uk/ireland snow retards
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- GeorgesII0
I laughed
- stewdio0
It's my first winter in London (coming from NYC). I'm amazed: only 1/4 inch of snow created a total panic in London. Panic. Yet the majority of it went un-shoveled and therefore all the sidewalks are now smoothly glazed death traps. This aggression would not stand in NYC. This aggression... We're talking about a line in the... Across this line YOU. DO. NOT... Oh and dude...
- Dancer0
Do you know what gets me?
People who say - "gawd, you brits.... one bit of snow and the whole country comes to a halt" - Have absolutely no idea and have just jumped on the band wagon without thinking... that's what REALLY fucks me off.
- Amicus0
It's a feckin Ice Age...
- ********0
no seriously we dont get cold like this - saying that I dont live in the warmer south
- detritus0
I'm no global warming sceptic - but I must admit, I'm having a hard time understanding how abnormal cold spells that plummet a few degrees below typical don't somehow compensate, over the year, for incremental degree rises in summer.
I know I'm over simplyfing massively here - but when you see those satellite photos, with the entire northern hemisphere blanketed, it does... oh fuck it. I'm clearly showing my ignorance here.
You get my point.
- detritus0
What does amuse me is to think that, no matter how mind-boggilingly cold it does happen to get - we'll never (in natural terms, anyway) get anywhere the near absolute zero of space, not more than a couple of hundred miles up.
I mean - I'd rather have global warming than ..er.. no atmosphere.
I'm sure I had a point here initially.
- ********0
"uk/ireland snow retards"?
Cut the island some slack. Even in Canada the first snow fall of the year creates chaos.
- ********0
I get ya 1st point...
hot cold - both are unpleasant in extremes.- god i am soooo clever********
- was talking to detritus - always loved that word********
- god i am soooo clever
- ********0
detritus is a great word - just remembered.
- zarkonite0
@detritus: simple.
1. more CO2 = more energy trapped within earth's ecosystem = more aggressive climate = harsher winters and harsher summers with shorter transitions.
2. warmer climate = more evaporation from the ground/oceans = more moisture in the air = more precipitations.So the dry places like deserts get dried up faster/stronger and "wet" places like the winward side of the rockies get more water.
- may I call BS, because simply weather changes. have you heard of the little Ice age? we're not there yet, but going fromGeorgesII
- from global warming to climate change is quite a step, because climate alwaysGeorgesII
- change, 20 years ago we had freak weather in belgium nobody freaked because older peeps told us it was normal 30 years before... you see my pointGeorgesII
- Mojo0
I'm in the UK and I can tell you that:
-Snow is cold
-Snow is bloody cold
-75% Brits are stupid when it comes to driving in snow (drive SLOW, high GEAR, lots of SPACE IN FRONT OF YOU, DICKWAD WITH 8WHEELED LEXUS SHIT MOBILE BEHIND ME!!!)
-1 million lazy shits stayed at home costing the country £10million pounds. The roads were empty yesterday, but most important routes were gritted. You could have at least gone in a little late? Pathetic.
-Tesco carparks become fun when they are covered in snow and ice.... yay handbrake!
- version30
money, marbles, to chalk... he took his meaning from biology
- ukit0
So it's panic on the streets of the U.K.?
- calculator0
what gets me is how it's a surprise to everyone... every year it happens
- rascuache0
I'm pretty much in Mojo's camp.
I can't believe that the dribbling mongs that populate this country shit themselves the second snow falls. Driving in snow ain't that hard. Just fucking chill out. My g/f drives 30 miles to work, and some people that live 5 minutes from the office don't even bother showing up when the weather is like this.
I'm driving 200 miles this evening, and imma do it at 80mph, flipping the bird at everyone I overtake. Pussies.
- ********0
I took a risk and went for a drive last night about 11:00pm in Kent where I live, and it was so mush fun, bloody crazy to see all the abandoned cars on the road but no one driving, I drove around for about 2 hours and at one point in my journey I stopped on a major A road just to take in the silence, on most days this A road has hundreds of cars going up and down it on any given day, it really was a 28 Days later moment, Fantastic.
- Dancer0
A friend of mine tried to get the trai to work yesterday from Guildford to Clapham. Her journey lasted 9 hours and she never made it to work... can't blame her for trying though!
- Jimbo820
Let's not forget that earlier in 09 (end of Jan I think) we had much more snow daaan saaaf in Laandaan than that we've got now. It was proper snow, not this bullshit ice we've got now.
