Cold Ale - The Blokes' Thread!

[prendrelemick]

Splitters!

[Paulclem]

Yeah the TCC - splitters.

How's the snow doing? None down here yet, but it's a bit raw.

[Teritus]

You guys be thankful you have any snow at all. Where I live there's none ever, and only rarely frosts.

[prendrelemick]

What, in Baker street?


The snow is as mushy as a yorkshire man's peas.

[Big Dante]

It last snowed here quite lightly 6 years and a half years ago. I was sitting in my Grade 5 classroom looking out the window at the rest of the school playing in the snow. Our teacher gets up and closes the curtain and says that we can play in the snow at recess time. Recess comes and our excited class races outside to see the snow has not only stopped but is mostly gone. We were thrilled.

[Paulclem]

What, in Baker street?


The snow is as mushy as a yorkshire man's peas.

The London-centricity of the weather really annoys me. With a sweep of the hand over the great swathe of the North and Scotland, they'll just declare that there may be snow on higher ground. If we get a couple of millimetres in the southern counties, then it's wall to wall coverage.

Don't worry dante. Snow is one of those things that looks nice and you might even wish for once in a while. When its here you don't want it anymore though. (Though the prospect of a few days off, and being holed up at home for a week, or just a weekend, is alluring. I do like snow but many don't.)

[prendrelemick]

My BBC home page weather forcast location keeps reverting from Halifax to London. I was caught out the other day, expecting sunshine but getting thoroughly rained on.

(sorry, the weather is a subject of endless fascination to us Brits.)

[Teritus]

What, in Baker street?


The snow is as mushy as a yorkshire man's peas.

Yeah, that's not my real address. LOL. It's just a reference to my avatar.
I really live in Australia though.

[MarkBastable]

The London-centricity of the weather really annoys me. With a sweep of the hand over the great swathe of the North and Scotland, they'll just declare that there may be snow on higher ground. If we get a couple of millimetres in the southern counties, then it's wall to wall coverage.

I was in Birmingham the last few days, and it was bloody cold. Every time I'm in Birmingham, it's bloody cold. And whenever I'm in Scotland, it's cold and miserable. I've been about four times this year, and it's been cold and miserable every time. I was in the North East at least three times during 2011, and the weather was unfailingly overcast and grey. Overcast and grey the first time, with very little variation on the overcast-and-grey theme during subsequent visits.

So maybe the weather forecasters on telly are just trying to avoid patronising us - and especially those north of Euston - by telling us something bleeding obvious.

[Paulclem]

That's quite possible. I would like them to let me know when the wind is up, and not just strong enough to blow over high-sided vehicles on the A1.

Another thing is the constantly unaddmitted updating of the story. They mention warm weather, and omit it from the next forecast when it doesn't turn out that way. At least I get a good picture of what's happening south...

[prendrelemick]

This is endlessly fascinating to me.

[prendrelemick]

While the chaps are away ruining the dignity and decorum of the serious board, I fear Parker has been running Karioke nights in the snug.

[Taliesin]

With a six-month winter last year (snow came down at Late October and melted at the end of April), I was rather happy to see that there is yet none here even in mid-December. They predict a snowstorm for this evening though, so it might be that, concerning snow, my luck is running out.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

That's quite possible. I would like them to let me know when the wind is up, and not just strong enough to blow over high-sided vehicles on the A1.

With a six-month winter last year (snow came down at Late October and melted at the end of April), I was rather happy to see that there is yet none here even in mid-December. They predict a snowstorm for this evening though, so it might be that, concerning snow, my luck is running out.

Your bluster made the news here, hi-liting the number of uplifted kilts in Scotland.
btw - where's Jocky? we have a Christmas play to wrap up.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvmeUStFvz8


Taliesin,
This past summer was brutal for us; 41 consecutive days of 100 + deg F and 70 some odd total days of 100+ F. We'll take the snow please.

While the chaps are away ruining the dignity and decorum of the serious board, I fear Parker has been running Karioke nights in the snug.

Thank God for google - I'm forever looking up your terms and phrases.
"In the snug" = Pub, Public House , or here!. This equates to "watering hole" for me.
from the serious board - "Piles" = "Grapes" to me

and Mark's "sit in" I equate to a "doughnut" (takes the pressure off the grapes)

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[qimissung]

So, this is what you guys are up too, talking about your hemorrhoids?