NEWS: Every Fucking Year

CULTURE: Every Fucking Year

The rural county of Gloucestershire in the UK received a massive dump of fresh snow on Monday evening, bringing chaos to the area.

Wait before you rush to get the snowboards out. When we English talk about "Heavy snow" we mean a few inches. It can't have been that bad if someone managed to walk an hour and a half to get home in it. I'm in Cheltenham and we had maybe an inch. It's not as if we didn't know snow was coming. People have been talking about North Atlantic Oscillation for months, and Cornwall suffered from the snow just this week so people should have been prepared.

It wouldn't be so bad if a few inches of snow was unusual for the UK, but this is the same weather that we have every fucking year.

Like LA in the rain?

more like georgia with snow.

On the first day of snow any given year it is advisable to drive very cautiously. Not because snow makes it any more difficult to drive, at all. It does not. However people insist on behaving like morons when their is snow on the road, and cannot be disuaded.

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[Edited on Nov 30, 2005 by Someguysteve]

Hell, I live in Canada and drivers ALWAYS freak out on the first morning with snow on the ground! It takes hours to get anywhere because people haven't put their winter tires on, or they're being overcautious, or maybe they're blinded by the sun glare reflecting off the white ground...who knows. But they're definitely fucking idiots and when I am queen they shall all be shot.

Stop bitching! Move to another country is yer not happy!!!

Except no one in LA would even think about getting out and walking home.

I'm also amazed that a few inches of snow can bring the infrastructure to a grinding halt - it's laughable.

You'd think the government would learn, wouldn't you. But strangely enough the same thing happens every year - it's an annual event.


[Edited on Dec 01, 2005 by blackwell]

I think he was talking about British people generally.

snows nice and shiny and white and cold
i wish it would snow round here.

but england is totaly useless when it snows, i don't know why. If this happened every one would just die

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[Edited on Dec 01, 2005 1:38AM]

"I'd skidded into a kerb and couldn't move the car."

I have never before in my life seen the word curb spelt like that despite a British father...is that an all over England thing...? So weird.

live in calgary, even after a month people still don't know how to f'ing drive in the weather properly.

"well the sign says 100km/h" UNDER IDEAL CONDIATIONS YOU BLOODY TOOL.

Yup, that's the usual UK spelling. My dictionary (1922 oxford english) has both words, although curb has a number of aditional uses.

Like, for instance, you can't "kerb your enthusiasm."

Easy but funny

same in ohio. every goddamn year it's like everyone forgets that we get snow in the winter and they start driving like idiots.

"is this...a light dusting of snow on the road? AARRRGHHH! WHITE DEATH!"

Northern Ohio's a little better.

DC drivers are terrible in snow.

Exactly! OnStar's switchboard would crash in an instant.

Yep.

I think people in general, not just England, are just pants, when it comes to bad weather.

If you think our inability to manage an inch of snow is bad enough, you really don't want to know what happens when leaves fall on the railways during the autumn...

usually there's so little snow and the roads are gritted well enough that you needn't slow down or be any more careful as if it were drizzle ... but you always get the one driving in the middle lane on the motorway at 40mph with their fog light on causing tail backs for miles

That said, there was a hill on a lane back home that I had to give up trying to get up when it were icy

I have been delivering for over a year (through last winter) and this so far up in Sask, Canada - and it is much better to drive a bit slower with caution than to go the speed limit. We have horrible snow removal/gravelling system here though, and people are always sliding through lights and into things. I've avoided at least 50 accidents since I started this job. It's crazy!

I still hate snow... *sniff*