Buffalo slammed with six feet of snow

[garbon]

Marty is kind of ridiculous in his smugness about 60-70 inches of snow, given Poland had 100,000 people without power and "an intolerable strain on budgets" over a snowfall of 10 inches in 2013 - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/9965663/Heavy-snow-knocks-power-out-for-100000-in-Poland.html

EDIT: and contrary to the "we just carry on" claim, hundreds of flights were cancelled in Poland when they received less than a fifth of the snow Buffalo just got.

But America is a much bigger place than Poland. We do have some cities with subtropical climates that tend to shut down on the rare occasions there's snow that sticks. (Obviously this doesn't apply to Buffalo).

I'm unclear what connection your post had to Jacob's.

[Eddie Teach]

That Warsaw probably does handle snow better than Atlanta or Houston or Charlotte. But why shouldn't it?

So a qualified defense of Marty's statement.

[derspiess]

Agreed.  I had my first IPA style brew last weekend and I am hooked.

Oo0h, what was it?  Hops can be sort of addictive, though not by themselves (don't ask).

[Ed Anger]

Beer snobs. 

[CountDeMoney]

No shit.  Artie Donovan would disapprove.

[Ed Anger]

Fuckers are worse than wine snobs.

[garbon]

That Warsaw probably does handle snow better than Atlanta or Houston or Charlotte. But why shouldn't it?

So a qualified defense of Marty's statement.

But it isn't really as that isn't normal winter weather for any of those places. And Marty already conceded that because of weather patterns in certain places (like the UK), it wouldn't make economic sense for people to have the same level of preparedness that Marty attributes to Poland. And then incidentally, Jacob demolished that attribution.

[garbon]

Fuckers are worse than wine snobs.

Certainly.

[Eddie Teach]

But it isn't really as that isn't normal winter weather for any of those places.

It's normal winter weather for Poland, which is how I interpreted the statement. /shrug

Using that reading, it's a rather silly thing to get smug about, but technically true. At least for some parts of America. So a very qualified defense.

[garbon]

But it isn't really as that isn't normal winter weather for any of those places.

It's normal winter weather for Poland, which is how I interpreted the statement. /shrug

Using that reading, it's a rather silly thing to get smug about, but technically true. At least for some parts of America. So a very qualified defense.

I'm guessing Polish people generally spend all winter snowed-in.

We have infrastructure that keeps the snow in check. That is why, whenever heavy winter strikes in Europe, the Warsaw airport is out of service for a couple of hours, while Heathrow is out of service for days - it just does not make sense for Brits to invest in snow ploughs.

He clearly admitted he was just making a flippant Marti-like comment. I don't know why it would get any defense, even a qualified one.

[Eddie Teach]

[garbon]

You are going to use "the Garbon" against me? Might as well just throw that rabbit in a briar patch.

[CountDeMoney]

[Admiral Yi]

It's like holding a shield in front of the Medusa.

[Capetan Mihali]

Nobody expected letting Martinus back in would lead to all this meta-Marti analysis.  We expected more hostility from Mart, yes; we expected more homophobic trolling from you know who, yes; we expected more self-indulgent "life of .01% Warsaw" threads, and the hate on them, yes.  But nobody expected this kind of "if Martinus, then hyperbole" or "topic of discussion : interpretation :: Martinus : Martinus' own comment" level shit.