The weather man

In article <[email hidden]>, Rooney
<[email hidden]> writes

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From
http://www.lake-district.gov.uk/weatherline/a_day_in_the_life/index.php

Q What are the worst parts of the job?

A Badly equipped walkers really annoy me. They can be out here in full
winter conditions, wearing trainers and jeans. They expect to follow a
path to the top. Most know they are completely out of their depth and
welcome help. I see myself as their friend on the hill. Only a few
resent my intervention.

Cheeky basta*d!

Mr arrogant also thinks a Brocken Spectre is his "reflection" on a
cloud...

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Dominic Sexton

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 16:22:25 +0000, Rooney <[email hidden]>
uttered:

Quoted message said:

From
http://www.lake-district.gov.uk/weatherline/a_day_in_the_life/index.php

Q What are the worst parts of the job?

A Badly equipped walkers really annoy me. They can be out here in full
winter conditions, wearing trainers and jeans. They expect to follow a
path to the top. Most know they are completely out of their depth and
welcome help. I see myself as their friend on the hill. Only a few
resent my intervention.

Cheeky basta*d!

So you don't think that someone poorly prepared is a potential
problem?

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Dewi,

(remove spin for email)

Dewi said:

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 16:22:25 +0000, Rooney <[email hidden]>
uttered:

Quoted message said:

From
http://www.lake-district.gov.uk/weatherline/a_day_in_the_life/index.php

Q What are the worst parts of the job?

A Badly equipped walkers really annoy me. They can be out here in full
winter conditions, wearing trainers and jeans. They expect to follow a
path to the top. Most know they are completely out of their depth and
welcome help. I see myself as their friend on the hill. Only a few
resent my intervention.

Cheeky basta*d!

So you don't think that someone poorly prepared is a potential
problem?

To a weather recorder? Possibly. They may be about to break his nose
for being an arrogant tw*t.

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On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 17:50:31 +0000, Rooney <[email hidden]>
uttered:

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Dewi said:

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 16:22:25 +0000, Rooney <[email hidden]>
uttered:

Quoted message said:

From
http://www.lake-district.gov.uk/weatherline/a_day_in_the_life/index.php

Q What are the worst parts of the job?

A Badly equipped walkers really annoy me. They can be out here in full
winter conditions, wearing trainers and jeans. They expect to follow a
path to the top. Most know they are completely out of their depth and
welcome help. I see myself as their friend on the hill. Only a few
resent my intervention.

Cheeky basta*d!

So you don't think that someone poorly prepared is a potential
problem?

To a weather recorder? Possibly. They may be about to break his nose
for being an arrogant tw*t.

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from site (I'm sure you have been there to read the whole thing)
Between December and Easter, the National Park Authority's fell top
assessors undertake daily treks up Helvellyn to record snow, ice and
wind conditions above 3,000 feet.
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So he's fully kited out goes up Helvellyn in winter, knows the route
dangers areas etc, meets a tw*t in jeans and trainers. Maybe if he
just adjusted his gloves and walked past...

Who would be the t*at?

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Dewi,

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Dominic Sexton said:

In article <[email hidden]>, Rooney
<[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

From
http://www.lake-
district.gov.uk/weatherline/a_day_in_the_life/index.php

Q What are the worst parts of the job?

A Badly equipped walkers really annoy me. They can be out here in
full winter conditions, wearing trainers and jeans. They expect
to follow a path to the top. Most know they are completely out of
their depth and welcome help. I see myself as their friend on the
hill. Only a few resent my intervention.

Cheeky basta*d!

Mr arrogant also thinks a Brocken Spectre is his "reflection" on a
cloud...

What is it then, if it is not a reflection?

Regards Jeff.

www.astrecks.co.uk

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"Jeff C" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Dominic Sexton said:

In article <[email hidden]>, Rooney
<[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

From
http://www.lake-
district.gov.uk/weatherline/a_day_in_the_life/index.php

Q What are the worst parts of the job?

A Badly equipped walkers really annoy me. They can be out here in
full winter conditions, wearing trainers and jeans. They expect
to follow a path to the top. Most know they are completely out of
their depth and welcome help. I see myself as their friend on the
hill. Only a few resent my intervention.

Cheeky basta*d!

Mr arrogant also thinks a Brocken Spectre is his "reflection" on a
cloud...

What is it then, if it is not a reflection?

its a shadow isnt it ??

Quoted message said:

So he's fully kited out goes up Helvellyn in winter, knows the route
dangers areas etc, meets a tw*t in jeans and trainers. Maybe if he
just adjusted his gloves and walked past...

Who would be the t*at?

I'm puzzled as to what he does to help. Just point downhill and say the
car park is that-a-way?

Dominic Sexton <[email hidden]> wrote in
news:[email hidden]:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

A Badly equipped walkers really annoy me. They can be out here in full
winter conditions, wearing trainers and jeans. They expect to follow a
path to the top. Most know they are completely out of their depth and
welcome help. I see myself as their friend on the hill. Only a few
resent my intervention.

Cheeky basta*d!

Mr arrogant also thinks a Brocken Spectre is his "reflection" on a
cloud...

C'mon chaps - give him a break. I don't read it that way at all.
For a start this article is only what he is reported to have said. The
Brocken Spectre explanation may have been added (or changed) by the author
of the article.

Anyway - I've seen unprepared people on the eastern approaches to Helvellyn
respond very gratefully to some advice given in a friendly spirit (not by
me, I hasten to add) about snow/ice conditions, advisability of turning back
etc. It's a classic place for coming across such people.

Not jealous over his job by any chance? ;-)

Stuart

On 10 Feb 2005 19:42:39 GMT, Mark Thompson
<[email hidden]> uttered:

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Quoted message said:

So he's fully kited out goes up Helvellyn in winter, knows the route
dangers areas etc, meets a tw*t in jeans and trainers. Maybe if he
just adjusted his gloves and walked past...

Who would be the t*at?

I'm puzzled as to what he does to help. Just point downhill and say the
car park is that-a-way?

Brilliant

That could be the answerphone reply for any mountain rescue call.

I think you should receive some award from the public purse, just
think how much your going to save the country, brilliant...

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Dewi,

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Chris 159 said:

"Jeff C" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Dominic Sexton said:

In article <[email hidden]>, Rooney
<[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

From
http://www.lake-
district.gov.uk/weatherline/a_day_in_the_life/index.php

Q What are the worst parts of the job?

A Badly equipped walkers really annoy me. They can be out here
in full winter conditions, wearing trainers and jeans. They
expect to follow a path to the top. Most know they are
completely out of their depth and welcome help. I see myself as
their friend on the hill. Only a few resent my intervention.

Cheeky basta*d!

Mr arrogant also thinks a Brocken Spectre is his "reflection" on
a cloud...

What is it then, if it is not a reflection?

its a shadow isnt it ??

Phew! Shadow, reflection that's what I thought, I'm glad, for a
minute I thought it was being suggested it was a real spectre of the
Brocken type.

"Mark Thompson" <[email hidden]> wrote

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Quoted message said:

So he's fully kited out goes up Helvellyn in winter, knows the route
dangers areas etc, meets a tw*t in jeans and trainers. Maybe if he
just adjusted his gloves and walked past...

Who would be the t*at?

I'm puzzled as to what he does to help. Just point downhill and say the
car park is that-a-way?

He could offer to swap clothes and footwear.

AndyP said:

"Mark Thompson" <[email hidden]> wrote

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Quoted message said:

So he's fully kited out goes up Helvellyn in winter, knows the route
dangers areas etc, meets a tw*t in jeans and trainers. Maybe if he
just adjusted his gloves and walked past...

Who would be the t*at?

I'm puzzled as to what he does to help. Just point downhill and say the
car park is that-a-way?

He could offer to swap clothes and footwear.

Weather man: My job is to record the weather. I don't approve of your
jeans. Swap them with my skin-tight pants.

Birgit (for it is she): Dirty English sexist pig!

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from Jeff C <[email hidden]> contains these words:

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What is it then, if it is not a reflection?

its a shadow isnt it ??

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Phew! Shadow, reflection that's what I thought, I'm glad, for a
minute I thought it was being suggested it was a real spectre of the
Brocken type.

Shadow and reflection are in a way opposites. The first is caused by a
obscuring direct light, the second by the return of an image.

--
Roger Chapman so far this year 17 summits
New - 11 (Marilyns 0, Sweats 1, Outlying Fells 10)
Repeats - 6 (Marilyns 1, Sweats 2, Wainwrights 6, Outlying Fells 0)

Rooney said:

Weather man: My job is to record the weather. I don't approve of your
jeans. Swap them with my skin-tight pants.

Birgit (for it is she): Dirty English sexist pig!

ROTFLMAO :-)

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In article <[email hidden]>, Stuart
Mann <[email hidden]> writes

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Dominic Sexton <[email hidden]> wrote in
news:[email hidden]:

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Quoted message said:

A Badly equipped walkers really annoy me. They can be out here in full
winter conditions, wearing trainers and jeans. They expect to follow a
path to the top. Most know they are completely out of their depth and
welcome help. I see myself as their friend on the hill. Only a few
resent my intervention.

Cheeky basta*d!

Mr arrogant also thinks a Brocken Spectre is his "reflection" on a
cloud...

C'mon chaps - give him a break. I don't read it that way at all.
For a start this article is only what he is reported to have said. The
Brocken Spectre explanation may have been added (or changed) by the author
of the article.

Anyway - I've seen unprepared people on the eastern approaches to Helvellyn
respond very gratefully to some advice given in a friendly spirit (not by
me, I hasten to add) about snow/ice conditions, advisability of turning back
etc. It's a classic place for coming across such people.

Yes but what I took issue with is the tone of that part of the piece
"poorly equipped walkers" are the "worst part of the job" and "really
annoy" him. Those come across as rather arrogant or extremely highly
strung or perhaps he just couldn't think of a worst part of the job.

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Not jealous over his job by any chance? ;-)

No, it would be a chore - especially with all those ill prepared walkers
out there ;-)

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Dominic Sexton

Dominic Sexton said:

Yes but what I took issue with is the tone of that part of the piece
"poorly equipped walkers" are the "worst part of the job" and "really
annoy" him. Those come across as rather arrogant or extremely highly
strung or perhaps he just couldn't think of a worst part of the job.

What's more, they have nothing at all to do with his job. None of his
business whatsoever. The guy seems to think he's there to supervise
people - he isn't: he's there to record some weather data.

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Rooney said:

Dominic Sexton said:

Yes but what I took issue with is the tone of that part of the piece
"poorly equipped walkers" are the "worst part of the job" and "really
annoy" him. Those come across as rather arrogant or extremely highly
strung or perhaps he just couldn't think of a worst part of the job.

What's more, they have nothing at all to do with his job. None of his
business whatsoever. The guy seems to think he's there to supervise
people - he isn't: he's there to record some weather data.

Funny I can't see how you come to that conclusion, but as someone else has
said, he's well prepared, there's a minority that arent. He understand the
weather conditions, that minority doesn't understand how conditions change
from sea level to 3,000 ft. Its the fact that these people are gambling on
the weather staying resonable that gets up his nose...

--
Rob Overfield

"Seasons don't fear the reaper, Nor do the wind, the sun or the rain.."

Rooney <[email hidden]> writes

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Dominic Sexton said:

Yes but what I took issue with is the tone of that part of the piece
"poorly equipped walkers" are the "worst part of the job" and "really
annoy" him. Those come across as rather arrogant or extremely highly
strung or perhaps he just couldn't think of a worst part of the job.

What's more, they have nothing at all to do with his job. None of his
business whatsoever. The guy seems to think he's there to supervise
people - he isn't: he's there to record some weather data.

Quite. I'd give him a good kicking next time I'm on Helvellyn, but
in my house slippers it wouldn't be much use....
--
Gordon Harris

Rooney <[email hidden]> wrote in news:q5to0199r4mn7br4cp4ar4r28i4ih8obg4
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Yes but what I took issue with is the tone of that part of the piece
"poorly equipped walkers" are the "worst part of the job" and "really
annoy" him. Those come across as rather arrogant or extremely highly
strung or perhaps he just couldn't think of a worst part of the job.

Fair enough - the written piece may come over that way but if we met the
bloke in a pub we may find he comes over very differently. Smiley noted.

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What's more, they have nothing at all to do with his job. None of his
business whatsoever. The guy seems to think he's there to supervise
people - he isn't: he's there to record some weather data.

We don't know that he thinks that - or how he talks to people. He may simply
mean that because of his job he is more frequently in a position where he
has to make the same judgement any of us might face about whether to pass on
a helpful warning or not. Ice on Striding Edge is a serious matter. It would
be a sad day that we stopped sharing information with each other on the
fells.

I repeat my plea to lighten up on him - his job puts him at some risk in
order to provide other walkers with a very useful service which,
notwithstanding reservations some have expressed, is a significant
contribution to safety in the fells. How many of us can say something
similar about our jobs.