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General Topics => All things that have nothing to do with Turkey => Topic started by: Toky on January 31, 2012, 22:31:35 PM

Title: We Brits really are wimps!
Post by: Toky on January 31, 2012, 22:31:35 PM
National headline news......temps will plummet to minus 6!!!! Big wow. It's the big talking point - the weather front coming in from Siberia. H-e-l-l-o it is winter after all. And while I'm having a moan.....I HATE the expression "cold snap"! What the hell is a cold snap? (come on all you budding comedians)
I'm away to look out my thermals.
 :o
Title: We Brits really are wimps!
Post by: happy_flyer on January 31, 2012, 22:50:11 PM
Well i'm just glad i'm not a brass monkey this week.
A cold snap is when you switch on the wipers to clear the screen and they refuse to move cos thier frozen in the last position.
Oh yes and i dont have to look out my thermals i know exactly where they are right now. lol
Title: We Brits really are wimps!
Post by: Toky on January 31, 2012, 23:15:26 PM
LOL, man up happy-flyer!!!
A bit of de-icer will sort it out.
:D
Title: We Brits really are wimps!
Post by: Scunner on January 31, 2012, 23:25:21 PM
I can honestly say I have never experienced what I found when I went to my car early one morning last week. Ice - on the INSIDE of the windscreen!!
Title: We Brits really are wimps!
Post by: loz on January 31, 2012, 23:26:12 PM
I have just discovered what a cold snap is, it is when the temperature indicator in the car flashes at 3c, I take this to mean that it is cold? I would never have guessed otherwise : :) ;)[:o)]
Title: We Brits really are wimps!
Post by: heather07 on February 01, 2012, 07:29:38 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Scunner

I can honestly say I have never experienced what I found when I went to my car early one morning last week. Ice - on the INSIDE of the windscreen!!


I get this at 5pm when I come out of work bot not in the morning.

My theory is that condensation gathers inside  from sitting in the sun during the day.  Or is that silly????
Title: We Brits really are wimps!
Post by: Toky on February 01, 2012, 18:48:00 PM
Despite the big freeze warning, we had a glorious sunny day in Glasgow today reachin +5degs. Almost summer temps LOL
 8)
Title: We Brits really are wimps!
Post by: Babadaq Bridge on February 01, 2012, 20:07:53 PM
When it's so cold that things snap off?  ;)
Title: We Brits really are wimps!
Post by: Highlander on February 01, 2012, 22:20:42 PM
Not as bad as last winter, yet. Minus nineteen near Grantown-On-Spey in December 2010.


(http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q214/highlander_010/cold.jpg)
Title: We Brits really are wimps!
Post by: Karennina on February 02, 2012, 11:08:16 AM
How about this then, hubby got in car this morning after finishing night shift, he had saved half a banana to eat on the way home from work but the banana had frozen solid in the car over night ;)
Title: We Brits really are wimps!
Post by: Scunner on February 02, 2012, 11:25:10 AM
During the awful snow that refused to leave of last winter, I opened the car door and a huge clump of snow fell from the top of the door/roof onto the floor inside the car. With full heater blast I went out, 15 minutes drive, 20 minutes later I drove the 15 minutes back - and when I got home the snow was still perfect snow inside the car - now I'd call that cold :D
Title: We Brits really are wimps!
Post by: Toky on February 02, 2012, 18:33:45 PM
Karennina, Mr Toky & I were skiing in Austria last week. We bought a couple of bananas and took them in my wee backpack up the mountain. 3 hrs later we stopped for a coffee......( well..... it was a hot chocolate with rum!)and went to eat the bananas. Not only were they frozen solid, the skins had  changed from a yucky green colour, to completely black. We ended up sticking them on a snowman some kids were building outside a mountain hut!
:D
Title: We Brits really are wimps!
Post by: Karennina on February 02, 2012, 20:00:54 PM
Oh that is funny Toky, hope you had a good time. I have learnt something today about banana's just did not think about them freezing ever:D