I’m about to commence bitching. Those who can’t differentiate between venting and earnest, serious discussion, buzz off now.
Who the hell came up with the notion of “bad weather”? I swear everyone, from my co-workers to my friends to the announcers on the radio has a complex about the weather. “It’s gonna be a miserable day, folks”. “I hope the weather doesn’t ruin our weekend”. “Boy it’s really awful out there”. “Looks like it’s going to rain. Oh well, I guess you can’t have everything.”
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!!! I have a news flash for you: in the temperate regions of this planet which humans mostly inhabit, we have a thing called weather. Sometimes it’s cold. Sometimes it’s hot. Sometimes it rains. Sometimes ice falls from the sky. It’s not good, it’s not bad, it just is. If you can’t cope, if it makes you so unhappy that it isn’t 70 degrees and sunny every god-blessed day of the year, either move or get yourself an attitude adjustment! Stop making value judgements about something as stupid and trivial as the weather. You’re just making yourself sad. I can’t imagine how depressed I’d get if I worried every day whether the sun would shine on the morrow. We live here, get used to it. Every season, every wind, every form of precipitation, has it’s own special beauty. I promise you that unless you live at the north pole, whatever conditions the earth chooses to bestow on you tomorrow they will be within the parameters of human survival.
I have further news. You know how that fancy digital watch you bought is waterproof to three billion metres? Your body is waterproof too! Isn’t that amazing? I know it sounds dangerous, but I dare you to stand out in the rain sometime – without any form of shelter! You may experience the urge flee the liquid onslought before your flesh corrodes and sloughs off of your bones in sheets; but stand your ground. You will watch, amazed, as the water slides off of your skin as if it were formed of an advanced weatherproof-yet-breathable fabric manufactured by the DuPont corporation. Yes, without any enhancement, your body is an all-weather device, a veritable juggernaut against the elements. Imagine the vistas that open before you with this realization! No more cowering in fear and disgust for a quarter of the year! No more is your familiar backyard transformed at the whim of nature into a forebidding alien landscape.
I’m sick to death of hearing the obligatory water-cooler curses muttered against the weather. Show a little goddamn adaptability and fortitude. Barring hurricanes and similar extreme events, there’s no reason to fret about a little rain or a thunderstorm or two. These things are all part of the amazingly beautiful variety of the world we live in. Our bodies are wonderfully adapted to withstand the array of conditions we are subject to. Weather happens. Get used to it. Appreciate it. Thrive on it. Quit yer bitching.
Woo! Well spoken! I get the funniest looks when people complain about the weather and I tell them that I think it’s lovely out…
Woo! Well spoken! I get the funniest looks when people complain about the weather and I tell them that I think it’s lovely out…
Well, there are two specific reasons that rain would put a damper on the Beltane celebration. One of them is general and the other is me-specific.
1) If it rains, having a fire is very difficult. Therefore, all feast cooking etc will have to be done in a kitchen rather than in the fire. I do not doubt, however, that there will still be people dancing in the rain regardless. . .it simply won’t be outdoors all night.
2) For me, I do not have the constitution to spend all evening in the rain. I would likely get sick again. Everything makes me sick lately, and I am trying desperately to maintain my health so I can at least minimally function.
Other than that, generally I like rain too. Storms are even better.
You (and by extention, the things you are involved in) are exempted from my ire due to your delicate condition.
As a former boyscout though, unless the fire-making is confined to strictly primitive methods, I fail to see how a little rain makes having a fire very difficult. At most I’d think it means allowing an extra half-hour to get it started.
You (and by extention, the things you are involved in) are exempted from my ire due to your delicate condition.
As a former boyscout though, unless the fire-making is confined to strictly primitive methods, I fail to see how a little rain makes having a fire very difficult. At most I’d think it means allowing an extra half-hour to get it started.
FTR
The kids and I have been witness to Avdi getting a relatively roaring fire going with matches, damp wood, and rain falling a might harder than drizzle.
FTR
The kids and I have been witness to Avdi getting a relatively roaring fire going with matches, damp wood, and rain falling a might harder than drizzle.
Well, there are two specific reasons that rain would put a damper on the Beltane celebration. One of them is general and the other is me-specific.
1) If it rains, having a fire is very difficult. Therefore, all feast cooking etc will have to be done in a kitchen rather than in the fire. I do not doubt, however, that there will still be people dancing in the rain regardless. . .it simply won’t be outdoors all night.
2) For me, I do not have the constitution to spend all evening in the rain. I would likely get sick again. Everything makes me sick lately, and I am trying desperately to maintain my health so I can at least minimally function.
Other than that, generally I like rain too. Storms are even better.
“I’m only happy when it rains..”
“I’m only happy when it rains..”
Thank you!!!!
I have never understood why people say that rainy days are “nasty” or “miserable”. I mean, what the frig has the rain ever done to anyone? Why can’t people appreciate the weather reguardless of what it does? How does rain ruin someones weekend? Grab a fooking umbrella you goddamn douche-bags! I love cloudy rainy and cool days… The only weather I dislike is hot and sunny days… Seriously. I fooking hate it when it’s sunny. Even more of it’s hot….
Thank you!!!!
I have never understood why people say that rainy days are “nasty” or “miserable”. I mean, what the frig has the rain ever done to anyone? Why can’t people appreciate the weather reguardless of what it does? How does rain ruin someones weekend? Grab a fooking umbrella you goddamn douche-bags! I love cloudy rainy and cool days… The only weather I dislike is hot and sunny days… Seriously. I fooking hate it when it’s sunny. Even more of it’s hot….
A-fucken-men. I’m such a water baby and I get so fucken pissed off at people who diss my favourite kind of weather.
But I hope it doesn’t rain tomorrow, to be honest. I need to start a fire. It’s important.
A-fucken-men. I’m such a water baby and I get so fucken pissed off at people who diss my favourite kind of weather.
But I hope it doesn’t rain tomorrow, to be honest. I need to start a fire. It’s important.
No.
Fuck off, I like to bitch and whine and complain, especially when it is about someone who can’t hear me and won’t take offense and won’t whale upon me with whoop-ass retribution.
Mother Nature is my emotional punching bag, my outlet for voicing the frustrations and limitations of everything else surrounding me that I can’t otherwise complain effectively about.
Nah, not really. But it sounded good for a second.
No.
Fuck off, I like to bitch and whine and complain, especially when it is about someone who can’t hear me and won’t take offense and won’t whale upon me with whoop-ass retribution.
Mother Nature is my emotional punching bag, my outlet for voicing the frustrations and limitations of everything else surrounding me that I can’t otherwise complain effectively about.
Nah, not really. But it sounded good for a second.
what are you talking about???
what is this “weather” thing you speak of???
does it have to do with these things called “seasons???”
all I know is that at some point it gets more painful to wear shorts outside…
that is all..
ps.. I’m drunk on tequila right now.
wheee…
what are you talking about???
what is this “weather” thing you speak of???
does it have to do with these things called “seasons???”
all I know is that at some point it gets more painful to wear shorts outside…
that is all..
ps.. I’m drunk on tequila right now.
wheee…
I don’t mind the rain, it’s the not having sun that bothers me. I hate it being dark out when it’s not supposed to be, it makes me feel like crap and drains my energy. As soon as it gets to the time when the sun would have gone down I feel better oddly enough.
I don’t mind the rain, it’s the not having sun that bothers me. I hate it being dark out when it’s not supposed to be, it makes me feel like crap and drains my energy. As soon as it gets to the time when the sun would have gone down I feel better oddly enough.
i don’t mind the rain at all, but i simply hate the way drivers react to it.
Yes, driving in it is one of the few things I don’t like about rain.
Yes, driving in it is one of the few things I don’t like about rain.
i don’t mind the rain at all, but i simply hate the way drivers react to it.