Why do people complain about irish weather?!

Bartronilic

We get some snow but not snowed in.
We have green grass.
We don't die of heat stroke and have to have siestas.
We don't die of frost bite and have to have boilers in our basements.
We get thunderstroms but not struck by lightning (much).
We get unpredictabil weather patterns which is good

Huggles

Its actually cause of your last point, its all over the feckin place, I'd like a cold winter and a warm summer, is that too much to ask.................

Instead we get two weeks of summer in September and then maybe a little snow in February, its not even decent snow its like snow vomit :mad:

We are having a good Summer though, can only hope for snow in Winter.

Tusky

Bartronilic wrote:

We get some snow but not snowed in.
We have green grass.
We don't die of heat stroke and have to have siestas.
We don't die of frost bite and have to have boilers in our basements.
We get thunderstroms but not struck by lightning (much).
We get unpredictabil weather patterns which is good

Irish people will complain about the weather no matter where they are.

"its too hot"

"its too cold"

"its not hot enough"

"its too humid"

"its fekkin raining..."

Creamy Goodness

the only weather related topic i moan about is humidity, the rest i love.

Dave!

Because you touch yourself at night

Terry

Cremo wrote:

the only weather related topic i moan about is humidity, the rest i love.

me too. although i'm not too fond of the heat at all.

grimloch

Complaining is a very popular Irish pastime.

Plus I don't recall any threads complaining about the rain when we had it or that it was too cold.

Pocari Sweat

Nowt wrong with it.

abetarrush

Global Warmin - People around d world die, Ireland gets nice weather

woOt

Terry

abetarrush wrote:

Global Warmin - People around d world die, Ireland gets nice weather

woOt

800 years of suffering. it's about time we got something good.

note: i threw the smilie in before someone comes in and starts ranting about how the british weren't to blame for everything and that i'm a racist.

Ruu_Old

"Honk if ya hate complaining, honk if ya hate complaining!"

We might actually have to do some work if we had nothing to complain about.

Flukey

Ireland does not get any of the extremes of weather that other countries do. The Gulf Stream has a lot to do with that. Take somewhere like New York or Toronto. Now they get real snow. We have it in our minds that both are way up north. Actually Toronto is about as far south as the south of France and New York is about as far south as Lisbon. So we are much nearer the Arctic than they are, and it is because of the Gulf Stream that we get such mild weather.

I was in New Orleans at the end of March, beginning of April last year. It was very warm, like a good summer's day here. I said to my friend, a local, that it was hot, and he replied that I should see the weather in August. Of course we all know what happened in August last year in New Orleans, although he was only referring to the heat and humidity. In Ireland we don't know what cold is, we don't know what heat is, we don't know what wind is, and yes, we don't even know what rain is. We don't have any of the extremes of weather that the rest of the world has, and that is not such a bad thing.

abetarrush

Ireland grand


its jus expensive and theres fvckall to do

Sam Vimes

julep wrote:

800 years of suffering. it's about time we got something good.

note: i threw the smilie in before someone comes in and starts ranting about how the british weren't to blame for everything and that i'm a racist.

its very annoying that its come to the stage that its necessary to put in that note

Black Swan

Ruu wrote:

"Honk if ya hate complaining, honk if ya hate complaining!"

We might actually have to do some work if we had nothing to complain about.

HONK! HONK!*












*By honking, does that mean I'm complaining about complaining?:D

Ponster

Bartronilic wrote:

We get unpredictable weather patterns which is good

Nope. That's the only 'bad' point you made. Where I live I'm used to knowing that you're going to get 3 months of nice weather, where it never drops below 23°C. True, it get's damn cold at winter but some people prefer to have predictable extremes rather than unpredictable mildness.

DonkeyStyle \o/

The weather is just about perfect today... almost too perfect. O_ó

Doomspell

I like all types of weather and I don't understand why people complain about it. I have lived in really really hot and humid places but also really cold places. I loved both. Irelands climate to me is pervect because you get everything but not to the extreme.

The lack of extremes IS what annoys me. I like to have seasons, and what I get in N. Ireland is one long coldish grey rainy season all year long. I find it extremely depressing and dull. I hate the colour of the sky and how low it seems. In Spain it gets too hot in summer but the rest of the time it's lovely, always a clear blue sky. I loved the seasons in New York state as well, hot summers and freezing winters with snow.

InFront

You know the way it's all the cold and dark countries that have the highest suicide rates?

Does that mean Ireland has a higher rate of schizophrenics?

Dave!

Miracle Salmon Rig wrote:

The lack of extremes IS what annoys me. I like to have seasons, and what I get in N. Ireland is one long coldish grey rainy season all year long. I find it extremely depressing and dull. I hate the colour of the sky and how low it seems. In Spain it gets too hot in summer but the rest of the time it's lovely, always a clear blue sky. I loved the seasons in New York state as well, hot summers and freezing winters with snow.

I agree! For 10 months in the year, the country is just gloomy and depressing.

InFront

I don't know, there's something oddly attractive about the rain. It's not just grey, it makes everything brown, silver, red, blue, shiney dark velvet green and bright yellowish green.

...Right. I think Ive spoken enough shte for one day, Over and Out.

Dave!

You need to stay off that acid, man

I dunno, I just see grey really!

R0ot

we are just a bunch of complainers at times

blorg

I agree, it's the lack of defined seasons that gets me. Having said that it's not actually as wet as people think in this country; Portugal actually gets more annual rainfall (although it is probably wet for longer periods here.) Could be worse; could be Scotland.

ScumLord

Around here we just complain to annoy the foreigners. As soon as it gets hot we start saying "Jayz it's awful feckin' hot, a drop of rain wouldn't go amiss" Then when the rain comes "Pft summers over, more of this miserable rain". It drives them mad. It's just a joke, we love complaining.

I don't mind the Irish weather it's interesting, you never know whats coming next. I actually don't like when it's just hot all the time or raining all the time. I love the Irish sky it's always different a huge range of colours that make the countryside look completely different. I even like that misty rain that gradually greys out towards the horizon.

If it wasn't for our changing weather we wouldn't have such a beautiful countryside, I'm willing to pay the price so we don't end up with scorched earth like other country's in Europe.