https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-62177458
Okay. What’s this all about then? English people, explain yerselves!
Heatwave: National emergency declared after UK's first red extreme heat warning, from the BBC:
It means there is a risk to life and daily routines will need to change.
On the roads, gritters are planning to spread sand to reduce melting, and the RAC has warned more drivers will need help as cars overheat.
On top of the Met Office warning, the UK Health Security Agency issued its highest level four heat alert to health and care bodies - warning illness and death could occur "among the fit and healthy".
So, temperatures which are reasonably normal in some US States, Southern Europe, parts of Asia, the Middle-East and Africa are going to melt English roads, blow up cars and murder healthy people…
Your weather warnings are getting as bloody childish as Dutch ones. We get code orange warnings if there’s a slight breeze and, oh boy, if it snows it’s code red, schools close, trains stop and everyone has to hide in their nuclear shelters and pray for our security.
When I was 14 I had to cycle to school. And even if a nuclear zombie holocaust with added sharknados was happening, I’d get a right smacking if I showed up late.
What the hell’s wrong with society.
I get, if the weather’s gonna be a bit hotter than usual, warning people to make sure they have a hat, suntan lotion and bottles of water with them.
But I drive through Southern France (last year Marseille… don’t drive in Marseille… never have I ever witnessed such madness… but that’s a topic for a ‘worst place you’ve ever driven’ thread) on a regular basis and I’ve never seen healthy people dropping dead, the roads needing sand to stop them melting and cars exploding all over the place.
My God. What a world.
@shavixmir saidWhen I was 14 I had to cycle to school. And even if a nuclear zombie holocaust with added sharknados was happening, I’d get a right smacking if I showed up late.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-62177458
Okay. What’s this all about then? English people, explain yerselves!
[i]Heatwave: National emergency declared after UK's first red extreme heat warning, from the BBC:
It means there is a risk to life and daily routines will need to change.
On the roads, gritters are planning to spread sand to reduce melting, and the RAC has war ...[text shortened]... ds needing sand to stop them melting and cars exploding all over the place.
My God. What a world.
You sound a lot like my parents Shav. They shoveled 20 ton of coal before breakfast every morning, then walked 10 miles uphill though a blinding snowstorm to school (even in June) then 10 miles uphill FROM school (They didn't have downhills in those days!) the wind always blew in your face, never at your back. They didn't have food in those days - they ate dirt 7 days a week and was darn glad to find dirt to eat too! Then the war came along, and they built battleships with 1 arm and fought the Nazi's with the other (AND THEY WON!)
And you kids don't know what tough is! 😠
@shavixmir saidThe UK media are having a massive circle-jerk over climate change every time it gets a bit too hot or a bit too cold.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-62177458
Okay. What’s this all about then? English people, explain yerselves!
[i]Heatwave: National emergency declared after UK's first red extreme heat warning, from the BBC:
It means there is a risk to life and daily routines will need to change.
On the roads, gritters are planning to spread sand to reduce melting, and the RAC has war ...[text shortened]... ds needing sand to stop them melting and cars exploding all over the place.
My God. What a world.
Despite there being negligible new deaths from it, the “expert” talking heads are blithering on about covid infections like it’s a new plague of the apocalypse.
Rushi is desperately trying to convince the country that his strategy of not lowering taxes is actually how he is going to lower taxes.
Penny Mordunt is giving Rushi and Liz runny stools. I’d like to see her win tbh, Penny that is, not the sour hard bitch Liz.
Nice guy Starmer (seriously) is stumped since Boris self-imploded and stepped down.
No one knows who the LibDems are any more. I say bring back Jo Swinson and “bollox to Brexit” as I could do with a good laugh.
Prices everywhere are sky high, for everything except coffee shops it seems.
It’s the end of the world as we know it.
@mchill saidLuxioury!
When I was 14 I had to cycle to school. And even if a nuclear zombie holocaust with added sharknados was happening, I’d get a right smacking if I showed up late.
You sound a lot like my parents Shav. They shoveled 20 ton of coal before breakfast every morning, then walked 10 miles uphill though a blinding snowstorm to school (even in June) then 10 miles uphill FROM school ...[text shortened]... m and fought the Nazi's with the other (AND THEY WON!)
And you kids don't know what tough is! 😠
When we were young we dreamed of shovelling 20 tons of coal before breakfast, and with our bare hands too.
We lived in a hole in the ground and prayed for dirt to eat.
No sir, we had to build battleships by pounding nails with our fists and chewing off lose screws with our crooked teeth, 26 hours a day. And when our dad got home in the evening from killing nazis, he’d beat us to death with his club foot.
Pfff.. you tell the kids this nowadays… they don’t believe you!
@beowulf saidJesus dude.
Sounds like Leftist Sensationalism to get viewers.
The old, end of the world climate change! BS. 🙄
The planet has been fluctuating temperature since the planet was formed billions of years ago.
It will continue to do that forever.
Get with the feel of the fukking thread, and leave your political BS somewhere else.
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@mchill saidI tell my son,
When I was 14 I had to cycle to school. And even if a nuclear zombie holocaust with added sharknados was happening, I’d get a right smacking if I showed up late.
You sound a lot like my parents Shav. They shoveled 20 ton of coal before breakfast every morning, then walked 10 miles uphill though a blinding snowstorm to school (even in June) then 10 miles uphill FROM school ...[text shortened]... m and fought the Nazi's with the other (AND THEY WON!)
And you kids don't know what tough is! 😠
''When I was your age I had get up and walk all the way
across the room, just to change the television station.''
@shallow-blue saidHahaha
And then he'll say: "Come off it, daddy-o (except possibly in more fruity words) - when you were my age, there was only one television station!"
@shavixmir saidSchool boy error, should’ve got a longer chain, how was she supposed to wash his feet while he’s watching the women’s mud wrestling final’s.🤷🏻♂️
Tied to the stove in the kitchen.
@kevcvs57 saidIf the chain is long enough bring you beer, it's distracting her from her true chores: cooking and cleaning.
School boy error, should’ve got a longer chain, how was she supposed to wash his feet while he’s watching the women’s mud wrestling final’s.🤷🏻♂️
