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The JDK syas it will not rain every day for the next 40 days and 40 nights. Is he... [7 vote(s)]

...right as rain? (Heh, 'rain'. Get it?)
57.1%
...wrong - like a wrong thing that's been to wrong university and obtained a degree in wrongness.
14.3%
...boooooooooring. Don't know. Don't care.
28.6%
Catfish


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St Swithin's Day

So according to the link whatever the weather was like on St Swithin's Day (15th July) then this will predict what the weather will be like for the next 40 days. Yesterday was a completely miserable rainy day in Bristol, so according to the theory it should now be rainy everyday in Bristol for the next 40 days.

I mentioned this to the JDK as we walked out to the corner shop this evening, and he poo pooed the whole theory because it hadn't rained today at all. However, as soon as we got back home it suddenly rained a whole day's worth of rain in about 10 minutes!! So the theory is holding up so far... biggrin.gif (ermm...not sure why I'm grinning at this??)

The forecast is now for miserable weather all week.... ermm ..... glad I'm gonna be jetting off to the states on Saturday!



-- Edited by ddvmor at 08:02, 2007-07-17

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I'm so posting your address on internet...

That'll teach you to go off and find warmer climates!

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Catfish wrote:
I mentioned this to the JDK as we walked out to the corner shop this evening, and he poo pooed the whole theory because it hadn't rained today at all.
There was indeed an element of pooh-poohing. While I dont disagree that it may rain for the next 39 days (I seem to remember that my first 6 months in Bristol, it rained every single day), it's not beacuse it rained on some ropey made up saint's day.

For the purposes of this thread, I am taking the stance that it will not rain every day in Bristol for 40 days and 40 nights. The competition starts here. A poll has been added.

-- Edited by ddvmor at 08:02, 2007-07-17

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JonnyStead


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It rained today... ehum

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Dammit.

38 days to go, though!

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Aye - forecast tomorrow?... rain

37 then! lol

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It only has to not rain on one of the 40 days for me to win! I'm still confident. Kinda...

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Rain where?

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For the purposes of this exercise, I'd say in and around Bristol. As far north as Catfish's work and down to Bedminster. That accounts for my office, the centre of Bristol, home and Catfish's office. While I'm in the States I'm gonna need some volunteers to keep an eye on the rain situation! There's only two of you that qualify...

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I dont qualify because you're looking for volunteers

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ddvmor


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What? Even though there's an opportunity to be instrumental in my losing a bet?

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Day 3. It's raining again...

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There's a song in there somewhere

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What's irritating is that it's been fantastically sunny all day. Except for about 10 minutes of drizzle this morning. It's like St Swithin is mocking me...

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Its not just St Swithin...

-- Edited by JonnyStead at 21:25, 2007-07-18

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Catfish


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He He...

It just rained here again.

Just one day of work and wet weather to go before our holiday biggrin

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Go on, tell us all about it then!

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Was lovely & sunny here. Barely a cloud in the sky all day.

This reminds me of an amusing argument I had while I was away; One of the guys I was travelling with smugly insisted that it was not going to rain, because it had rained the previous 2 days & now that we had a sunny morning there were going to be a couple of days of sunshine. He maintained that this is how all weather works, everywhere, always. He had this great knowledge from his A-level in geography (the bloke's 34 & still quoting his A-levels - this wasn't the first time). I said, "Well, not necessarily. The weather where I live chops & changes all the time" & I get back "No, that's not how it works". This continued for a few exchanges, with me repeating my argument more slowly & clearly so he might understand & him getting increasingly agitated. It ended with me (slightly snappily) saying "Karl, you can't tell me that's not what the weather does where I live, I live there" & him disappearing into a huff.

So, this happens to be in St Petersburg, on the day I'm leaving the others & tootling home via Estonia. I mooch around with Rich a bit in the morning, then catch the metro out to the bus stop. As I come up from the metro the heavens open, with some force. (Luckily I have shelter, & it kindly stops for a while as the bus pulls up). The bus drives away from the bad weather & once in Estonia I buy picnic food & eat my tea on a bench by the harbour, watching the sun set over Tallinn old town. However, in St P the rain & flooding are apparently that bad that they couldn't see where pavements ended & roads began. Although I did give Rich some sympathy, oh, how I laughed & took to piss out of Karl!

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JonnyStead wrote:

Go on, tell us all about it then!


You'll have to wait until I come back to hear ALL about it... that's how it usually works with things that are in the future !! wink

We may get online at some point and tell you about some of it. The JDK also suggested that we should try to meet up with Aodan. Just checked on the web and its 227 miles between the DC and NY. Any chance Aodan?  We could always catch trains and meet halfway...  227 miles is nothing in America so it would be a shame to miss the opportunity !

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sha76jam wrote:
He had this great knowledge from his A-level in geography (the bloke's 34 & still quoting his A-levels - this wasn't the first time).
Heh. I don't think I've even used anything from my A-levels in the last 10 years.

Let's see... Business Studies... nope nothing there. I'll be sure to apply for the next Season of Dragon's Den though as I'm pretty sure that qualifies me for the panel.

Theatre Studies... what a namby pamby A-level that was. Altough it did ably demonstrate that I can't act for toffee and should spend my time doing other stuff. Ok, I may have used a few of the things I learned on this recently. But not much.

Computer Studies... that was a joke. I spent most of the 2 years bumming around and taking the p1ss out of the teacher (Mr 'Stop Being Babies' Whelan biggrin.gif ). Now I do SQL programming and stuff, but I didn't use a computer for anything more than games and e-mails for 6 or 7 years after that. I don't remember a thing about C and I don;t think Java or VB had been invented then. We used BBC Archimedes computers! Wow...

General Studies... I'm not sure what the point of this one was, but it was really easy and now I can tie my own shoelaces.

Ho hum.

Now then... Day 5: Raining heavily.

-- Edited by ddvmor at 09:30, 2007-07-20

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Catfish wrote:

JonnyStead wrote:

Go on, tell us all about it then!


You'll have to wait until I come back to hear ALL about it... that's how it usually works with things that are in the future !! wink

I see you're learning the pedantry from the master wink.gif

I was thinking more of you sharing your plans...?



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Are they really your A-levels?

poor dude, poor

It rained so much here today, the road round the corner from me is flooded - I've beeen watching 'da polis' send loads of cars back - I kinda wanted to make them all tea...

-- Edited by Short Santa at 00:21, 2007-07-21

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I woke up this morning to find the after effects of rain - but didnt see the rain itself... its only 10.45 though

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I'm pretty sure we're still looking for a dry day?

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I don't recall having seen any at all today.  I've been up since 5.50am and there was no sign of rain overnight.  Sky's looking pretty, well, sky blue...

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Its bunging it down now!

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Would that be where little knobs of rubber come sailing down from the sky?

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Nice Suey - just got it!

Its raining today... again...

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imslow.gif

A whole day?

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Looks like it may be all over for St Swithen - the forecast predicts virtually no rain this week!

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