Sunday, April 20, 2008

UNSETTLED (CRAP) WEATHER OUTLOOK

"Average temperatures have rarely been exceeded for any length of time in the past month and there is little hope of a change in the next four weeks for northern and western Britain."

"cool and unsettled"
"More rain and showers to unsettled April"
"Turning more unsettled"

It's getting desperate now. I'm getting desperate now. The rain I can handle, but the constant attacks of hail? The freeeeeezing cold?

It is Spring for goodness sake! Just when am I going to be allowed to put away these jumpers, and scarves, and gloves, and hats? If I have to wear boots for much longer, I will near as damn it turn into a man. I need girlie sandals, or cute heeled shoes, or flat pumps. I neeeeed them. Yet the boots can't come off because this country seems to be lined up before some sort of Arctic blast wind tunnel.

And what the hell does "unsettled" mean anyway? What sort of weather is "unsettled", exactly? My cats get unsettled when they smell the local tom cat has been around. My gran is unsettled in her new bungalow. I feel unsettled when the man sitting next to me on the bus has a huge erection. What's "unsettled" got to do with the weather?

Why don't they just say what they mean and and say it's "crap".

7 comments:

Will said...

"I feel unsettled when the man sitting next to me on the bus has a huge erection."

WTF are you doing on the bus to cause that? Or is it your natural charm and that?

ligneus said...

Global warming strikes again!

Scribbles said...

Will - bus vibrations and bumps in the road. Going on the number 11 circular passes for entertainment round our way.

Lig - I'm guessing that's why they changed "global warming" to "climate change", eh? Because it's obviously neither warm nor getting warmer. Although if they called it "crap global climate" I could go with that right now.

Tom Freeman said...

Unsettled weather? You're lucky. The weather down here is a bit of a loner, really. Always kept itself to itself. We never would have expected it was capable of this...

Scribbles said...

It's always the quiet ones, isn't it?

Anonymous said...

"I feel unsettled when the man sitting next to me on the bus has a huge erection."

Am I supposed to believe that Scribs travels on the bus?

Ann O'Dyne said...

not on a bus but ... we are all hurtling through outer space in the pitch dark clinging to a revolving mass of molten rock - WTF is 'settled' about that?