I completely agree. When I discussed the reduction in the amount of snow we've been getting with my friends, we all came to the same conclusion that it was boosting the quality of it. In this regard I would compare it to Wagyu beef which has seen a massive increase in value due to protectionist policies. It's become a much more exciting event when it begins to snow im my area and there have been more kids playing in it than ever.

We used to play backyard football in the snow. 2 vs 2. I was of course the quarterback and the neighbor daniel would run to the end of the yard and catch almost anything I ever threw. He was taller and faster so It was easy. Playing in the snow made it much more enjoyable. But as you would get tired from running you would also get thirsty. So grabbing a chunk of snow and eating it sufficed for refreshing between plays.

Its been a very light winter. only 1 measurable storm and were more than halfway through winter. I recall when I was 13 a storm dumped 14 inches of snow on the city days before haloween. It took down trees and shut the city down for a week
we just dont get storms like that the past few years. I think 2015 was the last storm over 10 inches.

Since 2017 the EPA in the US has ended all regulations that preserved the purity of snow allowing for many chemicals to be added to it lowering the quality. Having too much of it can be hazardous to your health plus melting it in your mouth and stomach uses up body heat that can cause hypothermia and frostbite of your tongue.

What is the quality of this year's vintage of Nebraskan Snow ? Do Nebraskans have snow tastings​ ?

gimix wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 26, 2020 12:09 pm

Pure genius :-D
But why should you stop eating snow once you grow up?

Btw you may like a typical dish fom my region, Sopa Freida, or Cold Soup: red wine, stale bread, sugar and some spices like clovers and nutmeg. Bury it under the snow for several hours, the colder the better, and it's ready. Admittedly it takes some courage to have it at breakfast though :eyeroll:

Oh, that sounds interesting. Unfortunately it doesn't snow much where I currently live, so if I try it fridge it will be, haha.

Feel like probably should also clarify, sugar on snow isn't actually sugar on snow - it's maple syrup boiled, then poured over snow/shaved ice to create a taffy-like candy :D

Thankfully my twusty pens don't correct what I scribble. The asinine algorithm changed Ouse to ours. I think the river is named the Ouse. It feeds into Humber River & Hull estaury.

Gosh I've had a huge Australia Day long weekend, it now being midnight on the last day (Monday). Two trips to Adelaide, Sun & today I visited an elderly Aunt (96 years of age) I don't think the lady will make it to next Christmas. I picked up a frangipani in a pot one of several that I gave her about 18 years ago when she first moved to her apartment in an aged care luxury prison.. she's ready to depart this strife torn mortal world. Also borrowed some photos to get scanned & copies printed. Her daughter from NSW is visiting at present.
I also visited a few old comrades & Adorable Princess Estelle.

I used "Scribbling" more as a self depreciating descriptive term rather than a euphemism. If I've spent the morning relaxing in onanistic pleasure or bwavely foraging with pwodding bayonet in steamy moist regions & ample enticements of my Lovely Fire Breathing MemSahib Her Serene Imperiousness Indoors lying on a sofa eating cakes, I would describe such events as I just have.

The overwhelming majority of my writing ends up as shredded paper compost & I get a few cheques each decade for very small amounts for about an umpteenth billionth of what I scribble each decade.

I think I'd been working on one fictional thingy set at the latter part of Henry 3rd's reign & Edward 1st's reign & located in upper reaches of Our river.

I've got another fictional thingy going set in current times, with a Trump~esque character (doesn't become POTUS or try to) as the villain plus his servants, acolytes, peer group as various types from Machiavellian manipulators to dumbnuts & stooges..
The good guys are Monty and Tom & yachts and international yacht racing part of the stage.

The scribbling caper has great domestic value, it's a plausible reason I use with my Lovely Fire Breathing MemSahib Her Serene Imperiousness Indoors to justify my skulking off to my study/library and hiding bwavely for hours imbibing a few fortifying wee drams of single malt whisky and smoke like a stone chimney in a bark hut.and generally not being pestered to go and​prune the roses or other domestic task. That's definitely the greatest use of the scribbling caper in my life.

Years ago, we provoked some children playing in the snow, with my sister. I was about 7 or 8 years old, my sister 1 year younger than me. They were older than us for a few years. We we throwing snow at them from the other side of wall.
Finally they came to our garden and forced me to eat some snow. That time, snow didn't taste really good.

e.m.c^42 wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 25, 2020 1:35 am

Lol

I was a snow cuisine artist. Pack it into a ball and it becomes a snow apple. Make 'em small and it was snow grapes. Pour juice in it and it freezes into juice-icles. Milk. Chocolate milk. Chocolate syrup on packed snow, sprinkled with powdery snow. Icicles dipped in fluffy snow.

Also, sugar on snow with donuts and pickles. It was the absolute best on actual fresh snow :D

Pure genius
But why should you stop eating snow once you grow up?

Btw you may like a typical dish fom my region, Sopa Freida, or Cold Soup: red wine, stale bread, sugar and some spices like clovers and nutmeg. Bury it under the snow for several hours, the colder the better, and it's ready. Admittedly it takes some courage to have it at breakfast though

Lol

I was a snow cuisine artist. Pack it into a ball and it becomes a snow apple. Make 'em small and it was snow grapes. Pour juice in it and it freezes into juice-icles. Milk. Chocolate milk. Chocolate syrup on packed snow, sprinkled with powdery snow. Icicles dipped in fluffy snow.

Also, sugar on snow with donuts and pickles. It was the absolute best on actual fresh snow :D

I remember the rationale being that it was easier than going inside to get a glass of water. and being thirsty from sledding, snowball fights, ect. The simplicity and accessibility of it was nice. that and adults told us not to do it so it felt like a "ill show you" act of defiance

brainbomb wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 24, 2020 3:33 pm

Im not into drugs though. I was being serious that growing up eating snow was a pretty common thing.

I thought emc was trying to be funny...so I was following up on that. I guess I could understand eating snow for curiosity sake once but why would you do it more than once?

Traces of radiation have been found everywhere since the nuclear age got going long before Chenrobyl. That's why Scapa Flow steel is worth harvesting.

In the 1980s after Chernobyl, traces of radiation were found in virtually every continent on the planet. What my main curiousity was, is just how many various toxins are in snow now as opposed to then.

Out of curiosity, is there any one who lives where it is (occasionally) snowy who hasn't eaten snow?

Im not into drugs though. I was being serious that growing up eating snow was a pretty common thing.

e.m.c^42 wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 24, 2020 1:20 pm

Is this meant to be a euphemism?

Could be:

http://www.campustimes.org/2019/11/24/c ... r-cocaine/

Is this meant to be a euphemism?

MajorMitchell wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 24, 2020 3:04 am

Today I've been scribbling since 7am to 1pm soon I have to go & pay a bill etc

I feel like you've been scribbling on this forum for years now..