Dunno if you were reading the other heat thread, but I learned from it that apparently women never wear stockings/pantyhose in Southern California. I assume they usually do in the UK?

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I'd far rather it be cold than this. I can never get to sleep at night because It's so damn warm (and that's after having 2 huge windows open). It would be nice if there was a breeze but it's just too freakin hot. I hate being sweaty

Hmm. Well the weather here is typically quite cool so a lot of women wear trouser suits rather than skirt suits, since making women wear skirts as part of an office dress code is a completely outdated concept and I don't think many (if any) firms require it anymore. In cooler weather we would tend to wear tights (pantyhose?) under a skirt for warmth. I don't know any people who wear stockings, unless they're wearing a trouser suit and shoes that wont look good with socks. Even then, they'd only be ankle- or knee-high stockings.

In summer, women tend to go without tights/stockings unless they're really uptight about their legs being on show in a skirt and are willing to suffer the heat for even-coloured legs.

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I'm amazed that people anywhere sleep with the windows open.

I found the heat pleasant and like a hug

i sleep with the windows open whenever i can, you weirdo.

i was in london tonight. i left again, quickly./

People can get in and eat your face or turn off your alarm clock or something London was so great today. Everyone is so much more easy to piss off right now.

i automatically suspect people in long sleeves during the summer of being junkies. Maybe I read Panic in Needle Park too many times

ps. I think the English complaining about getting too much sun and heat is amusing. Global warming is on your side, let the Aussies and Floridians complain a bit ok?

my god! care to elaborate?

here in california we've got the hottest place in the western hemisphere and i believe the second hottest place on planet earth, death valley. doesnt have that name for no reason..


but the rest of cali, we're FUCKED! i WISH it was hot! the highest it can seem to get in most places is 80, especially here in northern california. it sucks BALLS. be happy that you're reminded that it's summer. would you rather deal with FOG?!? fog can kiss my ass, i hate it summer is NOT the time for fog! yet there's more here in the summer than any other season!

i should move to the valley. but um, yeah i dont wanna go to fresno or bakersfield, let alone barstow and any place closer to death valley. the closer you get to death valley the more ghetto it gets. no one wants to live there, property value is the lowest of anywhere in cali.

we australians have nothing to complain about down here, it's winter. thank god. after last summer i am really not looking forward to more heat. this global warming thing is bullshit.

the hottest day ever recorded in sydney was new year's day this year, and it was 46.5 (like.. 116 fahrenheit) degrees at sydney airport. that's 10 minutes from my place. the tarmac was melting and stuff. i've never been so hot in my life.

i really don't envy people in florida during this heatwave. when i was there 5 years ago it was intolerable enough, and that was just an average summer. i don't know how anyone can live there all year round.

i believe i saw on the news yesterday that it was 52 degrees in death valley? fuck me. that's terrifying. meanwhile it was a lousy 12 degrees here.

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me too, or at least that something is SEVERELY wrong. or that they have some disorder where they dont get hot. my GOD, WHYYYY subject yourself to winter clothing in the HEAT!?

i need to read that book. is it like the movie? is it a tough read?

Exactly - i'de rather be too cold than too hot, because when your cold you can always put on more layers etc etc .Theres only so much you can do when your boiling! Unless you have AC, but seriously who has AC in their homes in the UK, well right about now I wish mine had >_>

and dont forget the moths/vampires!

they say it is going to hit 33 centigrade here today, and im *this* close to actually sit and study in my bathroom... its just too hot to do anything.

That's another bad thing about this weather, there are so many fucking moths. I'm quite scared of them

i was up til 5am spraying things with fly killer. that didn't work and I got a sore throat from the spray so I went and slept in the spare room. the moths and horse flies followed me in to that room. I went to sleep in the living room but there was a big fuck off spider tapping with its big ugly legs on the wall. so I went back to my room, closed the windows and door and fucking cooked all night. I AM IN SUCH A BAD MOOD. I FUCKING HATE MOTHS. why, WHY can they find their way IN to my room, past blinds AND curtains, but then can't get the fuck out again.

jesus, life is hard. i'm going to the circus later and i know i'm going to be a naggy bitch and shout at children.

I thought spiders came into houses when it's rainy. But in this heat recently, they've been fucking everywhere. And I'm deathly afraid of them, but I can't kill them. So I end up sitting up all night - rocking, of course - just watching this tiny, harmless little thing that would be terrified of me if I went near it

Anyway, it's cooler here today. Thank fuck.

its a bit rainy today, but it's humid. and there's a really weird beetle thing in the kitchen, and im terrified of it :/

Rainy? I wish. I had to venture into Hounslow to go shopping, and I left a trail of sweat wherever I went.

The young lads went around with their tops off. Man, if my torso wasn't so grotesque (or just without pert breasts) then I might be tempted to do the same.

LT i thought of you yesterday. i was at the house of commons at a public meeting to mark the first anniversary of the iranian gay executions. a guy from the communist party got up... mark... oh shit, what's his name? mark fisher? fletcher? anyway, i realised i recognised him from when i was in the ANL. flashback. still a cock.

Oh god, not Mark Fischer? What. A. Cock. Srsly. He's from the CPGB, writes for the Weekly Worker. I have to admit, I do read WW, but that's because neither Hello! or OK! have decided to write gossip columns about the far left yet. I think I bumped into him at Marxism 2005 and he was a right patronising cock.

I didn't know the CPGB were involved in the ANL, they certainly wern't in Manchester.

I hope you didn't associate him with me, because I have not the words.