Open Rant
mikedobson
Posts: 186
Friday's are perfect for ranting.
Here's mine, feel free to start a new one, get it off your chest.
Weather Warnings. They're crap. Unless you are f**king stooopid what possible good is some trussed up git in London, telling you 100 times a day over and over and over about what the weather is doing right outside your sodding window? How does that help you, or anyone? And what does it mean, Weather Warning? There will be some weather and you have been warned? The weather is warning you? Here's the SP: IT'S F***ING WEATHER, IT DOES WHAT WEATHER DOES. If it's hot don't wear too many clothes, if it's cold wear more, if it rains buy an umbrella, Jesus have we really become such a nation of tw*ts that we have to be warned that ice might be, well, icy? And the SNOW warnings, Christ I've lost count at the times they tell us and warn us in terms of encroaching doom and Old Testament prophecy for what turns out to be a few, sad and disappointing flakes. When I was young the promise of snow was a matter of great unbridled celebration, if somebody had warned me I'd have thought they were insane. The Met Office has issued a SEVERE WEATHER WARNING, ie, it's bloody foul outside find something else to do. You and me can do nothing about the weather, still less aboutflood defences, local authority gritting policies or sun cream delivery schedules,we don't need the WARNINGS,they're rubbish and inappropriate. I challenge everyone to name one instance where a WEATHER WARNING made a solitary sod of difference to their day. Namby Pamby cotton wooled litigation-led pandering to the lowest common denominator broadcasting of the most banal type. I don't like them, uh uh.
Here's mine, feel free to start a new one, get it off your chest.
Weather Warnings. They're crap. Unless you are f**king stooopid what possible good is some trussed up git in London, telling you 100 times a day over and over and over about what the weather is doing right outside your sodding window? How does that help you, or anyone? And what does it mean, Weather Warning? There will be some weather and you have been warned? The weather is warning you? Here's the SP: IT'S F***ING WEATHER, IT DOES WHAT WEATHER DOES. If it's hot don't wear too many clothes, if it's cold wear more, if it rains buy an umbrella, Jesus have we really become such a nation of tw*ts that we have to be warned that ice might be, well, icy? And the SNOW warnings, Christ I've lost count at the times they tell us and warn us in terms of encroaching doom and Old Testament prophecy for what turns out to be a few, sad and disappointing flakes. When I was young the promise of snow was a matter of great unbridled celebration, if somebody had warned me I'd have thought they were insane. The Met Office has issued a SEVERE WEATHER WARNING, ie, it's bloody foul outside find something else to do. You and me can do nothing about the weather, still less aboutflood defences, local authority gritting policies or sun cream delivery schedules,we don't need the WARNINGS,they're rubbish and inappropriate. I challenge everyone to name one instance where a WEATHER WARNING made a solitary sod of difference to their day. Namby Pamby cotton wooled litigation-led pandering to the lowest common denominator broadcasting of the most banal type. I don't like them, uh uh.
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Well, I'm an MTB guide, I watch the weather a lot. If I'm booked to take a group of kids out or one of my blind clients, and the met office issue a weather warning, then I'd possibly be endangering their lives if I ignored it.
Or I could be putting myself and other people in danger if I head to a flood warning area just to take photographs.
A river flows through my back garden. I take flood warnings seriously.
if you don't like to see/hear all the weather warnings, switch the bloody TV/Radio off!
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how accurate are they then? How many more lifes were lost without them? They are there because the BBC got it wrong in 1997 and it won't get caught again oh no it really won't.
What's wrong with simply saying heavy rain or potential for flooding? Weather Warnings are the equivalent of crying wolf, they devalue the currency and in so doing almost certainly increase the number of accidents because people simply stop taking them seriously.
You're a responsible person, if the weather forecast said that the area you were planning to take a group into was likely to suffer heavy downpours I'm sure your judgment would be the same.
C'mon, it's drivel and you know it.
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Does it really matter. C'mon it really can't annoy you that much can it? You can always turn that box in the corner off...
Here's something to truly get pi$$ed off about, the TERRIBLE SUMMERYou live and learn. At any rate, you live0
