It is approximately a bajillion degrees outside (90°f) and I regret any and all life choices that lead to me being outside right at this very moment.
I am too Scottish for this nonsense.
We cannae help you fam, we’re dying here. It was 30 degrees at 6.30pm, The grass has gone brown. The Highlands are literally on fire. Nowhere has any air conditioning because of course we don’t it’s f*cking Scotland
We haven’t seen rain in weeks and we’re starting to lose all sense of identity.
My da’ keeps telling me the garden is on fire, I thought he was kidding.
Ya’ll are weak af
I get these kind of comments are typically jokey, but these are literally dangerous temperatures for people not used to them, and the UK doesn’t typically get this hot for more than a random day let alone weeks. It’s about 20°f hotter than it usually gets in some places for this time of year, so people are a) not used to it b) have no air conditioning and c) no idea how to handle this kind of heat at all and d) you dinnae ken humidity till you’ve felt Scotland in the middle of a heatwave, it’s like wading uphill through treacle, and the air sits in the lungs like swamp water. And I moved to Minnesota for gods sake. We only have two seasons, hell and frozen hell.
So maybe gonnae no wi your non helpful comments when people who never have to deal wi this kind of thing struggle tae deal wi it.
There’s nae gold medal at the end of the suffering Olympics, only gilt.
Also like. Apart from just air conditioners, buildings are built differently in different climates. The insulation is different. Example: I just moved (back) to Florida from Virginia. Apartments here are built to let go of heat. Mine doesn’t have it, but a lot of houses have Terra Cotta tile floors because they’re cooler to walk on and don’t hold heat. Houses are built with lots of shade. Oh, and state laws allow you to tint your vehicle windows much darker than most other states. (Kellie was shocked by how dark people’s window tint is. “Isn’t that illegal?” Not in Florida. Not when the sun will literally punch you in the face in the summer.)
On the flip side, last winter, it was in the negative double digits in Virginia, which is cold even for them, but in the town I live in now in Florida, it got down into the low 30s. Which is kinda high for winter temps in Virginia. But I got a peek at someone’s power bill down here? $350 for that month. Because these apartments are made to stay cool. And because people’s bodies aren’t used to that kind of cold. They don’t have the wardrobe for it.
Honestly, not being able to see the context that makes people have difficulty with something you are personally dealing with just fine is weak af.
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