Bloody hell it's warm.

Jul 17, 2022 12:04 PM

CrashNoodleBandit

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Feeling like it may be a little warm in the UK. Sadly, Aircon over here is rarely in homes. Fortunately, the local cinema has help at hand...

Hot sauce: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/uk-weather-heatwave-cinema-b2124753.html

Like BC Canada last year. We burned down. We share a similar climate. This year it's rained for 3 months straight

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I’ve lost AC a few times in Florida. Take a few cold bathes each day. Stay hydrated. Don’t move around too much.

4 years ago | Likes 30 Dislikes 0

They need to make a swamp cooler.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I grew up in Florida without AC no problem, but looking back, it's very different experience for the elderly & others who can't get outside.

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Sales of red hair dye unexplainable says local shop keeper

4 years ago | Likes 66 Dislikes 0

Save a little for downstairs

4 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Just getting the gingers ready for the afterlife in Hell

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 4

Do people without souls have afterlives?

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

They're workers

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Actual footage from the UK of a redhead out in the heat…v

4 years ago | Likes 129 Dislikes 0

Everyone's a redhead when they're heated enough.

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I’m a red head and every time I step outside the sun reflects off my very white skin and blinds people ?

4 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

My hair is brown and I have that same effect.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

THE BEACONS ARE LIT!

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Remember my hearties: Horses sweat, men perspire, ladies glow.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Not even started yet and

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

May I suggest keep a towel in ice water and wrapping it around your neck periodically. Cartoid artery is quickest way to cool the body

4 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

It was 30C here today and it's gonna be even hotter tomorrow, I'm gonna melt, my body was built for light drizzle.

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

welcome to your future everyday

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Hey, people who are not good/used to heat. Make sure you put water on your head/neck if you're hot. It will help not get heatstroke.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

If only it stopped raining in the Baltics for 3 damn days in a row. Wettest summers on records. We are not complaining, rain > melting.

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Last year in France, we basically did not have a summer. I remember turning the heat on Bastille Day. This year on the other hand, very hot.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

100F = 37.7C. 40C=104F.

4 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

I'm not a red head but its still damn hot for those of us with souls too!

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

It s like fortnite for old people

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

#2 sounds like a trap by the sun

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Northern BC had this bs heat last summer. People died. It's terrible

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Like 400 people died here last time it was just under this temperature. It won't end well.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Is this all I need to do to attract redheads? Open my air conditioned movie theater to them?

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

You're more likely to get Ed Sheeran type gingers, not the type you're hoping for.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

For reference 30c in the UK is more serious than in hot countries. We're set up for staying warm and dry, not cool.

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Thousands will die, but thats fine because climate change isn't real and boomers say one hot day in the 70s was worse (which it was not)

4 years ago | Likes 46 Dislikes 3

Boomer here. It is hotter now than in the 70s. Maybe your dad had stroke and just talks shit?

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

This will probably break the record for highest UK temperatures... that was set 3 years ago

4 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Top 7 record temps have beren since 2000, top 4 since 2015. NOT including this

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I've had the whole "Climate change is not a liberal hoax" conversation with someone who is absolutely sure scientists made it all up to 1/

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

make money. Meanwhile, he's sure the oil industry are just a bunch of working guys trying to provide for their families with no agenda. 2/

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

You can't win over these people. All you can do is sell them beachfront properties and watch them drown first. 3/3

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Weird how they always say it was in the 70's. Every time.

4 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 1

Weird how it's never a record in modern times too.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Lapland. Iceland, Greece, Italy, Russia, Spain, Turkey. Those are European countries breaking temp. records so far this year. UK was 2019.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

They have to make it the 70s so they can blame it on labour.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

In fairness there was actually a heatwave and drought in 1976, but with way lower temperatures.

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Laughs in Australian. Seriously good luck though and be careful. Watch out for the elderly they will need looking after.

4 years ago | Likes 168 Dislikes 8

Your wooden houses on stilts are built for heat ours are built to retain as much as possible.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You have aircon in houses in the antipodes? Or is it just spiders and drop bears?

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yes, Australia gets hotter, but for reference the UK is at the same latitude as Canada. This heat is extremely unusual.

4 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 1

Very few British homes have air conditioning or even good ventilation because they weren't built with high temps in mind

4 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

We'll remind you of that the next time you have freak snow and nearly freeze to death...

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

At first I thought you meant something like the older folk turn feral above a certain temperature. appreciate the warning.

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

They have much higher humidity plus their buildings are NOT designed for heat. This is like if Aussie cities are -10°c

4 years ago | Likes 51 Dislikes 1

That discussion of which is worse has to simultaneously take into account like 10 circumstantial factors just to not reach a conclusion.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

To me it's not about worse it's about a society's preparedness. 40c sucks for anyone but most people in Aus have or have access to aircons

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

No, it's more like Australia being at 60°C...

4 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

Specifically, our houses are designed to keep heat *in*

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

We're already struggling with a cold winter. Our homes are NOT built for cold weather

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

No, heat is easily worse, you can put on clothing to help with cold, you can only take off so much to alleviate heat.

4 years ago | Likes 42 Dislikes 2

Can't put more cloths on the buildings

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I hear this often but it's never been true for me. I can't regulate temperature well, when cold, more clothes don't help, I keep shivering.

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

If your body has trouble keeping temp up, clothes will help less. They insulate what heat exists, not generate more.

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Exactly. Once I'm cold, I can't get warm again, not even with blankets and thick clothes. Heat is unpleasant, but not impairing, for me.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Debatable. When the power goes out and your water stops flowing due to ice the cold can lead you to dehydration

4 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 3

Source: happened to us in Texas, and in Austin we get high humidity and 110*F

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Northern Europe is as ill prepared for 40C heat as Texas is to freezing temps.

4 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

I understand that, but the infrastructure problems that ice can cause can be a lot worse. Ice destroys powerlines, pipes and roads

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 3

Only 29c in London at the moment.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Only.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I have a question. Are you watching home alone?

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Yes ? on film 4

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Wishing for colder times. Well done that person.

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

while being home alone ?

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

And I’m ginger

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Wonder how many climate change deniers the UK has

4 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 1

Most people I know agree it's a thing but just don't really care.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

They are currently on fire saying there was a worse heatwave in the 70s.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Probably not as many as the US, but still far too many for a supposedly educated populace.

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Government has been gutting education for 12 years.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

We have them in government, including gov ministers.

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

"It WaS hOtTeR iN 197x yOu ArE jUsT sNoWfLaKeS" screams the idiot, as we hit another record breaking temperature. 1/

4 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

The people saying that are the ones most likely to be killed by the next two days. The problem will solve itself.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

He then goes on to posting on Facebook about how the EU is punishing us with hot weather for Brexit. 2/2

4 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Oh, I see you follow me on Twitter.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Too many.

4 years ago | Likes 38 Dislikes 1

Too many, but thankfully less than the US for now.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Same as everywhere else then.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Might be a few less after this week...one way or another!

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Fingers crossed!

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

This is sadly the correct answer.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Good lord that is a scorcher for our plucky English brothers. They may discovery the need for an "Iced Tea" come tea time.

4 years ago | Likes 440 Dislikes 4

Sweet tea is the way for me. So cold and delicious. Better than your mamas milk

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

We’re only a bit hot, we’re not animals!

4 years ago | Likes 30 Dislikes 1

I have never seen a more British response.

4 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

The most British response is 'Hot enough for you?'

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

No need for such language

4 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

An important thing to mention whenever UK hot weather is brought up is that almost none of us have air conditioning in our homes

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I hate trying to sleep when it's in the mid 20s (mid 70s for we colonists) stay cool, Limeys friends

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

If you want me, I'll be in the fridge!

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Rather fucking die.

4 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 1

But have you tried it? Made via Sun not boiled water. Big glass container, tea bags, water. sit it out in hot Sun until desired color. Ice

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Not that method I must admit but it's so rare we get sun.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Sounds like you have it now

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

We very much do have it now. 40 Celsius. Global warming in action.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I assure you I will still be putting the kettle on at least a dozen times a day through the heatwave. I will still want a good cup of tea

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

My dad is English, this will not stop them from drinking hot tea. It was 42° C in Vancouver last summer and he still drank hot tea

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

It was always a tradition to see the newspaper headlines ‘Phew, What a Scorcher!” and ‘Hotter Than The Sahara Desert” in hot sun in the UK.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

They'll die before sinking to ice tea levels.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

American here. Oh but I love me a good Arnold Palmer.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You'll have to force it into my charred, dead, hands

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Tried to send some. Got as far as Boston Harbor.

4 years ago | Likes 142 Dislikes 3

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Blimey!

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May or may not surprise you to hear there are lunatics here that swear blind a hot cup of tea will “cool them down”.

4 years ago | Likes 96 Dislikes 0

Same as a hot shower.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

From experience in Iraq, they aren't wrong. It's weird, but it works, locals swore by it.

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

A hot cup of tea/coffee will increase your core temp and trigger perspiration faster leading to more efficient cooling. But if you are 1/3

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Already sweating, then you don't need the extra help and cool water is where it's at. And don't forget electrolytes. 2/2

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

yet cool water will lower core temp thus activating metabolism generating heat. also ice cold water no good for stomach.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Cool water (50-60F) shouldn't lower it too much if you are already perspiring, but I would absolutely avoid cold water (<50F) as you said /1

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Mad Dogs and Englishmen…song is 91 years old and still bloody holds up.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I hear ppl saying that. Believed a hit shower would help too ..... ??

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Hot

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I’ve heard that here in the states as well.

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

There is a sort of truth to it: It raises your core temp slightly, making hot weather seem slightly less hot.

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Also the more often you do it, the more your body will be able to tolerate the heat

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

*extra perspiration too! Works well anywhere with a breeze, the less humidity the better!

4 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Tolerate yeah. Tho not hot, preferrably skin tempreture.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Same theory behind spicy delicious Indian food

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

My brother makes the same argument about vodka. In the summer, he argues it makes you warm inside so the weather outside seems cool and 1/2

4 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

2/2 during winters he says vodka clearly makes you feel warm. In short, he fecken loves vodka.

4 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 0

There is actually some truth to alcohol being cooling in the summer. Alcohol widens blood vessels, permitting more heat to escape via skin.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Is he Russian?

4 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Only in ... spirit.

4 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

You sweat more. You could achieve the same effect - but better - by spritzing your exposed skin with water.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Not as effective if you're in a humid climate... but great where it is arid

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Drinking a cup of hot tea in a humid hot environment is a good deal less effective than spritzing.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I agree spritzing doesn't do much in a humid climate.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Thanks for the consideration, but cold tea is an affront to life itself. Absolutely not.

4 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 6

I'd better not tell you about how I finished last night's cuppa this morning then ?

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

My southern US wife will fight you over that comment

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Indeed.

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Man and here us southerners are dissolving sugar into it also. That’s gotta be a rough one

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Something some people don't seem to understand, is that our homes are built to retain heat in them, so it can often be a few C hotter inside

4 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

I was in Chicago one summer during a heat wave staying in a building built in the 40s and I learned this first hand. The boiler could /1

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

keep that place at 80F when it was -10F outside but it had no AC and was at or higher than the outside air temp during the summer. 2/

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Or more than a few. My previous "house" was a barn, metal walls. Kinda glad I got kicked out now...

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Bloody hell mate, you alright?

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

2 more weeks to the new apartment. (nothing 100% yet) fingers crossed.. :p

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

if anyone here is from the UK, some quick tips from California: keep at least 1 foot or hand chilled, like in a glass or bucket of ice-

4 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

water. It will go along way to stave off heat exhaustion. Also: damp cloths in the refrigerator, for wrapping neck or head. Pour a little -

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

water into some glasses and freeze them - will take longer for ice to melt. Finally - check up on your neighbors, and look up symptoms of-

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

heat exhaustion and overheating. Watch your pets, keep them cool and hydrated. By the time symptoms appear, it may be too late.

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Thx ??

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

As a dude from southeast TX, I agree with everything this person has said. A cool bath or shower will also help. Look out for each other.

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I love that the response in a lot of western european countries to climate change is "add more airconditioners". Not having a go at you >>

4 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 4

but this highlights why we're in the shit and why it will end poorly.

4 years ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 5

Hey if it saves lives now and they only run them for a few weeks out of the year then it's definitely worth it.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yeah, those architects in the 40's should have thought about global warming when designing buildings to keep heat in as high priority.

4 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 0

Exactly. It’s always “treat the symptoms, not the source”. Saying we can still stop & reverse this because we have “plans” is delusional.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It's a reasonable comment. But in a country where almost all heating relies on natural gas wouldn't it be great if we had a heating and 1/2

4 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

Cooling solution in one that could be run from eco friendly electrical sources? Maybe that's just wishful thinking.

4 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

aircons are heat pumps. 1 m3 of gas can produce 4x more heat when used to make electricity to drive a heat pump....

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I'd like to point out that the de-icing in modern heat pumps also means they are way more versatile and useful in colder climates.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I have to ask, is this just like hot or is this hot and humid?

4 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Like breathing treacle.

4 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 1

There it is. That is the description I have been searching for

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

You've ever eaten a curry? So just like that.

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

You ever breathe* a curry.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I would say it's more like swimming in curry.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Glad that we have just moved from England to the Canary Islands! Cooler here that the UK bizarrely, and very low humidity, so just nice warm

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

According to the Met Office, humidity will be ~20% during the worst of the heat. https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/forecast/gcpvj0v07

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Says 40% on Monday and 37% on Tuesday, which is the hottest day so far.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Hey so like here in North Carolina where it’s only been about 30-35 for the last 2 months with the humidity 90%+ everyday.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Now picture that with no AC anywhere, and your house is made of brick with insulation and your windows are double glazed.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Except without AC

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

And it will be hotter indoors as the buildings are built to retain heat.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

its england, there is no such thing as a dry anything.

4 years ago | Likes 32 Dislikes 0

yup, the furthest point from the sea is 84 miles

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Except for humour.

4 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

That's fair.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

it's pretty much always humid here when it's this hot

4 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 1

Not sure about that

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Ok well then as a Canadian just keep your windows closed and keep your fans going inside, turn in AC of you got it

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Yeah, *no-one* here has AC...

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

That sounds wise, but our main solution to heatwaves (and most events) is "have a couple of pints and wait for this to all blow over"

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Don’t you lot drink room temp beer…..

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Ales aren't supposed to be chilled but not quite room temp. Lager is most certainly as cold as possible.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Which might be why the government is issuing so many health warnings...

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That's 104 in freedom units

4 years ago | Likes 353 Dislikes 17

I think you mean fascist units, based on how things are going there.

4 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

The US does use metric (NASA, government, military etc), regular people just haven't realised it yet...

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

2L soda bottles introduced in 1970 were an early attempt to get Americans on board with metric.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Freedom. Really? You still going to push that? You are about as free as Iran. Keep posting and giving us true people a great laugh. Mercia ?

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Yeah they may as well change USA's name to Gilead. They've gotten their country most of the way there already.

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Hot Tub hot = 40°C

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That's hotter than I've been seeing in TN here... We've been capping out at 100.

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What freedom. USA gave up it's right to keep parroting that slogan around.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Don't bail them out of learning metric.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

I know both.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

ok

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Ditto

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So basically typical Southwest US summer

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Different when you're not used to it. Also humidity. And no AC so pretty bad all things considered.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Imagine Ontario being this hot. That's how hot it is in comparison (both 51deg N)

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah, but without the air conditioning and buildings designed to retain as much heat as possible... And people not used to the heat.

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

but people used to it can deal with it, other people still try to do daily life and struggle, older people get heart attacks etc

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

To further translate for US people wondering why this is so bad: They don't have any air conditioning at home.

4 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 0

Yeah our houses are designed to retain heat. Brick with insulation and double glazed windows. It's hell right now

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

We also have homes that are designed to retain heat.

4 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

So you live in ovens right now

4 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Pretty much...

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Can confirm

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

I opened the hatch to my attic today and now I have no skin on my face

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

A scorching 86 F in the north lol. that’s practically our nighttime low in central Texas.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 15

Okay.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Texas is 36deg N latitude. London is 51deg N. Huge difference. Its the equivalent of when Texas froze last year

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Didn't you guys all die and lose electricity when the temperature went down to a normal temp. Change is the important thing, not your usual.

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All die? There were a few elderly who died during a freak winter storm. This was a call to initiate change in the event of a repeat. Should

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UK residents not also prepare for more heat waves in the future, amid climate change and higher average temps each year?

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A lot are, but it's expensive due to older homes. My recent lowest quote for aircon for one room came to £1700, not including running costs.

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Do you have aircon there? Less than 0.5% of UK homes have air conditioning

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Yup. 100% have ac here. You can buy a good wall unit for $400. Why wouldn’t more people do that? Even for just a few months of the year.

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But do you have power for your AC, Texas bd it’s power grid and all

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*and it’s power grid and all

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Because it doesn't get this hot here. EVER. Our homes aren't designed for this, because until recently this literally NEVER happened.

4 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Our homes are designed to keep the warmth in. Have been for hundreds of years. Retrofitting AC to a whole country is a huge task.

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You might be able to buy one that cheap. But the market for the units doesn't exist here, so they're more expensive

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Because the UK is generally cooler for the rest of the year, so for their cost we wouldn't see a return on that $400 investment for years.

4 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

You shouldn’t use the past as an accurate average for the future. Average temps are getting higher every year.

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Also, a lot of UK homes are quite old, and because of how they're built, you'd have to add renovation costs to that installation as well --

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I live near Seattle, so a similar climate, and I have multiple in window ac units that I use a few times a summer. Worth it.

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I used to think the whole “freedom” thing was funny until very recently. Now it just makes me sad

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It's specially unfunny when used in conjunction to make jokes about the US imperialist atrocities.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

fascism units

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 3

Also sad when there'd be a post about the A10 Warthog, and comments would be about how many "freedoms per second"

4 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

it could shoot. Remember, kids: Death is freedom!

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Tbf freedom is absolutely earned with death. See attachment Ukraine.png However I can assure you the A10 has never earned an iota of freedom

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

You mean imperial units. Used by your former owners.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Same

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Burger units. Gun units. Dystopia units. There are many possibilities.

4 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 0

Freedom* units

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

"Freedom" units

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

gun units, seems fitting

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Why don’t you guys join the sane part of the world using the metric system? We have cookies.

4 years ago | Likes 59 Dislikes 8

Cause then they would be commie units not freedom units

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 16

You spelt "freedumb" wrong...

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

It's darn simple stuff though. Land area? Acres! Just 1/640th of a square mile. 5280*5280/640 = 43,560ft², or a square

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

that's 208ft, 8.52in on a side. Why convert? Then we'd have to remember hard numbers like... 1000. Or... 10 or something.

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Why does anyone care what we use? We grow up learning imperial units. It’s pretty fucking easy.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 7

If you are designing it’s far easier. Same with machining. There are four types of drill sizes in SAE. End mills in 64ths. Dumb

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Doing the sensible thing would set a dangerous precedent

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

And we can cook them on the concrete!!

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I tried converting to metric. But. Work was annoyed with my maps all showing KM instead of Miles... so I had to stop. Tried though.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I much prefer F over C when talking about weather. I don't live in a pot of water. The 0 to 100 scale of F is easier to express temp change

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

We tried. Hell, that's all they taught in school when I was a kid, then it was shot down and they eliminated it from the education.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Fahrenheit gives better accuracy within the human temperature range without the need for decimals.

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 4

In science we all use Celsius. In everyday life, it’s Fahrenheit. Had to learn all the units in college.

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

even the Réaumur scale?

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I may have been introduced to it, but for the most part I had to represent temperatures in kelvin, Celsius, Fahrenheit it and Rankine

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Aren’t you supposed to use kelvin in science! (real science anyways /s)

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

To be fair, fahrenheit's use for weather is basically the only imperial measurement usage which is more intuitive.

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

It's not more intuitive though. It's more natural to you because it's the scale you grew up with. (I am not saying C is more intuitive).

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Americans considering using metric be like:

4 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 1

Fine then change your measures on your ammo

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

We actually have a lot of ammo in imperial. Caliber is based on fractions of an inch- .50 cal = 1/2 inch

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Because they were invented by Americans

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Metric is used in many industries in the US.

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I'd love ro, but a bunch of pirates said no, so here we are. (Seriously, that's more or less what happened.)

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Yes but the meter rod and kilo is still what we use for the ultimate measurement in the USA at NIST. Then we convert to bananas.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Celsius doesnt really have the same gravity that ferenheit does. 40 degrees c just doesnt sound that bad. 104? I know im stayin in.

4 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 5

313 Kelvin.

4 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

And helathcare, and no Kevlar in our children's backpacks

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

You really asking why America isnt doing something rational?

4 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 3

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

As long as cookies are still called cookies, cause I’m not saying biscuits or scones.

4 years ago | Likes 48 Dislikes 2

That part of the world joined the dark side a few years back

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You can call them whatever you want until you try to buy them. Then you'll change!

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You have to accept cookies first.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Cookies are just a type of biscuit. No idea why you'd bring scones into it though? They're more like sad and dry cake.

4 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 5

I’m a dumb American who can’t tell the difference.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Fuck you! Viva la scones!

4 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 0

No, I actually like scones. With a shit load of whipped cream and strawberry jam, to get rid of the sad/dry aspect...

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Cookies are absolutely not biscuits! Biscuits are savory, and pair with meat and gravy. Cookies are sweet desserts!

4 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 6

That sounds like dumplings. Biscuits are sweet and you dunk them in your tea. Cookies are soft and chewy. https://youtu.be/anRKT3hYz60

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Is an oreo a cookie or a biscuit?

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

No. For some stupid reason yanks call proper biscuits "cookies" and crackers "biscuits". They are wrong.

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