Do you love the rain?

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It's raining in Helsinki right now... I've come to realize that, even though I'm not a goth, nor a poet, nor the singer from Garbage, I love the rain.

I love the warm summer rain, when you can just go outside and run through the empty streets and jump on puddles and roll on the grass, and in general act like a child.

I love the cool autumn rain, when you can stay inside and watch the raindrops fall on trees that are yellow and red and brown, when you can drink something hot and you have the perfect right to be melancholic and contemplative.

And I love the spring rain, when the water forms little streams and earthworms rise on the surface, and afterwards the grass smells nice and the air feels fresh.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Go ahead, you can mock me on my tweeness.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

naw I feel the same way, except when I'm without my umbrella.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I love THUNDERSTORMS, too.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

No mocking here dude! I love the rain. I love sitting on my porch watching it rain on the park with my son and drinking tea. I love listening to really heavy scary rain coming down on the roof, so hard it sounds like it's going to tear right on through. Just thinking about the rain makes me feel a little more at ease in my soul.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yes, thunderstorms are great too! As a kid I always went out during thuderstorms even though you weren't supposed to. One time a lightning hit a street lamp six feet from me.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I love the rain when I don't have to be in it.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, exactly.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

No, I love the rain. I identify with it.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

*pic from Shawshank Redemption here*

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

One of my all-time favorite audio juxtapositions is that of minimal pretty acoustic guitar music against the cacophany of violent thunderstorms.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

i like rain more than the sun most of the time.

― thesplooge (thesplooge), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I love a good thunderstorm...

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

What about running outside during a summer rain, if the air is warm and the raindrops are big? Anyone up for it?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

not in NYC, but if I was in the country, sure.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

rain is good, yes. st swithins day

― kephm, Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

i like running in the summer rain. part of why i like rain is probably just because i seem to look better in winter/bad weather clothing than summery clothes. partially because i end up sweating profusely when the weather is stiflingly hot.

― thesplooge (thesplooge), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I could've swore I just recently posted something about doing something in a thunderstorm.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't stand the rain

― Bumfluff, Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Whereas I, ooh now I wish it would rain down, down on me. Yes, I wish it would rain, rain down on me now.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Who loves the sun?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy...

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

And now, having quoted both John Denver and Phil Collins in the same day, I fear I must kill myself.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Being in the rain isn't too bad, so long as you can change clothes soon afterwards. I mean, it's just water.

xpost good cause that means i won't have to

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

The Nickalicious POV albums to listen to when it's raining:

1. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
2. Morphine - Like Swimming
3. Explosions In the Sky - The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
4. Lovage: Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By
5. Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, very new but deserves honorable mention = Wilco - A Ghost Is Born.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I suddenly got this uncontrollable urge to get me some sweets, so I went out in the rain to get them. Now my clothes are wet and I'm eating sweets. I feel like a kid.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

blame it on the sun, tuomas, as stevie wonder said.

― thesplooge (thesplooge), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I want to go camping in the hope it will rain, because i love the sound of the rain pattering against the roof of the tent.

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean, it's just water.

except when it's evaporated piss from all the sidewalks in NYC coupled with emission residue from every factory from here to Omaha.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

rain is good.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

One of my all-time favorite audio juxtapositions is that of minimal pretty acoustic guitar music against the cacophany of violent thunderstorms.

You need to seek out Flying Saucer Attack - "Further"

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I love the rain when I don't have to be in it.

correct. unless it's drizzling. that's nice.

― Maneating Leopards of India (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 29 July 2004 00:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Rain is wonderful.

People run into shelters and wave umbrellas about the place like the water's going to kill them, or the ecosystem has a vendetta against them or something.

― Careful with that Almanac Eugene (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 29 July 2004 00:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Rain on the roof while I'm going to sleep is very comforting. Thunder in the night prompts my 75 lb. dog to jump on the bed and vibrate like a tuning fork, which takes a bit of the romance out of the whole thing.

― jim wentworth (wench), Thursday, 29 July 2004 01:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Rain drowns out the noise of the people downstairs singing along to Bryan Adams.

― Careful with that Almanac Eugene (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 29 July 2004 01:06 (twenty-one years ago)

<4!

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Thursday, 29 July 2004 01:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I love rain. I love being out in the rain. It used to be a pain for me when I wore glasses because I would always have to protect those glasses from getting dirty with rain water, but now that I don't, I don't have to fret about that and can even look up as the rain pounds down, if I choose to do so. We're overdue for a really powerful thunderstorm locally. I want it to rain so hard everyone on the local news broadcasts is talking flash flooding, you look outside and the street you live on looks like a small stream, and local dams are filled to capacity. That's the kind of rain I like best.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 29 July 2004 02:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I like how the rain sounds on the part of my air conditioner that sticks outside -- that, and that I don't need to turn the air conditioner on because it's rainy and cool.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Thursday, 29 July 2004 02:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I find rain both relaxing and stimulating. There's some music (like Twerk's Living Vicariously Through Burnt Bread) that plays particularly well when you stay indoors on a rainy day.

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 29 July 2004 03:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I love the rain. Always have. I love the sound, visual, everything. The light is wonderful; diffuse and cozy. It's nice to think about right now. Vancouver's had the hottest summer in centuries, with several weeks of 30-38 degree temperatures, which is really horrid when we're used to 25-30 being the very hottest. We actually slept on the balcony last weekend to deal with the heat in our apartment.

What I really dislike is warm sun right after a good rainstorm, esp. in the summer, so that all the lawns and roads start to steam and the air is chokingly humid. blech.

If I'd discovered twee music in high school, I would have been so damn twee, listening to The Sundays while looking at the rain, but instead I listened to shoegazer bands, Portishead and Joni Mitchell, which is pretty good in retrospect.

― derrick (derrick), Thursday, 29 July 2004 06:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Thunderstorms rule. I do like to listen to the rain when i am in bed.

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 29 July 2004 11:09 (twenty-one years ago)

i like holding hands with girls in a park in the rain.

doesn't happen a lot though :(

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 29 July 2004 11:22 (twenty-one years ago)

aww ken, what's you f@#king problem?

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 29 July 2004 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)

stupid sunny weather of england er ha ha etc.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 29 July 2004 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)

heh!

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 29 July 2004 11:24 (twenty-one years ago)

five months pass...

Ah, rain. It's turning out to be a wet winter in California thanks to El Niño; both up in Carmel from the 26th through yesterday and now down here in OC there's been nothing but fairly steady rain on and off. Lots of rain fell last night and a new burst has begun just now. It's lovely not to have to be at work at all for this week, so I can sit it for the morning and just enjoy it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Sit IN for the morning, I should say.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

It's always raining here - gets mighty tedious after a while.

I do like really really heavy rain though, when it comes down in sheets and the drains can't cope and everyone gapes from their windows. Mostly we just get regular rain though, with occasional drizzle and the odd shower. Interspersed with smir.

Smir, is anyone outside my family familiar with that word?

― Rumpy Pumpkin, Wednesday, 29 December 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

God you lot are weird.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

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rainnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn forever pls

― surm, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 16:46 (ten years ago)

those look like some big bottom clouds over ldn

― zionsmommy (mattresslessness), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 16:58 (ten years ago)

I didn't quite get the rain I was expecting, it went westerly but it still looked very nice.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/imq3gv79gbd7b3i/SAM_4751.JPG?dl=0

― xelab, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 17:02 (ten years ago)

oh fuck dropbox it was a good pic that!

― xelab, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 17:03 (ten years ago)

had a nice walk home thru Wagnerian skies, a flurry of light hail as i left work followed by intermittent brightness and dark spray

― eremitic brid (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 17:03 (ten years ago)

on Saturday evening i spent the absolute best 20 minutes sat with Han by the big fountain in town as the sky darkened and the wind kept swinging the spray around us

― eremitic brid (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 17:05 (ten years ago)

cumulonimbus is the ultimate big bottom cloud

― the mark s of juxberry rules (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 17:06 (ten years ago)

this day is beyond

― surm, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 13:59 (ten years ago)

one year passes...

love rain, love cloudy days. think i need to move to the cascades or northern europe.

― lute bro (brimstead), Saturday, 21 May 2016 19:15 (nine years ago)

Beautiful, rainy day here in Seattle.

― kate78, Saturday, 21 May 2016 19:57 (nine years ago)

raining so hard in hilo the lines on the roads have completely disappeared. keeps you on yr toes

― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 21 May 2016 20:25 (nine years ago)

but yes it is my favorite. we had something like a drought last summer -- hard blue skies for weeks -- and i started telling people i had seasonal affective disorder

― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 21 May 2016 20:28 (nine years ago)

ha yes, i sometimes feel i have "reverse" seasonal affective disorder. not a huge fan of the cold, however.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tzKRBT-fE-I/UDU665V8CgI/AAAAAAAAGS0/vvC_5cQN2Pc/s1600/Gerhard+Richter+%288%29.JPG

― lute bro (brimstead), Saturday, 21 May 2016 20:30 (nine years ago)

my position's always been that cold's preferable to heat cuz you can always put on another layer but the reverse isn't true -- but this is just bias because i have extensive experience with steaming jungles and none with, like, minnesota, where i'm sure there wouldn't be enough layers in the world for me

― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 21 May 2016 20:34 (nine years ago)

i can kind of get into intense dry heat, it makes me feel alive and present and more connected with the cosmos or something.

― lute bro (brimstead), Saturday, 21 May 2016 20:44 (nine years ago)

Cold+rainy no, likewise having to sit at work in wet clothing. Otherwise love it, especially in the warm summer while pleasantly buzzed.

― kevin smith what a bro (Myonga Vön Bontee), Saturday, 21 May 2016 20:45 (nine years ago)

a consequence of rain is greenery and clean air

i like

― F♯ A♯ (∞), Monday, 23 May 2016 17:56 (nine years ago)

good grass means good milk

― ogmor, Monday, 23 May 2016 17:59 (nine years ago)

cold's preferable to heat cuz you can always put on another layer but the reverse isn't true

^^^

xp also rain during allergy season means fewer allergy symptoms.

― get on (down) / to the funky (sound) / of (snoball), Monday, 23 May 2016 20:47 (nine years ago)

true

luv rain

hail mt rain...ier

― F♯ A♯ (∞), Monday, 23 May 2016 20:54 (nine years ago)

Rave on Jackson Browne (you love the thunder, you love the rain)

Rave on Eddie Rabbit

― lute bro (brimstead), Monday, 23 May 2016 21:01 (nine years ago)

Ill take extreme heat bc you can run around almost naked and pour water all over yourself in necessary

― always be charging (rip van wanko), Monday, 23 May 2016 21:02 (nine years ago)

always good social etiquette to run around scantily clad pouring water all over yourself while you wait to be seated at your favourite restaurant

― F♯ A♯ (∞), Monday, 23 May 2016 21:08 (nine years ago)

I think I'd lose my job if I tried that at work.

― get on (down) / to the funky (sound) / of (snoball), Monday, 23 May 2016 21:17 (nine years ago)

Need a new job imo

― kevin smith what a bro (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 23 May 2016 21:19 (nine years ago)

four months pass...

an inch an hour last night. fuck yeahhhhhhh

― florence foster wallace (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 6 October 2016 00:30 (nine years ago)

I can't say my relationship with rain is a deeply-smitten love affair. I would say I am very comfortable with it. We're old acquaintances.

― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Thursday, 6 October 2016 01:12 (nine years ago)

"acquaintances" is a good word for what oregon calls rain. here it fucks torridly

― florence foster wallace (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 6 October 2016 01:22 (nine years ago)

rain where art thou

― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 6 October 2016 17:41 (nine years ago)

one year passes...

i miss the rain. a day and a half and it's over.

do love the sound of cars driving through rain

― brimstead, Monday, 6 November 2017 15:58 (eight years ago)

we had some rain on saturday & it was the BEST

i want more

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 6 November 2017 16:42 (eight years ago)

ahaha more rain expected this week hooray

it is nice and dark/cloudy right now

― brimstead, Monday, 6 November 2017 20:09 (eight years ago)

Saturday night we had some monstrous rainfall, had to get out of bed and check outside because it sounded so great.

― Ste, Monday, 6 November 2017 21:34 (eight years ago)

I really love getting soaked on the way to work and then sitting for a whole morning with trousers that are absolutely wringing/heavy and chafing. It's a rare delight. I also love standing at a bus stop that doesn't have a shelter in the rain for half an hour in Glasgow in December and subsequently having a bout of asthma that keeps me up half the night. Also I love being splashed by cars that have driven through a large puddle that was caused by rain, staining my newly dry-cleaned trousers.

Fuck is wrong with you people?

― jim, Monday, April 28, 2008 1:05 PM (nine years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

still hate rain

― -_- (jim in vancouver), Monday, 6 November 2017 21:38 (eight years ago)

moving to vancouver might have been a mistake

― mookieproof, Monday, 6 November 2017 21:57 (eight years ago)

rains slightly less than in glasgow! making progress

― -_- (jim in vancouver), Monday, 6 November 2017 21:58 (eight years ago)

Never thought about how penguins feel about snow but I guess love would not be the term

― Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Monday, 6 November 2017 22:47 (eight years ago)

there are like 50 threads about how rain is dud, go over there jim in vancouver

― brimstead, Monday, 6 November 2017 23:29 (eight years ago)

the thread is called do you love the rain and i am answering no i do not like the rain to the question

― -_- (jim in vancouver), Monday, 6 November 2017 23:42 (eight years ago)

i can't stand the rain, upon my window, bringing back sweet memories

― the late great, Monday, 6 November 2017 23:52 (eight years ago)

Rain makes me want to play hooky from work and listen to vaporwave all day

― calstars, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 00:42 (eight years ago)

https://m.imgur.com/r/Vaporwave/Mm7r8zh

― calstars, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 00:44 (eight years ago)

the thread is called do you love the rain and i am answering no i do not like the rain to the question

― -_- (jim in vancouver), Monday, November 6, 2017 3:42 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

gah lol you are correct, i don't know why i was reviving some posi rain thread

i do agree that getting heavily rained on is no good. but that feeling when you come home and get dry/warm it rather heavenly.

― brimstead, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 01:54 (eight years ago)

sometimes i think the best is a light misting.. by the sea.. that's good stuff

― brimstead, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 01:56 (eight years ago)

wait i DO know why i was reviving some posi thread... because of the opening post.. oh well whatever *raindance*

― brimstead, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 01:58 (eight years ago)

I've converted this to an mp3 and play this when I've trouble sleeping. There's something intensely soporific and comforting about the sound of rain on a car roof.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpxJJFcWM8s

― barbarian radge (NotEnough), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 14:45 (eight years ago)

love the rain. last week i was on vacay in Portland and it was so nice just like living inside of a cloud.

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 14:57 (eight years ago)

I loved the rain yesterday because some jackass had had themselves a great time recreationally spraying a fire extinguisher all over the sidewalk in front of the building, leaving behind drifts of dubious yellow powder, and the rain washed it away.

― harbinger of failure (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 15:09 (eight years ago)

yeah lurv the rain on a roof. Also the sound of rain dripping through leaves, which I get to hear from my bedroom window a lot.

― Ste, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 18:23 (eight years ago)

really shouldn't have worn white sneakers today

― flappy bird, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 18:26 (eight years ago)

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