I didn't start the fire...

[caddyman]

Anyone who claims to enjoy the current weather whilst living in a city, is a damned liar.

Or mad.

Or Both.

I can just about see that there might be an attraction to it if you are out in the countryside, surrounded by lush greenery and shady trees. Or under a shady brolly on a beach somewhere with cooling sea breezes and a flagon of Pimms.

But in a city? I think not.

Walking along Victoria Street, no one really looks happy, yet many have those smiling faces with glazed eyes that suggests that they feel they ought to be enjoying feeling their brain sizzling like an egg in a Teflon pan.

And then there's the radio weather moron who wittily quips about the 'glorious' weather and how it will be here all week and how we are all enjoying it. Proof indeed that the air-conditioned idiots of broadcasting are truly detached from reality. These same grinning apes are those who read the news that tells us of rail speed restrictions because tracks are warping, of 100F and greater temperatures on the Tube, of water rationing, of hose pipe bans, of record air pollution levels and ozone depletion brought on by the heat. Increased asthma attacks and other chest complaints, hay fever and other allergies. Insect infestation, road rage, queue rage, heat haze, heat stroke, dry wall, dry grit, dry dust, dry mouth, wet skin, sun block, sun stroke, sun burn.Red eyes, red heat, red hot, red zone.

Hypertension.

Pass me the machete. I'm going out to cull the herd.

Comments

[pax-draconis.livejournal.com]

Steady on there, chap. It's only 32 degrees here in sweltering Derbyshire.

[crazedgiggles.livejournal.com]

I thank the powers that be that I live in a fairly rural town during summer months. Living beachside helps too.

It's the concrete, isn't it? The temperature hit 96 a few days ago here, with 90% humidity, and it felt fine outside.

[littleonions.livejournal.com]

Cheer up, it'll soon be Autumn, all that lovely rain and vague doggypeople smell on the underground the fetit dankness of a thousand soggy co-muters (its true nobody talks)mmmmm it must be grand to live inva big city...;P

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Nowt wrong with rain-damp doggy people.

Much better than projectile armpits.

[mollpeartree.livejournal.com]

Some cities have trees, and parks, and friendly people, and breezy elevated train tracks. Not to gloat or anything.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

London isn't so bad most of the time, and there are lots of open spaces. Unfortunately it is crowded all the time and even the greenery is covered in sweaty bodies. Ugh.

On my one and only visit to Chicago, I found I quite liked it - but like most Brits I was rather bemused by the tall buildings... ;-)

[mollpeartree.livejournal.com]

Neener, neener, neener, made you say something nice about London! Sort of.

but like most Brits I was rather bemused by the tall buildings... ;-)

I've never quite gotten over them myself; I come from a very flat place originally. I tend to wander around downtown with my head tilted back and my mouth open, attracting petty grifters and boat-tour hawkers like flypaper. But I thought they had a lot of tall buildings in London too.

[captainweasel.livejournal.com]

I'd like to go up high with a giant magnifying glass and burn them all... see if they like the sun THEN!
til then, try: http://www.bossmonster.com/games/antcity.html or http://www.its.caltech.edu/~yel/Fire.html