The Watering Hole

Hey Al Gore, I LOVE YOU!   >:(

It's -8 with a wind chill factor of 20 below 0.  That's the REAL 0 for you foreigners!  Not that newfangled crap you use.  ;)

It is BRUTALLY cold.  I was outside for about 5 minutes, bundled up pretty good, and had to take a glove off to try to free the dogs cable.  Within SECONDS of taking the glove off my hand was hurting.  It's CRAZY cold.  Supposed to be down as low as 13 below here tonight and to add insult to injury, the wind isn't going to stop blowing.  It isn't blowing hard, but it doesn't need to when it's this cold.  You go out, you better be multi-wrapped, or you are chilled to the bone in a minute or two.  

Wednesday when it gets back up to 30, it will feel like spring after this crap.  

(edit: Please note that the above is intended to be a sarcastic commentary on the weather.  The political views of this poster are not in any way being stated or indicated by the above sarcasm.  This is ONLY a commentary on the stupid cold weather in our area.  As stated by other posters, these jokes above global warming are commonplace whenever we have a colder than normal stretch of weather.  Please do not let any above comments be taken as any form of political stance, nor as an insult to my personal hero, Al Gore)  

Escaped the cold when I was a kid.  The seasons don't change much here, but it was hot today!  Well overdue for a quakee tho

yeah, it's been -15 to -10F for about the last 36 hours here with a foot of snow on the ground. since we didn't lose power and I don't have to go anywhere, it's been great - beautiful views outside. several thousand people did lose power though (it was a heavy wet snow... took down some trees and power lines like an ice storm) -- ugh, no heat in the house for this would suck.

we got all rain here before the cold front, which is even worse.  The ground was SOAKED with water then it froze.  There are places in my back yard that you could ice skate on.  The rain hadn't even drained when the freeze began.  It's noon here and still below 0.  However the sun is out and it looks beautiful out, until that is you GO out.  It got so cold the snow would have been powder and not stuck but the rain and the saturated winter ground....  



J, I just want some of the millions he made on his "fiction book" sales.   ;)

There's some weird weather around at the moment for sure.  It just rains and rains every day here at the moment. The temp here (at 7pm) is 50 F,  positively balmy compared to what you are experiencing at the moment, but no doubt we will get some of that shit sometime in January or February which seems to be our cold time these days.

woot, made it up to a balmy 6F today! heh.

I didn't read his book.  What did it say?

Woke up to a warm 9 degrees this morning. North Carolina. Fuck this crap. I'm ready for summer. Global warming my ass. I've never seen cold like this in the south in 40 years. ;D

I think it's caused by global cooling.

Brutal cold here, only 66*F at 3:00 PM here, Can't wait till summer.

ironsheep — Jan 07, 2014woot, made it up to a balmy 6F today! heh.

That's only "balmy" if you stay inside... which you do, you darn hermit!    ;D ;D

Oh, I didn't realize a totally bizarre weather event meant that all science was refuted.  Thanks for the science lesson.  I'll tell all of the vast majority of scientists who do believe the earth is warming, and all of the data that also points to the same thing, that DTR has just proven that global warming doesn't exist, because it's cold.

BTW, it's been in the 70s to 80s here in Northern California this winter, and we've had less than 20% of normal precipitation for a third year in a row.  But that doesn't prove anything, either.  The massive modern global record, however, does.

Was the idea behind "global warming" that it would be warmer in winter?  S'not the way I understood it

This post just proves that some people don't understand how science works and the difference between weather and climate.

Be smarter than this, deniers. Accept scientific reality. (Even when you're freezing your balls off.)


Tripper

I fully don't expect anyone who believes in magic to understand science.  But I also expect anyone who wants to refute a vastly dense scientific data pool with one tiny sliver of anomalous data, to expect to be explicitly and soundly mocked.

That post reminds me of Sheldon on the Big Bang Theory, he'd likely use that if you send it to him. ;D ;D

hahaahahahaha, you guys are funny.  I mean SURELY you are joking and wouldn't reply that way in a serious manner to obvious sarcasm.  

Even I could tell Howie was just shitting.  In the immortal words of Sgt. Hulka, "Lighten up Francis".  ;-)

For a joke to work, it has to be funny.  If you just say the exact same political shit you always say, but put a smiley face after it, well, you;re saying the same political shit you always say with an emoticon... not exactly working hard for your audience, are you?

At least we now know, thanks to emoticon technology, that Howie does agree with Al Gore, does believe that An Inconvenient Truth is a work of fact, and does believe global warming is happening. I didn't know that before this thread!

One topic I totally disagree on with my conservative friends. And this sarcasm pops up every year too, without fail (not bagging on anyone in particular, DTR, just sayin'). I scroll down the news feed at fb for example and there will be the usual folks with the "global warming my ass" comments just because it's ultra freezing outside, or colder than usual in the south for a change, blah blah. Where are those same individuals comments during the dead of summer when we're having record breaking sweltering heat waves? Or longer and longer summers? Never a peep about GW then. Ha. Not arguing the science of it all (who, how, what causes what), just wish they'd pipe down in the winter months or at least acknowledge once in a while that we also have hotter and hotter, unusual periods of weather during the summers just the same.

Charger, I understand your frustration.  You figure I'd get it by now, and I just can't seem too.  I post like I'm talking to a bunch of "friends."  Cracking wise and snickering the whole time.  But you have again reminded me that this is NOT a group of "friends" it's just a group of "people."  People who apparently after knowing each other for 12 years still can't tell when someone is joking.  Not a place where a guy can make a wise crack because it's so cold, and get comments about the temperatures.  The comments have to be picking apart the wise crack.

Come on man.   If I were posting a political belief, I'd post it in the "Politics" forum. I told you 5 years ago. The ONLY place I'll discuss politics or religion with you is on Matt's back porch, and I told you why.

So let me be clear.  "KMA AL" is not a political statement.  The wind chill was 25 below 0 when I wrote that.  And yes, as Kabala  this is the nonsense that gets brought up every time we have a really cold stretch. It's not like I'm trying to be a comedic innovator here!   I think I did the same thing a couple summers ago, when we vacationed during the last week of July. (In fact, I KNOW I did, and took crap for it then as well).  Typically one of the hottest weeks of every year, yet that week nobody got in the swimming pool all week because the water was too cold.  Low 70s were the HIGH for the week and it was getting into the low 50s at night, so the pool was cold, during what is the hottest part of the season in this area.  So, I make some wise cracks about global warming and Al Gore ruining my vacation, for amusement purposes only of course.  Camp the same week just about every year.  Last year it was in the high 80s to high 90s every day and several nights never got down below 78.  

To comply with my remarks above, I will refrain from using real names is if I "know" someone, and will post less provocative things like "I'm freezing my nuts off."  As of now, it's a toasty 24 degrees so Al is back on my Christmas Card list and I have nothing more to complain about.  However, please feel free to continue ragging on my post and lack of a sense of humor.  

charger — Jan 08, 2014For a joke to work, it has to be funny.  

Although many sitcoms try to get away with using a laugh track instead.  ;)

CraigBert — Jan 08, 2014[quote author=charger link=1389068169/0#18 date=1389201133]For a joke to work, it has to be funny.  

Although many sitcoms try to get away with using a laugh track instead.  ;)

I fricken love Big Bang Theory but damn that laugh track, they shove it down your throat WAY too often, nearly ruins for me.

DTR, do all of your friends just agree with you?  I argue like brothers with all of mine...

That's not even the point.  The point is, my remarks were made because it was brutally cold.  Obvious sarcasm fills the post, and guys who have known me for 10 years bust on my sarcasm.  So, if I said the same thing in a group of friends, they'd remark about the weather, not my lack of sense of humor or how stupid I am for not believing Al Gore, when everything I said was in jest.    Come on, Kabala even commented that these type comments are so common they are becoming a bit annoying.  Yet here, it's not taken as sarcasm, it's picked apart as political commentary.  I wouldn't care of Ronald Regan wrote the book and got the Ms. Butterworth Peach Pipe, I would have made the same comments because THEY WERE IN JEST.  

As usual, the fault is all mine, because I'm just not funny.   :)

I thought there were comments on both parts of the post re: local weather and ManBearPig.  I don't give two shtz for Al, the cat's unlistenable, I just didn't think the joke made sense.  

I don't think there's any fault to be given out

DTR starts the best threads.

ironsheep — Jan 08, 2014DTR starts the best threads.

But doesn't he remind you of the guy sitting on the platform above water just waiting for someone to throw a bullseye and drop him in?  :D

I don't mind global warming whatever the reason it is happening. I like the heat it is the cold that irks the heck outta me.

However I do trust the overwhelming percentage of scientists more than the right winger politico's and their puppets who are bought and paid for by big oil.

Did I mention that it is near 70* F here every day? ;D ;D ;D ;D

or a guy who's had four dogs for years yet never looks down when he's walking around... and still gets surprised when he unexpectedly steps on a turd out in the yard.

Kabala — Jan 08, 2014[quote author=CraigBert link=1389068169/0#21 date=1389212498][quote author=charger link=1389068169/0#18 date=1389201133]For a joke to work, it has to be funny.  

Although many sitcoms try to get away with using a laugh track instead.  ;)

I fricken love Big Bang Theory but damn that laugh track, they shove it down your throat WAY too often, nearly ruins for me.



Believe it or not that's filmed in front of a live audience... This went viral a year or two back when everyone was doing Call Me Maybe... you can see the audience and the soundstage...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdLvUkLW5Jk

It's true DTR, you do start the best threads.  When you start a thread like this, you should own it and enjoy it.

Tell ya what, DTR.

Start every thread or post with serious, when you mean what you say, or funny..... so we don't have to read it and be let down time and time again.  That should solve it!  ;)

;D ;D

I don't think he should put an identifier on his posts, that would ruin the surprise! it's much more fun to read as we unwrap them, like presents.

Oh yeah, known they film in front of an audience, have all the seasons on Blu, one of the early seasons has a walk through of the set, etc. I just believe they also insert canned laughter quite a bit, I mean there are moments when a character walks in, says the simplest line and you still get a shove to laugh from the "crowd" when there was nothing really too humorous about the line.

Oh dude, there's a whole science to the laughers they put together for studio audiences.  At least half of those people are professional "laughers" whose main occupation is sitting in studio audiences... this Radiolab episode recounts the story...
http://www.radiolab.org/story/91593-how-does-laughing-affect-us/

professional laughers... heh. the graphic at that link is pretty damn awesome.

Oh snap, who knew, getting paid to laugh. Well I suppose if there are many 'fake' customer reviews of online products, may as well be giggling shills as well. Thanks for the link, interesting read.

Well, it looks like a consensus.  

charger — Jan 08, 2014

:-?  Yeah, uh, point taken  :-[

Anybody remember Night Court?  You could clearly make out Harry Anderson's laugh throughout the laugh tracks.

DreamTheaterRules — Jan 09, 2014Well, it looks like a consensus.  

heh, well played.

ironsheep — Jan 09, 2014[quote author=DreamTheaterRules link=1389068169/25#40 date=1389243317]Well, it looks like a consensus.  

heh, well played.

??

the political climate change arguments revolve around a "consensus of scientists".

that's probably why I'm always in trouble.  I just thought this was "a bunch of guys" which is an arena I normally fair pretty well in.  Scientists??? No wonder I"m out of place here.  Me and a bunch of smart guys.... no wonder!   ;D   Dang, how could I have missed that?  

Captain Oblivious here.   8-)

In my defense, you throw guys like Roy and Randy in the mix and expect me to figure out this is a group of scientists... hardly seems fair.   ;D ;D

So, even scientists flaunt their nose picking?  I lead a sheltered life!