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...and the UK slides to a halt.

I can see us building a full size cobby in the garden.

When it comes to any weather other than 18degC, not too windy, not too wet, we give up - as a nation we're pathetic in this respect. On the other hand I was grateful for the genuine opportunity to work from home - although the CO2 saved from not driving 60+ miles in my car was probably offset by heating my house for an extra 10 hours...

To be honest, I think 'fun' is seriously lacking in the uk. I've started working a lot less in the past year or so, and still get plenty done.
i couldn't believe it when i heard on the radio about how much it's costing the economy.
some people really need to get out & build a snowman.

Did you see last nihts news when an old guy noted with amusement that there was some serious weather in the 60s and the nation did not grind to a halt back then? Why does it happen now?

Selezen wrote:

Did you see last nihts news when an old guy noted with amusement that there was some serious weather in the 60s and the nation did not grind to a halt back then? Why does it happen now?

Because back then everything was better.

DaddyHoggy wrote:

When it comes to any weather other than 18degC, not too windy, not too wet, we give up - as a nation we're pathetic in this respect.

I wonder, though, how you—as a nation, not personally —managed to conquer and rule the whole world, regardless of climate and whatnot?

Commander McLane wrote:

Selezen wrote:

Did you see last nihts news when an old guy noted with amusement that there was some serious weather in the 60s and the nation did not grind to a halt back then? Why does it happen now?

Because back then everything was better.

DaddyHoggy wrote:

When it comes to any weather other than 18degC, not too windy, not too wet, we give up - as a nation we're pathetic in this respect.

I wonder, though, how you—as a nation, not personally —managed to conquer and rule the whole world, regardless of climate and whatnot?

Because we had no H&S job's worth sucking his teeth in the background telling us we couldn't invade liberate because it might be dangerous, or we might get sued if anything went wrong...

Commander McLane wrote:

I wonder, though, how you—as a nation, not personally —managed to conquer and rule the whole world, regardless of climate and whatnot?

Ah yes but notice how much more common it was that the British Empire was nearer the equator than the poles. Not much snow in the tropics.

Presumably also why historically we had problems with Vikings and such too.

Selezen wrote:

Did you see last nihts news when an old guy noted with amusement that there was some serious weather in the 60s and the nation did not grind to a halt back then? Why does it happen now?

Because the overwhelming majority of people back then tended to live close to, or very close to, their places of work. We also had a very well-used, well-funded, publicly owned public transport system, which looked after itself and employed enough people to keep the network going when things got a little bit out of the ordinary. With the rise of the suburbs, and the huge boom in commuting by car, and with communities broken up and people shunted all over the country in search of work (especially down to the south-east of England, where a huge house-price bubble pushed low- to mid-range salaried workers a long, long way away from where they actually worked), we're now more dependent than ever before on long-range transport networks. In the 60s most of us would probably have lived close enough to our work to walk in, at a pinch.

Also, since the 1980s, we've witnessed the franchising out of essential public services to private industry, using the brilliant logic that the cheapest bid is always the best. So naturally our essential public services are pared down to the bone, run by the fewest possible staff with the worst possible equipment. You get what you pay for, in short.

wow, a full sized snow Cobra.

i loved the way on the news they were saying "blizzards" and "ground to a halts" and "crisis", it was so funny, its only a bit of snow, but i dont mind.

although my school was closed today, i dont know why because we have 3cm of snow, and all of the OXP's iv downloaded are there!! not here, so i have to wait another day to get them!

@Selezen
i did see that guy on the news, and hes so right, this is hardly any snow, although i did see a funny crash invvolving my friends scooter and a giant snow ball...
last time it snowed, i was doing a gliding liscence with the RAF, and they have yellow land rovers so as you can see them when they are on the runway, and we made loads of snow "officers" then someone came along and run them all over.

Not so funny story from my area, luvverly Hull.

A bus driver and several passengers were treated for cuts, bruises and shock after an incident on one of the local roads.

Some of the local brain donors had built a snowman in the centre of the road. But being total morons, they recycled a disused washing machine for the body. The bus, which struck the washing machine at 20mph, wrecked it's front axle, veered off the road and struck a tree. The police are investigating.

Captain Hesperus

ooh, ow, not so funny. i wander where these morons get there ideas from. you must be seriously lazy to build it ontop of a washing machine.

and im guesing they didnt give the snowman any features so it would have been even harder to spot in all the snow.

I don't remember 'them' ever closing any of the schools I went to because of bad weather back in the 50s/60s. I have memories of the weather being bad enough for the bus to be unable to get up the hill, and sliding back down the hill! I had to walk the 2+ miles to school. No big deal!

I also remember a 'funny' incident when a pantechnicon, being loaded with furniture for a neighbour who was moving in the middle of winter, lost its battle for grip and suddenly disappeared backwards down the hill, to crash through the garage of a house at the bottom of the hill, but luckily missing the house!

I guess we kind of grew up to ignore weather, and closing schools when the heating failed meant less when you were used to ice on the inside of your bedroom window!

yeah, now theres a law that if anywher in the schooldrops below a certain temperature, they have to close it!

but i bet it was just that the teachers wanted a day off

my friends house is only single glazed, so he gets internal ice.

and 2+ miles, that is so funny, i bet that today even if the wheels slipped just a tiny bit, they would cancle the bus.

(ps, thats the second realy funny signature that i have sseen today)

0235 wrote:

(ps, thats the second realy funny signature that i have sseen today)

You should read the link in my sig.

Captain Hesperus

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