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Has anyone noticed that the OP of this thread indeed got the reaction they wanted. He wanted people coming on here saying Britain is all rain and drizzle or the summers stink blah blah. I'm just curious why that original poster, supposedly from the UK, didn't even know what kind of rain the UK got. Just bizarre to me.
Because there had been a fairly decent amount of time since the last anti-UK trolling thread. This place can't seem to go very long without some anti-UK crap. It happens in the world forums as well.
Because there had been a fairly decent amount of time since the last anti-UK trolling thread. This place can't seem to go very long without some anti-UK crap. It happens in the world forums as well.
I ask all of UK natives to confront repeatedly this supposed UK native as to expose them. You can ask things only someone who grew up in the UK would know.
My friend living in London went to the 80's in the moors concert this weekend in Cookham. Some great acts. The weather there based on the FB posts pictures looks as bad as here.
No, dream on. Maybe the low temps seen in the US South as per records were the lowest ever in the existence of the region on Earth, caused by a cold time. If you think that even areas like Miami have lower record lows than areas of the UK, then I have a bridge to sell you.
Well, London is a very old, established, prominent city, so events that occurred before modern records are well known (Shakespeare era, Charles Dickens era, etc). Yes, it is well known that London had the Thames freeze up right to central downtown, complete with frost fairs.
Check out the native vegetation of the English countryside; just your ordinary plants and animals, nothing exotic. That's how you can determine the actual climactic events that have happened in the UK.
It is what it is.
You are the one dreaming, or trolling, or both...
You seem to be ok with going back to prehistoric times to pull apart the UK climate, but for the US south you seem to think only more recent history matters...
It remains a FACT though that there are no completely accurate temperature records going back hundreds of years in the UK, there was no set method for recording temperatures like now, which is why only more recent records are officially used. You also cannot take what was written in works of fiction as gospel either, yes the UK had the "Little ice Age" when frost fairs were held on the Thames (not for a very long period) but you ignore the warm Medieval period that the UK had too...
Most of the US south has perfectly normal vegetation too, apart from the odd plant, it's hardly the Amazon jungle (with the exception of southern Florida which has tropical species)...
The US south is in no "cold epoch" the climate is what it is, as you say
I do hope you get to reply before you are banned (again)...
You seem to be ok with going back to prehistoric times to pull apart the UK climate, but for the US south you seem to think only more recent history matters...
It remains a FACT though that there are no completely accurate temperature records going back hundreds of years in the UK, there was no set method for recording temperatures like now, which is why only more recent records are officially used. You also cannot take what was written in works of fiction as gospel either, yes the UK had the "Little ice Age" when frost fairs were held on the Thames (not for a very long period) but you ignore the warm Medieval period that the UK had too...
Most of the US south has perfectly normal vegetation too, apart from the odd plant, it's hardly the Amazon jungle (with the exception of southern Florida which has tropical species)...
The US south is in no "cold epoch" the climate is what it is, as you say
I do hope you get to reply before you are banned (again)...
Oh we may not have tropical species here but in the late spring and mid fall, up to the first freeze really, the forests are thick, impentrable, diverse. Pretty much a jungle in its own right. That's what tropical heat and rain does I'm simmer and why I love the summers here. Early European settlers confronted huge thick impenetrable forests in the southern us. Amount of undergrowth and vines and plants makes it have a tropical vibe
You seem to be ok with going back to prehistoric times to pull apart the UK climate, but for the US south you seem to think only more recent history matters...
It remains a FACT though that there are no completely accurate temperature records going back hundreds of years in the UK, there was no set method for recording temperatures like now, which is why only more recent records are officially used. You also cannot take what was written in works of fiction as gospel either, yes the UK had the "Little ice Age" when frost fairs were held on the Thames (not for a very long period) but you ignore the warm Medieval period that the UK had too...
Most of the US south has perfectly normal vegetation too, apart from the odd plant, it's hardly the Amazon jungle (with the exception of southern Florida which has tropical species)...
The US south is in no "cold epoch" the climate is what it is, as you say
I do hope you get to reply before you are banned (again)...
Whatever to help you sleep better at night. Meanwhile, in the Southeast US, big reptiles like alligators are all over the place, spanish moss (from tropical Americas) dangles on the trees, fire ants from Brazil continually build mounds, and armadillos scurry around; you don't see that in a vanilla, white-bread landscape like the UK.
Whatever to help you sleep better at night. Meanwhile, in the Southeast US, big reptiles like alligators are all over the place, spanish moss (from tropical Americas) dangles on the trees, fire ants from Brazil continually build mounds, and armadillos scurry around; you don't see that in a vanilla, white-bread landscape like the UK.
This cool may has did one good thing for us, bring beautiful park weather, with temps in the upper 60s today and sun in the afternoon I realized the blessing the cool may had brought us. Then I realized something sombering, it would be the last beautiful park weather type day till September maybe even October. It made me jealous of London a bit , there summer weather is generally great for parks.
I ask all of UK natives to confront repeatedly this supposed UK native as to expose them. You can ask things only someone who grew up in the UK would know.
My friend living in London went to the 80's in the moors concert this weekend in Cookham. Some great acts. The weather there based on the FB posts pictures looks as bad as here.
I not a UK native, but here's a question that should sort the wheat from the chaff -what was the way in which John and Elizabeth were transported by TIM, called?
I not a UK native, but here's a question that should sort the wheat from the chaff -what was the way in which John and Elizabeth were transported by TIM, called?
Well New Zealand is a colony of the U.K. like Australia so you guys are the next best thing lol. I should say actually still colonies if you don't have your own head of state. No American would know that. Seems quite a lot of kiwis and Aussies live and die with the Queen of England lol. Not so much here. You guys are soooo much more British than you are willing to admit lol. The Queen after all is your head of state. Same with the Canadians.
Well New Zealand is a colony of the U.K. like Australia so you guys are the next best thing lol. I should say actually still colonies if you don't have your own head of state. No American would know that. Seems quite a lot of kiwis and Aussies live and die with the Queen of England lol. Not so much here. You guys are soooo much more British than you are willing to admit lol. The Queen after all is your head of state. Same with the Canadians.
Although the Queen is the head of state, she holds little political power. Canada, New Zealand, and Australia are sovereign and self-governing nations for all practical purposes.
London's winters seem unbearable to me. 50-70 hours of sun in each winter month is grim. It's kinda unfortunate because, for its latitude, London is rather warm in the winter.
With that being said, southern England (London, Portsmouth, etc) has tolerable and pleasant summers, even if they aren't that sunny (they still need more sunshine in summer). I disagree about southern England having "horrible summers". I'd rather spend a summer in London than in Brisbane, Hong Kong, Tampa and Tokyo.
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