Snowmagedagain

The J Stands for Jay · 03-03-2018 09:50AM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Grrrrr! I wish RTÉ management, for the first time ever, could send a big, final, definitive memo to all its journalists:

'It's 2018. We use the metric system now. Every single road sign in this European state is in metric only since 2005, just as every measurement in Met Éireann has been in metric since the same year. That's 13 years ago. We are the state media organisation. We are now only going to use metric measurements so please stop this backward regressive nonsense about feet, inches, yards and miles in your reports. Thank you.'

I went to school in the 1980s. We were all taught metric. I have no idea how many yards are in a mile, I don't know what an ounce is, apart from miles and pint (obvs) I don't know anything about the imperial system.
I get especially annoyed about the maternity hospitals. The weighing scales are all metric, but they do a mental conversion and tell you the weight of your child in pounds and ounces. They may as well be giving it to me in terms of African swallows.

The snow was late arriving here, but there's loads of it now.

Richard Hillman · 03-03-2018 09:50AM

Conditions far worse now than they were on Wednesday but the Warning has been dropped to Orange.

minikin · 03-03-2018 10:30AM

Jaffa n’idea how long this warning will last for?

suicide_circus · 03-03-2018 10:33AM

It's amazing how quickly the mask of sanity slips at times like this

Collie D · 03-03-2018 10:52AM

So red warning expired at 9am. Hasn't snowed all morning here in NE Dublin but sounds very windy and it's cold.

Dublin Bus due to resume service on main routes from midday with updates from around 10am...no Nitelinks running.

Any other travel or weather updates from around the country?

nice_guy80 · 03-03-2018 11:02AM

no wonder kids are so confused about measurements in Maths.

RTE still stuck in the 1960s

Harry Palmr · 03-03-2018 11:22AM

Waterford - no more snow and its starting to fall off walls, branches etc so I think we're just into the beginnings of a thaw.

Just listening to the biz programme on RTE radio, huge numbers of small businesses clearly taking a big hit which they'll never recover.

RandomName2 · 03-03-2018 11:26AM

Jawgap wrote: »

Yeah, because turning out the Army and leaving things like armouries unguarded is a good idea......

95% of the army is needed to guard the armouries?

If, god forbid, we were invaded by Sea Land, would we only be able to commit 5% of our armed forces? What is the point of armed forces if they can't be used in an ermengy and must be used to guard the armouries of weapons that they'll never use?

Jawgap wrote: »

.......and sure given the brilliant wages they're on shouldn't they all be working 24 hours a day, every day.

How about getting rid of the army altogether? Their wages are crap, no doubt, but we could have more police, ambulance drivers, search and rescue teams, etc. with those resources. In particular we don't have much use for APCs and other expensive military equipment. It's not as if we would be able to use them after all, if the armouries need protecting.

begbysback · 03-03-2018 11:28AM

That's all well and good - but has anyone actually seen a costa open?

wheresmahbombs · 03-03-2018 12:09PM

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Waterford - no more snow and its starting to fall off walls, branches etc so I think we're just into the beginnings of a thaw.

Might be the same for me in Dublin, as a result of the standard rain I might be getting later today

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Capt'n Midnight · 03-03-2018 12:11PM

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Just listening to the biz programme on RTE radio, huge numbers of small businesses clearly taking a big hit which they'll never recover.

It's 1% of the year and all their competitors are taking the same hit.

Next week will be catchup. Businesses with people who could work remotely won't be as badly hit.

ISME are like the farmers. There's always a problem.

minikin · 03-03-2018 12:12PM

That's all well and good - but has anyone actually seen a costa open?

This one looks like it’s open for business...

nostro · 03-03-2018 12:43PM

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Just listening to the biz programme on RTE radio, huge numbers of small businesses clearly taking a big hit which they'll never recover.

Absolute rubbish. Life is about more than spending money on unnecessary consumer products. All their competitors will also have been closed so it just means that people will have more money to spend when people venture out and start buying things again.
In other countries many businesses are not allowed to sell on Sundays to let people do non materialistic things.
Here families spend their Sundays at shopping malls and we have 6:00am sales on Stephens day.
Maybe consider that playing in the snow is a more worthwhile activity than buying even more stuff in shops.

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beauf · 03-03-2018 12:50PM

Been snowing in d15 all morning.

It seems to thawing though just a tiny bit.

OldMrBrennan83 · 03-03-2018 12:53PM

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minikin · 03-03-2018 12:58PM

nostro wrote: »

Absolute rubbish. Life is about more than spending money on unnecessary consumer products. All their competitors will also have been closed so it just means that people will have more money to spend when people venture out and start buying things again.
In other countries many businesses are not allowed to sell on Sundays to let people do non materialistic things.
Here families spend their Sundays at shopping malls and we have 6:00am sales on Stephens day.
Maybe consider that playing in the snow is a more worthwhile activity than buying even more stuff in shops.

Not so sure about that unfortunately Nostro, many small businesses run on tight margins. They are less resilient than larger competitors because the banks can be brutal in advancing credit facilities. They would also have less redundancy in terms of systems and staff numbers... so a few days lost trading or missing staff can ruin a month for them... a bad month can ruin a year... look at what happened to Lidl, in the grand scheme of things they'll bounce back... if that happened to a small retail outlet - game over.

minikin · 03-03-2018 01:04PM

On that note I see Lidl have taken the gloves off. They're zeppelining over new items for Tuesday's offers:
Stun guns, man traps, mace, baseball bats and sterilisation kits.
An attack on one outlet is an attack on the entire reich!!!

(note to mods: this thread topic is snow/panic buying/items for sale in lidl)

nostro · 03-03-2018 01:07PM

minikin wrote: »

On that note I see Lidl have taken the gloves off. They're zeppelining over new items for Tuesday's offers:
Stun guns, man traps, mace, baseball bats and sterilisation kits.
An attack on one outlet is an attack on the entire reich!!!
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Now that makes absolutely no sense. So Lidl will be having Special Offers on the weapons that can then be used to attack Lidl stores.
Surely they should instead provide those products to staff.

minikin · 03-03-2018 01:08PM

nostro wrote: »

Now that makes absolutely no sense. So Lidl will be selling people the tools which they can use to attack Lidl stores.

Apologies for a joke that had the possibility of not being 100% defensible in an episode of L.A. Law... :rolleyes:

CrowdedHouse · 03-03-2018 01:15PM

Snow is heavy/shovelling snow is hard work

OldMrBrennan83 · 03-03-2018 01:23PM

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nice_guy80 · 03-03-2018 01:31PM

Patww79 wrote: »

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I prefer not to rely on celestial dictator

DEFTLEFTHAND · 03-03-2018 01:32PM

Fcking fell last night and cracked a rib. In severe discomfort

Fcking drunk idiot.

Dartz · 03-03-2018 01:33PM

Starting to melt now.

Grand. Cracked the hatches.

Let the reek of Guinness farts out. This green, malodorous cloud dissolved snow and plantlife as on.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 03-03-2018 01:39PM

Fcking ribcage is banjaxed lads.

Need whiskey to ease pain.

Ken. · 03-03-2018 01:45PM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Fcking fell last night and cracked a rib. In severe discomfort

Fcking drunk idiot.

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Fcking ribcage is banjaxed lads.

Need whiskey to ease pain.

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begbysback · 03-03-2018 01:59PM

Just dug out my driveway - highly offended that someone else is getting the credit for it

dirtyden · 03-03-2018 02:17PM

minikin wrote: »

Not so sure about that unfortunately Nostro, many small businesses run on tight margins. They are less resilient than larger competitors because the banks can be brutal in advancing credit facilities. They would also have less redundancy in terms of systems and staff numbers... so a few days lost trading or missing staff can ruin a month for them... a bad month can ruin a year... look at what happened to Lidl, in the grand scheme of things they'll bounce back... if that happened to a small retail outlet - game over.

If having to close for a couple of days has that impact the business is not viable. Coming from a small shopkeepers family what actually happens is a day like today we would be much busier than typical. The losses from 2 days closed would be regained quickly enough once reopened. In any small business there has to be an element of contingency planning. For every small business you will have some downtime, whether it’s a supply issue, a leaky roof, whatever. You need to be able manage these or your business was never a goer.

Now if someone smashed a jcb through the wall we would have been in trouble alright.

Hande hoche! · 03-03-2018 02:21PM

They had one of those smug Germans on the on o'clock news.

minikin · 03-03-2018 02:32PM

dirtyden wrote: »

If having to close for a couple of days has that impact the business is not viable. Coming from a small shopkeepers family what actually happens is a day like today we would be much busier than typical. The losses from 2 days closed would be regained quickly enough once reopened. In any small business there has to be an element of contingency planning. For every small business you will have some downtime, whether it’s a supply issue, a leaky roof, whatever. You need to be able manage these or your business was never a goer.

Now if someone smashed a jcb through the wall we would have been in trouble alright.

Thanks for your example but by definition your family's highly profitable business was not the type of business being discussed in the rte piece or by me. That's why I said 'many' rather than 'all' small businesses.Not all small businesses sell the essentials unfortunately... look how many retailers are hanging in there... and they're doing ok, getting by, so long as they can continue trading on a regular basis. I think it's a bit unfair to dismiss them out of hand because they're not highly liquid.

In the same way as people are hanging in there paying their mortgages... not fair to knock them because they don't have multiple years mortgage payments in reserve. A lot of businesses and people are just getting by - nothing to be ashamed about.

Anyway... do you know what's gas about this weather... cylinders.

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