Just a quick note to all the retards on my bus. When it rains heavily all the grit on the roads tends to be washed away. If it then immediately snows and settles and then becomes dark and freezing the roads will tend to be covered in ice. This will cause major traffic problems which is why it took us bloody ages to get home. It also explains why the bus didn’t go through your shitty white-trash estate forcing you to walk all of 15 minutes extra. So don’t go shouting and swearing at the driver you fucking ungrateful shit-stains on the underpants of creation.
In other news, it finally snowed in Birmingham today! Woo!
Strong stuff!
We Brits, (the southern variety, that is) have always overreacted to snow and difficult conditions. Whereas we used to talk about how we dealt with it, now we expect ‘them’ to deal with it for us, and get very angry when ‘they’ don’t. And because we are all so dependent on cars, we quickly find ourselves in a traffic gridlock situation, the only way out of which is acceptance and patience, for which qualities most of us get very little training.Thank goodness I was not trying to get a pregnant woman, or any other urgent medical case to hospital through Winchester yesterday evening c. 6.30! The ITV news yesterday reminded the elderly to keep their heating on, draw their curtains, eat well, and dress up in warm clothes with a hat when they go out, in oder not to get cold. Interesting that, after 70 or so years of experience of life, we think they may not have learned such things yet. Maybe the 20-or-so-year old walking through icy streets at 8.30 this morning with midriff fashionably laid bare might learn a little from the oldies.
Wow… I don’t know if it’s my brain cells finally giving up due to attrition by alchohol, but I can’t remember snow this good in London ever (all of 4 years).
Had a brilliant time, walke up the top of Pole Hill in Epping Forest at 10pm in the moonlight, hardly anything had been walked on. Truly magical. Gawd, listen to me I don’t sound cynical at all, I must have an illness.
Though to be honest it’s probably due to the drastic cut in intake of booze (only 3 bottles of red in 20 days, thats about a 92% reduction in drinking, do the mathematics, I know, it’s downright scary, my Liver doesn’t know what to do with itself these days
You mean central London got better snow even than last year? Something strange is going on weather-wise methinks…
You would think that further north attitudes to snow would be more realistic but no.
Around 1996 I lived in Sheffield where I was temping in an insurance company doing filing and menial stuff. 09:30 it started snowing. As it was still snowing at 11:00 the full time staff all began to panic that they would not be able to get home in what was generally being perceived as the start of some kind of severe blizzard.
By 12:30 practically everyone out of the office of 35 people had left. Obviously the rest of the city had done the same causing big traffic jams. As I was temping and needed the money I stayed in the office.
By clocking off time the snow had all melted and I walked home .
We had buses rolling backwards down hills! The taxi drivers became terrified of sidestreets! Even the joggers gave up (mostly)! … the problem not so much being the snow, but that it fell, melted slightly, and refroze into inch-thick skating quality black ice in the space of about 30 minutes …
Shouting and swearing at bussdrivers just tends to make everyone feel more shitty, I find, even when they really *have* deserved it (some of ours certainly do).
I remember years ago when I lived in Winchester one of the bus drivers was outed by the local press as a Netional Front organiser. While this kind of behaviour is not to be condoned I can understand why bus drivers have a tendency towards misanthropy. If I was doing their job I’d be the first with the machine gun.
While this kind of behaviour is not to be condoned I can understand why bus drivers have a tendency towards misanthropy. If I was doing their job I’d be the first with the machine gun.