I'mmmm alright...



...don't nobody worry about me.

DirtyDeadGhostofEbenezerCooke: I'mmmm alright...

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...don't nobody worry about me.

I was going to say, damn, 6 more weeks of winter, but that one is good too.

Isn't it normally cold in Europe this time of year?

Drink more Vodak comrade, it is like antifreeze for your blood.

Russian-women-in-underwear thread?? I believe this can happen!

The next time one of the women biatch about it being too cold in the office and put on their jacket and scarf when the temperature hits 70, I'm going to show them number 14.

Russian in underwear?

Yes, it's really bloody cold. Some major rivers are frozen over and shipping has stopped. Isles and remote villages cut off. And that's even in the industrious Germany. Don't think we are getting the full picture from the eastern countries. Some 130 stiffs so far but I think there are way more.

Europe doesn't cover the entire surface of the earth. And it is short-term. The long-term, worldwide average surface temperature is still ACCELERATING upwards like a hockey stick:

Oh wait....

PsiChi: Isn't it normally cold in Europe this time of year?

Yeah, but it's unusually cold this year because there hasn't been the normal cross polar winds that funnel the cold air that forms over the Arctic and Siberia into North America so the air is being funneled down into Europe.

/that's the quick "I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express" version of why it's cold over in Europe and warm over most of N. America.

DirtyDeadGhostofEbenezerCooke: I'mmmm alright...

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...don't nobody worry about me.

How can they say that man is homeless? His home is RIGHT FARKING THERE! And he saw his shadow, too. More winter, time to buy more vodak.

superoogie: The next time one of the women biatch about it being too cold in the office and put on their jacket and scarf when the temperature hits 70, I'm going to show them number 14.

What is it with women being too cold in the office? A lady I work with biatches and moans like it's 32 degrees in the office and has people feel her hands so they know how cold she is. Unfortunately the thermostat controls a wide area so I can't turn the temp up to 75 degrees. Building standard is 72.

SevenizGud: Europe doesn't cover the entire surface of the earth

You mean Europe is not a globe ? so is not a measurement for anything global ?

Good read. Loved all the pics.

/reminds me of Snowpocaylpse 2011 here in Columbia
//shut down Mizzou for three days straight, longest shutdown in school history

Since when did Fark have a Russia filter about a certain Union? Damn. Can't even correct my original comment.

I agree with Marine1 though. Well done.

Their homeless look pretty darn healthy and not psychotic in the least, guess we just save that for ours here in the good ole USA.

SevenizGud: Europe doesn't cover the entire surface of the earth. And it is short-term. The long-term, worldwide average surface temperature is still ACCELERATING upwards like a hockey stick:

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Oh wait....

Yeah, if you only look at a period of 14 years, a linear regression won't show much. How about this, though? (pops)

It's warmer in Kristiansand, Norway than it is in Germany right now. Most of my family still lives there and when I talked to one of my cousins last week she said it's been "pretty warm". Um, no. I'm in California, so I do not consider 20 something Fahrenheit to be "pretty warm", even in the winter, just like I do not consider anything over 80 something to be "too damn hot" as she does.

I feel bad for those being hit with this cold spell. The Scandinavians are used to the cold and don't have a problem with homelessness because soshulizms!!! but Eastern Europe and Poland are not exactly known for being compassionate or even having the money to deal with the problem if they were a bit more civilized as alleged human beings. According to a friend who hops continents on a regular basis, this is why they do not mind being arrested in a Scandinavian country. They actually have three hots and cot, something some of them would not get back home, and the conditions in Scandinavian prisons are better than the conditions in their own apartments in their home countries. That's kind of sad, I think.

/it's 0730 here and 36F and I'm complaining
//I'm such a wuss sometimes

It was 76 here in the Southern US a few days ago. Today its supposed to cool down to 65.

blackhonda: So much for global warming. Here in Denver

/facepalm

blackhonda: So much for global warming. Here in Denver we have had between 15 and 42 inches of snow within a 20 mile radius in the last 48 hours. I am tired of shoveling.

You do realize there is a difference between weather and climate right?

/right?

The Dogs of War: Russian-women-in-underwear thread?? I believe this can happen!

Have you ever seen russian women? Do not want! Then again, maybe I was spoiled by growing up in California.

/Our women are hotter than yours.

My mother was Russian and my father was Russian but me... I'm just takin' my time.

CrispFlows: PsiChi: Isn't it normally cold in Europe this time of year?

The news isn't the cold, it's the sudden temperature change.

Ah! DNRA, as I'm doing our taxes; also, thought underwear reference was to old, skinny Roosky (that's o.k. to say, right?) guys living on the street, parading around in their underwear.

/NTTAWWT.

I was gonna post some pics from Spies Like Us, but its been done.

© Boobies (new window)

You Ruskie bastards stole our winter!

Sincerely, Canada

-15°C is normally the temperature it drops down to in any given year. Not -25 or -30. That is really farking cold. Even with heating in the evening I had a water line freeze and burst overnight.

/Can't leave the heat on overnight

blackhonda
Fantastic pics
So much for global warming. Here in Denver we have had between 15 and 42 inches of snow within a 20 mile radius in the last 48 hours. I am tired of shoveling.

yeah, yeah I live in CO too. You have to admit, it could have been worse - the storm could have been preceded and followed by severe cold. But it hasn't been that cold, which means a lot of the snow has melted on the pavement. And the sun's been out and melting the leftover crap in the streets.

Our neighborhood doesn't get plowed. so if there's extreme cold associated with snow, the streets become a nasty jumble of frozen ridges. It's no fun to drive over. Yay Colorado sun.

I'm guessing now isn't a good time to march on Moscow then.

/Its been hitting 60 a few times here in the Northeast.

LemSkroob: I'm guessing now isn't a good time to march on Moscow then.

Seriously? Every single one of the world's great conquerors was defeated by trying to invade russia in the winter.

Europe has homeless people ? That's unpossible....

And apparently they have rich people too... hmmmm

That is so weird.

Or as Russians call it, Saturday.

blackhonda: Fantastic pics
So much for global warming. Here ...

From the comments in TFA:

"You confuse weather with climate..a common mistake. Scientist long predicted extremes towards both ends of the spectrum as more heat is contained in atmosphere. Do you consider, at the same time the record high temperature extremes and drought experienced elsewhere at the same time? "LOL" indeed."

"An important thing to note, along with Wallynut Kracker's distinction, is that global "warming" is a bit of a misnomer. Higher temperatures melt the polar ice caps, diluting the saltwater oceans which are responsible for climate. That in turn destabilises the mechanisms behind climate, leading to an ice age. The "warming" part refers to the single digit global average temperature rise which causes this sudden collapse, something you won't even notice."

Egalitarian: blackhonda
Fantastic pics
So much for global warming. Here in Denver we have had between 15 and 42 inches of snow within a 20 mile radius in the last 48 hours. I am tired of shoveling.

yeah, yeah I live in CO too. You have to admit, it could have been worse - the storm could have been preceded and followed by severe cold. But it hasn't been that cold, which means a lot of the snow has melted on the pavement. And the sun's been out and melting the leftover crap in the streets.

Our neighborhood doesn't get plowed. so if there's extreme cold associated with snow, the streets become a nasty jumble of frozen ridges. It's no fun to drive over. Yay Colorado sun.

Castle Rock here, usually my street gets crappy plowing but for once they actually dropped sand all the way up my hill. Usually its a little at the bottom and a fark you. I'll Yay Colorado sun with you on that!

dennysgod: PsiChi: Isn't it normally cold in Europe this time of year?

Yeah, but it's unusually cold this year because there hasn't been the normal cross polar winds that funnel the cold air that forms over the Arctic and Siberia into North America so the air is being funneled down into Europe.

/that's the quick "I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express" version of why it's cold over in Europe and warm over most of N. America.

Appreciate it. R(elated)SB: During a typical hot February (!) day last week, I was kind of surprised how one fan can completely cancel out the draft of another fan (one is the kind that moves back and forth, the other is stationary). Guess I thought the breeze would just "flow through" the other breeze, but no, it blows it in the other direction, if that makes any sense. Wind, how does it work?

/They call the wind "Mariah." (:

Honest Bender: LemSkroob: I'm guessing now isn't a good time to march on Moscow then.

Seriously? Every single one of the world's great conquerors was defeated by trying to invade russia in the winter.

/swoosh

This is more undeniable proof that humans are causing climate change.

Better them than me.

Honest Bender: LemSkroob: I'm guessing now isn't a good time to march on Moscow then.

Seriously? Every single one of the world's great conquerors was defeated by trying to invade russia in the winter.

Not that we ever would, but I suspect that if it ever came to that, Canada is the only country capable of successfully invading Russia. We have the same huge, empty expanses, the weather is similar, our soldiers and their equipment are perfectly capable of coping with extended extremes in both cold and heat...

Of course, in reality we're also outnumbered something like 10 to 1. Plus I suspect that whenever Canadian and Russian military get together a hockey game breaking out is the most likely outcome.

The BBC and the Guardian blame Israel for this.

/obligatory

Intoxoman: Honest Bender: LemSkroob: I'm guessing now isn't a good time to march on Moscow then.

Seriously? Every single one of the world's great conquerors was defeated by trying to invade russia in the winter.

/swoosh

Oops, my bad. I read your comment as "I'm guessing now IS a good time..." Doh :-)

The homeless people in the heating vents remind me of the Mongolian? street kids in Long Way Round (new window). Seem to recall the UNICEF workers claimed the kids got cancer or something from living down there, but it beats freezing to death. Cozy.

-38 C yesterday, but now it's up to cozy -29 C.

/Sweden