# SHUT UP ABOUT THE WEATHER! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 18, 2000, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-about-the-weather/46127 "2000-12-18T09:51:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-about-the-weather/46127/21 "2000-12-19T01:59:51Z")
\*\*Rasa: > [@](#): > > There shall be no ass-dragging of oldscratch to Wisconsin or anything of the sort. Cuz, whither he goest I goest and all that shizat, and I kinda have my heart set on San Francisco. So nya! \*\*Naw, sweetie, I wouldn’t take oldie from you 😃 But you know it’s more fun to snuggle by a fireplace on a cold night 😉 \*\*dropzone: > [@](#): > > Where the hell is that “but it’s a dry cold” my mom is always talking about? That’s no better than it is here! \*\*_shakes dropzones hand warmly_ It’s all _relative_, hon, but I bet you knew that 😉 \*\* > [@](#): > > And it is NOT good to have “another beautiful, sunny day” after sixty beautiful sunny days straight, and it is GOOD to have some rain interspersed in that stretch. \*\*_highfives dropzone_ \*\*MsRobyn: > [@](#): > > However, I am so sick of cold that I’m leaving to go back to Texas. I like wearing shorts and T-shirts year round, too. \*\* Wuss 😛 \*\*beagledave: > [@](#): > > Having lived a few years in Chicago though…those weather dudes and chicks just go ballastic at the sight of any snowflake at all…Hello? You live in the midwest…one inch of snow does NOT a snowstorm make… \*\*Unfortunately, the talking heads in the Cities aren’t much better, the bastards :mad: \*\*dublos: > [@](#): > > Well, I for one am happy to see the temperature plummeting here in MN. \*\*Woohoo!! Another member of the frozen tundra contingent. Where are you? \*\*Doob: > [@](#): > > Fuck you all who keep harping on me for my typo! \*\*You knows I wuv ya, hon 😃 …and **oldscratch** … as reported at St. Cloud, MN. Last updated Monday, December 18, at 6:59 PM Central Standard Time ( 7:59 PM EST) Cloudy Temp: 8°F Wind Chill: -23°F Wind: From the Northwest at 17 mph gusting to 22 mph Dewpoint: 3°F Rel. Humidity: 76% Visibility: unlimited Barometer: 30.25 inches and falling Sunrise: 7:54 am Sunset: 4:36 pm So I hate to rain…err…snow on your parade, but fuck of Scratchie, ya wuss 😃 ---
**Author:** ![sulawesi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@sulawesi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sulawesi)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-about-the-weather/46127/22 "2000-12-19T02:17:10Z")
CURRENTLY as reported at Pompano Beach, FL. Last updated Monday, December 18, at 7:57 PM Eastern Standard Time Fair Temp: 68°F Wind: - Dewpoint: 67°F Rel. Humidity: 96% Visibility: unlimited Barometer: 30.08 inches Sunrise: 7:02 am Sunset: 5:32 pm \ I miss having seasons. You spoiled fucking northerners 😃 ---
**Author:** ![dublos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f08c70/32.png) [@dublos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dublos)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-about-the-weather/46127/23 "2000-12-19T02:27:13Z")
Minneapolis, Mn Last updated Monday, December 18, at 8:09 PM Central Standard Time Temp: 12°F Wind Chill: -22°F Wind: From the North at 22 mph gusting to 25 mph Dewpoint: 9°F Rel. Humidity: 82% Visibility: 3 miles Barometer: - inches and falling ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-about-the-weather/46127/24 "2000-12-19T02:28:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dublos \* > **The stuff that falls when it’s only 10 or so degrees is such WIMPY snow, tiny litte crysals that don’t hold together for a snowman or a snowball worth a damn.** Yeah, but there are no heart attacks in cleaning it up. I swept three inches of that crap off my driveway before my neighbor dragged his blower out of the garage and started it up. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by chique \* > \*\* > It’s all relative, hon, but I bet you knew that \*\* \ You got that from my mother. ---
**Author:** ![Sapphire\_Bullet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@Sapphire\_Bullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapphire_Bullet)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-about-the-weather/46127/25 "2000-12-19T02:41:42Z")
> [@](#): > > _MsRobyn_: > However, I am so sick of cold that I’m leaving to go back to Texas. I like wearing shorts and T-shirts year round, too. > > _chique_: > Wuss 😛 [oppressed Texan rant] OK, Ms. Bitch! Now you’ve done it! HOW DARE YOU INSULT MY HOMELAND LIKE THAT? YOU WHITEWASHING RACIST! Texas is a wonderful place to live! I did not think people like you existed, but here you are saying this! [/oppressed Texan rant] ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-about-the-weather/46127/26 "2000-12-19T03:14:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by chique \*\*\*It’s all relative, hon, but I bet you knew that \*\* \ You got that from my mother. \*\* [/QUOTE] :eek: [sub]Damn, now I pissed dropzone off just as I thought he was warming up to me and he shook my hand and all and now I made him mad again and I didn’t want to do that and geez, I’m such a chicken and I hate the Pit and I’ll never post to any of dropzone’s threads ever again cos I don’t want anyone mad at me…'cept for scratchie, of course…and I didn’t mean to upset you, dropzone, SIR!!![/sub] ☹ ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-about-the-weather/46127/27 "2000-12-19T03:38:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*OpalCat \* > \*\*With snow. Mmmm…snowwww. \*\* Ohhhhhh, say that again! \ ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-about-the-weather/46127/28 "2000-12-19T04:27:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by chique \* > **[sub]Damn, now I pissed dropzone off just as I thought he was warming up to me[/sub]** It’s the Pit. I can get hot with you, but not warm here. Now, if you’ll join me in MPSIMS we can warm ourselves by a fire and you can explain why you talk like my mother. Oh, yeah. You’re in Minnesota. Everybody there talks like that. I was ten before I knew the Theory of Relativity had nothing to do with the weather. “Ja, well, ya know, it’s all relative.” [sub]I was at a party and some Wisconsinites recognized my heritage because I started a sentence with “So…” It’s been forty-two years since I moved and it still shows.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-about-the-weather/46127/29 "2000-12-19T13:40:34Z")
“You know, its not so much the heat, as it is the humidity…” You’d be suprised as what kind of looks you get when you say this in the elevator after everyone trudged through 2 feet of snow in 4 degrees of cold. Where’s the Heatmiser when you need him? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-about-the-weather/46127/30 "2000-12-19T13:54:06Z")
I _hate_ the weather in So. Cal. Always so bloody sunny and warm! It’s freakin _December_ and it was 80º yesterday!!! And it’s too hot in the summer. Okay, I lived in the desert for 11 years. I should be used to hot. But at least it got _cold_ in the winter! But I’m trying to move. Also, I don’t complain about the weather _every_ time it’s sunny. I had this roommate… He hates rain. He wanted to sit by the pool and have barbeques every day of the year. Didn’t have time to work and pay the rent because he was so busy catching rays. But that’s another story. Anyway, he’d always complain every day it rained. His bed was in the living room next to the front window. One time he looked out and voiced his exasperation that it was a cloudy day. I turned around from the computer and said, “If you don’t like the weather, why don’t you change it?” He said, “How the hell am I supposed to do that?” I told him, “I don’t know. _You’re_ the one who’s complaining about it!” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Pit\_and\_The\_Pendulum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@The\_Pit\_and\_The\_Pendulum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Pit_and_The_Pendulum)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2000, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-about-the-weather/46127/31 "2000-12-22T03:36:13Z")
Weather reports are a real waste of time. Ever try to match the predictions? They can’t get yesterday right, so what chance do they have for tomorrow? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-about-the-weather/46127.md?page=1)