Every year...

[pepper]

Dear British media:

You know you shouldn't make reports after you've had a couple of drinks - it makes you talk nonsense, like telling the world we don't know how to use ice-scrapers, ffs, as if the majority of the country didn't experience weather like that practically every winter. Everyone north of the M25 says "Hi," by the way.

Please. It's embarrassing. We all know it'll only take a few more before you're dancing on tables and showing everyone your knickers. Just... take it easy on the vodka and Red Bull, that's all I ask.

Thanks,

- P.

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Dear London Transport,

See, it goes like this:

- Spring: rain
- Summer: hot temperatures
- Autumn: rain and leaves
- Winter: snow and ice

Sometimes there are extremes of these things, so please try to bear that in mind when building train tracks, buying new buses, planning the logistics for road travel, etc.

Thanks,

- P.

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Dear rest of world,

Oh, like you've never done anything embarrassing.

:P

- P.

Comments

[beanpot.livejournal.com]

I submit to you....our last president,

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Hee. I wasn't going to say. *g*

[beanpot.livejournal.com]

I also give you that our new President mocked the hell out of DC for shutting down due to four inches of snow...and then the inches of ICE on top of that...

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

Didn't one of his daughters make some comment about how "in Chicago we'd still have had recess" or something?

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Oh, I heard that, too - was it about London or DC? Adorably snarky, either way. I approve. *g*

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

I assumed DC but who knows.

(I...can't remember EVER having recess cancelled in Chicago unless school was also cancelled. All I remember was that in elementary school if you didn't have snow pants and there was a lot of snow you had to stay on the plowed blacktop during recess. I do vaguely remember indoor recesses if it was raining really hard because they didn't want us leaving puddles everywhere when we came back in)

[nandamai]

HA.

[crazedturkey.livejournal.com]

I completely acknowledge that my country is also stupid.

However as a colonial I now reserve the right to point and laugh.

MWAHAHAHHA!

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Feel free! Just don't tar us all with the same brush of stupidity, that's all I ask. *g*

[secretrebel.livejournal.com]

It's like the world is ending.
"What is this white stuff falling from the sky?" one journo asks another. "Is it the apocalypse?"
"Could be," says the other journo. "Let's do a vox pops of religious leaders and ask them if this is Revelation or the Coming of the Frost Giants."

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Yes - the Frost Giants! It must be them. Damn them!

[kirsty841.livejournal.com]

Heh, these journalists don't happen to work for The Daily Mail do they?

[triskellian]

Y'know, those journos sound an awful lot like my cats. Has the Cat Kingdom taken over the press?

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

The News According To Cats: suspicious-looking cold stuff falls from sky. Possible end of life as we know it. Fish at 11.

[kirsty841.livejournal.com]

LMAO, getting a bit silly isn't it?

"Everyone north of the M25 says "Hi," by the way."

*giggles* See rest-of-the-world? It's only the Southern Softies that can't handle it!

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Hee - and I AM a Southern Softie. Londoner, born and bred. And even I think they're making rather a hash of some not-exactly-unusual winter weather.

[kirsty841.livejournal.com]

Lol. I can understand the overground trains...but the Underground...er Hello! It's UNDER GROUND. As in....not exposed to snow. I don't get that at all. And surely if they let traffic flow as usual it'll keep the roads clear?
We've had more snow than this in recent years with less fuss, I'm sure of it. I'm sticking with my conspiracy theory...government trying to win brownie point by giving people a good excuse to stay off work and school.

and... *ahem* I threw a sickie myself today. Lol. Not just because of the weather mind you, I just could not be bothered to go in.

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Ah, well, as one who lived on the end of the Northern line, I can tell you very definitely that a lot of the Underground is actually overground. I don't know about the other lines, but all the bits of the Northern that were closed were the overground bits. I used to get regularly stranded due to weather.

SO glad I moved. *g*

[kirsty841.livejournal.com]

But they closed it all didn't they? And the buses! Lol. We have some of the worst roads in the country round these parts and our buses were running. One of my colleagues was scared half to death by her journey to work, but she made it...eventually, lol.

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Nah, I don't think they closed it all - or, last I heard, it was just parts of it (the bits that are overground impact on the bits that are safe underground). All the buses stopped, though, which is pathetic. TfL! Road salt.

I blame Boris. I don't know why, but I don't like him and I didn't vote for him, so I might as well. *g*

[mayogate.livejournal.com]

see I'm a bit surprised by us actually having seasons.
I'd pretty much come to terms that it rained most of the time, and in winter it was just more cold than in summer. And it got dark earlier lol
Aaaaaaand, do you mean to tell me Network Rail have been lying all these years when they use 'leaves on the track' as an excuse for lateness??
hehehhehe
x

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Ah, I remember seasons. Actually having snow is making me nostalgic. *g* Hey, maybe we'll have a hot summer - won't that throw everyone, and bring London transport to a grinding halt once again!

Oh, leaves on the line. I feel sure there is a flaw in the train or track design there, somewhere... I just can't put my finger on it...

[dhae_knight_1]

Oh, you mean like my county, where, the one day all last year when it was icy and foggy, they didn't bother de-icing the roads?

Geniuses... 'm just saying. :-(

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Heh - yes, it's not just the UK. *g*

[dhae_knight_1]

We don't have it so much with snow - but storms. Man, you should see the news networks get all worked up... if and when the storm reaches the capital. The rest of the country - who cares.

In... 1999, I guess, we had a big storm. Big! In Copenhagen, they had roof-tiles blow off and trees blow down... and that was pretty much it. Whereas there were parts of the country where people had no electricity for 3-5 days. That was largely ignored, because 'oh my God, it's windy in Copenhagen!'

Meh. Best thing about it was, they waylaid a guy from the Faroe Islands. The reporter talking to him was all worked up about how much it stormed, and was clearly trying to get some agitated agreement out of this guy. Only thing he got out of him was a smile and a stoic comment that: 'This? This is a breeze.' Cue sheepish looking reporter. LOL

[grooni.livejournal.com]

Heh, I know how you feel. Vancouver is in Canada, but doesn't typically get much if any snow. Anything over two flurries is called a snowstorm and a quarter inch on the roads pretty much shuts the city down. And yes we get laughed at and mocked by the rest of the country. Not helped by the fact, that almost 80% of people aren't actually from Vancouver and most probably have seen lots of snow and -40 temps. But at least we don't make it onto every international news station. ;)

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Heh, yes, it's the international attention we're receiving that's making this embarrassing. I mock it myself all the time. :)

[ziparumpazoo]

And yes we get laughed at and mocked by the rest of the country.

Heh, yes, we do. But not as hard as we Prairie people mock them in Toronto for calling in the reserves when the 401 was shut down for 6 inches of snow. ;D

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

Dude, the governor of my old state has spent the last two months more or less mooning the entire country and being proud of it. It's fun to share the embarrassment :)

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Hee. There is that.

Your lot wouldn't like to take Boris Johnson to replace him, would you, by any chance? Please?

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

You know, Boris couldn't be WORSE

(I mean, last year our state congress was one vote shy of amending the state constitution to make it so voters could vote him out of office - we hated him that much a year before this "trying to sell Obama's senate seat" nonsense which has him running around being an ass and mind-numbingly stupid)

I do think there's some citizenship requirements though...And given our recent string of governors landing in jail, I'm not sure Boris would *want* to.

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Hey, Boris was born in New York, and was a US citizen until recently! He could just get that reinstated. I'm sure it'd be easy. Enough Londoners would no doubt club together to buy him the air fare. And Boris seems to have a charmed life about not landing in jail for his various screw-ups. :D

[aoife-hime.livejournal.com]

Everyone north of the M25 says "Hi," by the way.

*ROFL*

That reminds me of freshman year of college when my floormates and I were discussing the various climates from which we came. Everyone who came from places south of Chicago seemed astounded that when it snowed and/or got down to 0F, we didn't shut down, just sent the kids out in snowpants for recess.

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Heh, yeah - London is cementing its reputation for southern softiness. "You call that snow?"

[sg1danny.livejournal.com]

Everyone north of the M25 says "Hi," by the way.

Hi!!!!!! *waves*

(snow has gone from Edinburgh. The rain washed it all away last night)

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

:D Hi!

Snow has gone from here, too. We're expecting more, though, and it's still cooooooold - and therefore I have a good excuse for hot chocolate with whipped cream.

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

Yeah...well, like I have room to talk.

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Heh - good icon. *g*

[cnidarian.livejournal.com]

*snorts*

Really. We are a cold weather country. This isn't unusual. I'm mocking the whole country's reaction, but this in particular isn't helping your "southern fairies" reputation...

The weather report this evening - "the bad weather is going to continue, bringing more snow would you believe." What?? You mean, it's snowed a bit already and how dare it snow some more? *headdesk*

Also, I'm not even from London, but I'll chip in for that airfare for Boris!

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Really. We are a cold weather country.

Yes! Isn't it crazy? It may be a little more extreme in some places, this year, but it's hardly freak weather.

And, hee - yes, I think a lot of people would be glad to see the back of Boris. I'm not even in the same city as him any more, but I still wish him on another continent.