# I pit the fucking weatherman. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 20, 2004, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-fucking-weatherman/280787 "2004-12-20T13:48:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CuriousCanuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@CuriousCanuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CuriousCanuck)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-fucking-weatherman/280787/1 "2004-12-20T13:48:16Z")
Or whoever the hell decided that -43C with the windchill (-33 without it) was a brilliant fucking idea for Ottawa in December. I want to gently place their tongue on the stop sign outside and watch thenm try and say again “It is a bit chilly ouside”. Damn it. ---
**Author:** ![Chairman\_Pow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@Chairman\_Pow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chairman_Pow)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-fucking-weatherman/280787/2 "2004-12-20T13:50:07Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![CuriousCanuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@CuriousCanuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CuriousCanuck)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-fucking-weatherman/280787/3 "2004-12-20T14:13:41Z")
> [@Chairman Pow](#): > > 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? 1. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-fucking-weatherman/280787/4 "2004-12-20T14:18:48Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-fucking-weatherman/280787/5 "2004-12-20T14:21:44Z")
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.) ---
**Author:** ![CuriousCanuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@CuriousCanuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CuriousCanuck)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-fucking-weatherman/280787/6 "2004-12-20T14:45:58Z")
> [@Spectre of Pithecanthropus](#): > > [Ottawa weatherman with tongue stuck to stop sign] **“Ih ih a biw chiwwy ouhwiahhhhh!”** [/OWWTSTSS] I love it when a good pitting comes together with timely humour! ---
**Author:** ![XJETGIRLX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9fc29f/32.png) [@XJETGIRLX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XJETGIRLX)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-fucking-weatherman/280787/7 "2004-12-20T14:52:41Z")
> [@Exgineer](#): > > 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. 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! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-fucking-weatherman/280787/8 "2004-12-20T15:04:12Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![CuriousCanuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@CuriousCanuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CuriousCanuck)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-fucking-weatherman/280787/9 "2004-12-20T15:08:41Z")
> [@featherlou](#): > > you live in Canada. It gets cold here sometimes. Suck it up, for Og’s sake. Easy to say when the current temperature in Calgary is plus 1. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![LionelHutz405](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lionelhutz405/32/536_2.png) [@LionelHutz405](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LionelHutz405)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-fucking-weatherman/280787/10 "2004-12-20T15:28:58Z")
> [@featherlou](#): > > 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? ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-fucking-weatherman/280787/11 "2004-12-20T15:50:17Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-fucking-weatherman/280787/12 "2004-12-20T16:27:00Z")
> [@LionelHutz405](#): > > You will be shocked to know he recommended wearing a hat, coat and gloves. Who’d a thought? That’s for all the Mexicans and Haitians who didn’t fly back south before the border froze over 🙂 And **Curious** , a Canadian winter is one of my main motivations for not believing in God. At least, not any Christian namby-pamby God. ---
**Author:** ![Jaade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dfb087/32.png) [@Jaade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaade)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-fucking-weatherman/280787/13 "2004-12-20T16:38:28Z")
> [@XJETGIRLX](#): > > 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! It was 18 this morning in HOTlanta…~frowns~ with a wind chill factor that made it 4 degrees. ~shivers~ The “high” today will be 38. You know, there’s a REASON we live down South people! ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-fucking-weatherman/280787/14 "2004-12-20T16:41:06Z")
> [@Exgineer](#): > > 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. Oh, yes, it be mighty cold up here today. And it doesn’t help that my building supervisor is stingy with the heat in the winter because, as he says and I kid you not - it saves money. :smack: :wally —\>to the building supervisor ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-fucking-weatherman/280787/15 "2004-12-20T17:51:11Z")
> [@XJETGIRLX](#): > > 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! POOR FUCKING POOKIE!! 😃 Suffer with the rest of the temperate continent! > [@](#): > > That’s for all the Mexicans and Haitians who didn’t fly back south before the border froze over 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. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-fucking-weatherman/280787/16 "2004-12-20T18:31:45Z")
> [@LionelHutz405](#): > > 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? 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. 😃 ) ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-fucking-weatherman/280787/17 "2004-12-20T20:07:03Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-fucking-weatherman/280787/18 "2004-12-20T21:30:09Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-fucking-weatherman/280787/19 "2004-12-21T02:11:09Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > 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? You forgot “rain on the windward side, dry on the leeward side.” Congratulations, you’re a weatherman in Hawaii. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-fucking-weatherman/280787/20 "2004-12-21T02:15:55Z")
Weren’t the Weathermen some kind of radical hippies in the 60’s? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-fucking-weatherman/280787.md?page=2)