/brit/ snow thread #1

Any other bongs got a day off work because of the snow?
I'm in Edinburgh. Everything's completely shut down.

What you going to do with your free day off?

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Started paternity leave on Monday. My daughter has only ever known snow. So quite happy to sit around and help the wife in this weather.

I strained my lower back while at the gym so I’m fucked for 2 weeks, the shutposting is what keeps me going

>Brits only got one day off work

I got yesterday, today and tomorrow off at the least. Naturally I'm here shitposting.

There's snow in france too today but since I live next to my workplace I still get to work. yay!

Question...How much snow accumulation does it take to shutdown the UK?

0.5lP

You do not have snow in your miniafrica?
What's all the fuss is about? Ineffective snow cleaning?

please send help we are drowning in snow up here, sorry for calling you pakis

London Overground works fine. Thanks blessed TFL, good thing I don't have to rely on a fucking clown shoes company like South Eastern. I'll still leave work early just in case.

You goys shutdown an entire country over a few flakes? No wonder Muhammed is fucking your daughters.

Your life sounds comfy Commonwealth bro.

No unfortunately my school is still open. FML

Not that many pakis in Scotland, mutt.

Working from home today but they're not sending me any work. I've spent the day so far shitposting occasionally leaning over to wiggle the mouse on the work laptop.

technically i had yesterday off too.
Spent two hours getting to work (i work at a train station), which was an ordeal. arrived, to be told that they where shutting everything down and i should just go home. right, no bother.
Had to wait an hour for a bus home, bus got half way before traffic came to a complete standstill. Looked like the snow had stopped so i decided i'd get off the bus and walk the remaining 2 miles home.

>Driver, let me off. I'm going to walk it.
>you sure mate?
>Ye, let me off, i know what i'm doing
>ok

about 2 seconds after i step off the bus a literal gale force blizzard starts. i couldn't even see. was too embarrassed to get back on the bus after making a scene to get off so i just kept going. I looked like i had just crossed antartica solo by the time i got home. Beard covered in snow and ice, iced eyebrows, frozen snot hanging from my nose. Absolute state.
what a day.

at least we actually have public infrastructure to shut down.

Jocks aren't British.

the south-west is about to get smashed today and tomorow

Called in to work, only one person has turned up our department, and only 4 to the one that usually has something like 20.

In London. Minimal snow here. Hoping for lots today and tomorrow so that everything gets shut down and we can have a real snow day.

Work in a special needs school, residential kids means I got to go in regardless. There's like barely any students and I've been transferred to the supreme retards class.
Life is pain, i want to go back to the grand autismos I normally work with.

Don't have a job to go anyway LOL

>snow
>everything's shut down
Britcucks.

>works with special needs kids
>comes here

Something of a busmans holiday

Ireland here. Got the day off as well. Hopefully this is continent wide. A little cold is worth it to get rid of refugees.

I agree, Sup Forums is why I got this job

kek

>When you live in such a blasted windwept hellscape so you don't even get a day off when it snows
Hows the third world?

In St. Andrews, Fife. Not much better here desu.

Took me 3h to get to work yesterday, still nothing canceled.

>South East
>Seaside town

Absolutely freezing and snowed in lads.

Good practice for the upcoming war with Russia though eh

Also in the red zone near Glasgow. Is this punishment for the Central Belt?

> -1
> Freezing

2 days off even here in northen Italy at university

Friend of mine is supposed to be coming over from Ireland for the weekend but I think her flight's gonna get cancelled lads

Sven what temperature does water freeze at?

>Friend from England says there're 10cm of snow there
>schools closed
>facilities stop working
>Uber ups their rates to 240%
>taxis straight out refuse to drive outside of city centers

and they call Poland a 3rd world country.

>mfw bongistan has more acid attacks than mid-eastern shitholes

Richer than you, Stavros.

our infrastructure isn't built for snow, because it hardly snows here.
congratulations, you live in a cold country. do you want a fucking medal?
you live in a literal non-country, mate. poland is literally the butt of jokes. but well done, you can deal with snow.

Good meme

Also in Edinburgh, this city has never been so comfy. Look how muffled everything is in the snow

Idc but my anti-freeze froze this morning

Don't get mad at me, mate. I'm just in awe how you people are resourceful in the face of.... adversity? I guess.
Also I wasn't aware you need "infrastructure" to deal with a shallow layer of snow.

we dont have snow tires or plows, you massive spastik.

yes, it's lovely
also respect to the lothian bus drivers, some of them were out until 1am this morning trying to get people home in treacherous conditions

youtube.com/watch?v=mxuVzLU1SOM

>he didn't buy snow tyres

Ah yes, the forgotten technology of the aboriginal tribes who crafted snow tires from the gum trees.

>he spent hundreds of quid on snow tires for 3 days of snow a year

it's just no a worthwhile investment when it hardly ever snows
this why poland isn't a successful country.
you don't understand simple economic principles.

>tfw borderer

>when you have competent public services that do actually clean the roads overnight

I guess you're too poor to invest in some common sense insurance. You know, just in case something that has a decent chance of happening in winter happens. So you don't have to paralize a fair piece of your country's economy?

>tfw live in somerset in a trailer out in the middle of nowhere

starting to get scared lads. Ive got a bad feeling about this

Vladmir here gets it

it's not a worthwhile investment because it only snows like this very rarely.
which part of this do you find hard to understand?

>'Leveson 2' press enquiry abandoned by Government
twitter.com/Independent/status/969162747337494528?s=19

Fucking cowards. The government wants to know what your wanking too but won't stand up to Murdoch. I hope none of you faggots voted for them.

Couple hundred quid is cheap in comparison to being stranded. Plus they get a few thousand miles on them at most, then stored away for next winter.

Snow tyres cost idk $400, that is maybe 3-4 days of work for an ordinary pleb. Youre gonna get your moneys worth in one or two winters.

I thought that was an xray of a dog on a keyboard,

it only snows like this here maybe once every 5 years.
it has snowed here like this since the 80s.

so i'm to buy and store snow tires to be used on 3 or 4 days a decade, and have to go through the hassle of fitting them to my car to be used once or twice.
and the local authorities are to invest in road clearing/snow plows to be used 3 or 4 times a decade?
you are a fucking idiot.

this is why your countries are unsuccessful economically, because you are incapable of thinking logically.

stranded?
why would i be stranded?
i can see the weather report and see i should just take a day off work.
you know your employer has to pay you for snow days, right? thats EU law.
but go ahead, if you want to spend £600 on snow tires just so you can go earn more money for your boss thats fantastic.

I see the Gatwick Express is running just fine.
Guarantee it dies tomorrow when I need it.

>see i should just take a day off work.

That's exactly the point. A little bit of snow falls down and everything in GB is FUCKED. Do you realize how does that make you look?

>Do you realize how does that make you look?
like a country that doesn't often get snow.

What if this snow is actually the harbinger of end times lads?

i'm in colorado and very few people here use snow tires unless they drive in remote parts of the mountains in the winter a lot. i'm not sure if the regular "all-weather" tires that we all buy here are different in places where there isn't a lot of snow. but the whole thing is that you need practice driving in the snow to get good at it, because it's different and a lot more dangerous than any other conditions, so a country that does only get snow once every few years isn't going to be able to work around the total failure of its transportation network

Northern monkeys are the snow niggers of Britain.

They've discussed it today on BBC Radio 4. It's not economically rational to keep such services since the snow is usually only in Scotland. They simply don't prepared to it, they don't change tires, etc.

the problem is in the cities.
our roads are very congested, with lots of traffic, and the roads are salted. the snow turns into a horrible icy slush which is impossible to drive on.

>this is why your countries are unsuccessful economically
>Sweden
What are you talking about?

>I've been transferred to the supreme retards class
that is your home now

I don't get all the fuss. It's fucking winter, what's the problem. I've been out all day in my t shirt. I'll
be out all night too. I'll put a jacket on when it gets dark a hat if it snows again. You puffs are all nesh.

how long before the snow fucks off?

probably the best part of a week. this was cause by winds coming from siberia. now we have a second storm coming up from the south. but thats the worst of it over and done with, at least for us wildlings up north.
now the southerners are about to get hit by storm emma.

;_;

>I don't get all the fuss
It isn't that bad, just too many retards that can't drive and cause disruption on the roads. That and poor planning from the council

>Tfw we are experiencing Fimbulwinter

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fimbulwinter

Ivan speaks the truth.

Goaaaaaaal

Saw the BBC interviewing some guy stuck on the M80 overnight with his wife and baby, moaning about how pathetic it is. Yet he still fucking travelled, despite this shit being all over the news and repeated warnings not to fucking travel.

Bahahah how much beta can your country get, a bit of snow falls you shut down everything.

Just ask this in Brit/pol/ instead of making a thread that has nothing to do with politics that's just going to get pruned or moved to /bants/. Not to mention outer/pol/ is wank.

We're not prepared for this. A few inches is tolerable, but we're getting over a foot. It goes up to your knees.

Honest answer, like 4 inches and we’re fucked

Don't you have snow plows and snow shovels?

Jaysis lads wouldnt ya get sick of other countries bollocking us over how "a few flakes of snow" affects our infrastructures? Im really sorry we dont build our countries with very occasional severe weathers we suffer in mind. How could we be so fucking stupid?

We have gritters and shovels. The government has resorted to asking farmers to plow the roads.

The local police were saying that all morning on the radio. Called into work and said that and they mumbled something about "at least trying" and I said no.

And with the wind being what it is, and the temperature dropping even more overnight It'll be worse tomorrow because under the snow from the fields will be a sheet of ice.

Post a pic

>Mfw my ancestors were norse gods and yours werent
Feels good m8

>trailer
Irish gypsy detected.

I thought it snowed a lot in the UK? I demand an explanation. Why is it suddenly a problem? Is snow racist now?

Could be a specialised construction worker. I've been put in trailers during several civil engineering projects I've worked on.

It’s my fucking birthday today and now I’m stuck indoors and can’t do shit except shitpost.

It barely ever snows, and if it does it usually doesn't lay because the ground isn't cold enough.

So we usually just get slush and ice.

Happy Birthday.

It snows occasionally, but usually only a few inches. This year we've had over a foot.

thanks user