Message Board - Weather: snow joke
18 Dec 2009 by wicketdevil
Im laying in bed watching the snow coming down a good six inches so far. I know we are southern softies . Ian
Can you just is the longest sentence in the world !!!!!!!
18 Dec 2009 by Barry Pace Last edited 18 Dec 2009
Irony is:
Watching Breakfast TV and all the fuss as they show how bad the weather is before cutting to Denmark and the Climate Change debacle.......... I thought we are supposed to become a mediteranean climate here in the UK ........ stuff my carbon footprint, its my carbon overcoat and hat i want to lose...
I wonder just how many snow ploughs there are below the Watford Gap now, 6? 12? we may be Southern Softies but at least they give you the kit up there to keep roads open still.
Plastic.... it's The End I tell you... THE END!!!!
18 Dec 2009 by Eddy21 Last edited 18 Dec 2009
Morning Gents
Here is a picture of me this morning. Its not that bad really.
Best wishes
Dave
Learning is there for every man
18 Dec 2009 by wicketdevil
At least the school is closed i do still feel guilty.
Can you just is the longest sentence in the world !!!!!!!
18 Dec 2009 by higgins
The snow reached right down to the south coast in sussex, which disrupted my whole day.
To start with my wife took so long clearing the snow from our drive, that when she brought me my usual breakfast in bed , she forgot the brown sauce. Bless her she tries, but standards do slip when she needs to put a bit of effort in.
My only explanation is that at times of stress she reverts to her northern roots, and all my training goes out the window.
Things can only get better.
18 Dec 2009 by Leeboy
To read the papers watch tv, its like mass devastation!
London gets a few flakes of snow and its as if Doomsday has arrived, everywhere else gets it a lot worse and its not such a big deal, could have sworn it was December so its not exactly going to be tropical heat is it?
18 Dec 2009 by sipho
I was in my Tractor with the Snow Plough at 7am - The Schools roads were clear by 8:30 and salting could commence.
We got given a half day aswell - I am now on leave until 10 Jan whoo hoo
Merry Christmas everyone !
sip
Gogga International Affairs Officer
18 Dec 2009 by EHU Mission Control
Lee could not agree with you more, these southern softies need a real shot of reality and go and stand on the top of saddleworth moor then they will know what real snow is
Merry christmas to all
sorry to say we shoot down for nearly three weeks, so I will be of to the sun for that period
Ho Ho Ho
The future is bright, the future is EHU !
18 Dec 2009 by Barry Pace
Couldn't agree more and I am one of a long line of Southerners...
The problem is twofold down here, you have a load of people who cant drive on a dry warm not too sunny day let alone over this white stuff attempt to manouver vehicles with all the finess of an elephant and brains of a comatose jellyfish while the local authorities have spent all the old road budgets on one handed lesbian cambodian outreach workers rather than gritters that can go down normal roads and replacing snowploughs that used to go out after 50mm fell but are now all worn out, rusting in a corner.....
But mainly muppets in tin cans....... and dont get me going about driving licences obtained south or east of Dover either........
Plastic.... it's The End I tell you... THE END!!!!
21 Dec 2009 by Mal
Talking of snow joke - I saw a sign out side a restaurant this weekend asking what do you call a person who has a fear of Christmas................... Claustraphobic
Geography is everywhere
22 Dec 2009 by Barry Pace
Any one else sick of this miss managed tin pot bankrupt hell hole that used to be called Great Britain where after 4 days of snow sitting on all but the major roads thousands of infirm or elderly people are trapped in their homes and the able bodied risk life and limb just to walk or drive out of their house, where half the bus, rail or air service is ground to a halt or parked up unable to reach its customers, and the ones that are running are unable to move with a few degrees variation in temperature while our gold plated self serving trough snorting politicians decide to spend billions more of our money on Global Warming 'action' and reducing our carbon footprint when all we want to reduce is our carbon overcoats and gloves... If the roads and pavements in Sussex were viewed under the H & S laws as a place of work you wouldn't be allowed out the door due to the risk and the Councils would all be in court due to inaction and ignoring it all just because of cost.... yet they do nothing, hoping it will all melt before they have to spend our money on salting rather than one armed mongolian transexual outreach workers and I am sure we will never be told how many millions are being paid unnescarily out in Insurance raising our premiums and how much it is costing the NHS to treat all the people falling over....
I just hope it don't freeze or snow again tonight..
Hhuummmpphh Merry Bloomin Christmas if your not in A & E....
Plastic.... it's The End I tell you... THE END!!!!
22 Dec 2009 by Vic Demain
Beginning to warm to you Barry P, bring back Chairman Alf. To all those looking forward to a new year, forget it. You will still have the same debt, ill health & dead end job.
22 Dec 2009 by Grassman2011
Cheers for that Vic. I know you have a H&S visit soon, not much to cheer you up i know, but please try. xxxxx Christmas
22 Dec 2009 by Mal Last edited 22 Dec 2009
Never mind Barry perhapes this will cheer you up?
Why did the snowman go to the middle of the lake?
Because snow man's an island!
Geography is everywhere
22 Dec 2009 by Steve63
Or as one snowman said to the other, "can you smell carrotts?"
Don't talk to me about Contractors Wonka, I am one myself......
22 Dec 2009 by Nifty Last edited 22 Dec 2009
Many small council's will no longer grit not just because of cost but liability , basically if they do grit and somone slips over and injures themselves they are now able to claim whereas if they don't grit then they are not liable , you couldn't make it up..this is where modern H & Safety legislation has got us , we live in an upside down crazy world of EU legislated Little Left Handed Lesbian Britain Barry. On my perilous journey back from snow bound Berkshire yesterday I didn't see one council gritter out or one police patrol car , probably all too busy examining liability legislation or apprehending people who dared to threaten a thief.
Top marks to the company in Winchester that clamped the abondoned vehicles on their property , its good to see the spirit of Scrooge is alive and well.
Merry Christmas by the way...
Its got to be purrrfect
23 Dec 2009 by Steve63
Gritting?
What is and how is road grit/salt produced? A council not a million miles from where I work gritted through the night on Monday, it would seem that they were wasting their time as the salt was washed out of the exposed piles during the two months of rain before the snow came. The newly delivered road grit/salt was extremely effective immediately yesterday.
Regards
Steve
Don't talk to me about Contractors Wonka, I am one myself......
24 Dec 2009 by jezzo
Steve 63, google Cleveland potash limited, or Boulby mine. Thats where it comes from along with lots of other fertilizer products.
Salt is a by-product of the mine's potash business
A Teesside mine which normally produces potash for fertiliser has stepped up its production of salt in a bid to help tackle the shortage of grit for roads.
As councils across the UK run short of gritting material to use on snow-hit roads, Cleveland Potash in Saltburn, is spending more time producing salt.
Demand has grown so much that the company is importing 40,000 tonnes of salt from a sister company in Spain.
Councils in the south and Midlands have reported salt and grit shortages.
A spokesman for Cleveland Potash Ltd, said: "We extract potash ore and salt from seams 1km (0.6 miles) underground.
"Since late November we have devoted a higher proportion of operating days to salt mining.
"We have also arranged for the import of 40,000 tonnes of salt from our sister mine in Spain in order to meet the increased demand from our customers all over the UK.
"We hope our efforts keep the country moving through the current cold snap."
24 Dec 2009 by ticky21
LOL.....first of all...seasons greetings to one and all.....secondly, while all you lot have been sat in the greenkeepers garages and pavillions etc..(tongue in cheek and grinning)....lol...i have been flat out pulling cars and buses up some of the hills in and around high wycombe....my lovely Kubota M9540 has impressed even the Police, who asked me to stay out till 1:30 one morning to help clear a road of cars skidding everywhere EVEN on turf tyres, i just let them down a few pounds and hey presto...we even phoned up Bucks County Council and offered to go into Handy Cross highways depot with 2 John Deere 7530s and Bredal spreaders to help grit hills in wycombe....they said no.....they would rather the roads got gridlocked then the gritting trucks had to have police escorts to get through the traffic at even 2:30 am....wat a bunch of tossers...
Ticky supports British farmers...!!
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