The Met Office has issued a rare Extreme Red Warning today, calling for limits on making comparisons between the current heatwave and the UK drought of 1976.
The warning comes as references to the summer of 1976 - particularly from your gran - continue to reach unprecedented highs.
'As global temperatures continue to rise, its perhaps inevitable that we'll see an uptick in nostalgic and sometimes passive-aggressive references to how much hotter the heatwave in 1976 was compared to this one', noted Muggy Close, from the Met Office.
'However, people often don't appreciate the dangers of gratuitous references back to 1976', continued Close. 'It almost inevitably leads to a long detour into the prevalence of white dog shit, standpipes on the end of every street, and how much better telly was on a Saturday night, what with Morecambe and Wise, The Two Ronnies, Rentaghost, oh and that weird cartoon thing - what was it called - Bod?'
Some have called for a trading system on 1976 references to be introduced, which would allow the heaviest users - such as the Daily Mail, that annoying old guy stood at the bar in your local pub, and Peter Kay, to continue to ply their trade, albeit at a cost.
Peter Kay was approached for comment and responded saying 'Oh, its too warm for me, I like it warm, but I don't like it this warm', before moving on to ask why kids in the 70s always slid on their knees across the dance floor at a wedding.
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