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You are fighting for survival in your own sweet and gentle way.
(Score: 4, Funny) by JeanCroix on Tuesday March 25 2014, @04:41PM
(Score: 4, Funny) by Covalent on Wednesday March 26 2014, @02:00AM
This! I'm in Michigan, but there's a bill in the Michigan House right now that would rename the state "The Commonwealth of Bitter Cold Suffering".
You can't rationally argue somebody out of a position they didn't rationally get into.
(Score: 2) by JeanCroix on Wednesday March 26 2014, @02:47AM
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 28 2014, @01:34AM
Live in Cali. Little mild rains coming through. Cute, but a little chilly at 55 F. Guess I'll put some sleeves on.
A good time to plant my summer tomatoes. That red is good from my vine. Drought? Well now. We all know that we will just import it from the Eastern snow-ins anyway.
Spring trolling.
Peace.
(Score: 4, Funny) by JeanCroix on Friday March 28 2014, @01:53AM
(Score: 1) by crutchy on Saturday March 29 2014, @04:25AM
come to australia and enjoy screwed up weather all year round :-)
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Sunday April 06 2014, @12:51PM
Same here only I'm in the deep south and ya know what? WE AIN'T BUILT FOR THE COLD! We had snow and ice this winter that lasted actual weeks, weeks people! That ain't right, here its supposed to not last more than 2 or 3 days at most and everyone will dress up like they are Eskimos if it drops below 45 degrees, THAT is normal.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Wednesday March 26 2014, @01:48PM
Closely related, being able to open my windows without getting a blast of unpleasantly cold wind.
Specifically, I live about 30 meters from one of the Great Lakes, so by opening the windows a crack I get to fall asleep to waves crashing against the shore. Which I can't do if (a) it's unwise to open the windows, and (b) the lake is frozen.
"Think of how stupid the average person is. Then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday March 31 2014, @03:52PM
"Which I can't do if (a) it's unwise to open the windows, and (b) the lake is frozen"
Yeah they kind of go together, here's an idea to cheer you up, read some H P Lovecraft about elder gods sleeping underneath frozen lakes trying to reawaken. In the summer you can always read Innsmouth stories before bedtime. I'm sure you'll sleep like a baby after that kind of stuff.
(Score: 1) by DECbot on Tuesday March 25 2014, @04:42PM
Seriously, it is snowing outside right now, and it's sticking.
And yes, I live outside of the arctic circle and in the northern hemisphere.
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 2) by dx3bydt3 on Tuesday March 25 2014, @07:26PM
Tomorrow the forecast for here calls for 50cm of snow, and 100km/hr winds.
I'm completely ready for spring to happen.
(Score: 1) by The Archon V2.0 on Wednesday March 26 2014, @11:15PM
The east coast has been really getting it in the neck, huh? Some of my acquaintances in Nova Scotia have taken to calling Wednesday "Blizzard Day" because there's been a bad-to-crippling storm in the middle of almost every single week.
(Score: 2) by dx3bydt3 on Thursday March 27 2014, @01:09AM
This Wednesday wasn't as bad as forecast. At least in Cape Breton. We got only ~30cm, and somehow, despite the 100km/hr wind, snow and freezing rain the power didn't go out.
(Score: 1) by The Archon V2.0 on Thursday March 27 2014, @04:46AM
Well, thank heaven for small favors. Though from what I heard the storm's direction meant it was the mainland that got it in the neck. Halifax shut down, the Cobequid Pass closed.... Oy. When I was down there the weather was never that bad. Had some ugly storms to be sure, but never anything like this.
(Score: 2) by dx3bydt3 on Thursday March 27 2014, @10:53AM
(Score: 3, Interesting) by evilviper on Saturday March 29 2014, @10:55PM
How long did it take them to tighten it?
Hydrogen cyanide is a delicious and necessary part of the human diet.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday March 31 2014, @03:56PM
The electricity gets loose from the cables when they fall off the poles and touch the ground. Just put the cables back on the poles, assuming the poles are still standing there and haven't been invaded by the Russians after they blitzkrieg the Ukraine.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Boxzy on Tuesday March 25 2014, @04:47PM
I'd just like to be warm again. It could stop raining anytime it likes too.
Go green, Go Soylent.
(Score: 1) by linsane on Saturday March 29 2014, @04:14PM
English by any chance?
(Score: 3, Funny) by Boxzy on Sunday March 30 2014, @01:06AM
Up till late last year, yes. Not sure now, I'll have to wait till my house nears land before I can say for sure.
Go green, Go Soylent.
(Score: 1) by linsane on Monday March 31 2014, @07:00AM
Tewkesbury? :-)
(Score: 4, Insightful) by broggyr on Tuesday March 25 2014, @05:09PM
The start of Motorcycle Season. Give my fuel-thirsty truck a much-needed rest.
Taking things out of context since 1972.
(Score: 2) by chromas on Wednesday March 26 2014, @12:30AM
Motorcycles can be fun. Just please don't be one of those needy guys who goes out and revs his unmuffed engine over and over for twenty minutes every morning.
(Score: 4, Funny) by broggyr on Wednesday March 26 2014, @03:16AM
I'm a motorcyclist, not a "biker". :)
Taking things out of context since 1972.
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Sunday April 06 2014, @11:15PM
I'm assuming that means you don't ride a "hardly". There's still a lot of snow on the ground here but it's rained a couple of times to wash the salt off the roads. This week, we ride.
(Score: 1) by broggyr on Monday April 07 2014, @12:43PM
No Hardly for me. My brother-in-law rides a Fat Bob and he loves it. It's a powerful bike, and a fun ride. It's just not for me.
No, my ride of choice is a Victory Cross Country tour. Much more room than the HD Ultra Classic, and better handling. Much better wind protection. Much more comfortable.
Taking things out of context since 1972.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Tuesday March 25 2014, @05:10PM
See subject line. Spring here in Southern California marks the beginning of mating season as well as a fresh influx of dumb horny rich girls from Michigan and Massachusetts looking to cheat on their boyfriends back home -- and aside of all that, using OK Cupid as my personal bordello.
Other accomplishments include being accepted into CSU and intimidating my obnoxious loud dope-fiend deadbeat-dad next-door neighbor whom I call "fuckhead" into silence and vacating the premises for good. As the saying goes, you never shit where you eat.
As for Soylent News, well, It's Trollin' Time!
(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 27 2014, @01:12PM
Good luck in your attempts to finally lose your virginity. Maybe this is the year?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 27 2014, @03:39PM
doubtful
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday March 30 2014, @05:38AM
In your face, scum. [tinypic.com]
Written on my chest is "Ethanol (heart) Soylent," with the "a" written backwards accidentally because mirror. You can see that, since my chest was so sweaty, "Ethanol" came out okay but the other stuff started to face because even Sharpie doesn't write well on sweaty skin.
In Yo' face!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 01 2014, @09:32PM
you should save up and buy a doll that does the work for you
(Score: 5, Informative) by Bot on Tuesday March 25 2014, @05:22PM
AFAMyDbK, the clod is "insensitive". I hope not to be considered insoylent by pointing this out.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 25 2014, @10:11PM
Maybe the clod is trying (or not trying) to lose weight?
(Score: 4, Informative) by c0lo on Wednesday March 26 2014, @09:45AM
Probably because most of the eucalyptus species aren't deciduous [wikipedia.org], so there's nothing to fall.
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Kell on Thursday March 27 2014, @01:14PM
Nono - "fall" is accurate, given the quantity of rain in Queensland...
Scientists ask questions. Engineers solve problems.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday March 27 2014, @10:42PM
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by iNaya on Wednesday April 02 2014, @09:41AM
We don't have eucalyptus trees in New Zealand, you insensitive clod!
We also call it autumn.
Most of our trees are also evergreen.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday April 03 2014, @02:16AM
Want some? (the snow gum [wikipedia.org] may do fine)
On another line, I must object on the 'insensitive' accusation (everything else is fine, though).
You see, we took Russell Crowe from you: I wish we wouldn't [wikipedia.org], but you should appreciate the goodwill gesture.
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2, Interesting) by urza9814 on Tuesday March 25 2014, @06:22PM
(Score: 5, Insightful) by weeds on Tuesday March 25 2014, @06:33PM
Fresh air!
Get money out of politics! [mayday.us]
(Score: 2, Insightful) by e_armadillo on Tuesday March 25 2014, @07:05PM
A bad day fishing (barring personal injury and catastrophe) is better than a good day at work :-)
"How are we gonna get out of here?" ... "We'll dig our way out!" ... "No, no, dig UP stupid!"
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 25 2014, @07:27PM
It's Autumn here, you doubly insensitive clod!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 28 2014, @09:46PM
I second that motion. Also it will be nice to be able to sleep under blankets once the night temperatures drop below 24C. Living close to The Tropic of Capricorn has a downside too you know.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by rts008 on Tuesday March 25 2014, @09:03PM
There are times I really like working on a university campus...:-)
(Score: 1) by crutchy on Tuesday April 01 2014, @09:34PM
you lucky bastard
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 25 2014, @09:22PM
bicycling, motorcycling, running...
(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Sunday March 30 2014, @12:01AM
GTA V doesn't count...
(Please return snark filter to 'on' and resume reading)
Alex Jones lawyer inspires new TV series: CSI Moron Division.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 01 2014, @09:37PM
gta involves more shooting, punching, kicking, hit and run, etc. than merely riding and running
(Score: 3, Interesting) by lhsi on Tuesday March 25 2014, @10:24PM
Looking forward to wandering around the woods with my kids now it's not cold and raining all the time.
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Wednesday March 26 2014, @12:56AM
Jumping in puddles are half the fun!
(Score: 1) by Subsentient on Wednesday March 26 2014, @01:16AM
I really hate the summer. It's March 25th and it was 85 degrees out today. I do NOT look forward to 270 days of 110F weather.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 3, Insightful) by VanessaE on Wednesday March 26 2014, @01:59AM
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday March 26 2014, @08:49AM
Seasons are subtle where I dwell. Spring is not particularly noticeable, except for some exotic flowering trees that still bloom as they do where they are originally from. Oh, and the Whales leave.
(Score: 4, Funny) by isostatic on Wednesday March 26 2014, @11:07PM
Oh, and the Whales leave
Then in summer this space probe turns up and shuts down your power, and you have to take a side trip to 1986?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by michealpwalls on Wednesday March 26 2014, @03:20PM
Call me boring, but I'm really just looking forward to taking my boys fishing!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 27 2014, @05:23PM
I don't have children yet, but I'd like to take my boys swimming!
(Score: 1) by cmn32480 on Wednesday March 26 2014, @06:12PM
I am looking forward to starting a garden with the kids now that I have some land to do it on.
Partly it is an educational thing for them, partly it is fresh veggies, and partly it is a good excuse to spend time with them before Dad is uncool (which I am, but they are too young to know it) and they don't want to spend time with their old man anymore.
"It's a dog eat dog world, and I'm wearing Milkbone underwear" - Norm Peterson
(Score: 1) by goodie on Wednesday March 26 2014, @06:28PM
BBQs, smoked ribs, sausages and bacon (and beer while making them); not having to layer up like a f$cking Michelin mascot to leave the house; wearing flip flops; playing outside with my kid; using the raised gardening beds we built last fall etc. etc.
And as I write this, there's still a ton of snow outside even though by now it's all supposed to be gone. Here's to hoping it's the last week of it! On the plus side, poor guys in the Maritime provinces of Canada are under a storm that should bring them about 50cm of snow, I feel for those poor souls!
(Score: 1) by tmib on Wednesday March 26 2014, @06:46PM
Riding the motorcycle! :)
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(Score: 2) by mendax on Wednesday March 26 2014, @09:36PM
Beat you to it already! The bike is out, the chain is oiled, carburetor cleaner in the tank and the bowls, and I've ridden 100 miles on it already!
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 1) by jturpin on Wednesday March 26 2014, @07:01PM
I camp all year round, but it's finally getting warm enough to take the kids. They spent 19 nights in a tent last year, at the age of 3 (I had about 35 nights myself).
Just got a new American made instant tent (tent and fly up in 3-4 minutes, 10 if I need to storm proof), replacing my last one that had about 175 uses over 6 years.
I would live in a tent if it was possible...
(Score: 2) by mendax on Wednesday March 26 2014, @09:34PM
I'm looking forward to the blooming of the flowers. Where I live, the golden poppy (and the California state flower) tends to bloom in great abundance for some odd reason. Despite the lack of rain, they have started blooming again. The blooms are huge this year and very, very orange. It's almost like something out of the Wizard of Oz. The hairy vetch (I kid you not, that's the name), a lupin-like plant with beautiful purple bell-shaped flowers, are starting to come out as well. The spring in California is always a nice time. It's the time when the state greens up. It's normal condition for the rest of the year is brown.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 2) by Lagg on Thursday March 27 2014, @03:47AM
http://lagg.me [lagg.me] 🗿
(Score: 2) by evilviper on Saturday March 29 2014, @10:51PM
I'm also in the desert, and I love summer. It's a bit harsher than spring/fall, but you've got 18 hours of sunlight to get anything and everything done. The weather is PERFECT from sun-up until it gets close to noon, while you'd never consider going for a walk right after sunrise in the dead of winter (and "dead" is the best name for it). It has it's challenges, but if you dress properly, find shade wherever you can, and always carry lots of cold water with you, it's great. Also, swamp coolers happen to be far cheaper to operate than air conditioners.
Hydrogen cyanide is a delicious and necessary part of the human diet.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 27 2014, @05:29AM
Is that some anti-apple activity? Count me in!
(Score: 2) by tynin on Thursday March 27 2014, @12:39PM
Down in Florida, spring and summer might as well be the same thing. The only difference is in the spring there is a small chance we'll have one or two cool days, the rest of the time it might as well just be summer heat. I look forward to moving to colder weather, so I can bitch about the cold :) I guess it always seems like the grass is greener some place else.
Not really looking forward to anything this spring, though I know I need to get around to painting the house.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 27 2014, @01:43PM
Hate to break it to you, but here in Italy it's already been Spring for a month. The weather is fine, the sky is sunny and blue, and we're down to 2 layers of clothing (only one at midday)
The only problem, as always, is the glare on laptop screens that prevent you from doing useful stuff in your porch. Oh well, I guess it's gardening time!
PS you can come visit anytime :-)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 07 2014, @04:27PM
Damn lucky Mediterranean bastards...
(Score: 5, Funny) by Buck Feta on Thursday March 27 2014, @03:44PM
I'm looking forward to Hating this spring. Stupid grass and flowers, dub-ass bunnies and robins, crappy ol' rainbows and sunshine. I hate you all.
- fractious political commentary goes here -
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 28 2014, @09:28PM
Why are there so many songs about rainbows?
And who gives a fuck anyway?
Rainbows are stupid, they only remind me
That my life is sick with decay
(Score: 1) by cubancigar11 on Thursday March 27 2014, @09:14PM
Need to prepare for interviews.... anybody has honest feedback about Amazon?
(Score: 2) by dotdotdot on Thursday March 27 2014, @11:41PM
Spending it!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by randmcnatt on Friday March 28 2014, @11:00AM
The Wright brothers were not the first to fly: they were the first to land.
(Score: 2) by bucc5062 on Monday March 31 2014, @05:32PM
Speaking for my horses, they will be quite glad to be rid of blankets and so will I. One night it's 40+, then next upper twenties. Pain in the ass trying to figure out when to use them or not.
I look forward to riding without layers, and hoping that I can be fixing up a farm I hope to buy. BTW, anyone interested in hiring a Part time developer I'm all ears for my dream is to run a farm, but still keep my hands in programming.
The more things change, the more they look the same
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Wednesday April 02 2014, @03:47PM
Sitting in the beer garden at Felber's listening to music and enjoy being retired!
As to "it's fall here" a lot of the world only has two seasons, the dry season and the rainy season. The temperature doesn't vary much close to the equator.
Mad at your neighbors? Join ICE, $50,000 signing bonus and a LICENSE TO MURDER!
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday April 03 2014, @01:04AM
Bean counting in Yellowstone National Park.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 03 2014, @05:52AM
give it to me baby
(Score: 1) by bornagainpenguin on Friday April 04 2014, @12:23PM
Of course this all assumes we're actually getting a Spring this year which so far has been far from certain given the nasty cold weather continuing to rear its head and the snow fall that keeps coming in some parts here...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 04 2014, @07:56PM
Groundhogs and crows, on the east coast.
Cooper M38 chambered for the .20 VarTarg.
(Score: 1) by fx_68 on Sunday April 06 2014, @06:55AM
Some where on the black vein highways of America......
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday April 06 2014, @08:52PM
So you say this will be the year of Linux on the girl's top?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 07 2014, @11:39AM
a new poll.
Cause this one has been up for quite some time and we're already in spring.
Now we're looking forward to summertime!
(Score: 1) by WillR on Monday April 07 2014, @03:47PM
Well, really, that's what I'm experiencing now. What I'm looking forward to (with great trepidation) is the first electric bill of summer.
(Score: 1) by codermotor on Tuesday April 08 2014, @06:30AM
It's always Spring. :P