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Posted by no prophet's flag is set so... (# 15560) on :
 
Our weather has been hot and wet. Perfect for mosquitos. Outside without repellent meant this morning that one swat on the arm killed 6. The general report is 230 female mosquitos per trap, with the 5 year average being 22.

Vistors. Yes, family. They used us like a hotel. Their flights were on inconvenient days such that 2 weekends were broken up. They are supposed to come to visit their elderly father and give us a wee bit of respite. But that's not their plan. We end up caring for even more people.

One borrows a bicycle. Given a lock with careful instructions to always lock and always lock both wheels and the frame. Now I have to get a new wheel.

Then, I am stopped at an intersection on my bicycle, and a turning car actually turns into me and knocks me down. Then the driver gets out and yells at me, along with her ugly man friend. I was fricking stopped! Feet on the ground!

I need strong drink, winter, a sledge hammer and I don't know what else. I can't figure out if I hate people or mosquitos worse. Summer sucks. People suck. I suck.
 

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Posted by mark_in_manchester (# 15978) on :
 
You got the plate? Were they nasty enough to set some no-win-no-fee agro into motion? Or report them for dangerous driving?

Rellies - so they lost your wheel and left without buying you one? So these are poor teenagers, right? No? Your adult sibs?
 

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Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
No people problems here (human beings tend to stay inside as much as possible during central Arizona summers), but we have heat that most of you can't imagine -- up to 120F/49C; then the "monsoons" arrive with thunder, lightning, downpours, and haboobs (dust storms). The mosquitoes are loving the moisture, and the scorpions are coming inside to escape from it.

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Posted by no prophet's flag is set so... (# 15560) on :
 

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Originally posted by mark_in_manchester:
You got the plate? Were they nasty enough to set some no-win-no-fee agro into motion? Or report them for dangerous driving?

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Mark:
Rellies - so they lost your wheel and left without buying you one? So these are poor teenagers, right? No? Your adult sibs?

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Adult sib. As self centred as they come. My elderly father gave me back his key in an envelope which also contained some money. My wife has ferreted out that my father actually put the money into it.

I really do suck I think. I must take people on.
 

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Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :
 
I'm not surprised they don't want to come to a malarial hellhole to be glowered at non-stop by resentful sibling. You all hate each other. Acknowledge it and be free.

Get a helmet cam.
 

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Posted by mark_in_manchester (# 15978) on :
 
Ah well, at least your father felt bad for you and tried to do something positive. Don't let on you know it was him, buy the wheel, mention your (brother?) is not such a twat in your father's presence. Then pluck out the sib's eyes with a drawing pin in whatever photo you can find of him, and post it to him anonymously.

When I got knocked off my bike in very similar circumstances (at least my guy was apologetic) I didn't take him for it either. In fact I trued the wheel myself and tried to tell myself I was pleased for the opportunity to prove I could do it. I guess one either has a taste for litigation, or one doesn't.
 

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Posted by no prophet's flag is set so... (# 15560) on :
 
I'm in a no-fault traffic accident jurisdiction. No litigation possible.

Talk to me about helmet cams. If I'm going to learn to give it back to people, maybe I'd best start with strangers.

Yes, I do hate my sibs just now. I need them to hate me as well it seems. I seem to lack capacity to be honest with people when they really annoy me or do something wrong. Yes, I am on blood pressure medication.
 

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Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :
 
Bill them for tne bike wheel for a start.
 

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Posted by mark_in_manchester (# 15978) on :
 

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I seem to lack capacity to be honest with people when they really annoy me or do something wrong.

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Originally posted by no prophet's flag is set so...:
Our weather has been hot and wet. Perfect for mosquitos. Outside without repellent meant this morning that one swat on the arm killed 6. The general report is 230 female mosquitos per trap, with the 5 year average being 22.

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Vistors. Yes, family. They used us like a hotel. Their flights were on inconvenient days such that 2 weekends were broken up. They are supposed to come to visit their elderly father and give us a wee bit of respite. But that's not their plan. We end up caring for even more people.

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Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
I like summer. Warm days, long evenings, less traffic on the roads.

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Open windows with someone else's music blaring through at top volume, clearly audible half a road away, going on into the night. Children shouting and yelling in the car park as they kick a ball around between the cars and narrowly avoiding denting yours, then getting bored and deciding to pull part of the fence down so they can climb into the car park of the flats next door. The air full of bluebottles which are enjoying the savoury aroma from the row of bins, and hyped up, are exploring the vicinity and your flat, because you're cooking. Public transport suddenly full of short tiny people with loud, high-pitched voices taking up the seats and shouting. Overlong evenings which are still unnaturally bright at 10pm, and too early mornings which are bright at 4.30am.

And wasps.

Other than that, summer is fine, I have no problem with it.

[ 13. August 2016, 07:45: Message edited by: Ariel ]
 

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Posted by rolyn (# 16840) on :
 
I was going to start a thread 'Where have all the flies gone in summer?'

As a country dwelling kid I well recall hedges literally throbbing with the buzz of insects. Get working near a hedge after rainfall and you could expect to bitten by horse flies and driven half crazy by a swarm of black flies.
I can only put their absence down to more and more efficient cattle fly protection breaking the breeding cycle. We don't get mosquitos here as rule.

Aggressive and obnoxious people are a vexation to the Spirit NPFs...
As least they weren't armed -- presumably.
 

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Posted by Joesaphat (# 18493) on :
 
I miss the darkness in the morning. I tend to get up ridiculously early anyway and generally have a wonderfully quiet time to meditate and do stuff before everyone's awake... not so much in summer. Bring on the heat, lovely, but remember:

'A loud and cheerful greeting early in the morning will be received as a curse.' Proverbs 27.14
 

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Posted by Doc Tor (# 9748) on :
 
I hate summer only marginally less than I hate all of you.
 

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Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :
 
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Posted by M. (# 3291) on :
 
I like the lovely long days. There always always seems to be so much more time in the summer.

My feeling is that the longest day always comes much too early in the year and should be around the end of July/beginning of August.

M.
 

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Posted by ThunderBunk (# 15579) on :
 
Are all the kids on this planet on peak whinge simultaneously?

(Oh and why do I have to listen to other people's appalling taste in music just because the sun is shining????)
 

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Posted by Leorning Cniht (# 17564) on :
 

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And now I moved. To f'n Texas.

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Originally posted by Joesaphat:
I miss the darkness in the morning. I tend to get up ridiculously early anyway and generally have a wonderfully quiet time to meditate and do stuff before everyone's awake... not so much in summer. Bring on the heat, lovely, but remember:

'A loud and cheerful greeting early in the morning will be received as a curse.' Proverbs 27.14

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That's my all-time favourite Bible verse, although I know it better in the KJV. Clearly the writer wasn't a morning person!
 

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Posted by cornflower (# 13349) on :
 
To those people living in Texas and such places you should move to Britain...it's usually not hot enough (not for long anyway), usually plenty (too much) of cool rain, no mosquitos, though in Scotland, LOTS of bitey midges (fortunately I tend not to get bitten too much by stuff, but my husband does), horseflies, but they're not too bad. Hardly seen a wasp in years, bees dying out apparently...we don't generally see more of a wild animal than a fox, badger, hedgehog or squirrel, maybe a deer...though there are wild boar someplaces, wildcats in Scotland....and the famous Beasts of Bodmin, Dartmoor, Exmoor etc etc etc. Oh yes,there is the odd snake if you're lucky enough to see one, but fortunately only the adder is poisonous, and even they're not that bad, unless you're unlucky
Only thing is, you'd be constantly moaning, nonetheless, about the heat, the cold, the rain, the wind, the grey skies, the gloom, the long nights, the short nights, the snow, the lack of snow, the ice, the fog, motorists, cyclists, traffic wardens, general idiots, (everyone is, except yourself), traffic calming measures,(not calming, they make your blood boil...makes you want to see just how fast you can take that road hump, chicane, swerve round the bollard etc..only one doesn't, one has a certain sense of propriety). Oh, people who don't indicate when turning....hm...etec etc

 

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Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 

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To those people living in Texas and such places you should move to Britain...it's usually not hot enough (not for long anyway), usually plenty (too much) of cool rain, no mosquitos, though in Scotland, LOTS of bitey midges (fortunately I tend not to get bitten too much by stuff, but my husband does), horseflies, but they're not too bad. Hardly seen a wasp in years, bees dying out apparently...we don't generally see more of a wild animal than a fox, badger, hedgehog or squirrel, maybe a deer...though there are wild boar someplaces, wildcats in Scotland....and the famous Beasts of Bodmin, Dartmoor, Exmoor etc etc etc. Oh yes,there is the odd snake if you're lucky enough to see one, but fortunately only the adder is poisonous, and even they're not that bad, unless you're unlucky.

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Don't forget the lake monsters in Scotland.

 

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Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :
 

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Originally posted by Ariston:

And now I moved. To f'n Texas.

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What did you want to go and do a silly thing like that for?

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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:

Don't forget the lake monsters in Scotland.

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Don't forget the lake monsters in Scotland.

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Lochs. We have just one lake in Scotland and it is, I believe, monster-free.

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I went and had a look...nary a ripple on the water, not even a twig that could be remotely mistaken for a monster . Most disappointed...I'd thought I'd have at least seen something I could IMAGINE was a monster. I thought the water would be all dark with lowering skies, and sinister, gloomy trees bowing down to the water's edge...in short, that there would be the atmosphere of a Hammer Horror movie - but, no, it was all quite mundane and normal. Of course, I don't know what might have been skulking about behind me...
 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 

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Originally posted by Penny S:
Ariel, you forgot the open windows leading to the ingress of next door's ciggie smoke because they smoke outside to keep it out of their house.

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Don't forget the lake monsters in Scotland.

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Lochs. We have just one lake in Scotland and it is, I believe, monster-free.

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Originally posted by Ariston:
And now I moved. To f'n Texas.

Texas.

It was 104º today. Any time it gets above 90º in DC, they think about shutting down the government. Not that anyone could tell, mind you, but they do.

I have the heat tolerance of a Siberian husky (well, and a soft spot for huskies—so much for that!). This isn't going to end well.

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Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
I like summer. Warm days, long evenings, less traffic on the roads.

People, OTOH, they always suck.

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Originally posted by Penny S:
Ariel, you forgot the open windows leading to the ingress of next door's ciggie smoke because they smoke outside to keep it out of their house. And sometimes not ciggie smoke.

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Originally posted by Anselmina:
And - I know it's a First World Problem - but how do you dress for this bleaughhh weather. Other countries get to stash their winter wardrobes or utilize their summer gear. In effed up Britain/Ireland you've got to make provision for rain, cold winds and hot sunshine in the same day's outfit. And as sure as God evolved little green apples the day I put on a summer frock, or short-sleeved t-shirt, or wear sandals because the sun in splitting the trees in the morning, by noon the sky will be full of rain clouds with a stiff nor'easter raking the countryside.

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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
how do I fit summerwear, winterwear, and rainwear in one suitcase?

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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
how do I fit summerwear, winterwear, and rainwear in one suitcase?

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There was something to be said for the steamer trunk.

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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
This also presents a challenge for those of us who enjoy visiting your soggy land. How should I pack for a week or two in England in the "summer," and how do I fit summerwear, winterwear, and rainwear in one suitcase?

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This also presents a challenge for those of us who enjoy visiting your soggy land. How should I pack for a week or two in England in the "summer," and how do I fit summerwear, winterwear, and rainwear in one suitcase?

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Easy. Just pack a few light T-shirts (some long-sleeved), some tops/cardigans to go with them, some medium-weight trousers, a fleece that could do for spring/autumn, one of those rainproof jackets that folds up really small, a pair of waterproof shoes, and a folding umbrella. You should then be equipped for whatever the English summer weather can throw at you.

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Originally posted by Doc Tor:
If this thread gets any more Heavenly, it'll fart rainbows.

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Originally posted by Doc Tor:
If this thread gets any more Heavenly, it'll fart rainbows.

Do you see the word HATE in the title? Do you? HATE. Where is your HATE? Winter can't come soon enough.

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Hatred and anger are snares and delusions that prevent the soul from attaining Enlightenment. Do not give way to them, or you will be trapped on the Wheel of Samsara for many decades yet.

Have a good evening and may it contain no beer.
 

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Posted by cornflower (# 13349) on :
 
. [/QUOTE]Easy. Just pack a few light T-shirts (some long-sleeved), some tops/cardigans to go with them, some medium-weight trousers, a fleece that could do for spring/autumn, one of those rainproof jackets that folds up really small, a pair of waterproof shoes, and a folding umbrella. You should then be equipped for whatever the English summer weather can throw at you. [/QB][/QUOTE]

Bearing in mind that a few hundred years ago we had the mini ice-age in Britain where the Thames froze over in July and they had ice fairs on the river. Of course, maybe with climate change, that's not likely to happen...on the other hand, if Yellowstone goes up, apparently it'll make the world a few degrees cooler, so it could possibly be freezing here in summer, and maybe even more (acid) rain, perhaps falling as snow? If we haven't all suucombed to the jagged ash etc. (Sorry, was babysitting last night at my sons and watched a documentary which is otherwise unavailable to me)
 

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Posted by mousethief (# 953) on :
 
Fucking wimps. Summer rocks. Sunshine, sweet sunshine, more tourist dollars for the local economy, the lawn dies so you don't have to mow it, more Vitamin D. Fortunately I don't have any obnoxious rellies I'm too gutless to stand up to.
 

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Posted by no prophet's flag is set so... (# 15560) on :
 
All the tourists here wear camo and they want to shoot Bambi, Winnie the Pooh, and other creatures so they can cut their heads off and put 'em on their walls.

Just imagine this here little angel icon with a hypodermic needle where her absent nose is, and she invites her friends to punch holes in you and first spit into the hole before sucking up some your boiling blood.
 

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Posted by mousethief (# 953) on :
 
Deer hunting season is in the winter.
 

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Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
I have recently had reason to revisit memories of the last time I sunbathed, on August 4th, 1972, when I developed an allergy to sunlight. It was somewhat disturbed sunlight, due to the arrival of a fierce proton storm from the Sun just as I went out to my parents' lawn at about ten to one (BST), but I haven't taken any risks since.

And I have great difficulty finding cool spots in my home, since I have a flat roof, and the PV panels don't seem to intercept the heat very well.

And I don't much mind the barbecue fumes, so long as they aren't from burned food. It's the other stuff, that I don't want to inhale.

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Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :
 
He didn't say deer, he said fictional characters. You should see the parties that set off after the Snark.

The only actual fauna are giant mosquitos. Which makes you wonder why anyone goes (or lives) there at all.
 

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Posted by mousethief (# 953) on :
 

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He didn't say deer, he said fictional characters.

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Originally posted by L'organist:
Another tip: try a beach that requires a bit of a walk from the nearest place to park a car or look for one without loos or a cafeteria/shop.

My favourite beach is less than a mile from the end of a much-advertised beach but requires a c500 metre walk from a small car park with no 'facilities'. I've driven past 3 miles of static cars queueing for the 'proper' beach and parked (with only 3 other cars) for free.

Many Brits aren't prepared to walk or seem incapable of organising themselves a picnic.

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Yes, that's true, I prefer those sorts of places, but unfortunately my husband can't walk as far as he used, and certainly not on stony or pebbly beaches, not even smallish gravel...kills his feet, even through trainers
 

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Posted by Doc Tor (# 9748) on :
 
And speaking of killing...

This thread hasn't got long to live. And depending on what the Torlets get tomorrow in their exams, I'll either joyfully or hatefully execute it. Whichever, summer can go sit on a rusty farm implement.

DT
HH
 

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Posted by Anselmina (# 3032) on :
 

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Originally posted by no prophet's flag is set so...:
I don't think UK weather is especially difficult to deal with, except as special Euro-centric pleading via comparing to the Mediterranean countries you folks like to visit, which I guess you should visit before Brexit makes it resemble Canadian-USA post-Sept 11 travel.

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