scootz
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 posted on 2/2/09 at 06:58 PM |
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Southern Softies!
Its only a wee bit of snow FFS!
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theconrodkid
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| posted on 2/2/09 at 07:02 PM |
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yea but were much better looking
who cares who wins
pass the pork pies
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koiking125
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| posted on 2/2/09 at 07:02 PM |
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A couple of inches of snow and the country grinds to a hault,,how do other countrys cope???
[Edited on 2/2/09 by koiking125]
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scootz
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| posted on 2/2/09 at 07:03 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by theconrodkid
yea but were much better looking
Perhaps, but we're better endowed! 
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nitram38
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| posted on 2/2/09 at 07:04 PM |
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Perhaps it's because we don't eat enough Deep Fried Mars Bars or Deep Fried Kebabs? 
I'm at work right now. Drove in my tintop through 1 ft high snow.
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rusty nuts
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| posted on 2/2/09 at 07:04 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by scootz
Perhaps, but we're better endowed!
Who said ?
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bob tatt
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| posted on 2/2/09 at 07:06 PM |
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anyone south of chesterfield in my book is a shandy drinking southerner.
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mistergrumpy
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| posted on 2/2/09 at 07:09 PM |
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Just been in the garage for about 3 hours and they won't shut up about bleeding snow on the radio. It's just snow! Not a tsunami or
earthquake or owt. Bloody media
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iank
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| posted on 2/2/09 at 07:14 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by koiking125
A couple of inches of snow and the country grinds to a hault,,how do other countrys cope???
[Edited on 2/2/09 by koiking125]
By paying for infrastructure. If it only happens every 18 years how many million do you want invested from your taxes?
If it happens every year like Scandinavia, Russia or Scotland then it's worth it and you have enough gritters ready to go.
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Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
Anonymous
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coozer
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| posted on 2/2/09 at 07:16 PM |
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I'm amazed at the way its brought the country down.
How on earth we got through it in the 70's when it was 3 foot deep and lasted 3 months
27 year old London bird on the telly saying it was the worst she's ever seen. It was only a couple inches!
1972 V8 Jago
1980 Z750
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mcerd1
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| posted on 2/2/09 at 07:18 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by scootz
Its only a wee bit of snow FFS!
I was here yesterday: 56°26'55.44"N 4°31'6.33"W (sitck it in google earth/maps)
that was real snow
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BenB
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| posted on 2/2/09 at 07:26 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by coozer
27 year old London bird on the telly saying it was the worst she's ever seen. It was only a couple inches!
Fnar fnar......
I helped push two people out of the snow today... Funniest one was a bloke in a RWD Lexus blandmobile. Nice engine on it though. He got to a slight
hill and his rubber band tyres said "no way mister". The funniest bit was watching the Ediff trying to work out WTF was going on. It was
putting power to one rear wheel then the other, then back to the first... Of course all this sudden switching of power was doing was unsticking the
tyres and ensuring that he was going nowhere quickly!!! I was glad I hadn't gone for a blat at that point (I did think about it!!!).....
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Hellfire
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| posted on 2/2/09 at 07:32 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by nitram38
I'm at work right now. Drove in my tintop through 1 ft high snow.
ROFL Is that the Southern equivalent of snow 12" deep?
Phil
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RichB
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| posted on 2/2/09 at 07:36 PM |
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31 year VW camper had no probs getting to work today - just wish the heating was better (I am a soft southerner!)
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clairetoo
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| posted on 2/2/09 at 07:52 PM |
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The reason the country grinds to a halt at the first sign of snow ? Too many total numpties on the roads who havnt the slightest idea how to drive on
snow
Most of the way to work at 10 to 15 miles an hour , stuck behind a moron who really should have stayed at home - on roads clear enough to see the road
markings
Then stuck for ten minits on the Ashby bypass cuz a moron in a transit couldnt get up a slight hill , and no one had the b***s to pass him on a three
lane road
[Edited on 2/2/09 by clairetoo]
Its cuz I is blond , innit
Claire xx
Will weld for food......
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nitram38
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| posted on 2/2/09 at 08:02 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Hellfire
quote:
Originally posted by nitram38
I'm at work right now. Drove in my tintop through 1 ft high snow.
ROFL Is that the Southern equivalent of snow 12" deep?
Phil
We don't like to use 12 when 1 will do, just to make it sound like more!
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GeorgeM
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| posted on 2/2/09 at 08:17 PM |
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another one stuck behind weekend drivers on the way to work
Sat in overtaking lane at 25mph, nothing in nearside lane
Drive home at 6 was much better, they had all gone home early, roads
were empty, had some fun ( in a kangoo van)
It should be made compulsary for new drivers
to learn to drive on motorways (use the correct lane)
and then on a skid pan with slick tyres.
Would do them good
GeorgeM
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ravingfool
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| posted on 2/2/09 at 08:21 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by scootz
Its only a wee bit of snow FFS!
Is this what you meant?
[Edited on 2/2/09 by ravingfool]
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Richard Quinn
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| posted on 2/2/09 at 09:08 PM |
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Modern cars that think they know better than you are a problem. As long as I'd turned the DTC off my BMW has been entertaining but a little
tiring to drive in the snow. I had a few buttock clenchers but they were more due to the knob in the Micra/Corsa/Clio driving stupidly in close
proximity to me.
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ken555
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| posted on 2/2/09 at 09:19 PM |
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In the best Crocodile Dundee tradition
"That wasn't what I would call snow.
This is what I call snow."
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DaveFJ
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| posted on 2/2/09 at 10:45 PM |
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had to travel to and from the railway station on the moped today.... not a great problem but in the areas where it was really dodgy. had to take those
areas at about 15 mph with my feet out to catch the weight each time it tried to slip out under me!(compacted snow/ice) i was in real danger of coming
off..... yet the f'ing idiots in there cars were sat right on my arse so if i did go over they would be sure to kill me!!!
Dave
"In Support of Help the Heroes" - Always
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JoelP
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| posted on 2/2/09 at 11:01 PM |
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fact is not everyone loves driving like us and regards it as a skill to be honed, indeed to most people it is just a way to get about. They arent good
enough to handle the snow well. Some drive too slow and waste time (there are worse things you can do though!), others drive too fast and crash. If i
was a crap drive and had to pick one extreme, id go slow.
Sometimes you do genuinely get stuck, especially if you are in a vehicle not suited to it. I got stuck last time it snowed, in the van - it just
couldnt manage hills and i was in a valley. Of the 6 roads i could've used, all were impassable.
If it was a regular occurance like canada or sweden, we'd have 4x4s, snow chains, shovels etc and everyone would have snow experience - of
course britain grinds to a halt!
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scootz
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| posted on 3/2/09 at 06:18 PM |
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And they're STILL going on about it!
Let it go news-people and find something interesting to tell us!
It's embarrassing watching a reporter talk about a 'deluge of snow' whilst standing in a couple of inches of the bloody stuff!
Where I'm from it's called a 'covering' of snow!
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 3/2/09 at 06:33 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by bob tatt
anyone south of chesterfield in my book is a shandy drinking southerner.
What about anyone south of Chesterfield that isn't in your book?
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scootz
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| posted on 3/2/09 at 10:07 PM |
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Oooh... just heard on the news that it's "Britains worst snowfall"!
Clearly Scotland is not part of Britain... or the news folk have never ventured up north in the winter!
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