Karl wrote:bear wrote:It's a nice sunny day so naturally people have decided to start moaning that it's too hot and griping about having to use sun screen because of how easy it is to get burnt.
The most vocal moaners are the same people who spent last week talking about how much they are looking forward to their sun holiday in Spain or Italy. I guess sunburn doesn't exist in the Mediterranean.
I think to be fair the hot sun can be annoying if you are going to work but okay if you are lying on a beach. I feel that's a self-consistent, not terribly out-there viewpoint.
Just like how snow is great if you're playing in the snow with your dog all weekend but shite if you have to get to the office.
If we were a month into sweltering 25+°C days they might have something approaching the shadow of a point but we have had two good days so they ain't got gooseberry fool.
I've pale skin even by Irish standards, almost comically so. If you put a photo of a pint glass full of milk next to a photo of my forearm most people would struggle to tell the difference. When I'm buying sun screen I have to go buy the stuff for babies or I get burnt to a crisp. Please bear that in mind when I say that yesterday was the first day all year I felt the need to break out the factor 50 to protect my pasty hide. So when some jackass, who this time last week was rabbiting on about how much they're looking forward to jetting off and working on their tan starts bitching and moaning about how a 16°C heat is just too damned much for them to take I find that to be annoying. In fact I think I should be allowed to go over to their desk and beat the life out of them. Normally I'd say beat some sense into them but when we're dealing with such a heightened level of dumbfuckery I reckon the human body would give out before that would be achieved.
16°C! The office is no warmer today than it was all year. The only difference we can see is that some of the plants near the car park and starting to flower. Oh the humanity.