Originally Posted by ABCDiamond (Post 7224817)

I though the average Brit was more intelligent than that.

Originally Posted by camponotus (Post 7224868)

Perhaps to be a bit clearer, I was just trying to say that when it's 30 or 35 degrees overnight that is, in my view, way more offensive than a cold winter's night in England.

I can't be alone, surely.

Originally Posted by Pommy Dan (Post 7224884)

i was trying to say that it is only 30 -35 degrees overnight very rarely.

much less regular than an icy wind and horizontal rain while at the bus stop in uk for example

i HATED scraping the ice off my windscreen in the morning...

is it easier to warm up or cool down?

Originally Posted by camponotus (Post 7224891)

it's generally considered easier to warm up than cool down.

Originally Posted by camponotus (Post 7224759)

This is interesting though and represents a common way of thinking. I come from Southern England, so I can only speak of that.

There is NO WAY that the majority of the year in South East England is ''cold and gray''. The winter's are often rather mild (though dark early - that I will admit) and Spring, Summer and Autumn are often very pleasant indeed.

I think a lot of this thinking is based on established ways of thinking whereby people get locked into 'repeating' whatever the standard line is. The standard line about the UK is that it's cold and gray the whole year round, but this just isn't the case!

My brother-in-law has just gone over to the UK for the first time and he's been stunned by how London is nothing like as expensive OR gray as everyone always says. This is what I mean. It becomes almost an urban legend.

And in case, Melbourne is gray and rather cold at many points during a typical year.

Originally Posted by camponotus (Post 7224891)

Well, I was going to point out earlier on actually that, unless I'm mistaken, it's generally considered easier to warm up than cool down.

Warming up requires extra clothing and half-decent heating. Without good aircon, it is very difficult to cool down indoors and it is impossible to cool down outside even if you wear next to nothing.

Originally Posted by moneypen20 (Post 7225022)

You don't like Aus - fact. You don't appear to like the fact that others are happy here. You are continually starting threads about why people think Aus is better than the UK and constantly get the same answer that it isn't, it's different but lots of people are happy here. No one, apart from possibly a few UK based Brits, making lighthearted comments, have stated that the temps Melbourne and Adelaide are suffering at the moment are good. Everyone accepts they are dangerous but everyone also accepts that it is a short lived thing.

If you want to be negative about the country, go ahead but try to do it constructively, stop banging the same drum for crying out loud. Also accept that if people disagree, that is their right.

Originally Posted by camponotus (Post 7224966)

I was just thinking that what is for many people Australia's best factor is really quite flawed - thought it was ironic and telling, that's all.

Originally Posted by Hutch (Post 7225087)

http://i40.tinypic.com/hvyxwx.jpg

Could you please point to the flaw in the above?

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Oh and ....

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And I'm spent.

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Originally Posted by camponotus (Post 7225052)

That last sentence? About letting people think what they like? Just read one of your posts on another thread. Wanna think about practising what you preach? Just an idea for you oh wise one.

Originally Posted by camponotus (Post 7225103)

You're comparing two opposite seasons!

Get real.