Let's talk about the weather!

[Bereta_Eder]

JohnT. I don't know if we are overegagerating in our reaction. (did you get that feeling from reading our jokes here or from american media? Luckily the state machine worked fine)

We are over excited by the fact of having a snow white Athens. For us Athenians it is something very rare

[axi]

Ok everybody expected "a little snow", but there are some city suburbs where the snow has reached 1m and the people are stranded there since Thursday. 100 km north of the city, the snow has reached 2m.

Well, it seems that I'm frustrated because I had noone to go out and play with me in the snow.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Cold here (in Jersey, like usual), about 30s Farenheit. Want it to be summer again

30s Fahrenheit. Cold.

It's frigging warm here. About -5C About 10cm snow on the ground. If winter was always like this I wouldn't want to move to Tahiti.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by faded glory
The whole Royal Family treasury for 300 years was made up of stolen property looted from the 4 corners of the earth


They should pay it back!

Reparations NOW!

Okay. But you have to move back to Germania if they do that.

[Case]

Here's a picture of central Sydney taken last week (the fires were about 50km away)

[Case]

And one of Canberra on Christmas Eve (the big building is the Australian Parliament House)

[JohnT]

Originally posted by paiktis22
JohnT. I don't know if we are overegagerating in our reaction. (did you get that feeling from reading our jokes here or from american media? Luckily the state machine worked fine)

Naw, what got me to laughing was the following quote on page 1:

"Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis told reporters it was the worst weather in 40 years and asked citizens to take care and limit their travel.

``I would like to call on all citizens to be careful and limit their movements. This is an unusual phenomenon and beautiful to watch but also dangerous,'' he said."



I guess this is big news to you guys, huh?

[Bereta_Eder]

It made me laugh too That's why I posted it. It's like we are 2 year olds or something. "beautiful but dangerous phanomenon" Thank you Mr. prime minister for your amazing insight and priceless advice


that's why I called him papaschtrumph. You know the little blue people, the cartoon from Belgium?


All these info is from yahoo, so that it is in english and you can understand it. In greek media the story is much different. I doubt anyone remembered that very phrase of Simitis amongst the other things he has said (which were place specific though).

But as it was underlined in the english news agency it made me laugh very much

[Thue]

Originally posted by paiktis22
that's why I called him papaschtrumph. You know the little blue people, the cartoon from Belgium?

I think they are called "smurf"'s in English. "Smølf" in Danish.

[Dauphin]

Smurf's, lovely little blue creatures that Gargamel wanted to catch.

[Bereta_Eder]

Yes, and as he is short, always smiles and is kind (in his own way) I sometimes call him Papasmurf (strumf whatever). Others call him Chinese (because of his height and his kind of yellow face color!!!)


Weather update:

7 dead from the cold in Turkey. One in Poland.

In Athens the snow has mostly gone away

[Bereta_Eder]

here he is. The one on the right. He may seem tall to you now but that's because he is next to Aznar of Spain and Prodi who are also dwarfs

[faded glory]

Wow Snapcase...Sydney looks like its about to be engulfed.....

It rained today I heard.....But next week is supposed to hot, dry, and windy. Perfect for fires.

[axi]

The snow is melting too slowly for my taste. And I must have picked the worst spot in the neigbourhood to park my car, where the sun doesn't shine, the graders don't pass and the snow doesn't melt.

[Bereta_Eder]

Axi take out your elkithro and have a blast while you still can