I picked this week to take some of my annual leave - no particular occasion, just needed a bit of time off before the three months of chaos and stress aka harvest; was just gonna bum around outside cafés reading - and it hasn’t stopped shitting it down for a minute the whole time
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Friday, 14 June 2019 10:56 (four years ago) link
Fuck this fucking shit
― frame casual (dog latin), Friday, 14 June 2019 11:02 (four years ago) link
(xxp) Doesn't rain that much in London tbf. Said the Scotch to the Irish.
― John Harris is a Guardian columnist (Tom D.), Friday, 14 June 2019 11:04 (four years ago) link
eldest son's taking me to Bruges tomorrow for Father's Day, forecast is more fucking rain
warmer than here tho
― Oy McVey (Noodle Vague), Friday, 14 June 2019 11:08 (four years ago) link
Wailing against a rainy backdrop both strengthens and weakens my goth credentials but I have to say I prefer the cool dampness of a mausoleum to the sensation of drowning on terra firma.
― pomenitul, Friday, 14 June 2019 11:10 (four years ago) link
I've never been to Bruges but during my visit to Brussels I fully understood why the Walloons and Normans have a special word for heavy rain: 'la drache' (pronounced 'drash').
― pomenitul, Friday, 14 June 2019 11:12 (four years ago) link
rain is good not bad, also it is sunny now, london pavements are some slippy shit whatever they're made of (apparently* it's the piss)
*i read this on the internet
― mark s, Friday, 14 June 2019 11:13 (four years ago) link
It was sunny just now for five minutes. Fuck this shit.
― pomenitul, Friday, 14 June 2019 11:14 (four years ago) link
so far this is p normal june, it always mainly rains, SMDH everyone skreeking every summer that this is the only bad summer ever
― mark s, Friday, 14 June 2019 11:14 (four years ago) link
ungood weather for my cat to go missing in
― ogmor, Friday, 14 June 2019 11:18 (four years ago) link
Anyone who knows their Wimbledon forthnight knows this is fairly normal fare.
I think the light has been a touch worse and it has been a touch colder than usual.
xp = oh no! :-(
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 14 June 2019 11:19 (four years ago) link
:(
2xp
― pomenitul, Friday, 14 June 2019 11:21 (four years ago) link
Err, 1xp (that was for ogmor, obviously).
― pomenitul, Friday, 14 June 2019 11:29 (four years ago) link
― mark s, Friday, 14 June 2019 11:14 (fifteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah. i've definitely spoken of the new june monsoon season before somewhere
― imago, Friday, 14 June 2019 11:31 (four years ago) link
hopefully ogmor's cat will rock up and bring the sun along too
― imago, Friday, 14 June 2019 11:35 (four years ago) link
The last two Junes have been incredible weather-wise so they've lulled us into a false sense of security. It's usually pissing it down.
― Matt DC, Friday, 14 June 2019 11:38 (four years ago) link
where "incredible" means hot and horrible, keep that nasty stuff out of my lovely month
― mark s, Friday, 14 June 2019 11:41 (four years ago) link
fascism knifecrime island but at least it rains a lot
I long for 30°+.
― pomenitul, Friday, 14 June 2019 11:42 (four years ago) link
here it was written: Is this the worst (britishes) summer ever?
the last two junes have bucked the trend but it was a trend
― imago, Friday, 14 June 2019 11:45 (four years ago) link
It’s always humid as fuck here when it’s hot though and it’s disgusting
― stress tweeting (gyac), Friday, 14 June 2019 11:46 (four years ago) link
hot is bad, when is the gulf stream conveyor turning off, fuck brexit i want hard glaciation
― mark s, Friday, 14 June 2019 11:48 (four years ago) link
be nice with huge anoxic stinking pond next to us!
― calzino, Friday, 14 June 2019 12:03 (four years ago) link
mad for it
― mark s, Friday, 14 June 2019 12:12 (four years ago) link
I'm probably getting mixed up with what happened in the permian "best summer ever" period there, but shutdown of thermohaline circulation probably would cause areas of anoxic death in the atlantic, but maybe not that bad.
― calzino, Friday, 14 June 2019 12:20 (four years ago) link
at least wins would get a good long break from these pesky harvests as well!
― calzino, Friday, 14 June 2019 12:22 (four years ago) link
back to the egg:
https://assets.sutori.com/user-uploads/image/a848c5dc-4d1a-48d3-b816-26e8af82efad/a1acbed0e130f8853f8a3905891ceed8.jpeg
― mark s, Friday, 14 June 2019 12:27 (four years ago) link
Hovering between -15 and -30 for months on end teaches you to embrace the jungle. 30+ becomes desirable even when it's humid out.
― pomenitul, Friday, 14 June 2019 12:28 (four years ago) link
after spending the morning imagining my cat bedraggled and forlorn or worse I cycled home at lunch to find her meowing up a ruckus outside. she then did this celebration wriggle
http://imgur.com/pT339zahttp://imgur.com/qXrmj2l
― ogmor, Friday, 14 June 2019 12:37 (four years ago) link
Boo
https://i.imgur.com/qXrmj2lh.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/pT339za.jpg
― ogmor, Friday, 14 June 2019 12:40 (four years ago) link
lol
― mark s, Friday, 14 June 2019 12:43 (four years ago) link
also hurrah the return
It hasn't been raining much in Scotland, strangely.
― Shite New Answers (jed_), Friday, 14 June 2019 12:45 (four years ago) link
that's awesome ogmor. i find myself desiring to wriggle like that sometimes.
NV, Bruges is great. Not that great when it rains, but even then it's still p great.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 14 June 2019 13:21 (four years ago) link
please tell me you tickled that beautiful cat’s belly
― stress tweeting (gyac), Friday, 14 June 2019 13:26 (four years ago) link
sunny on the south coast today
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 14 June 2019 13:39 (four years ago) link
xp always. she's normally a quiet cat but she wouldn't shut up when I found her. her brother was doing little subdued mournful meows this morning and looking for her under the sofa, thankfully he can go back to terrorising her now.
― ogmor, Friday, 14 June 2019 13:41 (four years ago) link
miserable pussy reign
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Friday, 14 June 2019 14:01 (four years ago) link
― John Harris is a Guardian columnist (Tom D.), Friday, 14 June 2019 14:13 (four years ago) link
this BBC guy in Wainfleet is standing next to flooded street and every time he's on camera he says something bewildering:- "it's like looking at a lake, you see the perfect reflections of the houses" : what!?- "270 tons of sandbags! To give you an idea, a polar bear weighs one ton." : WHAT!?
― StanM, Saturday, 15 June 2019 07:15 (four years ago) link
I knew Gove (or "Govey" as a farmer refereed to him on the Farming Today earlier) was promoting an environmental policy to deploy a limited number of beavers to strengthen natural flood defenses, it clearly didn't work. So perhaps now he's trying polar bears?
― calzino, Saturday, 15 June 2019 07:44 (four years ago) link
These local reporters have very few chances to get on national television - particularly if you're stuck out somewhere where nothing happens, like Lincolnshire - so they have to make the most of it in in the (usually vain) hope that they'll impress someone in London who will rescue from a life of reporting on overflowing slurry pits just outside Spalding.
― John Harris is a Guardian columnist (Tom D.), Saturday, 15 June 2019 07:50 (four years ago) link
Fuck's sake. I can only remember one day in the last 20 when it hasn't pissed down. As someone who cycles to and from work in my work clothes and has to leave my bike uncovered all day long, this is stretching my patience. Just checked the forecast and it says it's going to rain continuously from this morning until Sunday evening. Great.
― the salacious inaudible (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 11 October 2019 07:05 (four years ago) link
this is exactly the thread I'd expect to see this morning, feeling a bit Ill and god does it look grim out there
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 11 October 2019 07:12 (four years ago) link
I can guarantee that it's going to stop raining because I've just bought a new waterproof jacket online.
― just another country (snoball), Friday, 11 October 2019 13:30 (four years ago) link
yeah this is OTT. it's not usually this bad this time of year
― frame casual (dog latin), Friday, 11 October 2019 13:32 (four years ago) link
i haven’t been minding the rain, but that is at least in part because i’ve stopped cycling into work regularly. I would feel a lot closer to NBS’s mood otherwise.
― Fizzles, Friday, 11 October 2019 13:33 (four years ago) link
I'll take a sunny -20 in January over this, thank you very much.
― pomenitul, Friday, 11 October 2019 13:39 (four years ago) link
i remember from my time in poland that -20 is pushing it a bit for me. but clear winter’s days are wonderful. however i do love the autumn damps and fogs.
― Fizzles, Friday, 11 October 2019 14:17 (four years ago) link