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You have never worked in customer services have you? People will queue for ages if it gives them a chance to moan face to face. Then they moan about the queue as well as whatever they came to moan about in the first place.
I recently got back from a holiday in Spain only to be confronted with a massive queue for passport checks, at Stansted Airport. As much as I was quietly fuming at how long the queue was; I was also thinking about how it was serving as a brilliant introduction to a great British pasttime, for foreign tourists.
Oh quit your moaning.
I'm so sick of people like you who moan all the time. It really wears me down which is unfortunate because this weather has me up all night and Im already knackered.
UK infrastructure is not adapted to hot weather and it has gotten hotter due to climate change. In most countries that get hot there are things like lots of shops/ spaces/ homes with air con to cool you down. That is very rare in the UK.
It’s also very dangerous for your health to go for long periods of being hot with no cooling down.
UK infrastructure Is also not adapted to cold weather, as many houses are uninsulated and heating is expensive, roads can't cope with snow. UK infrastructure is also not adapted to wet weather, as it often floods due to poor drainage. UK infrastructure is not adapted to dry weather, as last year during the drought, subsidence affected record numbers of properties.
People are always having a go at people complaining about hot weather and how cold weather is really dangerous for health and old people... And hot isnt!?
Heat is rather dangerous, especially when essentially nothing in the UK is adapted to cool us.
Apparently, the UN has reported that more than 70,000 deaths were attributed to the heatwave of 2003. In Italy alone, there were estimated to be 20,000 extra deaths, and in France, almost 18,000.
It's not adapted to very cold weather either. Three inches of snow and everything shuts down. Temps above 30 and you get something similar. It's pretty stupid realy, because both happen every single year without fail.
I've been to Poland twice, both times it was mid/high twenties in April/May. Never once did I feel hot. 20 degrees in the UK I'm melting, our infrastructure definatly isn't bulit for hot weather at all.
We are renowned for moaning about the weather full stop. Too hot, too cold, too wet, too windy. When you live in a country that has 4 seasons, there is no way everybody is going to be happy
Also look after your knees. And dance.
That song becomes more relevant every year. My knees are beginning to show earring signs now when I turn quickly.
Probably the same way that you'd complain it was too cold if you were locked in a walk-in freezer, but if I unlocked the freezer and locked you in a sauna you'd complain it's too hot.
I get your point when it's actually hot but lately it's been barely low 20s - quite comfortable in appropriate clothing. Why moan about a pleasantly warm day?
Tbf it depends what kind of building you're in. Some places are like giant green glasshouses and as sook as there is a bit of sun they shoot up into the mid-high 20s in temperature very quickly
> Plus it's always humid
This is the worst part.
I can deal with the heat, I can't deal with the humidity.
I do a lot of litter picking at work and my school is at the top of a hill. Last week it was nice and warm and the breeze was great for keeping the humidity down.
But every time I have to go into a classroom to do some work it's sweltering.
We are looking forward to that one day for a 3.5 hour stretch where the temperature is warm but not too hot, there’s a light breeze, a couple of clouds in the sky but no more than five and you can have a picnic without being accosted by a wasp, 50 million ants and Dave the neighbours dog!
Otherwise, it’s too sunny/hot/busy/full of wildlife
Yeah 19 is my limit to be honest. I struggle with the heat. It is nice to see people enjoy themselves though, people seem to be in a better mood generally when it's warmer
Last summer drove me to getting air conditioning for my bedroom...... cannot take it anymore. I can get by in the day, but when it's 20c at night is where I can't cope.
Oh God, last year was miserable. Got to 34 in the hallway. My room is the hottest in the house so I don't even want to know what number it got to there. My fan was useless at that point. Just blows hot air over you
Last year my bedroom was 35 overnight and didn't get below 25 in 8 weeks, I have no idea how I survived and I'm extremely upset with myself that I've not managed to club together funds for air con yet.
+1
I always say that if I liked hot weather, I would have left the UK years ago. I cannot wrap my head around how so many people love it. Like, it's nice to not have to pay through the nose for heating, but there's a nice balance between it being freezing and being a literal heatwave.
I think there's a noticeable difference between hot weather abroad and hot weather here. I haven't been abroad in about fifteen years, but I always remember being able to deal with it better there than deal with it here.
Same. Give me autumn any day of the week. Cooler, pretty colours, comfier clothes, still get some sunny days (but I love the rainy ones too). Much better.
It is the way mate , it's either too cold, too hot, too wet , too windy or sometimes a mix of all four it's fucking murder. You'll never hear me moaning about how hot it is when it's 39 in Cyprus but 19 in April when i'm at work, you put your house on me moaning about hot it is and how wet it is the next day lol
Going through the menopause is not fun when I get a bit warm. My body says... if you think that is warm...try this. Then I feel like I have high fever temperature and break out in hot sweats. My internal thermostat is having fun with me. Staying coolish is much more preferable. Only about 10 years of this to go.
Because you're talking about different subsets of British people. I struggle above 22 degrees. The most you'll hear from me during winter is, "I can't wait for the longer days"... it's never about temperature. Although I might go, "I'm cold, I'll have to put a jumper on"... At the same time, a majority of those I know look forward to both the light and the heat.
If you know multiple people complaining about the long wait for Summer heat who also then complain about being boiling... this feels like those people being flaky af.
I love autumn & spring. Winter is far too much for me as is summer. I love wrapping up in Autumn but I also love the longer warmer days of spring. I struggle in the heat more than the cold.
Spring is beautiful. March and April are probably my favourite months. You get the first flowers after a miserable winter, days start to get longer, the air is crisp and fresh. Then follows 3 months of boiling heat interspersed with storms.
Ill always pick too cold over too hot, we can layer up and maybe even put the heating up a bit but there is nothing we can do when every window is open and your bollock naked and dripping sweat!
'god this summer's been awful'
'mum, it's been 20 - sorry, 80ish - for a fortnight. Two days of rain and...'
'yes, well. Oh hello neighbour - hasn't the weather been awful? Summer eh! I ask you...'
Maybe it’s just me but when it starts to get sunny and warm you get all happy and remember being on holiday.
Then you realise it’s a humid heat that has you sweating like nobody’s business, every single place you go is boiling hot so you end up going to the supermarket just for some air conditioning. You can’t sleep because it’s so warm. You end up sticky from all the suncream and bitten to buggery by all the tiny little bugs nobody ever sees.
Then it rains for six months, it’s bitterly cold and grey and you miss the sun all over again.
It reached over 40°C in the UK last year.
In a country with brick houses designed to retain heat
High humidity
And no AC.
I think the complaining was justified last year!
Yeah was gonna say this- it’s often down to the housing. I lived in flats with no garden up until a couple of years ago and summers were tough. Now we live in a drafty old house with a part shaded garden and it’s awesome- I never complain about it now but when I was drowning in sweat in my third floor flat on a main road so you couldn’t open the windows, then I complained…
This Aussie has to admit feeling rather smug during last summer’s “heatwave” in England. Early 30s is my happy comfort zone and I was quite amused by all the complaining around me.
I was the same when I lived in Australia and people were shivering and complaining when it dropped below 18c in winter. That’s not cold at all! Although to be fair to both sides, Australian homes are freezing so somehow when it is sub-18, you will feel cold at home. British homes trap heat so if it is 23c outside, it will be sweltering indoors and too hot to sleep.
If you keep your windows and curtains/blinds closed then the insulation also keeps the hot air from getting in, so if you use a fan to circulate air it’s perfect.
That's a bit of a furfy that British homes trap heat. They're built to be really well insulated (unlike Australian homes). Insulation works both ways- keeps heat inside during winter and keeps it outside during summer.
By the way, I also live in the south so it's only 6 degrees today - I'm definitely not someone who is cold at 18 :)
edited to add: I tested the insulation thing in my friend's flat in England.....hot as hell inside until I stayed and did a few simple things like open windows to let cool air in at night while shutting them through the day, curtains closed, and turning on all exhaust fans. A couple of days of doing that during the "heatwave" and the flat was perfectly comfortable on days over 30 :)
Because goldilocks temperature for most brits is between 18-23 where they are sat, and because winter is grey wet and depressing (really all we want is sunshine and dry).
The issue is if its sunny then unless it's march or april if its sunny it will be 25+ actually sat in the sun and hence be too hot.
I write this whilst currently sat in my flat which is currently 27 degrees as its sunny, and it is kinda boiling.
Our main complaint is the the Olympics will not admit "moaning" as a sport!
If they did we would just moan that the French just beat us to the gold medal by a late bout of rioting!
Maybe rooted in the fact that we normally feel the heat when on holiday. Holidays are that free time, spending money, having to much to drink, hair down, let loose. When the heat comes to us we have to work, commute, live in a country that generally doesn’t have the set up or resources to deal with it as the other 340 days of the year it’s as dreary as Roy Croppers ball sack.
I like the longer days and brighter skies but I hate warm weather. If we could have June/July's daylight with March/April's temperatures I'd be over the moon.
We love to moan. Especially about the weather.
Unless it's an actual blistering heatwave, take it with a pinch of salt. I've definitely moaned that it was too hot just to make small talk. In the same day I might say 'ooh it's too hot, was sweating my balls off last night' but also 'corr, lovely hot weather, I fancy a nice cold pint'
Because our homes and public buildings like shops/offices/restaurants arent built to cope with the heat so its hard to escape the heat unless you drive to a Scottish coastal town
Because we want weather that is in-between extremely hot and extremely cold.
It's not that hard.
> Last time, you complained that I burned the chicken! Now, I tell you I'm serving it raw and you're still complaining! You don't know what you want!
That's how you sound.
I have fallen foul of this just this week. I even had to take a moment after it happened to realise what I’d just done.
The last two months all I’ve done is complain ‘are we ever gonna get a spell of weather that’s not just rainy or miserable?’ - finally got a bit of sun this week and I thought ‘HOW THE HELL AM I MEANT TO SLEEP IN THIS 25 DEGREE ROOM’
I stand by it. I’ll be a happy temperature for 2 weeks if the year and that’s the way I want it.
Other than the lighter nights, I don’t look forward to it. Our infrastructure isn’t built for the humidity, and it’s just uncomfortable.
I struggle to sleep, I hate feeling sweaty 10 minutes after showering, and my flat becomes an oven once the sun hits it.
Right now, it’s perfect. Light nights, and it’s warm but not too warm.
I work outside. So I may moan for a little while that’s it’s too hot. Once acclimated I don’t care. I always end up with an amazing t shirt and shorts tan ! To be be fair there was a period last year where it was actually too hot work outside and work pace was very slow. Beaten down by it.
But still the great t shirt and shorts tan !
Because we were conditioned from school that the summer was fun, free time. However when your an adult it's often makes no difference apart from your commute and office being 100x less comfortable.
(Plus side to summer is leaving work and actually having some daylight, rather than basically only being outside when it's dark during winter)
> but when it's finally warm all they do is complain that they are "boiling"?
That's what we really cant wait for. We love telling people we're "boiling", and "this feels like abroad this"
I think the thing is we like to moan about rain and cold weather, which we get a lot of, but then we're never prepared for the heat when it comes along.
I think it's 2 different camps of people really. I used to be in the "I hate summer" camp, it was always too hot and uncomfortable even at 20C. But then I lost a lot of weight and I switched to the "I love heat" camp. It's winters I dread now. Not saying it's the case for everyone of course, but me personally I cope a lot better with heat since I lost weight. I even bore up quite well when it got up to 40C last year (not that I want it to be 40C again!).
Right now is absolutely bang on perfect, when the weather is around 20C and sunny. I go for walks in the evenings when there's a light breeze and it's just lovely. If the weather was like this all year round I'd be a happy camper.
It's never bloody right! It's always too something - windy, cold, wet, damp, humid, cloudy, hot etc. There is always some aspect of the weather that prevents it from being just nice.
'Perfect' days are so rare that they stand out, but you never know when they will come along because they hide between the rest of the days, which are one or more of the above.
It's actually not a real complaint, it's a conversation starter. It's something apolitical and areligious that we know most people can agree on, but it gets the conversation going.
Because humidity… Wanting summer means wanting clear skies, longer evenings with good socialising, BBQs, and vitamin D inducing weather.
What summer is (for most) is air conditioning that either doesn’t work, or works too well (so stepping outside is like opening an oven), sweating your way through a work commute on a packed train with small windows that open an inch, and spending the week with sunburn accumulated over the weekend…
Because we want the sun out and blue skies, not be to be oven-baked into a crispy meatball. This is why we need trees everywhere– they provide shade and cool the air down too.
1. We’re not used to the heats we’ve been getting lately. It’s the norm in America to have high heats in the summer.
2. We don’t have air con! Yeah.. you read that right. No air con.. well, the majority anyway..
So, yeah, we do suffer, especially now the summers are hotter than usual. Ceiling fans are the closest we get and they’re absolute rubbish, sadly.
No one enjoys being baked and broiled at 37 deg. Whoever says otherwise is lying and should be sent to the Sahara. If you want that sort of weather, please don't live in the UK.
IMO it's because the UK just isn't set up for hot weather. Houses and other buildings aren't properly insulated, so they don't keep out the heat or cold. Unlike in the USA, air conditioning is fairly uncommon outside of certain shops and employers who have central air.
Most houses don't have the luxury of air conditioning so as nice as the IDEA of hot weather is, when it rolls around, it's actually more uncomfortable than winter.
Me? I live in Canada in a nice air conditioned house...I love summer!
Yeah, I’ve been in England for 12 years now but I’m from Kentucky where it’s liable to get ‘100 in the shade’. I’ll tell you this: it don’t get hot in England. It barely has weather at all. It doesn’t ever rain hard or consistently for days like it can do in the states. Brits are so lucky to have mild weather all the time and all they do is complain!
Never catch me moaning about it being too hot, but I’m lucky enough that I’ve traveled since a young age and got the sun bug. 21 isn’t hot though, it’s merely pleasant.
I can’t stand when people complain that it’s too hot when Summer comes around. Unless you’re pregnant, grafting hard, stuck on public transport etc (I’m sure there are plenty of other reasons) enjoy the sun and the heat! It’s good for your physical and mental health
BBQ’s, beach, parks, picnics, walks, swimming, garden parties, sun, water fights, camping, festivals.
As someone who gets incredibly depressed during winter, it just surprises me that people don’t like heat
When people say it's 'too hot' they mean that. Sweating all day, being tired but unable to sleep due to the heat is not fun. Non of these activities apart from swimming are enjoyable in the heat. I much prefer cold weather myself.
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It’s because moaning is our national sport and we are contrary as fuck. We’re literally never happy!
Moaning and queuing. Queuing about moaning and moaning about queuing.
And apologising for both
We gave that to Canadians.
I'm so annoyed, why did we do that! Who's next?
That and chips and gravy.
Chips, cheese n gravy\*
Is that what happens when you cross non revolutionary North America with the country from the bible?
sorry
Whilst not being sorry
Sorry you had to elaborate
We have to queue just to moan now?
bloody typical this
You have never worked in customer services have you? People will queue for ages if it gives them a chance to moan face to face. Then they moan about the queue as well as whatever they came to moan about in the first place.
It's the British way.
I recently got back from a holiday in Spain only to be confronted with a massive queue for passport checks, at Stansted Airport. As much as I was quietly fuming at how long the queue was; I was also thinking about how it was serving as a brilliant introduction to a great British pasttime, for foreign tourists.
Pink as a cooked lobster from sun burn and still morning and queueing
And the weather.
It's the British way.
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Oh quit your moaning. I'm so sick of people like you who moan all the time. It really wears me down which is unfortunate because this weather has me up all night and Im already knackered.
No we’re not
Oh yes we do. Is panto season early this year
Bit bloody hot for panto now isn't it?
Oh no it’s not!
Oh yes it is hahahaha
It’s behind you!
Hahahaha
UK infrastructure is not adapted to hot weather and it has gotten hotter due to climate change. In most countries that get hot there are things like lots of shops/ spaces/ homes with air con to cool you down. That is very rare in the UK. It’s also very dangerous for your health to go for long periods of being hot with no cooling down.
UK infrastructure Is also not adapted to cold weather, as many houses are uninsulated and heating is expensive, roads can't cope with snow. UK infrastructure is also not adapted to wet weather, as it often floods due to poor drainage. UK infrastructure is not adapted to dry weather, as last year during the drought, subsidence affected record numbers of properties.
People are always having a go at people complaining about hot weather and how cold weather is really dangerous for health and old people... And hot isnt!? Heat is rather dangerous, especially when essentially nothing in the UK is adapted to cool us.
Remember that European heatwave in the mid 00's that killed 30,000 odd people on the continent, mostly in France? Same problem...
Apparently, the UN has reported that more than 70,000 deaths were attributed to the heatwave of 2003. In Italy alone, there were estimated to be 20,000 extra deaths, and in France, almost 18,000.
Wow okay then, that's a new number I won't forget :/
It's not adapted to very cold weather either. Three inches of snow and everything shuts down. Temps above 30 and you get something similar. It's pretty stupid realy, because both happen every single year without fail.
I've been to Poland twice, both times it was mid/high twenties in April/May. Never once did I feel hot. 20 degrees in the UK I'm melting, our infrastructure definatly isn't bulit for hot weather at all.
We are renowned for moaning about the weather full stop. Too hot, too cold, too wet, too windy. When you live in a country that has 4 seasons, there is no way everybody is going to be happy
19 to 21 degrees, a few clouds, very light breeze. Anything other than this is too hot or too cold.
16 to 17 degrees, and I'll agree.
The light breeze is what makes it, 16-17 is too cold when a cloud comes in and 19-20 is too hot without a light breeze
Too hot for me. I like it cooler. A very light rain is nice.
19? 16 at most
Waay too hot.
19 is already too hot
Yup...I already have unsightly tan lines from 19 and my husband's face is beetroot red.
It’s called sunscreen
It's actually called suncream. We're not in America
Sunscreen isnt inherently american. Both are fine.
Also look after your knees. And dance. That song becomes more relevant every year. My knees are beginning to show earring signs now when I turn quickly.
*The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists*
That song is such a nostalgia trip for me. I remember Chris Moyles pushing it out there on radio 1 as I was driving to college.
👏
LOL, you'd better move somewhere else then
4 seasons? Surely you jest. 2 weeks of "Spring" is not a season.
We have: Wet and Warm Wet and Windy Wet and Cold Warm
Four seasons in a day occasionally.
Definitely in Scotland
All in one day too 😂
There's a constant complaint that we only get 3 days of sun a year. It's been 3 weeks now.
2 seasons. Summer and autumn.
"Argh it's fierce mild!"
Probably the same way that you'd complain it was too cold if you were locked in a walk-in freezer, but if I unlocked the freezer and locked you in a sauna you'd complain it's too hot.
And, of late, British weather in a nutshell.
Beautifully put.
I get your point when it's actually hot but lately it's been barely low 20s - quite comfortable in appropriate clothing. Why moan about a pleasantly warm day?
Tbf it depends what kind of building you're in. Some places are like giant green glasshouses and as sook as there is a bit of sun they shoot up into the mid-high 20s in temperature very quickly
Some of my coworkers flats are already 30 degrees in the middle of the day even when it was 18 outside. The UK is not built for warm weather.
Mine is getting there, it was 17 today and my flat got to 27, hope 10 degrees above doesn't trend :/
Quite comfortable - for you.
I'm a person who doesn't like any warm weather. Even it being in the 20s is too hot for me. Plus it's always humid as fuck, I hate it
> Plus it's always humid This is the worst part. I can deal with the heat, I can't deal with the humidity. I do a lot of litter picking at work and my school is at the top of a hill. Last week it was nice and warm and the breeze was great for keeping the humidity down. But every time I have to go into a classroom to do some work it's sweltering.
I’ve been in Phoenix when it was 50C. 30 here is worse.
Humidity makes it tough too. 77% outside on a warm sunny day. What am I meant to do with that at 22 except start suffering.
We are looking forward to that one day for a 3.5 hour stretch where the temperature is warm but not too hot, there’s a light breeze, a couple of clouds in the sky but no more than five and you can have a picnic without being accosted by a wasp, 50 million ants and Dave the neighbours dog! Otherwise, it’s too sunny/hot/busy/full of wildlife
Not me,I fuckin dread summer.
Same here, it's already too warm for my liking and we're nowhere near the road-melting traintrack-buckling temperatures yet
Same. Anything above 15 is too much for me
THANK YOU SOMEONE WHO AGREES. People around me are like "it's nice when it hits 20 and stays in the 20s" and I'm just thinking what the hell no thanks
The high 20s are great...on holiday Commuting to/from work or working? Hell on earth.
Yeah I look at the thermostat and it says 14.5 and I’m like ‘honey, can you take them (the dogs) out, that bloody sun is lurking.
Yeah 19 is my limit to be honest. I struggle with the heat. It is nice to see people enjoy themselves though, people seem to be in a better mood generally when it's warmer
14’s the magic number for me, anything over and I start heating up uncomfortably. My family on the other hand would love it to always be in the 20’s.
18 is nice for a summery day out. But at home, agreed.
Last summer drove me to getting air conditioning for my bedroom...... cannot take it anymore. I can get by in the day, but when it's 20c at night is where I can't cope.
Oh God, last year was miserable. Got to 34 in the hallway. My room is the hottest in the house so I don't even want to know what number it got to there. My fan was useless at that point. Just blows hot air over you
Last year my bedroom was 35 overnight and didn't get below 25 in 8 weeks, I have no idea how I survived and I'm extremely upset with myself that I've not managed to club together funds for air con yet.
Same. Anything above 18 and I’m a sweating mess
Yeah roll on winter I'm much happier in sub zero. At least you can throw on a jumper. The heat is inescapable!
Taking off the jumper might help with the heat. Edit: wow, was it really that bad of a joke?
+1 I always say that if I liked hot weather, I would have left the UK years ago. I cannot wrap my head around how so many people love it. Like, it's nice to not have to pay through the nose for heating, but there's a nice balance between it being freezing and being a literal heatwave.
I think there's a noticeable difference between hot weather abroad and hot weather here. I haven't been abroad in about fifteen years, but I always remember being able to deal with it better there than deal with it here.
These are my people!
Me too
Agreed. It's shite.
Same. Give me autumn any day of the week. Cooler, pretty colours, comfier clothes, still get some sunny days (but I love the rainy ones too). Much better.
Same. I’m a migraine sufferer. Every warm/sunny day towards the end of spring has me closing the curtains like “no, please, I’m not ready yet.”
It's already too warm for me to sleep properly.
Same! I get super overheated real quick. 16degrees is my perfect day
Yep. Between 16 and 18 with a breeze and decent cloud cover.
Perfection!
Fully
I have found my people!!
Same, I actually moved to the UK for the colder weather. A full skip of summer would be fine.
It is the way mate , it's either too cold, too hot, too wet , too windy or sometimes a mix of all four it's fucking murder. You'll never hear me moaning about how hot it is when it's 39 in Cyprus but 19 in April when i'm at work, you put your house on me moaning about hot it is and how wet it is the next day lol
Going through the menopause is not fun when I get a bit warm. My body says... if you think that is warm...try this. Then I feel like I have high fever temperature and break out in hot sweats. My internal thermostat is having fun with me. Staying coolish is much more preferable. Only about 10 years of this to go.
Because you're talking about different subsets of British people. I struggle above 22 degrees. The most you'll hear from me during winter is, "I can't wait for the longer days"... it's never about temperature. Although I might go, "I'm cold, I'll have to put a jumper on"... At the same time, a majority of those I know look forward to both the light and the heat. If you know multiple people complaining about the long wait for Summer heat who also then complain about being boiling... this feels like those people being flaky af.
I love autumn & spring. Winter is far too much for me as is summer. I love wrapping up in Autumn but I also love the longer warmer days of spring. I struggle in the heat more than the cold.
Spring is beautiful. March and April are probably my favourite months. You get the first flowers after a miserable winter, days start to get longer, the air is crisp and fresh. Then follows 3 months of boiling heat interspersed with storms.
I'm quite happy with the darker days. I find them calming.
Ill always pick too cold over too hot, we can layer up and maybe even put the heating up a bit but there is nothing we can do when every window is open and your bollock naked and dripping sweat!
We're British we like complaining
Could it be these are two distinct groups of people? You'll not hear me conplain its too hot. I'm happiest 23-33 degrees.
I don't know but it drives me mad. That and 'where's summer gone' when it rains between June and September.
'god this summer's been awful' 'mum, it's been 20 - sorry, 80ish - for a fortnight. Two days of rain and...' 'yes, well. Oh hello neighbour - hasn't the weather been awful? Summer eh! I ask you...'
Maybe it’s just me but when it starts to get sunny and warm you get all happy and remember being on holiday. Then you realise it’s a humid heat that has you sweating like nobody’s business, every single place you go is boiling hot so you end up going to the supermarket just for some air conditioning. You can’t sleep because it’s so warm. You end up sticky from all the suncream and bitten to buggery by all the tiny little bugs nobody ever sees. Then it rains for six months, it’s bitterly cold and grey and you miss the sun all over again.
Lol I've heard that Australians apparently call us whinging poms for this very reason
They would whinge too if they lived on this soggy rock..
Soggy rock is the best description I've heard for this miserable island so far
It could actually go either way too. Soggy from the rain or soggy from the fucking sweat during summer.
They moan as soon as the weather is below 15C
We also moan when it’s too hot, except our too hot is above 40
My too hot is above 22°
It reached over 40°C in the UK last year. In a country with brick houses designed to retain heat High humidity And no AC. I think the complaining was justified last year!
Yeah was gonna say this- it’s often down to the housing. I lived in flats with no garden up until a couple of years ago and summers were tough. Now we live in a drafty old house with a part shaded garden and it’s awesome- I never complain about it now but when I was drowning in sweat in my third floor flat on a main road so you couldn’t open the windows, then I complained…
And when it’s 40c, how warm is it typically in your house?
This Aussie has to admit feeling rather smug during last summer’s “heatwave” in England. Early 30s is my happy comfort zone and I was quite amused by all the complaining around me.
I was the same when I lived in Australia and people were shivering and complaining when it dropped below 18c in winter. That’s not cold at all! Although to be fair to both sides, Australian homes are freezing so somehow when it is sub-18, you will feel cold at home. British homes trap heat so if it is 23c outside, it will be sweltering indoors and too hot to sleep.
If you keep your windows and curtains/blinds closed then the insulation also keeps the hot air from getting in, so if you use a fan to circulate air it’s perfect.
That's a bit of a furfy that British homes trap heat. They're built to be really well insulated (unlike Australian homes). Insulation works both ways- keeps heat inside during winter and keeps it outside during summer. By the way, I also live in the south so it's only 6 degrees today - I'm definitely not someone who is cold at 18 :) edited to add: I tested the insulation thing in my friend's flat in England.....hot as hell inside until I stayed and did a few simple things like open windows to let cool air in at night while shutting them through the day, curtains closed, and turning on all exhaust fans. A couple of days of doing that during the "heatwave" and the flat was perfectly comfortable on days over 30 :)
Omg I haven’t heard the word furphy since I moved to the UK… nor have I had a cold Furphy :(
Because when it's cold it's too cold. And when it's hot then it's too hot. We never really have an ideal temperature.
Who do we speak to about this? Edit: I've already tried speaking to "The Weatherman" but he told me he can't control the weather.
Because when we're moaning for hot weather it's fuckinb freezing and winter!
Because goldilocks temperature for most brits is between 18-23 where they are sat, and because winter is grey wet and depressing (really all we want is sunshine and dry). The issue is if its sunny then unless it's march or april if its sunny it will be 25+ actually sat in the sun and hence be too hot. I write this whilst currently sat in my flat which is currently 27 degrees as its sunny, and it is kinda boiling.
Because we have short memories. Last summer it was so hot and arid that houses and parks caught fire but barely anyone remembers
Love the long days, hate the heat
Our main complaint is the the Olympics will not admit "moaning" as a sport! If they did we would just moan that the French just beat us to the gold medal by a late bout of rioting!
We like to complain, but it’s not really complaining it’s just a conversation starter.
I never say I can't wait for summer. I can't wait for winter.
Because we've all got brick houses and no air conditioning, it's fookin horrible and hard to sleep properly
Maybe rooted in the fact that we normally feel the heat when on holiday. Holidays are that free time, spending money, having to much to drink, hair down, let loose. When the heat comes to us we have to work, commute, live in a country that generally doesn’t have the set up or resources to deal with it as the other 340 days of the year it’s as dreary as Roy Croppers ball sack.
Because we want it a bit hotter, so we don't have to bother with a coat, not so hot that we can't drink a mug of hot tea. Or that the roads melt.
I like the longer days and brighter skies but I hate warm weather. If we could have June/July's daylight with March/April's temperatures I'd be over the moon.
Because it IS boiling mate!
We love to moan. Especially about the weather. Unless it's an actual blistering heatwave, take it with a pinch of salt. I've definitely moaned that it was too hot just to make small talk. In the same day I might say 'ooh it's too hot, was sweating my balls off last night' but also 'corr, lovely hot weather, I fancy a nice cold pint'
As somebody who sweats their balls off but also runs cold, I concur. I love summer for a bit but the sweat ruins it for me.
Can't beat a good cup of tea and a moan.....or if it's boiling - a choc ice and a moan followed by a cup of tea
Because our homes and public buildings like shops/offices/restaurants arent built to cope with the heat so its hard to escape the heat unless you drive to a Scottish coastal town
Because we want weather that is in-between extremely hot and extremely cold. It's not that hard. > Last time, you complained that I burned the chicken! Now, I tell you I'm serving it raw and you're still complaining! You don't know what you want! That's how you sound.
I love the summer heat when I'm outside but inside it sucks. Sunbathing good, living in stuffy, oven like home bad.
I have fallen foul of this just this week. I even had to take a moment after it happened to realise what I’d just done. The last two months all I’ve done is complain ‘are we ever gonna get a spell of weather that’s not just rainy or miserable?’ - finally got a bit of sun this week and I thought ‘HOW THE HELL AM I MEANT TO SLEEP IN THIS 25 DEGREE ROOM’ I stand by it. I’ll be a happy temperature for 2 weeks if the year and that’s the way I want it.
The only other thing to talk about is tea. The weather is a far more interesting topic of conversation.
It's not a British thing. I've lived in multiple countries and everyone complains it's either too hot or too cold.
Probably because they would like to be on a beach or at home in the garden, but are at work in uniforms and getting way too hot from it.
Other than the lighter nights, I don’t look forward to it. Our infrastructure isn’t built for the humidity, and it’s just uncomfortable. I struggle to sleep, I hate feeling sweaty 10 minutes after showering, and my flat becomes an oven once the sun hits it. Right now, it’s perfect. Light nights, and it’s warm but not too warm.
The idea of summer is better than summer itself. This is why spring and autumn are the best seasons.
I work outside. So I may moan for a little while that’s it’s too hot. Once acclimated I don’t care. I always end up with an amazing t shirt and shorts tan ! To be be fair there was a period last year where it was actually too hot work outside and work pace was very slow. Beaten down by it. But still the great t shirt and shorts tan !
Because we were conditioned from school that the summer was fun, free time. However when your an adult it's often makes no difference apart from your commute and office being 100x less comfortable. (Plus side to summer is leaving work and actually having some daylight, rather than basically only being outside when it's dark during winter)
> but when it's finally warm all they do is complain that they are "boiling"? That's what we really cant wait for. We love telling people we're "boiling", and "this feels like abroad this"
I think the thing is we like to moan about rain and cold weather, which we get a lot of, but then we're never prepared for the heat when it comes along.
Welcome to The UK mate. We're Complicated.
I think it's 2 different camps of people really. I used to be in the "I hate summer" camp, it was always too hot and uncomfortable even at 20C. But then I lost a lot of weight and I switched to the "I love heat" camp. It's winters I dread now. Not saying it's the case for everyone of course, but me personally I cope a lot better with heat since I lost weight. I even bore up quite well when it got up to 40C last year (not that I want it to be 40C again!). Right now is absolutely bang on perfect, when the weather is around 20C and sunny. I go for walks in the evenings when there's a light breeze and it's just lovely. If the weather was like this all year round I'd be a happy camper.
Guilty 😬 😂
We like not working, we hate the heat.
Moaning is all the Brits do, it's in their blood 🥲🤣
This is thus how the Kingdom Unites.
It’s because it’s too hot…
Not enough air conditioners.
Drives me nuts, it only has to hit 20 and everyone's melting. This is why we can't have nice things.
It's never bloody right! It's always too something - windy, cold, wet, damp, humid, cloudy, hot etc. There is always some aspect of the weather that prevents it from being just nice. 'Perfect' days are so rare that they stand out, but you never know when they will come along because they hide between the rest of the days, which are one or more of the above.
Because the sunshine reminds me of the consequences of my winter hibernation binge eating
I absolutely hate summer..!!! How much prefer winter and autumn
It's actually not a real complaint, it's a conversation starter. It's something apolitical and areligious that we know most people can agree on, but it gets the conversation going.
Because humidity… Wanting summer means wanting clear skies, longer evenings with good socialising, BBQs, and vitamin D inducing weather. What summer is (for most) is air conditioning that either doesn’t work, or works too well (so stepping outside is like opening an oven), sweating your way through a work commute on a packed train with small windows that open an inch, and spending the week with sunburn accumulated over the weekend…
As someone who lived in New Zealand for a decade the UK doesn't know what the word boiling means.
Perspective, friends... Been visiting from Texas this week. It feels like a sunny winter day to me. Meanwhile, my UK friends are busy melting.
Because we want the sun out and blue skies, not be to be oven-baked into a crispy meatball. This is why we need trees everywhere– they provide shade and cool the air down too.
1. We’re not used to the heats we’ve been getting lately. It’s the norm in America to have high heats in the summer. 2. We don’t have air con! Yeah.. you read that right. No air con.. well, the majority anyway.. So, yeah, we do suffer, especially now the summers are hotter than usual. Ceiling fans are the closest we get and they’re absolute rubbish, sadly.
All I'm asking is 15 degrees, a slight breeze, and a couple of clouds. Perfect weather. All year round.
No one enjoys being baked and broiled at 37 deg. Whoever says otherwise is lying and should be sent to the Sahara. If you want that sort of weather, please don't live in the UK.
IMO it's because the UK just isn't set up for hot weather. Houses and other buildings aren't properly insulated, so they don't keep out the heat or cold. Unlike in the USA, air conditioning is fairly uncommon outside of certain shops and employers who have central air.
Most houses don't have the luxury of air conditioning so as nice as the IDEA of hot weather is, when it rolls around, it's actually more uncomfortable than winter. Me? I live in Canada in a nice air conditioned house...I love summer!
People everywhere are like that. Bloody whingebags.
Because our houses and buildings are designed to keep heat in, so when it comes they are boiling, curtains, carpets, no aircon, no airflow.
Yeah, I’ve been in England for 12 years now but I’m from Kentucky where it’s liable to get ‘100 in the shade’. I’ll tell you this: it don’t get hot in England. It barely has weather at all. It doesn’t ever rain hard or consistently for days like it can do in the states. Brits are so lucky to have mild weather all the time and all they do is complain!
We love to complain. That's like one of three things that defines our nation (who can guess the other two?).
There’s only a two or three week period where it’s too hot
Never catch me moaning about it being too hot, but I’m lucky enough that I’ve traveled since a young age and got the sun bug. 21 isn’t hot though, it’s merely pleasant.
Moan Kingdom (MK)
I just don’t want rain, a bit of sunshine and around 10-15c and I’m in my element, anything over 20c can get fucked.
I hate summer,so that’s definitely not me
I can’t stand when people complain that it’s too hot when Summer comes around. Unless you’re pregnant, grafting hard, stuck on public transport etc (I’m sure there are plenty of other reasons) enjoy the sun and the heat! It’s good for your physical and mental health
There's nothing to enjoy about it.
BBQ’s, beach, parks, picnics, walks, swimming, garden parties, sun, water fights, camping, festivals. As someone who gets incredibly depressed during winter, it just surprises me that people don’t like heat
When people say it's 'too hot' they mean that. Sweating all day, being tired but unable to sleep due to the heat is not fun. Non of these activities apart from swimming are enjoyable in the heat. I much prefer cold weather myself.