Snow changes how you feel

Tail end Charlie
Tail end Charlie Posts: 352
edited January 2010 in The bottom bracket
Isn't everyone in a much better mood when it has snowed? People young and old having a great time and laughing together.
On the way in today I was hit in the head by a snowball thrown by some oik (who probably has an ASBO or similar) and all I could think of saying was "good shot" !! Had he thrown something when it was raining I would have been tempted to get off and leather him.
Anyone else notice this ? Got to be a benefit of this much snow.

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  • White Line
    White Line Posts: 887
    Should have D-locked him.
    Emiliana the CAAD9
  • nolf
    nolf Posts: 1,287
    Tail end Charlie wrote:
    Isn't everyone in a much better mood when it has snowed?

    No.
    No they are not.
    "I hold it true, what'er befall;
    I feel it, when I sorrow most;
    'Tis better to have loved and lost;
    Than never to have loved at all."

    Alfred Tennyson
  • Lagavulin
    Lagavulin Posts: 1,688
    No. It was fun for about 10 minutes. Three weeks on with iced-up paths, pavements and side roads, with councils struggling to cope with maintaining A roads let alone B, it is starting to become a fecking nightmare.
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  • ravey1981
    ravey1981 Posts: 1,111
    I love snow....when it is in the alps and I am on my snowboard....

    I do not like snow when its here and I cant get to work, and when I cant get to work I don't get paid... Great fun
  • jellybellywmb
    jellybellywmb Posts: 1,379
    I was warm, now i am frozen on a permanent basis!
    "BEER" Proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy
  • ademort
    ademort Posts: 1,924
    Well i dont feel great in the snow. Still cant get out on the bike cannot cycle to work and spend all day outside trying to use a theodolite and other measuring equipment which is bloody difficult in between snow falling at regular intervals.Yes of course everyone feels great in the snow, you must be fu@@ing joking.What planet are you from.
    Ademort :evil:
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  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    One of the girls in our place managed to drive in and phoned too see which of the roads had the better grip which gave us time to prepare for her arrival. Four big kids, us, bombarding her with snowballs when she arrived, none of us hit her though but it brightened up the wait to be sent home :D
    I've added a signature to prove it is still possible.
  • Buckled_Rims
    Buckled_Rims Posts: 1,648
    No. I'm sick of snowballs pelted on the windows. I'm sick of not being able to bike anywhere. I'm sick of the cold and.......

    ....Britain only has 7 days gas reserves left!
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  • deptfordmarmoset
    deptfordmarmoset Posts: 3,118
    Snow definitely changes how squirrels feel - one just ran up to me, sniffed my boots, and started climbing up my trousers. I had to knock it off by the time it got past my knees - he's not having my nuts.
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  • Stewie Griffin
    Stewie Griffin Posts: 4,330
    Buckled_Rims wrote:
    No. I'm sick of snowballs pelted on the windows. I'm sick of not being able to bike anywhere. I'm sick of the cold and.......

    ....Britain only has 7 days gas reserves left!



    You are a scare mongering tory and ICM £5 :P
  • acidstrato
    acidstrato Posts: 945
    yeah its great being told to go home 2hrs after turning up for work at 7am risking it on the roads and that I wont get a full days pay. cant exactly go out for the afternoon on the bike, so i go out for a walk to the shops and get little feckers trying to hit me with balls of snow.

    wish i had a hummer and a hand gun
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  • Nuggs
    Nuggs Posts: 1,804
    Lagavulin wrote:
    No. It was fun for about 10 minutes. Three weeks on with iced-up paths, pavements and side roads, with councils struggling to cope with maintaining A roads let alone B, it is starting to become a fecking nightmare.
    +1

    Snow is the most overrated thing of all time.
  • Blonde
    Blonde Posts: 3,188
    Of course snow is fun if you get a day off work because your work is shut down and it's fun if you don't have to go out, or drive, or when you can chose to go out for a walk then come home to a warm house. Snow is obviously less fun if your boiler has broken down.. or if you have an outdoor job - the guy sweeping snow from Asda's car park yesterday looked pretty fed up (and cold) to me!
  • skinson
    skinson Posts: 362
    Snow's ok whilst looking out of the patio window, sipping a single malt, in front of a roaring log burner. Other than that give me a warm summers day every time :)
    Dave
  • MattC59
    MattC59 Posts: 5,408
    I love it, it's ace :D
    Science adjusts it’s beliefs based on what’s observed.
    Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved
  • Ands
    Ands Posts: 1,437
    Buckled_Rims wrote:

    ....Britain only has 7 days gas reserves left!
    Well that's better than last winter then cos back then it went down to 3 days. :shock:
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  • Tail end Charlie
    Tail end Charlie Posts: 352
    Well, I'm still smiling today and having a bit of banter whilst getting in to work. My work doesn't shut down and I have to get in, so I make the best of it. Today meant a two hour commute by various buses, but I have cycled till now.
    Suppose it depends if you are a glass half full person.
  • shouldbeinbed
    shouldbeinbed Posts: 2,660
    Tail end Charlie wrote:
    Well, I'm still smiling today and having a bit of banter whilst getting in to work. My work doesn't shut down and I have to get in, so I make the best of it. Today meant a two hour commute by various buses, but I have cycled till now.
    Suppose it depends if you are a glass half full person.

    Your glass will be a bit over half full now its frozen and expanded.

    It's been fun for a week but I'm happy for it to go now, it's frozen lumpy and unpredictable on the roads and I've got all the snow photos I want for another year.

    My glass will be 3/4 full when I can lean into the corners again
  • northernneil
    northernneil Posts: 1,549
    ravey1981 wrote:
    I love snow....when it is in the alps and I am on my snowboard....

    I do not like snow when its here and I cant get to work, and when I cant get to work I don't get paid... Great fun

    i went here yesterday www.yadmoss.co.uk

    it was awesome - you'd love it
  • NWLondoner
    NWLondoner Posts: 2,047
    Lets see, i can't ride and all the pavements around my area are like sheet ice. Oh yes i am really enjoying the snow NOT!!!! :x
  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    Cheer up.

    On the radio this morning, the DJ read out a text message from a listener:

    "Please tell the young lady driver in Lucan who gave me the finger that I was not trying to cast aspersions on her driving - I was merely trying to inform her that there was still a kettle on the roof of her car"
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • STEFANOS4784
    STEFANOS4784 Posts: 4,109
    Buckled_Rims wrote:
    No. I'm sick of snowballs pelted on the windows. I'm sick of not being able to bike anywhere. I'm sick of the cold and.......

    ....Britain only has 7 days gas reserves left!


    Plenty of cole though :wink:
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  • nasahapley
    nasahapley Posts: 717
    MattC59 wrote:
    I love it, it's ace :D

    Me too! Spent most of the week either mucking around in the snow, running on the moors which look amazing, or in the pub with my skiving mates. Can't get out on the bike? Well I don't remember cycling in January being a whole heap of laughs anyway, so I can happily live with that :D

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