The worst thing about the snow? My local pub ran out of tennents forcing me to buy the more expensive stuff.
Nightmare...
Nightmare...
Snow in UK?
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I got a week off school, which is great cause it gave me a chance to finally catch up on my dissertation which I haven't got round to until now because of - you guessed it - school.
It's raining here now, everything is more-or-less thawed completely, which is good because I've got to lug guitars, amps, mixing tables, effects pedals and a load of other musical crap to a pub I'm playing at to play a remembrance gig that celebrates the life of John Lennon. I just hope the other guys can make it, I think we'll survive well enough without the keyboard player, but if the drummer or the lead singers get stuck we're screwed.
It's amazing how many complain about the snow. People are saying that it's the worst snow from the past 17 years, I'm half expecting this to turn into a 'Four Yorkshire Men' routine.
"Back in my day, we had snow so deep it took us a week to dig to freedom!"
"That's nothing. One time I was trapped inside a ball of ice and had to free myself with my own tears"
I guess it all has to do with age. When you're a kid you can't for snow, you wan't to go out and make snowmen and have snowball fights. Teenager, it's just another excuse to be an asshole to your friends (especially when you put rocks in the snowballs). But when you're an adult, you just want the snow to go so you have to crash your car or buy a pair of snow-shoes just to get to work.
But there is a good and bad side to all this:
GOOD- There's a higher chance that it will snow on Christmas Day.
BAD- We still have less than 3 months of Winter to live through.
"Back in my day, we had snow so deep it took us a week to dig to freedom!"
"That's nothing. One time I was trapped inside a ball of ice and had to free myself with my own tears"
I guess it all has to do with age. When you're a kid you can't for snow, you wan't to go out and make snowmen and have snowball fights. Teenager, it's just another excuse to be an asshole to your friends (especially when you put rocks in the snowballs). But when you're an adult, you just want the snow to go so you have to crash your car or buy a pair of snow-shoes just to get to work.
But there is a good and bad side to all this:
GOOD- There's a higher chance that it will snow on Christmas Day.
BAD- We still have less than 3 months of Winter to live through.
I'm half English, half Swedish, and I live in Scotland, so I may have a fairly specialised perspective on it...
I'm always astonished by the way Britain's surprised by every snowfall. "Oh god, there's snow! Like, er, every year."
As far as I'm concerned, there's no excuse for roads to not be clear. There's no excuse - with as little snow as we're having in Scotland - for Edinburgh airport to be closed. (My wife and I are currently having a three-day holiday in Edinburgh at the airline's expense, because our flight was pushed from Thursday to Sunday.)
I just don't get it. I learned to drive in Borlänge, a town about halfway up Sweden, in the early months of 2005. Blizzards, an inch and a half of solid ice on the roads, a foot or two of snow, temperatures down towards -15, -20. We had lessons on the skid pan, all that. And I grew up in Sweden during the 80s and 90s, when Christmas meant snow, rather than the anaemic winters we have these days. (Seriously - if the snow's gone by April, it doesn't count.)
Anyway. Yeah, we've had snow in southwest Scotland, and we've got snow here in Edinburgh. Didn't bother us on the drive up in a bog-standard SAAB estate, and it certainly hasn't bothered me in my Land Rover - but then, it wouldn't.
EDIT: I'm Swedish; I love snow and winter. My wife, who's South African, isn't quite so keen. ;-)
I'm always astonished by the way Britain's surprised by every snowfall. "Oh god, there's snow! Like, er, every year."
As far as I'm concerned, there's no excuse for roads to not be clear. There's no excuse - with as little snow as we're having in Scotland - for Edinburgh airport to be closed. (My wife and I are currently having a three-day holiday in Edinburgh at the airline's expense, because our flight was pushed from Thursday to Sunday.)
I just don't get it. I learned to drive in Borlänge, a town about halfway up Sweden, in the early months of 2005. Blizzards, an inch and a half of solid ice on the roads, a foot or two of snow, temperatures down towards -15, -20. We had lessons on the skid pan, all that. And I grew up in Sweden during the 80s and 90s, when Christmas meant snow, rather than the anaemic winters we have these days. (Seriously - if the snow's gone by April, it doesn't count.)
Anyway. Yeah, we've had snow in southwest Scotland, and we've got snow here in Edinburgh. Didn't bother us on the drive up in a bog-standard SAAB estate, and it certainly hasn't bothered me in my Land Rover - but then, it wouldn't.
EDIT: I'm Swedish; I love snow and winter. My wife, who's South African, isn't quite so keen. ;-)
Talal Provides said:
That's kinda the point - we've not had snow at this time of the year for almost 2 decades. We had all of 2 days of snow last year in the Midlands. You get it every year, you're used to it, whoop de do. Let us enjoy/be panicked by our freakish weather without patronising us!
It's like having a drought and being told by someone in Africa to 'suck it up' cos they don't get any rain for most of the year -.-;
Its fuckin' balls. We were hoping for time off school haha, it snowed all week, on and off, but not enough for us to stay home.
Then on friday it snowed down like fudge, we though we would have school off now on monday, then it starts raining all weekend. This sucks.
(I'm from Wales btw)
Then on friday it snowed down like fudge, we though we would have school off now on monday, then it starts raining all weekend. This sucks.
(I'm from Wales btw)
The UK are pretty silly when it comes to anything really. It doesn't matter if it's snow, VAT, X-factor finalists - whatever. The slightest change of anything in our routine will cause the majority of people to panic unnecessarily, and complain when it's back to normal too.
It's really just a natural reaction to the climate of fear that's been developing over the last 2 decades.
Britain sucks, can't wait to get outta here.
It's really just a natural reaction to the climate of fear that's been developing over the last 2 decades.
Britain sucks, can't wait to get outta here.
Congratulations on noticing this, our stereotypical national image! I have to say, if that's really what people are like in your area, that really sucks. I live in the South West, and as of now, we're pretty upbeat. Compared to last year we've got no snow and very little ice to speak of, no one I know can be bothered to watch, talk about of in any way acknowledge reality tv and we're still falling ass over tit to spend money at the shiny new pier we've been presented with. It's a rather effective distraction by all counts.ffian1 said:
It's almost disturbing how positive this town is this winter. Snow? What snow?
Cardiff it never really came...had some snow made it a little slippy but nothing really disruptive pity i did not want to go to work 