Let it snow

About an inch in South London and looks like everything will grind to a halt! We are so crap at dealing with the weather.

At least it makes our grubby town look nice and clean for a change. We can look forward to making snowmen in the park and using Pit Bull **** as eyes and noses, syringes for arms and mug a few tramps for hats and scarves.

Gawd bless each and every one of us.

 

Not always been so. In the 70's and 80's when we had real proper winters the snow would be feet deep and the councils in Scotland just got on with it and were prepared. Now because they have wasted so much of our money the services are almost non-existent. Get caught out every year.

Too much Health and Safety nonsense as well. Our schools were only closed if the heating had failed. You just got on with it. We are becoming a nation of wimps.

 

ftfy

 

No snow as yet in North Lanarkshire but it is ****in baltic cold.

 

I don't recall school closing due to snow once when I were a lad. Years 1 to 5 versus the sixth formers on the playing field - happy days.

 

In whit?

A game of spanky spanky red bot nursey?

 

Is that what they did at your school? We just threw snowballs.

 

...with either stones or frozen dog **** in them. Happy days.

 

We had a Scotty teacher at school who banned snowballs because someone lost an eye when one got chucked with a stone in it. Now I know who to blame for her anti-snowball action.

Maybe this thread needs some 'snowballing' photographs........

(safesearchswitchedoffsmiley)

 

This is how we Scots roll. Hitting sumbdy with a snowball is funny. Hitting sumbdy with a snowball with a "surprise" inside is hilarious.

And am no gonny google "snowballing" with safe search off

 

We had a brief 10 minute flurry here last Wednesday - in Ayia Napa. The first time in 40 years!

 

Ah the good old days when poverty and disease were rampant.

 

Your sex life is your own business, but thanks for sharing.

 

Ten minute flurry? Only takes me about 2 minutes to polish one of those off.

 

Chicken!

 

grove ranger = dork

 

. It's a fair point about school's closing though. It only seems to be the last 10 years or so that's started to happen right across the board.

And on Gambol's point about the scottish mentality, I read somewhere that the reason they stopped corporal punishment in Scottish schools was because they realised it wasn't acting as a deterrent because the kids were running books on who could get the biggest number of straps every term. I remember doing the same in Lndon but we'd open a book on everything from how many kids would be absent on a given day to the colour of the french teacher's knickers....