It is either hot, cold, wet, humid. You name it we are never happy. Yet you can almost guarantee every conversation we have the weather features in it. Are we a nation of weather obsessives or what?
2006-07-16 08:35:47 · 35 answers · asked by dcparis2004 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
you Brits aren't the only ones who complain about the weather here in MN if we don't talk about the weather we wouldn't have anything to talk about.
2006-07-16 08:38:23 · answer #1 · answered by Code3EMT 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is because the weather is so changeable but there is never anything in between. It's either too hot or too hold and never comfortable. I think we might complain less if there was any warning or gradual change but there never is, it just goes from freezing cold to boiling hot and from drizzle to full blown storms. We never have time to get used to anything. I think that makes it a good reason to complain and it is a good ice-breaker as there is always something different every day!
And it is also something "safe" to talk about no matter who you talk to.
2006-07-16 08:48:46 · answer #2 · answered by Evil J.Twin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you ever seen the weather in England? Besides I think everyone complains about the weather . And I also must say that today's society has the tendecy to complain about something or another. just listen to the people around you sometime.
2006-07-16 08:44:08 · answer #3 · answered by Scott b 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because we get so much of it. People who live in the middle of a continent get uniform weather, tomorrow will almost certainly be like yesterday.
We get fronts moving in from the atlantic which causes the weather to change from hour to hour. Given that the weather is so random it makes a good topic for conversation.
2006-07-16 08:40:43 · answer #4 · answered by m.paley 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My mother's friend is from England, and when she gets back from a visit, she also complains. But anywhere where weather isn't good most of the time, people will complain. England doesnt have good weather often. So its understandable.
2006-07-16 08:40:00 · answer #5 · answered by Optimistic 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was working at a resort in Florida, and we had a lot of Brit's as guesses and I don't remember a single complaint about the weather. maybe there weather back home is just bad!!!!!
2006-07-16 08:42:55 · answer #6 · answered by geotom 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's the opener for small-talk.
If you complain about the weather it's pretty much given that the other person will agree you.
2006-07-16 08:43:21 · answer #7 · answered by buzybee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think us English are a nation of polite small talk. To a stranger on the park; "Lovely weather today isn't is?" I suppose it's a way of saying 'hello, I like the look of you, let's chat'.
2006-07-16 08:44:43 · answer #8 · answered by Emma 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's the English who complain. They only came to these islands about 1500 years ago and haven't yet got used to the idea that it rains all the time. The Scots, Irish and Welsh have been here for about 10,000 years and they've learned to put up with it.
2006-07-16 08:40:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
because the weather is so different from winter and summer. in the winter we freeze our balls off, after 8 months of absolute misery we get kind of used to it and BANG it increases by 25-30 degree c and we turn from peguins to bright red lobsters. My favarate weather is in the summer when it is hot and cloudy with a slight cool refreshing breeze
2006-07-16 08:51:21 · answer #10 · answered by Eligh 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bad part is goes from bright sunshine to pouring rain in minutes..You cannot trust the weather to plan any outside activity
2006-07-16 08:39:23 · answer #11 · answered by dwh12345 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋