There's a widely held belief here among the natives that it never gets hot or cold, hence there's no need for air conditioning in the summer nor any need for central heating in winter or heating on public transport. There's absolutely no shaking the locals from this belief, even as they slowly turn blue from the cold, shivering and frost forming on their noses.
So this morning I had the joy of commuting in to work, at 23F, on buses with no heating. Not just not turned on or broken, but non-existent. Two hours, three buses, no heat.
The joy.
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I'm guessing that these are the same people who claim that there is no alcoholism in England?
Yeah, they're not alcoholics and they're not racists. They're not bullying, meanspirited blockwatchers and bureaucrats. They're not a nation of jobsworths even if they did invent the term.
Not much they aren't. Pah!
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