Why are us Irish obsessed with the weather

gobnaitolunacy

If we have 5mm of snow, the country grinds to a halt.

I can not speak for "the irish" - nor would I stretch my anecdotal experience to a generalization of the country as a whole. But I do see a lot of lazyness around me in some of the friends and family I have. The weather and moaning about it - for these people - tends to be the excuse they hide behind for not doing anything they always say they will do some days. Like excercise - or work in the garden - or whatever.

There are a number of people who say they will start doing these things but never do - and the unpredictable weather and occasional rain and cold is their excuse for why they have not started any of it yet.

For me it is a mindset. When doing my morning run at 5am for example I no longer see rain as a reason to put it off until tomorrow. It is just a reason to dress differently while doing it. Putting things off for a brighter day - or longer hours in evening - is just a delay tactic in these people.

It does not help that we have it hammered into us from childhood that if it is raining we can not go out to play etc etc etc. As if a bit of cold or rain is going to harm an active child. If it was raining I was barely let out as a kid and told I may as well read a book or watch TV or play computer games until it stopped.

My own 2yo daugther loves going out in the garden a couple of times a day. I have never once kept her in while it is raining. I select the best clothes I can for the conditions and if she wants to sit in the mud playing with toys while the rain pelts her hood then fair play to her. She has a particular love of taking running jumps into muddy puddles too. I blame Peppa Pig.

--Kaiser--

Think about it: if you lived in Australia and California where it's generally quite hot and sunny, you wouldn't bring it up in conversation that it was hot or sunny, it would be stupid. Since we have many factors affecting our weather system (gulf stream, jet stream, Atlantic currents etc...) our weather is so unpredictable that it can make for interesting conversation.

E.g. yesterday, where I was, it was sunny, but there was snow blowing in from somewhere and it was somehow hailstoning as well.

gobnaitolunacy

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

Think about it: if you lived in Australia and California where it's generally quite hot and sunny, you wouldn't bring it up in conversation that it was hot or sunny, it would be stupid. Since we have many factors affecting our weather system (gulf stream, jet stream, Atlantic currents etc...) our weather is so unpredictable that it can make for interesting conversation.

E.g. yesterday, where I was, it was sunny, but there was snow blowing in from somewhere and it was somehow hailstoning as well.

They only moan about it in Oz if it's cold (16 degrees or lower is cold for WA)

sesswhat

gobnaitolunacy wrote: »

They only moan about it in Oz if it's cold (16 degrees or lower is cold for WA)

G'day everyone
Holey moley today was cold!!

demanufactured

Because if the weather is sh1te I can't go fishing.

totsy88

Trigger Happy wrote: »

There are plenty of subforums on here that most will find boring but others find exciting. That is what makes life interesting.
OP....have you considered not visiting subforums that you find boring? Just askin.

I never said the subforums were boring. I said our weather is boring.

totsy88

Smidge wrote: »

*shakes fist at OP
And what may I ask is wrong with the weather forum??????

the weather forum is cool. I love looking at the weather. met.ie twice a day I say. The things that I thought were ''wrong'' (werd more like it) was the pacy posters from 01:00 to about 06:00 going on and on all night.

daRobot

Because we're obsessed with small talk