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10 hours ago, CryoraptorA303 said:
@Summer8906 I think you explain the reason in your own post. Christmas has become overcommercialised and every year all the major chains are in an increasingly tight race to get people to do their Christmas shopping at their store by reminding them that it's Christmas "soon" before anyone else. The end result is the situation we're in now: People doing all their Christmas shopping in October before even Halloween, Christmas songs from early November and by the time Christmas is actually here, everyone is already sick of it. I notice people being less and less excited about Christmas every year and this year in particular there seems to have been a huge amount of fatigue.
We're now at the point where after Christmas day, it's a relief that it's over and we all want to hurredly move on to the New Year. When I was little we left the Christmas decorations up for at least a few days before getting around to taking it down, usually it was NYE or NYD, but now we take it down on Boxing Day because we're just sick of it.
Hopefully the fatigue is close to reaching a tipping point and over the next couple of Christmases we see the commercialisation and advertising scaled back a bit. I want to enjoy Christmas but working in retail it just ends up being a stressful time for me and I find myself relieved that it's over, sadly.
I've said the same, Christmas is pushed at you from October onwards by the Supermarkets, and come end of trading on Christmas eve, they are tearing down the decorations. It just underlines what a over commercialised money making racket the whole things become.
Stuff they would have charged you full whack for 3 days ago, they'll virtually give you today because they want rid of it to make way for the Easter eggs.
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Cloudy, and wet here this morning. Went shopping, and was glad to get home. It might have been 13 degrees, but I'd have swapped that for 3 degrees, and sunny any day of the week.
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8 hours ago, Weather Enthusiast91 said:
It seems that year after year nowadays we are breaking mild records during the autumn and winter seasons. I find this to be the case particularly around Christmas and New Years day. And surprise, surprise (not), Christmas this year is looking to be yet another mild one.
I don't expect a constant winter wonderland, but even just average winter temps (around 6 Celsius) is becoming increasingly hard to come by as well as frost which used to almost be a guarantee. Never mind snow chasing, I think we will soon be frost chasing.
2023 has been a poor year for seasonal weather.
Tend to agree, at nearly 64 years old I can count the number of white Christmases on the fingers of one hand, and severe /memerable winters on two That must tell you something.
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40 minutes ago, Methuselah said:
But I couldn't -- my laptop wasn't working. . .
Welcome back Pete, thought you'd gone a bit quiet lately
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38 minutes ago, johncam said:
Looking the same for the foreseeable , see the GEM getting a mention again in the MOD thread
Must admit I don't comment in there, I don't really know enough about it to make any meaningful contributions. However there are some really knowledgeable people in there, and I take my hat off to them. But after being in here for the best part of 10 years, even I know that when models such as that are being wheeled out things are looking pretty c,,p
A week or two of dryish weather would do me fine, cold, or warm, I'm not fussed.
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Another day, and yet more wind and rain. It's about as much use as a plasticine walking stick.
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Boxing Day 1970, we had about 6 inches of snow. New Years Eve 1978 was a cracker. A howling E/NE wind blowing a blizzard.
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Not too bothered about snow, just want it to dry up for a bit ,cold and seasonal would be nice, but as it is , I think I'd take anything at the moment.
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Another six weeks of this cr,,p,!! can't wait.
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Cold and sunny for me , I just completely detest the rain , we get more than our fair share of the rubbish down here in Somerset.
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In precisely 2 years time, I shall be approaching my 66th birthday, H M G will then condecend to let me have the old age pension that I've paid into for 50 years, and I shan't have to worry about trying to earn a living outdoors in this sh,,,, te climate any longer.
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10 minutes ago, TillyS said:Just in case you need a pick up from the despondency, here’s Darren Bett with the Europe-wide temperature anomaly chart:
Yes it may well turn milder for a time next week but this is a properly cold opening to winter.
If the next slide shows him kicking the office cat, we'll know we're on to a winner.
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7 minutes ago, kold weather said:
Autumn 23 now looks almost certain to go down as a very wet, already close to the top 30 wettest.
It does look drier for the final part of Novber for now which will probably be enough to prevent a top 10 finish, but a top 10% finish seems pretty close to certain now.
I could provide a more colourful description of it.
Trouble is, the swear filter would probably go into overdrive, and I would be banned for life
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Another day, and yet another dose of nope - still swearingin rain, it really is starting to become tedious now.
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1 minute ago, Dark Horse said:
I thought you was only in your early-mid 40s going off your username
Chance would be a fine thing,
It refers to the winter which I had the pleasure of freezing my bo.....cks off in as a Bricklayers Apprentice.
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11 minutes ago, snowrye said:
I will admit, I'm 1 of those people that you see, wearing shorts when it's snowing etc
We're all different, I can remember having to wear them to Primary School in the mid 60's Winter , and Summer . My legs used to be bl....dy freezing cold . Put me off them for life , it has to be roasting for me to get into a pair.
Saying that, I've spent most of my 47 years of working life in the Building Trade,so you could say I'm pretty hardened to it now
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22 minutes ago, snowrye said:
8c is not cold, take another 6c off that, and then it's chilly
All very subjective ,when you hit 63, and take blood thinners, 8 degrees can feel a tad nippy. As for shorts, not a chance.
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After suffering rainfall of biblical proportions, should we get by some miracle , a few dry months next year. I hope to God we don't have to listen to some clown droning on about water shortages.
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12 minutes ago, Wivenswold said:
Don't forget to ask the school whether they will provide transport home if you consider it too dangerous to pick them up. But if you wake up and the advice in your area is to stay indoors, I'd send a terse email to the school telling them that they're your children and you decide whether it's safe enough for them to go out. Some schools treat their customers appallingly but tend to back down if you threaten legal action, few of them can afford legal fees.
I'm glad mine are grown up, there doesn't seem to be a great deal of common sense coming out of the mouths of some of these teachers these days. I can remember taking my two out of school for a holiday in the mid 90s for example, nobody batted an eyelid.
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2 minutes ago, Saint coolio said:
anyone else with headache/sinus issues ahead of rapidly dropping pressure?
or is it just me imagining it?
No, I suffer with it as well, Low pressure equals misery in that respect.
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Just listened to Ian Fergusson on our local weather. He's made up my mind , dentist is being cancelled for Thursday .
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Must admit that this poxy rain is seriously starting to hack me off now, not just regarding work, but generally.
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1 hour ago, mike57 said:
Woodburner lit in the evenings currently, we always start by burning the tatty 'small' wood at this time of year and save the proper logs for when we need a 24hr a day burn. Wood sheds have enough seasoned wood stacked to last the winter, and the good thing, it's only cost me sweat and effort and a bit of electric to gather it cut it and split it. Apart from cost the other advantage is that if we are cold we don't feel guilty about having a hotter fire.
Same here, I'm currently just burning odds, and ends. I reckon I've gathered enough to keep us going until after Christmas. If we get a few dry days, I'll probably get out and about in the van and see what's about. A full load on top will probably see us through. Got some Hawthorn that I'm keeping back for when it gets colder.
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19 hours ago, Jimmyh said:
I doubt I will ever forget that chart I was on work experience in Croydon. The old slam door trains. It got stuck and the points froze wow so cold
We were building some houses at the time. I can remember it being so cold that diesel froze in the tanks of the firms 7.5 ton lorries. The coldest I have ever been was in early Jan 82,we were working near Bristol, and could only stand it for about half an hour at a time, and then we had to go inside and warm up.
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Sounds like you had a good one Pete, we spent ours with the Grand Children. Nice to see them enjoying themselves.
Sounds good re the possible change in the weather, just to have it dry would be a blessing.