It's snowing in Baires

[Madrigal]

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Oh yeah! Hasn't happened in 90 years! Everywhere I go there are people taking pictures of themselves in the snow and celebrating. I haven't seen snow in 12 years. I was translating something and I got a call. My sister's like, "Madrigal, it's snowing!" I look out the window and halleluyah!

So I put on my jacket and went for a walk. :)

[Dr. Haight]

I'm sure it's just cocaine falling from the sky after some plane loading mishap.

[garak]

Snow rules! We only get it once or twice a year here, and in small amounts. I miss having lots of snow. (although it gets old after a while)

[Madrigal]

Fuck I don't have a camera!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm going to ask some stranger to take a picture of me and send it to me by email. Be back later!!! Wish me luck!!!

[charred_heart]

I've never seen snow before :mellow:

but... I'm travelling to the U.K in October, maybe I might get lucky.

[Lateralus]

I miss snow...at least seeing it fall. Driving in it, though? Nah.

[Dark Razor]

I remember when I was a child we often had snow cover for several weeks in the winter, and we could go ice-skating on the frozen lakes. Nowadays it's usually 10C above freezing during much of the winter and if there is snowfall the snow immediatly melts away as soon as the sun is rising.

And driving through it is fun, at least when you are in a parking lot practicing power-slides, and you have an excuse for beeing late to work :banana: .

[Madrigal]

Okay, I asked some guy to take a picture of me and my sister, let's hope he keeps his promise and sends it to me by email.

I'm so bold. :mellow:

[Lateralus]

Okay, I asked some guy to take a picture of me and my sister, let's hope he keeps his promise and sends it to me by email.

I'm so bold. :mellow:
Are you gonna post it, if you get it?



And driving through it is fun, at least when you are in a parking lot practicing power-slides, and you have an excuse for beeing late to work :banana: .
Oh, I agree with that part of it. It's the traffic and the salt that I despise. And when you get out of your car and you step into a pool of slush...not fun.

[Madrigal]

Are you gonna post it, if you get it?

Hmm... okay...

I hope that Enrique guy sends it though. :ph34r:

Enrique pleeeeeease send it I promise I'll post it all over the goddamned internet if you do. Bleh.

[Dark Razor]

Oh, I agree with that part of it. It's the traffic and the salt that I despise.


Ah that's true, the salt super-corrodes everything and there's always lots of morons who cannot adapt their driving to any conditions other than dry sunshiny weather and will cause chaos and mayhem in bad weather.

Going everywhere by bike is what taught me to go slow when there's snow or ice, overconfidence is punished immediatly :ph34r: .



And when you get out of your car and you step into a pool of slush...not fun


Now if you were a J you would have been prepared by wearing water-proof boots and life would be much easier ... :grin: .

[zhang_bob]

I've never seen snow before :mellow:

but... I'm travelling to the U.K in October, maybe I might get lucky.I wish you luck, but I'm not too confident.

[Ferrus]

but... I'm travelling to the U.K in October, maybe I might get lucky.
Hahaha oh ye naive fool, it never snows in October. Maybe in January, Feburary once, or twice, with a thin slushy layer which melts in a day or two. And it never snows at Christmas.

[awe]

Last year was the first time I'd seen snow. I wasn't impressed.

[ApeTheDog]

Praise global warming and it's climate fucking effects.

[omnirook]

When I was growing up, New York City had the climate for which it was infamous: brutal, snow-filled winters, when it was so cold that kids could ice-skate on the ponds in parks, and brutal, baking summers, when it was so hot and humid that the city had to turn a blind eye to the opened up fire hydrants spraying and cooling the children of the poor or else face riots in poor neighborhoods.

(Riots in the inner cities were just a part of summer in the US during the late 1960's and early 1970's. The Newark Riots of 1967 came during a savage heat wave in July and lasted for 5 days and nights and left 26 dead and 1200 hospitalized. Whole blocks of buildings were burned down. These riots were sparked by the Newark police beating a black cab driver a la Rodney King. The driver was unarmed, sober, and had not been giving the police who had stopped him any trouble. Newark, New Jersey was an unofficially segregated city, and the black cab driver had dared to cross a certain unmarked line around Clinton Avenue. W/all due respect to Dr King, it was these riots that did more for advancing the rights of blacks in America than any of his peaceful marches ever did. In my eyes, there have been 2 major leaps forward in Civil Rights for blacks, and both came after fed up black people had had enough and took to the streets and got violent. Whites, north and south, have always been terrified of blacks, especially young black males, which is why US prisons are overflowing w/young black males.)

My father assured me that the city was neither as cold in the winter or as hot in the summer as when he was a kid. Since there are photographs of him and his sisters ice-skating on the East River, I have no choice but to believe him about it having been colder in the winters. The East River never froze when I was a kid. My father was a very quiet man; I had to drag stories of his youth out of him. He distinctly remembered his family having to sleep in one bed to keep from freezing when the temperature dropped. He remembered that his father talked in his sleep and reverted to his native Neapolitan while asleep (as he did when he got Alzheimer's Disease).

Now New York's weather is - moderate, year round. A few weeks of heat in the summer and a few weeks of cold in the winter. We don't get the snow that we got when I was a kid. I myself remember the snow - wow! My friend Steve and I could leap off the roof of the house and land safely in the 6 feet of snow that had buried everything. We did this again and again and again. One game in the park I loved w/a passion: we'd get on the swings and get them going as fast and as high as we could, then "1, 2, 3 ..." we'd let go on a forward swoop and go flying over the fence to land in the snow w/o getting so much as a bruise. The joy of flying through the air w/o the least fear of being hurt was - indescribable! Now 4 inches is a big snow. :sadbanana:

When I was a kid, the winter cold was such that my mother used to make me leave my pyjamas on underneath my clothes when I left for school. It was so cold that I did not object to wearing a hat that wrapped over my entire head, except for my eyes and my mouth*. Over my mouth, a scarf had to be wrapped. I remember that the snot in my nose used to freeze and was so hard that it hurt by time I got to school. One morning, the radio let us know that it was -21 degrees fahrenheit: twenty one degrees below zero! The schools were closed. Hallaleuhah!

*The juvenile fashion police in the late 60's were against hats of any kind - and one had to have long hair or else be made fun of to the point that one wanted to die. Long hair was unacceptable to my guinea family. No - I had to go every Saturday morning w/my father to have my hair cut. The haircut included having the back of my neck and around my ears shaved. Also, as part of the ritual, as the barber told me stories of Naples in Neapolitan, I was lathered up and "shaved" w/the dull side of a straight razor, the barber taking every bit of the care that the he took while using the sharpened side of the razor on a grown up who actually had a beard. I LOVED it! It started w/the HOT towel wrapped around one's head. Then one got a massage, the whole head and neck and shoulders. Then one got lathered. Then one got shaved. Then one's face was washed. The final touch was a generous application of Pinaud's lilac vegetal aftershave. While one was being shaved, a boy was polishing one's shoes. The air was filled w/Mario Lanza, singing in Italian, while the old men had fun arguing.

"The Calabrese never had it so good until they got w/the Napolidon!"

"The Napolidon could not wipe their asses until the Calabrese showed them how!"

"And nothing from you, you Sicilian bastard! Your kind were still using outhouses when we had indoor plumbing w/running hot water."

"Yes, but you still did not know how to cook - and you still do not know how to cook!"

"Bahfangura! Fanabla! You Siciliani put sugar in your gravy!"

"Yes, that is why we can swallow it w/o looking like we are eating lemons!"

[Ellipsis]

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Oh yeah! Hasn't happened in 90 years! Everywhere I go there are people taking pictures of themselves in the snow and celebrating. I haven't seen snow in 12 years. I was translating something and I got a call. My sister's like, "Madrigal, it's snowing!" I look out the window and halleluyah!

So I put on my jacket and went for a walk. :)

If my brother ever did this to me I would kick his butt and throw him in the loony bin...mind you I live in Canada...

Though it is understandable....If we happened to get a +30 C day in the middle of winter... I would behave very much like this...(Though a +10C would do the same thing....never mind that....a 0 C day would make me happy....)

Enjoy the snow :) hopefully you are taking some away from the rest of us....

[Madrigal]

Thanks for nothing, Enrique. Hope your wife finds the pic too.

[Lateralus]

Thanks for nothing, Enrique. Hope your wife finds the pic too.
Boo!

[Meticulum]

I haven't seen snow in 12 years. I was translating something and I got a call. My sister's like, "Madrigal, it's snowing!" I look out the window and halleluyah!

I can't imagine ever living anyplace where there ISN'T snow in the winter. A 70F Christmas would be a joke. I think there's something very therapeutic about having the gradual changing of the seasons rather than living the same day and same weather 365 days/year. You'd never have the next season to look forward to because they'd all be identical. How boring.


John

[charred_heart]

I wish you luck, but I'm not too confident.


Hahaha oh ye naive fool, it never snows in October. Maybe in January, Feburary once, or twice, with a thin slushy layer which melts in a day or two. And it never snows at Christmas.
so it'll just be rain and fog? Sod it, I'll go to Thailand then.

[garak]

I was looking forward to seeing the look of glee on Madrigal's face. :(

[hardkar]

Boo!Yeah that's where I live.

[nfinityi]

I've never seen snow before :mellow:

but... I'm travelling to the U.K in October, maybe I might get lucky.
Snow is the most peaceful weather phenomenon there is. When it snows, it muffles out all the sound. It becomes near silent. All the lights all of a sudden look pretty, even the ugly orange street lamps, and walking suddenly becomes more comfortable, and what's great about it is that there's hardly ever any wind when it snows.

Now, the day after when there's bitingly cold winds and the sun is beating down on you on a cloudless day. Now that's not so much fun :mad:

[Dark Razor]

Snow is the most peaceful weather phenomenon there is. When it snows, it muffles out all the sound. It becomes near silent. All the lights all of a sudden look pretty, even the ugly orange street lamps, and walking suddenly becomes more comfortable, and what's great about it is that there's hardly ever any wind when it snows.



This is true, I love to take long walks through the snow when it snows during the night, the silence is so peaceful and the landscape becomes so beatiful and pristine.

Here were I live it usually only snows when the weather systems change from bitingly cold, cloudless weather extending from over Russia to wet and warm low pressure coming in from the Atlantic, if the rain arrives during the night then there will be very heavy snowfall until the morning, when it turns into rain. I love those nights, they happen rather rarely and are always something special.

[Ferrus]

so it'll just be rain and fog?
Rain, no fog except a few days a year. But yes, rain all year long.

[charred_heart]

Rain, no fog except a few days a year. But yes, rain all year long.
maybe I need a little damp and darkness..

You know how they say too little sun makes you depressed? Well I'm convinced that too much sun makes you paranoid.

[Ferrus]

maybe I need a little damp and darkness..

You know how they say too little sun makes you depressed? Well I'm convinced that too much sun makes you paranoid.
The East-West conflict explained!

[charred_heart]

The East-West conflict explained!blame it on the weather... :rolleyes:

[Ferrus]

blame it on the weather... :rolleyes:
Seems as reasonable assumption as any.

[charred_heart]

Seems as reasonable assumption as any.no it's not you fool! there's satellite spying technology, power struggles, the Jews, imperialism, GLOBALIZMS!! *heat stroke*

[Ferrus]

no it's not you fool! there's satellite spying technology, power struggles, the Jews, imperialism, GLOBALIZMS!! *heat stroke*
They are mere superstructures to the substructure that is - the weather.

[charred_heart]

They are mere superstructures to the substructure that is - the weather.
heh, nice way of putting it.