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Advice: Prolonged periods of cold weather can be dangerous, especially for the very young, very old or those with chronic diseases.

If you want more information about how cold weather can affect your health please visit www.nhs.uk. If you are concerned about your health or somebody you care for, please contact NHS Direct on 0845 4647, www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk or your local pharmacist.



Hmmm. Thank God for that advice, otherwise those tens off millions that read the UKMO web site would have died......... Do these F&^%$ing idiots realise how ridiculous they sound?

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Lawrence13 wrote:
Advice: Prolonged periods of cold weather can be dangerous, especially for the very young, very old or those with chronic diseases.

If you want more information about how cold weather can affect your health please visit www.nhs.uk. If you are concerned about your health or somebody you care for, please contact NHS Direct on 0845 4647, www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk or your local pharmacist.



Hmmm. Thank God for that advice, otherwise those tens off millions that read the UKMO web site would have died......... Do these F&^%$ing idiots realise how ridiculous they sound?
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I think they got muddled up with the cold and "a cold" !!!
Dave

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On Wed, 05 Dec 2012 01:32:24 +0000, Dave Cornwell
wrote:

Lawrence13 wrote:
Advice: Prolonged periods of cold weather can be dangerous, especially for the very young, very old or those with chronic diseases.

If you want more information about how cold weather can affect your health please visit www.nhs.uk. If you are concerned about your health or somebody you care for, please contact NHS Direct on 0845 4647, www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk or your local pharmacist.



Hmmm. Thank God for that advice, otherwise those tens off millions that read the UKMO web site would have died......... Do these F&^%$ing idiots realise how ridiculous they sound?
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I think they got muddled up with the cold and "a cold" !!!
Dave

Reminds me of yesterday late afternoon on Radio 5 Live, 4:30 I think.
Louise Minchin read out the areas covered by "a series of yellow
alerts for tonight" and when she finishes, Peter Allen chips in.

"What's a yellow alert?" asks he.

"I don't really know" replies Louise.

"Perhaps we should find out then" reples Peter.

Understatement of the year! :D

--
Dave
Fareham

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Sv

On Wednesday, 5 December 2012 13:04:32 UTC+13, Lawrence13 wrote:
Advice: Prolonged periods of cold weather can be dangerous, especially for the very young, very old or those with chronic diseases. If you want more information about how cold weather can affect your health please visit www..nhs.uk. If you are concerned about your health or somebody you care for, please contact NHS Direct on 0845 4647, www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk or your local pharmacist. Hmmm. Thank God for that advice, otherwise those tens off millions that read the UKMO web site would have died......... Do these F&^%$ing idiots realise how ridiculous they sound?

Scoiffing doesn't change the fact that there those who need no warnings about virtually anything; and those who are so stupid that no warniong is quite sufficient. I have no problem with this, or the derided warnings in these threads. Over here idiots regularly get into trouble on the water or in the bush and mountains, breaking every commonsense rule along the way.

I cannot understand how anyone can get so worked up about a warning - for pity's sake worry about things that matter. Life's too short ...

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"Lawrence13" wrote in message
...
Advice: Prolonged periods of cold weather can be dangerous, especially for
the very young, very old or those with chronic diseases.

If you want more information about how cold weather can affect your health
please visit www.nhs.uk. If you are concerned about your health or
somebody you care for, please contact NHS Direct on 0845 4647,
www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk or your local pharmacist.



Hmmm. Thank God for that advice, otherwise those tens off millions that
read the UKMO web site would have died......... Do these F&^%$ing idiots
realise how ridiculous they sound?


Ah but the UKMO get a lot of money from the health budget, "health" is
turning into quite a business and money earner for the Met Office.

Will
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On Tue, 4 Dec 2012 21:56:47 -0800 (PST), wrote:

Scoiffing doesn't change the fact that there those who need no warnings
about virtually anything; and those who are so stupid that no warniong
is quite sufficient. I have no problem with this, or the derided
warnings in these threads.

Provided the warnings are accurate... They warned us about a couple of inches
of snow earlier in the week, it rained. The week before not a peep when we
got an inch of the stuff, that lightly thawed then froze into sheet ice...

Over here idiots regularly get into trouble on the water or in the bush
and mountains, breaking every commonsense rule along the way.

We have those as well, go walking up onto the fells in trainers, shorts and T
shirt and no map.

I cannot understand how anyone can get so worked up about a warning -
for pity's sake worry about things that matter. Life's too short ...

This is true, I take the warnings with a large pinch of salt as most of the
time they are not much more than a "heads up".

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

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In article ,
Lawrence13 writes:
Advice: Prolonged periods of cold weather can be dangerous,
especially for the very young, very old or those with chronic
diseases.

If you want more information about how cold weather can affect
your health please visit www.nhs.uk. If you are concerned about
your health or somebody you care for, please contact NHS Direct
on 0845 4647, www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk or your local pharmacist.



Hmmm. Thank God for that advice, otherwise those tens off
millions that read the UKMO web site would have died......... Do
these F&^%$ing idiots realise how ridiculous they sound?

I suspect that the blame should go to the NHS, who presumably wanted
that to be included, rather than to the Met Office.
--
John Hall

"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."
Oscar Wilde

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"John Hall" wrote in message
...
In article ,
Lawrence13 writes:
Advice: Prolonged periods of cold weather can be dangerous,
especially for the very young, very old or those with chronic
diseases.

If you want more information about how cold weather can affect
your health please visit www.nhs.uk. If you are concerned about
your health or somebody you care for, please contact NHS Direct
on 0845 4647, www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk or your local pharmacist.



Hmmm. Thank God for that advice, otherwise those tens off
millions that read the UKMO web site would have died......... Do
these F&^%$ing idiots realise how ridiculous they sound?

I suspect that the blame should go to the NHS, who presumably wanted
that to be included, rather than to the Met Office.

Yes indeed. The MetO gets mucho dosh from the NHS and they do what the
customer wants.
It's all about money nowadays in the MetO :-(

Will
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On Wed, 5 Dec 2012 10:32:22 -0000
"Eskimo Will" wrote:

Yes indeed. The MetO gets mucho dosh from the NHS and they do what
the customer wants.
It's all about money nowadays in the MetO :-(

Anyone would think that the Met Office never used to charge for
information. Forty-odd years ago, my hourly - and minimum - charge for a
face-to-face briefing was £40; minimum charge for raising a bill for
other enquiries was £5. At the time, I wished the money went to the Met
Office instead of completely bypassing it.

Commercial dealings by the Office were, at that time, a bit of a
shambles. A large oil company was quoted a million pounds for a
contract by one section of the Office so they went to another branch
and got it for half-a-million.

--
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks.
Time flies like an arrow but fruit flies like a banana. [Marx]

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On 5 Dec, 07:52, "Eskimo Will" wrote:

Ah but the UKMO get a lot of money from the health budget, "health" is
turning into quite a business and money earner for the Met Office.

Will
--
So few tears will be shed if this afternoon Osborne announces that
health funding and hence funding for these alerts is cut?