Let's be honest, we Brits love a good moan. Especially if that moan has something to do with the weather.
In the winter it's too cold, in the summer it's too hot, and everywhere in between, it's too rainy.
But one American woman on TikTok has left Brits in stitches after she admitted she's finally realised why we complain so much about the heat when our temperatures seem pretty mild in comparison to other parts of the world.
The woman, who lives in London, said that despite having visited the African bush in the summer and having spent time in deserts and in Italian summer camps, no level of heat comes anywhere close to being as "suffocating" as summer in the UK.
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In her video, which was posted to her @xoshear account, she said: “I've been seeing a lot of comments like ‘26 is so nice, try living in Australia’ or ‘26 is so nice, try living in California’. You're wrong.
“I have been to the African bush in the height of summer. I've climbed mountains in the desert. I have been to Texas when it's over 110 degrees Fahrenheit. I lived through historic heatwaves in New York City where all the heat is just trapped under layers upon layers of pollution and garbage. I worked at summer camps in Italy where they don't let you go inside so you just have to sit and bake in the sun.
“Nothing, and I do mean nothing, prepared me for summer in the UK during those two to three weeks where it's actually hot, and it feels like you're suffocating on Satan's butthole.
“Nothing's made for it. Not not the buildings, not the people, not the air. We’re not made for it!”
Commenters on the video were left in stitches, with many saying they finally felt understood after lamenting over the way the heat "hits different" in the UK for years.
One person said: "It's a different heat, you can't tell me otherwise!"
While another added: "This is a fact. I lived in South Africa for 16 years, English sun hits different."
And a third wrote: "It's like baking in a wet oven and breathing through a hot, wet washcloth. The humidity is just suffocating."
Other commenters also agreed with the woman as they said they too have experienced much hotter temperatures in other locations but found them more pleasant to deal with than the stifling UK heatwaves.
Someone said: "I lived in Malta most of my life and used to be out and about in 40 degrees. Right now, I cannot deal with 27 degrees in the UK."
As someone else added: "I’ve lived in Uzbekistan in the dead of summer where it was 55°C and it still was not as bad as 26°C in London."
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