Temperature wimps

[Shiny]

Anything under 65 is literally painful for me unless I've got a wool coat on than anything under 55.

Black people don't like cold weather.

[ljkkjlcm9]

I can deal with whatever temperature I must. I prefer hot to cold I guess. But for me it's always quite simple. When it's hot, I want to be cooler, and when it's cold, I want to be warmer.
So, during the summer the air conditioning is set at like 65, but during the winter the heat is set at like 55.

55 feels like 80 when it's below freezing outside, and 65 feels like ice when it's over 90 degrees outside. It's all relative, but i'm comfortable anywhere between 50-70.

THE JACKEL

[blackmage_nuke]

I can take pretty high heats as long as the sun isnt blaring down on me. I think thats more of a psychological illusion though.
I always put on more clothes when its cold so im not sure how much i can take as im usually never too cold.

[Jojee]

Jojo is the biggest cold-wimp I've ever met. It was ~70 in her apartment when I was there, and she was fully dressed with a heavy jacket on AND under a blanket... and she was still sometimes cold.

It was 75. xD Which can be very cold sometimes, I mean if you don't have the sun shining on you at the same time and all. If I didn't have to pay for my heating bill, my apartment would be set at 78 all winter long~ :</>D As I do have to worry about the bill, it stays 73-75 nowadays, although sometimes I cheat and turn it higher when I'm really cold. xD My roommate last year liked it at 77!

[NorthernChaosGod]

Man, I prefer the high 70s - low 80s, perfect weather.

It's getting too cold for my tastes now, I need to get a new coat.

[Rodarian]

Because of humidity in this region, lets just say that the public B.O ain't something you'd like to smell everyday...Thankfully most of time I'm in the shade away from numbing heat...The only thing worse is when the power goes..Which happens quite frequently... 0_o

I miss my Canadian Winters!! T_T

[Alex151]

My ideal day is cloudy low 60's F with a cool breaze. But that being said I prefer the cold over heat, so if it's not going to be my ideal day then I'd wish it to be in the 40's or so. I can't stand the heat. If I do anything remotely physical then I will be sweating instantly. Being a roofer as well I don't like being in the sun all day, or the heat for that matter.

[Brennan]

Am I the only one who can withstand the weather whilst wearing shorts in the 30's-100's range?

[Iceglow]

For some reason, sometimes Brits like to think that they are not a part of The Continent, and thus not quite as European.

Like to point out this...

The United Kingdom and Ireland are strangely enough Islands. A single cross ocean undersea rail connection which could with the right determination be severed by even a terrorist attack does not make us a part of a continent. Continents are by definition a single land mass wherein several countries/states may be contained. Europe is a continent but it does not include the British Isles. The fact that the components of the British Isles are a part of the European Union does not automatically mean the continent has extended and that Dover is directly connected to northern France. Pangea did not mystically reform there. We have for the most part refused the single European currency and will do so for many more years to come as far as I can see. We've refused more intergration with the EU and even today a major political rift in the democracy of the UK is our ties to the EU and their influence over everything in our country when well in excess of 60% of Britons feel that we are not a part of Europe but an independant nation.

Therefore not letting the EU win is a majorly important thing for most people in the UK.

So you're trying to say that Madagascar is not associated with Africa, Japan is not asian, and Cuba, Hispaniola, etc etc etc are not part of the Americas.

aite, sure

The examples you give don't fully relate to the situation of GB and Europe, you liken individual nations based on geographical location to another whereas Europe and the British Isles is more political. The name Europe is used to describe the EU in news terms, the continent is simply used to describe the European continent sounds confusing I know, it is, it's meant to be so because we just love things to be complex. Europe (or simply the EU) is a international government which affects all it's member states legally speaking. Your examples are a bit like saying China rules all of Asia or that Mexico rules all of the Americas including the USA only not really, they have legal rulings and can overturn court decisions and control what laws a government can pass but the people of that nation are to believe that they have the freedom of will through democratic rights to control their nation when in reality if 60% of British people voted yes to bringing back the death penalty on a ballot someone from France, Germany, Belgium, Poland, Greece could say "No you don't" and thats the end of that no death penalty in England.

Whether or not we're a part of the continent is simple enough to answer, no we're not we're an island same as Madagascar is an island, same as Cuba is an island and Japan is a collection of islands. Whether or not we should be considered a part of Europe is what is at contention, Geographically we are close to the continent of Europe but no we're not part of the continent.

Like I said it's political so when an English person refers to not letting the Europeans have their way about things it's not as in us not being a part of the continent because thats obvious we're an island, islands by definition do not compose parts of continents they are islands. Island means land surrounded by ocean, technically if all of europe and asia was ruled as one country, that'd be an island too. Same goes for the Americas. It's actually about not letting someone from Georgia saying "Hey, you can't do that!" or someone from Belgium state English people must use the metric system even though that person from Belgium may not have ever been to England, might not ever come to England and is in no way affected by whether we use the metric or imperial system. That is why we don't like the EU in England and that is why we stubbornly refuse to leave pound sterling and other british cornerstones like the imperial system behind.

[rubah]

I don't know why you keep referring to the EU. The tradition of Brits referring to themselves as separate from the Continent goes back far longer than a couple of decades.

Anyways, refusing to use metric because you don't like the french is kinda adolescent and cruel to your country's engineers and scientists.

[Tavrobel]

Would you please listen to rubah, people? Torturing engineers is the last thing any of us need.

[Iceglow]

I don't know why you keep referring to the EU. The tradition of Brits referring to themselves as separate from the Continent goes back far longer than a couple of decades.

Which is exactly what I explained....

is⋅land  /ˈaɪlənd/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [ahy-luhnd]

–noun

1. a tract of land completely surrounded by water, and not large enough to be called a continent.
2. something resembling an island, esp. in being isolated or having little or no direct communication with others.
3. a raised platform with a counter or other work surface on top situated in the middle area of a room, esp. a kitchen, so as to permit access from all sides.
4. safety island.
5. a low concrete platform for gasoline pumps at an automotive service station.
6. a clump of woodland in a prairie.
7. an isolated hill.
8. Anatomy. an isolated portion of tissue differing in structure from the surrounding tissue.
9. Railroads. a platform or building between sets of tracks.

Again:

isle  /aɪl/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [ahyl]

–noun

1. a small island.
2. any island.

Regardless of the Risk board and regardless of the ignorance of the rest of the world the name speaks for itself: we are Brits from the British Isles and Isles are not continents and not part of continents we're surrounded by water, so what if the ocean between Dover and Calais is like 50 miles or less and can be flown over in 20 mins or so. Back 500 years ago that'd be a 3 night voyage minimum.

The issues of today is the EU and that causes us Brits to react with even more stigmata about being part of the continent.

Gods above and below, what the hell do they teach you kids at school today? Japan is a part of the modern Asian society but no, they're not Asia in fact to be perfectly correct they're Oriental. :P Same as Cuba may be a part of South America by terms of sociological links of the modern world however Cuba is not a part of the Americas it is a small island bordering the Americas.

[rubah]

If you ask Miriel, it's a crime to refer to asian people as oriental. I wouldn't want to cross her by doing that.

And geeze, I get three essays for the price of three tongue-in-cheek two liners. I think that's a good bargain

[Psychotic]

Win what? The Metric System is French and the English Imperial System is English.

Wait, the smurfing French invented the metric system? Are you sure? Jesus christ, we need to drop that immediately. And to think I thought it was just the Americans acting out again like they like to with the whole "color" thing. Sorry, guys, I judged you harshly. I'll buy you a beer.

Also, I like the cold.

[Timekeeper]

Regardless of the Risk board

Oh sure, just knock back that key piece of evidence! :rolleyes2

I've actually forgotten the point of this argument, but I think the main problem here is that one half is arguing political and social boundaries and the other half is simply categorizing Britain into it's general geographical region. Just as Australia, New Zealand and several other islands are categorized into the region of Oceania/Australasia, Britain is part of the geographical region of Europe.
Oh yea, it was

For some reason, sometimes Brits like to think that they are not a part of The Continent, and thus not quite as European.

So no, they aren't part of the European continent (or any other political affiliation that they don't want with Europe), but they are part of Europe, the region.

EDIT: Oh yea, the French went nuts during their revolutions. They even made decimal time, with clocks, calendars and the lot!