Tropical nights (where minimum temperature never drops below 20 degrees) are common in Sweden. We usually have at least a fortnight of them, sometimes nearly 2 months.
You get used to them, and although unpleasant they can be mitigated. We have a heat pump, which although not an A/C is still an effective ventilation system, especially when set to cooling mode.
It helps of course that we have so many opportunities to bathe in lakes, rivers or sea. A refreshing dip first thing in the morning or late in the evening does wonders for body and soul.
Or maybe they don't like the idea of the Conservatives having a black female PM.
You really are a piece of work, throwing around groundless accusations of racism.
Linguistic oddity, that. "Nasty piece of work" used to be the expression, pow itself being neutral and good, bad and indifferent pieces of work being on the cards.
I think it's American, most of the stupid versions of phrases come from there.
'Tell me about it' is the American version of the British - 'Don't tell me about it', which makes much more sense, but you don't hear any more. 'I could care less' is another American one.
It derives from Shakespeare. "What a piece of work is a man"
It really doesn't
What piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving, how express and admirable in action, how like an angel in apprehension, how like a god!
meaning, what an excellent piece of work, not "what a piece of shit".
Yes, the meaning is "something remarkable" in the original text and has been co-opted over the centuries to mean something extraordinary for positive or negative reasons, and now mainly meaning something negative. Words (and phrases) do this. "Wow" has recently come to mean something less awesome and more awful in some uses. Other times it can go the other way (see the evolution of "sick" from negative to positive in some uses).
When my grandad spent some weeks keeping me company in hospital when my broken leg was in traction some 33 or so years ago, we had a long discussion about the changing meaning of the word "wicked". I fear this may have changed meaning again, but I haven't had the opportunity to recently question a young person about it.
On those figures Sunak can easily lend Mordaunt 5 to 10 MPs to knock out Truss in the final round and still top the poll
Would that not doom him among members though? It'd be a bit obvious.
Cameron lent a few MPs to Davis in 2005 in the last round to knock out Fox, IDS lent a few MPs to Clarke in 2001 to knock out Portillo, Boris likely lent a few to Hunt in 2019 to knock out Gove, did not stop any of them winning the membership vote
That sort of thing probably won't happen this time because it's probably going to be close between the final 3 and so none of them can afford to loan votes to other candidates.
If Sunak has a clear lead in the penultimate round he will lend votes to Mordaunt, almost guaranteed
He’ll be standing tall after his solid performances in the debates so far.
I don't know what he was thinking. Predictable and easy to counter.
That was a jaw droppingly shit question by Sunak.
This man cannot be Prime Minister
None of them can. But one of them will. You decide. Er. No you don't.
This Labour triumphalism would have been well in order in 1995
But this collection of hebephrenic gimps don't have to throw up someone who can outrun a bear, they only have to throw up someone who can outrun SKS. Not difficult.
Or maybe they don't like the idea of the Conservatives having a black female PM.
You really are a piece of work, throwing around groundless accusations of racism.
Linguistic oddity, that. "Nasty piece of work" used to be the expression, pow itself being neutral and good, bad and indifferent pieces of work being on the cards.
I don't know what he was thinking. Predictable and easy to counter.
That was a jaw droppingly shit question by Sunak.
This man cannot be Prime Minister
Not sure you can dismiss him because of one misfired question
Fact is the Tories have an unpalatable choice of highly flawed candidates, but one will have to do. Their only solace is that the winner is facing an equally uninspiring Labour leader
I reckon Mordaunt or Sunak could beat Starmer, but probably won't due to the overwhelming desire for a change and economic headwinds. Badenoch (too young and callow), Tugendhat (too lightweight and meaningless) and Truss (too stilted and bonkers) would pretty much guarantee defeat, possibly a calamitous defeat
I don't know what he was thinking. Predictable and easy to counter.
That was a jaw droppingly shit question by Sunak.
This man cannot be Prime Minister
None of them can. But one of them will. You decide. Er. No you don't.
This Labour triumphalism would have been well in order in 1995
But this collection of hebephrenic gimps don't have to throw up someone who can outrun a bear, they only have to throw up someone who can outrun SKS. Not difficult.
That's hardly triumphalism. None of them are particularly good. Nor is SKS. It's a sad time for the country tbh. Though any one of them v Starmer is a small step in the right direction from Johnson v Corbyn.
Truss was much better tonight. That and her Yorkshire straight talking and lack of polish stuff.
It should be enough to keep her ahead of Badenoch.
Agreed on that. FYI, Betfair moving around a bit. Odds now
Sunak 2.46 Mordaunt 3.35 Truss 4.6 Badenoch 11
I don't get why Mordaunt is so high still. She's Gordon Brown. Mumbling her surly answers, can't think on her feet, digs idiotic holes for herself. She's not up to this. Surely everyone can see this?
I don't know what he was thinking. Predictable and easy to counter.
That was a jaw droppingly shit question by Sunak.
This man cannot be Prime Minister
Not sure you can dismiss him because of one misfired question
Fact is the Tories have an unpalatable choice of highly flawed candidates, but one will have to do. Their only solace is that the winner is facing an equally uninspiring Labour leader
I reckon Mordaunt or Sunak could beat Starmer, but probably won't due to the overwhelming desire for a change and economic headwinds. Badenoch (too young and callow), Tugendhat (too lightweight and meaningless) and Truss (too stilted and bonkers) would pretty much guarantee defeat, possibly a calamitous defeat
Are we about see Badenoch installed as the leader-in-waiting who will take over after Sunak/Truss loses in 2024?
Looks that way from those membership voting numbers.
Assuming Sunak or Truss win the leadership and then lose in 2024, though Sunak has a chance of a narrow win unlike Truss I think, then Badenoch or Patel will likely be the favourites to be Leader of the Opposition depending on which of them the ERG back
We may see a really important UK weather record broken in the next two days - but not (just) the obvious highest temp ever, instead: the record highest minimum
At present that is 23.9 from August 2003, in Brighton
London tomorrow is not expected to go below 24C: absolutely tropical weather
Hello Leon. Fuck off.
Is this normal on Political Betting?
My God you are such a knob.
I'm not entirely sure what a humble ethnographer of pre-Columbian cultures has done - to deserve such barbed and bitter contumely after three comments
Presumably it will be revealed that the "ethnography" is a 19-year old Venezuelan émigré girlfriend in London.
On those figures Sunak can easily lend Mordaunt 5 to 10 MPs to knock out Truss in the final round and still top the poll
Would that not doom him among members though? It'd be a bit obvious.
Cameron lent a few MPs to Davis in 2005 in the last round to knock out Fox, IDS lent a few MPs to Clarke in 2001 to knock out Portillo, Boris likely lent a few to Hunt in 2019 to knock out Gove, did not stop any of them winning the membership vote
That sort of thing probably won't happen this time because it's probably going to be close between the final 3 and so none of them can afford to loan votes to other candidates.
If Sunak has a clear lead in the penultimate round he will lend votes to Mordaunt, almost guaranteed.
Remember Gavin Williamson is managing Sunak's campaign with MPs and that is the kind of thing he will be plotting to ensure Sunak has knocked out Truss and Badenoch before the membership vote
Truss was much better tonight. That and her Yorkshire straight talking and lack of polish stuff.
It should be enough to keep her ahead of Badenoch.
Agreed on that. FYI, Betfair moving around a bit. Odds now
Sunak 2.46 Mordaunt 3.35 Truss 4.6 Badenoch 11
I don't get why Mordaunt is so high still. She's Gordon Brown. Mumbling her surly answers, can't think on her feet, digs idiotic holes for herself. She's not up to this. Surely everyone can see this?
I don't know what he was thinking. Predictable and easy to counter.
That was a jaw droppingly shit question by Sunak.
This man cannot be Prime Minister
Not sure you can dismiss him because of one misfired question
Fact is the Tories have an unpalatable choice of highly flawed candidates, but one will have to do. Their only solace is that the winner is facing an equally uninspiring Labour leader
I reckon Mordaunt or Sunak could beat Starmer, but probably won't due to the overwhelming desire for a change and economic headwinds. Badenoch (too young and callow), Tugendhat (too lightweight and meaningless) and Truss (too stilted and bonkers) would pretty much guarantee defeat, possibly a calamitous defeat
Where's your full stops?
Sacrificed to a vengeful God.
Indeed. My heroes, the Aztec nobility, eschewed otiose punctuation and instead ritually pierced the tender parts of their body, with cactus thorns, obsidian flakes, and stingray spines, thereby propitiating the angry deities by the endless letting of human blood. The rites confounded early Spanish observers. From a 1556 manuscript:
"At times they sacrificed their own blood, cutting all around the ears in strips which they let hang as a sign. At other times they perforated their cheeks or the lower lip; again they made cuts in parts of the body, or pierced the tongue crossways and passed stalks through, causing extreme pain; again they hewed at the superfluous part of the penis, leaving the flesh in the form of two floppy ears. It was this custom which misled [engaño] the historian-general of the Indies to say that they practised circumcision"
Truss was much better tonight. That and her Yorkshire straight talking and lack of polish stuff.
It should be enough to keep her ahead of Badenoch.
Agreed on that. FYI, Betfair moving around a bit. Odds now
Sunak 2.46 Mordaunt 3.35 Truss 4.6 Badenoch 11
I don't get why Mordaunt is so high still. She's Gordon Brown. Mumbling her surly answers, can't think on her feet, digs idiotic holes for herself. She's not up to this. Surely everyone can see this?
I can.
Apparently she can do empathy.
Brown could never do this in public, although by all accounts a generous character. The cultural pressures on a man not to do so are also much heavier.
Truss was much better tonight. That and her Yorkshire straight talking and lack of polish stuff.
It should be enough to keep her ahead of Badenoch.
Agreed on that. FYI, Betfair moving around a bit. Odds now
Sunak 2.46 Mordaunt 3.35 Truss 4.6 Badenoch 11
I don't get why Mordaunt is so high still. She's Gordon Brown. Mumbling her surly answers, can't think on her feet, digs idiotic holes for herself. She's not up to this. Surely everyone can see this?
I agree with you there, I think it's because she is seen as a a bit of a fresh face and vaguely human, as least compared with Liz T. However, she's a weak candidate. If you are going to do style over substance a la David Cameron, you at least have to have one attribute.
Tropical nights (where minimum temperature never drops below 20 degrees) are common in Sweden. We usually have at least a fortnight of them, sometimes nearly 2 months.
You get used to them, and although unpleasant they can be mitigated. We have a heat pump, which although not an A/C is still an effective ventilation system, especially when set to cooling mode.
It helps of course that we have so many opportunities to bathe in lakes, rivers or sea. A refreshing dip first thing in the morning or late in the evening does wonders for body and soul.
Similar to summer weather in much of US upper Midewest.
BTW, thanks to Sweden for role in restoring Jim Thorpe's rightful status, as sole gold medal winner in the decathlon and pentathlon in 1912 Olympic games
NYT story asked Swedish Olympic Committee for it's response:
S.O.C would like to quote the Swedish King Gustav V, who said to Jim Thorpe at the medal ceremony, "Sir, you are the greatest athlete in the world."
My dad would tell how, when Jim Thorpe was in his 30s, and playing in the early days of American professional football, at half-time during games, he'd stand on the 50-yard line and kick a field goal over one set of goal posts. Then he'd turn 180-degrees, and kick a field goal over the OTHER goal post.
Are we about see Badenoch installed as the leader-in-waiting who will take over after Sunak/Truss loses in 2024?
Looks that way from those membership voting numbers.
Assuming Sunak or Truss win the leadership and then lose in 2024, though Sunak has a chance of a narrow win unlike Truss I think, then Badenoch or Patel will likely be the favourites to be Leader of the Opposition depending on which of them the ERG back
I agree with the poster below who suggested if Sunak lost Mordaunt would probably still be the main threat. I think that's quite plausible.
On those figures Sunak can easily lend Mordaunt 5 to 10 MPs to knock out Truss in the final round and still top the poll
Would that not doom him among members though? It'd be a bit obvious.
Cameron lent a few MPs to Davis in 2005 in the last round to knock out Fox, IDS lent a few MPs to Clarke in 2001 to knock out Portillo, Boris likely lent a few to Hunt in 2019 to knock out Gove, did not stop any of them winning the membership vote
That sort of thing probably won't happen this time because it's probably going to be close between the final 3 and so none of them can afford to loan votes to other candidates.
If Sunak has a clear lead in the penultimate round he will lend votes to Mordaunt, almost guaranteed.
Remember Gavin Williamson is managing Sunak's campaign with MPs and that is the kind of thing he will be plotting to ensure Sunak has knocked out Truss and Badenoch before the membership vote
Do you approve of fixing elections?
MPs select the candidates they want before the Members get a say and if some Sunak supporting MPs vote tactically to knock out Truss they are entitled to do so. It is up to Truss to get enough MPs to ensure her place in the last two
I haven't managed to read the thread but I watched. All much better than last time.
Sunack was by a distance the most credible and composed.
Mordaunt has a bit of the Emily Thornberry about her and Truss had a brief moment at the end when she answered Sunak's question.
The other two have no hope.
So Sunak first Mordaunt second.
Mordaunt retires after being a long way behind
Ah yes, that is who she reminds me of! Her style is quite similar to Thornberry.
Although she is my favourite (and I agree she could be okay if she hires a decent team around her) I simply cannot see her surviving a head-to-head campaign with Rishi that will go on all summer.
So, I’m rather taken with @HYUFD’s analysis that Team Sunak will try to help Penny into the final, backing themselves to beat her easily over a prolonged campaign.
Are we about see Badenoch installed as the leader-in-waiting who will take over after Sunak/Truss loses in 2024?
Looks that way from those membership voting numbers.
Assuming Sunak or Truss win the leadership and then lose in 2024, though Sunak has a chance of a narrow win unlike Truss I think, then Badenoch or Patel will likely be the favourites to be Leader of the Opposition depending on which of them the ERG back
I agree with the poster below who suggested if Sunak lost Mordaunt would probably still be the main threat. I think that's plausible.
Mordaunt or Tugenhadt might be the candidate Patel or Badenoch beat in the membership vote, she would be unlikely to end up Leader of the Opposition
I haven't managed to read the thread but I watched. All much better than last time.
Sunack was by a distance the most credible and composed.
Mordaunt has a bit of the Emily Thornberry about her and Truss had a brief moment at the end when she answered Sunak's question.
The other two have no hope.
So Sunak first Mordaunt second.
Mordaunt retires after being a long way behind
Leadsom clause. They can't just withdraw, I understand.
What great penalty will become them if they do?
Good question. i believe the ballot would just go ahead. But IANAE. It would certainly be extremely strange to have a contest where one of the participants is saying "don't vote for me". But in any case, I don't get the sense that anyone does want to step aside.
Are we about see Badenoch installed as the leader-in-waiting who will take over after Sunak/Truss loses in 2024?
Looks that way from those membership voting numbers.
Assuming Sunak or Truss win the leadership and then lose in 2024, though Sunak has a chance of a narrow win unlike Truss I think, then Badenoch or Patel will likely be the favourites to be Leader of the Opposition depending on which of them the ERG back
I agree with the poster below who suggested if Sunak lost Mordaunt would probably still be the main threat. I think that's plausible.
Mordaunt or Tugenhadt might be the candidate Patel or Badenoch beat in the membership vote, she would be unlikely to end up Leader of the Opposition
Patel has some of Truss's problems, I think, and Badenoch needs years' more of experience.
I haven't managed to read the thread but I watched. All much better than last time.
Sunack was by a distance the most credible and composed.
Mordaunt has a bit of the Emily Thornberry about her and Truss had a brief moment at the end when she answered Sunak's question.
The other two have no hope.
So Sunak first Mordaunt second.
Mordaunt retires after being a long way behind
Ah yes, that is who she reminds me of! Her style is quite similar to Thornberry.
Although she is my favourite (and I agree she could be okay if she hires a decent team around her) I simply cannot see her surviving a head-to-head campaign with Rishi that will go on all summer.
So, I’m rather taken with @HYUFD’s analysis that Team Sunak will try to help Penny into the final, backing themselves to beat her easily over a prolonged campaign.
A really stupid idea. As stupid as those Labour MPs nominating Corbyn.
I don't know what he was thinking. Predictable and easy to counter.
That was a jaw droppingly shit question by Sunak.
This man cannot be Prime Minister
Not sure you can dismiss him because of one misfired question
Fact is the Tories have an unpalatable choice of highly flawed candidates, but one will have to do. Their only solace is that the winner is facing an equally uninspiring Labour leader
I reckon Mordaunt or Sunak could beat Starmer, but probably won't due to the overwhelming desire for a change and economic headwinds. Badenoch (too young and callow), Tugendhat (too lightweight and meaningless) and Truss (too stilted and bonkers) would pretty much guarantee defeat, possibly a calamitous defeat
Where's your full stops?
Sacrificed to a vengeful God.
Indeed. My heroes, the Aztec nobility, eschewed otiose punctuation and instead ritually pierced the tender parts of their body, with cactus thorns, obsidian flakes, and stingray spines, thereby propitiating the angry deities by the endless letting of human blood. The rites confounded early Spanish observers. From a 1556 manuscript:
"At times they sacrificed their own blood, cutting all around the ears in strips which they let hang as a sign. At other times they perforated their cheeks or the lower lip; again they made cuts in parts of the body, or pierced the tongue crossways and passed stalks through, causing extreme pain; again they hewed at the superfluous part of the penis, leaving the flesh in the form of two floppy ears. It was this custom which misled [engaño] the historian-general of the Indies to say that they practised circumcision"
Tropical nights (where minimum temperature never drops below 20 degrees) are common in Sweden. We usually have at least a fortnight of them, sometimes nearly 2 months.
You get used to them, and although unpleasant they can be mitigated. We have a heat pump, which although not an A/C is still an effective ventilation system, especially when set to cooling mode.
It helps of course that we have so many opportunities to bathe in lakes, rivers or sea. A refreshing dip first thing in the morning or late in the evening does wonders for body and soul.
Portrait of an Unknown Gentlemen taking the waters 2 degrees within the Arctic Circle
I don't know what he was thinking. Predictable and easy to counter.
That was a jaw droppingly shit question by Sunak.
This man cannot be Prime Minister
Not sure you can dismiss him because of one misfired question
Fact is the Tories have an unpalatable choice of highly flawed candidates, but one will have to do. Their only solace is that the winner is facing an equally uninspiring Labour leader
I reckon Mordaunt or Sunak could beat Starmer, but probably won't due to the overwhelming desire for a change and economic headwinds. Badenoch (too young and callow), Tugendhat (too lightweight and meaningless) and Truss (too stilted and bonkers) would pretty much guarantee defeat, possibly a calamitous defeat
Where's your full stops?
Sacrificed to a vengeful God.
Indeed. My heroes, the Aztec nobility, eschewed otiose punctuation and instead ritually pierced the tender parts of their body, with cactus thorns, obsidian flakes, and stingray spines, thereby propitiating the angry deities by the endless letting of human blood. The rites confounded early Spanish observers. From a 1556 manuscript:
"At times they sacrificed their own blood, cutting all around the ears in strips which they let hang as a sign. At other times they perforated their cheeks or the lower lip; again they made cuts in parts of the body, or pierced the tongue crossways and passed stalks through, causing extreme pain; again they hewed at the superfluous part of the penis, leaving the flesh in the form of two floppy ears. It was this custom which misled [engaño] the historian-general of the Indies to say that they practised circumcision"
Great people. No full stops
Is "Xipe" pronounced "Zippy"? Sure hope so!
Pretty much. Zhee-pay is probably the closest to the original Nahuatl. So, yeah, Zippy if you're in a good mood
I have never understood why it matters anything to anybody when one anonymous poster returns as another anonymous poster. Who cares?
So what’s the point of a ban?
I didn’t actually know he’d been banned. What for?
Drunken ranting abuse of anyone not sufficiently British in his eyes. It was all pretty obnoxious and unnecessary tbh. Worthy of at least a short term ban imho.
Are we about see Badenoch installed as the leader-in-waiting who will take over after Sunak/Truss loses in 2024?
Looks that way from those membership voting numbers.
Assuming Sunak or Truss win the leadership and then lose in 2024, though Sunak has a chance of a narrow win unlike Truss I think, then Badenoch or Patel will likely be the favourites to be Leader of the Opposition depending on which of them the ERG back
I agree with the poster below who suggested if Sunak lost Mordaunt would probably still be the main threat. I think that's plausible.
Mordaunt or Tugenhadt might be the candidate Patel or Badenoch beat in the membership vote, she would be unlikely to end up Leader of the Opposition
Patel has some of Truss's problems, I think, and Badenoch needs years' more of experience.
If say Sunak wins this leadership election, which is probably now the likeliest outcome and loses the next general election then the ERG would ensure they get their candidate in the final two next time, as they may not this time if Truss is knocked out in the final MP round.
The membership would then likely vote for that candidate to be Leader of the Opposition and the candidates the ERG would probably back in Opposition would be Badenoch or Priti Patel, maybe Steve Baker but if the Tories lose the general election he would likely have lost his marginal seat. Dorries or Rees Mogg long shots
I don't know what he was thinking. Predictable and easy to counter.
That was a jaw droppingly shit question by Sunak.
This man cannot be Prime Minister
Not sure you can dismiss him because of one misfired question
Fact is the Tories have an unpalatable choice of highly flawed candidates, but one will have to do. Their only solace is that the winner is facing an equally uninspiring Labour leader
I reckon Mordaunt or Sunak could beat Starmer, but probably won't due to the overwhelming desire for a change and economic headwinds. Badenoch (too young and callow), Tugendhat (too lightweight and meaningless) and Truss (too stilted and bonkers) would pretty much guarantee defeat, possibly a calamitous defeat
Where's your full stops?
Sacrificed to a vengeful God.
Indeed. My heroes, the Aztec nobility, eschewed otiose punctuation and instead ritually pierced the tender parts of their body, with cactus thorns, obsidian flakes, and stingray spines, thereby propitiating the angry deities by the endless letting of human blood. The rites confounded early Spanish observers. From a 1556 manuscript:
"At times they sacrificed their own blood, cutting all around the ears in strips which they let hang as a sign. At other times they perforated their cheeks or the lower lip; again they made cuts in parts of the body, or pierced the tongue crossways and passed stalks through, causing extreme pain; again they hewed at the superfluous part of the penis, leaving the flesh in the form of two floppy ears. It was this custom which misled [engaño] the historian-general of the Indies to say that they practised circumcision"
I haven't managed to read the thread but I watched. All much better than last time.
Sunack was by a distance the most credible and composed.
Mordaunt has a bit of the Emily Thornberry about her and Truss had a brief moment at the end when she answered Sunak's question.
The other two have no hope.
So Sunak first Mordaunt second.
Mordaunt retires after being a long way behind
Ah yes, that is who she reminds me of! Her style is quite similar to Thornberry.
Although she is my favourite (and I agree she could be okay if she hires a decent team around her) I simply cannot see her surviving a head-to-head campaign with Rishi that will go on all summer.
So, I’m rather taken with @HYUFD’s analysis that Team Sunak will try to help Penny into the final, backing themselves to beat her easily over a prolonged campaign.
A really stupid idea. As stupid as those Labour MPs nominating Corbyn.
Penny is the candidate most like Boris.
An uncharacteristically off-target post, I would say. I think Mordaunt is actually the candidate least like Boris, because he is a narcissist, and she seems to be able to genuinely empathise better than her peers.
Not to say she's the perfect or finished candidate so far, ofcourse. She needs to flesh out what she wants to do with this communicative power, and ditch some of the Brexit wishful thinking that does indeed remind more of Boris, but on that I'm not really her target audience.
I don't know what he was thinking. Predictable and easy to counter.
That was a jaw droppingly shit question by Sunak.
This man cannot be Prime Minister
Not sure you can dismiss him because of one misfired question
Fact is the Tories have an unpalatable choice of highly flawed candidates, but one will have to do. Their only solace is that the winner is facing an equally uninspiring Labour leader
I reckon Mordaunt or Sunak could beat Starmer, but probably won't due to the overwhelming desire for a change and economic headwinds. Badenoch (too young and callow), Tugendhat (too lightweight and meaningless) and Truss (too stilted and bonkers) would pretty much guarantee defeat, possibly a calamitous defeat
Where's your full stops?
Sacrificed to a vengeful God.
Indeed. My heroes, the Aztec nobility, eschewed otiose punctuation and instead ritually pierced the tender parts of their body, with cactus thorns, obsidian flakes, and stingray spines, thereby propitiating the angry deities by the endless letting of human blood. The rites confounded early Spanish observers. From a 1556 manuscript:
"At times they sacrificed their own blood, cutting all around the ears in strips which they let hang as a sign. At other times they perforated their cheeks or the lower lip; again they made cuts in parts of the body, or pierced the tongue crossways and passed stalks through, causing extreme pain; again they hewed at the superfluous part of the penis, leaving the flesh in the form of two floppy ears. It was this custom which misled [engaño] the historian-general of the Indies to say that they practised circumcision"
Great people. No full stops
Is "Xipe" pronounced "Zippy"? Sure hope so!
Not sure Xipe is woke enough to be comfortable to hang out with the trans George.
Tropical nights (where minimum temperature never drops below 20 degrees) are common in Sweden. We usually have at least a fortnight of them, sometimes nearly 2 months.
You get used to them, and although unpleasant they can be mitigated. We have a heat pump, which although not an A/C is still an effective ventilation system, especially when set to cooling mode.
It helps of course that we have so many opportunities to bathe in lakes, rivers or sea. A refreshing dip first thing in the morning or late in the evening does wonders for body and soul.
Portrait of an Unknown Gentlemen taking the waters 2 degrees within the Arctic Circle
I hate to ask this, but isn't that a little too far south? N68 33 is Arctic
Tropical nights (where minimum temperature never drops below 20 degrees) are common in Sweden. We usually have at least a fortnight of them, sometimes nearly 2 months.
You get used to them, and although unpleasant they can be mitigated. We have a heat pump, which although not an A/C is still an effective ventilation system, especially when set to cooling mode.
It helps of course that we have so many opportunities to bathe in lakes, rivers or sea. A refreshing dip first thing in the morning or late in the evening does wonders for body and soul.
Portrait of an Unknown Gentlemen taking the waters 2 degrees within the Arctic Circle
I hate to ask this, but isn't that a little too far south? N68 33 is Arctic
Tropical nights (where minimum temperature never drops below 20 degrees) are common in Sweden. We usually have at least a fortnight of them, sometimes nearly 2 months.
You get used to them, and although unpleasant they can be mitigated. We have a heat pump, which although not an A/C is still an effective ventilation system, especially when set to cooling mode.
It helps of course that we have so many opportunities to bathe in lakes, rivers or sea. A refreshing dip first thing in the morning or late in the evening does wonders for body and soul.
Portrait of an Unknown Gentlemen taking the waters 2 degrees within the Arctic Circle
I hate to ask this, but isn't that a little too far south? N68 33 is Arctic
Tropical nights (where minimum temperature never drops below 20 degrees) are common in Sweden. We usually have at least a fortnight of them, sometimes nearly 2 months.
You get used to them, and although unpleasant they can be mitigated. We have a heat pump, which although not an A/C is still an effective ventilation system, especially when set to cooling mode.
It helps of course that we have so many opportunities to bathe in lakes, rivers or sea. A refreshing dip first thing in the morning or late in the evening does wonders for body and soul.
Portrait of an Unknown Gentlemen taking the waters 2 degrees within the Arctic Circle
I hate to ask this, but isn't that a little too far south? N68 33 is Arctic
66°33′49.1″ at present, so well within
I was seeing 6 as 8 or the other way around. Carry on, I was wrong.
A few months back I posted some egregious drivel misquoting Boethius about the English year being a wheel, and the bleakness of January being an acceptable price to pay for the glories of midsummer. Well January was worth it; this midsummer is being particularly glorious. Maybe it's that the last two midsummers were spent under soul-sapping restrictions, but I cannot recall a midsummer which felt so full of light. It is just now getting dark in Manchester and I am sat in the warmth of the garden listening to my neighbours telly at far too great a volume, but 90 minutes ago I was up Wild Bank Hill with middle daughter, watching the sun go down, which it refused to do, 9 o'clock still being too early for it. Shorts and t-shirts weather; a balmy evening, a warm wind. Beautiful, bucolic Greater Manchester.
A few months back I posted some egregious drivel misquoting Boethius about the English year being a wheel, and the bleakness of January being an acceptable price to pay for the glories of midsummer. Well January was worth it; this midsummer is being particularly glorious. Maybe it's that the last two midsummers were spent under soul-sapping restrictions, but I cannot recall a midsummer which felt so full of light. It is just now getting dark in Manchester and I am sat in the warmth of the garden listening to my neighbours telly at far too great a volume, but 90 minutes ago I was up Wild Bank Hill with middle daughter, watching the sun go down, which it refused to do, 9 o'clock still being too early for it. Shorts and t-shirts weather; a balmy evening, a warm wind. Beautiful, bucolic Greater Manchester.
"Egregious", as a word, is a real piece of work. It used to mean "fantastic", and now it means terrible. An egregious example of the phenomenon being discussed earlier. Lovely photos too. Wicked, even.
We may see a really important UK weather record broken in the next two days - but not (just) the obvious highest temp ever, instead: the record highest minimum
At present that is 23.9 from August 2003, in Brighton
London tomorrow is not expected to go below 24C: absolutely tropical weather
Welcome to the world of the night shift worker who spends half the year sleeping in what most people would call ludicrously high temperatures.
A few months back I posted some egregious drivel misquoting Boethius about the English year being a wheel, and the bleakness of January being an acceptable price to pay for the glories of midsummer. Well January was worth it; this midsummer is being particularly glorious. Maybe it's that the last two midsummers were spent under soul-sapping restrictions, but I cannot recall a midsummer which felt so full of light. It is just now getting dark in Manchester and I am sat in the warmth of the garden listening to my neighbours telly at far too great a volume, but 90 minutes ago I was up Wild Bank Hill with middle daughter, watching the sun go down, which it refused to do, 9 o'clock still being too early for it. Shorts and t-shirts weather; a balmy evening, a warm wind. Beautiful, bucolic Greater Manchester.
Boethius’s Wheel in Manchester? You must be the reincarnation of Tony Wilson.
A few months back I posted some egregious drivel misquoting Boethius about the English year being a wheel, and the bleakness of January being an acceptable price to pay for the glories of midsummer. Well January was worth it; this midsummer is being particularly glorious. Maybe it's that the last two midsummers were spent under soul-sapping restrictions, but I cannot recall a midsummer which felt so full of light. It is just now getting dark in Manchester and I am sat in the warmth of the garden listening to my neighbours telly at far too great a volume, but 90 minutes ago I was up Wild Bank Hill with middle daughter, watching the sun go down, which it refused to do, 9 o'clock still being too early for it. Shorts and t-shirts weather; a balmy evening, a warm wind. Beautiful, bucolic Greater Manchester.
Fantastic
I am trying to track down a quote by an English king who said that England is the only country in the world you can sleep outside every night of the year. I think the quote might be in a T H White book. google doesn't help, can anyone?
Hard to believe this is going to happen. but it is now little more than 24 hours away
According to one model (ICON), the temperature at 23:59 tomorrow will, in places, be 35C or even more - across wide swathes of England and Wales. Even in Central Belt Scotland you can expect 28C
Repeat, these are not daily maxima at 2 or 4pm, this is around midnight
Good luck trying to sleep if it is 35C and you have no aircon, like 96% of Brits; good luck staying alive, in fact
A few months back I posted some egregious drivel misquoting Boethius about the English year being a wheel, and the bleakness of January being an acceptable price to pay for the glories of midsummer. Well January was worth it; this midsummer is being particularly glorious. Maybe it's that the last two midsummers were spent under soul-sapping restrictions, but I cannot recall a midsummer which felt so full of light. It is just now getting dark in Manchester and I am sat in the warmth of the garden listening to my neighbours telly at far too great a volume, but 90 minutes ago I was up Wild Bank Hill with middle daughter, watching the sun go down, which it refused to do, 9 o'clock still being too early for it. Shorts and t-shirts weather; a balmy evening, a warm wind. Beautiful, bucolic Greater Manchester.
"Egregious", as a word, is a real piece of work. It used to mean "fantastic", and now it means terrible. An egregious example of the phenomenon being discussed earlier. Lovely photos too. Wicked, even.
A few months back I posted some egregious drivel misquoting Boethius about the English year being a wheel, and the bleakness of January being an acceptable price to pay for the glories of midsummer. Well January was worth it; this midsummer is being particularly glorious. Maybe it's that the last two midsummers were spent under soul-sapping restrictions, but I cannot recall a midsummer which felt so full of light. It is just now getting dark in Manchester and I am sat in the warmth of the garden listening to my neighbours telly at far too great a volume, but 90 minutes ago I was up Wild Bank Hill with middle daughter, watching the sun go down, which it refused to do, 9 o'clock still being too early for it. Shorts and t-shirts weather; a balmy evening, a warm wind. Beautiful, bucolic Greater Manchester.
"Egregious", as a word, is a real piece of work. It used to mean "fantastic", and now it means terrible. An egregious example of the phenomenon being discussed earlier. Lovely photos too. Wicked, even.
E outside of, grex the herd. The word itself doesn't specify, outside in which direction
I don't know what he was thinking. Predictable and easy to counter.
That was a jaw droppingly shit question by Sunak.
This man cannot be Prime Minister
Not sure you can dismiss him because of one misfired question
Fact is the Tories have an unpalatable choice of highly flawed candidates, but one will have to do. Their only solace is that the winner is facing an equally uninspiring Labour leader
I reckon Mordaunt or Sunak could beat Starmer, but probably won't due to the overwhelming desire for a change and economic headwinds. Badenoch (too young and callow), Tugendhat (too lightweight and meaningless) and Truss (too stilted and bonkers) would pretty much guarantee defeat, possibly a calamitous defeat
Where's your full stops?
Sacrificed to a vengeful God.
Indeed. My heroes, the Aztec nobility, eschewed otiose punctuation and instead ritually pierced the tender parts of their body, with cactus thorns, obsidian flakes, and stingray spines, thereby propitiating the angry deities by the endless letting of human blood. The rites confounded early Spanish observers. From a 1556 manuscript:
"At times they sacrificed their own blood, cutting all around the ears in strips which they let hang as a sign. At other times they perforated their cheeks or the lower lip; again they made cuts in parts of the body, or pierced the tongue crossways and passed stalks through, causing extreme pain; again they hewed at the superfluous part of the penis, leaving the flesh in the form of two floppy ears. It was this custom which misled [engaño] the historian-general of the Indies to say that they practised circumcision"
Great people. No full stops
Some young people and most Russian trolls appear to punctuate in a vaguely similar way: by avoiding the final full top because they don't want to appear too assertive. They also tend to join sentences together using ellipses, for the same reason. Also because their talent for syntax is weak. I rather suspect none of these things apply to our new poster. Welcome, by the way!
A few months back I posted some egregious drivel misquoting Boethius about the English year being a wheel, and the bleakness of January being an acceptable price to pay for the glories of midsummer. Well January was worth it; this midsummer is being particularly glorious. Maybe it's that the last two midsummers were spent under soul-sapping restrictions, but I cannot recall a midsummer which felt so full of light. It is just now getting dark in Manchester and I am sat in the warmth of the garden listening to my neighbours telly at far too great a volume, but 90 minutes ago I was up Wild Bank Hill with middle daughter, watching the sun go down, which it refused to do, 9 o'clock still being too early for it. Shorts and t-shirts weather; a balmy evening, a warm wind. Beautiful, bucolic Greater Manchester.
"Egregious", as a word, is a real piece of work. It used to mean "fantastic", and now it means terrible. An egregious example of the phenomenon being discussed earlier. Lovely photos too. Wicked, even.
A few months back I posted some egregious drivel misquoting Boethius about the English year being a wheel, and the bleakness of January being an acceptable price to pay for the glories of midsummer. Well January was worth it; this midsummer is being particularly glorious. Maybe it's that the last two midsummers were spent under soul-sapping restrictions, but I cannot recall a midsummer which felt so full of light. It is just now getting dark in Manchester and I am sat in the warmth of the garden listening to my neighbours telly at far too great a volume, but 90 minutes ago I was up Wild Bank Hill with middle daughter, watching the sun go down, which it refused to do, 9 o'clock still being too early for it. Shorts and t-shirts weather; a balmy evening, a warm wind. Beautiful, bucolic Greater Manchester.
Fantastic
I am trying to track down a quote by an English king who said that England is the only country in the world you can sleep outside every night of the year. I think the quote might be in a T H White book. google doesn't help, can anyone?
Complete bollocks then and now, obv, btw.
How much warmer was England during the Mediaeval Warm Period? Might be someone who was around then?
A few months back I posted some egregious drivel misquoting Boethius about the English year being a wheel, and the bleakness of January being an acceptable price to pay for the glories of midsummer. Well January was worth it; this midsummer is being particularly glorious. Maybe it's that the last two midsummers were spent under soul-sapping restrictions, but I cannot recall a midsummer which felt so full of light. It is just now getting dark in Manchester and I am sat in the warmth of the garden listening to my neighbours telly at far too great a volume, but 90 minutes ago I was up Wild Bank Hill with middle daughter, watching the sun go down, which it refused to do, 9 o'clock still being too early for it. Shorts and t-shirts weather; a balmy evening, a warm wind. Beautiful, bucolic Greater Manchester.
Boethius’s Wheel in Manchester? You must be the reincarnation of Tony Wilson.
The original drivel was in fact a misquote of Tony Wilson in 24 hour Party People, who may or may not have been quoting Boethius accurately in the first place :-)
Don't know how HYUFD feels, but my sense (certainly talking to folks on Friday in now super marginal Esher and Walton) is that Sunak can beat Truss. His Thatcherite fiscally responsible line will command a (grudging) respect from members.
Not predicting that outcome yet, but the notion that Liz will be the inevitable victor is fanciful.
PS And being on the same side as Dominic Raab is slightly perturbing... but needs must.
It's very close between Rishi and Liz in the members at the moment but, as you and I know, the idea they're all bats is simply a caricature put around by our opponents.
They want to win GEs just as the MPs do.
My Dad has wanted PM Rishi from the start, the last year in fact. I just spoke to him, he is still worried about Truss beating him.
I told him to relax. truss won’t get near top 2. He asked why. Because she is rubbish is the answer. She just can’t do it. She just hasn’t’ got it. Not sharp enough on her feet, no charisma, no presentational charm. No communication skills whatsoever. She is miles from top two. Penny or Rishi need to be nobbledd by some revelation for truss to come close to second stage.
And that crap on front the Mail about evidence Penny is the new Jeremy Corbyn is NOT the revelation that knock her out. Is that all you got Daily Mail? Pretty desperate now Eh?
"Data from PAGASA showed that the hottest temperature in the country was recorded in Tuguegarao, Cagayan on April 22, 1912 and May 11, 1969 at 42.2 degrees Celsius. In Metro Manila, the hottest temperature was registered at 38.6 degrees Celsius on May 17, 1915"
London may beat the hottest temperature ever recorded in Manila
Oh, and Bangkok, too:
"The highest recorded maximum temperature in Bangkok is 40.8 °C (105.4 °F) in May 1983"
A few months back I posted some egregious drivel misquoting Boethius about the English year being a wheel, and the bleakness of January being an acceptable price to pay for the glories of midsummer. Well January was worth it; this midsummer is being particularly glorious. Maybe it's that the last two midsummers were spent under soul-sapping restrictions, but I cannot recall a midsummer which felt so full of light. It is just now getting dark in Manchester and I am sat in the warmth of the garden listening to my neighbours telly at far too great a volume, but 90 minutes ago I was up Wild Bank Hill with middle daughter, watching the sun go down, which it refused to do, 9 o'clock still being too early for it. Shorts and t-shirts weather; a balmy evening, a warm wind. Beautiful, bucolic Greater Manchester.
Fantastic
I am trying to track down a quote by an English king who said that England is the only country in the world you can sleep outside every night of the year. I think the quote might be in a T H White book. google doesn't help, can anyone?
Complete bollocks then and now, obv, btw.
How much warmer was England during the Mediaeval Warm Period? Might be someone who was around then?
Could be
The impression from Shakespeare is that exremes were extremer both ways in ye olden times. Fear no more the heat of the sun vs when icicles hang on the wall.
A few months back I posted some egregious drivel misquoting Boethius about the English year being a wheel, and the bleakness of January being an acceptable price to pay for the glories of midsummer. Well January was worth it; this midsummer is being particularly glorious. Maybe it's that the last two midsummers were spent under soul-sapping restrictions, but I cannot recall a midsummer which felt so full of light. It is just now getting dark in Manchester and I am sat in the warmth of the garden listening to my neighbours telly at far too great a volume, but 90 minutes ago I was up Wild Bank Hill with middle daughter, watching the sun go down, which it refused to do, 9 o'clock still being too early for it. Shorts and t-shirts weather; a balmy evening, a warm wind. Beautiful, bucolic Greater Manchester.
Fantastic
I am trying to track down a quote by an English king who said that England is the only country in the world you can sleep outside every night of the year. I think the quote might be in a T H White book. google doesn't help, can anyone?
Complete bollocks then and now, obv, btw.
How much warmer was England during the Mediaeval Warm Period? Might be someone who was around then?
Could be
The impression from Shakespeare is that exremes were extremer both ways in ye olden times. Fear no more the heat of the sun vs when icicles hang on the wall.
Shakespeare was around in the Little Ice Age. Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold!
Are we about see Badenoch installed as the leader-in-waiting who will take over after Sunak/Truss loses in 2024?
Looks that way from those membership voting numbers.
Assuming Sunak or Truss win the leadership and then lose in 2024, though Sunak has a chance of a narrow win unlike Truss I think, then Badenoch or Patel will likely be the favourites to be Leader of the Opposition depending on which of them the ERG back
I agree with the poster below who suggested if Sunak lost Mordaunt would probably still be the main threat. I think that's plausible.
Mordaunt or Tugenhadt might be the candidate Patel or Badenoch beat in the membership vote, she would be unlikely to end up Leader of the Opposition
Patel has some of Truss's problems, I think, and Badenoch needs years' more of experience.
If say Sunak wins this leadership election, which is probably now the likeliest outcome and loses the next general election then the ERG would ensure they get their candidate in the final two next time, as they may not this time if Truss is knocked out in the final MP round.
The membership would then likely vote for that candidate to be Leader of the Opposition and the candidates the ERG would probably back in Opposition would be Badenoch or Priti Patel, maybe Steve Baker but if the Tories lose the general election he would likely have lost his marginal seat. Dorries or Rees Mogg long shots
Can anyome summarise briefly what's causing the warm spell? I'm hoping it'll be a bit gusty and blow over.
It’s a bit of the jet stream that has become detached. I think sad lonely low is the technical term for it. Whilst Jet stream is south of Iceland allowing highs to build on us, sad lonely low is out in the Atlantic near Portugal creeping towards us, pulling heat with it like they pulled mines in galaxy quest.
What do the other 4% have? If it's fitted aircon it frankly sounds too high to me - would suggest more than a million air conditioned households in the UK. Doesn't ring true.
If it's the portable stuff though it sounds too low - at least for this particular extreme couple of days. Anecdotally I have doled out all but one of our portable units to family members and know plenty who have bought them leading up to this (or in reaction to other heat waves).
They're not even expensive - way less than an iphone for example.
Way more brits than 4% will have either bought at least one, or borrowed one off friends/family. I think at least 10%. Not everyone is struggling *that* much.
Can anyome summarise briefly what's causing the warm spell? I'm hoping it'll be a bit gusty and blow over.
It’s a bit of the jet stream that has become detached. I think sad lonely low is the technical term for it. Whilst Jet stream is south of Iceland allowing highs to build on us, sad lonely low is out in the Atlantic near Portugal creeping towards us, pulling heat with it like they pulled mines in galaxy quest.
Can anyome summarise briefly what's causing the warm spell? I'm hoping it'll be a bit gusty and blow over.
A "plume" which is sucking up air directly from north Africa. Tomorrow it will feel African in much of eastern/central Britain
Various things have to fall into place for this to happen, making it very rare, especially in this extreme way
It will blow over quickly, gone by PM Wednesday for most. After that we go back to average British summer weather! 22C and drizzle. Amazing
Plumes really aren’t that rare, we tend to have one or two most summers. This one is unusually (possibly uniquely) hot - 38-40c rather than a more typical 33-36c.
What do the other 4% have? If it's fitted aircon it frankly sounds too high to me - would suggest more than a million air conditioned households in the UK. Doesn't ring true.
If it's the portable stuff though it sounds too low - at least for this particular extreme couple of days. Anecdotally I have doled out all but one of our portable units to family members and know plenty who have bought them leading up to this (or in reaction to other heat waves).
They're not even expensive - way less than an iphone for example.
Way more brits than 4% will have either bought at least one, or borrowed one off friends/family. I think at least 10%. Not everyone is struggling *that* much.
I've no idea of the actual stats. I just wish I had aircon. Whether it is 28C in London at midnight (Met Office) or 35C (ICON) that is horrific. People with dodgy hearts and the like will suffer intensely, if this verifies
It also means the record high minimum will be smashed
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You get used to them, and although unpleasant they can be mitigated. We have a heat pump, which although not an A/C is still an effective ventilation system, especially when set to cooling mode.
It helps of course that we have so many opportunities to bathe in lakes, rivers or sea. A refreshing dip first thing in the morning or late in the evening does wonders for body and soul.
Sunak 2.46
Mordaunt 3.35
Truss 4.6
Badenoch 11
Looks that way from those membership voting numbers.
But this collection of hebephrenic gimps don't have to throw up someone who can outrun a bear, they only have to throw up someone who can outrun SKS. Not difficult.
"Colonel, if I may say so, you are some piece of work!"
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/c7bbee26-5945-412c-8aee-6283daa1d1e3
None of them are particularly good. Nor is SKS.
It's a sad time for the country tbh.
Though any one of them v Starmer is a small step in the right direction from Johnson v Corbyn.
Positively geriatric for Sean.
Sunack was by a distance the most credible and composed.
Mordaunt has a bit of the Emily Thornberry about her and Truss had a brief moment at the end when she answered Sunak's question.
The other two have no hope.
So Sunak first Mordaunt second.
Mordaunt retires after being a long way behind
Apparently she can do empathy.
"At times they sacrificed their own blood, cutting all around the ears in strips which they let hang as a sign. At other times they perforated their cheeks or the lower lip; again they made cuts in parts of the body, or pierced the tongue crossways and passed stalks through, causing extreme pain; again they hewed at the superfluous part of the penis, leaving the flesh in the form of two floppy ears. It was this custom which misled [engaño] the historian-general of the Indies to say that they practised circumcision"
Great people. No full stops
BTW, thanks to Sweden for role in restoring Jim Thorpe's rightful status, as sole gold medal winner in the decathlon and pentathlon in 1912 Olympic games
NYT story asked Swedish Olympic Committee for it's response:
S.O.C would like to quote the Swedish King Gustav V, who said to Jim Thorpe at the medal ceremony, "Sir, you are the greatest athlete in the world."
My dad would tell how, when Jim Thorpe was in his 30s, and playing in the early days of American professional football, at half-time during games, he'd stand on the 50-yard line and kick a field goal over one set of goal posts. Then he'd turn 180-degrees, and kick a field goal over the OTHER goal post.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Thorpe
What a shart in a suit he is
Don't get too hot tomorrow goodnight! 👍
The whole organ feels quite important to me. Fluous
She might drift to 4s but about a 65% chance is what I'd rate Sunak up against her.
So her odds will probably hover around there for some time.
Although she is my favourite (and I agree she could be okay if she hires a decent team around her) I simply cannot see her surviving a head-to-head campaign with Rishi that will go on all summer.
So, I’m rather taken with @HYUFD’s analysis that Team Sunak will try to help Penny into the final, backing themselves to beat her easily over a prolonged campaign.
But in any case, I don't get the sense that anyone does want to step aside.
Penny is the candidate most like Boris.
Portrait of an Unknown Gentlemen taking the waters 2 degrees within the Arctic Circle
The membership would then likely vote for that candidate to be Leader of the Opposition and the candidates the ERG would probably back in Opposition would be Badenoch or Priti Patel, maybe Steve Baker but if the Tories lose the general election he would likely have lost his marginal seat. Dorries or Rees Mogg long shots
Not to say she's the perfect or finished candidate so far, ofcourse. She needs to flesh out what she wants to do with this communicative power, and ditch some of the Brexit wishful thinking that does indeed remind more of Boris, but on that I'm not really her target audience.
Well January was worth it; this midsummer is being particularly glorious. Maybe it's that the last two midsummers were spent under soul-sapping restrictions, but I cannot recall a midsummer which felt so full of light. It is just now getting dark in Manchester and I am sat in the warmth of the garden listening to my neighbours telly at far too great a volume, but 90 minutes ago I was up Wild Bank Hill with middle daughter, watching the sun go down, which it refused to do, 9 o'clock still being too early for it. Shorts and t-shirts weather; a balmy evening, a warm wind. Beautiful, bucolic Greater Manchester.
Lovely photos too. Wicked, even.
I am trying to track down a quote by an English king who said that England is the only country in the world you can sleep outside every night of the year. I think the quote might be in a T H White book. google doesn't help, can anyone?
Complete bollocks then and now, obv, btw.
According to one model (ICON), the temperature at 23:59 tomorrow will, in places, be 35C or even more - across wide swathes of England and Wales. Even in Central Belt Scotland you can expect 28C
Repeat, these are not daily maxima at 2 or 4pm, this is around midnight
Good luck trying to sleep if it is 35C and you have no aircon, like 96% of Brits; good luck staying alive, in fact
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/forecast/gcpvj0v07#?date=2022-07-18
I told him to relax. truss won’t get near top 2. He asked why. Because she is rubbish is the answer. She just can’t do it. She just hasn’t’ got it. Not sharp enough on her feet, no charisma, no presentational charm. No communication skills whatsoever. She is miles from top two. Penny or Rishi need to be nobbledd by some revelation for truss to come close to second stage.
And that crap on front the Mail about evidence Penny is the new Jeremy Corbyn is NOT the revelation that knock her out.
Is that all you got Daily Mail? Pretty desperate now Eh?
Here are the records for the Philippines
"Data from PAGASA showed that the hottest temperature in the country was recorded in Tuguegarao, Cagayan on April 22, 1912 and May 11, 1969 at 42.2 degrees Celsius. In Metro Manila, the hottest temperature was registered at 38.6 degrees Celsius on May 17, 1915"
London may beat the hottest temperature ever recorded in Manila
Oh, and Bangkok, too:
"The highest recorded maximum temperature in Bangkok is 40.8 °C (105.4 °F) in May 1983"
The impression from Shakespeare is that exremes were extremer both ways in ye olden times. Fear no more the heat of the sun vs when icicles hang on the wall.
Not good if you want the drama of record-breaking, but probably best for anyone that wants to make it alive to Wednesday
Your welcome 🙂
Various things have to fall into place for this to happen, making it very rare, especially in this extreme way
It will blow over quickly, gone by PM Wednesday for most. After that we go back to average British summer weather! 22C and drizzle. Amazing
If it's the portable stuff though it sounds too low - at least for this particular extreme couple of days. Anecdotally I have doled out all but one of our portable units to family members and know plenty who have bought them leading up to this (or in reaction to other heat waves).
They're not even expensive - way less than an iphone for example.
Way more brits than 4% will have either bought at least one, or borrowed one off friends/family. I think at least 10%. Not everyone is struggling *that* much.
With Your Back to the Blast, the Low's to your Left.
A non-inverse mnemonic
It also means the record high minimum will be smashed
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Sunak going straight to the membership with “what is the point of the Conservatives if it’s not sound money”?
But will they listen by September?
Looks like it will be a close-run thing. Glad I am NOT there to experience in person. But fear my time may come later this summer.