Weather

[Keva]

It's been raining on and off alll day here (Couple of hours from Reading). Hope the site has time to dry out before next week.

[mrtourette]

Every weather report has (unsurprisingly) been different, although they all feature some kind of showers or being overcast at some stage.

[Dave The Hedgehog]

Wise man once said - you're in Britain and you're going to a festival on a bank holiday weekend; rain changes nothing, it's just typical British weather. Just go to the festival, stop waiting for Mystic Meg to throw her cat intestines at the wall in hope that she'll tell you what you already know will happen anyway, and just go and bloody enjoy yourselves.

[mrtourette]

Wise man once said - you're in Britain and you're going to a festival on a bank holiday weekend; rain changes nothing, it's just typical British weather. Just go to the festival, stop waiting for Mystic Meg to throw her cat intestines at the wall in hope that she'll tell you what you already know will happen anyway, and just go and bloody enjoy yourselves.

[Dave The Hedgehog]

I apologise. It just f**ks me off is all.

In Britain we are never content until we have something to complain about, and usually it's the f**king weather. You are away on holiday and you phone up home...

"How's the weather?"

How's the f**king weather? I'm in deepest darkest tropical Mexico in June! What do you think the f**king weather is like?

You go to Leeds, or to Reading...

"How's the weather?"

It's a bank holiday weekend and I'm in England. What do you expect? It does nothing but f**king rain on bank holidays! It's a veritable smorgasboard of misery, depression and dreariness. Every day is like Sunday, blah, blah, blah, f**king blah.

It pisses me off when people refer to these damn long-range weather forecasts to feel at ease with themselves, or to feel miserable just because things aren't looking too great. I'm 26 years old. I've been around on this planet long enough to know that for about 70% or 80% of the time the weather in this country is overcast or miserable so I stopped complaining about it or worrying about it because I'd rather concern myself with things I can actually do something about. Namely, going to either one of these festivals and making the most of what I have instead of moping about like a menopausal cow that's just had her last and only calf shot in the face.

The glass is always half empty when people talk about the weather in this country. When it's hot, it's usually too hot. When it's cold, it's usually too cold. When it's raining, or thundering, snowing, windy - people always f**king complain about it. And you know what the worst thing is? You have c**ts who turn on the news to tell us these things are going to happen. w*nkers who stand there in their badly coloured ties or po-faced tarts whose thongs you can see through their garish short red skirts - telling us to either be happy or prepare for the worst as if f**king armageddon is about to come in the form of drops of water.

f**k off!

Araaaaaargghghghghhhhhh!!!!1111

Edited August 18, 2010 by Dave The Hedgehog

[Benj]

Wise man once said - you're in Britain and you're going to a festival on a bank holiday weekend; rain changes nothing, it's just typical British weather. Just go to the festival, stop waiting for Mystic Meg to throw her cat intestines at the wall in hope that she'll tell you what you already know will happen anyway, and just go and bloody enjoy yourselves.

[Dave The Hedgehog]

Didn't you say you've never been to a festival before?

[Benj]

So you put my judgement down to naivete rather than common sense? You're in Britain. It rains a lot. Get on with your lives.

Edited August 18, 2010 by Benj

[Dave The Hedgehog]

People will ultimately of course get on with it

[Thatmax]

So you put my judgement down to naivete rather than common sense? You're in Britain. It rains a lot. Get on with your lives.

[Benj]

There you go then. You're learning, see?

[Dave The Hedgehog]

The point I'm making is that you can't predict the weather so there's no point going on about it or worrying. Naivete would be going and assuming that it's going to be a scorcher just because a weatherman says it's going to be - whereas common sense would dictate going prepared whatever the weather so that you can alternate.

What's the point in looking at a long range weather forecast? Go to a fortune teller and ask what next week's lottery numbers will be and you'll get just as accurate results; and if you win, you'll just be getting lucky like weather presenters do.

[Benj]

The point I'm making is that you can't predict the weather so there's no point going on about it or worrying. Naivete would be going and assuming that it's going to be a scorcher just because a weatherman says it's going to be - whereas common sense would dictate going prepared whatever the weather so that you can alternate.

What's the point in looking at a long range weather forecast? Go to a fortune teller and ask what next week's lottery numbers will be and you'll get just as accurate results; and if you win, you'll just be getting lucky like weather presenters do.

[Benj]

The point I'm making is that you can't predict the weather so there's no point going on about it or worrying. Naivete would be going and assuming that it's going to be a scorcher just because a weatherman says it's going to be - whereas common sense would dictate going prepared whatever the weather so that you can alternate.

What's the point in looking at a long range weather forecast? Go to a fortune teller and ask what next week's lottery numbers will be and you'll get just as accurate results; and if you win, you'll just be getting lucky like weather presenters do.

[mooseman]

The point I'm making is that you can't predict the weather so there's no point going on about it or worrying. Naivete would be going and assuming that it's going to be a scorcher just because a weatherman says it's going to be - whereas common sense would dictate going prepared whatever the weather so that you can alternate.

What's the point in looking at a long range weather forecast? Go to a fortune teller and ask what next week's lottery numbers will be and you'll get just as accurate results; and if you win, you'll just be getting lucky like weather presenters do.

[Dave The Hedgehog]

What is the point in looking at the weather forecast for next week though? You have 7 days before you are at the gates of either festival (if you have an early bird ticket) and the weather could change in a microsecond. You watch the news, you see the weather forecasts...

Here's an exercise - wake up on, say, Monday morning to see what the weather is going to be like for Wednesday. Record the weather forecast. Wake up again on Tuesday morning and see what the weather is going to be like for Wednesday. Record it.

Play both at the same time and they'll both be different despite being the same day and same times the same weather forecaster predicted. In other words, "something unexpected happened - your guess is as good as ours."

If you want to know what the weather is like, go outside. If it's cold and raining - put a raincoat on. If it's hot and sunny - take it off. Just because we're trapped in a festival bubble doesn't mean we're exempt from the realities of the world outside it so apply the same common sense you would if you were going out to work or to school or wherever and prepare for everything. Don't put your faith in what the weather presenters say because they 'know' f**k all about what tomorrow is going to bring. They can only predict.

Edited August 18, 2010 by Dave The Hedgehog

[mooseman]

What is the point in looking at the weather forecast for next week though? You have 7 days before you are at the gates of either festival (if you have an early bird ticket) and the weather could change in a microsecond. You watch the news, you see the weather forecasts...

[Benj]

What is the point in looking at the weather forecast for next week though? You have 7 days before you are at the gates of either festival (if you have an early bird ticket) and the weather could change in a microsecond. You watch the news, you see the weather forecasts...

Here's an exercise - wake up on, say, Monday morning to see what the weather is going to be like for Wednesday. Record the weather forecast. Wake up again on Tuesday morning and see what the weather is going to be like for Wednesday. Record it.

Play both at the same time and they'll both be different despite being the same day and same times the same weather forecaster predicted. In other words, "something unexpected happened - your guess is as good as ours."

If you want to know what the weather is like, go outside. If it's cold and raining - put a raincoat on. If it's hot and sunny - take it off. Just because we're trapped in a festival bubble doesn't mean we're exempt from the realities of the world outside it so apply the same common sense you would if you were going out to work or to school or wherever and prepare for everything. Don't put your faith in what the weather presenters say because they 'know' f**k all about what tomorrow is going to bring. They can only predict.

[mooseman]

Hahahahah you're taking this all a bit to seriously. On that logic all the band prediction threads etc are pointless. I don't think anyone is actually packing tonight based on these forecasts, it's just a bit of fun

[Dave The Hedgehog]

So one second its clear sunny then a microsecond later it is raining, yeah that happens. You can tell by eye if its going to change it doesnt just suddenly happen.

Edited August 18, 2010 by Dave The Hedgehog

[mooseman]

Don't be a dick.

[Bradders]

I think a weather forecaster f**ked his dog once. Then Blink-182 wrote a song making light of this act and he never forgave them

Seriously though, you don't want to talk about the weather? Ok, don't click the thread called 'weather'!

Edited August 18, 2010 by Bradders

[Dave The Hedgehog]

Telling me not to be a dick, thats pretty f**king rich coming from you.

[Dave The Hedgehog]

I think a weather forecaster f**ked his dog once. Then Blink-182 wrote a song making light of this act and he never forgave them

Seriously though, you don't want to talk about the weather? Ok, don't click the thread called 'weather'!

[mooseman]

Look, you clearly have nothing remotely interesting to add so rather than discuss the pointlessness of your reason for being here, why not attempt to leave with some dignity and allow other people the chance to light-heartedly discuss the pointlessness of weather forecasting?