Its only a wee bit of snow FFS!
yea but were much better looking
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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Originally posted by theconrodkid
yea but were much better looking
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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Originally posted by scootz
Perhaps, but we're better endowed!
anyone south of chesterfield in my book is a shandy drinking southerner.
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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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]
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!
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Originally posted by scootz
Its only a wee bit of snow FFS!
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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!
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Originally posted by nitram38
I'm at work right now. Drove in my tintop through 1 ft high snow.
Is that the Southern equivalent of snow 12" deep? 31 year VW camper had no probs getting to work today - just wish the heating was better (I am a soft southerner!)
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
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Originally posted by Hellfire
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Originally posted by nitram38
I'm at work right now. Drove in my tintop through 1 ft high snow.
ROFL
Phil
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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Originally posted by scootz
Its only a wee bit of snow FFS!
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.
In the best Crocodile Dundee tradition
"That wasn't what I would call snow.
This is what I call snow."
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!!!
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!
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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Originally posted by bob tatt
anyone south of chesterfield in my book is a shandy drinking southerner.
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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Originally posted by scootz
Clearly Scotland is not part of Britain
i heard on the news today,your mc broon has hired lots of poles to rebuild hadrians wall to keep you lot from coming to the tropical south
I was reading an article in a Scottish paper yesterday how appalling it was that Heathrow Airport had been closed and that major problems were caused
on the M25 by the snow and how in Scotland they know how to deal with the snow.
a couple of pages on and there was another article about how the snow in Scotland had closed Edinburgh and Glasgow Airports and had caused major
disruption on the roads in the Central Belt.
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I come from a place where it doesn't snow much. But snows all winter here where I am now. The first week of it, usually in November, has the ditches full of idiots who don't yet have their snow tires on. There is only ONE good thing about living here: winter rallying. People say you can't drift a front wheel drive car. WRONG, you can hang the back out like anybody with a bit of technique and practice!
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Originally posted by Schrodinger
I was reading an article in a Scottish paper yesterday how appalling it was that Heathrow Airport had been closed and that major problems were caused on the M25 by the snow and how in Scotland they know how to deal with the snow.
a couple of pages on and there was another article about how the snow in Scotland had closed Edinburgh and Glasgow Airports and had caused major disruption on the roads in the Central Belt.
Hmmmm a few days on.....in some parts dahn sarf, particularly Surrey it started snowing on Sunday evening, in parts there were drifts of 40 cms,
(bottom of my garden being one of them)..... It is now Thursday, and I still have loads of snow in my garden even though it is/has been raining.
It isn't by any stretch of the imagination, the worst snowfall ever.........just the worst for a few years........
'Elf n Safety ... and EU directives were the cause of much being shut, and people not going to work...... and the truth is, that it is something
that happens so rarely down here, that we are just not geared up for it. 
Whereas up t'norf it isn't such a rare occurrence so the highways and byways are geared up for it......
The airport runways and major roads were gritted before it first fell, the snow just settled on top of it.......
I personally found it quite embarrassing that the media reported from places that weren't badly affected...but that was probably because they
couldn't get to the places that were.........
Interestingly though, according to the BBC '......up to 10cms of snow on higher ground around the north of Scotland is forecast, and schools and
roads are shut.......'
A case of 'Pot calling the kettle black'......
Fozzie
I built a rude snowman, two carrots.
Cheers
Chris
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Originally posted by bob tatt
anyone south of chesterfield in my book is a shandy drinking southerner.
Sorry Pete, Cockneys start at Dronfield
Cheers
Chris
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Originally posted by chrisg
I built a rude snowman, two carrots.
Cheers
Chris
Use your imagination Rusty!!
Hint: one was his nose
Cheers
Chris