miserable pissy rain

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We've had a month's worth of rain in three days and it's still going strong. Try Glasgow less.

Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 12 August 2004 11:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah - it's supposed to be sun sun sun on Saturday. I'm working on Saturday.

Alba (Alba), Thursday, 12 August 2004 11:26 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm moving house!! It's sunny now, but still thundering.

PinXor (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 12 August 2004 11:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Barry, you'll be much better looking for a decent used model. It's a "buyer's market" at present, due to oversupply. Good ones to look for (if in good nick) are Dawes Horizon, Dawes Galaxy, Dawes super-galaxy. Haggle down, there are more sellers than buyers these days. I can't shift ANYTHING used these days except Bromptons in decent condition.

Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 12 August 2004 11:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Rain's gettinge me down. wet feet, no long walks. boo. The Daily Mail found a way of blaming the bad weather on America. i admire their ingenuity and unrelenting hatred.

Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Thursday, 12 August 2004 12:04 (nineteen years ago) link

I thought the Daily Mail wanted us leave the EU and join NAFTA? I get so confused.

Alba (Alba), Thursday, 12 August 2004 12:08 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm not saying I really thought that.

Alba (Alba), Thursday, 12 August 2004 12:09 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm not sure the Daily Mail just like the hating. we clearly didn't deserve the rain, it must be someone's fault...

Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Thursday, 12 August 2004 12:14 (nineteen years ago) link

i still haven't experienced a touch of rain.

ken c (ken c), Thursday, 12 August 2004 12:16 (nineteen years ago) link

But the important question is how is the rain affecting property prices?

Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 12 August 2004 12:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes - asylum seekers are being given free roof repairs, which is distorting the market.

Alba (Alba), Thursday, 12 August 2004 12:20 (nineteen years ago) link

The rain coming down right now is quite amazing.

Anna (Anna), Thursday, 12 August 2004 12:39 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm really enjoying these cloudbursts (central London). But this one seems to be over already.

beanz (beanz), Thursday, 12 August 2004 12:44 (nineteen years ago) link

I wish they would last longer, I wish it would rain and rain and rain, because it suits my mood at the moment.

Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Thursday, 12 August 2004 12:46 (nineteen years ago) link

S&G's Bookends is providing perfect 40 days of rain accompaniment for me at the moment.

Alba (Alba), Thursday, 12 August 2004 12:50 (nineteen years ago) link

still no rain here :(

ken c (ken c), Thursday, 12 August 2004 12:50 (nineteen years ago) link

still gorgeous here :)

Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 12 August 2004 12:51 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm finding a super cheap 30's blues comp i got from fopp (£3! 4 CD's!) is the perfect rainy day friend.

Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Thursday, 12 August 2004 12:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Ooh - I think it might have stopped!

Alba (Alba), Thursday, 12 August 2004 12:56 (nineteen years ago) link

seven years pass...

does this shit intend on stopping any time soon

liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 18:34 (eleven years ago) link

ha i just finished watching the weather forecast

no, by the looks of things, although the current mid-atlantic squall over london should be the nadir

i really enjoyed the most miserably intense bit of it earlier because i was in bed with my laptop warming me watching leveson and with no need to leave the house, but even from this cosy perspective the sheer unstopping relentlessness of it becomes depressing

liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 18:38 (eleven years ago) link

yeah sturm und drang is always best appreciated from indoors

from tomorrow it's back to the last fortnight's enervating Miserable Pissy Rain

I hated the most miserably intense bit because I was out walking in it.

Cheggers Plays Populous (snoball), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 18:54 (eleven years ago) link

I got stuck in a spring rain at lunch, with blocks to go. My hair is well and truly fucked for the rest of the day, I think.

cue "White Rabbit" (kenan), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 18:57 (eleven years ago) link

misread the thread title

THE KITTEN TYPE (contenderizer), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 19:35 (eleven years ago) link

"Scissorable Missy Rain"?

cue "White Rabbit" (kenan), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 19:49 (eleven years ago) link

how'd you guess?

THE KITTEN TYPE (contenderizer), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 20:04 (eleven years ago) link

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9c/Princepurplerain.jpg
I only want to see you dancing
in the miserable pissy rain.
Pissy rain,
pissy rain...
Pissy rain,
pissy rain...

Cheggers Plays Populous (snoball), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 20:10 (eleven years ago) link

lol

cue "White Rabbit" (kenan), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 20:17 (eleven years ago) link

no-one made the obvious (esp re Prince) joke about "pussy rain" i see

a big fat fucking fat guy in a barrel what could be better? (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 20:22 (eleven years ago) link

Pussy comes in waterfalls. We all know this.

cue "White Rabbit" (kenan), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 20:24 (eleven years ago) link

When we first moved in here - in fact the day Neil Young was on TV playing in Hyde Park - we had the most fucking awful downpour that caused the trough on top of the bay window to fill with water and pour into the living room. We spent the evening with towels and buckets trying to mop up the stuff before it got in the electrics. We've had it fixed since obv. but every time it's rained since I've been really terribly anxious. This week hasn't been great.

kraudive, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 20:30 (eleven years ago) link

We nearly went to that NY gig - after seeing Springsteen bring the place down the night before. If we had, we've come back to the worst mess I can imagine. I'm even still anxious about Neil Young's music.

Fucking April. Though. That was August. Fucking rain.

kraudive, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 20:32 (eleven years ago) link

i'm meant to go out now and the rain has stopped but i am looking beseechingly at my bed, pleading with it to FORCE me into it

liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 20:36 (eleven years ago) link

Anyone else think they might go postal simply due to the sheer relentlessness of the weather?

Had to bin my London Olympics umbrella (£14 from M&S), which is coming apart from constant use in the last few weeks.

Bob Six, Sunday, 29 April 2012 10:57 (eleven years ago) link

i'm philosophically resigned to the fact that the rain is overdue but i'm still stuck in the house going quietly spare

seapunk run. run punk run! (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 29 April 2012 11:17 (eleven years ago) link

I pretty much don't leave the house except to drive to work so I quite like the rain, anything that postpones having to mow the lawn is a good thing in my book.

pandemic, Sunday, 29 April 2012 11:33 (eleven years ago) link

urrrrgh

J0rdan, Diddy (tpp), Sunday, 29 April 2012 11:40 (eleven years ago) link

The main problem is that I've found that my mental health is so much better if I set myself the challenge of a longish London walk on a Sunday, e.g. Vauxhall to Hampstead Heath, via Soho, Fitzrovia, Regents Park and Swiss Cottage and back via Haverstock Hill.

But it's not pleasant in this weather and the last few weekends have been ridiculous: sheltering from hard and cold hail on Hampstead Heath, taking shelter with wet trousers from a sudden torrential downpour in a bookshop in Primrose Hill etc...

Bob Six, Sunday, 29 April 2012 11:41 (eleven years ago) link

hmm..I could have phrased that last bit better.

Bob Six, Sunday, 29 April 2012 11:41 (eleven years ago) link

the last 24 hrs or so have been a nadir but it looks like next week will be alright (in the southeast anyway)

got really sick of the constant dampness in the air even in the interludes when it hasnt been raining

Ms Tum-Bla-Wi-Tee (nakhchivan), Sunday, 29 April 2012 11:44 (eleven years ago) link

otm. i've had visitors staying with me this weekend and wanted to take them out walking..it's really the only way i know to show off london. sucky weather.

J0rdan, Diddy (tpp), Sunday, 29 April 2012 11:46 (eleven years ago) link

omg constant rain since i woke up, sky doesn't look like it's going to clear up anytime either.

but yeah, forecast looks sweet for the week ahead.

PSOD (Ste), Sunday, 29 April 2012 11:55 (eleven years ago) link

Last night was about the most unpleasant weather I can remember ever experiencing.

I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Sunday, 29 April 2012 11:59 (eleven years ago) link

Miserable Pissy Rain was AMAZING EXCITING RAIN when I was down in Cornwall, because it's so clean and energising and beautiful and makes the WAVES! SMASH! in exciting ways.

But by the time it gets to London, it's just grim.

Apparently I missed a Force 9 Gale last night - gutted - but everyone said I was lucky to get out before trees started coming down and things.

They have fangs, They have teeth! (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Sunday, 29 April 2012 12:27 (eleven years ago) link

Yeah, I'm not knocking rain..just the continuous miserable pissy kind. I've had some great walks just after storms, when it's still raining, but the sun's back out and everything is sparkling, almost psychedelically, and the greenery and trees feels more alive.

But this is a kind of cold, miserly depresso rain with dull skies.

Bob Six, Sunday, 29 April 2012 12:46 (eleven years ago) link

Apparently the Cornish word for this weather is actually "mizzle"

But wait! I just saw a ray of sun!

They have fangs, They have teeth! (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Sunday, 29 April 2012 12:48 (eleven years ago) link

Oh no - is it another false dawn? ("I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand")

Bob Six, Sunday, 29 April 2012 13:03 (eleven years ago) link

sunny here in hackney

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 29 April 2012 13:18 (eleven years ago) link

Had a power cut to go along with the miserable pissy west of Scotland rain this morning.

Ward Fowler, Saturday, 7 October 2023 10:14 (six months ago) link

the road round the corner from me is flooded so badly that a double-decker bus is stuck in it. I'm banking on an Iceland delivery coming today so I don't need to leave the house.

boxedjoy, Saturday, 7 October 2023 10:16 (six months ago) link

Going for a run in the miserable pissy west of Scotland rain shortly. The pleasure of getting home afterwards should be good.

brain (krakow), Saturday, 7 October 2023 12:37 (six months ago) link

Glad I visited last weekend lol

imago, Saturday, 7 October 2023 12:45 (six months ago) link

If the rain had held off for literally five more minutes I would have got home without getting soaked.

you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Friday, 13 October 2023 18:24 (six months ago) link

this shit is not normal:

A dogwalker in Mugdock, Stirlingshire has shared clips of the forest floor “moving like the sea” as #StormBabet continues to batter Scotland.

📸 David Nungent-Malone pic.twitter.com/zPkMQTQKel

— Clyde 1 News (@Clyde1News) October 20, 2023

blazin' squab (NickB), Friday, 20 October 2023 20:53 (five months ago) link

!!!!

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 20 October 2023 20:54 (five months ago) link

scared for that dog!

blazin' squab (NickB), Friday, 20 October 2023 20:55 (five months ago) link

Maybe not the best time to go for walkies.

The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Friday, 20 October 2023 21:03 (five months ago) link

I was worried for the dog too. Would not have let him get that close my god.

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 20 October 2023 21:06 (five months ago) link

That dog grew up to be the this is fine dog

Boris Yitsbin (wins), Friday, 20 October 2023 21:09 (five months ago) link

7th rainy weekend in a row?

ian, Friday, 20 October 2023 21:54 (five months ago) link

f this sh*t

calstars, Friday, 20 October 2023 21:57 (five months ago) link

Realized today I'm not going to see the sun in this country for like 6 months now.

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 20 October 2023 21:58 (five months ago) link

depressing af

calstars, Friday, 20 October 2023 22:00 (five months ago) link

Heard about this from some other friends

Smike and Pmith (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 20 October 2023 22:03 (five months ago) link

Is anyone else with Freeview only experiencing service loss - scrambled and/or missing channels?

steely flan (suzy), Saturday, 21 October 2023 07:07 (five months ago) link

Where I am that's not uncommon when it rains - and it doesn't even have to be particularly heavy rain.

The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Saturday, 21 October 2023 08:57 (five months ago) link

By the way and ffs, learn how to pronounce Brechin why don't you, Sky reporters... and she's actually reporting from Brechin!

The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Saturday, 21 October 2023 09:17 (five months ago) link

Curious. Worst/scariest flooding I've ever driven through yesterday, on the Essex/Suffolk border, in a kind of "I wouldn't normally drive through that puddle but I'm not really sure what else I can do" sort of way. Eventually, stopped trying to get anywhere in particular beyond zig-zagging to *anywhere* that might be less wet.

djh, Saturday, 21 October 2023 10:56 (five months ago) link

i am back on my bullshit viz reading "flooded shropshire" stories on the shropshire star twitter account (the only good account):

e.g. "two kayakers were spotted paddling across a country road" near craven arms 🌊🛶👍🏽

mark s, Saturday, 21 October 2023 11:35 (five months ago) link

Link?

calstars, Saturday, 21 October 2023 11:45 (five months ago) link

Clearly the government have hidden all the nanobot vaccines in huge under-forest caches

kinder, Saturday, 21 October 2023 16:47 (five months ago) link

two weeks pass...

numb to it

Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 4 November 2023 21:57 (five months ago) link

hello from Oregon

out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Saturday, 4 November 2023 21:59 (five months ago) link

our nephew moved in last month, he's been in Oregon since August. Today he asked the classic "how long does it rain for, anyway" - he was not expecting the answer to be "until May", lol

out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Saturday, 4 November 2023 22:05 (five months ago) link

lol

G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Saturday, 4 November 2023 23:52 (five months ago) link

I used to go to the Gambia a fair bit and there the conversation was the opposite: you ask when it's going to rain and someone looks up and says, 'eh, April'.

Absolutely shat it down here last night. The rivers are swole af.

I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Sunday, 5 November 2023 09:15 (five months ago) link

big one on the way to Northern California

But it can't just be heavy rain anymore, everything has to be an 'atmospheric river'

Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 00:34 (five months ago) link

two months pass...

it’s wild out there

LaMDA barry-stanners (||||||||), Sunday, 21 January 2024 22:14 (two months ago) link

a tornado warning in Scotland, never thought I would see the day

boxedjoy, Sunday, 21 January 2024 22:37 (two months ago) link

I left the landing window open, the roller blind was flapping like crazy and there were some leaves on my stairs. Quite fair to call this fucker as a named storm system, but it doesn't sound like 90 mph wind here, yet.

A “tornado watch” zone was issued for Northern Ireland as well as parts of Scotland and northern England by the Tornado and Storm Research Organisation (Torro) on Sunday afternoon. That means a “strong tornado” is possible in those regions.

see how it goes time

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Sunday, 21 January 2024 23:44 (two months ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/RXcwxTk.jpg

Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 12:13 (two months ago) link

one month passes...

Impatiently waiting for Spring to start in London, delayed by a classic pissy rain Sunday with no hint of sun.

Dr Drudge (Bob Six), Sunday, 10 March 2024 14:44 (one month ago) link

just walked about 5 miles in various levels of pissy rain, all of it miserable.

koogs, Sunday, 10 March 2024 15:01 (one month ago) link

I've just come back from a two mile walk in the rain and of course now it's stopped and there's a hint of sun.

you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Sunday, 10 March 2024 15:18 (one month ago) link


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