Everyone says that summer is too short. And they're right. Which is why we need to celebrate every sunray it gives us. So to start things off right, we at Bored Panda decided to commemorate the 1st of June with memes that perfectly describe summertime.
From putting on shorts to sitting inside the house with the AC set to 65, here's a list of things we'll go through before September.
When you're done scrolling, fire up these funny comics about summer problems too!
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Yeah, I'm still waiting for my second vaccine shot from Moderna and then I have to wait two more weeks to be able to really relax (and even then it's not 100%). Also, there are new variants coming (recent news was about a variant discovered in Vietnam) since most of the world isn't vaccinated so the virus has a lot of opportunity to further mutate
Load More Replies...Haha! Guess what!? MY SUMMER STARTS ON FRIDAY WHOOP! SCHOOL ENDS ON FRIDAY TO EXCITED TO END 9th GRADE
Right? I used to live in the middle of nowhere surrounded by fields. Peaceful and quiet. Moved to a place near woods - the NOISE! Hadn't experienced full-on dawn chorus before then. Was a teensy bit of a shock.
Load More Replies...I'd rather listen to birds singing, than constant traffic noise, sirens from police/ambulance every 30 to 40 minutes, drunk idiots screaming on the parking lot and listening to music with their cars in the middle of the night.... I really would rather live near a forest than in the City :(
I had a bird whose mating call was hammering on the metal street sign outside my window at 4:30am.
I have a mourning dove outside my window, cooing every single morning
My level of tolerance towards birds is way higher than it is towards humans. Birds can s**t on my car as much as they like, they still manage to cheer me up. On the other hand, I barely accept that my neighbors remind me of their existence. Especially at 5 AM.
God forbid you sleep with your windows open, it's so frickin' noisy! Birds, bugs, frogs, whatever going all night long and they all just get noisier during the morning when they really wake up. I can just hear them having drunken parties at night about nest building and who got a bigger or nicer nest and "Why did you step on the eggs, clumsy? Now I have to start all over." and other stuff.
Of course, keep in mind that the seasons in the Northern Hemisphere are the opposite of those in the Southern Hemisphere. This means that in places like Argentina and Australia, June is actually the beginning of winter. The winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere is June 20 or 21, while the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, is December 21 or 22.
We have seasons because Earth is tilted on its axis relative to the orbital plane, the invisible, flat disc where most objects in the solar system orbit the sun. Earth's axis is an invisible line that runs through its center, from pole to pole. Earth rotates around its axis.
THAT LOOK. It's literally how I feel when there is any insect around me.
What makes this a Lovecraftian horror is that it's the Mosquito that is having the feeling of being observed but can't locate the source of the feeling. Yet.
Load More Replies...Mosquitos don't usually bother me, but wasps and bumblebees hunt me down.
I once woke up to a bedroom full of wasps, they even got under my duvet. I got stung up to hell just trying to get out of bed. I counted 15 stings in all.
Wow! How'd they get in there? Was there a nest somewhere in your room?
Load More Replies...My dad's car often has the temperature listed as 100 degrees or higher whenever anyone first goes in (usually on particularly sunny and/or otherwise hot days)... it often feels that way.
Feels wonderful my office is kept super cold and i dont use air conditioning unless it over 100. I sometimes drive home in the hot car because i have been so cold at the office
I. GET. THIS. I AM LIKE THE ONLY PERSON WITH LIKE A BILLON MOSQUITO BITES ( not a billon but like A LOT, like enough to give me scars)
In June, when the Northern Hemisphere is tilted toward the sun, the sun's rays hit us for a greater part of the day than in winter. This means we get more hours of daylight. Conversely, in December, when the Northern Hemisphere is tilted away from the sun, there's fewer hours of daylight.
Seasons not only impact our vacation schedule but also have an enormous influence on vegetation and plant growth. If you need a laugh amidst this reality, a good vacation meme might lighten the mood and offer a humorous perspective on the changing seasons. Winter typically has cold weather, little daylight, and limited plant growth.
But in spring, plants sprout, tree leaves unfurl, and flowers blossom. Since summer is the warmest time of the year and has the most daylight, plants grow quickly during this time of year. But in autumn, temperatures drop, and many trees lose their leaves.
Not so much now that we have air conditioning, but years ago.........YES.
I'm a reading teacher. When school is in session I work from 7am to 7:30 most week days and I work Sundays as well. I will also be spending a portion of my summer creating a reading program for my school.... y'all, summer break is necessary to keep your kids and your kids' teachers alive and functioning haha
i think the gym teachers have it best. they only work 8:30 - 4:30 at max. During exam period they don't have anything special to do and they get all school holidays. Their preparation also seems easier than most other teachers prep.
Load More Replies...Well, it's not the whole of summer, but we get at least 3 weeks. If you saved some days and your boss agrees, you can easily take 4-6 weeks.
The four-season year, however, is typical only in the mid-latitudes; areas that are neither near the poles nor near the Equator. The farther north you go, the bigger the differences in the seasons. Helsinki, Finland, for example, sees 18.5 hours of daylight in the middle of June. In mid-December, however, there is daylight for less than 6 hours. Athens, Greece, on the other hand, is in southern Europe, and has a smaller variation—14.5 hours of daylight in June and 9.5 hours in December.
But whatever your summer is like, you should find something relevant on this list!
Hah, that really is true for me. Though even with a tan people are saying 'wow, you're so pale'. My dears, you should see me in the winter.
I always put my 'tanned' arm against my snow white belly... They are two different shades of white :D
Load More Replies...Me, because I have to cover up to keep from getting sunburned and have sun sensitivity.
Story of my life! Am so fair skinned that a few minutes in the sun turns me bright red and in dire pain. So, wear sunglasses and pretend I have a tan.
This is me. I like to say i'm truly Canadian, as i am either red or white (like our flag)
I have no friends with boats or pools...I live on an island. I've clearly made some bad life choices.
I have a boat and a pool and I can smell you from seventeen kilometers. 😁
Used to like it when I was a kid. Now, I'm like "just grab what you need and run away from this Antarctic"!
Noooooo! The difference is usually very big, like it's 40o C outside and 18o C inside and I just can't handle it
I always get excited when we go to the freezers. Still do. TRY AND CHANGE ME
I live in Greece 🎉🎉...and yeah on our 5-10 days vacation we melt under then sun with 40⁰C and then we dive into the sea and we melt again and we dive again. The rest of the summer, when we work, we just simply meeeeeelt !!!!
Well, hello fellow Greek!! Especially this year i don't mind melting as long as it's a better summer than last year!!
Load More Replies...It's quite convenient in California to be able to plan any summer weekend ahead of time and never worry about the weather. It'll be blue sky and sunny with low humidity
I don't get this one. I went to England one summer and it was the least horrible one in my life.
We do get some very good summer days. Just not necessarily during the summer
Don't laugh, but I actually got Sun Stroke in England, We lived in Bury Lancashire. I was 9
The way it's going here in CA, I'd gladly swap for an English summer.
A couple of weeks ago the media said they had “an early heatwave in London”. Said it was 67f which is 13c. I live in Australia. I laughed so hard I could hardly read the UK citizenship application.
If you’re a redhead like me, there is no way to avoid sunburns. I will get them somehow no matter what I do.
I like this, now I can tell my mom that I based my decisions on actual data
One job told me "No dressing like you are going to the beach" as the dress code. When going to the beach I am totally covered up with a wide brimmed hat, scarf, long sleeves, spf 50 sun block and a parasol. When they then said "No shorts" for the delivery drivers I replied "That's ok, I can wear a short skirt". Delivery drivers could wear long, tailored, plain shorts from then on.
Luckily, it takes a lot for me to be burned, so I haven’t gotten a sunburn... yet
Alas, no sunscreen can protect you from getting a tan. After two weeks of spring I look like I spend all summer in Ibiza, it's disgusting.
Deodorant stick (not spray, not roll-on) might help with this, if you're wearing skirts/dresses. It used to help me back before I lost weight.
Load More Replies...Oh, and do NOT set your kids on the metal animal statues in parks and zoos without touching them yourself first! Every summer there are horror stories in the news or I see kids touch them! 3rd degree burns are possible.
When I was a kid (I'm 60) the car seats were all plastic. God the agony! I was thrilled when material seats came in. And I stopped being car sick.
Need a new couch. In Minnesota you'd think not a big deal, right? Husband orders a freaking LEATHER couch. Not only do we have weird-swinging temps all year long in the Twin Cities, but the humidity is next level. Look forward to reading my divorce decree in the Star-Trib....(jk, I love the idiot too much)
It is taking your children to the hospital because they got burnt on an inflatable slide season.
Last summer I would just be sitting on my couch and be like, “Nice, ANOTHER one.”
Oh what wisdom do you have dad of the plastic tub filled with water?
Your dad's cool -- or he has a problem. Chew on an etable and neither matters.
That is a great idea, I may have try it this yeat, if my dogs will leave me alone, lol.
Can I just take a moment to express my deep love for whoever fitted this tortoise with jean shorts please? I'm incomplete without you.
Smart to attach a dog tag to his shell. These guys can escape their yards.
I did gaming... lot's and lot's of gaming. Oh and some baking.. lot's and lot's of baking. :D
I approve of the amount of baking and gaming you did last summer.
Load More Replies...I sunbathe in the shade. Slow tan without burning, unless I forget about reflected light
I don’t need to sunbathe for a tan! I just go and do stuff outside while forgetting sunscreen everyday and bam! I get a tan that lasts even during winter.
Agree, but how cool would it be to still pay one price and you choose each size!
Load More Replies...It’s so you can buy different sizes for top and bottom if you need to.
The freaks that realized women have different shapes so they might need different sizes for top and bottom.
Because one is not the same corresponding size up top as bottom? What kinda dumbass question is that?
I'm not an anti-vaxer but I'm not getting this vaccine. My parents did though. My dad got heart palpitations with the second dose and ended up in the hospital for a week because they wouldn't stop and my mom got only the first dose because it gave her all the symptoms of lymphatic breast cancer. It was painful and scary. It didn't clear up for a long while. All the kids decided that we probably shouldn't get the vaccine because adverse reactions can be genetic.
Jerry Conaway, my d**k is bigger than yours. That's all you need to know.
The injection site was painful! All I had to do was press with the stylus exactly into the middle of the patch. Then the patch came off and I didn't find any pain anymore...
Those of us over the age of 70 start the car, turn on the AC, return to the house and wait 10 minutes. Screw the gas waste. Better than a stroke!
And all your friends did exactly the same thing, but nobody admits it.
Office meetings were the worst in the summer. The managers LOVED to rub it in our faces how nice and warm it is outside while we had to sit under fluorescent lights, breathing in recycled air and mulling over data.
Reading comments about having to go to work makes me realize how much I do not miss working. The paycheck - yes. Some of the people - yes. Actually working - no. Gotta love retirement!
Load More Replies...A couple of years when I was working as a programmer we were behind on projects and I literally went through the Summer not even seeing daylight except on Sundays. Definitely don't recommend it!
That is definitely Stanley Hudson! He must be happy cuz hes in Florida!
With that smile, he looks like he'd be really great company too. I'll bet he has a brilliant booming laugh to go with it!
Load More Replies...Okay - laughing, eating, surrounded by a gorgeous house and amazing garden . . . by the way, who is your gardener, anyway? And while we're at it - your dentist.
Damn, that's knowing other schools finish a month early and looking at them playing around in the sunshine xD
At least in the summer, it is properly light outside, it is warm, I can go out with wet hair after the shower and do not have to pile on a ton of clothing.
This was the feeling I had when I started working after high school. I couldn't believe that Christmas was the only stat holiday and you could actually be made to work Christmas eve and boxing day, and that Easter holiday is on Sunday and your work can make you come in on the Monday.
Everybody makes me cover their shifts in the summer because I don’t party/swim :(
Promises, promises...seriously, we haven't had snow here for almost 20 years, and we've already hit above 100-degree weather.
well, imagine living in an all-time hot n humid place like Singapore. just no.
woo hoo, in 29 weeks from today I get married, it's the first year ever I was excited for summer to be over.
My husband and I can sit outside on our deck with our dogs for hours and I will come in bitten all over and he will have zero mosquito bites. That will never stop pissing me off.
Actually, it's weird for me that everyone gets freaked out by wasps xD. Like I leave them alone, they leave me alone. I remember last summer I left out some fanta on a plate to get it to stop flying around and annoying everyone, and it was so beautiful, the slim body, pulsating, the amazing anatomy! It's weird how different things can be so different from different perspectives <3
well if ur deathly allergic like i m of wasp bees hornets etc ya its normal. not only that but the sting hurts like hell allergic or not
Load More Replies...blockdog a murder hornet from asia can actually kill a human with one sting. they dont really have enemies bc the vemon in their sting is so powerful. if the sting isnt treated a human can die easily if stung more then once their survival rate drastically decreases. some cases they wont even try saving the person bc theyve been stung too many times. only 1 thing is capable of killing a murder hornet easily and thats a praying mantis
And ticks and chiggers (southern biting bugs) and the huge ass grass spiders that slide under the bathroom door...
Wasps at night? Ending a night party under, on, or next to a wasp's nest is usually helpful.
What's the thing with the wasps memes ? Do some countries have wasps plague or something?
Don´t forget about your pets! Place a hand on the ground and if it is too hot for you, it is too hot for them.
Remember beach sand is that hot to as you brave it and run for the water and stop in any shadow as you run.
lol where i live it's still too hot in october wait til november. we got the hot and the cold season with a little mini-spring.
I found new ones yesterday that we didn't have last year. They are BIG and black and sound like a small moped. Aaaarg
I wanted to chill out on the lawn last year. I've thought of everything: blanket, pillow, drink, snack, taking care of the shade of the tree and smearing it with insect repellent. After 10 minutes I gave up because some nasty bastards stabbed through my clothes. :-(
I could never wear that first one. I get really self conscious about certain types of clothes
we dont have summer here so i dont really get this one... can someone explain...
I don't get it either. Though summers here are brutal so you gotta wear something light - coloured to stay cool.
Load More Replies...Actually, black colors absorb light, so you'll end up getting hotter faster than if you wore white, which light bounces off of.
Y'all only wear black in summer? I wear it year round. Goth forever!!!
Slow-mo guys. They filled it with water until it exploded and filmed it (in slow mo).
It's a giant balloon filled with water, and as it exploded they filmed it in slow motion and put in on their youtube channel, called The Slow Mo Guys. They have multiple videos of giant balloons popping, but they also have tons of other awesome looking stuff
Load More Replies...I wanna do that!! Its a giant water balloon bath!! BOUNCY
Pretty sure that here in Wisconsin, the mosquitos enjoy the taste of it.
What is this "office" you speak about? I seem to have forgotten.
Every year we get people setting up picnics on blankets on the ground at the woods by the beach. If I'm feeling kind, I warn them that it's a busy dog walking/play area and they'll have to defend the food from ninja pups. Keep the food in the sealed containers til you are ready to transfer it to your mouth, then hope the gulls don't swoop
Well actually if the human race hadn't fed them with scraps, they wouldn't be stealing our food. Seagulls usually feed on little fish and such...
You can't play outside in summer, because you are already burnt alive the moment you open the door.
You have to get way out in the country to be able to see that. Over the years country is further to get to. I still live in an area some remaining starry skies. But I'm being quickly closed in on.☹
It is because there is one thing you forgot to do : to lie. That's social networks' rule 1.
I hate flip flops. They hurt my poor toes. And always flip sand onto my legs at the beach and I hate it so much
Why do people keep having hopes and expectations, although they totally know life sucks equally every season?
They mean 18 degrees Celsius and I have no idea what this references or why it's supposed to be funny.
Thanks for translating the temperature from "those weird Americans" to "normal people".
Load More Replies...Funny how 18C in your house in the summer can feel wonderfully cool when it's 34C outside. But when the weather outside gets to be 18C it's "Im going to need a sweater. It's cold outside".
Be careful though. If it's 18 inside and 34 outside, the temp difference when you go out can be such a shock it can kill you. Better keep it 24 inside. It will still feel cool and won't cause a problem when you go out.
Load More Replies...Over where I am, ice cream is more expensive than that.
Load More Replies...There was so much sun yesterday, too much. Waaaay too much.
Something must be wrong cause it was raining in Greece!
Load More Replies...This is like, the one time I agree with Ryan.
Load More Replies...Exchange students are horrified that picnics, walks and barbecues are not cancelled due to rain. We just take umbrellas and waterproofs. BIG umbrellas to cover the barbecue and food
Yes, why do offices, restaurants, movie theatres in the US have to be kept so frigid cold?
Same as visiting other people in the winter when they have the heat on high...lots of layers (all my summer clothes at the same time)
"Do not be in your feelings this summer about nothing"? WTH does that mean? Is that proper English, because I don't understand this at all.
Poor grammar + toxic positivity new age personal improvement Instagram bullshit = that s**t.
I would say that I miss winter, but I'm pretty sure it skipped my town this year.
I don't know.... second picture looks like a crime scene😅😅
Load More Replies...Not all people can. Underage person here, whose mother is allergic to a lot of the vaccines. We're not anti-vax. Just careful.
Load More Replies...I'm starting to work on my bikini body tomorrow. Summer 2022 here I come!! 😂
You have a bikini? Have a body? Put it on - voilà - bikini body! ;)
Load More Replies...I hear you! I'm like a magnet for the little f-ers. They seek me out, and for some reason when they bite my legs, they leave bruises, not anywhere but my legs have that reaction.
Load More Replies...I hate summer. I hate the heat, it's so uncomfortable. I hate the bugs, I hate the sunburn, I hate the crowds everywhere in my town (I live in a touristy town by the coast) and Ijust hate everything about summer.
I've never been stung by a bee or a wasp, but those mosquitoes... we got somethin' special between us. They love me, and they leave tons and tons of itchy lil bumps all over me <3 xd
There is a certain blood type that mosquitos lile more than others. I think its AB- but idk.
Load More Replies...I prefer fall. When all the mosquitoes have died, and it’s slight cold, but not cold enough to put on a jacket.
The ones about boredom, bugs and awful weather make sense... The others don't.
I hear you! I'm like a magnet for the little f-ers. They seek me out, and for some reason when they bite my legs, they leave bruises, not anywhere but my legs have that reaction.
Load More Replies...I hate summer. I hate the heat, it's so uncomfortable. I hate the bugs, I hate the sunburn, I hate the crowds everywhere in my town (I live in a touristy town by the coast) and Ijust hate everything about summer.
I've never been stung by a bee or a wasp, but those mosquitoes... we got somethin' special between us. They love me, and they leave tons and tons of itchy lil bumps all over me <3 xd
There is a certain blood type that mosquitos lile more than others. I think its AB- but idk.
Load More Replies...I prefer fall. When all the mosquitoes have died, and it’s slight cold, but not cold enough to put on a jacket.
The ones about boredom, bugs and awful weather make sense... The others don't.
