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Eddie, are you trying to drive us all to distraction (as if the weather wasn't doing that already) with all the non-specific 'Art' threads? Trying to click on 'new' ones is like playing Russian Blogette.
*sigh* If only we had 'Recent Comments' we might have some chance of registering which was which.
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Got my Bus Pass now, had to take it back as my name was mispelt. This is not the first time my surname has been mispelt. What is it with non-indigenous British that they have such problems with Scottish surnames and he checked my passport and utility bill.
Still, what's the bus times to St. Albans
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Doesn't St. Albans close around 5pm?
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#3. Lady Sue
You're right, perhaps I'll go tomorrow.
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Ln 2, I used to know a Miss Pelt. Mc, Mac, Muck?
LS 3, Earlier to people from either Ireland.
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LS 1, It wouldn't have been that difficult to number them: Art 1, Art 2, Art 3, etc. Then you could remember which ones you have looked at. Pink noodies or otherwise.
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Zebedee??!!
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5 davmcn
I'm not sure if I should say but Mc would not be a million miles from the start of my name.
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Airport scanners won't stop wannabe martyrs. Would scanners have stopped the IRA bombers? Was it just the ring of steel around the City of London that slowed down the IRA?
'Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime'? What's causing the Jihadists?
One the Radio 4 last night they were mentioning a province in Afghanistan north of Kabul where kids are undernourished and people are poverty stricken. It mentioned the issue that the West and the aid agencies in Afghanistan are helping the wrong the poeple, concentrating on the Taliban while turning a blind eye to others?
Why do the Jihadist martyrs see it as more important to attack the west rather than assist and help their fellow Muslim brethren?
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I'll bet LS wouldn't look at any photos from those airport body scanners.
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Ln 8, Md?
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Ln 8, I had relatives named McKnight.
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When I was Ryanairing from Bournemouth to Dublin the X-Ray scanner spotted a plastic syringe in my toiletry bag. I use it to get olive oil into ears as they're prone to getting bunged up, and it seems NHS GPs and their Nurses no longer like syringing as ears as I used to get done in the early 90s when I lived in Bucks.
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Talking of snow, there's a rather nifty twitter/crowd-sourced snow map.
Tweet #uksnow then first part of postcode then 1-10/10, eg:
#uksnow LR1 5/10
for medium snow, then follow http://uksnow.benmarsh.co.uk/ but it's taking quite a hit right now...
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So did the climate change scaremongers buy in loads of patio heaters before the VAT went up as we'll have to have 1976 like summer if we're to get anywhere near their predictions of a very hot 2010 given the cold start to the year.
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1. Lady Sue
I did suggest this morning that there should be one gallery, but as usual the AM Glass Box is ignored.
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LM 13, Did they conscifate it?
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#12. davmcn
Are you trying find out my name?
If we meet up I will tell you, but not here.
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Good for the Icelanders - did UK ask their innocent population (less than 1 million) if they, through their taxes, would want to bail out another country's investors? Don't think so... Equally, did any politician here consult British taxpayers and working poor (in the government's haste to look good) about whether or not they wanted to bail out Banksters etc should Iceland not be in the position to repay. How on earth did Brown and Co think that such a tiny country could afford to underwrite banksters etc? It is the biggest swindle on ordinary people here, there and everywhere EVER.. workers of the world need to unite or is it 'hate Icelanders' time now?! Pithy writer
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Ln 18, O' ?
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Ln 18, Weather permitting, the BIG day is Jan 19.
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Eddie, What county is Granny in?
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#17, davmcn, no they left it in the furry, festering bottom of my toiletries bag, but that was 4 or 5 years ago.
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If we run out of gas we can burn those climate change scaremongers. I'm sure they'll feel their sacrifice will be worth it, as their smoky demise may help make 2010 the hottest year on record.
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Breaking news....... there is hardly any snow in my bit of the Midlands.....hardly enough to make a snowball!!
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Good story on the radio this morning about Islamists from Yemen who undergo a rehabilitation programme in Saudi Arabia. The programme lasts around 3 months, and if they are deemed to have reformed they get a job and an apartment with a fridge, TV etc. If they marry they are given $33,000, and if they have not reformed they are put through the programme again.
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'Parenting'?
It's the cult of the idiot? It's not good to be clever or apply yourself, it's much better to comply with the norm and not stand out?
Competitive dad?
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Bunny - let me explain again ... what we have today is weather, and anyone who claims to know what the summer will be like is a weather forecaster. People who talk about climate change are talking about the next hundred, thousand, ten thousand years. Do you follow that?
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Where do those sporty Australian kids and their outlook fit into the Kirsty Young discussion? Do Australians have a better, more mentally sound view of the world and live because they do many sports?
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Eddie, It's Maralund, MARALUND!!, not Merryland!
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So invading Iraq illegally, but using anti Terrorism against Iceland?
We really are a bunch of inconsistent, hypocritical muppets. We ran our economy so well and we knew and were in control of what Northern Rock were doing?
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So we'll all be happy when the Iraqis sue our posteriors for trashing their country and denying them the profits they could have made if they'd been able to export their oil when we had those record prices?
Good on you Iceland.
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The fictional Dotheboys' Hall and/or Salem Hall would have been contemporary places of education for when I was a boy at school. Well – they really weren’t but it feels like it sometimes.
But I wondered if I ever got a day off from school because of the weather? Bet Smike and Copperfield never did and I do not remember that lucky chance ever – to have snowball fights with friends but I will wait to be told if I ever did. Had any days off. Were we tougher back then. Nah. It was just a different time.
100s of schools closed because of the snow and ice etc. Sensible seeing the TV footage.
That newsreader on todays PM lasted the full 60 minutes, Edward. No real flagging noted. Well done him. About my age is he – being a bloke? No offence! I am off before PD James has a chance of a comeback interview - with me this time. I know when I am out matched! lol
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Lepus@29 "Do Australians have a better, more mentally sound view of the world"
YES!
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I reckon Eddie had a power nap when the terminally pretentious were talking twaddle about cassettes.
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Anyone who thinks the current weather is especially awful or that it proves that global warming is a myth is subject to two misconceptions.
First, the winters we were accustomed to half a century ago made recent winters look mild. For instance, I can remember the winter of 1962/3. Being temporarily employed on a council road gang, I was given a shovel and asked to clear the footpaths in a local village. The snow came up to my waist, so all I could do was cut alleyways through it. It was said that one of the large diggers the council had hired to clear the lanes had inadvertently picked up a mini that was buried under the snow. I didn't see this, but I can confirm that snow had been blown into drifts 10 feet deep, more in places, so the story is plausible. The snow took a long time to clear up. When I returned from Uni at Easter, there were still traces of ice on the roads and snow on the verges. That winter was unusual, but most people could remember something similar in 1947, only 16 years earlier. Weather like we are getting now was not at all unusual.
Global warming does not imply a uniform one-way worldwide rise in temperature. Some places will be affected more than others. There will also be pseudo-random variations, as there have always been. For these reasons, I prefer the term "climate change".
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Global warming is like the bible and other religious 'books'. It can be twisted to mean anything you want it to mean.
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36. Dryopithecus
Yes I remember 62/63 winter because I started my paper round that year. It was so cold that winter, that it was enough to Freeze...a-jolly good fellow or something like that. I am surprised that I was able to father kids when I grew up, hm... should get a DNA test perhaps.
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Stewart Blackburn? 21 years for setting his girlfriend a light because he was in a huff? £400,000K plus keeping him in jail. I seriously think such a weak inadequate person deserves death.
I don't care if it's by fire or bullet. His crime is inexcusable.
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"We really are a bunch of inconsistent, hypocritical muppets." Speak for yourself, Bunny.
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Global warming is like selling life assurance? You will die. We all die. You can bank on death.
There will always be weather and it will always be changing. Global warming scare mongers are just trendier, more deceitful life assurance sales people?
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L-M 24: Don't you know that burning people, as you suggest, would create carbon dioxide, thus accelerating global climate change?
I totally agree with the general message in your posts 31 and 32, however.
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Bunny - pay attention: weather and climate are NOT the same thing!
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I'll try harder. I've had a few days extra off so I've no excuse.
Blair giving evidence? Is that Chilcott Inquiry televised? Blair can't be web cast to people outside? Those that can't get seats?
Well they be bringing in Fern to question him?
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Fabulous events today, Tay fm broadcast that Kilrymont School(annexe of Madras College) closed so my son and his cronies all returned home only to discover that this was consequence of prank call to radio station! Even the bus drivers bought it and prevented Kilrymont pupils from getting on bus. Don't blame them, twenty teenage kids in a snow bound bus and nowhere to drop them, scary??
What a magnificent wheeze! Of course, the fifedirect website not functioning so no way of finding this out until much later.
I don't remember ever being sent home from school even with MUCH worse weather ... Bitter or what?
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41 LM. "You will die. We all die."
If I upload my entire consciousness into a computer drive at the point of death, to continue running, do I die?
I was thinking of about a 1.2 MB drive should be more than enough, don't you?
and by the way enjoyed the show...reminded me of a song...
# There's snow business like snow business like snow business I know ##
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Snow here. Supposedly -4 tonight/tomorrow so I've just put the car in the garage.
With Blair and his missus both being lawyers you'd have thought that the possibility of having their bottoms sued for starting an illegal war may have crossed their minds? If the Iraqis do seek some sort of compensation, rather like we seem to be doing with the whole of the Icelandic population, do you think we can side step the writs and point at Blair and say 'It was him'?
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#46, mygloriousleader, existing just in a computer may mean not being able to watch the sun come up or listen to PM. It sounds like a boring electronic existence. I could probably fit myself on a C60.
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48 L_M
If you existed in a computer you could hear PM over the internet.
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Would my ears be with me on the computer? Would they fit? They are big.
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Seeing and hearing are no problem for a computer. There are digital cameras and microphones. There are also loudspeakers, enabling communication via speech. (Communication with other digital devices would be digital, of course.) Mobility can be arranged, within limits. Devices that enable robots to feel are under development, but it may be a while before they have all the properties of a human hand.
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mygloriousleader - you'd need a lot more than 1.2MB - that my cater for the average squirrel, but human beings have to remember things like ... how much memory did I say I'd need when I posted that silly message on the PM blog?
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Specially for Bunny:
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/no-conflict-between-big-freeze-and-climate-change-1858530.html
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