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Sorry, your penis.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 12:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

Frankly it's gopping out there. I always forget that I dont actually like snow until the walk to the garage turns into a constant struggle to stay upright.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 12:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

WHo are you calling a penis. Oh, my penis.

Come on Nick, you know my penis could never make it to two inches.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 12:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

What is this 'gopping' that Tom is trying to slip into language without anyone noticing?

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 12:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

cf Wife Swap

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 12:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

I might actually get to wear my massive fuckoff boots and my big russian coat today! hooray!

― kate, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 12:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

Snow is so not goppy, Tom. It's grart. I danced around my room when I saw it. Would anyone like to make snowmen with me later?

― alix (alix), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 12:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

Someone had tried to make a snowman on the Camden Road but somebody else had kicked it over.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 13:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

Society is breaking down

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 13:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

we are considering making a fort, laying in a supply of snowballs and then setting off the fire alarm, then when everyone pours out into the assembly area, they'll be like sitting ducks and get a good pounding. oh the looks on their faces, ha ha.

but as this would be socially unacceptable, we're not doing it.

― Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 13:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

Society has broken down. Get with the program(-me seems wrong) and build your gopping snow fort.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 13:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

Tom is completely right, snow is all very well if you're on a skiing 'holiday' or sitting looking at it from beside a roaring fire or cavorting merrily in a snowy field or whatnot but having to go out to get lunch in it on Oxford St it is a gigantic enormous gopping dud and having to wait for buses in it is a dud too.

― Emma, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 13:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'd forgotten that fantastic feeling where your hands are so cold that they feel hot. A friend of mine at work has this peculiar snowball technique of making a huge two foot wide snowball and then dropping it on your head. He quickly became the preferred target...

― Alfie (Alfie), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 13:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

WELL I LOVE SNOW SO SHUT UP IT IS WONDERFUL AND I AM VERY HAPPY TODAY.

― alix (alix), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 13:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

Waaah, it's already starting to melt before the petrol stations can get the toboggans in. Waaah!

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 13:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

ilford is turning into slush :(

― katie (katie), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 13:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

I am also v.happy as the snow gave us a good excuse to neck some quality whisky at lunchtime alongside our pints of Caledonian 80'. I love the Rob Roy.

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 13:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

what is this "excuse" of which you speak RickyT!?! (i hope it has nothing to do with DONGLE BOXES)

― katie (katie), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 13:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

WHere are you getting youe Caledonian 80' in London. If its in a Wetherspoon I don't care.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 13:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Rob Roy pub in Paddington. Quite a good little boozer: nice beer, good selection of malts and okayish Scottish food.

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 13:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

Do they do the IPA too?

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 14:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

Nope, just the 80.

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 14:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

no snow in BXL - a brief flurry last Sunday but not nearly enough to settle - I'm told that's usual.

I did however receive two Christmas cards this morning, and another one the day before. Also, quite a few Xmas trees and lights are still up.

― Jeff W, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 14:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://ilxor.petfield.com/images/snow_sharks.gif

― Alfie (Alfie), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 14:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Anglia Railways site has obviously been so flooded by punters worried about getting home that it has completely fallen over, even though the snow is getting so light that it's looking more and more like dandruff. Upshot: snow = classic, this bloody country's outmoded transport networks (and their websites) = dud.

― SittingPretty (sittingpretty), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 14:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0TQDeAmYYXMkmTcyrtvRx5XT6HoW!OXJA8cc4MiB!6Pqev5nIVvxSNxPJ86tAs8dw0S6xqwIOZB11AK76S*ldga6iZdyjeWUVLkN04c!QPklpirfLSXA1Yw/l_HOP.jpg
Taken on a lunchtime stroll! Another posters Sister was also spotted taking snow snaps...

― Simeon (Simeon), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 15:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

Alfie reminds me of the joy of snow, in that so many Calvin and Hobbes strips used it so well. Including of course the final one...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 15:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

That snow is paltry ha ha.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 15:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

Nice pix (not taken by me, as I snubbed the inter-departmental snowball fight to get on with some BLOODY WORK) of Regent's Park here.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 16:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

This thread has reached rare heights.

N is on fire, or its snowy opposite.

― the pinefox, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 16:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

None in Manchester, though it is very very cold, and the frost will confuse you. I was so jealous of the poor man on the new struggling to talk about Reisin while it was gopping it down.

― Graham (graham), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 17:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

A good pub in Paddington YOU MUST TELL ME WHERE.

Lambeth Castle covered in snow roxx0r. I was sad I did not have my camera.

Or, 'a camera'.

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 17:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

Snow sort of inverts things visually. I'm used to the sky being lighter than the ground and the snow-lined outlines of buildings stand out more than they normally would.

― Alfie (Alfie), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 17:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

welling was beautiful this morning: snow roolz!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 17:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

This was earlier today :

http://pic1.picturetrail.com/VOL127/743982/1280302/18157038.ptp

There's more now! Still snowing - about another inch has fallen. Nearly enough for a snowball fight!

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 17:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

GET OFF THE ROAD - YOU WILL BE HIT BY AN ENORMOUS SNOW TRUCK THING THAT WE DON'T HAVE HERE!

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 18:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

Them pesky gritters!

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 18:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

My windshield wipers were assaulted this afternoon by the platter of snow & ice riding atop my car - I stopped at an intersection, and suddenly this mound of winter goodness unattached itself from the roof of the car and cascaded across my windshield. One of my wipers actually swung away from the glass as a result of the snow. I drove back to my office with the wiper sticking out antennae-like from the mound of slush. It was funny, after I got over the loud CARRRRUNKATHUMP sound the snow made on its way off the roof.

But, y'know, can we Noreasters have more than a 2-day break from this precipitation crap, please? The old snow's all nice and refrozen - more of that stuff's just gonna ruin the scenery.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 19:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

The snow has broken your email, David.

SURF'S DOWN

― Mooro (Mooro), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 20:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://pic1.picturetrail.com/VOL127/743982/1280302/18195703.ptp

― C J (C J), Thursday, 9 January 2003 09:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

It's all turned to ice now!

At Hyde Park, these down and outs built a snowman and they tried to bring it down to the subway where they were sitting, but they dropped it and all that was left was one big lump of snow :(

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 9 January 2003 10:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

CJ's picture is pretty...now the Londoners should go iceskating!

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 9 January 2003 10:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

three weeks pass...

It's back! Although looking out of my window, its more fake spray snow than Hoth.

― Alfie (Alfie), Thursday, 30 January 2003 10:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

Not had any snow whatsoever yet here, and it was forecast for today. Its just icey and bloody cold

― Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Thursday, 30 January 2003 10:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

IT'S SNOWING IN DUBLIN!!

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 30 January 2003 10:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

IT'S SNOWING IN DUBLIN!

YAY!!

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 30 January 2003 10:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

Damn. It's stopped here.

― Alfie (Alfie), Thursday, 30 January 2003 10:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

there was a nice little snow storm earlier.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 30 January 2003 10:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

Jel, are you at work?

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 30 January 2003 10:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

There was wasn't there Jel? It has now stopped and it is sunny! Not that I feel much benefit cos the office is still freezing.

― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 30 January 2003 10:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

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