Posted on 01/10/2022 12:13:36 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
“We’ve become a nation of pussies.”
Absolutely... It is scary...
Well, with blustery weather, the windmills will be cranking out that electricity for heating.
-PJ
It is not.
I remember just a couple years ago driving to work in southern NH and the temp gauge on my pickup read MINUS 13.
It is not.
I remember just a couple years ago driving to work in southern NH and the temp gauge on my pickup read MINUS 13.
Everybody knew what "5 below zero" meant. None of this namby-pamby liberal wind chill crap or "C" in parentheses.
And even better there were no "Bomb Cyclones" or "Atmospheric Rivers." Ugh.
Interestingly, it was 92 F in Los Angeles the same day, an all-time high record...BEFORE the global warming hysteria that is killing our energy industry, killing billions of birds in bird-chopping windmills, and causing the feds to put us all into EVs.
Unprecedented!
I’m defrosting the freezer tonight.
Everything goes into coolers or bins and gets put in the car outside and the freezer can be defrosted at my leisure.
Then all the food gets inventoried and rotated and we’re set for another year.
Welcome to Bidenworld, where shivering from the cold is considered good exercise.
It is not that e theme but they don’t have the power to keep warm. Maybe should have gotten a gas pipeline or a nuclear plant or some hydro from Canada when they had the chance. Oh wait, they use to have those things iirc.
Bump that! Experienced 37 below in Vermont, and was in Old Forge, NY the morning they set the record low for the state...52 below zero. I was there for some cross-country ski action...bad timing. :-)
Man up, New England!
I’m in Western Maine, and the coldest I’ve seen it in the 25 years I’ve been here is -34F. Minus 40 would be pretty cold.
Let me see if I fully grasp this: It’s January and they will have a cold snap in Northern New England. Do I have that one right?
We had a cold snap in Seattle just after Christmas and did the same thing. (Well, just left the food on the driveway.) I’m already getting a little frost on the racks. I think it might need a new door seal even though it isn’t that old (10 years??)
The 25 year old fridge and freezer still works great.
(Four well-dressed men sitting together at a vacation resort. 'Farewell to Thee' being played in the background on Hawaiian guitar.)
MICHAEL PALIN: Aye Ahh.. Very passable, this, very passable.
GRAHAM CHAPMAN: Nothing like a good glass of Chateau de Chassilier wine, ay Gessiah?
TERRY JONES: You're right there Obediah.
ERIC IDLE: We Who'd a thought thirty years ago we'd all be sittin' here drinking Chateau de Chassilier wine?
MICHAEL PALIN: Aye. In them days, we'd a' been glad to have the price of a cup o' tea.
GRAHAM CHAPMAN: A cup ' COLD tea.
ERIC IDLE: Without milk or sugar.
TERRY JONES: OR tea!
MICHAEL PALIN: In a filthy, cracked cup.
ERIC IDLE: We never used to have a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper.
GRAHAM CHAPMAN: The best WE could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth.
TERRY JONES: But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.
MICHAEL PALIN: Aye. BECAUSE we were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, 'Money doesn't buy you happiness.'
ERIC IDLE: 'E was right. I was happier then and I had NOTHIN'. We used to live in this tiiiny old house, with greaaaaat big holes in the roof.
GRAHAM CHAPMAN: House? You were lucky to have a HOUSE! We used to live in one room, all hundred and twenty-six of us, no furniture. Half the floor was missing; we were all huddled together in one corner for fear of FALLING!
TERRY JONES: You were lucky to have a ROOM! *We* used to have to live in a corridor!
MICHAEL PALIN: Ohhhh we used to DREAM of livin' in a corridor! Woulda' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woken up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House!? Hmph.
ERIC IDLE: Well when I say 'house' it was only a hole in the ground covered by a piece of tarpolin, but it was a house to US.
GRAHAM CHAPMAN: We were evicted from *our* hole in the ground; we had to go and live in a lake!
TERRY JONES: You were lucky to have a LAKE! There were a hundred and sixty of us living in a small shoebox in the middle of the road.
MICHAEL PALIN: Cardboard box?
TERRY JONES: Aye.
MICHAEL PALIN: You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, our Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!
GRAHAM CHAPMAN: Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY!
TERRY JONES: Well we had it tough. We used to have to get up out of the shoebox at twelve o'clock at night, and LICK the road clean with our tongues. We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at the mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got home, our Dad would slice us in two with a bread knife.
ERIC IDLE: Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, (pause for laughter), drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing 'Hallelujah.'
MICHAEL PALIN: But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'.
ALL: Nope, nope..
I like cold weather unless I have to work in it, but weather that cold...YIKES!!!!
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