sick of the dead heat

Ickle Magoo wrote:

It sounds horrible for those in the city that work - but as I fall into neither category - long may it last!

Send that ice bucket with the drink in it this way, will you?:D Ah lovely weather to sit out in the sun. UV rays.:)

I love the heat. But...

The heat that there was that other thread about 3-4 weeks back with sun, blue skies, sea breezes, was great (you know; the one where all the moaners turned out in force), but this current wave of dead contiental air hanging over the east coast is oppressive.

It's probably not even as hot as it was last week, or the other time a month or so back, but with no wind and 80%+ humidity that heat tends to just sit on top of you.
I happen to do a physically demanding job and where I am at the moment doing it, it's akin to being in a damn oven....I really feel sorry for anyone stuck in places like kitchens or similar.

I love the heat, love the summer, but the old dead stale air associated with the last 3-4 days has just got to go. Apparently it will have by friday.
I'm on holidays next week; odds oin favourite that it's bucketing down on monday morning

What the "oh you'd be complaining if it was cold/raining" brigade conveniently forget is that there is such a thing as a happy medium. Yeah, I probably would be complaining if it were cold/raining but that's because those are extremities - just like the current temperatures are extreme (I know it's hotter in loads of places but it's still too hot here for me). I don't see why we should have to enjoy it when it's unbearably hot/heavy, the bus/Luas reeks, my workplace doesn't have air-conditioning - girl at work fainted today, my bedroom is like a ****ing greenhouse, I'm getting hit by constant waves of exhaustion, my energy is sapped, the sweat is pouring off me. We're supposed to enjoy it just because it's sunny. So what if it's sunny? The heat/stickiness cancels out whatever pleasure there may be to derive from the sun shining. I love when it's sunny - it makes the place so much nicer, but it can be sunny and a number of degrees cooler. I actually think people who find this **** enjoyable either have something wrong with them or are lying or aren't working.
Bring on the cooler weather...

Not liking the heat here either... I'd love it to píss rain for a few days... get down to about 7'C.
Mmmm.

timmy69 wrote:

we're never happy! shouldnt complain, if the suns out, its a winner!

That's just the point. We're not complaining because it's sunny. We're complaining because it's unbearably hot and sticky and it's making us miserable. No problem with the sun being out - in fact, bring it on. I love the sun. And it can be horribly sticky when it's dull as well - hate that too. Would much prefer it to be sunny - but a few degrees cooler.
40 degrees? Hell would have no fury like me in that climate.

FatherTed wrote:

You guys just can't stand the heat. Really.

Fair point. But there are people who insist we shouldn't complain about it as if we can just make ourselves enjoy it.

Honk!!

Living in the Netherlands for the last 6months, they give out about it raining there so much, I had never seen so much dry weather in the spring!

Home for a week now from there, last day there it was 37degrees and humid, I basically sweated day and night, 28degrees at night, just really unpleasant all of the time:mad:
First time in weeks I was cold was in the frigid AerLingus plane going home!
25degrees? Heat? Give me a break! Although it all goes by what people are used to i suppose, Im getting the chills if a breeze starts up at the moment:)