Toadfish in the UK/Europe

[Aggie]

Anyway, we all crash the Canadian thread 

:rofl:  That's only by misread, as "Canadian Smalltalk" is invariably about the weather, except when it's about hockey or beer.  The CST is a weather thread. 

OTOH, I am going to start a Canadian Politics thread, so feel free to crash that one.

[Griffin NoName]

If it's a weather thread it really ought to be British !

*** start the Rights to Weather wars ***

[Aggie]

Does it ever change there? 

Alberta saying:  If you don't like the weather, wait 5 minutes.

In Pincher Creek (Alberta), the temperature rose by 41°C (from -19°C to 22°C) in one hour in 1962.

[Griffin NoName]

Well ok then. I claim the "I'll put the kettle on for a nice cup of tea" thread for Britain.

[Sibling Chatty]

The ORIGINAL "If you Don't Like The Weather, Wait 5 Minutes" is Texas, where the temperature colled down so swiftly in one West Texas location that every glass storefront in town shattered from the quick change.

[Aggie]

The ORIGINAL "If you Don't Like The Weather, Wait 5 Minutes" is Texas, where the temperature colled down so swiftly in one West Texas location that every glass storefront in town shattered from the quick change.

This is Texas North anyways, although I'll concede yours is the original.

(hey, Google Maps says Calgary is only about 4 hours NW of Somerville - road trip!)

[Sibling Chatty]

Google Maps generally refuses to admit that Somerville, Texas exists. When it does, it insists that we all live IN the lake.

Close, but...no.

We're amused that when Google Earth is working, you cannot see the house for the trees. You CAN see the barn, or part of it!

C'mon. We'll figure out what they did with the other 28 hours of the drive later on!!

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

The ORIGINAL "If you Don't Like The Weather, Wait 5 Minutes" is Texas, where the temperature colled down so swiftly in one West Texas location that every glass storefront in town shattered from the quick change.

I beg to differ.

The esteemed Will Rogers said it, and about Oklahoma.  If it wasn't first, by him, his immense popularity made it so by default.

So there!      

[Griffin NoName]

Cleaning out my favourites.

Anyone know what happened to valuedirect.co.uk  - good online reviews and a trading standard symbol for online stores - ?

NOT to be confused with valuedirect.com which is all that I can find now.

[beagle]

Their DNS record suggests they're now part of Empire Direct

http://www.empiredirect.co.uk/

[Swatopluk]

I found this quite amusing (taken from the comment section at ORCINUS)

The coverage of hard news in the British papers, excepting the Guardian is much worse than ours.
However, this does give me chance to cut and paste one of my favorite jokes.
"In Episode 4 of the second series of Yes, Prime Minister, Jim Hacker says:
"I know exactly who reads the papers: The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country; The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country; The Times is read by people who actually do run the country; The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country; The Financial Times is read by people who own the country; The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country[USSR]; and The Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is."
Sir Humphrey: "Prime Minister, what about the people who read The Sun?"
Bernard Woolley: "Sun readers don't care who runs the country, as long as she's got big tits.""

[Griffin NoName]

Their DNS record suggests they're now part of Empire Direct

http://www.empiredirect.co.uk/

Sad.

Swato, I like it. But then I love everything about Yes, Prime Minister. And now my son has turned into a Bernard Woolley it all has real meaning for me. 

[beagle]

I found this ... (taken from the comment section at ORCINUS)

The coverage of hard news in the British papers, excepting the Guardian is much worse than ours.

I'm not sure I'd regard the Grauniad as the high point of accurate journalism.   

[Griffin NoName]

I'm not sure I'd regard the Grauniad as the high point of accurate journalism.   

This is blatant flaming.

the Grauniad 2.0, the Independent, the Times, The Stage and Reuters - who all cut and pasted the phoney factoid from Wikipedia

Gruaniads Guardians, please slap Beagle around the head.

[Sibling Chatty]