A million and 1 things - hate snow

Its killed our work so its a bugger as far as money goes, but I'm still such a kid at heart when it comes to seeing the snow fall :)

Got to work by rocking the car back and forth to break the snow drift then easy enough driving on the main roads (although a lorry driver managed to jack-knife 100 yards down the road from where i work - must have been very embarrassing !) getting home will be fun :D
 
What I don't understand is that Heathrow spent over 10million Sterling on 'snow readiness' after the pains of 2009-2010. 2cm of snow falls and they're on their knees again with loads of cancelled flights. Wtf have they wasted all that money on if it's exactly the same as before? Get a Scandinavian airport executive in to sort it out. Clearly the monkeys running our airports aren't worth 20k a year.
 
jsmoke said:
The Scandinavian countries laugh in the face of snow, why do we come to a standstill?
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There's also the interesting consideration (taken from a TV program I watched last night but it seems credible) that the snow they get in Scandinavian countries and other countries that seem to cope far better than us doesn't melt much once it's fallen.

This means that they can easily plough it, whereas we end up with a dusting of plough-able snow, which quickly melts and freezes into ice, which can't be ploughed. Genuinely our snow is more difficult to deal with on a daily basis than others.
 
The newspapers are the funniest thing about winter in Britain. In late November you start getting the fear-mongering headlines: WORST WINTER IN DECADES, MILLIONS WILL DIE, THE BIG FREEZE, OH GOD NO, SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN.

Then winter comes, and it isn't that bad, so to save face they overhype every little accident that occurs, trying to make out like it's the worst winter we've ever had.

Another thing they do that makes me laugh is when they do those sorrow/joy photo series. For example:

Photo 1: Guy shoveling snow away from his car on the road.
"MISERY as motorists struggle to get to work in the cold filth."

Photo 2: Little blonde girl on a sledge.
"ELATION as children frolic in god's white powder."

I hate newspapers all year around, but perhaps just a little bit more at this time of year.
 
manic_man said:
There's also the interesting consideration (taken from a TV program I watched last night but it seems credible) that the snow they get in Scandinavian countries and other countries that seem to cope far better than us doesn't melt much once it's fallen.

This means that they can easily plough it, whereas we end up with a dusting of plough-able snow, which quickly melts and freezes into ice, which can't be ploughed. Genuinely our snow is more difficult to deal with on a daily basis than others.
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As a Norwegian I laugh at you :mad:

Seriously tho, temperature drops all the time here as well so it does melt even when it's generally -15 outside.
 
platypus said:
It's more annoying just how bad people drive in these conditions, whether its warranted or not. All the roads I've driven on are absolutely fine, yet you still get people driving at 10mph.
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10mph does seem very slow, but i would rather people take care. I have had the opposite problem over the past few days. Slushy/wet roads with temps below 0 degrees and I've got people right up my arse and seen plenty of idiots bunching up and hardly leaving any stopping distance between themselves.
 
platypus said:
It's more annoying just how bad people drive in these conditions, whether its warranted or not. All the roads I've driven on are absolutely fine, yet you still get people driving at 10mph.
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More irritating are the halfwits who decide that they must go out driving in the snow even though their poxy ****ing hatchback is a deathtrap on budget tyres.

Watch the forecast. If there's snow a coming, go and get your Tesco value groceries a bit earlier, plankton.
 
I love the snow but that inability of public transport to organise itself. This morning the website stated there were minor delays on my route. I get to my local station and there is a crowd of people waiting for trains as none have turned up!

If they just said on the website there were problems I could have had a lie in before working from home.
 
Pixel said:
The newspapers are the funniest thing about winter in Britain. In late November you start getting the fear-mongering headlines: WORST WINTER IN DECADES, MILLIONS WILL DIE, THE BIG FREEZE, OH GOD NO, SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN.

Then winter comes, and it isn't that bad, so to save face they overhype every little accident that occurs, trying to make out like it's the worst winter we've ever had.

Another thing they do that makes me laugh is when they do those sorrow/joy photo series. For example:

Photo 1: Guy shoveling snow away from his car on the road.
"MISERY as motorists struggle to get to work in the cold filth."

Photo 2: Little blonde girl on a sledge.
"ELATION as children frolic in god's white powder."

I hate newspapers all year around, but perhaps just a little bit more at this time of year.
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I couldn't have put it much better myself.
 
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