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TarTar
* Dog in the Sand *
1968 Posts |
 Posted - 11/28/2003 : 06:13:21
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| I absolutely hate living in an area of the world where it snows 4 to 5 months of the year. Okay, I don't absolutely hate it, I like the snow from about this point in the year until the end of December, but after that it has overstayed it's welcome, as has the cold, and they best just get the fuck on up outta my face! |
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TarTar
* Dog in the Sand *
1968 Posts |
Posted - 11/28/2003 : 06:14:05
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| addendum - it's snowing here now. |
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Cult_Of_Frank
= Black Noise Maker =
Canada
11690 Posts |
Posted - 11/28/2003 : 06:21:17
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Heh, welcome to my world. We've had snow since October.
It was funny flying back home from the States, you could literally see the line where the snow started. I just looked out the window from my book and all of a sudden, everything was white, and I was shocked since there was no snow when I left and the weather was quite nice in Detroit. A gasp and then, "No way!" and I looked back and you could see green and then all of a sudden white. Then I chuckled to myself and thought, "Must be the 49th parallel."
Listen, it's a boring story, I know, but SOMEONE had to reply.
 "Join the Cult of Frank / And you'll be enlightened" |
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glacial906
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1738 Posts |
Posted - 11/28/2003 : 07:00:05
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Wyoming, in which I used to live back about thirteen years ago, had only two seasons, one spring and one winter. The hottest it ever got was like the beginning of springtime, in July, which was nice because it was a dry heat, not all muggy like it is down here in the southeast. The winters, however, were terrible, probably not as bad as they are in Canada, but comparable at least.
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
Carl Sagan
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Cult_Of_Frank
= Black Noise Maker =
Canada
11690 Posts |
Posted - 11/28/2003 : 07:16:15
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Sounds a lot like here...
Spring: April + May (except this year, it was just May)
Summer: June-August
Fall: September + October
Winter: November-March
A month and a half hardly counts as a season, though, in which case, fall becomes winter, and spring becomes summer. Either way, winters are ridiculously long and coooooooooooold. Cold enough that by then end, when it starts warming up and gets into anywhere above -10, it feels so warm and people are out and about in t-shirts. Seriously, -5 and everyone in t-shirts, some in shorts and sandals. You'd never do that in the fall when you're coming from +30-40 degree weather, but in the spring, it's practically balmy. :)
"Join the Cult of Frank / And you'll be enlightened" |
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your mamas a pretty thing
- FB Fan -
Canada
66 Posts |
Posted - 11/28/2003 : 09:31:08
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I can't believe we don't have snow here yet.
However, it is raining and hovering around the freezing line so maybe I should just shut up.
Show Me Your Tears In The Sand |
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bedrock_barney
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
871 Posts |
Posted - 11/28/2003 : 10:01:24
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Don't know if any of the UK guys watched Horizon a couple of weeks back. ( long running 'serious' science show on the BBC for all you non Brits).
They mooted the possibility of the gulf stream shutting down (because of global warming) and plunging the UK into climatic conditions more akin to the latitude of the UK. i.e. Moscow/Canada etc.
I love those programmes about meteorites hitting the earth, super volcanos etc. I think they call it disaster porn.
 "I have been enslaved by the Cult of Ming / He is ever so merciless...unlike that nice Mr Black." |
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Coldheartofstone
* Dog in the Sand *
Canada
2025 Posts |
Posted - 11/28/2003 : 10:29:27
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Im in toronto , it's almost december..and all we get is rain, not at all like im complaining but....what the hell?
I've come to hate my own creation...now i know how God feels.-Homer Simpson |
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Coldheartofstone
* Dog in the Sand *
Canada
2025 Posts |
Posted - 11/28/2003 : 10:30:18
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Im in toronto , it's almost december..and all we get is rain, not at all like im complaining but....what the hell? constantly for the last 2 days...Noah's started building already.
I've come to hate my own creation...now i know how God feels.-Homer Simpson |
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Crispy Water
= Cult of Ray =
Canada
819 Posts |
Posted - 11/28/2003 : 15:23:47
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I don't mind snow and cold that much - people here complain about it constantly, but at the same time use it as a source of regional pride, like we're better than certain others just because the weather here is more unpredictable and generally colder. The part I like is in late September/early October when the temperature starts to go below zero: everybody cries about how cold it is. Then in early March when it finally gets back up to around -4 or thereabouts everybody runs around in shorts. So in spirit, the Canadian prairie summer really lasts from April to September if you ask me. Regardless of what the weather really says, during those months the only thing that kills everyone's summer mood seems to be the occasional July snow.
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interloper
= Cult of Ray =
440 Posts |
Posted - 11/28/2003 : 15:49:51
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I love snow and I love cold weather. I feel like stabbing myself in the gullett anytime it gets over 80 degrees. Call me weird, everyone else does.
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Cheeseman1000
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Iceland
8201 Posts |
Posted - 11/28/2003 : 15:56:11
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'Disaster porn.' Genius.
I'm not convinced the evil coldness would be such a good idea here, the weather's quite bad enough as it is, thanks very much.
"What are we going to do tonight, Brain?"
"Same thing we do every night, Pinky: try to take over the world!" |
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SpudBoy
= Cult of Ray =
Equatorial Guinea
649 Posts |
Posted - 11/28/2003 : 20:15:30
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Ok - so I used to live in Chicago, which has an average winter temperature around 10 degrees below Fairbanks, Alaska. Living there in winter was like working in the disater porn industry, given that at least one tourist a year bought it from chunks of falling ice coming off the skyscrapers. That, plus the kamikaze snowplows, made it something worth doing, since now I really enjoy all other weather. Except partly cloudy...for some reason it fills me with a deep angst. Go figure.
 I looked for a cult to join, then decided to just play "Sink". Hey! I sank Toledo, Ohio! |
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Hordak
- FB Fan -
USA
180 Posts |
Posted - 11/28/2003 : 21:28:26
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I'm still in Wyoming. I'm about freezing my nuts off. My motel room here at the Circle S is cold as blazes. I can't seem to find the thermostat. I've talked to the guy at the front desk, but he is oriental and he doesn't seem to understand. He did manage to tell me that he'd be by later, but that was like, two days ago...
 I joined the cult of Norm Peterson...because I like to drink beer and I'm portly. |
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Little Black Francis
> Teenager of the Year <
3648 Posts |
Posted - 11/28/2003 : 22:41:53
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Funny someone mention this snow thing.
We had our first fliries here tonight and our expecting our first little snow to give us all a sign of Winter.
I like to eat lots of food, eat lots of music, drink beer, have sex with my psycho girlfriend, and smoke weed.
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Carolynanna
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Canada
6556 Posts |
Posted - 12/01/2003 : 09:26:07
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Little darling,
It's been a long, cold, lonely winter.
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El Barto
= Song DB Master =
USA
4020 Posts |
Posted - 12/01/2003 : 09:56:24
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Thanks Carolyn, I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that :)
 "I joined the Cult of Clops / If I were you, I'd sleep with one eye open." |
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apl4eris
~ Abstract Brain ~
USA
4800 Posts |
Posted - 12/01/2003 : 10:28:28
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| Oh, lord. My hippie parents (long-divorced and conservatized and/or yuppified now) had a big ol' mega-hippie wedding in our yard, and everybody held hands in a big circle singing this song. Just as they sang the line "here comes the sun"... well, that's just what happened, it broke from the clouds - what a Simpson's moment! |
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TheCroutonFuton
- Mr. Setlists -
USA
1728 Posts |
Posted - 12/01/2003 : 10:32:54
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| hahahaha....in your yard? |
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apl4eris
~ Abstract Brain ~
USA
4800 Posts |
Posted - 12/01/2003 : 10:45:39
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Yep. Of the house I grew up in anyway. We lived on the third floor of a big Victorian-era home with 2 other families on the other floors, our kitchen was a tiny closet (used to be the servants' quarter's kitchen), and the property had about 10 acres - it's hard to remember exactly - I think I was 5 or 6 when I moved out. I should say, to stay on topic, that 1977 (I was 4) was a huge winter for snow in Louisville, KY - we got about 3 feet in 2 days or something. Back when big snow meant serious fun and escape from the laws of regular society. I love disastrous weather - people who depend on regularity and perfection totally flip out, and the world seems more right to me.
Mind you, when I lived in Chicago, that one winter of 70 below zero (Fahrenheit!) temperatures (adjusted for windchill - it was actually 40 below, I think - do you remember that year Spudboy?) was a bit much. You could freeze to the sidewalk waiting for the bus. And people did get killed by falling chunks of ice downtown. I worked n the Sears tower for a while, and they had posts and chains along the sidewalk so you could pull yourself down the sidewalk and to the door, because the wind was so strong. Man, that place sucks in the winter. |
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TheCroutonFuton
- Mr. Setlists -
USA
1728 Posts |
Posted - 12/01/2003 : 10:47:52
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| Ooh, wow, that's pretty neat. At first I was just imagining tons of people in a circle in the front lawn of a suburban home...with cars driving by wondering what's going on...haha. |
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TheCroutonFuton
- Mr. Setlists -
USA
1728 Posts |
Posted - 12/01/2003 : 10:54:19
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*That place sucks all of the time.
I was born in Illinois...Chicago basically sucks all throughout the year. |
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