We've gone soft :(

[CAPP0]

Aaaaargh, we're all doomed I tell ya, this may be my last-ever post.....



Apols for the twisted pic, 'twas how the software uploaded it, no time to alter it as I need to invoke my survival plan.

[W124Bob]

Rather worryingly a chap across the road has just bought a snowplough for his LR Defender, in south Manchester!

[V88Dicky]

W124Bob said:

Rather worryingly a chap across the road has just bought a snowplough for his LR Defender, in south Manchester!

A spot of moonlighting, perhaps?

[xjsdriver]

CAPP0 said:

Aaaaargh, we're all doomed I tell ya, this may be my last-ever post.....



Apols for the twisted pic, 'twas how the software uploaded it, no time to alter it as I need to invoke my survival plan.

Ah, a choice of two choice 4x4s to nip down to the supermarket/farmer's market in...

[Blib]

When I'm Emperor the second thing I'm going to do is ban 24 hour, 'rolling' news.

[steveatesh]

motco said:

V88Dicky said:

valiant said:

Just for once I'd like the weather bods to say, "It's winter. Deal with it."

Weatherman Thomas Shafernaker (sic) often does.

Surprised he's still allowed on the BBC

He was kicked off for a while I seem to recall. He once said that back home in Poland this weather would seem like summer was coming.

A few years ago our local regional weatherman stated that he thought the idea a trace gas was causing global warming (as it was called then) was nonsense and how could the sun be ignored.

We didn't see him again.

[V8 Fettler]

I can't recall being given a day off school for any weather (old git). Winter of 78/79, couldn't see the roads under the snow, still got to work on the motorbike. Admittedly, it was scrambler (as they were called then).

Ah, the old days; why, I remember when <editorial snip>

[jbudgie]

motco said:

V88Dicky said:

valiant said:

Just for once I'd like the weather bods to say, "It's winter. Deal with it."

Weatherman Thomas Shafernaker (sic) often does.

Surprised he's still allowed on the BBC

He was kicked off for a while I seem to recall. He once said that back home in Poland this weather would seem like summer was coming.

Think he was warned once for making a 'gesture' at the newsreader.

[Cliftonite]

xjsdriver said:

CAPP0 said:

Aaaaargh, we're all doomed I tell ya, this may be my last-ever post.....



Apols for the twisted pic, 'twas how the software uploaded it, no time to alter it as I need to invoke my survival plan.

Ah, a choice of two choice 4x4s to nip down to the supermarket/farmer's market in...

Or should that be 'three'?

Some people are just greedy!

[Derek Smith]

55palfers said:

I was in junior school in 1963 and I don't recall the schools ever being closed.

Didn't the snow come over the Xmas holidays?

[CAPP0]

Cliftonite said:

xjsdriver said:

CAPP0 said:

Aaaaargh, we're all doomed I tell ya, this may be my last-ever post.....



Apols for the twisted pic, 'twas how the software uploaded it, no time to alter it as I need to invoke my survival plan.

Ah, a choice of two choice 4x4s to nip down to the supermarket/farmer's market in...

Or should that be 'three'?

Some people are just greedy!

Ah yes, well spotted, there are indeed 3 of Solihull's finest out there. Here's a gratuitous shot from the "Show us" thread. In my defence, the FFRR is my daily, the 90 belongs to the dog, and the RRC was just an itch which needed to be scratched and came up for sale locally, and is probably not a keeper!

[55palfers]

egor110 said:

55palfers said:

I was in junior school in 1963 and I don't recall the schools ever being closed.

We didn't have central heating either.

I expect a lot of the teachers lived in the same village as the school plus there were no h&s rules as to how many children a member of staff can look after.

The village was Birmingham

[gareth_r]

55palfers said:

egor110 said:

55palfers said:

I was in junior school in 1963 and I don't recall the schools ever being closed.

We didn't have central heating either.

I expect a lot of the teachers lived in the same village as the school plus there were no h&s rules as to how many children a member of staff can look after.

The village was Birmingham

Everyone lived close to work in 1963. Schools were smaller and had a smaller catchment area. Children went to the local school, there was no choice (and no Ofsted report). People used to clear the pavements outside their houses.

Different times.

[motco]

Derek Smith said:

55palfers said:

I was in junior school in 1963 and I don't recall the schools ever being closed.

Didn't the snow come over the Xmas holidays?

It did. But it lasted until March! I was honing my early driving skills during that winter - in a 1947 Morris Ten Series 'M'. Big, narrow wheels with cross ply tyres.

[Megaflow]

Blib said:

When I'm Emperor the second thing I'm going to do is ban 24 hour, 'rolling' news.

What's the first thing?



This year I've stopped watching the news and weather, because of rolling 24 hour 'news' they have so much time to fill, with so little, they over react to everything.

Whilst there are some truely shocking events in the world, 911, Boston marathon, Norway lunatic, Paris, etc. In the grand scheme of things they mean very little, the world still continues to rotate and the sun will continue to rise and set.

Unless you are directly involved of course, in which case you wouldn't be relying on 24 hour 'news' for updates.

I'll deal with what lands on my doorstep when it lands.

[JMGS4]

It's laughable really how all the weather reports are overhyped... same happened in New York where the namby pambies even had a vehicle ban in place!!! Nobody mentioned that the same amount of snow fell in New England, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick... no real problems apart from the school buses not running i.e. schools closed, everyone else just got on with it....!!!

It's just the green f*ckwittery to overexagerate all news to brainwash sheeple into believing their lies and unproven hypotheses!

[Blib]

It is unfortunate that those with a Green bent seem to be driven by fear and insecurity. They then try to impose their inherent unease onto the rest of us.

This desperate desire to control their world, to make it 'safe' (sic), is very corrosive to society.

[Flip Martian]

Couldn't agree more with most posts on this thread. I am loving the irony though of a thread about common sense having a picture of 3 4x4s parked on a drive on a regular modern housing estate.

[LeoZwalf]

Dog Star said:

If they stay at home they should be made to study complex subjects or equations etc (and be tested), do some of that marking or lesson prep work (oh, sorry, they do that all summer), or even endlessly crank a handle with a counter on it like in a Victorian prison.

Flame suit on I'm especially liking my cranking handle idea

Edited by Dog Star on Thursday 29th January 16:06

Ìt's amazing what you can learn on PH.

Victorian cranking handle punishment aka "The Crank" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G42qEPxfYkQ
Sometimes feels like that when I'm at work!

[CAPP0]

Flip Martian said:

Couldn't agree more with most posts on this thread. I am loving the irony though of a thread about common sense having a picture of 3 4x4s parked on a drive on a regular modern housing estate.

This is Pistonheads. When did common sense ever come into vehicle purchasing?