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General => General discussion => Topic started by: Len on 05 December 2012, 12:46
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Apparently some parts of the country has had some snow today, a couple of inches at most.
Loads of people late into work.
One even rang in and said the road out of his valley had been blocked by a Porsche that got stuck in the snow! :shocked: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Why cant we cope with a bit of snow these days?
I remember 1963 when we had many feet of snow! I still went to school and my Dad went to work, the milk still got delivered daily etc. etc.
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Alright grandad! >:D
I agree though.
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Nothing here in sunny wales, but then again i hope to god it stays away. I hate driving in snow last year i almost had a few people drive into me. Its funny u woukd think if its snow in the the road people would be abit more aware bit put there foot down and still cut you up.....
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Bournemouth is cold and damp, but very sunny and snow free. Hoping we DON'T get snow as it turns bad drivers into massive dangers and hazards.
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You're such a grumpy sh!t these days. :grin:
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I remember 1963 when we had...
(http://www.brightonguitarlessons.co.uk/images/old-telephone.jpg)
Len as a nipper
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YR__NnPJJac/UEsbQNx2MgI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/4chP-O78dlI/s1600/first-tv-set.jpg)
(http://www.ukmagic.co.uk/gallery_1/bigimages/1940's_Child_Ration_Book.jpg)
:grin: :grin:
Love you really Leonard :kiss:
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Lens first car out the factory
(http://www.dochemp.com/images4/1910Maxwell.jpg)
Len's favourite outfit when he was a kid (He is in the middle)
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5n6bc9kbq1rxeovlo1_500.jpg)
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I remember 63 as well Len!
Thom
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My dad was working at Airfix in 63, it was so cold they stood/sat with their feet in cardboard boxes full of rags to keep them off the ground, the mice used to get in the boxes and snuggle in between their feet.
The yoof of today have no idea :grin:
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Had snow on monday. bout inch and a half - two inches.
today snowed again. bout a cm or two.
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We had about half an inch here and everyone turned into a blinking loony. No-one knows how to drive properly and nearly everyone was panicking, or late, or grumpy or generally stressed.
What the hell it's going to be like when more than an inch falls I dread to think. Perhaps I'll drive to work earlier and miss all the nutters... :rolleyes:
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Well I woke up with it snowing and the snow settling in the garden and I thought, "ah this is England, we only get 30min of snow and its prob 5c outside so it will not stay (I was right)". I looked at my motorbike then at the train station, followed by a short thought of, I bought the bike so that I would never use southeasterns train service, I rather ride the bike to work and die than use the train and I cba to sit in traffic with the golf. Got to work normally and thought what you thought, this country really slows down, my dad use to live in russia and kazakhstan and owned a bike and use to ride it non stop in all kinds of winter weather and then I look at the UK and go :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin:
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I remember 1963 when we had...
(http://www.brightonguitarlessons.co.uk/images/old-telephone.jpg)
Len as a nipper
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YR__NnPJJac/UEsbQNx2MgI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/4chP-O78dlI/s1600/first-tv-set.jpg)
(http://www.ukmagic.co.uk/gallery_1/bigimages/1940's_Child_Ration_Book.jpg)
:grin: :grin:
Love you really Leonard :kiss:
Our gramaphone wasnt as big or glamorous as that!
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Apparently some parts of the country has had some snow today, a couple of inches at most.
Loads of people late into work.
One even rang in and said the road out of his valley had been blocked by a Porsche that got stuck in the snow! :shocked: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Why cant we cope with a bit of snow these days?
I remember 1963 when we had many feet of snow! I still went to school and my Dad went to work, the milk still got delivered daily etc. etc.
We can cope with snow, just as we did back in 1963.
Remember, back in the 60s etc, the level of commute wasn't as it is today. Today, people travel much further, so every little delay adds up. Back in the 60s, etc, there were more local jobs, local industry and many more people walked to work than they did today. There wasn't even an M25 and many other motorways back then.
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Yes and there were far, far fewer cars than there are now!
But what I am saying is the roads were cleared, the Trains ran on time, essential services all carried on as normal.
These days a small flurry of snow and everything gets paralysed.
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Yes and there were far, far fewer cars than there are now!
But what I am saying is the roads were cleared, the Trains ran on time, essential services all carried on as normal.
These days a small flurry of snow and everything gets paralysed.
So how would you prevent this?
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Irreversible I'm afraid!
If you voted for Maggie Thatcher its all your fault!
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Had an inch round here. Took the Golf with it's 400kg tank in the back handled snow fine. Drove straight up a steep hill fine got fairly decent tyre tread pattern fair enough but no idea why everyone drives at 20mph on completely clear 60mph roads and struggle so much. It's an inch ffs.
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Had an inch round here. Took the Golf with it's 400kg tank in the back handled snow fine. Drove straight up a steep hill fine got fairly decent tyre tread pattern fair enough but no idea why everyone drives at 20mph on completely clear 60mph roads and struggle so much. It's an inch ffs.
Because not everyone has the confidence to drive at 60 on a snowy road. I honestly wouldn't risk it, especially when my car has T1R's on. The reason that countries like Sweden and Norway cope with it is because they have much larger snowfalls and for longer periods, so their government make them use winter tyres, snow chains and other equipment, as well as the nationals grow up driving in the snow so they're used to it. In the UK people grow up driving on tarmac. Take that grip away and unsurprisingly people slow down to make up for the lack of experience.
I'm not bothered to be honest. I rather drive at 20 on a snowy country road too, because for the sake of getting somewhere quicker I risk not getting there at all.
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Irreversible I'm afraid!
If you voted for Maggie Thatcher its all your fault!
i wasnt even born.
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Irreversible I'm afraid!
If you voted for Maggie Thatcher its all your fault!
i wasnt even born.
Your parents then!
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1 inch of snow and SE Trains can't cope, they just don't know how to deal with it and since it only affects maybe 5 days a year, they don't think it's worth investing in solutions to keep the trains running.
This is how the Canadians deal with snow on the railways:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/12/04/canadian-train-snow-plough_n_2236130.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/12/04/canadian-train-snow-plough_n_2236130.html)
Even the USA can cope with real snow. I once few to New York in February, arrived just after a snow storm, the runways were clear, the highways were clear even though you could see the 4-5foot of snow at the side of the roads. They would just send a 3 snow ploughs down the highway in a line to clear the snow and do that every day on all the routes.
But of course, they have to deal with snow more often than we do, so they're bought more snow ploughs and hired more people to solve the problem.
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Irreversible I'm afraid!
If you voted for Maggie Thatcher its all your fault!
i wasnt even born.
Your parents then!
Its their fault it snows? :huh:
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nah,its maggie thachers fault it snows
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Had an inch round here. Took the Golf with it's 400kg tank in the back handled snow fine. Drove straight up a steep hill fine got fairly decent tyre tread pattern fair enough but no idea why everyone drives at 20mph on completely clear 60mph roads and struggle so much. It's an inch ffs.
Because not everyone has the confidence to drive at 60 on a snowy road. I honestly wouldn't risk it, especially when my car has T1R's on. The reason that countries like Sweden and Norway cope with it is because they have much larger snowfalls and for longer periods, so their government make them use winter tyres, snow chains and other equipment, as well as the nationals grow up driving in the snow so they're used to it. In the UK people grow up driving on tarmac. Take that grip away and unsurprisingly people slow down to make up for the lack of experience.
I'm not bothered to be honest. I rather drive at 20 on a snowy country road too, because for the sake of getting somewhere quicker I risk not getting there at all.
Sorry when I say clear I mean a BIG wide 60mph road that was clear in the sense there was not the tiniest bit of snow on the road. TOTALLY TOTALLY clear. 20MPH. I find myself braking hard (if safe to do so) to just test the grip on roads in the snow and wet and it was fine.
Really winds me up, then saw a two car crash at my mates house I was traveling to and some plonk in a Focus goes flying down said hill which is steep and crashes straight into the two BMWs that had crashed. Morons.
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Also had 1" snow here and was chaos. Tried to make a local 7 mile journey on main roads but no chance! Trip had to be abandoned. Returned to city where roads were completely clear but everyone still driving at 10 mph and doing things they would never normally do. :angry:
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I absolutly love driveing on snow quite happy driveing on ice just as long as it's all ice
most off the roads i drive on on the way to work don't get gritted and if somethgin remotly intresting happens they don't get plowed ether not that thats a problem, the best bit is when the ROAD CLOSED sings go up
ROAD CLOSED = RALLY STAGE supriseing how meany proper cars will turn up for a bit of motorsport at short notice
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Well it was abit Icey this morning and I saw a women!! in a fiat 500 she was driving in the right lane, I was in the middle and a lovely mk5 golf was in the left, she wanted to be where the mk5 was so she could join the slip road, so she thought it would be a good idea to (without indecating) cut me up, cut the mk5 up and No joke norrowly miss plowing straight into the wall as she went over chevons to enter the slip road....
I found myself shaking my head, and about 100 yards on I put my passenger window down and asked the poor 60-70 year old in the mk5 if he was ok, his reply cracked me right up. "bloody women drivers" :grin:
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Women in Fiat 500's own the road dont they?
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Women in Fiat 500's own the road dont they?
Oh yeah! I totally forgot about that. My bad! :grin:
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Well it was abit Icey this morning and I saw a women!! in a fiat 500 she was driving in the right lane, I was in the middle and a lovely mk5 golf was in the left, she wanted to be where the mk5 was so she could join the slip road, so she thought it would be a good idea to (without indecating) cut me up, cut the mk5 up and No joke norrowly miss plowing straight into the wall as she went over chevons to enter the slip road....
I found myself shaking my head, and about 100 yards on I put my passenger window down and asked the poor 60-70 year old in the mk5 if he was ok, his reply cracked me right up. "bloody women drivers" :grin:
Me in a Mk3! :wink: :grin:
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Britain declared uninhabitable (http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/britain-declared-uninhabitable-2012120752399)
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Yes more on the way apparently!
Monday/Tuesday next week all down the eastern side of England.
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Woooooo! That means I will freeze my balls off even further!
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Your balls should be fine down in sunny Bournemouth!
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Sunny but freezing cold!
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I won't have to worry about this winter much longer :grin: :cool:
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Did your balls finally fall off?
(http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh115/kharekatoh/VR6_Wherrycopy.jpg)
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I won't have to worry about this winter much longer :grin: :cool:
Snap :cool:
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Can I be Henry?
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I'm waiting for snow here Manchester.
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no snow here in the south, but plenty where i've just come back from!
(http://sphotos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/151055_229490287184223_1837681028_n.jpg)
(http://sphotos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/558803_229489957184256_509881216_n.jpg)
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Thats only a little dusting surely?
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Thats only a little dusting surely?
ha I think there's a small chance they may get a white Xmas
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That a dual cariageway in bottom pic?
Or is there some overtaking action going on from those blinding headlights?
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it's a single carriageway I think
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it's in Russia btw so driving on the right!
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it's in Russia btw so driving on the right!
What was you doing there and where you go?
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it's in Russia btw so driving on the right!
What was you doing there and where you go?
playing a couple of gigs, one in moscow (to about 7k ppl!) and one in st. petersburg, it was such a mental experience. one to remember! still taking it in :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:
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Experienced black ice if that's what it's called today.
Roads not actuslly black but driving along and then notice drifting to the right slightly and corrected and slowed down. Good thing as BMW 1 series coupe in front obviously just as oblivious as me and spun straight into the bank.
Actually pretty scary as with all the trees overhead no light shining off the ice.
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you cannot see black ice! Thats why its so dangerous.
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Experienced black ice if that's what it's called today.
Roads not actuslly black but driving along and then notice drifting to the right slightly and corrected and slowed down. Good thing as BMW 1 series coupe in front obviously just as oblivious as me and spun straight into the bank.
Actually pretty scary as with all the trees overhead no light shining off the ice.
I experienced it the other day, came out of my street, bout 5 mph (culdresack so cant really go fast) slowly pressed the break, and just didnt break. carried on about 5 -10 metres, before finally hitting a patch with no ice. was really weird, couldnt do anything, tried breaking, nothing, tried turning nothing, tried engine breaking, then realised i was already at like the lowest speed you could go on engine breaking. :grin: