What do Brits do in the Summer?

[Terramax]

Heya peeps,


I gotta do a small presentation in a few days explaining to a group of about 40 Japanese people exactly what it is that people in the UK do during the Summer.

I'm looking for serious answers, if anyone has any suggestions?

I've already written down that people watch Wimbledon, the Ashes, and usually go on holidays to countries like Spain to get a tan, and have BBQs in their back garden. Is there anything else significant that happens during the season that people can think of?

I'll reiterate I'm looking for serious answers. This isn't a thread to make snarky comments about us Brits. I've already got them noted down

Many thanks in advance to anyone that can help.

 

[Total LOLige]

Music festivals man. Camping in wet fields listening to music.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Drink.

Get dragged to shitty seaside towns to sit on dirty, crowded beaches, interspersed with dipping in (and swiftly exiting) the ice-cold sea. And picnics.

 

[San Martin]

Football in the park. Amongst my friends, even those who wouldn't touch a football during the rest of the year, and whose knowledge of the sport is frozen in about 1998 (fucking amazing goal by Michael Owen in the world cup semi-final, amirite?), are perfectly happy to play football with friends as soon as the sun starts shining.

I'd say also, sitting on a picnic blanket in the park or a garden and drinking cider, often whilst having a barbeque.

Going out for a an evening stroll across the brow of the nearest hill and watching the sun go down.

Well, those are the best things I remember from my Summers back in secondary school. Any help?

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Get hayfever and spend 3 months in anaphylactic shock.

What?

Just me?

Some people say they enjoy summer, but I don't believe 'em.

 

[Matthew Jabour]

There is no summer in Britain.

 

[Zykon TheLich_v1legacy]

I live in in the deepest south of Cornwall, Straw Dogs territory, so I tend to sneak off to the nice beaches that few of the Emmets know about and also complain that all the roads are clogged up. I have in the past go on holiday to places like Snowdonia, Peak Distrist, Lake District, Yorkshire Dales. There's usually a few large raves around in early summer before they all move off for technivals on the continent, usually Spain or France but some in Germany.

 

[Terramax]

Music festivals man. Camping in wet fields listening to music.

Which music festivals are in the Summer?

I'd say also, sitting on a picnic blanket in the park or a garden and drinking cider, often whilst having a barbeque.

Cider huh? What part of the UK to you hail from?

 

[Evonisia]

Summer would imply that there is a sun in the sky... and in England we only have "The Great Light Bulb In The Sky" that the British Government turns on and turns to high up sometimes.

During this time I often spend my time cursing the sun and hiding in the shade or buildings. Thank whatever's up there that I don't get hayfever much any more. Oh yeah and sometimes I watch Wimbledon, but it's not really entertaining enough to watch consistently because I hate sports.

 

[-Ezio-]

well we complain about the heat, for the one week it's hot. then we complain about the cold and rain.

 

[Abomination]

Trick question - there is no such thing a summer in the British Isles.

 

[Total LOLige]

Music festivals man. Camping in wet fields listening to music.

Which music festivals are in the Summer?

There are loads, I'll see how many I can think of off the top of my head. Latitude, Rockness, T in the Park, Glastonbury, Kendal Calling, Leeds Festival, V Festival, Isle of Wight Festival, Hard Rock Calling. I'm pretty sure there all in the summer.

 

[latiasracer]

Either one of the following :


1.) Stay inside on the Internet

2.) Go to a different country



That about sums it up for me!

 

[Bertylicious]

Barbeques every day the sun shines. Go for walks in woodland & the lake district. Go to quanit seaside towns and eat ice cream. Have picnics in the park. Play cricket. Make double entendres over the smack of leather on willow. Wear pretty dresses and/or lust after women in pretty dresses. Do vast quantitites of gardening.

Drink cider. Wear very little and go to warehouses to listen to electronic techno music in the dark and be offered things by strangers. Drink more cider. Walk to a pub next to a canal to have a full english breakfast and a pint. Drink yet more cider. Walk to all the pubs on the canal drinking cider in all of them. Have a massive headache.

Repeat until winter/dead.

 

[CriticalMiss]

Back garden BBQs, playing tennis in the rain without getting hypothermia, swimming, camping, hiking in the Yorkshire Dales, beating back the tsunami of illegal immigrants pouring out of the channel tunn...

I'm looking for serious answers, if anyone has any suggestions?

Ok, maybe not that last one.

Mostly the Steam Summer Sale. That's what's going to occupy most of my Summer. Now that I have a chance to play through my backlog of games I need to make sure I have at least 50 games I will eventually get around to playing one day probably maybe.

 

[88chaz88]

Music festivals man. Camping in wet fields listening to music.

Which music festivals are in the Summer?

There are loads, I'll see how many I can think of off the top of my head. Latitude, Rockness, T in the Park, Glastonbury, Kendal Calling, Leeds Festival, V Festival, Isle of Wight Festival, Hard Rock Calling. I'm pretty sure there all in the summer.

Don't forget Download, the Cambridge Folk Festival, Reading (same as Leeds but in Reading), Radio 1's Big Weekend, and so on. Also there are a shit-ton of festivals that aren't strictly music ones going on. Every county has one happening as well as the famed Edinburgh festival, you also have car shows, cider festivals, food festivals, farmer's markets (I live in the South West, can you tell? ).

 

[UniversalRonin]

Honestly, Summer is peak season at work. So, make money.
When I'm not making money, however, spend time in parks reading, chilling having a barbecue with mates, or just generally trying to be outside,and where the unwashed masses aren't. (Be it my back garden, or actually inside with the windows open.)

 

[Total LOLige]

Music festivals man. Camping in wet fields listening to music.

Which music festivals are in the Summer?

There are loads, I'll see how many I can think of off the top of my head. Latitude, Rockness, T in the Park, Glastonbury, Kendal Calling, Leeds Festival, V Festival, Isle of Wight Festival, Hard Rock Calling. I'm pretty sure there all in the summer.

Don't forget Download, the Cambridge Folk Festival, Reading (same as Leeds but in Reading), Radio 1's Big Weekend, and so on. Also there are a shit-ton of festivals that aren't strictly music ones going on. Every county has one happening as well as the famed Edinburgh festival, you also have car shows, cider festivals, food festivals, farmer's markets (I live in the South West, can you tell? ).

^ Yeah, what he said. Also, we sunbath when it's sunny and when it's above 12c we walk around with no T-shirts on.

 

[Da Orky Man]

I live in Wales. There is no summer here, just slightly warmer rain.

It just seems really dumb to me.

The flag of the Hejaz region of Saudi Arabia? An odd choice, I must say.

EDIT: No, probably the flag of Palestine. R&P may be a better place for that.

Anyway, OP, have the occasional barbecue in the fleeting moments without rain, visit grandparents in England, play through the cascade of new games from the Steam sales, and do some gardening.