called summer ya ding dong

I'm going to have to go home and water the plants

Euphemisms ahoy.

i really hate the meme of "london is hotter than rio, miami, kingston on-thames is hotter than kingston jamaica!!" - it's not a fucking competition

yes it is

I'm pretty sure it's hotter than Lerwick today, unsure about Rio, Miami et al.

"hey look we're more affected by global warming than you" [cut scene to Kiribati underwater]