Europeans: Can't Stand the Heat?
Sep 9th 2003 | 10:32 pm
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Re: Europeans: Can't Stand the Heat?
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"Jim Morris" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message de
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> Can't Stand the Heat?
> TO LISTEN TO THE FUSS Europeans are making about their weather,
> anyone would think that it was actually hot over there. In Paris, shops
> have experienced a run on electric fans. In Sweden, a male bus driver
> showed up for work in a skirt after his company informed him that he
> was not allowed to wear shorts. In Amsterdam, zookeepers are giving
> iced fruit to their chimpanzees to cool them off.
> Okay, so maybe it's a bit warmer than usual. Temperatures across the
> continent have shot up into the 90s and once or twice have topped
> 100 degrees in London and Paris. But is this really hot -- hot enough
> to close businesses, hot enough to cancel trains (the tracks might
buckle),
> hot enough to wax nostalgic for the summer rain to which some Europeans,
> notably residents of the British Isles, are more accustomed?
> Last time we checked, the weather here in Washington was in the upper 80s,
> which is average to low for this time of year. Temperatures in Houston and
> Dallas in the past couple of days have topped 100, as they usually do in
> summer. Yet somehow, no one's talking about extraordinary measures being
> taken by Texans or Washingtonians. On the contrary, President Bush, who
> qualifies as both, by some measures, is currently mocking the press corps
> by pretending to enjoy jogging in the Texas heat. Not all Europeans may
> want to go this far -- but maybe they will now at least stop turning up
> their noses
> at those American summer inventions they've long loved to mock: The
office
> window that doesn't open, the air conditioner that produces sub-arctic
> temperatures and the tall glass of water, served in a restaurant,
> filled to the brim with ice.
> The Washington Post
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"Jim Morris" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message de
news:[email protected]...
> Can't Stand the Heat?
> TO LISTEN TO THE FUSS Europeans are making about their weather,
> anyone would think that it was actually hot over there. In Paris, shops
> have experienced a run on electric fans. In Sweden, a male bus driver
> showed up for work in a skirt after his company informed him that he
> was not allowed to wear shorts. In Amsterdam, zookeepers are giving
> iced fruit to their chimpanzees to cool them off.
> Okay, so maybe it's a bit warmer than usual. Temperatures across the
> continent have shot up into the 90s and once or twice have topped
> 100 degrees in London and Paris. But is this really hot -- hot enough
> to close businesses, hot enough to cancel trains (the tracks might
buckle),
> hot enough to wax nostalgic for the summer rain to which some Europeans,
> notably residents of the British Isles, are more accustomed?
> Last time we checked, the weather here in Washington was in the upper 80s,
> which is average to low for this time of year. Temperatures in Houston and
> Dallas in the past couple of days have topped 100, as they usually do in
> summer. Yet somehow, no one's talking about extraordinary measures being
> taken by Texans or Washingtonians. On the contrary, President Bush, who
> qualifies as both, by some measures, is currently mocking the press corps
> by pretending to enjoy jogging in the Texas heat. Not all Europeans may
> want to go this far -- but maybe they will now at least stop turning up
> their noses
> at those American summer inventions they've long loved to mock: The
office
> window that doesn't open, the air conditioner that produces sub-arctic
> temperatures and the tall glass of water, served in a restaurant,
> filled to the brim with ice.
> The Washington Post
