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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2018 8:35:00 GMT
Hate it.
I have a big re-draft of a play due Monday and I feel like I'm sweating over my laptop that may burn through the desk it's so hot.
Meanwhile in the day job a big refurb of the department 3 years ago put aircon in the consulting rooms, where typically 1-3 people sit, and all have windows. But failed to put any in the reception area where approx 40-50 people congregate and there are no windows. And obviously make the staff where a uniform that is both polyester-tastic and not heat friendly. (A suit, who makes people wear a f***ing suit).
DYING.
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Post by RedRose on Jul 25, 2018 9:20:52 GMT
I was ok with this summer so far in Frankfurt, only occasionally temperatures over 32 degrees and cooling down at nights much below 20 - very unusual for German summers to have non Tropical nights (over 20 degrees). But yesterday has been the hottest day so far 36 degrees and the hottest night, still 27 at 23:00. And the next nights will be Tropical as well, the typical German summer with more humidity which I hate. But thank god I have been working in an airconditioned office since spring which is cooled down moderately. Gives me a bit of a break from the heat everywhere else. My favourate places in the summer are the shops and cinemas with aircon.
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Post by Tibidabo on Jul 25, 2018 9:26:03 GMT
what the heck is a "leavers hoodie"? You've probably seen teenagers around the place with a big, white 17 or 18 emblazoned on the back of a hoodie? If you look more closely, the white you can see is, in fact, all the surnames of the kids in their year at school, printed inside the big number. On the front of the hoodie will be a school logo where the left breast pocket would be. For secondary school kids this has gone on for some time, most of them having to purchase 2 - one when they reach 16 and many go off to college and another when they reach 18 and leave after A levels. Well, seems to be a new thing, but the primary schools have now got in on the act. The hoodies are made to be given as a reward after SATs (so before the final, torturous half term of primary school) and the kids love to wear them - they can choose from a myriad of colours - as it shows the lower minions they are kings and queens of their establishment and do not have to listen to anything requested of them by their chiefs. Do. Not. Mess. And yes, I totally blame Trump. And Lin Manuel Miranda.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2018 9:52:11 GMT
In my day we just wrote on our school shirts (which I noticed some Primary school kids had also done yesterday, when they seemed to be having an end of term bash at the local pub...which i can only applaud).
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Post by kimbahorel on Jul 25, 2018 10:30:39 GMT
I miss the snow.
I feel so ill. I work in a shop but while there is a AC unit that official works it doesn't actually do anything because my company have decided to have a floating ceiling in my shop which basically negates the effectiveness of AC in this weather. The shops also made of glass (in a station also very glassy) which means the sun beats down and through the shop. I basically work in a greenhouse with no plants. Of a morning when I get there 6.30 to process the delievery which is left on the shop floor. There is no air at all in the shop. Every morning it feels like I am sufficating trying to do the delievery. Because for the hour or so we have to lock the doors because the manager sets up the tills and what not. So when customers finally enter they are greeted currently by bright red sweat betty. Bet it REALLY looks great. So I am just getting this constant tiredness, headache, nausea, no energy and I physically can't drink any more water. I know I have a sun issue because If I am in the sun for even an hour I will get a headache. But the constant heat is now my biggest problem.
At home I dont have the luxury of air con and I am sure my one fan I have is going to give up soon.
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Post by Sam on Jul 25, 2018 11:10:56 GMT
In my day we just wrote on our school shirts (which I noticed some Primary school kids had also done yesterday, when they seemed to be having an end of term bash at the local pub...which i can only applaud). We signed our polo shirts at Primary School, and were given dictionaries which we also got signed- mainly by teachers, whereas the shirts were mainly other children. Then in secondary school we signed our shirts on our last day but also had leavers' hoodies which we could wear instead of our blazers for the last half term. As one of the senior students (prefects) we had to arrange for them, but we couldn't deviate far from navy blue so managed to persuade the school to let us have a choice of light or dark blue with the customary number (08, 10 years has gone by fast) spelled out with our names on the back. I tend to refrain from wearing it outside the house unless there aren't any other jumpers at my parents as it says Manhood quite prominently on it.
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Post by ensembleswings on Jul 25, 2018 11:47:11 GMT
This year/warm spell has led me to realise I only own clothes suitable for the winter months. My wardrobe almost solidly consisted of jeans and jumpers with the occasional dress thrown in, ohh and the vast majority was black! Had to go out and buy a load of playsuits and a few more dresses just so I had something to wear which wasn’t going to cause me to faint or sweat it out far more than I desired.
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Post by peggs on Jul 25, 2018 12:20:24 GMT
My 11 year old niece who has just left primary school had a prom, leavers hoodie (yes parents def paid for them) which she permanently moved into and an exclusive year 6 party with inflatables, foot and water fights, staring roles in end of year musical (all other children relegated oh and a residential trip to the isle of Wight. Things have def changed since I was at school but then nurseries have graduation ceremonies as well now too.
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Post by TallPaul on Jul 25, 2018 12:45:47 GMT
This tweet made me smile. Only a little over a decade to wait until early 2030. It reminded me, and many others, of the old joke about the man ordering a car in the USSR!
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Post by Tibidabo on Jul 25, 2018 12:54:02 GMT
Only comment now is that I assume parents buy these things, rather than it coming out of a school budget? Oh absolutely. I cannot imagine a school having the money for this at the end of the year - as it is we were squeezing the last bit of lead out of the pencils and spitting on the old blutak to try and get it to stick. Am intrigued as to the prom for 11 year olds, as mentioned by peggs. Yep. Definitely Trump's fault.
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Post by kathryn on Jul 25, 2018 13:00:54 GMT
My 11 year old niece who has just left primary school had a prom, leavers hoodie (yes parents def paid for them) which she permanently moved into and an exclusive year 6 party with inflatables, foot and water fights, staring roles in end of year musical (all other children relegated oh and a residential trip to the isle of Wight. Things have def changed since I was at school but then nurseries have graduation ceremonies as well now too. I can't help thinking we're setting them up for disappointment in later life. My university graduations were no-where near as exciting as all that lot!
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Post by kathryn on Jul 25, 2018 13:02:40 GMT
Only comment now is that I assume parents buy these things, rather than it coming out of a school budget? Oh absolutely. I cannot imagine a school having the money for this at the end of the year - as it is we were squeezing the last bit of lead out of the pencils and spitting on the old blutak to try and get it to stick. I should hope the school is making a profit on them, to put into the new blutak fund!
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jul 25, 2018 13:04:58 GMT
36 forecasted for the East Anglia by the end of the week 🌞 ☀️ 😓
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Post by poster J on Jul 25, 2018 13:29:33 GMT
This tweet made me smile. Only a little over a decade to wait until early 2030. It reminded me, and many others, of the old joke about the man ordering a car in the USSR! As someone who gets the Central line every day, improved ventilation is a lie. Though the stations are sometimes even worse than the trains - Tottenham Court Road is a furnace!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2018 17:51:34 GMT
Most of you wouldn't survive a summer in Spain. It is HORRIBLE right now where I live, and I'm not even in Southern Spain. I thought I was gonna die today coming back from work at 3pm.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2018 17:57:07 GMT
Most of you wouldn't survive a summer in Spain. It is HORRIBLE right now where I live, and I'm not even in Southern Spain. I thought I was gonna die today coming back from work at 3pm. I'm ginger, I can barely survive a normal summer in Wales. Case in point, I walked from my house to Starbucks. Approx 10 minute walk each way. Have a sunburned face.
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Post by The Matthew on Jul 25, 2018 18:31:12 GMT
I'm getting through so much sun lotion. Not because I'm sunbathing (ugh), but just so I can drive anywhere without my arms turning crispy.
Does anyone else find themselves holding the steering wheel like one of those desert lizards that keeps switching from one pair of legs to the other?
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Post by peggs on Jul 25, 2018 18:56:18 GMT
Am intrigued as to the prom for 11 year olds, as mentioned by peggs . Yep. Definitely Trump's fault. It seems to be what was once a disco but has now got very much more hyped up and involves limos/horse drawn carriages, going to hairdressers to get hair done, long dress shopping sprees. Me repeatedly going 'it can't be a prom, you're 11' unsurprisingly did not win me any cool aunty points.
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Post by Dawnstar on Jul 25, 2018 20:04:22 GMT
36 forecasted for the East Anglia by the end of the week 🌞 ☀️ 😓 I'm wondering if suicide would be a faster death than waiting for the heat stroke... (Yes, I live in East Anglia.)
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jul 25, 2018 20:17:48 GMT
36 forecasted for the East Anglia by the end of the week 🌞 ☀️ 😓 I'm wondering if suicide would be a faster death than waiting for the heat stroke... (Yes, I live in East Anglia.) I’d send you a sympathetic bear hug Dawnstar but maybe not in this weather eh?
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Post by Dawnstar on Jul 25, 2018 20:54:15 GMT
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jul 25, 2018 21:00:43 GMT
Good choice. I smell 🙂👍 🐻
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2018 21:25:07 GMT
This heatwave is making me grateful that the Scottish schools break from the start of July to the middle of August. I feel bad for those English kids stuck in stuffy classrooms until mid-July.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2018 6:22:46 GMT
I'm doing fine in the heat, it's the mosquitoes and things that bite that are the issue. Oh, and the families who choose to take their little demons out for the day so all I hear on my walk to and from work is children screaming and crying, or parents yelling at them and taking up the whole path. Bring on September!
I do imagine we are in for a bitch of a Winter now tho. This heat is too good to be true.
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Post by kathryn on Jul 26, 2018 8:33:19 GMT
I'm doing fine in the heat, it's the mosquitoes and things that bite that are the issue. Argh, yes, I've been on antibiotics for the last week because a couple of insect bites (horse fly?) got properly infected.
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Post by crowblack on Jul 26, 2018 9:03:21 GMT
Things have def changed since I was at school but then nurseries have graduation ceremonies as well now too. Which is why I find it odd that adults complain about the way so many children now seem to think they are celebrities in their own movie and say 'being famous' is their life goal. The American movie-style 'prom culture' thing has been introduced by adults and is part of the process that grooms them into thinking that way. I presume it is also very lucrative, with the outfits, makeovers, stretch limos and the rest - part of the process of milking kids for cash that continues with the increasingly exotic school trips and the high-rent luxury student accommodation that gets them inured to being in debt.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2018 9:06:39 GMT
My Year 6 was only a few years ago, and I can testify that we had the "full package" - leavers t-shirts, a leavers musical (Alice in Wonderland) and a "prom", which was actually really informal, but all the tryhard kids took it really seriously and got suits, dresses and stretch limos up to the school front door. Me and my friends were just rolling our eyes at them because it's a primary school dance, not a Sixth Form formal.
It's actually quite Americanised now. They call the secondary school the "high school", even though "high school" isn't the name of the school, the canteen/dinner hall the "cafeteria", the school disco the "prom".
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2018 9:22:55 GMT
It was a sixth form ball in my day, even though by then we didn't really call it the sixth form as we'd moved past the idea of numbered forms in that way and just referred to the era in question as Year 12 and Year 13. I'm sure we did have discos when leaving first school and middle school, but they were literally just discos, as in "come to the hall, wear your joggers, and we'll bring in that one dad who fancies himself a DJ to play some pop tunes for you to bounce around to". The sixth form ball at least involved hiring the function room at some local sports ground or other. (We had leavers' concerts and plays and stuff too, 11 year old me played a MEAN Pied Piper of Hamelin.)
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2018 9:33:01 GMT
It's actually quite Americanised now. They call the secondary school the "high school", even though "high school" isn't the name of the school, the canteen/dinner hall the "cafeteria", the school disco the "prom".
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Post by galinda on Jul 26, 2018 10:54:43 GMT
I hate this heat. I seem to be able to cope with it on holiday as can dress appropriately, have air con, a swimming pool to cool down in etc but here it's horrible. No air con at work
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