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I doubt any of us would fit in a night club. My 27 year old son says he's too old for student night and too young for the specialised nights.

We'd be too old for any of it. But we'd sod them and enjoy it anyway ... But never go back lol
 
I didn’t have any real intention of going down the night clubs. I just wanted an excuse to bump this thread up the ratings and to provoke conversation while I was at it. I couldn’t bring myself to pay the prices at the bar.
 
I didn’t have any real intention of going down the night clubs. I just wanted an excuse to bump this thread up the ratings and to provoke conversation while I was at it. I couldn’t bring myself to pay the prices at the bar.
I'm a right grumpy sod, I CBA to stand in the queue for the bar. And I'm a light weight, so I'd be drunk in 3 drinks lol.

But I could dance to soul, in my own lil world, for hours lol
 
I'm a right grumpy sod, I CBA to stand in the queue for the bar. And I'm a light weight, so I'd be drunk in 3 drinks lol.

But I could dance to soul, in my own lil world, for hours lol
Can I join your queue with you. Permission to grumble sir. 🤣 I’m as light weight as you are when it comes to booze hence why I like to be the designated driver.
 
Can I join your queue with you. Permission to grumble sir. 🤣 I’m as light weight as you are when it comes to booze hence why I like to be the designated driver.
I swear, I'm such a lightweight I could feel drunk, drive and pass a breaithaliser lol
 
an ex-britlander (london) now 5 years' worth of living in America (only because my husband's an American and duty meant he couldn't move over to the UK).

just dropping in to hear a few UK accents and actual English words meaning what they actually mean... biscuits meaning those heavenly, crunchy bits of heaven instead of a sort of bread and their cookies being mostly soft like they're stale! It's like stepping into an alternate reality with the language here... the same words mean such different things.

anyways, hope you're not suffering too badly with the heat right now in the south, it's a killer.
 
an ex-britlander (london) now 5 years' worth of living in America (only because my husband's an American and duty meant he couldn't move over to the UK).

just dropping in to hear a few UK accents and actual English words meaning what they actually mean... biscuits meaning those heavenly, crunchy bits of heaven instead of a sort of bread and their cookies being mostly soft like they're stale! It's like stepping into an alternate reality with the language here... the same words mean such different things.

anyways, hope you're not suffering too badly with the heat right now in the south, it's a killer.
Hi Butters, welcome to the thread. I can sympathise with you big time, I have a garden not a yard, I put petrol in my car not gas, and I put out the rubbish not trash to name a few.

The weather here is set to hit 39C, can you remember C or are you assimilated in to F’s? 96F ish if you are. I’m not looking forward to it.

Don’t get me started on biscuits.

Lovely to hear from you, we had a thread change recently when the old on disappeared in a puff of smoke. Great that you have found us.
 
Hi Butters, welcome to the thread. I can sympathise with you big time, I have a garden not a yard, I put petrol in my car not gas, and I put out the rubbish not trash to name a few.

The weather here is set to hit 39C, can you remember C or are you assimilated in to F’s? 96F ish if you are. I’m not looking forward to it.

Don’t get me started on biscuits.

Lovely to hear from you, we had a thread change recently when the old on disappeared in a puff of smoke. Great that you have found us.
i think it was 2003, sounds about right, and it must have been around 38C but everyone spoke of it in terms of farenheit, so around 100-103. As you know, most british summers don't reach that... 3 hot days and a thunderstorm used to be the norm, and the humidity's a lot lower in the UK so air conditioning isn't the norm.. I now live in Tennessee, which piles humidity onto heat for a higher heat index, but we've ceiling fans and air cooler. The highest i've seen it here was 110, about 10 degrees hotter than it was meant to be but i think it's because we live on a hill which is itself in a slight dip surrounded by tree-thick hills and so the heat and humidity climb. 100 isn't unusual in the height of summer; when the humidity's low, that's actually not terrible.. it can feel hotter at 80 with a high humidity, and that's just vile.

as for rain? they say it rains a lot in England... well, yeah, polite rain and polite snow as a rule, rain fairly frequent but not too heavy. The rain here is BANANAS! like inches at a time is not unusual with a whole lot more storms that are bigger and more violent. When that rain comes down, you can't even see to drive and people just pull over or stop till it eases. :eek:
 
i think it was 2003, sounds about right, and it must have been around 38C but everyone spoke of it in terms of farenheit, so around 100-103. As you know, most british summers don't reach that... 3 hot days and a thunderstorm used to be the norm, and the humidity's a lot lower in the UK so air conditioning isn't the norm.. I now live in Tennessee, which piles humidity onto heat for a higher heat index, but we've ceiling fans and air cooler. The highest i've seen it here was 110, about 10 degrees hotter than it was meant to be but i think it's because we live on a hill which is itself in a slight dip surrounded by tree-thick hills and so the heat and humidity climb. 100 isn't unusual in the height of summer; when the humidity's low, that's actually not terrible.. it can feel hotter at 80 with a high humidity, and that's just vile.

as for rain? they say it rains a lot in England... well, yeah, polite rain and polite snow as a rule, rain fairly frequent but not too heavy. The rain here is BANANAS! like inches at a time is not unusual with a whole lot more storms that are bigger and more violent. When that rain comes down, you can't even see to drive and people just pull over or stop till it eases. :eek:
Welcome butters!

please send some of your rain to Germany, it has not rained in weeks and the pine trees in our local forest have dried out and are snapping like twigs when there is a bit of a breeze.

what on earth have we done???

good morning Tommies 😍
 
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