From The Metro:
Forecasters say the UK is about to be hit by severely cold temperatures which could last right up to Christmas. Temperatures in the Midlands are set to go as low as minus 3C tonight and things are going to remain cold for the next few days with widespread frost... Bookmakers William Hill is [sic] offering 6-1 for a white Christmas in London and 3-1 in Aberdeen.
Meanwhile, the harridans are trying to ban pink toys for girls, seriously.
Thursday 10 December 2009
The warmest white Christmas ever, no doubt...
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There's a nice little earner somewhere in researching why girls of about 6-10 have such a crush on pink and purple.
It's not that they are being indoctrinated; it is that given a choice of a rainbow they pick the dusty-pinks and lavendar-purples every single time.
Then they wake up one day and suddenly declare it is the wrong colour. I reckon it's a hormone thing.
some of the stranger ones never grow out of it
Minus three, "severely cold temperatures"?
You WIIL excuse me whilst I have a five hour fit of hysterical laughter won't you?
There's a nice little earner somewhere in researching why girls of about 6-10 have such a crush on pink and purple.
Isn't it more a case of being like the song in that some girls do and some girls don't.
I don't remember my daughter doing that. And, one of my sisters was a tomboy and the other a fluffy little princess. Neither turned out to be lesbians just in case you're wondering.
My sis-in-law is yer dungaree wearing Guardian reading righteous feminist, but to her dismay, and despite her best efforts, her first daughter has turned into a pink loving, fluffy little princess. Whereas, when she was that age she as a tree climbing, fighting, head banging tomboy.
She told my wife she has tried everything...
Hahaha
Pink stinks, possibly excepting Get the Party Started.
VP "You WIIL excuse me whilst I have a five hour fit of hysterical laughter won't you?"
Don't you know that anything other than 'slightly chilly with intermittent drizzle' is classed as extreme weather in the UK?
An unfortunate man called Michael Fish became notorious for pointing out we don't literally have hurricanes either.
WOAR, R, Anon, I have a little girl and she makes her own decisions as well. She used to like blue things and playing with trains, but after a couple of years she got into pink things, My Little Pony and so on. Good for her.
vS, have finished laughing yet?
DaveH, do you mean "P!nk"? I quite like "U + UR hand", which is about exactly what you'd expect.
Dave H said...
Pink stinks, possibly excepting Get the Party Started.
VP "You WIIL excuse me whilst I have a five hour fit of hysterical laughter won't you?"
Don't you know that anything other than 'slightly chilly with intermittent drizzle' is classed as extreme weather in the UK?
Aye laddie, I lived there long enough. But I remember going to the shops in Boghall/Bathgate in 1997, when my beard froze to my face and my moustache was so frozen it CUT my bottom lip.
Minus Twenty at midday WITHOUT WIND!!! And that lasted a week.
But the BBC weather clones never mention that when they say "Minus three, the coldest spell for twenty years!!!"
I have heard to often how "This is the hottest summer since xyz", the coldest day since BYQ", and you are sitting there remembering two years ago, when they said the same thing, when the temps were higher/lower.
They make it up as they go along.
Meanwhile after a pissing it down Monday the Met Office promised us rain all week; Tuesday was was a bit drizzly but no wind, Wednesday was dull but dry, today, Thursday started off a bit misty but promised a bright and sunny day after it burned off and so it turned out.
I might be inclined to pay a bit more attention to the Met Office re Climate Crisis ( it's their big day at CO2penhagen today ) if they paid a bit more attention to what we pay them for, which is to tell us what it's going to be like for the next day or so rather than fantasising about the future.
Oh, & The Sun has promised us a White Christmas. Hold them to it.
"offering 6-1 for a white Christmas": presumably they mean 6-1 against?
vS, well, if the last time you nearly froze was twelve years ago, that proves that The Planet Must Be Warming, innit?
B, those are just natural fluctuations masking the Underlying Warming Trend, innit?
D, it would appear so; in colder Aberdeen it's only 3-1 against. I suppose I now ought to say "innit?" just to round things off.
banned, the Met Office are pretty accurate here so long as you remember that rain always arrives early and sunshine late.
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