Snow

[Kitiara]

It's 12:30pm here in England, and I've only just got into work.

It snowed last night, about 1 maybe 2cm. Consequently this morning, the entire public transport system into London has ground to a standstill.

I got to the train station this morning at 8:45, to be told that the 5:45 train still hadn't arrived and wouldn't be doing so for another 3 hours. Okaaaay. They told us to go home, and not use the trains at all.

So we drove in. And the motorways are full because no-one can get a train.

Argh.

The weather forecast last nigth said there would be a little bit of snow. How come the railway companies were <i>still</i> taken by surprise? You'd think they're be prepared for this by now. It's the same every year... :scream: :angry:

[Starpromo]

well we've known for a long time that the rail system in the uk is terrible and especially in place like london where the demand is more than ever...

oh and it snowed here earlier...

[Kitiara]

Whereabouts are you then?

And I make / design / maintain the whole Churchill site. We're also in charge of Nationwide, Prudential, CSG Claims, NIG... A whole bunch of stuff.

I honestly do a lot of work during the day, but the changes and updates etc don't come in on a regular basis, so I can spend time researching or writing reports. That's when I surf the web. :)

[Soul]

Of course you do ;)

I live in Yorkshire.

Wow, your my claim to fame, I know the webmaster of Churchill. That little dog reminds me of you, no offence haha :beam:

- Soul :goatee:

[Starpromo]

i live near york about 4 hours drive from london :sleep:

sounds like a great job...

web designing is what i want to get into eventually

[novatake]

i live in the north west its frezing here but no snow..... yet i just found out my little town of 60.000 people has the second highlest murder rate in england after manchester also we got the highest sucide rate, drug abuse rate and alot more what a nice town i live in lol

-Tom

[novatake]

p.s im talkin about the car dog... the car dog yeh i love them ads hahaha i need the car dog song actually when i get home i may download it

-Tom

[Starpromo]

haha

manchester:geek:

[Starpromo]

p.s

i dont love manchester

[novatake]

yeh i live in barrow about 1 hour os so from manchester

[Kitiara]

You like the adverts?!? I guess you get more irritated by them the longer you work here. And of course I'm only famous to other British people - Americans have no idea what Churchill the Dog is. Lucky them.

If you want soundbites of the dog, go to http://www.churchill.com/fun and have a look in there. There's video, audio, all sorts of stuff...

[andr.in]

2cm? how come public transport stopped for a little snowflake like that?
He have half a metre in some places here!:elderly:
oh and btw novatake the size limit of a footer is 15kb! And the one you have now makes my computer slow as hell! I can't scroll this page properly! The browser responses every 2 secónds or so...:!: :):beam:

[Starpromo]

hahaha

i geuss some people just arn't happy enough with the ad its self...

hhhmmm

[Soul]

Have you met the dog in person? You got his autograph? :beam:

- Soul :goatee:

[Kitiara]

The UK transport system is banjoed anyway. Give Connex 2cm of snow and they'll close down for a week. It wasn't as if it was a total shock to them - the news said last night that snow was forecast.

t's the same with autumn. Every year, the leaves falling from the trees catches them unawares...

[Starpromo]

and then in summer when the heat swells the rails...

and in spring when the rain wets the tracks too much

and then they strike

what a great country we have.

[Kitiara]

I have not met the dog.

I do not have his autograph.

I'm going to have to be cruel to be kind here. The dog is not real. It's just a small bloke dressed in a dog suit...

I'm sorry if this has shattered your illusions... :)

[Soul]

No! Say its not true! :*(

[Starpromo]

what a sad little life you have soul... heehee :elderly:

[Starpromo]

i once new an old man who was small and he had a dog suit. but nothing as exciting as churchil car insurance... oh and also haahaa pet insurance


EDIT:
what do you think of the snow kit... do you like it?

[Soul]

Hey Kit, does the churchill dog have pet insurance? :beam:

- Soul :goatee:

[Kitiara]

I'm not sure if he's insured, but I hope to God he's housetrained.

I quite like the snow, as long as I don't have to go out in it for too long. And if I do, then I want a nice warm house or bath to get back home to. :)

Although I'm seriously considering laying a snowball ambush for my other half tonight... Hehe. :evil:

[pom]

Paris in white... (copyright atn. from www.Flashxpress.net )

http://neeton.org/photos/439.jpg

And Starpromo, your sig is killing my computer. I can see the pages all right, but the scroll is VERY slow.

[Kitiara]

Ooooo, very pretty.

I can look out of my 4th floor office window though, and see all the rooftops and trees covered in snow. It's nice too, although probably not on a par with Paris. :)

[andr.in]

Originally posted by ilyaslamasse
And Starpromo, your sig is killing my computer. I can see the pages all right, but the scroll is VERY slow.
I don't think it's StarPromos's footer! I believe it's novatake's! His is over 40kb! I already mentioned it!
I can't scroll through this thread anymore!:sleep:

[Soul]

I'm on broadband so it doesn't affect me, but Star's doesn't do anything...

- Soul :goatee:

[Starpromo]

yeah im about to change my footer so it will no longer slow the server (if in fact it is my footer)

i like the snow but i was brought up without any, being born in New Zealand.... however i dislike being cold...

ah you can't win

[pom]

I don't think it's Novatake's footer that's causing problem, as it's not a size problem. My computer just lags :-\

[andr.in]

maybe not!... we'll see!
btw what is this? ---->:+)

[Jubba]

2 cm shut down your town!? in the last couple days we recieved over 3 meters! And we were still running fine...

[andr.in]

so it was starpromo's footer! heh:)

[sintax321]

We just had 2-4 feet of snow dumped on us in two days. We expect it here though and just move on. Snow doesn't shut much down around here. I was gone when it happened and when i got back to my car I could barley see it. A street plow had gon by and compleatly burred the left side of my car. I had to dig for an hour before i could get my car out. I'll send pictures.

[Marz]

I haven't seen the ground in a couple of weeks..

It keeps snowing.. and snowing.. and snowing.. and snowing...

It melts a little.. Then snows.. melts a little then snows.. But never melting enough to see the ground...

We've gotten around 2-3 feet so far here.. And Usually are big storms don't come til later this month and through February...

Sweet dealz :)

hehe.... But yeah.. Trains running late for 2cm of snow?! That's Like.. BAout an inch or something and that's nothing... I'm surprised that covered anything.. *lol*

You should raise hell... And btw.. Churchill stuff.. What is this kit?!

[Soul]

Churchill is the name of the insurance company that Kit works for :beam:

- Soul :goatee:

[Marz]

Ohhh...

That would explain the little dog she put on her tetris game then eh?

[sintax321]

Is this chuchhill insurance like a really big company there?

[Marz]

Yeah... And is there a site we can chekc out?

I wanna see some of kit's work ;)

:-D

[ahmed]

i tried www.churchill.co.uk ... and it worked :beam:
it actually looks awesome.... did you design that site kit??
:A+:

[Soul]

Yup, the dog is churchills mascot thingy.

Churchill is quite big, the dog is more famous lol.

"Ohhh yesss" - The dog

Does it have a name Kit?

www.churchill.co.uk I imagine

- Soul :goatee:

[Soul]

If you click the dog, then click on TV Ads you can watch the adverts :beam: And click the 'conference' one and thats the one for Kits site lol

- Soul :beam:

[sintax321]

So the dog is like the taco bell dog. But this dog is not at all real?

[Kitiara]

Oh boy...

Right, the company I work for is the UK's second biggest general insurer, called Churchill. In a very British act of patriotism, our mascot is a British Bulldog, himself called Churchill the Dog. He appears in our adverts and promotional work, that kind of thing. Soul is right, the dog is actually very famous round in England.

The main site is www.churchill.com which you've probably all seen by now, and that's one of mine. Although we're going to be changing it this year. We've also got www.churchill.com/fun which is what Marketing are calling the 'funsite'. It's more about the dog, basically.

We also do websites for NIG, CSG, Prudential, Nationwide bank and a few others, all of whom we own.

[sintax321]

So do you sleep on a big pile of money every night? With clients like that they should pay you very wellC:-)

[Kitiara]

Nowhere near as much as I'm worth. :)

I just get an annual wage, so I don't earn as much as I would if I did the same work only freelance.

[RenaissanceGirl]

We don't get snow where I'm from but it did rain today... which is weird, since getting "real weather" of any kind is unheard of in Southern California. I want my money back.

[reverendflash]

Hey it snowed in San Francisco a couple years ago...

I almost moved to Santa Barbara...

:beam:

Rev

[Kitiara]

It hasn't snowed today, and it's beginning to melt. So now we're getting flood warnings.

Go figure.

[sintax321]

FLOOD WARNINGS. That is really sad. 2-4 cm of snow shouldn't cause this much trouble. I guess we are just more use to it.

[ahmed]

flood warning cause the snow is melting?? two-cenimeteres thick ? man... we've had like 10 inches this week... it is melting.. but we never had a flood warning or anything close to that:!::P


:A+:

[andr.in]

Usually in February we have about a metre or so...! If that starts to melt we're all just happy cuz the weater is starting to get warmer not warned for floods! lol :P

[sintax321]

Ya we have 4-5 foot banks of snow in some places. Never heard of a flood warning from it. Heard of a basment flooding once though from melting snow.