Questions for people south of the equator

[Xifel]

I am ice-eating, polar bear-fighting Norse guy from just south of the Artic Circle and I have a rather dumb question for people from the southen half of our planet. Up here winter strech från December to March (in reality från October to May). We have snow, ice and all that stuff. This is winter for us. Summer time we have 25-30 degrees celsius.

From what understand on the other half of the planet it is reversed, that it is snow during May-Aug and warm during dec-jan.

My question is: what do you call these seasons. Are the names "winter" and "summer" applied by dates in the calander or the actual weather outside (warm/cold).

 

[the spud]

Also, if I may ask a question of my own: Does the toilet really flush backwards down there? I have always heard that. Also, sorry for my lack of cultural diversity, but what the hell does fran mean?

 

[MysticToast]

Also, if I may ask a question of my own: Does the toilet really flush backwards down there? I have always heard that. Also, sorry for my lack of cultural diversity, but what the hell does fran mean?

From the context, I'm guessing it's "from"

 

[Miles000]

I am ice-eating, polar bear-fighting Norse guy from just south of the Artic Circle and I have a rather dumb question for people from the southen half of our planet. Up here winter strech från December to March (in reality från October to May). We have snow, ice and all that stuff. This is winter for us. Summer time we have 25-30 degrees celsius.

From what understand on the other half of the planet it is reversed, that it is snow during May-Aug and warm during dec-jan.

My question is: what do you call these seasons. Are the names "winter" and "summer" applied by dates in the calander or the actual weather outside (warm/cold).

We have the exact same seasons as the northern hemisphere.
However we have them the other way around.

We get summer and Christmas at the same time XD

Also, if I may ask a question of my own: Does the toilet really flush backwards down there? I have always heard that. Also, sorry for my lack of cultural diversity, but what the hell does fran mean?

No they don't....

Your toilets flush backwards!

 

[PunkyMcGee]

Also, if I may ask a question of my own: Does the toilet really flush backwards down there? I have always heard that. Also, sorry for my lack of cultural diversity, but what the hell does fran mean?

Instead of going down it goes up. So, you kinda have to flush and run.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

In the southern hemisphere, is it true that you treat soccer like a real sport?

 

[PunkyMcGee]

In the southern hemisphere, is it true that you treat soccer like a real sport?

Do they also ride kangaroos to work?

 

[the spud]

Also, if I may ask a question of my own: Does the toilet really flush backwards down there? I have always heard that. Also, sorry for my lack of cultural diversity, but what the hell does fran mean?

It's a stick used to chase off bears, southling.

I don't need any stick to chase off bears: I just wrestle them down with my bear hands.

Also, if I may ask a question of my own: Does the toilet really flush backwards down there? I have always heard that. Also, sorry for my lack of cultural diversity, but what the hell does fran mean?

Instead of going down it goes up. So, you kinda have to flush and run.

I hope you didn't make use of the laboratory before you found that out...

We get summer and Christmas at the same time XD

Also, if I may ask a question of my own: Does the toilet really flush backwards down there? I have always heard that. Also, sorry for my lack of cultural diversity, but what the hell does fran mean?

No they don't....

Your toilets flush backwards!

An enlightening perspective.

 

[Miles000]

In the southern hemisphere, is it true that you treat soccer like a real sport?

Do they also ride kangaroos to work?

Of course not!
That is a stupid assumption and I hate when people think of us like that...

We ride emus to work....

 

[stefanbertramlee]

Also, if I may ask a question of my own: Does the toilet really flush backwards down there? I have always heard that. Also, sorry for my lack of cultural diversity, but what the hell does fran mean?

Nope they don't they did it on QI, the direction depends of the design of the toilet.

 

[Biosophilogical]

Also, if I may ask a question of my own: Does the toilet really flush backwards down there? I have always heard that. Also, sorry for my lack of cultural diversity, but what the hell does fran mean?

Instead of going down it goes up. So, you kinda have to flush and run.

Also, the french have pipes going from Australia to France, and they flush our toilets and use the water jet to clean themselves.

OT: I'm not sure if the OP is serious ... but okay I suppose. Just flip the seasons, so in Dec-Feb we have Summer, Mar-May we have Autumn, Jun-Aug we have Winter, Sep-Nov we have Spring.

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

Same season names.
Unless you're ON the equator. Then you have a rainy or dry season, and even then, the weather tends to do what ever the hell it wants to do.

 

[Canid117]

In the southern hemisphere, is it true that you treat soccer like a real sport?

I hear that people over the age of ten actually play it in some countries.

 

[infohippie]

My question is: what do you call these seasons. Are the names "winter" and "summer" applied by dates in the calander or the actual weather outside (warm/cold).

The seasons are named according to calendar dates, it's just not the same timing you use in the north. It is currently winter, which runs from June to August and here in the southern part of Western Australia usually has temperatures between 5C and 23C. It doesn't often get warmer or cooler than that. So, no snow. Summer is from December to February and tends to have temperatures between 20C and 45C. It's a bit warm. Sometimes it doesn't dip below 35C even in the middle of the night for weeks at a time.

Also, if I may ask a question of my own: Does the toilet really flush backwards down there? I have always heard that.

No, that's a bit of a fallacy. The Coriolis Effect is not nearly strong enough to have much effect on plumbing, it's almost entirely the shape of the bowl and the momentum already in the water that determines flush direction. You'll find drains that empty both clockwise and counter-clockwise in both northern and southern hemispheres.
If you had a perfectly round and smooth bowl containing perfectly still water, mounted on extremely good shock absorbers, and took out a plug in the centre, then you'd probably find the water would flow one way in the northern hemisphere and the other in the southern hemisphere.

 

[StBishop]

Also, if I may ask a question of my own: Does the toilet really flush backwards down there? I have always heard that. Also, sorry for my lack of cultural diversity, but what the hell does fran mean?

No, they flush normally here, and backward up there. (this is true, it's the first thing I checked when we visited family in the UK.

Summer is Christmas time. It's hot.

Winter is now. It's cold.

Some of the more tropical areas don't actually have 4 seasons, they have wet and dry, wet is the last and first quarter of the year, dry is the middle half.

In the southern hemisphere, is it true that you treat soccer like a real sport?

Not as much in Australia as Europe do (Most of the world does dude. It's called the world game for a reason.) but yeah we do.

In the southern hemisphere, is it true that you treat soccer like a real sport?

Do they also ride kangaroos to work?

No, we eat them. But only in Australia. Much of the southern hemisphere is not Australia.