Oh, just STOP WHINING.

[innerbrat]

I really want to take a self indulgent moment and use this space to complain about people complaining. Because I'm sick of it.

Firstly, although I worry it somehow marks me out as anti-British, I'm sick of people complaining about the weather; but I'm ESPECIALLY sick of people complaining about people complaining about the weather.

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[sdelmonte]

The thing about snow is that, from what I've seen in the US, any place that could get snow but only gets it on a sporadic basis will not know how to react. And will not know how to plan. And will panic. My mother tells me a story about how, when she went to Washington prior to memorial services for JFK in December 1963, there was a one inch snowstorm and the city shut down completely. She had a private tour of a museum because all the locals went home early. And Washington often gets the same blizzards New York does.

Beyond that, all I can do if quote Mark Twain's famous line about everyone liking to complain about the weather and no one doing anything about it.

Beyond that, and completely unrelated, we are plotting with Bing to meet her for dinner Sunday night.

[buongiornodaisy]

My mother tells me a story about how, when she went to Washington prior to memorial services for JFK in December 1963, there was a one inch snowstorm and the city shut down completely. She had a private tour of a museum because all the locals went home early. And Washington often gets the same blizzards New York does.

Over four decades later, it's still the same!

[furikku]

But you see accusations of racism hurt so much more because they are happening to me and not someone else!!!

[pmoodie]

I know how you feel. No-one can control the weather, or accurately predict it, but people have this basic need to blame someone for everything. They should learn to be more philosophical about these things.

A couple of thousand years ago, I'm sure the assumption would have been that the gods were angered, and a few social outcasts would have been burned alive in a wicker man. Now people tend to blame the council instead. I suppose that's progress, of a sort.

[e_mily]

Don't worry about the people complaining about the people complaining about the snow.

They're just jealous that you don't have it as often as they do.

Seriously, the cities that ARE prepared for snow like that, it's because they have it all the time. And the people bitching that live there only wish they didn't.

Portland's the same way, shuts down if the city sees so much as a fucking snowflake, cause they don't know how to handle it and I don't even know if the city HAS snowplows.

I think it's funny, but that doesn't mean I complain about the residents complaining. I just giggle at them.

re: "gollywog" -- Oh for christ's sake. *smacks someone with a newspaper* Stop being a dumbass and apologize.

[innerbrat]

Well, to be fair, racism is not homophobia and homophobia is not racism and I'm sure it's perfectly possible to have a friend with whom you're comfortable using words you wouldn't use with other people (I allow friends to call me 'dyke', because why the hell wouldn't I?).

But now I'm kind of stepping on your point >_>