St. Jimmy Posted November 29, 2006 Share Posted November 29, 2006 I've always wondered why just milk and bread? I'd be out there buying coffee and Diet Pepsi, too. Reminds me of a story from when we lived for a year in SE Texas on the Gulf Coast.... That's whack. Milk and bread? Why? You'd think you'd get other stuff as well... You know what we buy constantly? Water. Big 45 litre bottles of water. Australia is in one of it's biggest droughts ever and our rainwater tank ran out the other week. Now we buy water. The drought has got so bad, that in NSW alone, every day, a farmer suicides. Everyone's water is running out. Even Sydney's (although, most of the Sydney-siders are completely oblivious to this.) So yeah, it seems odd that people rush to buy bread and milk when we have to constantly buy big bottles of just plain water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTV2 Posted November 30, 2006 Share Posted November 30, 2006 man, all of like Hope, Surrey, W. Van, N. Van, Private Schools, colleges/universities were closed except the Delta District (my school). And this is what it looked like outside my front door: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth333 Posted November 30, 2006 Share Posted November 30, 2006 You know what we buy constantly? Water. Big 45 litre bottles of water. Australia is in one of it's biggest droughts ever and our rainwater tank ran out the other week. Now we buy water. The drought has got so bad, that in NSW alone, every day, a farmer suicides. Everyone's water is running out. Even Sydney's (although, most of the Sydney-siders are completely oblivious to this.) So yeah, it seems odd that people rush to buy bread and milk when we have to constantly buy big bottles of just plain water. This makes me remember my last trip to the Artic (I have strange business trip destinations) when the village's water truck had a mechanical failure and the plane couldn't bring in the replacement part due to bad weather...there's no road access and it's fly by sight over there, so we ended up running out of water in no time. We were 15 people in the 7 room "hotel" -( "hotel" is a polite word for a "multi room shack" costing as much as a 5* in a big city - one member of our team ended up sleeping in the broom closet...and this is for real! - note that I saw one person ending up sleeping in the septic tank room once for 4 days at $250/night + tax because the plane couldn't land...so it could have been worse ) with only three bathrooms and one kitchen (you have to do it all by yourself including washing the dishes)...ugh! Just imagine the mess of having no water...One gallon of water sells $10 over there...luckily that time the (freezing) sea was less than a 100 feet away!...at least during winter you can melt the snow...it came in handy quite a few times! Another reason to love winter! We had a blizzard over there once, it was so bad that we couldn't see the wall of a building 10 feet ahead of us. I took a picture to show my family how incredible it was but since it was litterally all white, the people who develop the film thought it was a technical failure and they discarded the pic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jae Onasi Posted November 30, 2006 Share Posted November 30, 2006 ^^^ That's one seriously cool snowstorm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JediMaster12 Posted November 30, 2006 Share Posted November 30, 2006 Yes it is. The only time I saw snow was when I was in Chicago for a year. Here in southern California, winter blesses us with rain and windstorms to follow. You'd be lucky if it didn't knock you over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSI Posted November 30, 2006 Share Posted November 30, 2006 The reason doesn't really matter to me, but however, eh, like Pottsie, Fall and Spring are my fav season, and Summer is second, Winter is last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabish Bini Posted November 30, 2006 Share Posted November 30, 2006 Holy crap, 52 degree's!!! No freakin way i would survive! That's just ... Argh!!! weather. And no, cant really win with the weather in Aussie can ya lol. But least in summer, you can crack out the barbie and have mates around watchin cricket ... (Ahhh ... Awesome days! lol) But thats the only good thing about summer to me. Don't forget the beach! R you watching the Ashes? Awesome. Go Aussie. The highest temperature we've had in Melbourne is about 47 degrees. *I don't like really cold days* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Char Ell Posted November 30, 2006 Share Posted November 30, 2006 <---- Stuck in Phoenix Arizona. We don't have winter. Isn't that why we live here? Of course Phoenix doesn't experience winter the same as Wisconsin, Michigan, Tennessee, or Canada but I like winter just fine where I live. One of the reasons I like winter is because my PC runs so much cooler. It's 17.2 degrees C in my house right now and my CPU only reached 42 degrees C when playing KotOR. Usually it runs closer to 50 degrees C. Yeah, I've got this weird fixation on running a cool computer. {shrugs} We were 15 people in the 7 room "hotel" -( "hotel" is a polite word for a "multi room shack" costing as much as a 5* in a big city - one member of our team ended up sleeping in the broom closet...and this is for real! {snip} Another reason to love winter! Wow! I remember you saying you traveled to the Arctic for work sometimes but I didn't know it was under those kind of conditions. I have newfound respect for you now, D3. Reminds me of a recent situation where we had an employee that put in a request for a hotel in Alaska he could stay at while he made repairs on a radio installation. When our travel desk found out the best accommodations available were a shared shack with a sleeping bag and a common outhouse/bathroom located in a different building from his sleeping quarters the employee decided he didn't really have to travel to Alaska after all, heh-heh-heh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukeiamyourdad Posted November 30, 2006 Share Posted November 30, 2006 Winter's cool. I only whine about the lack of sunlight, but other then that it's quite fun over here in Québec, especially if you like skiing. Though I must say that sometimes it's hell, especially in January and early February. The wind can sometimes burn your face and rip it off. Things are quite odd it seems. Montréal has yet to see any kind of snow, yet Vancouver, where snow is supposed to be more rare, is already under a huge white veil. It was actually 17°C here today! This is the result of supporting Rona Ambrose.[/end political comment] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jae Onasi Posted November 30, 2006 Share Posted November 30, 2006 We're about ready to get nailed with about 10 inches of snow tonight and tomorrow. I have to go buy some milk and bread. Really, I'm out of milk, and we need more bread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JediMaster12 Posted November 30, 2006 Share Posted November 30, 2006 This week we are getting nailed by 45mph winds and next week more rain. Flying tree branches here we come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimartin Posted November 30, 2006 Share Posted November 30, 2006 I have to go buy some milk and bread. Now, that is funny. Jimbo is lucky; every woman I know would send the man. My mother called and wants me to come over and pick the lemons and oranges off their trees. She couldn't have asked yesterday when the temperature was in the 80's. Now the temp is 40, but with the 17 mph wind it feels more like 31. I wish I would of been smart enough to have taken a coat to work with me this morning (but it was 70). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emperor Devon Posted November 30, 2006 Share Posted November 30, 2006 We're about ready to get nailed with about 10 inches of snow tonight and tomorrow. You Midwesterners are so spoiled. Really, I'm out of milk, and we need more bread. Why just milk and bread, though? Do you intend to live off it for several days? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jae Onasi Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 You Midwesterners are so spoiled. Why just milk and bread, though? Do you intend to live off it for several days? We have enough turkey to last us into the next millenium. And I have a stockpile of canned goods and a freezer full of meat and other items. We're good except for the milk and bread (and maybe toilet paper) for oh, about a decade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samnmax221 Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 We have enough turkey to last us into the next millenium. And I have a stockpile of canned goods and a freezer full of meat and other items. We're good except for the milk and bread (and maybe toilet paper) for oh, about a decade. WHHAATTTT?!?! I was through my share of the Thanksgiving leftovers the next day. Next year we spring for 30 pounder, no more of this 20 pound nonsense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Q Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 I voted indifferent, because I don't like or dislike winter any more than any other season. Things I like about winter: Christmas! Getting together with family for the only time all year is great! Sledding. I can't ski worth a crap, but the road that I live on winds down around a mountainside and totally freezes over every few years, and I hit it on the ol' Flexible Flyer. It's like a bobsled run. Really. Dangerous and stupid, yeah (trees, telephone poles and the occasional car). But damn, it's fun! Frozen, abandoned parking lots. If you haven't done donuts on an icy parking lot, then you haven't lived -w00t! Homemade hot chocolate. It's like drinking a Hershey bar, but now with Kahlua! Things I don't like about winter: Christmas! The blatant commercialism gets tiring fast. Like already. As does the music. I've had to learn to focus on the good parts of Christmas and try to tune out the bad. The cold. I was raised in northeastern Indiana, so I was used to winter until I lived down here for a few years. It seems to take my blood a lot longer to thicken up now and going back up to Indiana for Christmas just about freezes me to death. I wear lots of layers, including long underwear that's made of silk. It helps a lot. @Jae: They do the whole run-on-the-stores-panic-thing here, too. I don't get it. If I got snowed in and ran out of food, I'd just go out and shoot Bambi. I get the feeling that a lot of other people around where I live would do the same. There's plenty of free food around here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RC-1162 Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 i love winter. and you would too, if you were in this cesspool in summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SithRevan Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 I agree with RC-1162, I absolutly LOVE winter! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HerbieZ Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 WE need some snow, send it over here. I love snow, love it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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lukeiamyourdad Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 Icy rain yesterday here in Montréal. My house didn't have electricity from roughly 3:00pm yesterday to late afternoon today. Since we use electricity for heating... :S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hallucination Posted December 3, 2006 Author Share Posted December 3, 2006 Icy rain yesterday here in Montréal. My house didn't have electricity from roughly 3:00pm yesterday to late afternoon today. Since we use electricity for heating... :S You make me feel glad to have a gas furnace and a wood-stove. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaelastraz Posted December 3, 2006 Share Posted December 3, 2006 I like Winter... unfortunately we still don't have any snow here. Ah damn that global warming... I can remember, when I was a little boy there was a lot of snow by now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander Obi-Wan Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 You make me feel glad to have a gas furnace and a wood-stove. Same here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RC-1162 Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 of course winter does have its disadvantages. does anyone else get that early morning shock when they sit down on the toilet seat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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