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    So The British Can't Cope With Winter...?

    Two Eastern Cape people have apparently frozen to death and three others died in incidents related to the icy weather conditions in the province, Dispatch Online reported on Monday.

    In Amalinda forest near East London, a man in his 40s appeared to have died from the cold in his shack during the night.

    ...

    In Rhodes village, night time temperatures on Saturday dropped as low as -3.2°C and farmers said a black frost had destroyed crops.

    By 7.30pm on Sunday night, sleet was falling in the mountain hamlet and the temperature was down to zero.
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    So The British Can't Cope With Winter...?

    ... anymore than the Americans can cope with Vietnam...


    (who's next?)
    What?

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    • #3
      To be fair South Africa is used to cold weather even less than the UK. This is clear from the bit about it being as low as -3.2, which they do seem to regard as abnormal.

      Not even soft southerners in the UK would think that was abnormal in winter
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      • #4
        -3 centigrade is the average temperature of February here ...

        Still, people have frozen to death at much higher temperature than that. It's all about clothing and exposture.
        Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?

        It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
        The Nedaverse I can accept, but not the Berzaverse. There can only be so many alternate realities. -- Elok

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        • #5
          And wussiness. That'd never happen in Newcastle, hell, they still wear T-shirts down the the boiling point of nitrogen...after that point they're in swimming trunks because the atmosphere has become a liquid...
          Speaking of Erith:

          "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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          • #6
            Newcastle hasn't seen a real winter since the ice age.
            Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?

            It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
            The Nedaverse I can accept, but not the Berzaverse. There can only be so many alternate realities. -- Elok

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            • #7
              NEWCASTLE!!! GEORDIES FOREVER!


              A humorous conversion of English to Geordie, a dialect of Northumbria, North East England
              http://www.geordie.org.uk/
              A humorous conversion of English to Geordie, a dialect of Northumbria, North East England


              The English:
              Newcastle rocks the world


              The Geordie:
              The Toon rocks the world
              Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
              "Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
              He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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