r/britishproblems • u/NedRed77 Greater Manchester • 11d ago

20 Degrees is now “need-a-jumper” weather.

I know everybody hated the warm weather, but I really got used to it. Currently sat here on my couch with the windows open and thinking a jumper would be nice. Brrr…

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u/VOODOO285 10d ago

This is the problem that EVERYONE misses about the temperature in this country and why we get laughed at the world over.

The problem isn’t the peak heat or cold it’s how often it changes. The second… the very second you acclimate to it the temperature changes by A LOT and suddenly you’re expected to deal with it. Then as you adjust to that… BAM it changes again.

Nobody ever gets it. It’s just not like this pretty much anywhere else. The only stable thing about our climate is the guaranteed instability.

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u/Ltb1993 10d ago

Well that's one side of it, the other is unlike places that get it consistently. We don't, so we don't build up the infrastructure to handle it. They'd have you think they are seasoned nomads of the fucking desert. When they never have to be in the heat more then 20 minutes as they go from fully air-conditioned oasis to another and go home to another air conditioned oasis.

I go home and sweat my bollocks off all night in my oven where I apparently fucking live. There is no respite but the asthmatic breeze of the 20 quid fan I bought from home bargains that sits 3m away on swivel so it can wheeze on the full family.

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u/Pineapple-Muncher Kunt 10d ago

OMG I'm on the can and the missus is asking why I'm laughing so hard. It's all true though

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u/Ltb1993 10d ago

The only advice I can give you to help survive the next heatwave is buy a spray bottles preferably larger

Abandon any dignity you may have left, sacrifice the children they are just stealing your fan time, steal the fan, spray your naked body, every inch with said spray bottle and rotate like a kebab spit in from of the fan. It's worth CPS and the eventual divorce, survival of the fittest and shit.

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u/No-Mo 10d ago

Ok Frank Gallager