Alt Media
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
vegeta1 [he/him]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 6 months ago

Heatwave pushes UK temperatures to 34.7C as millions face hosepipe bans

www.bbc.com

external-link
message-square
17
link
fedilink
47
external-link

Heatwave pushes UK temperatures to 34.7C as millions face hosepipe bans

www.bbc.com

vegeta1 [he/him]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 6 months ago
message-square
17
link
fedilink
UK heatwave temperatures soar above 32C as Scotland sees hottest day of year so far
www.bbc.com
external-link
Highs of 30.8C have been recorded in the Scottish Highlands, as the Met Office says Northern Ireland has seen its warmest day since 2022.
alert-triangle
You must log in or # to comment.
  • kristina [she/her]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    16
    ·
    6 months ago

    London bridge is burning down kelly

  • XxFemboy_Stalin_420_69xX [none/use name]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    12
    ·
    6 months ago

    ight fair enough that is actually hot. usually brits complain about the heat as soon as it gets over like 22c but 35c is too much

    • cinnaa42 [none/use name]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      15
      ·
      edit-2
      6 months ago

      People complain because we’re not acclimatised to hot temperatures, and the infrastructure is generally not built to deal with them either. Australians feel cold in 10c weather too, which we’d have no issues with. It’s not that hard to figure out.

      • XxFemboy_Stalin_420_69xX [none/use name]@hexbear.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        7
        ·
        6 months ago

        yeah but let me make fun of brits tho

        • cinnaa42 [none/use name]@hexbear.net
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          6 months ago

          true

      • whatdoiputhere12 [any, he/him]@hexbear.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        5
        ·
        6 months ago

        Also i can’t explain it, but I can cope with 34c abroad, but never here

  • PeeOnYou [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    11
    ·
    6 months ago

    never heard of a hosepipe in my life… but after looking it up, it makes sense i guess. reminds me of this greentext copypasta thing: https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/690/828/2e0.png

    • TheWolfOfSouthEnd [none/use any]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      6 months ago

      What do you call them?

      • Crucible [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        11
        ·
        6 months ago

        just a ‘hose’ in north america, not really that different

        • AernaLingus [any]@hexbear.net
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          8
          ·
          6 months ago

          And if you really want to be clear, you might say “garden hose” (but usually it’s just “hose”)

      • PeeOnYou [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        6 months ago

        a hose and a pipe are two different things in the US, though they serve similar functions. We might call it a garden hose to be more specific, but a hose is typically a bendable tube you can connect to the water spouts on the outside of your house. A pipe would be a fixed metal or pvc tube that carries water and is not bendable.

        • TheWolfOfSouthEnd [none/use any]@hexbear.net
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          6 months ago

          We also call it garden hose.

          I think we just like to double it up for emphasis, or something.

          • PeeOnYou [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            6 months ago

            makes sense when you think about it, but i’d just never heard that term before

  • AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    10
    ·
    6 months ago

    "wild"fires in london? whats there wild to burn in that hellhole?

    • whatdoiputhere12 [any, he/him]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      6 months ago

      let that entire piece of shit city burn. They say it like it’s a bad thing

  • keepcarrot [she/her]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    9
    ·
    6 months ago

    My emergency cooling thing is keeping a few spray bottles of water in the fridge and spritzing yourself periodically.

  • Lerios [hy/hym]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    6
    ·
    6 months ago

    agony-deep gun-hubris

news@hexbear.net

news@hexbear.net

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !news@hexbear.net

Welcome to c/news! We aim to foster a book-club type environment for discussion and critical analysis of the news. Our policy objectives are:

  • To learn about and discuss meaningful news, analysis and perspectives from around the world, with a focus on news outside the Anglosphere and beyond what is normally seen in corporate media (e.g. anti-imperialist, anti-Zionist, Marxist, Indigenous, LGBTQ, people of colour).

  • To encourage community members to contribute commentary and for others to thoughtfully engage with this material.

  • To support healthy and good faith discussion as comrades, sharpening our analytical skills and helping one another better understand geopolitics.

We ask community members to appreciate the uncertainty inherent in critical analysis of current events, the need to constantly learn, and take part in the community with humility. None of us are the One True Leftist, not even you, the reader.

Newcomm and Newsmega Rules:

The Hexbear Code of Conduct and Terms of Service apply here.

  1. Link titles: Please use informative link titles. Overly editorialized titles, particularly if they link to opinion pieces, may get your post removed.

  2. Content warnings: Posts on the newscomm and top-level replies on the newsmega should use content warnings appropriately. Please be thoughtful about wording and triggers when describing awful things in post titles.

  3. Fake news: No fake news posts ever, including April 1st. Deliberate fake news posting is a bannable offense. If you mistakenly post fake news the mod team may ask you to delete/modify the post or we may delete it ourselves.

  4. Link sources: All posts must include a link to their source. Screenshots are fine IF you include the link in the post body. If you are citing a Twitter post as news, please include the Xcancel.com (or another Nitter instance) or at least strip out identifier information from the twitter link. There is also a Firefox extension that can redirect Twitter links to a Nitter instance, such as Libredirect or archive them as you would any other reactionary source.

  5. Archive sites: We highly encourage use of non-paywalled archive sites (i.e. archive.is, web.archive.org, ghostarchive.org) so that links are widely accessible to the community and so that reactionary sources don’t derive data/ad revenue from Hexbear users. If you see a link without an archive link, please archive it yourself and add it to the thread, ask the OP to fix it, or report to mods. Including text of articles in threads is welcome.

  6. Low effort material: Avoid memes/jokes/shitposts in newscomm posts and top-level replies to the newsmega. This kind of content is OK in post replies and in newsmega sub-threads. We encourage the community to balance their contribution of low effort material with effort posts, links to real news/analysis, and meaningful engagement with material posted in the community.

  7. American politics: Discussion and effort posts on the (potential) material impacts of American electoral politics is welcome, but the never-ending circus of American Politics© Brought to You by Mountain Dew™ is not welcome. This refers to polling, pundit reactions, electoral horse races, rumors of who might run, etc.

  8. Electoralism: Please try to avoid struggle sessions about the value of voting/taking part in the electoral system in the West. c/electoralism is right over there.

  9. AI Slop: Don’t post AI generated content. Posts about AI race/chip wars/data centers are fine.

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 477 users / day
  • 1.08K users / week
  • 1.8K users / month
  • 3.87K users / 6 months
  • 1 local subscriber
  • 24.5K subscribers
  • 4.93K Posts
  • 80.9K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • Alaskaball [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.net
  • carpoftruth [any, any]@hexbear.net
  • Breath_Of_The_Snake [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
  • Infamousblt [any]@hexbear.net
  • UI: unknown version
  • BE: 0.19.11
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org