Oh Snoop

Snowing again today, spent the afternoon shovelling out people's cars in my street.
I was watching the news and looking at footage of people in cars skidding and wheelspinning their way to work and got me thinking how odd it must look to a foreigner who's used to everyone just fitting their winter tyres as the year draws to a close.

Fact is, winter tyres are a completely foreign concept to us, I dont know anyone who has ever mentioned the possibility of buying some, never mind actually seeing anyone using them.
Its just not part of our culture, I've never seen them advertised on TV or in magazines, newspapers etc, and I've never heard anyone recommend them when they are dishing out all this winter travel safety advice on the news. Its like they just dont exist.

New word of the week - "bogan"

I dont even think you can go into a garage here and buy winter tyres, you'd have to order them online from a specialist, I've never seen a set in my life.
I dont have winter tyres cause I dont think they would be worth the money, thats the reality of the UK, why spend money on something you might not need?
Last year was a hard winter and that was very unusual, before that there was 10-15 years without anysignificant snowfall. So all the suitable equipment would be sitting unused and some folk would be moaning and whining about the wastage of money. This country is broke, people are broke - penny pinching is a way of life.

As far as I know we have that equipment at airports also, the problem was the volume of snow coming down, it just overwhelmed the equipment and man powers ability to make a difference. I dont doubt the airports were closed to save money, why have that equipment running around the clock when you can wait a day to when the weather improves and make a real difference in a more economical amount of time. I think it could come down to budgets, they have a budget of what to spend over the winter on clearing the runways and they could blow that budget trying to keep the runways clear round the clock during one week of very poor weather.

I've never seen snow so persistant and so deep in my life as its been this week, its definently been freakish weather. Makes me wish I was a boy again, its the kind of snowfall I used to wish for. Snow is pretty much a novelty rather than a regular occurance, looks like that might be changing though.
And the north of Scotland is sparcely populated but I dont doubt the natives are equiped and prepared for harsh weather as its more the norm up there.

The 90's were awesome, I wish I was a few years older to have got the most out of them, like old enough to get into clubs, raves and festival and take shit loads of good drugs in good atmospheres with an abundance of good music! I missed the first half, it was 1995 when I first got out there, it was still great but the early 90's were best.

I've heard some folk my age and a bit older use the phrase "the 90's were our 60's". Cant agree more