To wish people would stop bloody moaning about a bit of snow

[Ryoko]

Seriously in London we get like 2 inches and everyones moaning, the news is full of exclamation marks in triangles and moaning about how are people going to get to work and talking to moaning idiots in the streets complaining that it's cold, (people wearing skinny jeans, fashion boots and normal winter jackets, idiots!).

Anyway too much moaning, too many idiots looking for any excuse to close schools and stay home, too many people who want to moan about it being too cold to go out instead of investing in some proper winter gear and letting some air out the tyres.

And why do we still put up with this countries reliance on out dated third rail systems that grind to a halt at the slightest thing, no one else in the world is still using that 80 odd year old system, they realised it was crap, so why are we still using it?.

I can't help but wonder why year after year we are like this, countries are laughing at us, nation full of lazy moaners.

"There's fuck all snow out there"

PMSL! no, you're right, there's nothing at all. Didn't have to dig my way out of the back door this morning, oh no no no.

The 'hundreds more than normal tyres' (or £500 per car according to AA) is probably for 'normal' tyre companies' version of winter tyres (i.e. Michelin or Pirelli winter tyres etc.). Specialist ones like Vredestein and Wintermaxx are nothing like that.

Our car is an Audi A3 so similar wheel size to lots of cars e.g. Golf, Focus, Astra etc. and Vredesteins were about £60 each and Wintermaxx (that we have) £45 each.

Obviously it does depend on the wheel size, we actually can't get them for our second car without changing wheels, so that's out of the question financially, and somebody with specialist tyre/wheel requirements will struggle, but for a lot of 'normal' wheel types they are not expensive.

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lollipop yes you just keep swopping the tyres until they wear down.

You're not supposed to keep winter tyres for longer than 10 yrs overall, but they'd probably wear before then anyway.

Not sure about speed limits kitten in general, ours don't, some might?

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I agree with the OP I love teh snow though and hope it stays at least a week!Then go please as i need to do xmas shopping

The reason we are not prepared for weather like this is that we very, very rarely get it. The last time we had snow like this was 47 years ago. That's outside my lifetime and the lifetime of many people posting on here.

The reason Scandinavian countries deal with it so well is because they regularly get weather like this and have the infrastructure to cope with it. We don't.

I can see how you might have problems understanding all this if you are a bit thick though.

onceamai I'm not talking about collective moaning.

I'm talking about the world coming to an end because of a couple of inches of snow, which has happened about 3 years on the trot now and idiots moaning about it.

As far as places like Scotland they get more snow anyway, no excuse if there councils are not prepared or the people for that matter.

I will enjoy my child labour socks perhaps the child needs to work and is the bread winner or paying for half the food the family needs per week?, but the fact that stopping child labour around the world will have a terrible effect on many poor families without raising the pay for adults or getting some kind of help for those who may be dependent on the child, that is another issue.

FFS, its not a couple of inches!

When I say about Scottish people not being prepared I mean like owning good winter coats and boots.

Oh I love it - seriously, seriously love it. We've tons of the stuff and I'm lucky because I don't need to worry about childcare if the schools are off but everytime I look out the window I grab my camera to take more pics - it's just so gorgeous.

Trudging into town taking the sledge to bring back the shopping. All the neighbours helping clear paths and doing shopping for the older folks. Sledging and snowmen. Everyone looking out for each other.

Lighten up everyone and enjoy it. There is sod all you can do about it so look on the bright side.

Did I say a 'bit' thick? I see I may have underestimated the OP by quite a big margin.

FFS it is a couple of inches what part of my original post did you not understand?, other then the part about "Seriously in London we get like 2 inches".

I see the idiots are out in force today.

Perhaps it's the weather?

Which part of "I am in South London and have two feet of snow" did you not understand then?

I wouldn't bother SoupDragon, I suspect OPs comprehension skills are somewhat limited.

Either that or she's on a monumental wind up.

Haven't read the whole thread but at the moment feel quite justified to moan about the snow! Ive just had a little boy at 32 weeks and he in a NICU 25 miles away which is the nearest actual hospital to us. I also have a 5.5 year old in school and actually trying to get through the snow to see him and then back to pick DS1 up from school is proving nearly impossible in this weather. We are in East Anglia and the snow here isn't even that bad but its bad enough to make driving difficult and I could really do without a car crash on top of everything else Ive been through the last 10 days!

So no I don't normally moan about the snow...but this time I am!

I am about to go and play in the deep small dusting of snow with my children. Right at the same spot where the gritting snow plough got stuck yesterday in what is, apparently, two inches of snow.

Hello hello. Are we confusing London and the South East? Here I am in North West Kent, only a few minutes from SE London. I have done the sensible things - got my winter tyres on at the start of the week, keeping a snow shovel in the car and I have coped fine until today - it would be reckless to try and get off my road. I have never seen such deep snow in all my life, and I lived in Russia for a year so I don't say that lightly.

Also, the roads were absolutely fouled by jacknifed lorries this week. It took DH 3 hours to get home from London on Tuesday, usually 30 min journey.

I think the council have been fine though, I have seen gritters and snowploughs, even in my wee village, but I don't expect them to do every single road and some people seem to think that if the snow is lying it means the road hasn't been gritted. It's not magic folks.

I think people have a right not moan when everything falls apart.

• Schools are closed;
• Roads not gritted;
• All theatres/cinemas/etc shut around here
• Airports and trains ground to a halt

It's the lack of organisation that makes everyone moan as everything has ground to a halt. I would love to know how you would get to work when kids are at home all week anyway!!!

I agree we don't get as much snow as Scandinavia etc, but I'm pretty sure it does snow in Britain every winter. There will be variations from year to year, but snow and ice do happen regularly every year. I've lived here nearly 30 years and it's snowed every winter as far back as I can remember. It's not some rare occurrence.

And every year we get this chaos, and every single year people say 'we couldn't be expected to prepare for it, it's not like it happens regularly...'.

And it's a top headline BREAKING NEWS story every year - snow in winter - like it's never happened before! I could understand the lack of preparation if we were talking about heavy snowfall in July, but November - February it shouldn't come as too much of a shock!

O little baby Jesus.

Get over it.

It's snow. It will melt.

These things will pass.

If you're wondering about the world supply of toilet roll, kitchen roll,and toilet duck. It's at my house.

I made several mistakes on the (repeat) Ocado order. I have bulk bought many times over and several times.

Please free to call in to purchase at cost.

But I do actually think that I have the entire stock of UK toilet paper at the moment.

Well I'm in the east midlands, not deepest scotland. Just measured 19 inches of snow outside front door

Warm coats, hats, gloves and wellies not much use if can't even open gate.

Have not seen a vehicle move in 2 days

No food in house, dh unable to get to work so losing money

Had to shovel our way out back door for dog to take a leak

Gritters and ploughs would be no use - it hasn't stopped snowing for 3 days.

I feel entitled to a bloody moan, actually, and you can bollocks, op.

I'm wondering how many people have actually read the news story that OhYouBadKitten linked to.

The snow is causing problems on the roads in countries much more accustomed to the snow than we are.

Yes we've had the odd scattering of snow most years - but nothing to write home about - rarely even enough to go and throw a snowball in.

And quite frankly I find your about child labour socks totally distasteful and extremely ignorant.

I think the state of the transport network it a big factor, also it's running at full or over-full capacity at rush hour at the best of times, so when there's even a slight delay to the trains, for example, there's a massive cumulative effect with lots of people not being able to get on their train, stations having to be closed due to overcrowding, more delays due congestion on the line...so even minor problems like a bit of snow tend to result in total chaos and huge delays.