Afraid of the rain

castletownman · 31-08-2015 07:55PM

There's nothing better than having a warm shower after playing a match/training on a rainy night.

Actually there is one thing that is better. That relaxing feeling when you hear rain pelting off the window in the middle of the night when your snug in bed. Would literally make romance in the sanctity of it all

IvaBigWun · 31-08-2015 07:56PM

Moaning about the weather is one of the more annoying traits of the Irish. Ive just been out in it for nearly 2 hours and there was a look myself and others were giving each other of "what's the big deal? This is grand!"

You can spot the moaners in your life a mile off when they complain about rain and in general I do my best to avoid them as you can sure they're negative people in general.

Rain is why we have hoods on jackets and waterproof shoes

Tarzana2 · 01-09-2015 04:39AM

The_Valeyard wrote: »

I love listening to the rain when I'm in bed, hear it against the window while I'm all snug. Something very relaxing and chilled about it.

Agreed, it's wonderful.

Sunnyisland · 01-09-2015 06:40AM

For me it's not actually the rain, it's the cold and rain together, can't do that.where I live we don't get that much rain but when it does come it's welcome and great .

CruelCoin · 01-09-2015 10:08AM

Deleted User wrote: »

What is it with people being afraid of the rain? As in, running a hundred metres grimacing like the rain is acidic and burning their flesh. What's the deal there? I don't understand it.

I have no idea. It always amuses me when my companions go sprinting for cover, while i stroll onwards.

It's water, you'll dry off......

listermint · 01-09-2015 10:11AM

Deleted User wrote: »

It's raining where I am now. Kind of heavily, but not torrential or likely to cause floods or anything like that. Just rain. Irish rain.

What is it with people being afraid of the rain? As in, running a hundred metres grimacing like the rain is acidic and burning their flesh. What's the deal there? I don't understand it.

Fair enough if you just had your hair done or something. Then I could understand you running from the rain but otherwise what's the point? You scrunch up your shoulders and make a stupid face and get from point A to point B approximately four seconds faster than if you have not made a stupid face or scrunched up your shoulders and ran to your destination. And people always looks so surprised that it's raining. Like they've never seen rain before and it has just come out of nowhere.

Are you afraid of the rain? Are you surprised, in Ireland, when it rains? Do you run like a twonk when it rains? What exactly are you afraid of?

I find it all quite hilarious and entertaining.

Yes because reaching your destination and sitting in damp clingy clothes is the most awesome thing ever ......

I usually just wear my clothes straight out of the wash for that cling to body feeling that i love.

01-09-2015 10:13AM

listermint wrote: »

Yes because reaching your destination and sitting in damp clingy clothes is the most awesome thing ever ......

I usually just wear my clothes straight out of the wash for that cling to body feeling that i love.

You'll probably catch pneumonia doing that

sbsquarepants · 01-09-2015 10:20AM

My auld man spends most of the winter shouting at the dog to get in out of the rain - has done for as long as I can remember. He just will not entertain the idea that the dog (a succession of dogs in fact) might not mind the rain!
The beast has a shed of his own to call home and can come and go at will - if he wanted out of the rain all he need do is walk in to the shed!

Mesrine65 · 01-09-2015 12:19PM

I love the rain, especially if it's beating of the window & I'm hibernating under my quilt, drifting off to sleep...bliss

Medusa22 · 01-09-2015 01:25PM

If I don't have any make-up on and I am not going anywhere fancy so I don't have to care about my hair, then I love the rain, especially when it's warm. Most of the time though, I'm trying to stop my make up from rubbing off and my hair getting destroyed, so I probably am one of those people who looks like acid is falling on my face :pac:

I just got back from Amsterdam last night but it was so humid there yesterday and I was sitting on a canal cruise boat and it started to rain so the captain decided to close the windows, I was devastated and opened mine again so I could stick my hand out and enjoy the rain, it was so warm and sticky it was like sitting in soup, I couldn't give a ****e that it was raining, I welcomed it. You should have seen the other passengers rushing to close their windows, oh please. When we got off the boat it started to properly lash, a thunderstorm shower that we don't get in Ireland, I quite enjoyed it because I was so relieved that the weather had finally cleared. Felt like I hadn't seen rain in years, it had been about five days

Edited to say that I'm another person who wears glasses most of the time so it is a pain when it is raining and your glasses get wet and you can't wipe them on your clothes because they are wet too so you just can't see anything. Then you go inside and your glasses fog up like mad and you look ridiculous and can't see anything, so annoying.

I'm another person who loves to lie in bed and hear the rain against my window, snuggling under the duvet as I listen to the sound of it pelting against the glass.

colossus-x · 01-09-2015 01:36PM

What an utterly silly post OP.

People aren't afraid of the rain. They just don't like getting wet. What kind of simpleton wouldn't mind getting wet.

Rain in Ireland just doesn't fall outta the sky like your bathroom shower or mist. Irish rain is usually accompanied by strong winds and cold air.

When it rains the temperature also drops. To suggest that rain is akin to a little splash of water is just silly. ESPECIALLY here in Ireland and ESPECIALLY after the horrific (non) summer we had where it lashed rain most days.

Who'd want to get soaked on their way to work or on their way to the gym or whatever.

Do you just not like own a rain coat or an umbrella?

01-09-2015 01:40PM

colossus-x wrote: »

What an utterly silly post OP.

People aren't afraid of the rain. They just don't like getting wet. What kind of simpleton wouldn't mind getting wet.

Rain in Ireland just doesn't fall outta the sky like your bathroom shower or mist. Irish rain is usually accompanied by strong winds and cold air.

When it rains the temperature also drops. To suggest that rain is akin to a little splash of water is just silly. ESPECIALLY here in Ireland and ESPECIALLY after the horrific (non) summer we had where it lashed rain most days.

Who'd want to get soaked on their way to work or on their way to the gym or whatever.

Do you just not like own a rain coat or an umbrella?

:pac:

Get out of those wet clothes, they're making you grumpy

(my friend bought me a little miss sunshine umbrella, it's so pretty!)

TheLastMohican · 01-09-2015 01:40PM

This is why I carry around a plastic bag in my inside pocket à la Rubber Bandits:http://m0.joe.ie/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/09222010/Rubber-3.jpg

01-09-2015 01:47PM

sbsquarepants wrote: »

My auld man spends most of the winter shouting at the dog to get in out of the rain - has done for as long as I can remember. He just will not entertain the idea that the dog (a succession of dogs in fact) might not mind the rain!
The beast has a shed of his own to call home and can come and go at will - if he wanted out of the rain all he need do is walk in to the shed!

My mutt hates going out in it. If I open the back door for her in the morning and it's raining, she just looks up at me and gives me a "not a chance" look, and turns round and goes back to bed

osarusan · 01-09-2015 02:12PM

colossus-x wrote: »

What an utterly silly post OP.

People aren't afraid of the rain. They just don't like getting wet. What kind of simpleton wouldn't mind getting wet.

Rain in Ireland just doesn't fall outta the sky like your bathroom shower or mist. Irish rain is usually accompanied by strong winds and cold air.

When it rains the temperature also drops. To suggest that rain is akin to a little splash of water is just silly. ESPECIALLY here in Ireland and ESPECIALLY after the horrific (non) summer we had where it lashed rain most days.

Who'd want to get soaked on their way to work or on their way to the gym or whatever.

Do you just not like own a rain coat or an umbrella?

AH's resident bundle of joy strikes again!

kylith · 01-09-2015 02:17PM

I quite like hot rain. You know the stuff: thunderstorm rain - big, warm drops that fall like bullets. Irish rain is cold and somehow much wetter.

Eugene Norman · 01-09-2015 02:17PM

I really don't get the liking for rain. Sure a bit of drizzle or light rain is nothing, if you are dressed appropriately. Moderate to heavy rain gets you wet. That's uncomfortable.

And what you wear matters, yesterday was wet in Dublin but the forecast wasn't that accurate and I was soaked running for a dart. Therefore I was uncomfortable and wet on the dart. When I run in good gear not so much an issue.

01-09-2015 02:19PM

kylith wrote: »

I quite like hot rain. You know the stuff: thunderstorm rain - big, warm drops that fall like bullets. Irish rain is cold and somehow much wetter.

I love when people say that, "it's raining out, and it's that real wet rain"

I have this on a canvas thingy in my house!

CruelCoin · 01-09-2015 02:28PM

colossus-x wrote: »

What an utterly silly post OP.

People aren't afraid of the rain. They just don't like getting wet. What kind of simpleton wouldn't mind getting wet.

Rain in Ireland just doesn't fall outta the sky like your bathroom shower or mist. Irish rain is usually accompanied by strong winds and cold air.

When it rains the temperature also drops. To suggest that rain is akin to a little splash of water is just silly. ESPECIALLY here in Ireland and ESPECIALLY after the horrific (non) summer we had where it lashed rain most days.

Who'd want to get soaked on their way to work or on their way to the gym or whatever.

Do you just not like own a rain coat or an umbrella?

Methinks your internal thermostat is fooked if a few seconds of water turns you cold.

I spend March through October in shorts and a shirt outdoors. Always bemuses me when people wear coats and scarfs.

TheLastMohican · 01-09-2015 02:52PM

Deleted User wrote: »

My mutt hates going out in it. If I open the back door for her in the morning and it's raining, she just looks up at me and gives me a "not a chance" look, and turns round and goes back to bed

Ditto, but then I put on the collar and leash and drag her out. Deadly dirty look but all is forgotten after she pees! Back inside the porch door where she gets her own back with a humongous shake and this time a different type of dirty look.

Medusa22 · 01-09-2015 02:56PM

TheLastMohican wrote: »

Ditto, but then I put on the collar and leash and drag her out. Deadly dirty look but all is forgotten after she pees! Back inside the porch door where she gets her own back with a humongous shake and this time a different type of dirty look.

Are we still talking about dogs? :pac:

Eugene Norman · 01-09-2015 02:57PM

CruelCoin wrote: »

Methinks your internal thermostat is fooked if a few seconds of water turns you cold.

I spend March through October in shorts and a shirt outdoors. Always bemuses me when people wear coats and scarfs.

Yeah. I mean March 1 isn't much warmer than mid winter but as a hardy man myself I walk about the city naked except for jocks.

knird evol · 01-09-2015 03:16PM

I love the charged electrical atmosphere after a heavy rainfall.
(Something to do with ion imbalance)

TheLastMohican · 01-09-2015 03:30PM

TheLastMohican wrote: »

Ditto, but then I put on the collar and leash and drag her out. Deadly dirty look but all is forgotten after she pees! Back inside the porch door where she gets her own back with a humongous shake and this time a different type of dirty look.

Medusa22 wrote: »

Are we still talking about dogs? :pac:

This is a family home ......... not a fetish club!

CruelCoin · 01-09-2015 03:58PM

Eugene Norman wrote: »

Yeah. I mean March 1 isn't much warmer than mid winter but as a hardy man myself I walk about the city naked except for jocks.

Instead of doing the whole "hardy man in shorts at 15c" maybe it should be "manlet in coats at 15c"?

Perspective watson. I'm sure those people are as bemused by me as i am by them.

podgemonster · 01-09-2015 04:06PM

I found holidaying in Thailand and Vietnam so much cheaper in rainy seasons. It made very little difference. It may rain like crazy for an hour every second day but so what, you step aside, grab a €1 beer, a few spring rolls and the wifi code. The rain stops and you carry on.

Rubberlegs · 01-09-2015 04:22PM

The rain doesn't bother me too much, as long as if I get soaked I can change as soon as possible. My Dad had this irrational fear of getting wet. We used to be morto when he'd put a plastic bag on his head. It started raining in a beer garden we were at, and he ran full pelt across a car park to get inside, without spilling a drop of his pint

Eugene Norman · 01-09-2015 06:34PM

CruelCoin wrote: »

Instead of doing the whole "hardy man in shorts at 15c" maybe it should be "manlet in coats at 15c"?

Perspective watson. I'm sure those people are as bemused by me as i am by them.

15c would be extremely warm for March. It can snow in March. I don't really think you walk around the city in shorts when you think you do.

This thread is beginning to resemble a monthy Python sketch.

You walk around in summer rain unconcerned. wimps! I walk around with my hand over my lad in blizzards.

CruelCoin · 01-09-2015 06:58PM

Eugene Norman wrote: »

You walk around in summer rain unconcerned. wimps! I walk around with my hand over my lad in blizzards.

Don't exagerate my words thanks.

I don't mind the rain, no, and i wear shorts most of the year. Are shorts in a bit of drizzle the same as a nudity in a blizzard in your mind?

Summer wind · 01-09-2015 07:04PM

I love when I walk out of the changing room at the swimming pool and it's raining. First you get lots of cold raindrops on your skin. Then you dive into the pool and the water always feels so much warmer. I also love the clean fresh smell in the air after a shower of rain.

Afraid of the rain

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