• Lemminary
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    84 days ago

    Ah, I love the UK

    > “The sun never sets!”

    > Always cloudy & gray

    <3

  • AItoothbrush
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    325 days ago

    The bri’ish complainin about like 25c or something while im rotting in 40 and the spanish are probably already dead from the 46 or whatever they have.

    • @[email protected]
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      115 days ago

      Sir, this is a joke about how it would be awful if the sun were always up.

      But also, the UK just had its second warmest June ever (England’s warmest ever) and was over 30C in many places. During these heatwaves, the temperature rises rapidly, making it uncomfortable because people are not used to the warmer temperatures. After 7 days of warm temperatures, people get used to it.

      • AItoothbrush
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        115 days ago

        I know but making fun of the uk, especially england is always justified and funi

    • B-TR3E
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      14 days ago

      40 cents rot? Prices in the US are pretty steep, nowadays, it seems.

    • @[email protected]
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      34 days ago

      JFC that’s too hot. I’d been thinking maybe Spain would be a nice place to move to and a bit more like where I grew up climate wise… that’s way too much like Florida. Is that at least a dry heat or is it outdoor sauna?

      • @[email protected]
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        Depending where you go. If you go to the coast there’s a lot of humidity. On the center the climate is very dry and the nights are not so hot. Typical day in interior spain temperature can go from 10C to 35C easily.

        Still pretty hotter than the rest of europe overall.

        Climate wise the worst is that we are very vulnerable to climate change. Our highest temperatures are already pretty high so higher temperatures in summer will be deathly. Also some parts of Spain are vulnerable to drastic climate events, recently two hundred people die in a heavy flood in Valencia.

        • AItoothbrush
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          34 days ago

          Yeah its a sad thing when your country had weather you liked and then climate change ruined it. While i also like the weather in some parts of spain, my favourite thing is very continental weather. Hungary used to be that with -15 in winters and +30-35 in summers and now its wet 0c winters and a bit hotter summers(which dont bother me that much tbf). Its interesting that it didnt just shift up the temperature by x degrees, instead it nuked winter and made summer only a bit hotter.

  • @[email protected]
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    24 days ago

    “Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noon day sun”. Not sure where I heard that quote but it’s always stuck with me.

    • @[email protected]
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      295 days ago

      It’s an old saying. The Empire had colonies all over the world so at any point in time it was day for at least one colony. Therefore the sun never set on The Empire as a whole.

      The joke is making fun of that old saying, pretending it means there is no night for the British isles and all the sun is causing the temperature of the isles to increase.

      I hope that’s enough explanation to remove any humor from the joke.

      • Count Regal Inkwell
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        24 days ago

        An explained joke might lose its funny in the moment

        But you also ensure future jokes riffing on similar ideas will land better. ;)

      • @[email protected]
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        25 days ago

        Although the saying ends ‘…on the British empire’, not the weird wording in the poster that no one would ever use.

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          In a boxing match they ring a bell to signal the end of the round. He’s saying he can’t take the heat anymore. He’s lost the fight. “Ring the bell already. I’m done. I can’t take it anymore”.

  • Øπ3ŕ
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    15 days ago

    The sun never sets? Is that why y’all got them olde timey kaniggets?

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    Poorly timed as the sun finally set on the British empire for the first time in over a century just a few months ago