Google Groups no longer supports new Usenet posts or subscriptions. Historical content remains viewable.
Dismiss

Southern Shandy Drinking Puffs

4 views
Skip to first unread message

Conor

unread,
Jan 6, 2010, 3:32:17 PM1/6/10
to
Well, its official. Snow has hit the South East. You can tell it has
even if you've not watched the weather forecast by the fact the BBC has
seen fit to interrupt telly with a "BBC News Special" about it of 45
minutes this morning and 30 minutes tonight. This was no doubt to let
the rest of the country know that its snowing a bit, even though they've
had it for nearly 2 weeks and far worse.....

Southern pufters.
--
Conor
www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk

I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally.

Bod

unread,
Jan 6, 2010, 3:36:27 PM1/6/10
to
Conor wrote:
> Well, its official. Snow has hit the South East. You can tell it has
> even if you've not watched the weather forecast by the fact the BBC has
> seen fit to interrupt telly with a "BBC News Special" about it of 45
> minutes this morning and 30 minutes tonight. This was no doubt to let
> the rest of the country know that its snowing a bit, even though they've
> had it for nearly 2 weeks and far worse.....
>
> Southern pufters.
>
>
Still, it's better than being "poofters".

Bod

Mr Benn

unread,
Jan 7, 2010, 5:32:02 AM1/7/10
to
"Conor" <co...@gmx.co.uk> wrote in message
news:x8OdnRiqW8TDbtnW...@brightview.co.uk...

> Well, its official. Snow has hit the South East. You can tell it has even
> if you've not watched the weather forecast by the fact the BBC has seen
> fit to interrupt telly with a "BBC News Special" about it of 45 minutes
> this morning and 30 minutes tonight. This was no doubt to let the rest of
> the country know that its snowing a bit, even though they've had it for
> nearly 2 weeks and far worse.....
>
> Southern pufters.

Bloody insult. I don't drink shandy, I drink lager tops!


Mike P

unread,
Jan 7, 2010, 5:41:10 AM1/7/10
to
On 6 Jan, 20:32, "Conor" <co...@gmx.co.uk> wrote:
> Well, its official. Snow has hit the South East. You can tell it has
> even if you've not watched the weather forecast by the fact the BBC has
> seen fit to interrupt telly with a "BBC News Special" about it of 45
> minutes this morning and 30 minutes tonight. This was no doubt to let
> the rest of the country know that its snowing a bit, even though they've
> had it for nearly 2 weeks and far worse.....
>

I laughed at that program last night. Do you remember Brass Eye? It
reminded me of that, with it's "shock horror it's snowing what a
disaster" slant on everything.

What a load of utter bollocks. I live down South. I got to work ok.
Oh, but I'm a Northerner, so the snow doesn't really bother me. I
didn't come to work yesterday but that's only because I rang up to say
I was going to be late and they told me not to bother. So I dug the
car out, made sure I got in today. Hardly any of my colleagues have
bothered - only ones who live very local to the office.

Mike P

PM

unread,
Jan 7, 2010, 7:00:59 AM1/7/10
to
Conor wrote:
> Well, its official. Snow has hit the South East. You can tell it has
> even if you've not watched the weather forecast by the fact the BBC
> has seen fit to interrupt telly with a "BBC News Special" about it of
> 45 minutes this morning and 30 minutes tonight. This was no doubt to
> let the rest of the country know that its snowing a bit, even though
> they've had it for nearly 2 weeks and far worse.....
>
> Southern pufters.

That's more indicative of "The BBC" than "Southerners".


cupra

unread,
Jan 7, 2010, 7:28:41 AM1/7/10
to

"Conor" <co...@gmx.co.uk> wrote in message
news:x8OdnRiqW8TDbtnW...@brightview.co.uk...

> Well, its official. Snow has hit the South East. You can tell it has even
> if you've not watched the weather forecast by the fact the BBC has seen
> fit to interrupt telly with a "BBC News Special" about it of 45 minutes
> this morning and 30 minutes tonight. This was no doubt to let the rest of
> the country know that its snowing a bit, even though they've had it for
> nearly 2 weeks and far worse.....
>
> Southern pufters.

It's not a North-South thing - it's SE-centric. The SW is left out quite
often too.


JNugent

unread,
Jan 7, 2010, 11:29:54 AM1/7/10
to
cupra wrote:

> "Conor" <co...@gmx.co.uk> wrote:

>> Well, its official. Snow has hit the South East. You can tell it has even
>> if you've not watched the weather forecast by the fact the BBC has seen
>> fit to interrupt telly with a "BBC News Special" about it of 45 minutes
>> this morning and 30 minutes tonight. This was no doubt to let the rest of
>> the country know that its snowing a bit, even though they've had it for
>> nearly 2 weeks and far worse.....

>> Southern pufters.

> It's not a North-South thing - it's SE-centric. The SW is left out quite
> often too.

I don't know that this is true.

We (SE) have been hearing about the difficulties in northern England and
Scotland for all of those two weeks or so. We didn't complain, as far as I know.

Bod

unread,
Jan 7, 2010, 11:39:38 AM1/7/10
to

It's that old 'Northern complex'.

Bod

Stephen

unread,
Jan 7, 2010, 2:19:17 PM1/7/10
to

"Conor" <co...@gmx.co.uk> wrote in message
news:x8OdnRiqW8TDbtnW...@brightview.co.uk...
> Well, its official. Snow has hit the South East. You can tell it has even
> if you've not watched the weather forecast by the fact the BBC has seen
> fit to interrupt telly with a "BBC News Special" about it of 45 minutes
> this morning and 30 minutes tonight. This was no doubt to let the rest of
> the country know that its snowing a bit, even though they've had it for
> nearly 2 weeks and far worse.....
>
> Southern pufters.
>

Don't know about anyone else but shandy make me giggle ... and I drink it
straight no no lemonade from asda.


cupra

unread,
Jan 7, 2010, 3:25:27 PM1/7/10
to

"JNugent" <J...@noparticularplacetogo.com> wrote in message
news:2budndp9DvGfkdvW...@pipex.net...

Much about the SW?


JNugent

unread,
Jan 7, 2010, 6:20:05 PM1/7/10
to

I have relatives there, so I keep a particular eye on the SW weather.

Douglas Payne

unread,
Jan 7, 2010, 7:28:28 PM1/7/10
to

To be fair, I think there is about a zillion times more snow in badly
affected parts of Scotland than there is in the SE.

Where I live, the first snow fell before christmas. A wee bit more
falls every day and it hasn't melted since then. I haven't driven on a
slush/snow free road for weeks, and it hasn't been bad here compared to
some places.

--
Douglas

Andrew Richardson

unread,
Jan 8, 2010, 4:54:30 PM1/8/10
to
JNugent wrote:

> We (SE) have been hearing about the difficulties in northern England and
> Scotland for all of those two weeks or so. We didn't complain, as far as I
> know.

Indeed. A couple of days before the snow started here the news was full of
reports of people in Northern England getting stuck in their cars and
generally having a whinge.

--
Andrew Richardson

FrengaX

unread,
Jan 9, 2010, 5:19:24 AM1/9/10
to
On Jan 6, 8:32 pm, "Conor" <co...@gmx.co.uk> wrote:
> Well, its official. Snow has hit the South East. You can tell it has
> even if you've not watched the weather forecast by the fact the BBC has
> seen fit to interrupt telly with a "BBC News Special" about it of 45
> minutes this morning and 30 minutes tonight. This was no doubt to let
> the rest of the country know that its snowing a bit, even though they've
> had it for nearly 2 weeks and far worse.....

But you don't have incovenient things like hills in your part of the
country (E Yorks)

Mike

unread,
Jan 10, 2010, 5:35:44 PM1/10/10
to

Ever been to East Yorks? Bits of it are indeed very flat, but there
are some brutal very exposed hills and loads of narrow lanes that
never ever get gritted.


--

0 new messages