It is never hot enough, for long enough for the true "folie de la chaleur" to overcome the British.barkingmad wrote: ↑Thu Jun 29, 2023 8:31 amLet’s hope those perfidious Brits don’t lose their collective cool as the climate warms up...
The British experience seems to go something like this.
First hot day - Everybody looks happier, the girls come out like colourful flowers in the spring, men start taking their shirts and some their shorts off, looking more like white sea slugs or aged tattooed barnacles, none of which is a good look but everybody starts talking to each other.
Second hot day - Everybody starts drinking publicly to excess, the girls look less flowers now and more like wilted but very sore red roses. The blokes have raw red necks. They are all drunk and the initial happy mood is giving way to something uglier in the presiding spirit.
Third hot day - the girls vomit in the street and swear, the blokes are fighting and some people are stabbing each other. A and E is full.
Fourth day, the rain and cold has returned - All is monochrome again. Everybody has that sullen "silent desperation is the English way look", even the Scots and the Welsh. United in silent misery everything and everybody returns to the unhappy status ante quo. Thank God!