Are you pitting the weatherman for having a sense of humor, the town founders for putting up shop is such a cold place or yourself for not getting a winter home in Miami?
Sense of humor? No. Inane comments that make me want to kill? Closer.
2/3) A bit of one, a bit of the other. Though Miami is another hurricane through the swamp away from killing some poor people from flying trailer bits.
I can understand you being upset that you have cold weather, but do you think you can have a little consideration for others and keep it up there where it belongs?
I’m dealing with some imported Canadian air this morning and I don’t like it one little bit.
To tide you over, until you get the chance to realize this dream:
[Ottawa weatherman with tongue stuck to stop sign]“Ih ih a biw chiwwy ouhwiahhhhh!”[/OWWTSTSS]
(I live in L.A. but can extrapolate from having seen the perennial movie A Christmas Story, where the younger brother gets his tongue stuck to the pole.)
Hear, hear! It was just 70-something over the weekend. Now I wake up to hear that it’s going to get down to the mid-twenties tomorrow! I live in Florida! This is craziness!
I was going to come in here and make fun of you, Curious, but then I saw you’re in Ottawa, so I guess you have a legitimate beef. We were watching the Weather Channel this weekend (yes, we’re old, boring people, and that’s what we do), and the top story was “TEMPERATURE GOES BELOW ZERO IN TORONTO! NATIONAL GUARD CALLED OUT! CHRISTMAS MAY BE CANCELLED!” Okay, I’m exaggerating a teensy bit, but seriously, people, you live in Canada. It gets cold here sometimes. Suck it up, for Og’s sake.
We do. It’s the fucking idiots on the “news” who seem to think a cold spell is some kind of unforeseen disaster.
I watched the news yesterday and they had a long boring interview with a guy who worked in a clothing store about ‘how to dress in cold weather’. You will be shocked to know he recommended wearing a hat, coat and gloves. Who’d a thought?
You should hear them panic down here when it might freeze. THE END OF THE WORLD!!!
“Cold blast” my ass, people. This is south Louisiana. It doesn’t get all that cold here, and when it does, it doesn’t last. Turn up the heat and quit whining about it.
POOR FUCKING POOKIE!! Suffer with the rest of the temperate continent!
Seriously, at McGill we have a winter clothes exchange: you can donate your old winter clothes for students from warm countries who might not have the right clothes and lack the folding purple to buy their own.
Good point, Lionel. They do the same thing here - the interviews with the “man on the street” with how we’re coping with the cold weather/snow/whatever. You know, Calgary weather guys, most of Calgary is from Saskatchewan, and a little bit of cold and some snow just isn’t a big deal. (She says as the weather forecast for the rest of the week is for even more incredibly unseasonal warm weather. )
Speaking of ‘suck it up,’ if you Canadians could go outside and possibly manage to suck some more, and inhale all that frigid air back to where it came from, maybe it wouldn’t be 22 degrees down here!!
I kid! I’m Canadian, too. Where I used to live, it’s -13 with a wind chill of -36. And you guys can have it!
Incompetent weathermen should get jobs in Hawaii. That way, all they have to do is memorize “sunny, with temperatures in the mid seventies to eighties.” And, when there’s a major story like a hurricane, it’ll be SO big that they’ll have less chance of screwing up.
Or would they just say “it’s gonna be a warm day today” every day?