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Posted by ElectricWhite on 19-02-2015 at 16:58:
Crazy or stupid?
Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh has a message for all the fools jumping out of windows into snow piles: Stop it. "I’m asking people to stop their nonsense right now," Walsh said at a press conference Tuesday, addressing the legions of people who have jumped out of windows — often dressed only in their underwear — and posted their conquests on social media using the hashtag #BostonBlizzardChallenge over the past three weeks.
Here's a small sampling of what the mayor's talking about :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX2dQ-j25ko
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Posted by Springie on 19-02-2015 at 18:21:
Lol...both crazy and stupid...hope they don't get hurt!
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Posted by msannomalley on 19-02-2015 at 18:22:
Both. 
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Posted by Daniella T on 19-02-2015 at 19:34:
Good thing in Europe it doesn't snow so much...
Or if it does, hopefully this will not catch on.
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Posted by ChrisW on 19-02-2015 at 21:45:
Winter can drive people nuts after a while ...
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Posted by ElectricWhite on 19-02-2015 at 23:51:
I don't know why, Chris, but I get the feeling you might have tried something winter-crazy... 
(And if you have, I hope you at least covered up -- I can think of better reasons for frostbite!)
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Posted by ChrisW on 20-02-2015 at 00:51:
When I was little I lived in upstate NY and I remember there was a blizzard on my birthday (mid-May). I grew up in FL, though, no snow there. Went to university in PA and remember spinning out on ice (decided immediately I wanted to live on a climate where that didn't happen). Married a guy in BC and have gotten used to what I (and many others) call "fwinter" ... mostly a long, grey, raining fall/winter. We've had the occasional very snowy and even icy winter but that's not too common here.
For about a month my allergies have been going insane as spring tries to spring here. (I get very itchy in my ears and at the top of my throat/back of my mouth.) The crocuses are out, too. I've been trying to be quiet about it so that the people in snowboundland don't murder me. 
It is damp, though, and chilly!
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Posted by ElectricWhite on 20-02-2015 at 02:08:
I wouldn't murder you. In fact, one of the local weather guys commented on how the news people in Palm Beach have been doing winter weather remotes there -- the temperature there was a "Frigid 58" there. (Fahrenheit, of course.) Since there had been a lot of talk about how dangerous the wind chill is here, I was half-expecting to hear the Palm Beach folks say something like, "...And, at this temperature, frostbite will set in within 125,000 years!"
And sometimes I can just see littlewolf lounging around in her yard, sipping on one of those touristy drinks with a paper umbrella in it; a smile forming on her lips as she wonders if any of us will ever realize it's summer Down Under and start heading that way.
Just gotta take it in stride.
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Posted by ChrisW on 20-02-2015 at 05:50:
Phew, safe!
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Posted by ElectricWhite on 20-02-2015 at 13:32:
...At the very least, you should know Kat would never let anybody do anything bad to you!
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Posted by ChrisW on 21-02-2015 at 00:29:
That's right.
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Posted by littlewolf on 25-02-2015 at 11:40:
Alas with re having a weird summer down her, high temps one day, jumpers the next day, fluctuating humidity, almost cyclonic weather (high wind, beach erosion, down pours) flooding, we tough it out with our normal twisted Australian humor
alas fancy drinks with umbrellas in them belong to tourist and people with extra time on their hand at the moment
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Posted by ElectricWhite on 25-02-2015 at 14:19:
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Hey, I could've said I pictured you serving the touristy like a cabana girl! (And I know darned well you'd never agree to do that !)
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Posted by littlewolf on 01-03-2015 at 13:11:
snigger
and the risk of sound a little gross - I would have to de-forest my legs and underarms first to be a cabana girl, the tourist would have to enjoy a little bit of "muffin top" around the hips and alas my freckles have not joined up to give me that all over tan I wanted as a child, so I would have to "fake tan" it
alas I could not see myself getting a lot of tips, unless it was from dirty twisted tourist who like their woman mature, and if someone did try and give me a little lips, I can see myself either walking away laughing or something that could get me fired.....though I can thing of some interesting things to do with their drink umbrellas and swizzle sticks..... probable best I stick to retail.. I know people will eventually leave my shops......
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Posted by Victoria on 02-03-2015 at 04:47:
I'm sorry, I haven't been around for a while, but... is this really happening? I... oh God, I can't really wrap my head around this. It's like something out of a manga. (Actually, episode 29 of Axis Powers Hetalia, when the anthropomorphised Russia jumps out of a plane, saying he doesn't need a parachute because of all the snow beneath) It's really difficult to see something like this happening, and yet when it does - I kind of lose another sliver of my hope in this world.
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Posted by ElectricWhite on 02-03-2015 at 14:30:
I hate to break it to you, Victoria, but there are humans who choose to be severely stupid monkeys!
Although I must admit that I do feel sorry for the people of Boston -- they are on the verge of setting a new record for the amount of snowfall received in one winter. It's just too much for them to deal with.
Still, I don't see how a person could look at a snow bank that towers over their head and say, "I think I'll climb up to my roof, strip down to my underwear, and jump into that snowbank ... which I might not be able to get out of and might end up dying from exposure ...oh yeah, that's an AWESOME idea!"
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Posted by Victoria on 04-03-2015 at 08:50:
Yeah. You guys are stealing our winters! Though frankly I ought to be grateful right now, considering I'm still going to work with my 38°C fevers and a really bad cough... 
Oh yeah, and about the poor people of Boston, I guess my quote really applies here, heh.
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Posted by ElectricWhite on 05-03-2015 at 01:31:
Victoria, you'd better start taking care of yourself! With all the hardware that's going to be attached to my leg for a couple of months, it will be darned near impossible for me to get through the metal detectors at the airport if I had to fly to your part of the world to slap you upside the head for neglecting your health! 
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Posted by ChrisW on 05-03-2015 at 05:18:
See, EW, you're looking at that all wrong. You need to just ask for the hottest male guard for a personal, hands-on search. 
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Posted by ElectricWhite on 05-03-2015 at 08:06:
Good point, Chris.
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