To make it all worse -- when I woke up this morning and noticed that it was still snowing, I decided to take it easy and benefit from the fact that I have a car (I usually take the train to the university).
But when I got to the parking spot, it was empty. My dear, dear girlfriend had apparently decided to take the car for her 2 km trip to her work...
Fact is girls can hardly drive, so never lend them your car in difficult condition such as snow and all.
Good luck with teaching her a lesson.
They announced -7°C here tomorrow. I didn't turn the heating on this year yet, it's 14°C inside. If I can make it through this week-end, I can make it forever without turning the heating on.
(Professional note : here we size heating systems for -5°C outside as the worst conditions and 20% extra power).
Am wearing my Pantani t-shirt around school today, and I was talking to a guy who knows nothing about him, and when trying to explain who he was the guy said "so he's the Janis Joplin of bicycling?"
Which, now that I'm thinking about it, really is kind of true...
Last year it snowed here for the first time in my life.
Yesterday it did so again.
The weather has gone to hell. The end of the world is nigh.
Meh, who cares....it easily beats melting, which is what I do in the summer every year. Hooray for the cold!
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"I love him, I think he's great. He's transformed the sport in so many ways. Every person in cycling has benefitted from Lance Armstrong, perhaps not financially but in some sense" - Bradley Wiggins on Lance Armstrong
Are you as stupid as the rest of them? I take that above comment as a yes. I hate how people go on about "where's Global Warming now?". THAT is what causes the extremes in weather. Not to mention the greenhouse gases not just fog up our atmosphere, but also rip great holes in it with polluting crap shit. Anyway, it's natural. We have an ice age once every 10,000 years or so anyway, it's about time to happen again. Get used to it.
EDIT: Forgot the smileys Edited by rjc_43 on 30-11-2010 17:05
When i was in London four years ago there was snow in March. Only a little bit, but it chaotic, though
This year´s snow already "killed" my bike as i can´t shift anymore. Damn salt on the roads
Scene: A meeting. Somewhere. A fancy room. A small group of suit-dressed men sitting at a long table.
Suit 2: Sir, we are waning at the polls.
Suit 1: Why?
Suit 2: Well… We believe that the public are not identifying with you. You’re not reaching out to them. In particular: they blame you for not giving a crap about the environment. Like that scandal a couple of months ago where the public found out you had given a company the permission to drop corpses of dead cows in the same dam that acts as the city’s water supply.
Suit 3: But that company sponsored the local schools new gym, not to mention our very own campaign.
Suit 2: And that's the problem. Taking care of the environment would be expensive as Hell. It would alienate our funders. And it would require a lot of effort… So what should we do?
*grasshoppers*
Suit 4: Oh, OH! I've got an idea.
Suit 3: Yes Aaron?
Suit 4: Well, according to some scientific paper I read here the other day, the average temperature of the world has been climbing for the last century or so... Some scientists are speculating that our increasing carbon dioxide emissions have something to do with it.
Suit 2: So? What does that have to do with us?
Suit 4: Don't you see? It's the perfect decoy, the perfect red herring. We talk a lot about this environmental problem to the public and give a small amount of budget money to some loosely-defined carbon quota-thingy. Simultaneously we continue to ignore other environment-related problems.
Suit 3: And if our political opponents criticize us, we call them global warming deniers!
Suit 1: ... so… that way it looks like we are caring about the environment... while we simultaneously continue to ignore it.
Suit 4: Exactly.
Suit 1: *thinks* *rises* *points finger* Promote that man!
HERE! THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT WE WERE TOLD WAS GOING TO HAPPEN.
*calms down*
the melting ice caps destroys the Gulf Stream, the current of water that makes the British Isles warmer. Without it, we'd be as cold a Canada, and that's the change that's happening.
For a World where the majority (of the Western World here) of countries are ruled by Governmental systems, in which the public "vote" in our rulers, we seem to have very very very little say in what happens in the World.
Still, if the news about setting up base on Mars comes to fruition, it'll no longer be "It's either the Army or Australia" for our convicts, but rather, "Welcome to Mars. There is NO escape".
I think I'll end up emigrating to the Southern hemisphere every other semester, like a migrating bird. It's just too cold in here. We had -5°C this morning, probably didn't rise above 2°C during the day time, now it's freezing again...
And the weather forecast doesn't seem to predict big improvements any time soon.
And as for the global warming things, the Cancun global negotiations will take place in a few days. I bet nothing conclusive will be decided, once more. Just another "let's negotiate again next year" or "let's promise a lot, but with no figures so that we don't have to do anything". How dull...
Edited by Aquarius on 30-11-2010 18:42
