When you need to rant...

[charlietheowl]

Would it make you feel better...or at least make you laugh... if I told you that my mom is one of those people who believe in the conspiracy theory that the government is controlling the weather?

In the conspiracy theory favored by your mother, what is the government's motivation for controlling the weather?

 

[Sgt Floyd]

No idea...

 

[D'Snowth]

Would it make you feel better...or at least make you laugh... if I told you that my mom is one of those people who believe in the conspiracy theory that the government is controlling the weather?

That'll get a laugh out of me.

 

[charlietheowl]

No idea...

I did a quick google search on the government controlling the weather, and got a message board posting which linked it to the "new world order" and "global population control", the usual tin-foil hat crank stuff. I'm guessing that most people don't take it to that level.

But most importantly, the message board also had a link to someone's "ramen noodle conspiracy". Evidently the fact that they didn't like the taste anymore was a vast conspiracy by the company who made it.

 

[AlittleMayhem]

One of my friends has a friend who believes the British government is covering up Andy Murray's porn video or something like that, I don't know. Something ridiculous like that...

 

[D'Snowth]

There's some kind of conspiracy going on with Sarge, and how Sarge seems to always change its gender, so I need to rig up a system of hidden cameras all over the place to determine just what in the world is going on.

And ladies and gentlemen... the truth is... out there, somewhere...

 

[Sgt Floyd]

The truth is on my profile

...or is it?

 

[Vincent L]

Dum dum DUUUUUUM!!!

Tune in next week, to find out what Sarge's true gender is, on Crazy Things Everywhere!

 

[Sgt Floyd]

Mother Nature seems to disagree with what my brain thinks

 

[Drtooth]

Okay, at this time, I am feeling really, REALLY deprived right now, and it's times like these that makes me think, don't people wish they listened to Al Gore sooner, rather than dismiss him as a nutjob?

Now then, I suppose I can't complain too awful much, considering that here a few months ago, the unimaginable happened: we actually had a bearable and tolerable summer for once... that RARELY happens for us... so, you would think, after being given a break during summer for once, that we could also possibly have a nice crisp fall, and a nice cold winter to go with it.

Climate change happens at both ends of the spectrum. Some places may feel warmer than they should, but then we get places colder and stormier than we should, too. I've always noticed when December starts out warm, it gets cold very fast and stays cold. If we have a cold December, we usually have a warm, if not at least tolerable rest of the winter season.

Last year, we had a snowstorm in October. It wasn't too bad in my area, but the western part of the state was pretty much demolished. We don't typically get measurable snow in October. We don't typically get snow October period. When we do, it's a freak cold front and it's no more than a coating. But yet, other than one or two little bits in December, we had almost no snow. Record low snowfall. And that was awesome because the year before that we were less than a foot away from record high snowfall, as we had every single snowstorm pushed our way by the jet stream. We're getting two sides of an extreme. I kinda hope for something more snowless this year, but I doubt that. As it stands, the same warm front giving you 70 degree heat waves is going to give us barely mid-50's, and last 2 whole days before we're back below normal. And the day before it hit, it was low 30's and snowing. I'm North East coast... Canadian cold air LOVES us.

I'm more concerned about the crop of massive wild storms such as tornadoes where they shouldn't be than not being able to wear layer upon layer of ugly, itchy clothing (that as soon as you walk into a store feels like you're in a furnace).