Ah! The joys of being a Southern Poof ...

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XmisterIS

Purveyor of fine nonsense
I laugh at my Scottish Godfather and cousins who seem to take great pride in the fact that they live in a place which is cold as buggery, it's been snowing there already and over Christmas they get about 5 hours of feeble daylight in every 24 hours!

They especially love to tell us how cold and dark it is up in Scotland when I tell them how mild, balmy and almost sub-tropical it is down on the South Coast and how one can often cycle in shorts and a t-shirt well into October and occasionally in November! Indeed, any mention of the fact that it is so mild down here that we can grow certain kinds of hardy palm tree almost sends them into a fit of apoplexy!
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It's all in jest, but it does make me wonder at the person who proudly states that where they live is cold and dark and how much they love beating themselves in the knackers with a yule log just because it hurts and they love it ...
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TVC

Guest
I bet you even had one of them suntans over the summer.
 

tyred

Squire
Location
Ireland
Palm trees are just so over rated. What can they do that a few stunted shrubs washed by the might of the north Atlantic can't?
 

perplexed

Guru
Location
Sheffield
Got talking to some Scots on holiday some years ago, and they asked where I was from. When I replied "Yorkshire", one of them said, "Jeeze (or it may have been "Och eye"), I'm from the Highlands, and I was cold in Yorkshire!"

Nancys, the lot of 'em...:whistle:
 

gemsno4

Active Member
Location
Southampton
My in-laws (English but living in Scotland) are the same. Took great pleasure in telling me that their bathroom hadn't got above 4C for weeks last year. And in the next breath that there oil bill was £400 a month last winter. Don't really see that exicitment in that myself

I'm not going to visit at that rate - bonus :thumbsup:
 

gavintc

Guru
Location
Southsea
Complete southern poof here - 21C today and it dropped to 15C last night. My wife suggested that we put on the central heating as it was a little bit chilly.
 
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