Snow problem
Because bad news is good news as far as the media is concerned it appears they've been delving deep for snow related injuries - as such we've had reports of two brothers who died and the death of one girl and injury of three others. All this the media attributes to "the conditions". Well the two brothers were climbing Snowdon, and the four girls were sledging and went through a barbed wire fence; now it may be me but I can't seem to blame this on snow.
On doom and gloom the City complain that this snow halt has cost the country £3.8bn whine, moan, whine; as the only people who really see the country in this way what they really mean is that this snow halt has cost them £3.8bn. Hmm how much have we bailed out the City and the banks? When we reach those levels then they can start complaining otherwise they can shut the [beep] up.
On a similar cold note I see a new advert - three footballers stand shivering, a women at a bus stop shivers, as does a women waiting for her car to be repaired. You know what they need don't you? The new whatever it is from McDonalds, cut to two people sitting in the warm enjoying one. How the hell does that help any of the people you showed previously? Can the footballers run around scarfing one down, can the women wait at the bus-stop and pop-in to her local McD's at the same time, the only one who could move was the women at the garage. Pathetic!
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Well, the girl wouldn't have been sledging if there was no snow. But clearly, the result here is not that snow is dangerous, but that being a moron is dangerous.
I saw some footage of a guy leaving a trainstation and slipping over on the icy stairs.
“I think Network Rail should have gritted the steps.”
…um…or maybe you could, you know, walk more carefully when the entire country is covered in ice??
Seriously, WTF? If you don't want to get injured, be careful! Jesus…
Still, let us not fall into the mistake of thinking that the few people the Media deem amusing to put on TV are representative of the entire population. A brief listen to Werry Togan provides a counterexample.
It's only a "Snow Problem" because all the media is concerned about is London - the centre of the universe. As a true provincial man I get fed up with everything being London-centric.
I have a feeling that it has something to do with big always becoming dominant. London dominates England; Worcester dominates Worcestershire; urban dominates rural (read Nigel on WFA about Wyre Forest's treatment of Wolverley); and Kidderminster dominates Stourport - I could go on but I think you get my drift.
Small is beautiful!!!
For the two brothers it seems they were climbing Snowdon despite all the forecasts, as for the girls well that was a tragic accident; it was just the way these were being used that made me want to slap the reporters. If I broke a leg skiiing (or you did Orphi) you wouldn't blame the snow would you?
Oh I'm sure you wouldn't mind me quoting this for Don from p.o.t.-
Orphi - "I can remember 1995 or so, there was a lot of snow one day. About 20 cm or so. Not huge, but a lot. Nobody seemed to really pay much attention. A few people got slightly stuck or something, but nobody considered it a big deal. Yet today, it's a catastrophe... hmm."
FlipC - "That's because the snow fell somewhere up North, this time it fell somewhere important ;-)."
Getting political, with all this Green fuss and the UK finally getting some decent bandwidth speeds (or not as the case may be Don) isn't it about time our MPs practised teleconferencing instead of getting paid London allowances?
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