Staying in for the summer

Last night: sorted out loose ends with Kate, who then cooked Thing for dinner for everyone, then friend picked me up to go to drinks with other friends - walking around Clerkenwell and the West End at night is ace. As it was the first properly hot day of '03 yesterday, the mob of psychle couriers who congregate downstairs reached critical mass (it genuinely looks like Reclaim the Streets is happening at the pub) and everyone seemed really happy (best thing about psychle couriers' habits is because they're on the doob, NO BAR BRAWLS, EVER). Drinks with friends in West End were funny and our group spent way too much time dishing on nearby ladette in Dotty P miniskirt with visible cellulite *and* bruises.

This morning: despite consumption of alcohol, NO HANGOVER. Sunny walk to buy Guardian; now lounging around, drinking coffee, reading paper.

(*notices somehow he's still inside, mouse hovering over the CM4 icon on his desktop. Sigh)

on the other hand, there are outdoor things like going for walks and stuff which are enjoyable in general and considerably more so in the summer time.

go summer!

(actually, it is nice out today, I am going out for a long soulful walk in a bit, well to Blockbuster and the art shop)

I share this view since I turned into a perpetually sweating middle-aged flabbo.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/17/opinion/sunday/admit-it-summers-terrible.html?_r=0

Welcome to the club.

would like to be in anywhere that didn't feature people periodically informing me that it's hot today

luv 2 arrive at the office with sweat pouring down my face and a big damp patch on my back

the only time i ever miss having hair is hot weather, when i wish i still had something to soak up the sweat from my scalp

article OTM

love,

a fat middle-aged ginger person

...though there's a guy here who's probably in his late 40s and plump and ginger who loves to go to Egypt for 3 weeks every August to soak up the sun. When he told me this I pretty much forgot how to speak and just stared at him like he was from another planet.

I get sunburnt walking the mile home on a 21-degree English day and got heatstroke on holiday in County Down. And as a woman I have to pretend I never sweat, so I won't talk about that on the internet, but it's harder to pretend in real life...

Anything that makes me sweat is bad. Summer, anxiety, exercise.

any extreme of temperature is sucky.

If its summer, justopena window, thats enough to enjoy the weather

35 in Paris WTF

ban summer

37 here in San Sebastian atm, not been as warm in two months. 'Just open a window' doesn't apply because of the breeze being as hot. I def sweat easily, amazed to see people here not sweating with these temperatures. Not complaining though, think thunder will prob take care of it tonight.

gonna be 36 through Thursday here, ugh. my italien colleagues are convinced that if we turn on the aircon in this conference room then we will all get sick.

haha

your italian colleagues v much not otm

it's a little too hot too early in the american midwest this past week but summer is the best

it was 9pm last night before the sun set

9pm that's early (bit of Northern oneupmanship).

there's a loose european aversion to aircon but the italian aversion is ime firmer and more superstitious. if you get a cold neck then you get sick. Wtf

Spanish (actually Catalan) woman I work with was going on about her cold neck (due to a/c) at lunch today.

i think i've changed my mind about brexit

lol

in Andalusia ac seems to be ok but i think it's necessary there to avoid death but I bet they complain about the cold neck too

when french ppl get a cold they wear a scarf, now i know why

I wouldn't mind going outside as much if it wasn't compulsory.

I hate the feeling of "Its a beautiful day! Outside or your life is forfeit!"

I care much more about other things than balmy weather, tho its nice for a walk

After all if you dont care about weather, when its 3 below and everyone is complaining you can say "
Shut up- just shut up! We were not put on this earth to live or die by prattle matters of weather!"

I can sit in a climate-controlled environment (which imo is the peak of human achievement)and read a book and learn something new or I can go outside and be all like, oh hey there's the same dumb hot sun that I've seen 8,108,134,109,198 times before, big hairy deal.

I'm from Scotland, I've seen it 8,108,134,109,198 times before

Also as global warming occurs summer is going to be HAWT

i love summer. have seen a hundred articles like that about "i hate weekends" or "i hate days off" or whatever. i guess people have to earn a living.

when I start feeling sick, headachey and unable to think just because it's Saturday, or find that going outside on a day off results in my skin bubbling up into an itchy and hideous rash, or read that dozens of people were hospitalised and some died of it being Sunday, then I will applaud those articles too

I can get with the sentiment of 'hey, it's summer, let's make sure we get out and enjoy the outdoors at least once on a day when it isn't too miserably hot out.' I can get with that. I can't get with 'hey, it's summer, we need to spend every spare moment outside and take full advantage or we just aren't LIVING maaaaaaaan.' Cuz I don't know, I kinda feel more like I'm livin' when I don't want to die, maybe that's just me.

I understand this sentiment because we are actually under a survival onus to harvest all available vitamin d given the 360 day gloom otherwise. We lose three in five kids in a cloudy summer

The huge whitebeam in my back garden always attracts a lot of bees at this time of year, but today the constant droning hum sounded much louder than usual, but quite beautiful music all the same. I'm very olive skinned and don't burn easy but the heat turns me into a sweaty mess and makes me feel every one of my too many years. I did an hour on the exercise bike earlier for my sins, wont be trying that shit again tomorrow!

when I start feeling sick, headachey and unable to think just because it's Saturday, or find that going outside on a day off results in my skin bubbling up into an itchy and hideous rash, or read that dozens of people were hospitalised and some died of it being Sunday, then I will applaud those articles too

yeah if only we had winter all year round then we'd save so many lives.

i hate winter too btw

I remember talking to a lady from Doncaster whose house I was working on during a scorching summer. She had this incredibly lovable chocolate Labrador that didn't like the heat that much that if left unattended he would paw open the freezer and paw out it's contents and wedge himself in there for relief.

xps I don't recall mentioning winter in my post but yeah, winter, there's a thing people also die of (unlike weekends)

but you're allowed to say "winter is unpleasant, roll on spring" and be guilty of nothing more than pointing out the obvious. say anything bad about summer and suddenly you're a fun-hating goth contrarian who secretly loves the warmth, and all those unpleasant physiological effects are just a weird bid for attention

because when you have a sun allergy rash all over your neck/arms/face and socially inappropriate amounts of sweat everywhere, you'd love more attention

My buddy has an apartment that retains more heat than actually going outside on a hot summer day. I have no idea how he doesn't go insane or at least put a fan in.

Agree with the article; spring is the best season hands-down, it's all about moderation

uh i have the same apartment, and that's WITH a fan.

tbf the article didn't mention things like allergies or illness. i have a chronic illness myself, i prob feel worse in summer, but the ambient mood still pleases me more - to each their own as regards the seasons but itt the trend was loosely towards summer negativity.

xpost

I have a thick layer of insulation that was added 10 years ago that means warm in the winter and quite cool indoors in the summer. This is about as smug as you can get about living on a shithole council estate in Dewsbury!

tbh when I moan about summer it's about series of days at 35+ not you know 25. I spent my childhood in dumb hot places like florida Georgia Texas and nobody's outside during the days except to run to their cars from ac frozen buildings or at the beach --- or at night which can be ok if the humidity isn't 100%, and by ok I mean like a 25 degree day

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15987082

^re italians

LOL I work with some Italians, I'm going to check if they exhibit any of this behaviour.

i believe that article 100%

haha that article is totally consistent with my experience with italians (I work with a lot of them)

I think i've mentioned that article before in the context of a British colleague in Italy who, on meeting a client for the first time - and with no prior introduction - was told that his trainers would give him bronchitis.

IIRC, David Lynch always claimed that he wore his shirts buttoned-up to avoid a chill on the neck.

i think i can guess which of his girlfriends told him that :)

lol!

EE-sa-bella? they were married, u know

Summer is a good time to go to bodies of water

... and drown. Happens every year, regular as clockwork.

I jumped into Shadwell Basin yesterday and this morning decided to Google it -eep

not if you wear a leafjacket