Boolitt wrote:

Someone kicked fuck out of my kids snowman last year and i went out looking for them like i was the punisher, pissed mind, trying to find the wee bastards.

Brilliant! Could only have been bettered if the wee bastards had pelted you with snowballs.

Boolitt wrote:

Someone kicked fuck out of my kids snowman last year and i went out looking for them like i was the punisher, pissed mind, trying to find the wee bastards.

The Ticker Offer.

The Stern Worder.

The Angry Tutter.

The Finger Wagger.

One side effect of the snow here was the supermarket ran out of food so we ordered a curry instead.

Mid way through I burped twice but it was unusually not as loud as normal, understated, but long.

It sounded exactly like that noise the Predator makes.

Alwaya wondered how they did that.

Wifey's flight cancelled. No flight until Tuesday morning.

Fucking pathetic.

Tuesday does seem a bit ott mind. Potentially some fallout from the Monarch routes not being reassigned yet and causing a shortage of short haul flights and the extra planes needed to run them.

Liveinadive wrote:

Unfortunately the nature of our weather means that investment in equipment and procedures to combat weather like snow isn't justifiable due to the rarity of it causing major issues.

People often point to the likes of Canada or Scandinavia who are set up for these conditions but it is worthwhile them doing so due to the frequency of extreme weather.

This is my thinking when deciding on winter tyres. They should be worth the investment. But the reality is, in my line of work, I can usually work from home in such situations, which are rare.

Wifey booked on FlyBe 5pm tomorrow night. No thanks to Easyjet mind. Still trying to get accommodation sorted out. Fucking nightmare.

cockbeard wrote:

I want to be really sympathtic here, then open your boss killing legend thread and tell you that hey ho, at least you get more practise

Hotel sorted now.

Wifey doesn't work Mondays so it's not a massive deal. She is with a friend too so at least she isn't alone.

It appears the whole country is struggling under the weight of all this snow but it has somehow completely missed my little corner of Berkshire. Newbury is half an hour away and they've got snow shovels out and the M4 is shut.

Bonkers.

we got just enough snow last night to give everything a thin coating, which has then frozen into a deadly layer of ice everywhere. car was showing -4 when i got to the office this morning.

You've also got the dick factor that UK drivers seem to have instilled in them. I was slowly creeping home a few years ago in a beamer, crawling up hill and the traffic opposite was crawling downhill. A total twat in a Merc decided to overtake coming down the hill as the traffic wasn't going fast enough for him, skidding all over the place.

b0r1s wrote:

You've also got the dick factor that UK drivers seem to have instilled in them. I was slowly creeping home a few years ago in a beamer, crawling up hill and the traffic opposite was crawling downhill. A total twat in a Merc decided to overtake coming down the hill as the traffic wasn't going fast enough for him, skidding all over the place.

Oh god yes, the dick factor was high yesterday.
I was making my way up the A34, slowly creeping my way along the well worn grooves made by earlier traffic. The whole line of cars was driving at about 25mph, keeping massive distances between us and all sticking to the worn left hand lane. 
Behind me I notice a set of bright Xenon headlights of a flash Audi closing the distance fairly rapidly. 
This Audi then gets right up behind me, trying to push me along. I'm driving an old Vauxhall Zafira with a Baby on Board sign in the back so you think he'd be a bit more careful.

Then he swings out into the untouched and very deep snow on the right hand lane and floors it, wheels spinning everywhere as he overtakes everyone.
The snow spray now starts to blind us all.

You could tell every single driver in the left hand lane was thinking "go on, straight into the central reservation you utter wankstain"

Sadly he made it all the way up the motorway safely. 
If he wiped out (providing it was just his car and didnt hit anyone else) I doubt there was a single person there who would've stopped to help the cunt.

Wookienopants wrote:

b0r1s wrote:

You've also got the dick factor that UK drivers seem to have instilled in them. I was slowly creeping home a few years ago in a beamer, crawling up hill and the traffic opposite was crawling downhill. A total twat in a Merc decided to overtake coming down the hill as the traffic wasn't going fast enough for him, skidding all over the place.

Oh god yes, the dick factor was high yesterday.
I was making my way up the A34, slowly creeping my way along the well worn grooves made by earlier traffic. The whole line of cars was driving at about 25mph, keeping massive distances between us and all sticking to the worn left hand lane. 
Behind me I notice a set of bright Xenon headlights of a flash Audi closing the distance fairly rapidly. 
This Audi then gets right up behind me, trying to push me along. I'm driving an old Vauxhall Zafira with a Baby on Board sign in the back so you think he'd be a bit more careful.

Then he swings out into the untouched and very deep snow on the right hand lane and floors it, wheels spinning everywhere as he overtakes everyone.
The snow spray now starts to blind us all.

You could tell every single driver in the left hand lane was thinking "go on, straight into the central reservation you utter wankstain"

Sadly he made it all the way up the motorway safely. 
If he wiped out (providing it was just his car and didnt hit anyone else) I doubt there was a single person there who would've stopped to help the cunt.

Yeah ace driving around Oxford yesterday.

Very similar story to yours Wookie. Long chain of us crawling along the A40 towards Oxford. Occasional 4x4 overtaking, fair play.

Then two lads in a red hatchback decide to give it a go. Missus actually waved at them when we saw them boot first in the hedges two turns later.

Spent nearly 4 hours at thornhill Park and ride helping people dig their cars out yesterday.

In Dublin Saturday night it was fucking freezing and snow warning was issued. YES I thought. At about midnight it started pissing rain. I couldnt believe it. Gawddamn I want snow. My smallest hasn't even built a snowman yet.

Skade wrote:

Wookienopants wrote:

b0r1s wrote:

You've also got the dick factor that UK drivers seem to have instilled in them. I was slowly creeping home a few years ago in a beamer, crawling up hill and the traffic opposite was crawling downhill. A total twat in a Merc decided to overtake coming down the hill as the traffic wasn't going fast enough for him, skidding all over the place.

Oh god yes, the dick factor was high yesterday.
I was making my way up the A34, slowly creeping my way along the well worn grooves made by earlier traffic. The whole line of cars was driving at about 25mph, keeping massive distances between us and all sticking to the worn left hand lane. 
Behind me I notice a set of bright Xenon headlights of a flash Audi closing the distance fairly rapidly. 
This Audi then gets right up behind me, trying to push me along. I'm driving an old Vauxhall Zafira with a Baby on Board sign in the back so you think he'd be a bit more careful.

Then he swings out into the untouched and very deep snow on the right hand lane and floors it, wheels spinning everywhere as he overtakes everyone.
The snow spray now starts to blind us all.

You could tell every single driver in the left hand lane was thinking "go on, straight into the central reservation you utter wankstain"

Sadly he made it all the way up the motorway safely. 
If he wiped out (providing it was just his car and didnt hit anyone else) I doubt there was a single person there who would've stopped to help the cunt.

Yeah ace driving around Oxford yesterday.

Very similar story to yours Wookie. Long chain of us crawling along the A40 towards Oxford. Occasional 4x4 overtaking, fair play.

Then two lads in a red hatchback decide to give it a go. Missus actually waved at them when we saw them boot first in the hedges two turns later.

Spent nearly 4 hours at thornhill Park and ride helping people dig their cars out yesterday.

Do you live near here then? I’m not far from thornhill Park and ride!