.... that's what this winter (which hasn't finished yet) is ....
allegedly (BBC News). The hype may be though .....

Martin.

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Martin Rowley
West Moors, East Dorset (UK): 17m (56ft) amsl
Lat: 50.82N Long: 01.88W
NGR: SU 082 023

In article ,
Martin Rowley writes:
... that's what this winter (which hasn't finished yet) is ....
allegedly (BBC News). The hype may be though .....


Yes, I noticed that some council bigwig was claiming that when
interviewed by the BBC. He looked old enough to remember 1962-3, so
should have known better.
--
John Hall
"Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people
from coughing."
Sir Ralph Richardson (1902-83)

John Hall wrote:

Yes, I noticed that some council bigwig was claiming that when
interviewed by the BBC. He looked old enough to remember 1962-3, so
should have known better.

Yes - I muttered under my breath "You mean rare, not unprecedented -
just say rare.".

Everyone wants to blame someone, because it's harder than normal to get
about. People should just HTFU and deal with it. It's not anyone's fault
- sometimes **** happens.

--
Chris
Swaffham, Norfolk

"Chris Smith" wrote in message
...
John Hall wrote:

Yes, I noticed that some council bigwig was claiming that when
interviewed by the BBC. He looked old enough to remember 1962-3, so
should have known better.

Yes - I muttered under my breath "You mean rare, not unprecedented - just
say rare.".

Everyone wants to blame someone, because it's harder than normal to get
about. People should just HTFU and deal with it. It's not anyone's fault -
sometimes **** happens.

Especially with incontinence

Lawrence Jenkins wrote:
Especially with incontinence


And we all get to find out the awful truth one day!

Something to look forward to.

In article ,
Alex Stephens Jr writes:
snip
However, there is a slim chance that it may well be turn out to be
unprecidented around here anyway... If the rest of the winter has an average
temperature of +1.0ºC or lower it will be the coldest, in this area at
least, since the 19th Century.

Pedant that I am, I can't resist pointing out that if it's happened
before, even if it was over a hundred years ago, it's still not
unprecedented.
--
John Hall
"Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people
from coughing."
Sir Ralph Richardson (1902-83)

"John Hall" wrote in message
Pedant that I am, I can't resist pointing out that if it's happened
before, even if it was over a hundred years ago, it's still not
unprecedented.
--
John Hall
"Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people
from coughing."
Sir Ralph Richardson (1902-83)

Well, I'm sure it was pretty cold durning some of those ice ages, it may
have happened more than a billion times before to be ultra pedantic.

On Sat, 9 Jan 2010 20:06:28 -0000, "Martin Rowley"
wrote:

... that's what this winter (which hasn't finished yet) is ....
allegedly (BBC News). The hype may be though .....

BBC have not had any calls and are repeating this approach!

R 2221hrs

On Sat, 9 Jan 2010 21:24:49 -0000, Alex Stephens Jr wrote:

Pedant that I am, I can't resist pointing out that if it's
happened
before, even if it was over a hundred years ago, it's still not
unprecedented.

Well, I'm sure it was pretty cold durning some of those ice ages, it may
have happened more than a billion times before to be ultra pedantic.

Precisely the term needs a qualifier. Unprecidented in the last 10
years, 50 years, since records began the otherwise it is meaningless
journalistic hype.

--
Cheers Dave.
Nr Garrigill, Cumbria. 421m ASL.

On Jan 9, 8:06*pm, "Martin Rowley"
wrote:
... that's what this winter (which hasn't finished yet) is ....
allegedly (BBC News). The hype may be though .....

Martin.

--
Martin Rowley
West Moors, East Dorset (UK): 17m (56ft) amsl
Lat: 50.82N * Long: 01.88W
NGR: SU 082 023

Yes "unprecedented" is a bit OTT, though there is the chance that it
could be the coldest since 1979, which is quite a while back. Or it
could just be the coldest since 1985 or 1987, or even, if late January/
February are very mild, only 1995/96. We'll see I guess...

Nick