It can get hot here, but it's considered a mild land climate, so not super extreme. It's just that all over the world weather get's more extreme unfortunately.

I think that's also the reason summer holidays are quite long here, 2,5 month. And probably for historical reasons, where kid's would help out in the garden, land work, some harvesting. Potatoes, tomatoes or whatever...

Wow, two and a half months.
I used to think there were no countries with larger school holidays than us...

Pranks in general I never found funny. *shrugs*

I do have a sense of humor, but what makes me laught is absurdity.
Monty Python forever! xD

I love Monty Python. :) And there are great stand up comedians. As for English one's, I like Michael McIntyre as well. :)

I also know of Romania, they like waiting till september 15th, so that's like a 3 month holiday. My friend lives there, her kids were at their grandparent's for a month.

Michael McIntyre moves in such a funny way!
I probably don't love his monologues, not really, but I do really like the way he acts them.

I love Dylan Moran. That guy is amazing.
He's Irish, so sometimes I have a hard time understanding his accent. That and the fact he jumps from a topic to another one like a madman doing hardly any sense requires me to be 100% focused on him :D
I haven't seen him in a while though, but he's funny.


3 months holidays!
I'm starting to realize the whole lazy-sourtheners stereotype was quite a myth o_O

Some are funny, a lot of them are about kids and I can relate. :)

I'll check out Dylan Moran, Irish is harder to understand, we got a group of Irish farmers at our farm once and I though that I had to relearn English entirely. In the end I just kept chatting with the one guy who worked for the government and actually had learned to speak in a way other people would understand him. I've never excused myself as much in English as during that day... >.>

Actually, since it gets quite hot in the middle of Europe as well, some places have quite "southern" habits. Though, no siesta's here, they do prefer starting early and stop earlier with work. So, 7-15 workday is not uncommon. Early bedtimes. But we've had several young guys from the Netherlands come over for a summer intership, as a compulsory part of their study and they all start very enthousiastic, 'till they get a week of a 40C heatwave and then they start to understand why people have the tendency to live at 75% instead of 150%. Like, it is kinda impossible to be super efficient and productive when it's already too hot to just usilise your main body functions... Also a thing you'll notice earlier when you get older. ;-)

I've always liked Irish people, been to Ireland twice and loved it there. It's like being at home, their idiosyncrasies are quite like the ones in my region so it's easy to blend in.
But some of the accents are really hard to understand. (Which I gotta say is something else we have in common.)

And Moran is a master of absurd.
He had this series, many years ago, called Black Books. You may prefer checking that out instead of his stand-up comedy, because it's easier to follow.



Hot really really makes everything complicated.
I live in a quite nice place now but the city in which I grew up was very ver hot. Annoyingly so.
But then I traveled south, and I realized that it could be even worse. Streets-melting-under-your-feet kind of worse! o_O
And we live in the warm section of the world, I don't want to think of countries around the ecuador. That must be hell on earth more often than not.

Take a pain killer and drink the regular way, lol. <3

Yeah, hotter places, dunno. I only stepped out of the plane once in Dubai, summer and 4am. I thought I'd instantly die, that was soo weird. Like, 4AM, middle of the night, it shouldn't be hot. It was though, so we ran into the terminal where the AC was working hard.

It wasn't even the heat, but 100% humidity or whatever, it's like you cannot breathe, super weird. Hated it. High humidity is often more tiring than just the heat. At that time, I was actually on the way to the equator, lol, a summer trip to Kenya & Tanzania, it wasn't that bad though. Cold in the evenings, colder than expected and the heat wasn't that bad either. I think it was reversed there as well, probably January was hotter and rain season isn't a suggested time to travel, but it was very bearable.

But yeah, those 50 degrees they wrote about in Canada, I'm kinda glad I'm not there. :>

I had an Irish acquintance, but haven't spoken with him in years. Never travelled there, so I don't really know the people, apart from those few I met. I was kinda surprised to hear that not all of Ireland is super green, but most is I think?

I'll check out the Black books, listened to a few things of his stand up comedy, but wasn't into it immediately to be honest.