"Treacherous roads"

[Captain Muppet]

Dear BBC news reporters: roads that are slippery from being covered in highly visible white snow are not "treacherous", they are bloody obviously slippery, you dolts.

FFS.

Better words are needed. I quite like "snowy". Perfectly describes the roads without building any undeserved drama or dread.


Although I hugely enjoyed the Met office yellow snow warning. Sure, you called it "amber", but it was yellow. Ha.

[Captain Muppet]

Thanks for moving it to politics mods, I was hoping no one would read this thread.

[mybrainhurts]

Captain Muppet said:

Although I hugely enjoyed the Met office yellow snow warning. Sure, you called it "amber", but it was yellow.

Not in my neck of the woods, it wasn't. It was a very bright shade of bloody red...

[DeuxCentCinq]

Captain Muppet said:

Thanks for moving it to politics mods, I was hoping no one would read this thread.

They need to do something to justify their huge salaries.

[andym1603]

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1020379656...

This is when you decide to leave the house a little earlier. Picture taken late seventies if I remember correctly.

[Captain Muppet]

Hey mods, almost none of these replies are about politics, but I have noticed they have time stamps on, so maybe shift the entire thread over to the watches forum for a bit?

[Beati Dogu]

Just be thankful journalists know at least one other adjective than 'devastated', which is used to cover every eventuality from a tsunami to split ends.

[Squawk1066]

Captain Muppet said:

Hey mods, almost none of these replies are about politics, but I have noticed they have time stamps on, so maybe shift the entire thread over to the watches forum for a bit?

[mybrainhurts]

[Jasandjules]

Well trying vainly get this political, they now appear to say "wintry showers" which I assume is because there is no more snow due to the Global Warming they tax us for....

[Tannedbaldhead]

Are these roads betraying people?

Can roads be hung for this treason?

[itannum990]

Have they affected house prices?

We need to know these things!

[Willy Nilly]

I trust the Merc ML in MBH's post scoffed at the light dusting of snow and roared off up the road like nothing had happened.

Edited by Willy Nilly on Saturday 31st January 16:09

[GetCarter]

They are sometimes treacherous here.

Just in case you come up and mistakenly think they are 'snowy'.

Edited by GetCarter on Saturday 31st January 16:35

[Captain Muppet]

GetCarter said:

They are sometimes treacherous here.

Just in case you come up and mistakenly think they are 'snowy'.

I've been to the Arctic, which is even more North than Scotland, and I've worked in parts of the US where you get a foot of snow every day for a month.

Roads with snow on them are not treacherous, just very slippery, as advertised by the fact that they are covered in snow. Sometimes the snow covers ice, which is also slippery. The only way they could be treacherous is if they were unexpectedly grippy.

[MC Bodge]

Winter weather in winter SHOCKA!

[GetCarter]

Captain Muppet said:

GetCarter said:

They are sometimes treacherous here.

Just in case you come up and mistakenly think they are 'snowy'.

I've been to the Arctic, which is even more North than Scotland, and I've worked in parts of the US where you get a foot of snow every day for a month.

Roads with snow on them are not treacherous, just very slippery, as advertised by the fact that they are covered in snow. Sometimes the snow covers ice, which is also slippery. The only way they could be treacherous is if they were unexpectedly grippy.

I used to work in Norway. Roads can be treacherous. Believe me!

Here, if I drive at 1 mph down the 1:3 hill when it is covered in sheet ice with snow on top - I can't, even with hill decent control, stop the 4x4 from going into a skid. What would consider treacherous?

Edited by GetCarter on Saturday 31st January 17:32

[GetCarter]

Captain Muppet said:

GetCarter said:

They are sometimes treacherous here.

Just in case you come up and mistakenly think they are 'snowy'.

I've been to the Arctic, which is even more North than Scotland, and I've worked in parts of the US where you get a foot of snow every day for a month.

Roads with snow on them are not treacherous, just very slippery, as advertised by the fact that they are covered in snow. Sometimes the snow covers ice, which is also slippery. The only way they could be treacherous is if they were unexpectedly grippy.

I used to work in Norway. Roads can be treacherous. Believe me!

Here, if I drive at 1 mph down the 1:3 hill when it is covered in sheet ice with snow on top - I can't, even with hill decent control, stop the 4x4 from going into a skid. What would consider treacherous?


I think a definition might clear this up: >>> Treacherous = "dangerous, hazardous, perilous, unsafe, precarious, risky, deceptive, unreliable, undependable, unstable"

Everything my 1:3 hill was last week!

Edited by GetCarter on Saturday 31st January 17:43

[Captain Muppet]

GetCarter said:

Captain Muppet said:

GetCarter said:

They are sometimes treacherous here.

Just in case you come up and mistakenly think they are 'snowy'.

I've been to the Arctic, which is even more North than Scotland, and I've worked in parts of the US where you get a foot of snow every day for a month.

Roads with snow on them are not treacherous, just very slippery, as advertised by the fact that they are covered in snow. Sometimes the snow covers ice, which is also slippery. The only way they could be treacherous is if they were unexpectedly grippy.

I used to work in Norway. Roads can be treacherous. Believe me!

Here, if I drive at 1 mph down the 1:3 hill when it is covered in sheet ice with snow on top - I can't, even with hill decent control, stop the 4x4 from going into a skid. What would consider treacherous?

Edited by GetCarter on Saturday 31st January 17:32

Snowy road is slippery. What else would you expect?

[Monkeylegend]

I like a "dump"