Christmas

Has anyone ever gotten up around Christmas, looked at the drive way, and wished that you could legally buy a napalm flame thrower just so you wouldn't be outside for 3 hours shoveling?

ahh, right thread this time.

LOL

people that aren't from Canada or Scandinavia/Russia don't get to complain about shoveling snow.

I'm talking about that layered snow that intermittently melts, freezes, and gets snowed on more until what you have is a wet, dense, incredibly heavy snow that's about 2-3 feet high. Each shovel full weighs between 20 and 40 lbs.

oh, I know what you are talking about

Christmas is possibly my favourite time of the year.

Exams usually finish in early december and school/uni usually isn't back on until january 10th or so. Just enough time to kick back and relax, without getting struck by summer vacation-mania.

people that aren't from Canada or Scandinavia/Russia don't get to complain about shoveling snow.

Our good old England comes to a stand still when it snows about half an inch... for some reason, everything goes wrong.

I adore snow. 🙂 So, I'm just happy when we bloody get some snow!!

Where I am, we got about two days of snow last year, and not in December.

Screw Christmas.

Halloween is coming!

Halloween is shit in England.

Halloween is shit compared to Christmas.

Seriously :/

Originally posted by MildPossession
Our good old England comes to a stand still when it snows about half an inch... for some reason, everything goes wrong.

I adore snow. 🙂 So, I'm just happy when we bloody get some snow!!

Where I am, we got about two days of snow last year, and not in December.

lol, I remember being on vacation in America (the south-ish) where they said if there was even a risk of snow, they closed down everything.

I think last year was really mild here (we had record breaking amounts in dec/jan iirc, but the rest really didn't have much) but over the past years it hasn't been uncommon for us to have 10' walls of snow surrounding our driveway.

When it snows, we get severely dumped on, we have fatal traffic accidents because our plowing and roads really suck, and building inspection is so lax that every year we have several roof collapses. Oh, and the rest of the country has to pay for it. The price on beef goes up because cows die in the tens of thousands and there aren't enough national guard troops to airlift hay to them, the roads being impassible.

seriously, thats so lame man, not like they don't know winter is coming.

Canada gets snow right

And again, the Greeley smell. You know it's going to either be very, very cold or snow when you go outside after 12 and you feel like God just gave you a Dirty Sanchez.

lol, I'm going to owe you royalties on that one

Here's another one. It's like getting into a head on car accident and discovering your airbag is a homeless man's ass.

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
So, it's not on the 25th of Dec. this year? 😕

No, didn't you hear? They're moving it to December 24th. Santa needed to get on his routes early because of some elf labor dispute or something. I don't know, north pole politics are confusing as hell.

Maybe they could move it to when Jesus was probably born if he was real. You know, like, mid May.

Pssh, that's crazy talk. Then the Easter bunny would get no love because christmas was so close.

Originally posted by Darth Jello
Maybe they could move it to when Jesus was probably born if he was real. You know, like, mid May.

You're talking about me again, aren't you?

Originally posted by Darth Jello
Has anyone ever gotten up around Christmas, looked at the drive way, and wished that you could legally buy a napalm flame thrower just so you wouldn't be outside for 3 hours shoveling?

ahh, right thread this time.

I don't remember the last time it snowed around christmas where I live. 🙁 Though, it did come last year around July 10th and my dad and I were shoveling the drive way, with borrowed shovels.

Ironically, he gave me the one with the weaker handle and told me to be careful not to break it. 5 seconds later I hear a snap and "Crap" and looked over to see that he broke his shovel. Aah, good times, good times. 🙂