The Mail versus Snow

Tom_UK · **Joined:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:14 pm **Posts:** 3168

This prick's comment is pretty typical:

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Double whammy for the warmists. Lots of cold weather and snow and according to your article millions will be jetting off. God forbid us proles are fed up with 'global warming' and therefore are flying away to warmer climes. How dare us proles fly anywhere; that is only for the rich and the warmists.

- KJC, UK stuff the EU, 15/12/2010 11:05

Where did they get this stupid word 'warmist' from? Surely some who '-ist' is prejudiced against something; racist, sexist, etc. So a 'warmist' would just be someone who is anti-warmth. Turn those radiators down!

The comments also have an interesting sideshow - some woman in Newcastle boasting about her 4x4 :lol:

Timbo · **Posted:** Wed Dec 15, 2010 2:56 pm

I absolutely HATE when people refer to cold weather as 'treacherous'. It is impossible for weather to be conspiratorial, deliberately deceitful or have a hidden agenda. Hang on, those traits are starting to sound familiar...

bluebellnutter · **Posted:** Wed Dec 15, 2010 4:40 pm

Are "warmists" people who are prejudiced against heat?

Bisyss · **Joined:** Tue Feb 12, 2008 4:55 pm **Posts:** 534

Average warmist, pictured yesterday.

Paul · **Posted:** Wed Dec 15, 2010 5:11 pm

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7319

Paul wrote:

He won't be so brave when he sees the boys in blue with their petrol filled water cannons.

Mr Mordon · **Posted:** Wed Dec 15, 2010 8:37 pm

Timbo wrote:

I absolutely HATE when people refer to cold weather as 'treacherous'. It is impossible for weather to be conspiratorial, deliberately deceitful or have a hidden agenda. Hang on, those traits are starting to sound familiar...

Never looked at it that way.

There may be a reason for the use of such a word however. According to Dantes Inferno, the final circle of hell, treachery, is a freezing, ice covered realm.

AOB · **Posted:** Thu Dec 16, 2010 1:40 pm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... cklog.html

Millions of online presents stranded as snow and ice cause huge backlog... and the weather's getting WORSE

Capitals again at the end of the sentence? Anyway, this really is the Mail Versus Snow because the weather is consciously and deliberately preventing presents from getting delivered. Front page news this!!!

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Families are facing a Christmas of disappointment, with millions of gifts bought via the internet not arriving in time, warn experts.

They forgot "middle-class" before it.

Tom_UK · **Joined:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:14 pm **Posts:** 3168

As usual the single and the childless are obviously going to be okay. Those poor families though. :cry:

SoulBoy · **Joined:** Fri Oct 08, 2010 1:42 pm **Posts:** 1622

AOB wrote:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1338960/Millions-online-presents-stranded-snow-ice-cause-backlog.html

Millions of online presents stranded as snow and ice cause huge backlog... and the weather's getting WORSE

Capitals again at the end of the sentence? Anyway, this really is the Mail Versus Snow because the weather is consciously and deliberately preventing presents from getting delivered. Front page news this!!!

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Families are facing a Christmas of disappointment, with millions of gifts bought via the internet not arriving in time, warn experts.

They forgot "middle-class" before it.

Looks like the middle classes are safe at the moment, limited to the impoverished Dole slums of the North for now. We can only pray that the good citizens of the Home Counties get their Ocado deliveries through in time.

horacegoesskiing · **Posted:** Tue Dec 21, 2010 9:15 pm

Thousands of passengers stranded as power failure closes East Coast Main Line 'indefinitely'

The amount of shite that's been submitted, even with just 68 comments so far, is staggering. Look at it all! It's all the Government's fault/ get steam engines to replace those namby pamby modern electric ones/ "third world country"/ greedy Labour councils and their highest taxes in the world. This is my favourite:

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I don't believe tha it has been said here, but the problem is not the train operators on the KX - Petreborough problems. It is National Rail, wholly owned by us following the Railtrack debacle. Further problem is National Rail either will not, or cannot plan ahead and introduce reliable technology. Why? Because its engineers are usually ignored by its contracting and procurement departments, and related politicians, very similar to the Ministry of Defence, actually. All politicised civil service based.

Then we have East Coast itself. Handed back to the government becasue civil servants would not negotiate with the previous private franchis holder. Now run by civil servants.

To say that all of this was a disaster in waiting would be an understatement. But it was a disaster created, honed and delivered in Whitehall by 13 years of Labour misdirection of funds.

- Tom, Bedfordshire, 21/12/2010 17:30

That's right... it's not the bad weather... it's the civil servants whodunnit!

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Tue Dec 21, 2010 9:23 pm

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Damage to overhead lines can happen at any time of year so why are they still used. Has a nuclear powered train been thought of, or should we go back to steam trains.

- A tax-payer, England as was not EU

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And who caused the demise of Steam,and,our respectable rail !!!

- derek, Huntingdon England

Proper, advanced wingnuttery.

Now, I don't really know about this, but surely when you have an electric multiple unit you can't just nail a diesel loco on the front and zoom off with a jolly peep on your whistle. Don't you have to be able to connect brakes, train heating, lighting and so on? Is that even possible with a Pendalino and a Class 47 or whatever?
And it must be even worse if you are sending something out from the National Railway Museum...

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7319

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And who caused the demise of Steam,and,our respectable rail !!!

- derek, Huntingdon England

OOh sir, I think I know this one.
McBroon from the ZanuLiebore posse..

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Tue Dec 21, 2010 9:31 pm

Bones McCoy wrote:

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And who caused the demise of Steam,and,our respectable rail !!!

- derek, Huntingdon England

OOh sir, I think I know this one.
McBroon from the ZanuLiebore posse..

Nope. Try again.
Hint: Conservative, resigned over Christine Keeler...

horacegoesskiing · **Posted:** Tue Dec 21, 2010 10:01 pm

Malcolm Armsteen wrote:

Now, I don't really know about this, but surely when you have an electric multiple unit you can't just nail a diesel loco on the front and zoom off with a jolly peep on your whistle. Don't you have to be able to connect brakes, train heating, lighting and so on? Is that even possible with a Pendalino and a Class 47 or whatever?

Yup, it's not only possible, Virgin has got a stock of Class 57s (basically rebuilt Class 47s) which have got the appropriate couplings on them to enable them to haul their Pendolinos and Super Voyagers. I think they use them to haul Pendolinos to Holyhead where the network hasn't been electrified as well as to 'rescue' broken down trains. I like the way the locos have got 'Thunderbirds' written on them on the side and have christened them with names like 'Virgil Tracy', 'Brains' etc.

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