Auditor #9 wrote:

This weather would drive you to the drink, headcold or not. Are you blood type A+ ? I am and I used to drink red wine a lot because some book I read once said A+ blood types liked red wine. Not whiskey which was true so I drank brandy for the cold.

How blinded are you by the tears ?

Are you having a drop of the brandy Auditor #9?

I can see your last few posts OK. Nothing else though.

cactus flower wrote:

Auditor #9 wrote:

This weather would drive you to the drink, headcold or not. Are you blood type A+ ? I am and I used to drink red wine a lot because some book I read once said A+ blood types liked red wine. Not whiskey which was true so I drank brandy for the cold.

How blinded are you by the tears ?

Are you having a drop of the brandy Auditor #9?

Pardon the shouting - EVM has mucus in his eyeballs.

Respvblica wrote:

Dont think I'm getting away with it down here in Alicante. It was 3 degrees yesterday morning. And the it maxed at 12-13!
Cactus, if you are ever going to spain, unless this mini ice age stops, you are as well skip the european part and go down to the canaries.

And thats where are Gulf stream is gone!

Respvblica, I hope you're wrong about the Gulf stream. I had 2 days in Spain, 25 degrees, both of them. But I know what you mean about an unheated Spanish des. res. that doesn't acknowledge it can ever go below 15 degrees.

EvotingMachine0197 wrote:

That looks very infectious EVM. I'll just give the laptop a quick dettol spray. Are you on the lemsip?

http://vortex.plymouth.edu/uschill.gif

Hey Ibis. Can you mail me out a few blankets. It is like Antartica all the way down to Texas. Where the fluck is this global warming you promised me.

Obama says the cooling trend indicates how fast we are warming. This guy is more crazy than even Al Gorelioni. It is not even winter yet and it was -10 centigrade a few days ago. I should go into the fur trade with all the polar bears that are skating up and down my street. YYYiiiiiiihhhaaaaaaaaggghhhhhh

Hurry up. It is -29 fareinheit in Montana. When that blast hits here I will be offline until my keyboard thaws out.

http://www.greatfallstribune.com/article/20081214/NEWS01/81214005

youngdan wrote:

Hurry up. It is -29 fareinheit in Montana. When that blast hits here I will be offline until my keyboard thaws out.

http://www.greatfallstribune.com/article/20081214/NEWS01/81214005

Holy shit that's cold. -33.8 Celsius according to my calculator.

Coldest I've experience is about -25 celsius when I've been skiing. That was nippy but swimming in a heated outdoor swimming pool whilst there was b-e-a-u-tiful.

I will never forget the day the Challenger blew up. It was I think barely above freezing in Florida. Up here it was minus 25 but the wind chill was minus 40. I was surveying in Copley Square and it was dangerous.

It is actually very mild today but the cold blast is heading this way.

I expect a very cold winter and this chill is helping the oil price

Last time I was in Boston was around St Patrick's Day about 4 years ago. It was bitter. Jury's just off Copley Square is a nice hotel for anyone in that neck of the woods.

I've been in minus 30-40 in the Ice Hotel, in northern Sweden. I was there youngdan because my children had never seen snow in Ireland. Properly dressed it wan't unpleasant, because the air was still. We made ice sculptures outside with blow torches and hot chisels and fished through a hole in the ice with a Sami guy to teach us how. Reindeer stew with hot lingonberry juice to warm you up. It was one of the two best holidays of my life. .

Bed on reindeer pelts ( poor rudolf gets it in all kinds of ways )

Then we saw the northern lights:

Your kids never saw snow in Ireland. I expect they will see it this year. It's called global not-warming

With low temperatures watch for the freezing point of diesel. It is about -10c or about -30F!!!

Lots and lots and lots and lots of SNOW this morning. It can be very pretty but a bugger to get around in. Even here.

When was the last decent snowfall in ireland (that stuck for more than 1 day)?

i suspect it was around '91. however, i remember the days when we'd have a week of snow (and a week off school) in dublin. i loved it and hated the thaw. once we rolled a snowball from the top of the road to my house, it was about 4 foot in diameter when we rolled it into the front garden and was still there 2 weeks after the snow melted!!! parents hated it as it went a dirty brown after about 3 days!!!

zakalwe wrote:

When was the last decent snowfall in ireland (that stuck for more than 1 day)?

i suspect it was around '91. however, i remember the days when we'd have a week of snow (and a week off school) in dublin. i loved it and hated the thaw. once we rolled a snowball from the top of the road to my house, it was about 4 foot in diameter when we rolled it into the front garden and was still there 2 weeks after the snow melted!!! parents hated it as it went a dirty brown after about 3 days!!!

We had masses of snow that day and took our toboggans out (only day of use since coming back to Ireland) and raced for hours down the neighbours hill, then hit the pub for hot whisky.

The only other snowy day of note it thawed by the time I got home from work, but my daughter had made a very small snow man and kept him in the freezer for me. I still have a photo of him somewhere.

I remember that snow in 1991. My grandparents lived in Enniskerry and were completely stranded. My dad had to walk 5 miles to bring them supplies. We went tobogganing down the hill at my cousins house.

Used to get snow regularly enough in my earlier days at secondary school (98 - 01) but we were nearer the mountains than most parts of Dublin.

Well I believe the global warming thing is a load of tin foil baloney. The quicker Ireland gets hit with a 200 million euro fine the better. Some on this site say it is revenue neutral. Well let them pay it in that case.

When they are starving and freezing to death they will still be worried about global warming. I am looking out the window through the ice and it looks like the North Pole with a snow storm on the way.

Some lad called Eamon Ryan was gibberjabbering about green stuff today and hopefully I will find it on u-tube. Is he not the same toolbox that was on the Mayo clip.

Sorry to bring a downer on the wispy nostalgia for "die weisse Scheisse", as I've taken to calling it, but it can be a real pain in the arse just getting around. Especially when it turns to filthy slush. And right now, I am experiencing plenty of that. It can be pretty, no doubt, I am tired of it now. I will try and get the other half to post some photos.

'die weisse Scheisse?'

Are you becoming more Swiss than the Swiss themselves, Slim Buddha?

Grand morning thank god.

I knew you would be happy. Putin is reducing emissions. Is that not what you wanted or did you want everyone else but yourself to reduce emissions.

More practice and less preaching is a happy change