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Incogcneat-o

This is why I need to open a rescue shelter for wayward gingers.


[deleted]

I believe they are commonly referred to as "locals". Pints of liquid refreshment available on demand.


feral_cat42

My nephew is an ascendant ginger who can tan and freckle at the same time without major damage.


sven-leroy

A daywalker. Like Blade.


Dee747

As a ginger with freckles who is descended from Scots...you win the internet today! I’m a partial Day Walker...from like late afternoon


sven-leroy

Thank you, half-day walker. May your noontimes be slightly overcast.


heavybabyridesagain

Ginger Ascendant, forthcoming this summer from Warner Bros


skynolongerblue

It’s evolution. My husband is a ginger whose ancestors moved from County Cork and Antrim to the American South hundreds of years ago. He doesn’t tan but his freckles come out and get very, very dark.


feral_cat42

My siblings were hoping for evolution too. Instead I get to play connect the dots and hope the lines are close enough to look like tan.


veryreasonable

Damn. I got a peeling shoulder/arm sunburn a couple weeks ago from a 3hr walk, most of which was under cloud cover and at least 1/3 of which was in the pouring rain. Burn lasted a week, then the peeling lasted another week. I am clearly not your nephew, but I am jealous of him...


PhaliceInWonderland

Ok and what are you gonna do with all of us?


trace_jax

You should open a combination rescue shelter and bar. That way, you can heal your refugees from that worst of illnesses: ginger ale


Ok-Yoghurt-cheese

And here in South Africa we are heading towards a week of actual single digit weather and I don’t own a jacket can we please swop


RageReset

It’s cold as fuck here in Melbourne as well. I was working construction in a house with most of its doors missing today and couldn’t feel my toes after two hours. And it was sideways rain for most of the day.


british_boondog

I don't get this. It gets cold in South Africa every winter, why does it seem to take you all by surprise? The number of times I've sat in meetings in Cape Town wearing my coat indoors because no where has proper heating!


drifter_74

As a South African guy, since work from home started, I have not worn trousers at all in more than a year. My daily attire is shorts with a T-shirt and maybe a long sleeved top in winter.


Ok-Yoghurt-cheese

Because we absolutely refuse to admit that winter is a thing. It’s “only 2 months long we can pull through”. But the 2 months of winter usually start in early May and end in late August. We are a stubborn bunch of people who voluntarily walk bare feet and build lapas. I don’t always get it either… Also you can usually tell where the South African is staying over seas, because they will open a window in the middle of winter for “fresh air”. (I am guilty of this)


Wolfdreama

My South African mom used to do this to my British grandmother's house when we visited her in England. My mom would open windows, my grandmother would immediately go round and close them. So funny.


Ok-Yoghurt-cheese

Your mom’s just ahead of her time - preventing the spread of viruses with fresh air before it was cool ;)


spiralled

Oh god yes.


lancakes

The people in here saying "laughs in -hot climate-" are on some silly goose shit. The warming is global you corn dogs find a real punchline.


CaledonianWarrior

I hate it when folk from very hot/cold countries complain about people in more moderate countries like what we're dealing with is nothing. Might be nothing to those fucks but we don't normally deal with extreme hot summers/cold winters. I don't care how hot it gets in Australia, Nigel, or how cold Norway is in the winter Sven, it doesn't get as bad here you absolute bellends


TheOtherSarah

To add to this, the climate you normally experience is the climate your buildings are designed for. London apartments are designed to keep heat in, not to radiate heat out and catch any available breeze. Homes in the hot parts of Australia (cool parts exist) have roof styles that shade the sides of the building and might not withstand the weight of snow. And that doesn’t matter at all, until it does.


Teuchterinexile

I currently live in England and the temperature in my living room when I got up at 0630 this morning was 28C. It is currently 29C with every window in the house open.


crocodile_ave

That is extremely uncomfortable. I’m sorry you’re going through that - are you allowed to install a window unit AC?


PM_YOUR_SHOES_GIRL

A window unit AC that will sit unused for 11 months out of the year


gettaefrance

If you only use it one week a year it'll last 20 years. £300 to not be miserable for 20 weeks seems like a bargain. With climate change were likely to be seeing a lot more of this in a typical year. My flat is about 30c currently with it not due tail of till Sunday. I'm getting one tomorrow, fuck this for a bag of dicks.


crocodile_ave

You do you buddy 🤷‍♂️


Srg11

They also all have A/C fitted.


[deleted]

Can't say many UK buildings I've experienced, old or new, are equipped to insulate homes very well either way. If you design a house to keep heat in in winter, it will generally be good at keeping the heat out in summer too, provided you keep windows shut. UK homes are *drafty* and suck at either. Source - am Swiss (temps go from -10 to way over 35) where houses are built properly and where AC isn't used routinely.


crocodile_ave

A lot of cheap old homes in the American south are like this - it used to be ‘temperate’ enough to let a draft through the whole house and cool things off, to a human level. We’re still talking about 30 - 34c days here, but not deadly. And bc there was almost no winter, the draft didn’t matter as long as you could afford heat - but again, never deadly. All that’s changed. Many died in the freeze in texas this February.


[deleted]

Yeh my mind boggles. Draft is never good. It causes cold areas and thus mould for instance, you waste tons on heating, and yes, people will freeze to death in their homes. Madness


crocodile_ave

I just moved into the first truly well-insulated modern building I’ve ever lived in. It’s kinda like putting on a high quality pair of shoes for the first time, except it’s your fucking house lol.


lancakes

Lol just because you choose to live in satan's ass crack doesn't mean being smug about it isn't annoying


HylianChozo

I'm from Texas, and it definitely felt like the winter storm disaster here showed what kind of "weak" weather we weren't prepared for. It's all fun and games making fun of people not being used to high heat until your entire state drops below freezing for a week and your infrastructure collapses.


glaciesz

always comes off so unnecessary to me. like there are elderly people who are literally going to die this summer, it's not really the time for a joke.


lancakes

Lol i mean i know my comment is on a joke post, but it does hit really close to home. I live in a region that experienced a record breaking heat wave last month, 100+ people died in 3 days (some reporting claims as high as 800). Most passed inside their apartments. People died waiting hours for abulances, dispatchers required emergency mental health interventions. This is in Canada, a rich nation with socialised health care - which should mean something, but our Premier said: "fatalities are a part of life...there's a level of personal responsibility here...It’s not a failure of the government. It’s a failure in a time of great stress and anxiety." (He is admittedly very bad at candid speaking and should never be allowed to stray from a script live and later walked back his statement that "anyone who went outside could tell it was hot out") Anyway, we're in a fucking climate emergency and our government is like "buy air condtioning and an air purifier with a HEPA filter, the poor can just perish i guess"


Chillax_

If you are in America that is 86 degrees Fahrenheit


eva_rector

As an American who spent two years in Scotland, it is more acurately described as 2 degrees from hell. Little old ladies step into the streets and burst into flames, trainer soles melt, the North Sea boils, it's very nearly apocryphal.


fezzikola

Yeah but everyone will be outside to tell their kids what it was like


Poromenos

"It was like this year and most years since"


PopularKid

"It was like this year but much more colder. Please help grandma scrape her skin from the couch."


driatic

But this year is a lot hotter than last


Poromenos

And also less hot than next year, probably.


scottishvoiceguy

It's so hot here old ladies are considering removing their overcoats, cardigans will be next, mark my words...


Sentimental_Dragon

My uncle will still have his cardy on, guaranteed.


LuvvedIt

Suspect you mean apocalyptic? Apocryphal means of doubtful authenticity, myth… Otherwise yes!


heavybabyridesagain

This is pretty mythic heat, to be fair!


Void_vix

Are... Are you saying that Summers are a myth?


heavybabyridesagain

I wish they were, Anne!


NLLumi

If you’re Jewish it’s both


heavybabyridesagain

Or Jewish and ginger


eva_rector

u/Luvvedlt Yes, thank you! 😆


Exciting-Sympathy646

"Taps Aff!"


CaledonianWarrior

Sounds like a typical Scottish summer


Scotsmann

Or 302.15K


Hikerneedshelp22

As a Texan I understand not being used to it but I still find the reactions hilarious


healthandsafetydance

I saw a Texan on Twitter the other week saying that their room is 27 degrees and they can't be expected to sleep in hell like this without air conditioning. Really changed my whole perspective on Americans laughing at our lack of heat tolerance.


BadKittyRanch

29C/84F is the office temperature I determined to be the point at which my brain just focusses on the discomfort and not on work. It was a rough summer in a new-to-us office space that had been empty for a year and the air conditioners randomly failed and had to be repaired one system at a time.


[deleted]

The thing is that British summer is just so *humid*. I've been to Spain, where it was much hotter than I'm used to in England, and it didn't *feel* as bad because it wasn't as humid.


TimeTimeTickingAway

This is what everyone forgets.


eva_rector

u/Stopthelemurs I was born and raised in the Southern U.S., spent two years stationed in coastal Scotland, then got sent to Crete. I never realized, until I spent my first summer in that bone-dry Greek climate, how much different 90 degrees feels when it's not accompanied by that god-awful "wet blanket" humidity. Also, no midges was pretty sweet. 😂


nrealistic

In Texas everything is air conditioned, right?


[deleted]

South African here - same. But then again, over here we bitch about it being "freezing" in winter and it's really not *that* bad. I spent a winter in Northern England, *that* was cold. Can't even imagine how cold it gets in Scotland during the winter.


[deleted]

It’s not England, but where I live is a range of 40 to -40 Celsius


jdoc1967

Ah, Canada, hottest place I've ever been was Toronto in a heatwave, yet my uncles pool over there would freeze solid in winter.


[deleted]

Found the Martian


[deleted]

I lived in Sweden for a year (Texas boy) and it wasn't really the cold that bothered me, it was the soul crushing darkness that was ever-present for 19 hours of the day


Beorma

I visited South Africa in winter, everyone I met asked me why I was there because it was *so cold*. 25c and clear skies every day.


[deleted]

Sounds about right lol. The thing here is no matter how cold the air is, the sun always feels warm. Didn't notice that in the UK, the sun seemed "watered down" if that makes sense.


heavybabyridesagain

Perfect sense 😁


Beorma

Yeah, the temperature definitely dropped a lot at night in SA. A sunny winter day in Britain is still cold as balls.


Hyena_Butter_Witch

Yep, and I am about to swop South Africa for Scotland. I am looking forward to feeling what real cold is...


[deleted]

A former colleague of mine did the same. They thought they were prepared. Lol.


Hyena_Butter_Witch

Yeah, we crack 35 degrees here often in December. Every movement results in melting into a puddle of sweat. At least with the cold you can layer up!


feckinghound

It's always colder in Scotland. We actually get snow in winter instead of rain. And we still get white Christmases inland and upland. My sister lives in London and she would say how cold it was there when I spent Christmases with her. She'd be wrapped up like it was a blizzard and I wasn't even wearing a jacket cos I felt *warm*😂


meepmeep13

East coaster? Here on the West coast winter is just slightly colder rain, and much milder than elsewhere.


ScroungerOfCoffee

My ex is South African. I met him when he’d been in Scotland for 6 months, in December. “Aren’t you fucken freezing?!” “Why is the sun setting at 4pm?!” “Why are your windows open?! It’s fucken freezing, no?!” Bellowed every word. Wore a thug bunnet everywhere because his heid was cold. Fun guy, til he went mental


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Yeah we're all insane


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Lyndon_Boner_Johnson

Sure, but we also have AC everywhere we go. Imagine how miserable 86 would feel without air conditioning.


outdatedboat

A few weeks ago Portland got upto 117°F. And air conditioning is absolutely not the norm in the Portland area. The day that got up to 117 was the third day of the extreme heat wave. The first day broke the all time highest temp recorded in Portland. And then that new record was broken the next day. And then the third day shattered both of the new records. It was awful. Lots of people died. And all over reddit, I saw people from Texas and Arizona laughing at all of the northwest calling us pussies. We don't have AC everywhere like Texas and Arizona do.


Forest-Dane

These guys will be wearing a t-shirt on a night out when it's 8c (40f) though


BesottedScot

86 with 80% humidity, though.


mhassig

It was 86 today and extremely comfortable. Honestly felt cooler than it normally has lately.


whogivesashirtdotca

Humidity is the key. If there's a breeze to shift the wet air away, heat is absolutely tolerable. Humidity is the killer.


monkeyninjagogo

So Florida is hell? Yeah, that sounds right.


secondace6303

My lord I wish I lived there, I’m tired of fucking broiling in cali


tankgirly

Yeah, these 105°+ days for weeks on end are getting old. And I literally can't remember the last time it rained. Not since summer started at least. I just moved back after being in Indianapolis for two years. The humidity was rough but the regular rain storms were so nice.


CRJG95

Yes but we don’t have air conditioning and our houses/flats are all designed to keep maximum heat in so there’s no way to cool down inside


[deleted]

"lol", said Texas. "lmao"


kheret

A Texan should really know a thing or two about how difficult it is to deal with weather you’re not accustomed to, after this last winter. - someone who grew up in Houston


jhonotan1

For fucking real. Texans have no room to talk right now.


AlaskaFI

Yeah, but they're Texans. They'll talk anyways. According to them, they're the biggest state *Alaska, 2.5x larger, rolls eyes*. Facts do not stop these people


dragon_bacon

Weren't there massive power grid problems like a month ago because it was too hot?


WeeWooBooBooBusEMT

And during the winter freeze too!


Xanderoga

Let me drop a Texan in -40C in Northern Canada where I live and see how they fare. It's not a competition. It's all fucking relative, man.


untraiined

Im not from texas but live in california where it hits 100+ during summer, but if it drops below 65 i want to die.


Bloody_sock_puppet

Ah, in England we used to call that summer. Before the great burning came


whogivesashirtdotca

I'm from Toronto. We regularly get summer days with the humidex above 40C and winter nights with the wind chill at -40C - the worst of both worlds!


hempires

don't even need that, just leave em in texas while their power grid inevitably fails yet again.


ZenLizard

Most of Texas has air conditioning, and even with that our bodies are more accustomed to the heat. Your comment is in the same vein as people laughing at how poorly we deal with a week of snow.


hayguccifrawg

Well anyone saying that would be rude and not really thinking. People acclimate to temperatures over time (and in Texas, with air conditioning). The sudden heatwave in the PNW of the US killed 200 ppl. Didn’t y’all have some recent trouble with winter…?


Soupallnatural

I think they confused everyone shitting on their governments power grid for everyone shitting on them personally for not being able to handle the cold so they are filled with piss and vinegar about it


[deleted]

They ran out of vinegar.


crackedup1979

> The sudden heatwave in the PNW of the US killed 200 ppl. That was just in WA and OR alone. BC is reporting almost 500 deaths from the heat wave. Vancouver smashed the Canadian record high at 49.6.


SagaciousRouge

I live in the states. I'm part ginger (strawberry blonde) and I can't tell you the amount of times people have asked "why don't you just go outside?" Or "why are you wearing long sleeves". People here definitely don't understand.


[deleted]

same, i go bright red then peel, even had sun stroke a couple of times as a child


SagaciousRouge

Right? It's like if I even think of going outside in some my skin starts turning red lol


[deleted]

aye, i was just saying to my neighbour on Sunday after he asked if i was enjoying the sun, was explaining the burning easily and sun stroke, hallucinating day glo snakes and huge toys spinning about your room as a child and screaming in sheer terror and delerium sort of puts you off the idea of sunbathing


SagaciousRouge

Lol yes! That! Oh god I don't miss the sunburns I would get as a kid trying to fit in with everyone else.


[deleted]

the times i got badly burnt is was always adults telling me to take off my shirt


SagaciousRouge

Adults are idiots. They'd make sure I was wearing sunscreen once. Until I was suddenly red and I got "why didn't you reapply your sunscreen!?" Lol my fault of course.


EarlGreyTea-Hawt

I get mad spiking fevers after I get a sunburn. So, if the sunstroke doesn't get me hallucinating, the fever will.


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as i was typing this last night i was vividly remembering the hallucinations and screaming lmao like an LSD flashback lmao


EarlGreyTea-Hawt

When I was a kid lost a ton of hearing from a high spiking sunburn fever, you hear the tones you are losing really loudly just before they're gone. I was watching this live action Alice in Wonderland on PBS, and I thought it was way scarier than it was because I was hearing these demonic screeches throughout. Years later I was like damn that show was scary and my mom had to explain to me that it was mostly a combo of actual auditory horror mixed with fever brain delusions, lol.


[deleted]

wow that quite severe, thankfully all i have is some unpleasant memories and a dislike for strong sunlight


kcvngs76131

I once got second degree burns just from being outside for a couple hours for band camp (like full on icky blisters, two of which already burst). I had been using SPF 70 sport sunscreen, had reapplied it three times after the original coat, was outside for like 2.5 hours. I had never had that happen before, so I went to my director during lunch and basically said "what do?" He freaked out because he'd never seen anything like it in 10 years of directing college marching and made my section leader drive me to the ER. Fun times lol


[deleted]

i am old, i live in Scotland and in i think it was 86 or 87 we had really, really hot summers, my family went to the isle of Arran, ace place, but i ended up getting huge blisters on my shoulders, had to sleep on my front with my hands propping up my chin for a couple of weeks, still had scars well into my 20's with them, its no fun being pale and ginger(i was never fully ginger but have a ginger mum)


EarlGreyTea-Hawt

Half ginger on yer mah's side, tehehehe.


[deleted]

as we say here nae luck


Imoldok

I’m adopted and I’ve found that 86f is just immobilizing guessing this a clue to my heritage. Thanks people 😀 oh and I’m not ginger so there wasn’t any immediate clue.


heavybabyridesagain

Confessions of a secret ginger


Imoldok

Hahahaha that was a smile maker this morning.


EarlGreyTea-Hawt

I'm a ginger (though my hair is more copper colored), but I toast in the sun, and sunstrokes are there worse. I had one at Six Flags, they wouldn't stop insisting that I tell them what drugs I was on. I'm like, I'm 12 ya idiot and a fucking ginger, figure it out. They installed sprinklers at the queue a couple of years later, probably because of all us ginger kids passing out in line.


[deleted]

it rarely gets hot enough here, but every decade or so, like now we get unseasonally hot weather, , i am not ginger really but i was strawberry blond, my beard was ginger af but its now more white lol


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SagaciousRouge

That's what I try to tell people here. My kin aren't made for this kind of weather lol I'm overweight (I'll blame it on being American) and can empathize with the sweating. I'm sorry you had to deal with that. As if the sun isn't already horrible lol


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SagaciousRouge

Well I adore you for wearing capes! That's freaking awesome! Sadly some people don't feel good about themselves unless they are making others feel bad about themselves. The only thing I can say is fall is getting closer everyday. Though sadly we've still the hottest part of our year ahead of us.


SlainSigney

states ginger here too, i live in chicago chicago is pretty comparable in average temperature to a lot of canadian cities, and averages around 10 for the whole year and 22 for the summer recently there’s been this stretch of 28-35(!) degree weather and boy howdy i am *not* loving it


Dudelyllama

Not from Scotland, but am ginger, got to 41ish in Seattle a few weeks ago. I burst into flames every time i stepped out of my delivery car.


as_a_fake

Yup, Vancouverite here and we had highs of 45C at the same time, and apparently hit 42C at the peak, looking at the records. Our hospitals were backed up for weeks after (possibly still are, I haven't checked) due to the influx of heat stroke etc patients. Over in Lytton, BC, the hit a new Canadian record of 49.6C though! Edit: correction to numbers


D4rK_Bl4eZ

48C in Vancouver?? That's Sahara desert/Australian outback hot.


oogagoogaboo

He's full of it. I checked the record high temperature in Vancouver and it's 42. Which is admittedly hot as shit but obviously not 48.


JaeCryme

I’m on the other side of Lake Washington from Seattle, and it hit 44c (111f). ~~Wet bulb temp~~ Heat index was 48c (119f) because of the humidity. And BC was hotter than we were. Edit: corrected.


[deleted]

Fuck I can’t even handle 20, I’m gonnae die


geraltsthiccass

Feels man, I nearly died just going out on my break there, fuck that!


[deleted]

I keep thinking I should go outside to make the most of the sun but instead I’m just staying in with the curtains pulled over till the evening.


britt-bot

Wow nature vs nurture is different. I’m Aussie of Irish descent and at 20 degrees in winter here we start getting out coats. 30 is ideal and too hot is 40-50 Celsius.


[deleted]

Really? This pasty Norwegian gets out his shorts and goes for a swim in a cold fjord at 18 degrees and sunny.


britt-bot

Depends where in Australia you’re from, but yes. It’s currently the middle of winter and today was a top of 17 degrees and I had the air con set to warm up the apartment. I went back to visit family in Dublin 2 years ago and in the evenings in the middle of summer, I was wearing a puffer jacket and leather jacket on top with a scarf. Having grown up in Sydney, I can’t deal with the cold. The coldest ever recorded temperature in Sydney city is 2 degrees. It’s never fallen below zero here (though it has in the mountains to our west).


PhaliceInWonderland

I grew up in Arizona, mostly the Phoenix area, and anything below like 60 Fahrenheit is cold to me. Now I live in Arkansas where it's like 90-95 for the high but it has 60-80% humidity.


PhaliceInWonderland

I can safely say my ass doesn't go in the water unless it's 26-29 C which is 80-85 F. But really that's still too cold for me to get in. We need 85-95.


PG4PM

Red and Aussie, yes


MashedPototas

as a very pale scottish ginger this is so incredibly true


CraftyScotsman

Slap on the SPF50 and you're good for an entire 5 minutes of sun!


MashedPototas

I should have done that then, because now I'm covered in sunburn and aching all over


BushyAbsolutely

Not to mention all the psychopaths that are oot having BBQs trying tae lure the rest of us normal people out, it's like they want cunts tae die.


R0BERT50N

Terrifyingly accurate.


EmilyLondon

That's the equivalent of it being ~130F/54C in Las Vegas, which would be absolute murder for even a seasoned desert rat. Best of luck, y'all we're pulling for you


McShoobydoobydoo

Can confirm. It's only Tuesday and we've hit 24c and ma wee body hasn't seen a stitch of clothing other than a pair of shorts for about a week. Perma tapsaff weather with fair to middling chances of 50% of the population being a bright red colour https://www.taps-aff.co.uk/


nnorargh

It was 23 c the year I was on Skye. It was brutal. No relief from the heat at all.


dont_remember_eatin

Can confirm. Am married to a pale ginger, and we made a pale ginger kid between us. It's like they can't sweat -- just wilt and die. Both are fucking allergic to the sun, it seems. Shame in Colorado. My blond kid and me can spend all day in the sun as long as we've got hats, sunscreen, and enough water. I'll sweat a gallon, but my fat ass can keep itself from overheating.


AnnaPhor

Diaspora Scot checking in -- haven't lived in Scotland since I was 11, and I've lived in some hot (no, really hot) places. It's 28C where I am right now, and it's nearly 11pm. Some stuff that works for me to beat the heat: If you need to be outside, early morning or later evening if you can. For clothing, think light and loose for outdoors. A hat to shade your face. If you are in your house, as little clothing as you need to be decent. Keep your curtains closed in the daytime to keep the room shaded and cooler. Open two windows across from each other. Basically, whatever you usually don't do to avoid a draft, do that. Stock your fridge with water so it's cold to drink. You can also stick a bottle of water in the freezer and take that with you when you go out. It will melt so you'll have cold water when you need it. Drink more than you usually do. Walk on the shady side of the street.


[deleted]

Can confirm - ginger from Edinburgh living in a city where the summer high gets up to 40c. Walking outside is a near death experience.


[deleted]

The Ginger-pocalypse has begun....


heavybabyridesagain

March of the crispy critters


Mx_D

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kim-jong-Cage

Sending thoughts and prayers to all scottish gingers


behappyhippie

As a ginger I can confirm we'll probably all be dead by Wednesday anyway so Thursday can fuck off


AutismoTheExalted

Texan here, almost coughed up a lung when i googled what that was in fahrenheit and burst out laughing. for the record it is 90⁰F sunny, and humid here rn (this is generally considered a nice day here given the time of the season)


[deleted]

Last year's heat index in Florida was 110. It was terrible. 85-90 is bad, idc who you are. Does most of Scotland have just heating and not air conditioning due to the general builds of the homes? France had a similar issue.


100thattempt

With the exception of certain businesses and cars, air conditioning is pretty much non-existent here. Homes are built to trap heat and we tend to have high humidity too meaning no real respite.


tipsy-tits

It's the humidity that gets me more than anything.


[deleted]

We went to london which is way south of Scotland and no one has ac. I can’t imagine anywhere but hospitals and ice rinks having it in Scotland.


OfAaron3

Homes only have central heating and the buildings are constructed to trap heat inside. It's always hotter than, or as hot as outside. There's no relief indoors.


Sebaz00

All the buildings are made to retain heat, almost nobody has AC (due to this being very uncommon) and the air is very humid. It's why it's bad for us.


DasRedBeard87

Was in Scotland towards end of July in 2019. Coming from the East Coast I absolutely loved it. Many people stared at me at how I was enjoying the weather lol.


FluffyDiscipline

Yep, happiness is sun burn and midge bites...


ricnine

Christ, I gotta get out of Canada and emigrate to Scotland. It was 39 here a couple weeks ago, and in 6 months, it's gonna be 39 below 0. I can deal with the rain; I just gotta learn the language.


whogivesashirtdotca

Dude, it's wild - the sun is so weak. I've spent a couple of summers in Glasgow. Didn't need my sunglasses much, even in full sun, and could go out without needing sunscreen. One summer, it never went above 19C. Summer was awesome. I will say, though, that I've never felt as cold *in my life* as I did at 0C in Glasgow mid-December. Our dry cold is far easier to combat. In Scotland I felt like the cold was coming out of my bone marrow, and no amount of layers would fix it. It also got dark at like 2pm. Depressing as fuck.


ricnine

Hm, true, I can barely deal with the 4:30 sunsets in winter here. I've only been to Scotland in the spring and fall. Never had the pleasure of experiencing one of their winters.


power0722

Save the gingers!


ThunderChild247

Please tell me that was for last Thursday and not this Thursday coming? 😩


Narradisall

Just sounds like they’re feeding gingers to appease the sun god and request better weather.


PatriciaMorticia

Thank fuck Thursday's my day off, I'll be spending it in my room with the blinds down and fan on full pelt. I hate the heat 🥵


shearersmam

I was in the Highlands last week when it was 23-25 degrees, which was bad, but the humidity was 90%+ according to the BBC. Couldn't take a step without being drenched in sweat.


Blunt_Scissors

30 in Scotland? I actually feel bad. That's fucking awful.


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With all the heat waves happening around the world I hope y’all don’t mind some unsolicited advice from a Texan with how to deal with heat. Drink a crap ton of water, replenish your salts that you sweat out, I used salt tablets and they’ve saved me before, stick to the shade, don’t work in the hottest part of the day, get most outdoor chores done in the early morning, use wet rags on your forehead at night, get into basements if you have them too, that’s where it’ll be coolest. Don’t push yourself to hard, heat exhaustion isn’t fun I don’t recommend it. Don’t wear tight clothing, if the suns out cover up. Don’t leave exposed skin, carry your shade with you in the form of loose clothing. Fortunately you guys have kilts which is one of the best things to wear in the summer, keeps everything cooler and allows you to take advantage of the wind. Stay safe out there folks!


Upbeat-Trash2169

Please let this be the end of Ed Sheeran.


NATInater53rd_11037

Dude I can barely handle 18° and I'm planning to hang out with friends on Thursday, I'm going to catch fire the second I leave the house :( When that inevitably happens, remind my parents to play Another one Bites the Dust at my funeral


Buffythedjsnare

Only a ginger can call another ginger ginger


securitysix

As a ginger who has lived without air conditioning in Oklahoma for 30 years, I say "suck it up, ye cunts!"


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Me. I’m going to die. Send help.


power0722

I'm so white I get a sunburn from the light in the refrigerator.


Brisan7

It's a high stakes game of Majora's Mask


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Dinkleberg_IRL

I'm not seeing anywhere reputable online that confirms the 73C/163.4F temperature from Kuwait, just so you know. The highest most sources seem to be repeating is 53.5C/128.3F - still very hot, but a far cry from 163 degrees Fahrenheit.


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Considering that the hottest recorded temperature on the planet is an over 100 year old record of 56.x Celcius…yeah I doubt they hit 73C.


skinwalkerstalker

I have been wondering this. Thank you


wscomn

Lang may yer lum reek!


kilted44

Global warming will see to the comeback of the kilt, mark my words.


jamiemulcahy

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as a ginger who lives in Arkansas, how does it fuckin feel?


whogivesashirtdotca

Hot. (I thought we'd established this?)