I hate summer

[sparkindarkness]

Sounds weird, right? Everyone hates a season but it's never SUMMER. Everyone loves summer.

And sure, there are fringe benefits to summer. Guys are walking round without shirts, people are generally more cheerful and there's much less chance of getting wet or the evils of SNOW (vile monsters)

But the negatives outweigh it - there's too much damn light and it's too damn hot. I'm getting headaches from all the sunshine, beloved is suffering from severe mutation (or possibly hayfever) and it's so HOT. I hate being too hot. I'm sweating in my best clothes, my suit is evil. I look GOOD in many layers of black and long sleeved shirts and trousers and long coats. That's my look. It works for me. I look like a kid in t-shirts and shorts or short sleeves. It doesn't look BAD (not if the t-shirt is fitted anyway) but it's not great.

And I hate sweating. I feel dirty all the time and not in a good way. Going to the gym goes from being a minor annoyance to INFERNAL TORTURE OF THE LOWER CIRCLES OF HELL!!!

But the worst thing - the WORST thing - is the British attitude to Summer. We're all so AWED that we got actual SUN! Everyone's running around OMG WE HAVE SUN AND HEAT!!!! Which means everyone goes crazy trying desperately to make the most of it like the sun will go out tomorrow. There are so many barbeques around that we're getting smog.

And no-one makes allowances for the heat. Everyone acts SURPRISED "wow, isn't it hot. I never expected it to be this hot." Why? It was hot last year and the year before and the year before. it's ALWAYS hot in summer. I don't know if it's climate change or whatever but the years of endless rain and fog are OVER. Deal with it and get some fans!

Yes, that's what annoys me - the British DENIAL of heat. Every hot day is considered a freak even when it's the norm so we do NOTHING to prepare for the heat.

So to conclude. I hate summer. I'd move to Australia but it's full of poisonous things and it's probably still bloody hot down there.

Comments

[girl-working.livejournal.com]

I like Autumn.

Pretty leaves. Nice weather. Cool, but warm all at once. Fresh. :)

My mate hates the heat (er, so why do we wander around in 28 degree heat in FULL FURSUITS? Don't ask me...) and so do I... So the aircon in our room tends to be on a lot at the moment!

Add to the fact my work can't seem to get the 'on/off' switch the right way round... Seems like someone switched the labels as it's always the wrong way round...

And my mate's attitude is his trench keeps the sun off... :P Tho' he does have permanant reverse-panda eyes from his sunglasses!

The Weather

[everbloom.livejournal.com]

Currently in Australia it's cold and wet (on the costal fringes, elswhere drought means it's just cold). Well, relatively cold. People north of Canberra have had to admit they need more than a shirt to keep warm, and those south have dug out their coats.
The bad thing about heat isn't heat it's humidity. Heat may make you sweat, but high humidity will mean that you look like you've just come out of the shower for the whole day. That is disgusting.

[cally7.livejournal.com]

I too loathe summer. It is not a season I was designed for. I am fat and fair skinned with red tinges in my hair, when it is its own colour, and that means if I am not wearing my factor 50 then I am a red blob and after being a red blob I am a freckled blob. I should have been an Inuit and lived in the snowy wastes because this weather blows monkies as far as I am concerened.

What makes it more annoying is the people like this weather telling me I am the mad one. I understand that they are enjoying themselves but don't piss me off by saying I am wrong. I am not wrong; it is just my opinion differs from yours you numbnuts. Hopefully there will be a thunderstorm heading this way. Soon.

[being-here.livejournal.com]

Ah, Australia. If the spiders and snakes don't get you the crocodiles will.

[cazmanian-minx.livejournal.com]

Nope, I'm with you on the whole hating summer thing. I have two choices in summer, I either remember to slap on the SF20 when I'm outside (Mum's a redhead) or I go lobster for a week and then peel back to Mr Whippy white again.

A move to the Highlands is on the cards once I can afford it. Possibly even Shetland....

[ephemera.livejournal.com]

heat is *blergh*, sun is *evil* - roll on milder days!

[klgaffney.livejournal.com]

we have that same weird general response to snow. and i sorta sit there and look at them funny. i mean, it's the NORTHEAST COAST! hello!

our summers are nasty, long, hot and sticky too--and the mosquito is new jersey's state bird, i swear. but at least you don't get hit by 5 billion half naked, drunken, rude, pasty tourists every weekend?

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

You can't bitch about snow in the northeast of the US. Snow is what it does. It is the cold freezing home of snow. It would be like bitching about snow when you lived in Russia or complaining that Alaska was cold.

One good thing, we get no insects. Hot and sticky but no insects. Half naked tourists? Oooh, can we get some of the hotter ones?

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Amen. It must be torture in London

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

But there's SNOW up there!

Thankfully I have a darker skin tone that tans easily so burning won't bother me. it's just the heat

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

It's pretty and nice and the weather's nice but it tends to be muddy and slushy and dirty too,.

See, that's the thing, everyone is sure Britain is cold so NO-ONE has air-con. Ever.

Re: The Weather

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Relatively cxold.... methinks Aussies don't know the meaning fo the word :p

You need a frost. It would kill all the nasty bitey stingy poisonous things.

Yep, here it is EXTREMELY HUMID. It feels like I'm breathing through a sponge.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

It's hot and sticky and bright and just plain nasty

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

or the jelly fish. Or the platypus. Or probably some of the insects

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

or the sharks

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

or the sea snakes. honestly, what place has SEA SNAKES? Like the sharks and the jelly fish and salt water crocodiles aren't enough? Did someone look down and say "oh look, the sea is only NEARLY certain to kill you. let's add some other deadly critter."

[klgaffney.livejournal.com]

you'd think--and there probably SHOULD be a law: now entering the NE Coast, home of WEATHER. all weather, all the time. weather that other countries have never even heard of, never mind experienced. this is where all the weather is tested before it's shipped out to other places. any longtime resident that acts like this is somehow new will be subject to clubbing over the head with my aluminum baseball bat, and then backed over by the chaos!mobile a few times. as will anyone that asks: "hot enough for ya?" or "think we got enough snow?" because the answer should be blatantly obvious.

....if we HAD any hot ones, there'd be much less to complain about. =D

[being-here.livejournal.com]

or the sheep

[being-here.livejournal.com]

or the dolphins (rape you soon as look at you, grinning bastards)

[being-here.livejournal.com]

Ok. I may have touched a nerve here. Maybe a cold shower? Then some ice cream?

(BTW you forgot the deserts - because if the animals don't kill you the countryside will)

[being-here.livejournal.com]

and Mr being_here points out we've forgotten the forest fires. And koalas

[maiafay.livejournal.com]

Don't worry they act surprised in America as well. My perfect temp is 65-70 degrees. I like the cooler air. We (in Michigan) had a few nasty humid days last week and everyone thought it was the fricking best. My eyes hurt from rolling them everytime someone cried, "What beautiful weather we're having!"

Shut the fuck up.

Now, it is around 68-70 and people have fucking jackets on! Give me a break! Your blood did not thin that fricking much! Then they have the audacity to "whine" and "complain" that "its too cold!" "Its autumn already?" Shut the FUCK up! What is wrong with you? Makes me wanna slap some sense into them. Not everyone likes to sweat like a pig and run around with tinny winny tank tops. Then to top that, I work in retail, and the stinking HEAT is turned on for every single customer frolicking inside with hardly a stitch of clothing on them--and then complains because they're cold. Well DUH, maybe if you put on some clothes you dumb ass, you wouldn't be cold. Meanwhile, I'm sweating all over their food. Don't give a shit anymore though--if they want to turn the heat on--then fine turn it on. I'll just make sure your food gets some extra salt.

Ahem...anyway. I wish you cooler days soon....

[mrmeval.livejournal.com]

Move to America and pick your temperature range.

In the midwest gets hot for a short time but we have more cool weather and sun than cold weather and hot. Winters are mild. Anything that tries to eat you is crunchy and good with ketchup. Tornados are a minor annoyance, about like quakes in California. My only complaint is that culture is something the doctor does to your wymin that you don't talk about.

[sethgraham.livejournal.com]

From the end of February, to September, I can't smell properly, or breath right at all, or even go outside if I want to be very functional. I can't stand the heat, but that doesn't bother me half as much as the allergies.


I live in the northeast, so people complain all the time. In the winter it's too cold, the summer it's too hot, in the spring it's too wet, and in the fall you have to deal with leaves. It rains, or snows, a good three to four days a week all year round. And what really annoys me is that in the winter it will get to -20 something, then in the summer it'll be 80+ for a couple weeks, then the first time it drops to 60-65, people start complaining. It's like come on, you live in the northeast, this is perfect.

Re: The Weather

[everbloom.livejournal.com]

Hah, no, we don't know cold. Not real cold.
Frost? Meh, it doesn't frost where the nasties are. Not enough water.

[thisdaydreamer.livejournal.com]

Ick.

I live in Virginia and I hate the summer with a passion. Yeah, the trees are pretty with the rich green and the fireflies are fun to watch, but the heat and humidity are brutal. I spend the hot months drinking cold things and feeling ill everytime I have to wander outside.

I hate cold near-freezing rain, but I'll take a year of it over a week of temperatures and humidity levels in the nineties.

Re: The Weather

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Damn, can i send Steve Erwin out to kill them all then? Sure one may kill him, but that';s a win-win situation

Re: The Weather

[everbloom.livejournal.com]

Sounds good!

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

ye canna trust them

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

nope, i'm just gleefully happy I'm not surrounded by killy things

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

And the drop bears :)

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

You are now entering the home of WEATHER. You lose all bitching rights all ye who enter here.

This policy will be enforced by a baseball hat wielding Kami

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Oh I hate work in the heat. I have to wear a suit all day and it's HOT no matter how 'summer weight' it is. And the clients come in and ak why we all have fans to ruin this lovely heat - because you're not wearing LAYERS!

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Nah, I'll take annoying weather over guns, natural disasters and George Bush :)

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Thank al;l the gods I don't have hayfever

See, extremes like that bug me because you can't get used to it and you ahve to have summer and winter wardrobes and stuff

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Virginia?

In the summer?

No. Bad. Wrong.

[thisdaydreamer.livejournal.com]

I completely agree. Unfortunately, I'm stuck here for all of the hell months as well as the nice, cold, beautiful winter months.

[thisdaydreamer.livejournal.com]

I consider George Bush a natural disaster.

[mrmeval.livejournal.com]

I can walk unbothered. My taxes are low.

We vote democrate for congress and republican for president. While they are clawing their eyes out they can do no harm. The recent election was an anomaly mostly because the democrats pissed off the locals.

I was delighted my vote helped get democrat as coroner here, but I did vote republican for other positions. Surprisingly there have been no suspicious deaths by cops since the election. :)

Without that balance bad things can happen.