Rant number 341
I consider myself a bit like the US postal service in some ways.
This comparison I believe applies well on two distinct levels:
1) There is a great likelihood that, one of these days - I am going to tip over the edge of grumpiness into genuine homicidal rage; what is commonly know as 'going postal.'
2) I also like to carry on with my live, come rain, come snow, come hail and various other weather conditions.
This applies particularly to band.
I like to get there whatever. I enjoy it and I don't like to let the group down by my absence.
Today however, for the first time in a very long time - I had to give in, turn tail and go home - and its thoroughly irritating.
At around 2pm today - it started to snow. Just a slow flurry really, very light and falling on wet ground - which I thus believed would not settle.
This then turned into rain - which then turned into sleet - which I thought would not settle yet still.
I was bloody wrong though! Its been hammering it down with sleet for hours now - and so the road is not snowy - its just very very slushy: which is, if anything worse.
I set of thus this evening, to find the motorways rammed nose to tail - and the B routes too treacherous to risk - with the sleety/snowy stuff buffeting my windscreen.
Its thoroughly crap it is having to put up with snow. Its not romantic or exotic - just bloody dangerous and highly inconvenient for just about everyone involved. Snowy roads can be bloody lethal.
The stuff is fine on Christmas cards or whatever. It looks good from afar. It's even OK if you are not someone with anywhere to go - who can make snowmen or sledge or whatever. Maybe if they could organise for the stuff to just fall on the odd field - that would work well!
Bloody rubbish!
Rant over.
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Thursday, 6 December 2012
Tuesday, 3 April 2012
Rant 94 - 3/4/12 Subject: Practically permenant panic!
Rant number 94
No smart arse, this rant is not about annoying alliteration(particularly when naming rants. I am sure I've done this more than once by now, maybe I should stop... naa, I'm not going to) This is a rant about the next set of panics which are putting up with.
Last week (see the rants of last week for more details, if you didn't read them but are reading now!) was all about petrol panic - a problem that is still continuing. The garage around the corner from me is actually completely empty - thats a whole piss load of fuel panic bought!
Also - to show that its not all over, the garage I filled up at had no diesel and a rather unnerving & spreading rainbow coloured fuel puddle - evidently where one of our jerry can toting idiot friends has spilt some of their pressure life blood.
This week then, its all about the weather - and the relative extremes. The sun has; after voiding his bowels, reading the paper and cooking his brekkie looked at the clock/calendar, realised its only 5 am - and buggered off back to bed.
As such, its been a little bit rainy - and some snow has come back. So there's a whole new reason to panic now!
I think some people genuinely get off it. Pop into a shop tomorrow and there won't be a bag of grit or a loaf of bread on the shelves - its not like its going to last for long!
Now, to cap it off - they are saying we are going to need a hosepipe ban due to a possible drought.
Rain/Snow/Drought - they all go together so well, don't they?
The media seem to be hard pressed to keep the idiots of our nation (an ever increasing number it frightens me to realise) in a state of mild hysteria. That way, they won't think about things that don't concern them - like being robbed blind by our fucking government.
Why oh why, can people not just think for themselves, rather than taking everything the news says as read.
I thought of a good analogy for this yesterday: tell an idiot he's on fire and he'll probably drown himself putting it out! Think about it, it fits.
I think that someone needs to start handing out slaps to the face on the NHS - seriously. In fact, that's a job I would definitely be qualified for and would be keen to take on!
No seriously, sign me up: I'll do it for minimum wage. I'll even provide my own rubber gloves!
Anyway...
Rant over.
No smart arse, this rant is not about annoying alliteration(particularly when naming rants. I am sure I've done this more than once by now, maybe I should stop... naa, I'm not going to) This is a rant about the next set of panics which are putting up with.
Last week (see the rants of last week for more details, if you didn't read them but are reading now!) was all about petrol panic - a problem that is still continuing. The garage around the corner from me is actually completely empty - thats a whole piss load of fuel panic bought!
Also - to show that its not all over, the garage I filled up at had no diesel and a rather unnerving & spreading rainbow coloured fuel puddle - evidently where one of our jerry can toting idiot friends has spilt some of their pressure life blood.
This week then, its all about the weather - and the relative extremes. The sun has; after voiding his bowels, reading the paper and cooking his brekkie looked at the clock/calendar, realised its only 5 am - and buggered off back to bed.
As such, its been a little bit rainy - and some snow has come back. So there's a whole new reason to panic now!
I think some people genuinely get off it. Pop into a shop tomorrow and there won't be a bag of grit or a loaf of bread on the shelves - its not like its going to last for long!
Now, to cap it off - they are saying we are going to need a hosepipe ban due to a possible drought.
Rain/Snow/Drought - they all go together so well, don't they?
The media seem to be hard pressed to keep the idiots of our nation (an ever increasing number it frightens me to realise) in a state of mild hysteria. That way, they won't think about things that don't concern them - like being robbed blind by our fucking government.
Why oh why, can people not just think for themselves, rather than taking everything the news says as read.
I thought of a good analogy for this yesterday: tell an idiot he's on fire and he'll probably drown himself putting it out! Think about it, it fits.
I think that someone needs to start handing out slaps to the face on the NHS - seriously. In fact, that's a job I would definitely be qualified for and would be keen to take on!
No seriously, sign me up: I'll do it for minimum wage. I'll even provide my own rubber gloves!
Anyway...
Rant over.
Friday, 27 January 2012
Rant 27 - 27/1/12 Subject: Weather chaos
Rant number 27
I know, I know.
I'm sorry
but
An Englishman is about to talk about the weather
At least its taken 27 rants to get here hey?
Actually, its not a rant about the weather - so nah... The rant is about the chaos that it causes.
The reason that people across the world say that us British talk about the weather so much, is because they don't have any to talk about. It's just jealousy really.
Because we have lots and lots of weather! Mostly rain I grant thee, but we do get some other stuff too.
Today was a day with a lot of weather. I left the house in the morning to clear sky's, arrived at work to heavy rain and drove home in heavy snow - which is where the chaos comes in.
Because - for a country where it consistently snows every winter (albeit very lightly) we just can't deal with it.
At non rush hour times, my journey home takes around 20 minutes. Double this in rush hour to 40 minutes (pain in the ass already.)
Today it took nearly an hour and a half, just because there was a small shower of snow on a well gritted, well lit road. That I could not see:
A: the reason for obstruction at any point
B: any snow after the first 5 minutes
is what annoyed me.
Even as I left the motorway, the queue extended off into the distance - to god knows where.
What I want to know is - as a country, why can't we just well, deal with it?
We know that every winter it will be cold, that there will be ice & snow, fog & rain, hail & wind.
But all of these things seem to come to a massive surprise to everyone.
Are some people just unable or unwilling to drive with any intelligence as soon as there is a little precipitation? All around the world, people get it worse than us - and they seem to carry on so much better than us!
In Russia for instance, it snows heavily for half a year and goes into minus temperatures. The country does not stop dead because a couple of snow flakes have fallen onto someone's bonnet or onto the train-tracks.
We need to realise that the weather isn't going anywhere, and come up with a way to deal with it!
Rant over.
I know, I know.
I'm sorry
but
An Englishman is about to talk about the weather
At least its taken 27 rants to get here hey?
Actually, its not a rant about the weather - so nah... The rant is about the chaos that it causes.
The reason that people across the world say that us British talk about the weather so much, is because they don't have any to talk about. It's just jealousy really.
Because we have lots and lots of weather! Mostly rain I grant thee, but we do get some other stuff too.
Today was a day with a lot of weather. I left the house in the morning to clear sky's, arrived at work to heavy rain and drove home in heavy snow - which is where the chaos comes in.
Because - for a country where it consistently snows every winter (albeit very lightly) we just can't deal with it.
At non rush hour times, my journey home takes around 20 minutes. Double this in rush hour to 40 minutes (pain in the ass already.)
Today it took nearly an hour and a half, just because there was a small shower of snow on a well gritted, well lit road. That I could not see:
A: the reason for obstruction at any point
B: any snow after the first 5 minutes
is what annoyed me.
Even as I left the motorway, the queue extended off into the distance - to god knows where.
What I want to know is - as a country, why can't we just well, deal with it?
We know that every winter it will be cold, that there will be ice & snow, fog & rain, hail & wind.
But all of these things seem to come to a massive surprise to everyone.
Are some people just unable or unwilling to drive with any intelligence as soon as there is a little precipitation? All around the world, people get it worse than us - and they seem to carry on so much better than us!
In Russia for instance, it snows heavily for half a year and goes into minus temperatures. The country does not stop dead because a couple of snow flakes have fallen onto someone's bonnet or onto the train-tracks.
We need to realise that the weather isn't going anywhere, and come up with a way to deal with it!
Rant over.
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