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Post by bill on Dec 16, 2015 19:24:38 GMT
It does not feel like Christmas without Alan's annual moan about Christmas Trees.
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Post by Moose on Dec 16, 2015 21:53:48 GMT
Yes I've been waiting for it for days now. But why is this in the travel forum?
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Post by ProdigalAlan on Dec 17, 2015 10:38:33 GMT
Presumably because Alan is in Lanzarote and couldn't give a fig!
Too many palm trees and bugger all Christmas trees
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Post by whollygoats on Dec 20, 2015 16:00:43 GMT
Lanzarote?
Now that's tough. You must be absolutely miserable, missing all the crappy weather, frothing crowds, and surfeit of false cheer.
When you are sitting in the sand in the sun, it's easy to dismiss the misguided and ignore the ongoing stupidity. Somebody's got to do it, I suppose.....it might as well be you.
Have a pint on me, Alan.
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Post by bill on Dec 20, 2015 18:42:18 GMT
Yes I've been waiting for it for days now. But why is this in the travel forum? Travel forum? Blest if I know. My iPad keeps moving up and down. It's one of life's mysteries.
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Post by bill on Dec 20, 2015 18:43:39 GMT
Presumably because Alan is in Lanzarote and couldn't give a fig! Too many palm trees and bugger all Christmas trees Enjoy the heat. We were in Fuerteventura this time last year.
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Post by Moose on Dec 22, 2015 0:29:10 GMT
I don't mind it being cold at Christmas - in fact I'd welcome some snow. But it's not cold here ... it's just awful. Wet and windy and there's another bad storm on its way in a couple more days apparently.
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Post by JoeP on Dec 22, 2015 11:04:07 GMT
What's the next storm called? Pollyanna?
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Post by tangent on Dec 22, 2015 17:07:58 GMT
The next four are Eva, Frank, Gertrude and Henry. I'm a Henry and I'm feeling a bit bemused to be called stormy.
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Post by JoeP on Dec 23, 2015 15:20:01 GMT
I imagine Frank is too.
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Post by whollygoats on Dec 24, 2015 23:08:55 GMT
Y'know...I've heard a rumor that the international weather service that does the naming is considering terminating the practice entirely. The reason: Too many listening to the warnings tend to underestimate the threat posed by...get this...female-named storms. Pending storms with female names assigned are dismissed much more easily by those in the path, than are male-named storms.
So....Just alpha? Or, just numeric? Or, alphanumeric? Dated, from some specific point in storm development?
Personally, I like the names. I don't know how many remember that it was not that long ago that ALL storms were assigned nothing but female names....ah, well; sailor vee.
ETA: I just read several entries on 'storm naming conventions' and it seems it's a nightmare. What I have been familiar with, the conventions for naming the North Atlantic cyclonic storms, is only a small portion of a much wider world of issues.
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Post by tangent on Dec 25, 2015 1:08:00 GMT
Or how about Mohammed, A'ishah, Manahil, Laiba, Aleena, all good Muslim names? I bet Americans would sit up and take notice of those storms *thinks this might not go down too well with Muslims*
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Post by whollygoats on Dec 25, 2015 3:12:45 GMT
Um...I suppose. Considering many Americans would seem to be willing to bomb Agrabah.
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Post by kingedmund on Dec 29, 2015 7:56:19 GMT
Lol. Bomb them not really. Agrabah. Alladin. Jasmine.
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