European heat wave

[Hoid]

Obviously this has nothing to do with climate change because the climate always changes.

But they are looking at the mid 40s across Europe - and thasa spicy maetaball for June my friends.

Maybe it'll snow in August.

but somehow I doubt it. If I was there right now I would be wondering wtf the summer is going to look like.

also one of the factors in American violence - extreme heat - is now going to get a try in Europe. Its a lot easier to keep your cool when its 20 and breezy. When its 44 and not a hint of a breeze (Chicago) its more difficult to keep that glock in the duffel bag, it just wants to come out.

 

[Jinentonix]

The Winter of '44-'45 saw the coldest temps in Europe in over 50 years. Must have been proof of climate change.

also one of the factors in American violence - extreme heat - is now going to get a try in Europe. Its a lot easier to keep your cool when its 20 and breezy. When its 44 and not a hint of a breeze (Chicago) its more difficult to keep that glock in the duffel bag, it just wants to come out.

You have no clue what you're talking about. Detroit and Windsor are 1 mile apart. Detroit has always had a ridiculous murder rate. A bad year in Windsor would be like 2 murders. Most years there are none. Both cities experience hot, steamy humid conditions every summer with temps regularly floating to 40 and higher with the humidex. Often for weeks at a time. Even factoring the the large difference in population numbers Windsor's murder rate doesn't even come close to that of Detroit. Detroit has also been a Democrat stronghold for decades.

 

[Hoid]

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170925132948.htm

here you go


argue with the science

we all know that's rightie in your wheelhouse.

 

[Curious Cdn]

Fake news! Fake news!

EUROPE IS GETTING COLDER!


These lies are obviously coming from the filthy, lying PROOOOOOOGS!
in Prague

 

[Blackleaf]

Not much fun driving a man-up truck and doing quite a bit of heavy lifting in a warehouse with a metal roof in this sweltering heat.

 

[Curious Cdn]

Not much fun driving a man-up truck and doing quite a bit of heavy lifting in a warehouse with a metal roof in this sweltering heat.

 

[Walter]

It's never been hot in Europe in the summer before.

 

[Curious Cdn]

It's never been hot in Europe in the summer before.

It's not hot, now. Those are all LIES!!... from the enemy of the people!!!

 

[Blackleaf]

It's never been hot in Europe in the summer before.

Last year was even hotter, in this country at least. This time last year Winter Hill - which looms over the town - was on fire. It was a scene similar, for several weeks, to the one which greeted the Vesuvians in 79.

 

[Curious Cdn]

Last year was even hotter, in this country at least. This time last year Winter Hill - which looms over the town - was on fire. It was a scene similar, for several weeks, to the one which greeted the Vesuvians in 79.

YOU SEE!!!

Europe's getting colder!!

 

[Blackleaf]

Well that sort of puts things into perspective. The things those British troops went through during the war were truly hellish. I have to experience misery for just 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. Apart from yesterday, when I did overtime.

At the start of each shift this week the boss - Keith - has told us that because it's hot we can go into the canteen every now and then to get a drink but we must ask him first. But I've been thinking "**** that". I'm not being treated like a school kid. So I've just been getting a drink whenever I like, risking getting caught. I don't see why I have to drive around a HUGE warehouse to find the boss just so I can have a swig of Irn Bru.

 

[Curious Cdn]

Well that sort of puts things into perspective. The things those British troops went through during the war were truly hellish. I have to experience misery for just 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. Apart from yesterday, when I did overtime.
At the start of each shift this week the boss - Keith - has told us that because it's hot we can go into the canteen every now and then to get a drink but we must ask him first. But I've been thinking "**** that". I'm not being treated like a school kid. So I've just been getting a drink whenever I like, risking getting caught. I don't see why I have to drive around a HUGE warehouse to find the boss just so I can have a swig of Irn Bru.

They built the Japanese a jim-dandy railroad in Burma, though.

 

[Blackleaf]

They built the Japanese a jim-dandy railroad in Burma, though.

I like that episode of Top Gear where Clarkson, Hammond and May go to Burma to build a bridge over the River Kwai but accidentally build it over the River Cock.

 

[Curious Cdn]

I like that episode of Top Gear where Clarkson, Hammond and May go to Burma to build a bridge over the River Kwai but accidentally build it over the River Cock.

I did see that. They almost ended up in the river.

It's a good thing that the Burmese didn't drive them out with rocks, like the Argentineans did.

 

[Blackleaf]

I did see that. They almost ended up in the river.
It's a good thing that the Burmese didn't drive them out with rocks, like the Argentineans did.

The Argies are still sore that they lost. They came up against the might of HMS Conqueror and the Gurkhas, who the Argies thought were cannibals.

The Burmese - and I know six of them from work - still remember those Japanese bastards impaling their countrymen on spikes, like Vlad the Impaler.

 

[Curious Cdn]

might of HMS Conqueror

She sunk a WWII Yankee rust bucket that was all ready to fight WWII. It was the ultimate poseur ship, that Cruiser ... bristling with mean looking guns that were rendered obsolete decades earlier. The Russians are famous for floating that kind of theatre, too ... BRISTLING

It was such an easy kill, Conquerer used up one of her old WWII surplus, straight, flat trajectory torpedos and saved the modern guided ones for bigger game, like the Argentine carrier that slunk back to base.

 

[Blackleaf]

might of HMS Conqueror

She sunk a WWII Yankee rust bucket that was all ready to fight WWII. It was the ultimate poseur ship, that Cruiser ... bristling with mean looking guns that were rendered obsolete decades earlier. The Russians are famous for floating that kind of theatre, too ... BRISTLING

It was such an easy kill, Conquerer used up one of her old WWII surplus, straight, flat trajectory torpedos and saved the modern guided ones for bigger game, like the Argentine carrier that slunk back to base.

HMS Conqueror was the submarine that sank the Belgrano. She's the only nuclear-powered submarine to have engaged an enemy ship with torpedoes.

Of course, if it was a Canadian submarine that sank the Belgrano you'd be singing its praises.

 

[Curious Cdn]

HMS Conqueror was the submarine that sank the Belgrano. She's the only nuclear-powered submarine to have engaged an enemy ship with torpedoes.
Of course, if it was a Canadian submarine that sank the Belgrano you'd be singing its praises.

She was hunting the carrier that got away. So were four other British subs. Belgrano was a sitting duck.

 

[Blackleaf]

She was hunting the carrier that got away. So we're four other British subs. Belgrano was a sitting duck.

She was actually hunting the Belgrano.

 

[Curious Cdn]

She was actually hunting the Belgrano.

She became a "target of opportunity". It worked, though as the Argentine Navy tied up at home rather than risk engaging the British fleet. Belgrano had great symbolic value for the Argentinean. It was their great, heavily armed, "bristling" show-off ship and the crew was full of the sons of Junta members. It was quite useless as a naval vessel but it did possibly threaten landed soldiers had it ever got the chance to bear her guns on them.