I never f@@@ing knew

The Stalking Show - 11th to 12th April 2026 - Staffordshire County Showground
FrenchieBoy said:
Like you I remember the winter of 62/62 only too well. We woke up to find snow up to the bedroom window. No central heating with ice "patterns" on the bedroom windows, just a log/coal fire in the sitting room. Had to dig out way out to the coal shed to get kindling and coal to set and light the fire. The only upside of it was that I made a heck of a lot of pocket money clearing people's paths with the old coal shovel!
We knew what snow was back then and we just got on with life, we had to and we simply accepted it - Nowadays if we get 2 or 3 inches of snow the whole country grinds to a halt and everyone is panicking!
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Likewise, the toilet froze over!
 
Well, according to the BBC, here’s how to ensure you survive your drive to work in a mild dusting of snow at -1deg C 😂
 

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The problem with today’s society is that it can’t take responsibility for its own actions.
So the govt / media has to warn them that it’s going to be windy/snowy/rainy.hot/cold/foggy, etc and to take care when walking with pointed toast because they no longer can work it out for themselves. And if they happen to not realise that said weather is happening and they haven’t been told to take care and get into a pickle (like going for a stroll on the seafront in a force 10 gale), then it’s everyone else’s fault that they are a moron!

With increasing technology we have seen indirectly proportional drop in intelligence and common sense!

Welcome to the brave new world!!
 
starr shot said:
Bristol Airport closed for a while because of snow,Yet a plane could take off from Reykjavik but not land At Bristol 😂😂
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Experienced similar in the winter of 81/82. Flying back from NZ in January(?), off loaded in LA to find the passengers from the day before still there as BA unable to do their leg of the shuttle between LA & Heathrow in 747 due to snow in the UK. A day later we’d managed to get seats on a KLM 747 to Schiphol & then on to Heathrow - clearly the Dutch knew more about flying when there was snow on the ground than the British!

Getting home for Heathrow was a nightmare but eventually we got back to find snow drifted up to the sills on the first floor windows & had to borrow a shovel from a neighbour to dig a way in to the door. Fortunately central heating had been left on low so no dramas with burst pipes etc.
 
TringSaint said:
The problem with today’s society is that it can’t take responsibility for its own actions.
So the govt / media has to warn them that it’s going to be windy/snowy/rainy.hot/cold/foggy, etc and to take care when walking with pointed toast because they no longer can work it out for themselves. And if they happen to not realise that said weather is happening and they haven’t been told to take care and get into a pickle (like going for a stroll on the seafront in a force 10 gale), then it’s everyone else’s fault that they are a moron!

With increasing technology we have seen indirectly proportional drop in intelligence and common sense!

Welcome to the brave new world!!
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Or they behave the opposite and refuse to be told what to do because they are stubborn bastards.

“I’m not going to have my vaccination because it’s my right not too” soo all the hospitals are rammed with flu so people die.

More people will die because of poor uptake of vaccinations than winter fuel payments.
 
big ears said:
Or they behave the opposite and refuse to be told what to do because they are stubborn bastards.

“I’m not going to have my vaccination because it’s my right not too” soo all the hospitals are rammed with flu so people die.

More people will die because of poor uptake of vaccinations than winter fuel payments.
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What gets me is when these morons decide, as you say, to ignore advice / warnings and do the opposite and get into difficulty then they expect others to come and rescue them.

I know the MR / Coast Guard / RNLI etc will always come out no matter the danger, but it’s not fair that they have to risk their own lives just to save some pillock who couldn’t be told.

I get it that sh!t happens sometimes (I spent many years as a mountaineer and ice climber in Scotland and in the alps) but we always heeded the advice of the local guides and MR teams in terms of avoiding areas which were particularly hazardous.

Seems that today a large proportion of the population have a laissez faire attitude to the safety of others when deciding ignore advice and guidance, which then leads to the nanny state we are in.

Vicious circle!!
 
TringSaint said:
What gets me is when these morons decide, as you say, to ignore advice / warnings and do the opposite and get into difficulty then they expect others to come and rescue them.

I know the MR / Coast Guard / RNLI etc will always come out no matter the danger, but it’s not fair that they have to risk their own lives just to save some pillock who couldn’t be told.

I get it that sh!t happens sometimes (I spent many years as a mountaineer and ice climber in Scotland and in the alps) but we always heeded the advice of the local guides and MR teams in terms of avoiding areas which were particularly hazardous.

Seems that today a large proportion of the population have a laissez faire attitude to the safety of others when deciding ignore advice and guidance, which then leads to the nanny state we are in.

Vicious circle!!
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Absolutely
I’m all in favour of people taking responsibility for their own being but then they have to take all responsibility for their actions. Maybe take out insurance to cover the cost of rescue. That would make them think
 
starr shot said:
Bristol Airport closed for a while because of snow,Yet a plane could take off from Reykjavik but not land At Bristol 😂😂
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Pretty standard.
Not only do the runways and taxiways have to be cleared, so do the access roads to allow the great unwashed arrive and drop off or collect and depart.All those delays and cancellations generate a lot more road traffic.
Then the aircraft have to be individually treated for ice before departure which has a short lifespan before you have to drop out of the queue and do it again.
Finally, even when things are all sorted where you are, they may not be at your destination, so you may not be able to go because your destination is still affected.
 
Winter of 87/88 in Germany a pleasant Wintex living in trenches for two weeks.
Wind chill -38 up at Bergen Hoehne ,4 people casevacked with frost bite .5 ft of snow absolutely arctic.
But the Germans kept the roads open, planes and trains ran,Britain is a joke in winter.
Get some decent winter tyres/ snow chains, carry a shovel and waterproof clothes.
If your trying to go far a flask of coffee and some chocolate bars .You might not get there if 10m.p.h panick monkey crashes and blocks the road .
 
tozzybum said:
Winter of 87/88 in Germany a pleasant Wintex living in trenches for two weeks.
Wind chill -38 up at Bergen Hoehne ,4 people casevacked with frost bite .5 ft of snow absolutely arctic.
But the Germans kept the roads open, planes and trains ran,Britain is a joke in winter.
Get some decent winter tyres/ snow chains, carry a shovel and waterproof clothes.
If your trying to go far a flask of coffee and some chocolate bars .You might not get there if 10m.p.h panick monkey crashes and blocks the road .
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Often overlooked for car kit, a book, nothing worse than being stuck with nothing to do. A good book can let those stuck hours fly by.
 
Morkai said:
Often overlooked for car kit, a book, nothing worse than being stuck with nothing to do. A good book can let those stuck hours fly by.
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I broke down about 20 miles from home a couple of months ago (on a main road, outside a police station) at around 17:00. It took the RAC over 8 hours to recover me, so yes, a book would have been nice.
 
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