Betty Swallocks

edited July 2009 in Chit chat
So us lucky buggers here in Blighty are being treated to a lovely heatwave, this being day 3 of it.

There's been some showers and a lovely thunder and lightening storm as I left work at around 5pm today as well.

But I've just looked at my thermometer and it's saying 28.1c - this is truly Betty Swallocks weather.

What sort of temperatures is everyone else getting? Is the UK beating any notable "hot spots" at the moment??
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  • edited July 2009
    Its betty swallocks here near Cardiff too.

    The south west is due some thunder storms tomorow. I hope we get one.
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  • edited July 2009
    Well on the bike, my tyre pressures were affected. Engine temp okay though, coolant okay.

    Open face crash helmet, and unzipped jacket, kevlar jeans, bearable at speeds, but still too hot in traffic.

    I'd say it was about 30 here today, and probably a couple of hot spots in my back yard got up to 35.

    I lay on my tiled kitchen floor, in just shorts earlier. Might sleep in the garden tonight.
  • edited July 2009
    Hmmm it's a little cooler here today, but the temp here over the last few days has been pushing 40'C.

    It's all too much for a limey like me, I can be outside for about half an hour and I'll be knackered cos' of the heat.

    However my wife and her family all think it's crazy that I can still be wearing short sleeves as late as christmas, when they're all bundled up in hoodies and big jackets.

    Couldn't in the winter just gone though it was bloody baltic by mid november :lol:
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  • edited July 2009
    This cost me ?10.59!



    Knackers!
  • edited July 2009
    It's been around 26C here in London today... scorchio!!
  • edited July 2009
    frobush wrote: »
    This cost me ?10.59!
    Knackers!

    Why? Did someone slip on the wet floor and then cut themselves on the shrapnels of the Saucer prototype case that you accidentally pushed out of your window?
  • edited July 2009
    Hmmm it's a little cooler here today, but the temp here over the last few days has been pushing 40'C.

    It's all too much for a limey like me, I can be outside for about half an hour and I'll be knackered cos' of the heat.

    However my wife and her family all think it's crazy that I can still be wearing short sleeves as late as christmas, when they're all bundled up in hoodies and big jackets.

    Couldn't in the winter just gone though it was bloody baltic by mid november :lol:

    Haha! Same here :grin:
  • edited July 2009
    XTM of TMG wrote: »
    Why? Did someone slip on the wet floor and then cut themselves on the shrapnels of the Saucer prototype case that you accidentally pushed out of your window?

    That was no accident. That was no Saucer prototype case.

    Do you know how hard it is to make something look so simple? To rig things up? To buy peanuts and scan cassette covers and mock things up?

    All for what? A cheap laugh!

    Why?

    EDIT - that was the 3rd take!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH-daMrPbKk&feature=channel_page
  • edited July 2009
    I love all this heat we're having, often we're so quick to moan about the weather when its bad, love it when its like this. Obviously working at home helps !

    Hope it continues as where i live we just get rain the rest of the time
  • edited July 2009
    Hmmmm, *all together now* "IT'S TOO FECKIN' HOT!!!"

    I've not noticed any rain or thunderstorms where I am, but then I don't take notice of much anyway. I think it's sitting around 24-28C most of the time, which wouldn't be so bad if that didn't include 9am. I think nights are 13-17C (damn sticky).. Sunglasses are a must, I don't think I've taken mine off for 2 days, I'm drinking 10litres of water per day at least, and I must have lost 2 stone thru sweating.....

    Bring back the winter, I can handle that...
    So far, so meh :)
  • edited July 2009
    polomint wrote: »
    Hmmmm, *all together now* "IT'S TOO FECKIN' HOT!!!"

    BAKING BRITAIN!!

    yeah its too hot, i am sweating like a pig on holiday.

    not so bad in the day, but when you go to bed it's a nightmare. too hot to sleep and too late to watch TV. gah.
  • edited July 2009
    Sleep deprivation is getting annoying.
  • edited July 2009
    Here at the mouth of the Tyne I'm still waiting for all this heat.

    It got sunny for 2 hours yesterday. Cullercoats got such a surprise that it followed the 2 hours of sun with 2 hours of rain. Just to balance up.

    I'm going to Kent this month. I'll bring some rain with me. It usually follows. If not from here, I'll pick it up as I pass Leeds.

    It always rains at Leeds.

    They even moved the A1 further away from Leeds to avoid the rain.

    Didn't work, not far enough.

    You do get a much better view of the power station now though.

    I like watching the BMW drivers not coping with the slick, wet roads as I bring the torrents down the M11.
  • edited July 2009
    NickH wrote: »
    Sleep deprivation is getting annoying.

    Just put on Channel 4, about 1am onwards theres live big brother, watch that and despite the heat you'll soon be asleep
  • edited July 2009
    I have no trouble sleeping in the heat, I have trouble staying awake though.
  • edited July 2009
    Oh, is BB still on? Why oh why can't they change the format so that the person who is voted off has to sit and fry in the chair.... That'd soon stop those muppeterian tossers applying to be on the show... Yaayyyyy, no BB...

    :-x:-x:-x:-x:-x:-x
    So far, so meh :)
  • edited July 2009
    I like watching Jeremy Kyle. And the sponsored by "Think Bingo" ad links. It bugs me that I don't know what the hell the woman is actually singing!

    "I know, where all the girls go", something, something, something, "when we get together", something, something, something, "yeah, yeah, yeah".

  • edited July 2009
    frobush wrote: »
    I like watching Jeremy Kyle. And the sponsored by "Think Bingo" ad links. It bugs me that I don't know what the hell the woman is actually singing!

    "I know, where all the girls go", something, something, something, "when we get together", something, something, something, "yeah, yeah, yeah".


    What a total bunch of munters!!
  • edited July 2009
    polomint wrote: »
    Oh, is BB still on? Why oh why can't they change the format so that the person who is voted off has to sit and fry in the chair.... That'd soon stop those muppeterian tossers applying to be on the show... Yaayyyyy, no BB...

    :-x:-x:-x:-x:-x:-x

    I must admit i didnt mind the show previously as there wasnt much else on and it was at times entertaining, but its well passed its time now, the people who enter are complete freaks, more so than before. Cant believe it'll be on again next year.

    I was looking forward to Dragons Den, that hasnt been on for ages
  • edited July 2009
    STeaM wrote: »
    What a total bunch of munters!!

    Leave them alone, you sod! We can't all be the female equivalent of a tiny, misguided, Tom Cruise!
  • edited July 2009
    What song is that they play ?

    Granted theyre not exactly attractive but sometimes i cant stand adverts where all the people are perfect looking, models etc, just not lifelike at all. Its like soaps when some pretty girl moan they cant get a bloke or a date and theyre often stunning and in any town in the world they would have tons of blokes flocking round them.
  • edited July 2009
    ive been watching a bit of wimbledon, and whenever they switch to the players girlfreind, she's always a gorgeous, thin, blonde girl. it's never an obese woman eating a pie.
  • edited July 2009
    mile wrote: »
    ive been watching a bit of wimbledon, and whenever they switch to the players girlfreind, she's always a gorgeous, thin, blonde girl. it's never an obese woman eating a pie.

    On one hand i dont blame Murray for going with a fit lass, on the other hand it reminds me of the famous question Mrs Merton asked debbie mcgee...

    "So what first attracted you to the multi millionaire Paul Daniels....'

    If Andy Murray wasnt good at tennis and was the usual scottish bloke on the dole, drunk and shooting drugs i dont think she would be with him !

    (Hmmm i dont think i'll be selling any Speccy books to any scottish people now ;)
  • edited July 2009
    Greg Wallace off of the Master Chef franchise really bugs me! He's from 'the sowf', innit, so that get's my back up straight away! And he holds spoons like a 2 year old!

    Do you know what he did for a living before shoving his fat face on the telly pretending to be a chef?

    A fruit and veg delivery man!

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    Greg, if you are reading this - "FUCK OFF!"
  • edited July 2009
    frobush wrote: »
    Greg Wallace off of the Master Chef franchise really bugs me! He's from 'the sowf', innit, so that get's my back up straight away! And he holds spoons like a 2 year old!

    Do you know what he did for a living before shoving his fat face on the telly pretending to be a chef?

    A fruit and veg delivery man!

    I'm originally from the south (Where its always nice and warm, you can understand people when they talk) and yes most of us are ex fruit and veg delivery people, sell cockles and eels, are pearly queens or clean chimneys for a living. We start most sentences with 'cor blimey guvnor...'
  • edited July 2009
    Cor blimey guvnor. I'm dead well chuffed to bits and no mistake! Ear, didn't you kill my brovver? Nah, must 'ave been me!
  • edited July 2009
    Bloody hot here. I think it's pushing 30 here. Coffee intake has reduced because of that and now I'm tired because of the heat and lack of caffeine.

    I'm not trusting the BBC's weather - it's meant to have been showers here since monday. I'm still waiting. Tomorrow's "light rain" and saturday's "heavy rain". Yeah right. I bloody hope so, but I'm not that lucky. The last time they got the weather this wrong a tornado hit London.

    Winter can't come soon enough!
    psj3809 wrote: »
    If Andy Murray wasnt good at tennis and was the usual scottish bloke on the dole, drunk and shooting drugs i dont think she would be with him !

    (Hmmm i dont think i'll be selling any Speccy books to any scottish people now ;)

    OI!!! Wanker!

    I used to be on the dole, never did drugs though and didn't drink that much. Things are completely different now that I'm on the insurance - I don't do drugs and I don't drink that much either :-P

    The best thing is that I don't have to go to the bloody dole office and have a back to work meeting with a useless twat.
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  • edited July 2009
    Just did my Tesco online order, and then go back and cut down the amount of ice cream ordered due to my freezer not being the size of Kent.
  • edited July 2009
    i had a magnum last night, didn't they used to have chocolate centers?

    its proper hot in our office, all the girl are wearing skimpy clothes, which means i can see lots of young bronzed flesh but a lot of wobbly cellulite too.
  • edited July 2009
    mile wrote: »
    i had a magnum last night, didn't they used to have chocolate centers?

    "Feasts" did. There's a special Magnum out now whose name escapes me which has a chocolate truffle in the centre.
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