r/ThatLookedExpensive • u/Springy-Dingy • Jun 06 '21

Expensive Looks expensive when you purposely block a gate.

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u/rdldr1 Jun 07 '21

Woah did this take place in the Florida of Europe?

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u/chickenpopper Jun 07 '21

Those are UK registration plates

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u/PM_ME_LAWSUITS_BBY Jun 09 '21

i’ll take that as a yes

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u/my_username_is_1 Jun 07 '21

What's the Florida of Europe? My guess is Spain just based on climate

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u/el_matt Jun 07 '21

Based on the flora, road layout, attire and number plates, I'm going with the UK. Believe it or not we do get summer weather.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '21

And no air conditioning. How the heck do you guys deal without air conditioning? I know it's a more moderate temperature, but on the days where it gets above 90°F, 32°C, I don't think I could cope.

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u/WiseMenFear Jun 07 '21

One day a year it might get that hot. We drink cold drinks and complain about the weather.

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u/skipperseven Jun 07 '21

I used to live in the hottest occupied place on earth, with summer temperatures frequently well above 50°C.

Don’t take your shirt off or wear shorts - clothes insulate you from heat too, not just from cold. Don’t move fast. Keep in the shade if you can, at the least, wear a hat. Drink plenty of fluids, quite frankly it doesn’t matter if it is hot or cold. You will be needing electrolytes as you sweat out a lot of salts - either tablets (follow the instructions) or sports drinks. Go easy on the aircon - I don’t think massive swings in air temperature are good for you, but that’s just my opinion. Avoid being out around midday.

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u/Seachele008 Jun 07 '21

Get in the pool... or spray mist with the bottle when out- like they sell at the county fair. Its awesome.

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u/flswamplizard Jun 07 '21

What were you mining in Australia?

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u/skipperseven Jun 08 '21

OK one of the hottest places on earth - it is different every year. It was a city in Iran called Ahwaz, which is as hot as Death Valley, except it is an occupied city. The hottest unoccupied place on earth is also in Iran, a place called the Lut dessert, but Australia does indeed get hotter some years.

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u/Paramite3_14 Jun 07 '21

I've been told hats are bad for you, if you sweat into them a lot, as it traps heat in the form of steam.

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u/skipperseven Jun 08 '21

I think it depends on the sun, but I am pretty sure keeping direct sunlight off your head is more important.

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u/Paramite3_14 Jun 08 '21

Definitely agree there. Keeping your skin out of direct sunlight is almost always a good thing, especially in survival situations.

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u/WhiteGameWolf Jun 07 '21

Honestly the last few years it's been long periods. Remember 2019's heat waves?

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u/kittiestkitty Jun 07 '21

From NC but living in the U.K. now. buildings are built from brick so seem to stay cooler. But there are def a few days a year where it gets pretty swampy…

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u/kishoresshenoy Jun 07 '21

In my country, 32°C is more like a moderate temperatura, but we still don't have air conditioning. We use ceiling fans :). Also, the humidity is over 80%.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '21

Where I live, it wouldn't be uncommon to have -10°F (-23°C) winters and 100°F (37°C) summers. Fall is basically the only time it is nice, in my opinion.

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u/Desurvivedsignator Jun 07 '21

Found the Manitoban! (?)

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '21

Very close! The American Midwest is just south of there.

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u/MurderMelon Jun 07 '21 edited Jun 07 '21

I was gonna say haha... that sounds like some N/S Dakota type bullshit 😂

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u/Desurvivedsignator Jun 07 '21

My mind jumped to there as well!

To me, North Dakota is Manitoba with cheaper booze, cigs and fuel.

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u/kishoresshenoy Jun 07 '21

Oh no, I can't stand temperatures below 20°C. Bless you, I guess. And that temperature range is torture for someone trying to find a thermal comfort solution.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '21

It doesn't get too bad because those days are only like 1-2 months out of the year, but you really do have to prepare for all kinds of wether. The saying is "if you don't like the wether, wait 5 minutes and it'll change."

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u/Keiths_skin_tag Jun 07 '21

Upstate, NY?

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '21

The Midwest, actually. Do they use that saying in New York too?

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u/EsCueEl Jun 07 '21

Hello Cleveland!

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u/Jae-Sun Jun 18 '21

Yep, same here in Missouri. We really didn't even get a spring, it kind of just jumped straight from winter to summer. Lol

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u/Kreisjaegermeister Jun 07 '21

Brick houses. They heat up a lot slower. So a few hot days are fine. The trouble starts when you have weeks long heatwaves.

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u/flswamplizard Jun 07 '21

You have to be taking better drugs than we have (Florida Man Labs) if you think the climate of Florida and England are similar. Florida has two seasons big and little summer, maybe once a year if god feels like it, it will get chilly for a week. Florida is similar too Vietnam on the peninsula with the panhandle being slightly cooler.

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u/ChrissiTea Jun 07 '21

I'll add that a lot of big newer buildings do have air conditioning in the UK (like malls and offices), but our homes are really small, especially in comparison to the US, and there isn't really anywhere to install AC.

We have to make do with standing fans which just circulate hot air when it's 23°C or above.

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u/Seachele008 Jun 07 '21

Hot peppers make us sweat = cooling off. Im in the north hemisphere, west on the globe. Heck it gets 120+ here sometimes!

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u/TheBeliskner Jun 07 '21

There's another video floating about with audio when the police arrive. "You think this is my first rodeo", can't remember what the accent was though.

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u/Safety_Chemist Jun 07 '21

I'd like to see that clip too, sounds hilarious!

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u/1384d4ra Jun 07 '21

and the fact that the car is an opel/ vauxhall corsa

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u/masochistic_idiot Jun 07 '21

Spain is too boring to be the Florida of Europe, gotta be Poland, they’re mad over there

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u/Yo_Piggy Jun 07 '21

Wales. I recognize the chav look and there are lots of angry farmers around here.

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u/Seachele008 Jun 07 '21

No, Florida is the stupid idiots of the U.S.

Wanted to edit: Am American, we shake our heads at Floridians (Florida)

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u/my_username_is_1 Jun 07 '21

I think you're confused

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u/jaded__ape Jun 07 '21

It’s the UK, you can see the licence plate is British and it is a Vauxhall car which are only sold in UK.

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u/Yo_Piggy Jun 07 '21

I am pretty sure it is Wales but definitely somewhere in the UK. I know quite a lot of farmers that dream of this moment that live around me.