Big freeze...My ars*
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Yes its a little chilly, yes theres a little snow, but its NOT a "Big Freeze"...ffs!
I remember as a kid, 3 foot standing on open ground and 8 foot snow drifts. Thats a Big Freeze...not what we've had thus far.
Sick of all this overexaggeration just to try and "make some news"... SHUT UP!!!!
Rant directed at stupid news presenters, papers and dum weather girls who dont know what cold actually is.....have a word with Polar Ben...im sure he can tell em!
I remember as a kid, 3 foot standing on open ground and 8 foot snow drifts. Thats a Big Freeze...not what we've had thus far.
Sick of all this overexaggeration just to try and "make some news"... SHUT UP!!!!
Rant directed at stupid news presenters, papers and dum weather girls who dont know what cold actually is.....have a word with Polar Ben...im sure he can tell em!
Delta, could not agree more! To see another news generating (lie) story, read the CRAP about Sudan 1 dye..... even the BBC website today has published (had to?) a story from the people who know saying that it's absolute bullshit and the chances of getting cancer are so minimal as to be non-existant!!! worrying up a story is the word/expression I'd use... just to sell a ragpaper...FFS!!!!
birdbrain said:
I met some Canadian guys recently and they said that in some areas of Canada it gets to -35 degrees. Yes, that's -35 degrees.
Now THAT'S cold.
Been in Montreal in -37°C midday (no wind, bearable), same evening it was -57°C, now that's fffff..ing ccccold!!! had to leave the car running while filling up..........
Been in Boston when it was -25 degrees, the gel in my hair froze on the way to work! 
Had to queue for an hour today to get into work because numpties were driving around at 10mph because they were nervous, WTF? In Austria they regulary drive up and down mountain sides covered in snow at a decent speed.
Had to queue for an hour today to get into work because numpties were driving around at 10mph because they were nervous, WTF? In Austria they regulary drive up and down mountain sides covered in snow at a decent speed.
Apparently its been on our local news that the bins will not be emptied in the city this week as "its too dangerous for the workmen" This is in Leicester, the roads are perfectly clear, its above freezing, its hardly snowed at all, theres all of 1/2 inch of snow in even the worst places and its too f
g dangerous!
Won't stop them taking my fg council tax will it? Wonder if my boss will let me stay at home rest of the week as "its too dangerous to come to work"? Bastard numpty councils again, rest of us have to get on with it, apologies if any of you work for councils but in my experience they're all total w@nkers!
g dangerous! Won't stop them taking my f
g council tax will it? Wonder if my boss will let me stay at home rest of the week as "its too dangerous to come to work"? Bastard numpty councils again, rest of us have to get on with it, apologies if any of you work for councils but in my experience they're all total w@nkers!it annoys me that we've had snow up here for a good while but only now is is making the news. we've got about a 9 inches lying and it doesn't get a mention, but to GMbloodyTV it's a disaster when sussex gets 1/2 an inch.
9 inches of snow is worth a mention but in the grand scale, even that is next to nothing. when we were moving house (no central heating!) it was minus 19! that was cold. it's like minus 2 today but because the sun's out just now it's quite nice.
rant, rant, rant!! harumph! harumph (quote blazing saddles)
9 inches of snow is worth a mention but in the grand scale, even that is next to nothing. when we were moving house (no central heating!) it was minus 19! that was cold. it's like minus 2 today but because the sun's out just now it's quite nice.
rant, rant, rant!! harumph! harumph (quote blazing saddles)
I enjoy a good dump as much as the next person. Think the record low temperarure for britain is about -27C which is roughly -16F in altnaharra in highlands in 1995. I also think that there was lots more snow when I was younger but I don't know if thats because I was smaller so the snow seemed deeper, wagon wheels were bigger etc.....
tuscan_thunder said:
it annoys me that we've had snow up here for a good while but only now is is making the news. we've got about a 9 inches lying and it doesn't get a mention, but to GMbloodyTV it's a disaster when sussex gets 1/2 an inch.
You are forgetting to take the London-Ish Territory Weighting factor for weather (LITeWeight for short) of "24" into account. Now that 1/2" of snow in sussex is worth a foot of snow in Aberdeenshire. Now that is worth reporting
-27 might be the offical lowest recorded temp, but I was at my parent's place in '95 and their min-max stat was off the bottom of the scale (lowest temp on scale was -25, mercury was good half inch below that). Cracked the block and rad in my car!
Sheepy
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