I may be turning into a curmudgeonly old git

[sesquipedality]

I swear there used to be a time when this country didn't implode en masse at the sign of a bit of f***ing weather. We are kind of famous for it, after all.

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[keirf.livejournal.com]

From 1989 to 2006, the years in which I lived in the UK, it's always collapsed in a gibbering heap at the slightest bit of snow, wind, rain, heat or fog. I don't know how far back you have to go for this not to be the case.