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I wish I were British...

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GRAHAM SG1 said:
If you met me Antek, you would find me very positive about many things, just not about the immediate everyday things that have an effect on and restrict my life :D
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Sorry for my poor English! I wanted to write I only met "very friendly and open" English people on my travels, and you Graham are no exception!

Almost 6 years ago, me & my wife Sheila went to Liverpool. By chance, on 8th April 2005, Prince Charles was to marry Camilla, and the grand horse races were held in the city. We had overlooked those facts and booked air tickets THEN tried to get some hotel... ;-) Eventually we were able to book a hotel in Southport. Add to it the "industrial action" (funny word for a strike!) Whatever, we had many adventures to make our stay in Merseyside really interesting ;-)

The weather! For me it was deadly cold. +4 C should be nothing special, yet I was freezing, wearing the clothes on like in this picture (onion-style, several layers, it didn't help):
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Still, the locals must have been believing in Springtime, wearing clothes like that (picture taken maybe 4 hours later):
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How people in UK can survive in such weather is a mystery to me ;-)

My wife -- being to UK twice -- tells me she could find any clothes and shoes she liked in British shops, experience unusual in many other countries...
 
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I really love a nice blade of pork with lots of crunchy crackling and apple sauce, my drummer is a butcher and gets me the best meat around, all free range and much better than the supermarkets at lower cost :D
English weather is strange, it can be around +4C as Antek says yet feel very cold and damp, you can feel chilled to the bone, yet when the temp goes to say -4C without the damp it feels ok !
On a different note, I love some british comedy, there are too many to list but at the moment I am watching Bottom and The Young Ones and Blackadder, I think us Brits have a real talent for taking the p*ss out of ourselves :D
 
#406
Humidity does have an impact on how we 'feel' the temparature. You also need acclimatize to the weather (granted, not a common thing to have time to do over here!). Which is why (combined with my general lack of common sense), there were times when I was wandering about in jeans and a t-shirt when we were at -10 to -20 deg C during this past winter :p
 
#407
Anarkhia Location: Gibraltar said:
There are places in Britain which has good weather most of the year round, but we remain a forgotten or misunderstood enigma, even to other Brits :ninja:
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I wonder how it feels on Saint Helena but Bermuda must be wonderful.

GRAHAM SG1 said:
I think us Brits have a real talent for taking the p*ss out of ourselves
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Great sense of humour expressed by self-irony. I love many British comedies, too.

Tell me: Is the climate of South England very different from say, one in Scotland? Is Scotland significantly colder?
 
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I'm wondering about that same kind of weather issue. Next summer when my daughter graduates, we are planning a family trip to Ireland. Geographically that's so close to y'all that it's practically the same place. But how does that work weatherwise in early to mid-summer? If I'm doing my metric conversions right then the place I usually hang out that time of year is generally 35-45 C.

The only ancestor I had who ever mentioned specifically where he'd come from was my paternal grandfather. He was from the extreme southern end of Ireland. He said he 'couldn't go any further south without getting my feet wet.' But extreme southern Ireland looks pretty darned northern to a Texan. What's it like there in June?
 
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Tell me: Is the climate of South England very different from say, one in Scotland? Is Scotland significantly colder?
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I have never been to Scotland but I believe it is generally colder than the south , it certainly has a lot more snow !

I believe Ireland is very wet being the first land that the gulfstream hits, people from Ireland tell me it always rains !
 
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AntekStalich said:
Tell me: Is the climate of South England very different from say, one in Scotland? Is Scotland significantly colder?
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Scotland, one of the few places on earth where you can witness all 4 seasons easily within the same day.

The weather here is generally slightly colder than in England, but not much really. Rainfall depends strongly on which side you are on aswell. The west coast catches the left over rain that passes over Ireland from the gulf stream, but with a fair amount of mountains around that side of the county, that tends to cause most of it to land on the weegies (it's alright, most of them could use a shower anyway).

Right now (in Edinburgh) we have a sunny 10 degress C (~50F), so it's shorts and tshirt weather :hyper:
 
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Bard2dbone said:
I'm wondering about that same kind of weather issue. Next summer when my daughter graduates, we are planning a family trip to Ireland. Geographically that's so close to y'all that it's practically the same place. But how does that work weatherwise in early to mid-summer? If I'm doing my metric conversions right then the place I usually hang out that time of year is generally 35-45 C.

The only ancestor I had who ever mentioned specifically where he'd come from was my paternal grandfather. He was from the extreme southern end of Ireland. He said he 'couldn't go any further south without getting my feet wet.' But extreme southern Ireland looks pretty darned northern to a Texan. What's it like there in June?
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I worked in London for a couple of years. It rained every day bar 1 in June. ymmv but they don't call Ireland the "Emerald Isle" for nothing. It's green because it gets rain. For sure it won't be 40 deg, 25 deg is a warm day in summer at that lattitute.
 
#418
Snooker World Championships in Sheffield, England!

The most fascinating of British games (in my own perception), no doubt that all dimensions are given in feet and inches, the table height is the same as the scale length of most basses ;-)

Are you people watching it? Your opinion?

My feeling is the old masters are very tired. I was very sorry for Stephen Hendry, once one of my faves. John Higgins and Ronnie O'Sullivan play crappy snooker, they seem to be scared to death to play. Higgins failing to pot critical balls, O'Sullivan making unbelievable mistakes.

Judd Trump seems to be the only bright star. Playing with ease, fast, precisely, this is how the snooker should look like. Pity there are not many more like him...
 

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