One week it's "Global Warming - Oh My God We're All Going to Die", the next it's "Snow Brings Country (i.e., London and The South East) to a Halt - Thousands Stranded"

At work this morning - the following email bulletin was despatched:

"Good morning,
 
Due to severe weather conditions and not all staff making it to the office, there will be NO sandwich service today.
 
We also have a shortage of milk, we have creamers and a few milk portions available which I will place in the kitchens a.s.a.p."

Severe weather conditions? It's snow. In winter. How is that severe? And why won't the sandwich man be coming? Has he got frosbite and now can't slap some butties together? And a milk shortage - did the cows' udders freeze up? Send some useless twat from marketing across the road to the shop for a couple of pints - that should tide us over until the thaw. Jesus wept.

What is wrong with people that they can't cope with a light dusting of snow. Heaven forfend that these "people" don't live in Scandinavia or Canada where there are a few feet of snow on the ground for months at a time. Do those countries suddenly stop work, do their airports close? Of course not. They cope with it.

In Scandinavia, motorists drive according to the conditions. Here (or at least on the M25) if the fuckwit in the Beemer has to drive at less than 80mph it's a national disaster.

The BBC seem to think that there is nothing more newsworthy today than the weather and travel disruption. Even the London Underground has been affected. How? These are trains that travel in tunnels for fuck sake. Schools have closed - yet another excuse for lazy-arsed teachers to have a day off in addition to the hundred or so "inset" days they feel obligated to have off each year. Is this what we're reduced to - not going to work because the weather's a little on the inclement side? Imagine how far Roald Amundsen and Scott of the Antarctic would have got if they had looked out the tent flap in the morning and thought "It's snowing a bit out there. I'll be fucked if I'm going out in this". Scott was eventually - but that's beside the point.

The best yet is the advice on the BBC website that People who must travel are advised to take warm clothes, food, water, a torch and a spade. - Well of course I'm going to put a jumper and coat on - it's not exactly midsummer but what's the point of the food and water? Oooooh you could be stuck outside in the dark for at least an hour or two. Blimey if you can't survive a couple of hours without so much as a biscuit you deserve hypothermia. As for the water - don't eat the yellow snow!