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Iron Edge => Off Topic Discussion => Topic started by: Douchebag on January 08, 2010, 03:42:20 pm

Title: What the UK currently looks like.
Post by: Douchebag on January 08, 2010, 03:42:20 pm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/8447023.stm

Didn't realise it was quite this bad
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Post by: delling on January 08, 2010, 04:03:01 pm
Bad?

Awesome! Beautiful!
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Post by: Archz on January 08, 2010, 04:16:13 pm
Cold as hell is what it is!

Norway probably looks the same

Global warming my ass
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Post by: Monstar on January 08, 2010, 04:33:21 pm
Yep bloody freezing. Seen these car skating vids? Pretty funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TTN0s9K5QY&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TTN0s9K5QY&feature=related)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWT1pY1mVlY&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWT1pY1mVlY&feature=related)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqbmYD4ee8U&NR=1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqbmYD4ee8U&NR=1)
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Post by: Cwave on January 08, 2010, 04:43:18 pm
Very cool picture!

-15 degrees celsius next week or so. During the day. In holland.
My god... the humanity!

http://www.geenstijl.nl/archives/images/10ompe8.html
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Post by: Galtez on January 08, 2010, 04:46:42 pm
well, the scientists said that as a side-effect of global warming parts of northern europe would get colder as hot countries get hotter,  sux to be us  ;D

it should especially be noticeable around Norway, GB, Faroes, Iceland and Greenland as-well as some parts in Europe..  :-[
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Post by: delling on January 08, 2010, 04:56:03 pm
Jesus, -15? That's crazy! I'm glad to be on an island again...

That first video is awesome Monstar... in a scary kind of way.
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Post by: Sparrowhawk on January 08, 2010, 05:07:27 pm
-25 outside and need to take dogs out few times a day... so fun
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Post by: Blackwhale on January 08, 2010, 05:09:03 pm
we have had minus 30 degrees outside for a couple of days now, i feel for devlin as he lives even further north in this frozen hellhole
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Post by: delling on January 08, 2010, 05:09:43 pm
Isn't that the usual temperature in the winter though...?
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Post by: Blackwhale on January 08, 2010, 05:28:29 pm
we usually have around minus 10-20 in the winter with max 2-3 days a year with around 30, its been around 30 from time to time all this winter tho. So yes, its colder then usuall
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Post by: Douchebag on January 08, 2010, 05:51:16 pm
did some car skating today down a very icy road, was quite fun doing handbrake turns.

then went car skiing, you tie a rope to the back of a car/van and hold on while going at about 10 mph, it's dangerous but hella fun!
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Post by: Pluug on January 08, 2010, 06:48:39 pm
LOL when we have +10 we are freezing!
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Post by: shankski on January 08, 2010, 08:00:29 pm
it was awesome had about 8+ inches of snow in Swindon on tuesday
snowball fights + sledging is always good fun =P
saw some drivers fail too which was pretty hilarious
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Post by: Kilizion on January 08, 2010, 08:09:51 pm
Same in Manchester, parents have had no work, siblings no school, and no work for me either. :)
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Post by: Shifthoof on January 08, 2010, 08:17:12 pm
Just when you think it looks like clearing up, it snows again :(
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Post by: Inphy on January 08, 2010, 08:24:28 pm
I love it, NO SCHOOL!
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Post by: Daemone on January 08, 2010, 09:05:34 pm
It's 15 here lol. Anything under 10 and it's called freezing:)
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Post by: Ahkailon on January 09, 2010, 12:53:19 am
The coldest places in Norway, such as Røros (in the eastern part of the country), are currently having temperatures below -40 Celsius. The online newspapers are flooding with videos of people throwing boiling water into the air which instantly freezes and turns to snow :P.
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Post by: Hugman on January 09, 2010, 02:58:53 am
The coldest places in Norway, such as Røros (in the eastern part of the country), are currently having temperatures below -40 Celsius. The online newspapers are flooding with videos of people throwing boiling water into the air which instantly freezes and turns to snow :P.

Woah, you'd have to be really stupid to voluntarily live in a country like that.
Title: Re: What the UK currently looks like.
Post by: delling on January 09, 2010, 04:12:04 am
Not really...

You should check out their GDP/GNP, quality of life, etc.

They have VAST oil reserves. Lucky sods.
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Post by: Devlin on January 09, 2010, 04:44:59 am
I saw an article in a swedish news paper that said "escape the cold and go to sunny exotic places that are 40 degrees warmer!"

Then I went like, "why would you want to pay for a trip like that to a 0 degree place?"

The news paper does not take northern Sweden into account...
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Post by: delling on January 09, 2010, 04:51:35 am
Hahaha.

I can imagine English commercials now: 'Treat yourself! Go somewhere 5C warmer!'

You see, we don't like REALLY hot things. Just slightly hotter. Or really, it's just the rain that people want to get away from on their holidays.

Heatwaves in the UK are the same as a few inches of snow... SHUT DOWN EVERYTHING.
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Post by: Inphy on January 09, 2010, 08:34:35 am
I wonder what they'll bring up this time. New Ice Age? Oooh boy, oh boy, I bet a new Al Gore film is coming out soon! ^^
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Post by: Daekesh on January 09, 2010, 08:41:55 am
We need to burn more fossil fuels to stop the ice age!
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Post by: Devlin on January 09, 2010, 10:24:46 am
But ... I want to see an army of "Scrat's" take over the world!
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Post by: Kendoki on January 09, 2010, 10:48:05 am
That pic of the UK being all white is just amazing.
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Post by: Daekesh on January 09, 2010, 11:01:12 am
That pic of the UK being all white is just amazing.

Are you a member of the BNP? :)
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Post by: kawe on January 09, 2010, 11:34:32 am
I lol'd :D
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Post by: Yoica on January 09, 2010, 11:34:45 am
LMAO!


On side note; the bigger ice ages were all pre-dated by an increase in global tempature before cooling.
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Post by: Meeckah on January 09, 2010, 01:55:38 pm
Try walking in it every day for a living =(
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Post by: kawe on January 09, 2010, 02:36:04 pm
Mickah lives?
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Post by: delling on January 09, 2010, 05:04:00 pm
Yeah, he logs in occasionally on the forum... I guess the snow has him off work...
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Post by: Daemone on January 09, 2010, 09:27:27 pm
It's funny , for a country so obsessed with the weather your shit at predicting it and even worse at dealing with it...
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Post by: delling on January 09, 2010, 10:26:49 pm
Obsessed with the weather? You mean... rain?
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Post by: Douchebag on January 10, 2010, 12:12:27 am
It's funny , for a country so obsessed with the weather your shit at predicting it and even worse at dealing with it...

It's very rare to see the UK just white, nothing else, not even some green...

and we don't really stockpile the salt/grit for the roads as it only really heavily snows every few years
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Post by: kawe on January 10, 2010, 01:38:50 am
It's funny , for a country so obsessed with the weather your shit at predicting it and even worse at dealing with it...

Actually, the MET is *incredibly* good at getting it right.
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Post by: Inphy on January 10, 2010, 03:10:34 am
I've heard that here in Holland, that in the big cities, we've ran out of salt/grit for the roads.
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Post by: Daemone on January 11, 2010, 03:31:42 pm
It's funny , for a country so obsessed with the weather your shit at predicting it and even worse at dealing with it...

It's very rare to see the UK just white, nothing else, not even some green...

and we don't really stockpile the salt/grit for the roads as it only really heavily snows every few years

Actually the reason you dont stockpile grit salt is since its only effective for a few months before going off so you cant really stockpile it:(
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Post by: Hugman on January 11, 2010, 04:14:44 pm
Actually the reason you dont stockpile grit salt is since its only effective for a few months before going off so you cant really stockpile it:(

This guy is like the creepy nieghbourhood stalker. You know, the one who is always hanging around, trying to be helpful and no one is quite sure what he is doing there, and it creeps you out.

Then one day you leave your house and go to start your car. You get there and pat yourself down, and find you don't have the keys, and can't remember where you put them. Then all of a sudden he steps out from behind a bush and goes "oh don't worry, you left them on the sink in the bathroom", with a big friendly smile on his face.

Creepy.
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Post by: Aretum on January 12, 2010, 01:46:17 am
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/8447023.stm

Didn't realise it was quite this bad

better version of the picture dug up from trusty ole nasa:-

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/42000/42237/gbritain_tmo_2010007_lrg.jpg (http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/42000/42237/gbritain_tmo_2010007_lrg.jpg)
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Post by: kawe on January 12, 2010, 03:30:09 pm
Actually the reason you dont stockpile grit salt is since its only effective for a few months before going off so you cant really stockpile it:(

This guy is like the creepy nieghbourhood stalker. You know, the one who is always hanging around, trying to be helpful and no one is quite sure what he is doing there, and it creeps you out.

Then one day you leave your house and go to start your car. You get there and pat yourself down, and find you don't have the keys, and can't remember where you put them. Then all of a sudden he steps out from behind a bush and goes "oh don't worry, you left them on the sink in the bathroom", with a big friendly smile on his face.

Creepy.

wat
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Post by: Nachmanun on January 12, 2010, 05:30:17 pm
Hey, look at it this way, it could've been way worse.

You could've gone leper and lost your dick, or even worse, your GAMING HANDS!
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Post by: Inphy on January 12, 2010, 07:52:14 pm
Cold Dick nach,, cold dick...
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Post by: Douchebag on January 12, 2010, 11:13:34 pm
It's funny , for a country so obsessed with the weather your shit at predicting it and even worse at dealing with it...

It's very rare to see the UK just white, nothing else, not even some green...

and we don't really stockpile the salt/grit for the roads as it only really heavily snows every few years

Actually the reason you dont stockpile grit salt is since its only effective for a few months before going off so you cant really stockpile it:(

I know, but they don't even try to get some in for Jan, we had this around the same period in 09 aswell, in feb I think
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Post by: delling on January 13, 2010, 02:40:47 am
No where near the same scale as this, Douch :P
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Post by: Daemone on January 13, 2010, 09:25:18 pm
Actually the reason you dont stockpile grit salt is since its only effective for a few months before going off so you cant really stockpile it:(

This guy is like the creepy nieghbourhood stalker. You know, the one who is always hanging around, trying to be helpful and no one is quite sure what he is doing there, and it creeps you out.

Then one day you leave your house and go to start your car. You get there and pat yourself down, and find you don't have the keys, and can't remember where you put them. Then all of a sudden he steps out from behind a bush and goes "oh don't worry, you left them on the sink in the bathroom", with a big friendly smile on his face.

Creepy.

http://www.darklegacycomics.com/105.html

Hugman's Already seen it but thought the others might like it/be amused by it!
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Post by: Emptyy on January 28, 2010, 12:17:40 am
OH WELL, IT'S NOT LIKE THEY COULD'VE PREP'ED FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS.
*cough* (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_2009_Great_Britain_and_Ireland_snowfall)