Hey hey, it's sunny, with a light breeze, and about minus 10. Welcome to Eburgerville's (and the UK's) current obssession:
It's cold. Yes, we get it. But you know what? There are colder places. Yes, there are. And you know what else? Their lives, economies and general ability to think or speak about anything besides the weather, do not come to a standstill in the wake of said cold and obsession with said cold. Russia. Big, important place with ample cold. Still there, still (well while possible not thriving, still there). Great huge chuks of North America. Massive contingents of China. I won't go on, but my god, one glance at the BBC and you'd imagine that this is it. Say your prayers sinners, we're about to suffer a collectively frigid catastrophe due to our inability to accept the following:
1. Winter gets cold and sometimes there's snow and ice (okay, sometimes there's large amounts of snow and ice).
2. When there's snow and ice, you have to operate vehicles and such in a slightly different manner, ie slowly or not at all.
3. There needs to be a larger amount of grit on hand to deal with slippery surfaces so that emergency rooms are not clogged with elderly folk who have broken there bum bones. And DO NOT use my sea salt!
It's hilarious how alarmist everyone is being about this. And you just know that in a couple of months, when the weather gets warmer, we'll all forget to do anything to prepare for next year, when (shock, horror!), it'll all happen all over again.
3 comments:
Canada is cold. Very, very cold.
So cold in fact, that the large top of a very tall tree turned to ice, snapped off and landed on top of Nat's parent's car.
Smashing it to bits.
So, yes. Cold happens. But it always....ALWAYS....sucks.
Ha ha ha ha ha. You are hilarious and spot on. The three English TV channels we get here are SkyNews, BBC and a Poker Channel (which, in desperation, I have been known to watch with a cuppa in hand - so lame) Aaaand, you'd think the world was literally.about.to.end. We get it, you've got weather. Try Adelaide in a heatwave, then get back to me.
Having said all of this though, I thought I was going to die when in Berlin....
Buffy! That's awfully dramatic. Extremely glad to hear noone was in the car at the time.
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