It's A Snowflake...shut Things!

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cdxvdyzv5nvt

When did we get this soft? I don't remember ever having a day off school because of the weather, ever! Even when the heating broke we had lessons in our coats. Now it's armaggeddon every time there's a few snowflakes. When did we become such snowflakes?

[dave50]

Also we were allowed to make slides in the school playground, they ended up being sheet ice. We fell and hurt ourselves but nobody thought to sue the school!

[ToraToraTora]

bang on judge, BA.

On another subject there's a legal point here for you to hav a go at:

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1882834.html

 

[ToraToraTora]

I can remember the giant snowball fights we got into , even the teachers joined in! Then in the way home we'd take a heavy duty plastic bag and use it as a sledge on the local hills. I feel sorry for the poor molly coddled snowflakes today, they'll never know simple fun.

[Mozz71]

I was sent home from school because of the weather a couple of times (I lived ten minutes from school, so the weather wasn't an issue for me). A couple of times there was barely a dozen kids turn up after a blizzard. This would be mid-eighties, so it's hardly a new phenomenon.

[nicebloke1]

NJ Most of, if not all your arguments result in a novel all about you, and this was is much about the same. Your novel dont however give the wider picture back then. So this country does not have the inclination or the will? Even if thats partly true it could be down to the many doom and gloom mongers very much like yourself.

If I were as upset as you seem to be with the workings of everything in this country, theres plenty of planes out of here, why hang around.

 

[ToraToraTora]

16:37 Stop trolling you idiot.

[nicebloke1]

Trolling???

[ToraToraTora]

teacake you may have fooled the editor etc but not me you are nothing but a troll.

[nicebloke1]

Getting angry because I come back with a reasonable reply. Dear oh dear.

[Canary42]

As has already been implied, it's all as a result of the greedy No Win No Fee rogues fuelling the Blame-and-Claim brigade.

Anything remotely "risky" is now completely out. 

Anyone (and I know there are a few of you) who lived/worked through the 1963 Winter (snow in December stayed until March, people drove cars on the Norfolk Broads) will know what we used to be able to achieve.  I dread to think what would happen to this fine country if we had another winter like that.

[douglas9401]

Eeee, but we were 'appy. Calm doon you lot.

[newmodarmy]

TTT- I think you're flogging a dead horse there and will just get yourself in trouble if you keep raising it. The Eds clearly know what's going on and have decided to leave well alone.

[Arksided]

I remember in the late seventies being told that we had to be sent home I'd have 7 or 8 form my first school... it was fantastic we could play in the snow. I seem to remember the old folk's (Parents etc... weren't best pleased)

[Arksided]

*i'd have being about

[New Judge]

"If I were as upset as you seem to be with the workings of everything in this country, theres plenty of planes out of here, why hang around."

I wouldn't do that, nb.

Unlike the tens of thousands who have made their way to this country because they don't like it where they are (and then complain - via their "legal teams" -  that it doesn't suit them here either) I will stay.

I'm sorry my comments about 1963 did not result from a full in depth study across the country. When asked to compare today with previous times most people can only do so by relating their own experiences.  Unfotunately I don't have all the statistics regarding school closures due to the weather in early 1963. But a bit of research illustrates that the majority opinion on here - that schools are more prone to close at the first sign of possible problems - is probably not far from the truth. Here's a BBC article which looks at the differences between the winters of 2010 (which was not particularly harsh by my recollection) and 1963:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8446942.stm#:~:text=While%20some%20schools%20were%20forced,%22health%20and%20safety%20nation%22.

It reminded me just how harsh that winter was and in many parts of the UK - particularly in the North - many localities were completely cut off for weeks and gettting to school was impossible (and in fact the last thing people were concerned about).

But it was not like hat in the south. The weather was just incredibly cold for a long period but the snow and ice just created a nuisance - not an impenetrable barrier to everyday life.

Peter Hennessy, professor of contemporary British history at Queen Mary University of London, sums it up. "While some schools were forced to close in 1963" he said "the large number of closures this week [in 2010] indicated the UK had become a "health and safety nation". 

[douglas9401]

Bear in mind that stuff like this allows TV companies to break out the 4x4s and Rab jackets to get out and gather footage of rosy-cheeked children playing in the white stuff while oddly-shaped parents grumble and groan about trauma and inconvenience.

[nicebloke1]

Travel and the massive amount of traffic on a nomal day is bad enough, add a little bad weather to that, then you have bigger delays. The sixties and seventies didnt have the sort of traffic we have today and that I believe is the main problem.

[douglas9401]

That and shitey eco tyres.

[nicebloke1]

A Morris Minor would plough through anything. :0)))

[nicebloke1]

These light alloy wheels turn very fast but go nowhere ha ha ha.