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Britains share their heatwave misery on Twitter

BRITONS TODAY SAW THE FUNNY SIDE OF THE EXTREME WEATHER BY TAKING TO SOCIAL MEDIA AHEAD OF EXPECTED 106F (40C) TEMPERATURES IN SOME PARTS OF THE COUNTRY. POSTING A PICTURE FROM ICONIC GAME SUPER MARIO BROTHERS, ONE WROTE: ‘REMEMBER THAT LEVEL IN SUPER MARIO 3 WHERE THE SUN IS TRYING TO KILL YOU? THAT’S TODAY

ABOVE AN IMAGE OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST FROM THE ICONIC FILM THE WIZARD OF OZ, ANOTHER WROTE: ‘HAPPY MELTY MONDAY EVERYBODY’ ABOVE A PICTURE OF SINGER BEYONCE’S NEW ALBUM, WHERE SHE IS SEEN SITTING SCANTILY-CLAD ON A HORSE, A THIRD TWITTER USER JOKED: ‘REMEMBER TO DRESS APPROPRIATELY FOR THE EXTREME TEMPERATURE CONDITIONS. I’VE GOT MY OUTFIT SORTED’

THIS TWITTER USER JOKINGLY PHOTOGRAPHED TWO BAGUETTES WITH SOCKS AND SAID: ‘I THINK I MAY HAVE BEEN OUT IN THE SUN A TOUCH TOO LONG’ DOZENS OF BRITONS SAW THE FUNNY SIDE OF THE HOT WEATHER. ONE DEPICTED THE SUN FROM THE CHILDREN’S TV SHOW THE TELETUBBIES SHOUTING AT THE CHARACTERS: ‘I WILL END YOU!!!!’. ANOTHER SHOWED A PORTRAIT OF DIARIST SAMUEL PEPYS - WHO WROTE ABOUT THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON - AND SAID: ‘I SPENT THE FIERY HEAT OF 1666 IN LONDON AND IT NEVER HUT ME AND I STILL DID MY WRITING AND DODGED THE PLAGUE YOU SNOWFLAKES. MAKES YE THINK’