It’s in the 90s in the UK. Is that unusual? We’ve been dealing with 100+ here in SW Idaho, but we do have AC.
So much of UK/Europe still without AC’s. Senior citizens suffer most.
They can have my hosepipe when they pry it from my cold, dead hands!
P.S. The Brits sure do speak funny. What’s a hosepipe?
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At first glance, headline appears to mention a
“Hospice Ban”. Needless to say, that’s incorrect.
‘Hose-Pipe’ ban is the new term of the hour.
What’s a hosepipe?
Roughly 94.5 or equal to the cool summer we’ve been having in the Metroplex. We’ve certainly been suffering from global cooling here this year.
So they get beaten with a rubber hose if they don’t comply?
If you have been to Washington, DC in the summertime, that’s probably what it’s like.
People there should invest in a window unit for heatwaves, of course higher incomes should have some economical A/C for at least a portion of the house.
Most of the poor in America would at the least drop $150 dollars on a 5,000 btu unit to cool a room or take off the edge in their apartment.
By the way, with their habit of gardening, limiting water could be causing a lot of angst in Britain.
That's 82 Fahrenheit. And they take yer garden hose away? Kind of makes ya wonder what they take away when it hits 85...
Speaking of which, what ever happened to ol hosepipe?
“people who break the ban could face a fine.”
What? No Orwellian strongarm tactics? I’m susprised.
The 3rd world immigrants brought their weather with them ...
When I was young much of Albany, New York was under elm tree canopies in the summertime.
I grew up seven miles north of Albany, New York. The house I lived in before I went off to college did not have air conditioning. I was ten years old before my father put in AC in my aunt’s summer camp.
Being in the shade is quite tolerable in the Florida summer for me in terms of temperature. The gnats were vicious before sunset when I was mowing my backyard.
I recall from my time stationed in the UK, they had a hose-pipe tax, a window screen tax, a TV tax and, of course, the “Poll Tax.” I don’t recall whether or not the UK had a radio tax but Germany did.
If there is a hose-pipe ban imposed, will you still have to pay your hose-pipe tax?
They’re surrounded by water yet they can’t figure out how to have enough water? Haven’t they heard of desalination?
What the heck is a ‘hosepipe’?
94.5 degrees, we’re all gunna die! It’s cycled between 62 daytime high to 97 here the past two weeks with 100% humidity. Kinda hard to “acclimate” to that when it ping pongs all over the place. No AC either.
Hosepipe sounds like a porn star name.
Laz? Your take?