I fail to comprehend how the UK can be brought to a complete standstill simply because of a little bit of snow. It's not like we didn't know it was coming, it's been all over the news for the last week; "Siberian snow blizzards expected over the weekend..." blah blah blah.
I can only assume that the south-east of England is buried under 6 feet of snow, how else can we be excused for closing bus, rail and air services? But alas no, I see on the news that the closed down Heathrow airport is not cowering under 4 metres of snow, no, there's barely 4mm covering the ground.
The idiocy continues around the rest of the UK, in Lincolnshire for example, people have taken to driving at no faster than 14 MPH because they thought they might possibly have seen a snowflake on the ground outside their home (despite the roads being perfectly clear). I was amazed to see people braking like crazy and at the last minute as they appproched minor bends in the road (despite them only travelling at 14 MPH).
There is one rule above all others when driving in actual snow; never under any circumstances ever use your brakes until you have slowed the car down via the gears to the point that the car has practically stopped already. It's a quite simple rule really, yet the utter nerks that are on the road seem incapable of understanding this.
It simply requires common sense and this country seems to fall offensively short on that score.
I can't help feeling that as a country we have stopped evolving and have began moving backwards, becoming more and more retarded as each day passes. The politically correct brigade of health and safety lunatics have taken things so far that we are naturally evolving into brain-dead numpties, incapable of taking a shit without a health policy, safety contract and offciial government issue handbook giving full instructions on the mechanics of shitting without injury to yourself or others. It's entirely pathetic.
I can only assume that Canada, Norway, Iceland, Sweden, Russia etc are all looking on and urinating themselves with laughter at the utter disorganised farce that is going on in the UK right now. It really is something out of a Benny Hill sketch or a Carry On film, the total incapacity of the UK to survive when more than 3 flakes of snow land on the ground.
"We regret to inform the Rest of the World that the UK is currently closed due to microscopic levels of snow by your standards, normal service will be resumed roughly 3 weeks after the last snowflake has melted. Sorry for any inconvenience".
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It would be a true tragedy if it wasn’t so bloody true.