Full on blizzard goin on in west london :D

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yup its snowing again

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 30 January 2003 15:26 (twenty-three years ago)

and up here in north london too

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 30 January 2003 15:29 (twenty-three years ago)

This may be the one and only time I wish I was in west London ... damn, has anybody got a webcam??

― Android (Android Elvis), Thursday, 30 January 2003 15:30 (twenty-three years ago)

how heavy is it steve? i woulnt say blizzard for north london, buts steady. and fluffy too!

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 30 January 2003 15:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Here in CENTRAL London there are nice big fluffy flakes but no accumulation of same on ANYTHING.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 30 January 2003 15:32 (twenty-three years ago)

its absolutely perfect snow...if it carries on like this overnight then we'll be a good few inches deep in the morning

i took a crap photo, will upload in a min

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 30 January 2003 15:33 (twenty-three years ago)

There's no snow here but it is kinda icy....

http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/html/about/wcindex.htm

― smee (smee), Thursday, 30 January 2003 15:36 (twenty-three years ago)

a good few inches deep in the morning

fnar

― Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Thursday, 30 January 2003 15:36 (twenty-three years ago)

It's snowy in Virginia!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 30 January 2003 15:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Steve, you're near me aren't you? Here in Uxbridge we keep having intermittent whiteouts (like right now) followed by clear patches, it's quite odd.

This morning we watched everything get covered in about five minutes, a couple of hours later I went out for lunch and there was no sign of it whatsoever???

― chris (chris), Thursday, 30 January 2003 15:37 (twenty-three years ago)

It's not very heavy here (SW London) but the wind is making it look wicked. And I have to actually *walk* somewhere in half an hour. Sheesh.

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 30 January 2003 15:38 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.base58.com/misc/snow1.jpg

the scene from blueski's palatial residence

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 30 January 2003 15:38 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.whirlybird.org.uk/snow1.jpg
Blurry pic of Kentish Town outside my window.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 30 January 2003 15:40 (twenty-three years ago)

it's all mad like. at this rate the fap is getting the bozack

― zemko (bob), Thursday, 30 January 2003 15:41 (twenty-three years ago)

haha, my pizza just arrived - the poor bastard had to trundle a mile or so in this flurry

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 30 January 2003 15:42 (twenty-three years ago)

a poundstretcher across the road from yr front door, what bliss

― zemko (bob), Thursday, 30 January 2003 15:42 (twenty-three years ago)

I think people have far too much on their minds NOT to FAP.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 30 January 2003 15:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Sof the FAP, I'm off to figure out where Jerry lives so I can wave at him each morning. Who's with me?

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 30 January 2003 15:44 (twenty-three years ago)

hahaha

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 30 January 2003 15:45 (twenty-three years ago)

yeh the strong wind was making it seem more blizzardesque than it actually is...typical

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 30 January 2003 15:46 (twenty-three years ago)

ilx snowball FITE!! FAP anyone?

― zemko (bob), Thursday, 30 January 2003 15:48 (twenty-three years ago)

oh man this is not a day to be sniffly and phlegm ridden...especially id we're talking karaoke AND snowballs tonight - match made in heaven

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 30 January 2003 15:50 (twenty-three years ago)

The snow is still going SIDEWAYS here. I'm off out for a cigarette - I may be some while.

― SittingPretty (sittingpretty), Thursday, 30 January 2003 15:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Leicester Square just looks damp.

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 30 January 2003 15:53 (twenty-three years ago)

I want snow.
Want snow, want snow, want snow.
*stamps feet in petulant manner*

We have the clearest blue skies here, and it's bloody freezing out.

― Celeste (Celeste), Thursday, 30 January 2003 16:11 (twenty-three years ago)

the ground

http://www.base58.com/misc/snow2.jpg

some pots

http://www.base58.com/misc/snow3.jpg

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 30 January 2003 16:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I demand pictures of snowmen or at least snow angels made by stevem!

― smee (smee), Thursday, 30 January 2003 16:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Celeste is funny laughing!

The snow keeps on a comin' here. The temps are droppin' and I want to go home.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 30 January 2003 16:15 (twenty-three years ago)

For the first time ever, I actually want to be in London right now.

― Celeste (Celeste), Thursday, 30 January 2003 16:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Not an anglophile then, Celeste?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 30 January 2003 16:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Celeste is in England, isn't she?

― smee (smee), Thursday, 30 January 2003 16:18 (twenty-three years ago)

My mistake!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 30 January 2003 16:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm in sunny sunny Ormskirk, Lancashire, near Liverpool.
I just hate London. Especially when they get snow and we don't.

― Celeste (Celeste), Thursday, 30 January 2003 16:23 (twenty-three years ago)

say hello to my little fren...

http://www.base58.com/misc/snow4.jpg

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 30 January 2003 16:38 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm hoping the wind will knock his head off

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 30 January 2003 16:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Still snowing here! YAY!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 30 January 2003 16:42 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm stuck at work! the A1 is fucked up and there are no trains at all. No taxis till 7 either. this suxx0rz.

― dog latin, Thursday, 30 January 2003 16:53 (twenty-three years ago)

from my window I can see there's still snow on the top of the Brooklyn Bridge - ice floes in E River almost totally gone now though - haha last night on Daily Show Steven Colbert's pretending to be in D.C. bundled up in mittens etc even tho he's bluescreened 5 feet away from Stewart's desk; this is of course hilarious and they can't help but giggle and Stewart says "strange, i don't see any steam from your breath, Steven" "it's too COLD for that, Jon"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 30 January 2003 17:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Thanx stevem, that made my day!

― smee (smee), Thursday, 30 January 2003 17:05 (twenty-three years ago)

haha to Tracer's little anecdote too! those kerazy nooyoikers...

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 30 January 2003 17:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Did you just go out and make that snowman, take a picture, upload it and put it on ILE especially?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 30 January 2003 17:21 (twenty-three years ago)

er...no?

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 30 January 2003 17:22 (twenty-three years ago)

its not like i dont have a million more important things to do after all, i'm a busy man, i cant waste time making little snowmen just for the satisfaction of smee...

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 30 January 2003 17:23 (twenty-three years ago)

I want more snow pictures.

― Celeste (Celeste), Thursday, 30 January 2003 17:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I LOVE SNOW! WEST lONDON SNOW IS THE BEST SNOW!

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 30 January 2003 18:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Audio Bullys to thread once again!

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 30 January 2003 18:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Will central London snow do you?
This is the South Bank right now:-
http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0UACzBPMZ00B8Xbqd2Cq3F7e1ClBl4x7V5eZxOvBMi3Lxla3BZzNfoBChnPlTi9Mko6fjw8HVlF6OrABcn48JtOInUGSt9mr4us5UxA3*SA1hdeM1FrKWAYyCnxoccJ8a/Blizzard.jpg

― Simeon (Simeon), Thursday, 30 January 2003 18:07 (twenty-three years ago)

haha i live on yr road jerry the nipper!

― the internet (scg), Thursday, 30 January 2003 18:07 (twenty-three years ago)

no snow on chancery lane

― the internet (scg), Thursday, 30 January 2003 18:08 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm so low-tech you'll have to wait til the spring when I finally get my photos of the snow developed.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 30 January 2003 18:09 (twenty-three years ago)

does anyone know the origin of those 'rain man' tags seen all over london?

― the internet (scg), Thursday, 30 January 2003 18:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I really love this thread. The pictures are all beautiful. I want to be in a real city at night with snow. Instead, it is day, the flurry is weaker than kitten piss, and I am in an office park.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Thursday, 30 January 2003 18:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, I have to say, my anti-snow fatwa crumbles a bit on seeing all this. Looks like it would be fun to visit -- but then to go home to the sun from. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 January 2003 18:15 (twenty-three years ago)

It's like Moomin Valley in winter!

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 30 January 2003 18:16 (twenty-three years ago)

in spite of the lovely snow, i am quite looking forward to spring - longer, brighter, warmer days still rule

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 30 January 2003 18:17 (twenty-three years ago)

hey sean, i used to live on that road too!

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 30 January 2003 18:19 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.norfolkwindmills.com/images/fortess.jpg

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 30 January 2003 18:20 (twenty-three years ago)

those shops look very wonky and Dutch, where is that?

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 30 January 2003 18:23 (twenty-three years ago)

if its still covered here in the morning i might go out and take some more pics

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 30 January 2003 18:24 (twenty-three years ago)

b-b-but the rainman tags as seen in jerry the nipper's photo, does anyone know what they mean? or did i dream it?

― the internet (scg), Thursday, 30 January 2003 18:27 (twenty-three years ago)

No fair: Londoners get snow AND karaoke on the same day!

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 30 January 2003 20:50 (twenty-three years ago)

It's not fair. We never get any bloody snow in Ormskirk.

― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 30 January 2003 20:53 (twenty-three years ago)

I want to live above a shop like one of those in gareth's pic.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 30 January 2003 20:54 (twenty-three years ago)

pah. you call that snow? my shop is in a street about the same width as in jerry thee nipper'z pic. a coupla times to-day, I looked out ov thee window, & couldn't see thee other side ov thee road!@# When it came to closing time, i saw someone skid & crash outside the shop (they weren't going very fast, but i saw the front of the bonnet buckle up. They then spent the next 15 minutes trying to turn their car around. I left for home late tonite b/c I didn't want to get taken out by some l4ym0r who thinks that just coz they drive a forester or a cherokee, that makes them immune to traktion loss, right? I was driving thru Gateshead @ 10mph, when i saw a gritter wagon skid going round a roundabout!!1!1!! It took me ages to get home grumble grumble don't talk to me abt "snow" etc etc

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 30 January 2003 21:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Sheffield is still snow free but bloody cold and the wind is blowing hard.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 30 January 2003 21:52 (twenty-three years ago)

kentish town stevem

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 30 January 2003 21:57 (twenty-three years ago)

this reminds me, why is Kentish Town so far from Kent?

likewise, shouldnt Liverpool Street be in the North West of town?

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 30 January 2003 23:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Gareth, is there a big market for draping fortresses? I'd have thought that was a pretty specialised niche.

Stevem made me laugh big time, especially in response to Matt. Why didn't you show last night, Stevem?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 31 January 2003 18:04 (twenty-three years ago)

sorry martin, felt too crappy (building snowmen didnt help i guess) - am ready for some hardcore FAP action tomorrow night tho

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 31 January 2003 18:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Simeon is that a view from yr apartment? It is rather nice.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Friday, 31 January 2003 18:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Something tells me Pashmina would make a great Vermonter.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 31 January 2003 18:32 (twenty-three years ago)

eleven months pass...

Full on blizzard going down in London next week, apparently. Proper snow for the second time in as many years!

A friend of mine claims the temperature is about to drop to -14 degrees but that MUST be bullshit.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 23 January 2004 11:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Is it just london? :-(

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 23 January 2004 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)

there was snow twice last year. both in january.

where is the snow?

(i've just checked 3 weather websites and i think your friend was tricking you, matt. it looks like it'll get a little colder monday-thursday but not below freezing, and warming up for next weekend.)

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 23 January 2004 11:46 (twenty-two years ago)

WAHOO!!! Bring on the snow!!! Wind chill factor!!!

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 23 January 2004 11:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I only got one day in the snow in Jan last year & that was making my way to the airport. As I was lying under a Spanish sun, I wasn't overly bothered!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 23 January 2004 11:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Dude, I am so going to start saying "Wind chill factor!!!" loads from now on! Thanks Jel! SNOW = GREBT.

― Sarah (starry), Friday, 23 January 2004 11:50 (twenty-two years ago)

From the Torygraph

Britain to be hit by cold snap next week
(Filed: 22/01/2004)

Britain is set to plunge into freezing temperatures with heavy snow showers next week, forecasters have warned.

Wintry weather last year caused travel chaos across Britain
The cold snap will begin on Sunday in Scotland and is expected to spread southwards, bringing snowfall to parts of England and Wales by Wednesday.

Forecasters said there will be a risk of heavy snow showers across Britain on Tuesday with temperatures falling to as low as minus 10C in Scotland. The freezing conditions are expected to last several days.

A spokesman for the Press Association's weathercentre said: "I don't think people should be dusting off their sledges just yet, but it does look like a significant cold snap at the start of next week."

Last January a spell of freezing weather caused chaos across Britain.

The worst incident happened when thousands of motorists were trapped overnight on the M11 in Cambridgeshire after it was blocked by several vehicles skidding off the motorway.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 23 January 2004 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Looks like London might miss the worst/best of it mind.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 23 January 2004 11:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't panic...yet

http://www.metoffice.com/weather/europe/uk/warnings.html

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 23 January 2004 11:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Please, please..... SNOW FAP!

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 23 January 2004 11:52 (twenty-two years ago)

you watch, it'll snow like billyho here, while me and Vicky are in Malmo - in bright sunshine

― chris (chris), Friday, 23 January 2004 11:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Yay M11 in Cambridge, oh no wait....

(that's what we had last year!)

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 23 January 2004 11:54 (twenty-two years ago)

but i wanted to get out my sledge...

(is that the same as a sled?)

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 23 January 2004 11:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Yup! (i think!)

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 23 January 2004 11:55 (twenty-two years ago)

let's all go to scotland so we can see the 10cm of snow that will accumulate.

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 23 January 2004 11:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm with you Colette! *grabs Colette's hand thelma & louise style*

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 23 January 2004 11:57 (twenty-two years ago)

woo!

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 23 January 2004 11:58 (twenty-two years ago)

This year I *will* sledge right down the hill from the top of Greenwich park.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 23 January 2004 11:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, I want to point and laugh at Stevem for that snowman thing upthread. Again.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 23 January 2004 11:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Matt, that is exactly what I had in mind and couldn't do, however this year it will be done, especially if I get my hand on the bodyboard like sledges that they have in costco

― chris (chris), Friday, 23 January 2004 12:00 (twenty-two years ago)

GMTV got so excited they had a thing about 'how to dress in the cold' and advised wearing a hat. cheers GMTV. They also showed pics of New York being frozen and interviewed a road gritter man who said it might get so cold the salt they put on the roads will freeze in the gritter lorry (this was in the NE though).

― Emma, Friday, 23 January 2004 12:02 (twenty-two years ago)

It was grebt last year - all the sk8er kids had taken the wheels off their skateboards and were snowboarding. I'm sure much blood was shed that day.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 23 January 2004 12:02 (twenty-two years ago)

we've got the QuizFAP Tuesday night so hopefully we can crown a sterling victory with snow wars on Tottenham Court Road

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 23 January 2004 12:06 (twenty-two years ago)

http://base58.com/pics/photos/snow4.jpg

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 23 January 2004 12:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe, I'll get snowed in and won't be able to go to my department away day on Wednesday! HOORAY!!!

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 23 January 2004 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.angelfire.com/wy/bby2k/snowahoo.jpg

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 23 January 2004 12:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Blizards back home? Ha ha ha, I'm glad I escaped to sunny... Vermont. Where there's already 2 feet on the ground and more fell last night. Curses. What, do I bring it with me or something?

― the river fleet, Friday, 23 January 2004 13:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Everywhere you go, you always take the weather with you!

*reaches for bucket*

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 23 January 2004 13:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Snow sez:

http://home.zonnet.nl/bor_buuck/Liebrand/Images/snow.jpeg

Wrap up warm folks, Jack Frost is on the prowl!

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 23 January 2004 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)

This is snow joke stevem!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 23 January 2004 13:17 (twenty-two years ago)

i cy

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 23 January 2004 13:17 (twenty-two years ago)

*high fives stevem*

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 23 January 2004 13:20 (twenty-two years ago)

stevem, i'm going to have to inform the authorities that you're making bad jokes...

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 23 January 2004 13:22 (twenty-two years ago)

*reminds colette of the thelma & louise code*

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 23 January 2004 13:23 (twenty-two years ago)

What, one of you is in trouble and the other one completely ove-reacts - dooming you to a very short life of crime.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 23 January 2004 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

She's always been jealous of stevem's hair!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 23 January 2004 13:26 (twenty-two years ago)

pete, you spelled over acts wrongly.

I'm surprised how thin those two were in that film considering how bad they chewed up the scenery

― chris (chris), Friday, 23 January 2004 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

no, no, it was another bad joke based on snow's hit single 'informer'. or was that too much of a stretch?

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 23 January 2004 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Snow, the Eminem it was okay to like.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 23 January 2004 13:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I really want to see Scary Movie 3.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 23 January 2004 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.bembridge.co.uk/images/Vanilla%20Ice/vice002.jpg
Hi, I'm Vanilla Ice & I'm here to show you how not to wear your jacket in the snow!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 23 January 2004 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.auto-mania.com/images/MC%20Hammer.jpg

'whereas me, i change my pants for NO jack frost sucker'

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 23 January 2004 13:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Please hammer, don't hurt 'em! [the little snowmen]

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 23 January 2004 13:47 (twenty-two years ago)

What is it about snow that makes the English lose their minds?

― the river fleet, Friday, 23 January 2004 13:49 (twenty-two years ago)

You can't touch this. [being american and all]

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 23 January 2004 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

STOP IT!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 23 January 2004 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

kate is the most english person i've ever met

so where is the snow love/mania?

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 23 January 2004 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

uh oh uh oh uh oh uh oh uh oh uh oh

― MattDClovesHammer (Pinkpanther), Friday, 23 January 2004 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I see 6 inches is classed as "very heavy snow" in the UK. Bless.

(whereas in the states, 6 inches is an entire inch bigger than the average erect penis)

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 23 January 2004 13:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Aww bless them little americans!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 23 January 2004 14:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Doesn't Vanilla Ice look like Mark Kermode.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 23 January 2004 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

it's the painted jeans that does it

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 23 January 2004 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Ice Ice Baby, Ice Ice Baby
All right stop, Collaborate and listen
Ice is back with my brand new invention
Something grabs a hold of me tightly
Flow like a harpoon daily and nightly
Will it ever stop? Yo -- I don't know
Turn off the lights and I'll glow
To the extreme I rock a mic like a vandal
Light up a stage and wax a chump like a candle.

Dance, go rush the speaker that booms
I'm killing your brain like a poisonous mushroom
deadly, when I play a dope melody
Anything less than the best is a felony
Love it or leave it, You better gain way
You better hit bull's eye, The kid don't play
If there was a problem, Yo, I'll solve it
Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it

Ice Ice Baby Vanilla, Ice Ice Baby Vanilla
Ice Ice Baby Vanilla, Ice Ice Baby Vanilla

Now that the party is jumping
With the bass kicked in and the Vegas are pumpin'
Quick to the point, to the point no faking
Cooking MCs like a pound of bacon
Burnin’ ‘em if you aint quick and nimble
I go crazy when I hear a cymbal
And a hi hat with a souped up tempo
I'm on a roll, it's time to go solo
Rollin' in my 5.0
With my ragtop down so my hair can blow
The girlies on standby, Waving just to say Hi
Did you stop? No -- I just drove by
Kept on pursuing to the next stop
I busted a left and I'm heading to the next block
That block was dead

Yo -- so I continued to A1A Beachfront Avenue
Girls were hot wearing less than bikinis
Rockman lovers driving Lamborghinis
Jealous 'cause I'm out geting mine
Shay with a gauge and Vanilla with a nine
Ready for the chumps on the wall
The chumps acting ill because they're full of “Eight Ball”
Gunshots ranged out like a bell
I grabbed my nine -- All I heard were shells
Falling on the concrete real fast
Jumped in my car, slammed on the gas
Bumper to bumper the avenue's packed
I'm trying to get away before the jackers jack
Police on the scene, You know what I mean
They passed me up, confronted all the dope fiends
If there was a problem, Yo, I'll solve it
Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it

Ice Ice Baby Vanilla, Ice Ice Baby Vanilla
Ice Ice Baby Vanilla, Ice Ice Baby Vanilla

Take heed, 'cause I'm a lyrical poet
Miami's on the scene just in case you didn't know it
My town, that created all the bass sound
Enough to shake and kick holes in the ground
'Cause my style's like a chemical spill
Feasible rhymes that you can vision and feel
Conducted and formed, This is a hell of a concept
We make it hype and you want to step with this
Shay plays on the fade, slice like a ninja
Cut like a razor blade so fast, Other DJs say, "damn"
If my rhyme was a drug, I'd sell it by the gram
Keep my composure when it's time to get loose
Magnetized by the mic while I kick my juice
If there was a problem, Yo -- I'll solve it!
Check out the hook while Deshay revolves it.

Ice Ice Baby Vanilla, Ice Ice Baby Vanilla
Ice Ice Baby Vanilla, Ice Ice Baby Vanilla

Yo man -- Let's get out of here! Word to your mother!

Ice Ice Baby Too cold, Ice Ice Baby Too cold Too cold
Ice Ice Baby Too cold Too cold, Ice Ice Baby Too cold Too cold

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 23 January 2004 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

wow, i'm scared that i knew most of the words up till the last section. which, when i just rapped in a whisper so people at work don't laugh at me, was really hard to do.

so where's this snow, matt? it's just grey and dark right now. snow! snow!snow!

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 23 January 2004 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)

It is indeed scary when you know most of the words to that, I pride myself on it though!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 23 January 2004 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe we should buy the single for our trip to scotland. we can practice it and karaoke it at some bar in aberdeen.

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 23 January 2004 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)

That's is such a GREAT idea!

― Pinkice (Pinkpanther), Friday, 23 January 2004 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

hey, matt might end up being right! on the radio on the way to work they were saying 'this time tomorrow it'll be really really cold and loads of snow will be here in london.'

still no evidence of this on the weather websites. i guess if it snows tomorrow then i'll have to stop looking at weather websites as accurately predicting the future.

― colette (a2lette), Monday, 26 January 2004 10:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Most trailed weather ever.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 26 January 2004 10:33 (twenty-two years ago)

The chart for midday Wednesday looks potentially very nasty indeed, even in the soft south.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 26 January 2004 10:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh no! Occluded Fronts! Oh NO!

― Ricardo (RickyT), Monday, 26 January 2004 10:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll be kipping in the office again then.

(although I only live across the road from work!)

(but Pond Street will be a ski slope!!)

― Phoebe Dinsmore, Monday, 26 January 2004 10:41 (twenty-two years ago)

where can i buy gloves, scarf and a deerstalker hat around Angel way after 6pm?

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 26 January 2004 10:41 (twenty-two years ago)

It's confusing, because some websites say it is going to snow & others sat it isn't. hmm, who to believe!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 26 January 2004 10:44 (twenty-two years ago)

According to this morning's Metro the snow's going to fall to the east of London rather than in London itself.

― Phoebe Dinsmore, Monday, 26 January 2004 10:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Romford FAP?

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 26 January 2004 10:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Perhaps it is being strangely drawn to the Beckton Alp.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Monday, 26 January 2004 10:55 (twenty-two years ago)

who knew?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 26 January 2004 11:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Gordon Burns. He knows all.

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 26 January 2004 11:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Hell he knew Gracie the whale was pregnant even before Mr Spock.

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 26 January 2004 11:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Why?

― PinkAja (Pinkpanther), Monday, 26 January 2004 11:22 (twenty-two years ago)

ok, my office has decided that it will not snow tomorrow, but might snow on wednesday.

anyone want to fight about it?

― colette (a2lette), Monday, 26 January 2004 12:25 (twenty-two years ago)

In the Evening Standard the Met Office are hedging their bets. Snow now not expected until "late on Wednesday" as the cold air front from the north is moving "more slowly than expected." I'll believe it when I see it.

― Phoebe Dinsmore, Monday, 26 January 2004 13:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I want snow! *stamps foot*

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 26 January 2004 13:18 (twenty-two years ago)

There will be snow in Sweden next weekend (hopefully)

― chris (chris), Monday, 26 January 2004 13:18 (twenty-two years ago)

i could see my breath when i went to get my daily bagel...(x-post)

― colette (a2lette), Monday, 26 January 2004 13:19 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/weather/

WOO HOO!
http://tiger.towson.edu/users/afavel1/Homer.gif

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 26 January 2004 13:23 (twenty-two years ago)

steve, i think next is open at least till 7 most nights, you could get hat and gloves and scarf there.

or you can borrow some from me (i'm not being gross and trying to lure you to my house, honest. just being from michigan means i have about 5 scarves and many hats and lots of gloves)

― colette (a2lette), Monday, 26 January 2004 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Colette, I am starting to get jealous! Humph! I leave London for two weeks and you start macking on Stevem.

I cannot believe it. There have been blizards across the entire East Coast, but somehow they managed to avoid Vermont. North Carolina is under a sheet of ice. NORTH CAROLINA!!! But here there was narry a flurry.

Ahhh, snow in London. Too bad I'm missing it.

― the river fleet, Monday, 26 January 2004 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)

We Londoners also seem to be missing it at the moment.

― Phoebe Dinsmore, Monday, 26 January 2004 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)

don't worry, i'll take pictures for you.

(i'm only macking so he doesn't get too lonely until you get back. i figured that after all the constant attention, he might get sad without you around)

― colette (a2lette), Monday, 26 January 2004 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Colette, does your Campaign To Get Howard Dean Elected As President And In The Meantime To Compromise Stevem's Masculinity Even More Than It Already Was know no bounds??? ;)

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Bloody weather forecasters they promised so much, but it's only just a little bit colder :(

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 26 January 2004 17:51 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry dude i know you were hoping for absolute zero... ;)

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 26 January 2004 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

So where is the snow then? It's brilliant sunshine & blue skies here!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 12:02 (twenty-two years ago)

It'll snow this afternoon.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 12:19 (twenty-two years ago)

there was a little bit of snow in the rain at Harrow this morning but it stopped very quickly

BBC website has no snow for London this week!!

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 12:22 (twenty-two years ago)

The BBC website is always like that! It never predicts heavy rain either.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 12:25 (twenty-two years ago)

it haled for about 30 seconds here this morning!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 12:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't believe all the fuss about this. -9 isn't that cold is it? It's hardly 1963.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Yahoo has Malmo snowing all week and going to -10, that's more like it, it's going to be great

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 12:57 (twenty-two years ago)

it's cloudy but bright here - the sun is out, i'm just glad it's not as cold as was hyped.

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 12:59 (twenty-two years ago)

WAIT TILL WEDNESDAY

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 13:04 (twenty-two years ago)

apparently there's a fine art to gritting, do it too early and it all gets washed away, too late and it's effing pointless...

how *do* the roadgritters get to work?

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 13:09 (twenty-two years ago)

by road-gritter

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 13:10 (twenty-two years ago)

*sniggers*

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 13:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Answer Steve's question and you could win a cruise.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 14:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Still no bloody snow!!! grrrrr!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Daily Express headline: Panic As Big Freeze Bites.

Please. Just stay indoors if it's too cold for you.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Panic!

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Visible breath! Aieeeeee!

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

i hate that 'must buy 10 loaves of bread' mentality! Dickheads!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe they just love bread

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Course, I live in the freaky Brighton weather pocket which is always different to the rest of the country. Sunny and not really that cold yet.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 14:32 (twenty-two years ago)

P'raps!
Cambridge must be the same as Brighton Archel. All the websites that said it was gonna snow here, now say it's gonna be sunny!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe they're going to build a fire out of bread.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 14:37 (twenty-two years ago)

toasty fire huh! hee hee

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 14:39 (twenty-two years ago)

no snow here. was reading a little of the guardian's 'how to deal with cold' story and got disgusted and stopped.

it is pretty cold out, but it isn't so cold people should start to panic. my parents said that it was like -10F there, with several inches of snow each day and nothing is shutting down.

i hope it snows tomorrow, though. i was so hopeful when i woke up, trying to hear if it was extra quiet outside because the snow muffled everything. sigh.

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I did that, but alas! I am beginning to fear I may never see the snow again! *cries*

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Portsmouth = same as Brighton right now. Looks about as likely to snow as rain frogs.

― robster (robster), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

thank you chris :)

and here's judy tzuke to take us up to the news...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Living in Cambridge you'll see snow again, Pinkx0r. I want to see it in Putney. Thick, so that grass etc. is totally covered.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

did anyone else see the snow? it snowed from like 1-3 am last night and it was so pretty. i took some pictures, i'll see if i can put them anywhere people can actually look, for proof. woo!

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 12:00 (twenty-two years ago)

mail them to me and i'll stick them online if ye want

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 12:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Woo hoo! Oh yeah we woke to up to snow this morning! yay us.
I'll see if i can find some pics!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 12:05 (twenty-two years ago)

{ah, its all lies. There was no snow. With been ripped off again by Tony Blairs.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 12:05 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cambridgeshire/weather/weather_gallery/images/jan_snow_03/mrowen_cam_270.jpg
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cambridgeshire/weather/weather_gallery/images/jan_snow_03/mrowen_backs_270.jpg
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cambridgeshire/weather/weather_gallery/images/jan_snow_03/mrowen_corpus_old_court_270.jpg

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Ow, I miss Cambridge! Oxford suxxors, snow-wise.

― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 12:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah but Oxford has the best floods.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 12:13 (twenty-two years ago)

If you were in Cambridge, we could fap!! huh? Huh?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 12:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Fancy a punt?

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't mind if I do!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 12:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah but Oxford has the best floods.

Don't go there! I live abt 3ft off the river and the floods are a supreme motherfucker.

― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 12:17 (twenty-two years ago)

it was snowing lightly at midnight when anna and i got home last night.

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 12:20 (twenty-two years ago)

It's not exactly a slow news week, so why all the ballyhoo and brouhaha about some poxy snow and a bit of cold? I don't think it's exceptionally cold for January. Has everyone gone soft or what?

― Enrique P. Coldchain (Enrique), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 12:24 (twenty-two years ago)

No, everyone just wants a day off work!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 12:25 (twenty-two years ago)

It was going to be much worse snow but Blair called it off when he found out he didn't need to bury the Hutton report after all.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 12:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha ha .....
(checks web to see if this is actually possible.)

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 12:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Haven't you seen the video for Cloudbusting?

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)

In a lot of ways Tony Blair is like my yo-yo that glowed in the dark.
What makes him special, makes him dangerous.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 13:05 (twenty-two years ago)

New Labour, New Weather Front.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)

no more snow, godamnit!

1st phone call from James: I'm on my way home.
(then as if that wasn't bad enough...)
2nd phone call from James: I'm not going home, I'm going to the pub!

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 14:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Get your rolling pin and haul him home Andy Capp style.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 14:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't mind him being in the pub, just not when I am stuck at work! aarrrrggggghhhhhh, snow godamnit snow!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 14:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Right and now the blizzard has started in central London no-one mentions it. You guys!!!

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 17:26 (twenty-two years ago)

i just got completely covered in the snow walkin back from the bus stop..

― marcg (marcg), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)

THUNDER SNOW STORM! WIND CHILL FACTOR! WAHOO!!!!!!

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 17:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Jeez, that was a proper blizzard - and I've never known lightning to accompany snow. It was totally freakin' atonal.

Walked home from Tulse Hill (buses not getting anywhere in southeast London), got chatting to a young woman as we yomped across Norwood Park - new to the neighbourhood, Daily Express journalist. She seemed suitably embarrassed about that, though.

Outside it's -1.6C but, more worryingly, it's only 14.5C in the bedroom. Radiators work more efficiently if you don't pile stuff up in front of them, don't they?

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 21:29 (twenty-two years ago)

It took me half an hour just to walk the 500 or so yards from my office to my front door! Why do I always end up living in places with steeply sloping streets? Still I'm glad I no longer have to slog it all the way back to Streatham - must be hellish out there at the moment.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 28 January 2004 21:35 (twenty-two years ago)

How much snow is there?

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 21:38 (twenty-two years ago)

This piece of comedy from BBC News:

London covered in snow

A blanket of snow has fallen in London as the predicted cold snap spreads.

People living in north London have reported up to three inches settling on the ground in some areas.

The snow showers started just as rush hour began and traffic is delayed on the M25 as motorists slow down in the wet and icy conditions.

Tubes and trains are also suffering problems and some flights from Heathrow and Gatwick airports have been cancelled.

Hundreds of passengers have been stranded after British Airways cancelled 36 flights out of Heathrow, in west London, and Gatwick, in Sussex.

In Crystal Palace, south London, people have abandoned their cars as the snow is making it impossible to drive up the surrounding slopes [so indeed slopy Streatham must be hellish].

LU statement

A section of the Metropolitan Line has been suspended between Chesham Station and Chalfont and Latimer Station.

Some Northern Line stations have also been closed.

The cold weather was also blamed for disrupting Tubes in the morning rush hour.

Some services on parts of the Tube network which are above ground, particularly in north and west London, were unable to run.

Thousands of passengers on sections of the Metropolitan, Piccadilly, Central and Jubilee lines were affected.

Morning closures

London Underground (LU) has apologised for the problems saying contingency plans did not work properly.

There were also delays on South Eastern, Chiltern and West Anglia Great Northern (WAGN) trains.

By 1200 GMT on Wednesday there had been no service between Chesham and Watford or between Chalfont and Latimer and Chesham on the Metropolitan Line.

Chiltern Railways, which uses an adjoining section of track, was unable to run services between Aylesbury and Marylebone.

The Central Line between North Acton and West Ruislip in the west and between Woodford and Hainault in the east was closed during the morning.

'Improve our response'

LU said the problems were caused by ice on the tracks.

In a statement, it said: "London Underground apologises for the disruption to services this morning due to ice forming on some rails.

"London Underground has comprehensive contingencies in place which have been developed over a number of years. Obviously last night these did not fully work in all areas.

"Our plans are being further enhanced so we can learn any lessons and improve our response to future incidents."

[Thus, ten days' notice, the most hyped freeze-up ever and still they sat on their arses until it was too late to do anything]

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 28 January 2004 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)

People living in north London have reported up to three inches settling on the ground in some areas.

three inches? uh...

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 22:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I know, it's pathetic. London doesn't really get snow very often, you see. It used to, when I was a kid, although I am starting to believe I am exaggerating this in my mind on the basis of a couple of snowmen I once built in the garden.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 22:29 (twenty-two years ago)

weird. i know it's not a snow-prone land, but the amount of havoc that this seems to have caused is on par with the hell that breaks loose in the southern states when an inch or so falls. i would have thought things were a bit more winter-proof (london underground excepted).

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 22:38 (twenty-two years ago)

haha, Seattle and London have something in common, except Seattle has one tenth the enthusiasm. :)

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 22:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Lauren, London underground is the bloodstream to London's brisk aerobic exercise. If it doesn't work properly, everything shuts down.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 23:36 (twenty-two years ago)

eleven years pass...

http://www.superpom.com/jenny/snow1.jpg

― Mistah FAAB (sarahell), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 22:04 (eleven years ago)

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WklTMCzX4dE/TZnwLe-XMzI/AAAAAAAAMVA/yr7wWYLUOs0/s1600/gch%2Bch%2Bpowerpom%2Bhigh%2Bperformance.jpg

there was a very moderate amount of snow falling in london early this morning, although since i don't remember any snow last winter it seemed notable enough

― anima corrective (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 22:08 (eleven years ago)

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