The Tea Room, Mk. IV

[Wybren]

Oh how I wish it were so here, it got to 40 here today, Many stupid people decided to go into the sun, to the beach.

[Harpo]

They'll suffer for it tomorrow

[Wybren]

Oh yeah, that is for sure. I won't though, I try to avoid the sun on days like this, its not worth making yourself sick. Tomorrow is supposed to be the same too.

[The Ace]

Avoid the sun. Sorry, I don't understand that.

[Wybren]

Well if you lived here you would. They actually tell us to avoid the sun between the hours of 10am and 2 pm though at the moment they recommend longer. In the Australian summer you only need 3 minutes a day of sunlight to get the required amount of vitamin d to avoid rickets. When half your relatives have scars from skin cancers removed you tend to be wary of the sun.

[HardScienceFan]

Wybe !!
Harps !!
Ace!!!

That's some sun you got there,Wybe!

[Wybren]

Yes indeed Ben, Would you all care for some, we have heaps to spare.

[The Ace]

Sorry Wybe, I was being a bit flippant. Even here, you get idiots giving themselves sunburn in what we laughingly call a summer.

Common sense would tell you that Australian sun can be lethal, but I suppose that can be a bit thin on the ground. Hi Ben.

[Harpo]

I'm not overly fond of summer, myself

[HardScienceFan]

the last few days here have seen a leaden,depress..

whoa,the SUN!!!!

YAY!!!.
our summer before last was known for its hotness,and people were actually warned NOT to be outside between noon and three,at last not too much.
Ace,you in Scotland,you are not blessed with too much sunny weather,i suppose.
I at least live reasonably close to a beach.

Summer before last you couldn't see a grain of sand on account of all the people
seeking a bit of refrigeration.

But even the sea was pretty warm then.

Scheveningen is often populated by Englishmen in a slightly inebriated state

Not to mention the funny smelling cigarettes they smoke.

I think the tobacco in those is from Afghanistan

[The Ace]

I think the tobacco in Scheveningen, probably comes from Amsterdam, but you never know with the English.

[Wybren]

Thats Ok Ace, Most people don't realise how hot it can be till they are actually here. If I lived in Scotland I would probably want to get as much sun as I could. I prefer anything but Summer here but I think I wouldn't mind one of your summers. Here they reckon you can get burnt after 15 minutes in the sun, yet you still see idiots sunbaking on the beaches, like they want to look like prunes at 35.

There are places in the more central areas of the country where people live underground and don't venture out much at all in the day in summer.

[HardScienceFan]

We Dutch have a devil of a time explaining to furriners that our coffee shops don't sell coffee,but something else.

Some Japanese tourists seemed mighty confused by it all.
Imagine calling a football pitch a swimming pool

Our softdrugs policy is renowned worldwide
But they're thinking of cracking down on it,too much trafficking going on in the biorder areas with Germany and Belgium.



Belgium is complaining about Dutch addicts popping over the border and being a bit of a nuisance there

anyone familiar with the phrase NIMBY?

[HardScienceFan]

you call them prunes,WW?

*HUG*

sorry

impulse

i call them crocodile leather handbags

you know:mahogany brown,all skin with pentagonal scales,cracks

the kind who visit the solarium in November,to work on their tan.
they want a deep tan in January

my avatar pic was taken during that scorching summer
i walked around in swimming trunks all day

i HATE HEAT

[Wybren]

NIMBY?? No.

Prunes is a nice word. The woman who ran off with mums last hubby is a pruney wrinkly leather woman who spends her days topless on the beach. she is hideous and looks much older than 52.

Here they are talking about banning solariums because they are worse for you than actually going out in the sun.