A real one then.
People in the UK who complain about the weather.
"Ooooo, it's raining today, I'll get wet."
"It's so cold today, brrrrrr."
For fuck's sake, the UK has a cool (hardly ever cold), wet climate -- fucking get over it. It had been like that all your life and will likely be like it until you die. With the odd exception of floods and out of the way places being snowed in we have no weather problems in the UK, especially England. Besides, the people complaining all have warm houses and clothing meaning they never need to be bothered by the cold or wet. Grown adults get upset because they don't have an umbrella to go out in the rain on warm days because they'll be a little damp in the warm office.
Stop being so fucking pathetic!
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Sat 3 Mar 2012, 0:02, 9 replies)

Bingo!
Props, sir/madam.
(SpangleDangle >->)))'>, Sat 3 Mar 2012, 0:15, closed)

Used to hear it all the time in Sydney.
The locals would spend eight months each year pining for summer and the remaining four months moaning about how hot and humid it was.
( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Sat 3 Mar 2012, 2:54, closed)

Australia's wierd
I spent about 3 weeks in the outback where the temperatures would exceed 40c most days, then travelled back to Sydney where the temperature was about 24/25c - and I've never felt so cold in all my life. Despite 24/25 is considered a very hot day here
( h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Sun 4 Mar 2012, 11:08, closed)

Sydney has strange weather.
Very damp or very humid apart from a lovely patch in the autum/winter.
( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Mon 5 Mar 2012, 13:11, closed)

People in the UK who complain about this winter
and they have , to me anyway. What winter? It has been one of the mildest and driest on record. I say to them "Where were you LAST winter, now that was a winter!" even then the 'bad' weather did not last all that long.
(Mackeson_drinker, Sat 3 Mar 2012, 7:54, closed)

You don't know how lucky you are
At 50 degrees North, most countries have three temperatures: -25, +35 and MIDGE!!!! During the MIDGE!!!! season no one care what the fucking temperature is because every square inch of skin is covered in bites.

And these aren't the pussy midges the Scots complain about. In the Siberian Gulag around Kolyma, the zeks were stripped and tied to trees naked during summer as a punishment. They would quite often lose up to 2 pints of blood in 8 hours.
(all my scars face forward possesses 2.5% of a hyperalloy combat chassis, Sat 3 Mar 2012, 12:38, closed)

Bit chilly in Hertfordshire today, what happened to the nice weather we had Friday?
(aeloen, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 10:56, closed)

I believe
it's the reason that the Romans came here in the first place. Not too cold, not too hot.

But now we get the ex-pats who move to Australia apparently taking the piss out of the UK weather, which makes me laugh, as having lived in Brisbane as a kid I learned that all adults (mostly Australian though to be fair) would moan about the heat and subsiquent storm in the evening.
(dchurch bah, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 13:31, closed)

I live in Northern California ...
in a place with possibly the best climate on the entire planet. Over this last winter, we've had the odd wet day and there was a patch of maybe two weeks in December where it was too cold to have lunch outside and that was it. The Pacific currents keep it relatively cool in summer, so you just get day after day of sunshine without it ever getting intolerably hot.

Having spent the previous 30 years of my life in the cold-to-temperate wetness of the UK, I can attest that moving to a better climate is probably the best way of improving your quality of life. If I end up having to move back to the UK, it's almost certainly what I will miss the most.
(Mr T, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 20:16, closed)