If I couldn't do my job I'd be sacked

[jamiey]

But I'm not a meteorologist. Not once this week has any short term forecast been correct. Is it just Auckland that suffers from this with twin coasts, are other areas fortunate enough to have better luck??
Sat at home now radar sites show clear skies. All my weather apps etc show part cloud but dry. Yet is hosing down heavily.

[slofox]

It's just Auckland...god's punishment for living in jafaland.

[Akzle]

aucklanders! moaning about teh fucking weather!!

buckle up darling, if there's one thing i can promise you, is that there'll be weather every day you're alive.

go have a fucking late and sit in traffic and you'll feel better.


apps??? sattelites?? for fucks sake.
know how i know what the weather is like? I FUCKING GO OUTSIDE.
try it some time. fucking uteless aucklander prick.

[Virago]

We should sack you now for posting this in the wrong section...

[jamiey]

aucklanders! moaning about teh fucking weather!!

buckle up darling, if there's one thing i can promise you, is that there'll be weather every day you're alive.

go have a fucking late and sit in traffic and you'll feel better.


apps??? sattelites?? for fucks sake.
know how i know what the weather is like? I FUCKING GO OUTSIDE.
try it some time. fucking uteless aucklander prick.

Fair enough. Fair weather weekend only bikers don't often need to ride everyday and get in their cages. But it's impossible to drink latte on a bike and I never have to sit in traffic.
Weather doesn't bother me, I ride everyday no matter what. Just wouldn't mind a decent heads up from forecasters.

[Wingnut]

The avatar sums it up eh......:girlfight:

[Akzle]

Fair enough. But it's impossible to drink latte on a bike and I never have to sit in traffic.
Weather doesn't bother me, I ride everyday no matter what. Just wouldn't mind a decent heads up from forecasters.

you're clearly doing it wrong
http://www.longdistancebiker.com/media/06/a20791e13375e40b0f2c6c_m.jpg

(psst, gremlin, this is BMW... :p)

[unstuck]

Fair enough. But it's impossible to drink latte on a bike and I never have to sit in traffic.
Weather doesn't bother me, I ride everyday no matter what. Just wouldn't mind a decent heads up from forecasters.

Not hard to learn a little bit about the weather and it's localized patterns. That way you have a much better chance of figuring it out for yourself. I only listen to the long range mountain forecasts, and from that I can pretty much tell what it is likely to throw my way. And it is interesting, IMO.:2thumbsup

[MisterD]

Get used to it, we only have two weather forecasts most of the year: fine with occasional showers or showery with occasional fine spells.

[R650R]

What weather forecast are you using???

I use metservice http://www.metservice.com/maps-radar/rain-forecast/rain-forecast-3-day as rough guide and also http://www.metvuw.com/forecast/forecast.php?type=rain&region=nzni&noofdays=7

and http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-189.92,-37.75,1471

Really Auckland is so big it can be pissing down in one suburb and fine the next, lived there for 3 years and found it an easy place to ride/drive around the weather if you had the time...

[admenk]

You should move to the Naki where it's sunny every day!.......almost

[Big Dog]

You should move to the Naki where it's sunny every day!.......almost

I'd it still hard to find reliable work down there?

Ps, when I lived down there I wore my wets every day. It rained at least ten minutes 300 days my first year there. Sunny most days too but boy it changes quick.

Stupid phone / Tapatalk, apologies in advance.

[Brian d marge]

your in the wrong Job

Move to wellington there are many that are so inept but can command large salaries

As of yet I have never seen one of them at my local WINZ

Stephen

[Swoop]

Cyclone Lusi - A bit of wind and that was it.
This latest storm? Worst in 25yrs (apparently)? Where were all of the warnings about that?

There are two jobs that you cannot get fired from for being useless, weather forecasters and economic forecasters.
Shows what a few years at University will get ya, eh?

[Ocean1]

There are two jobs that you cannot get fired from for being useless, weather forecasters and economic forecasters.
Shows what a few years at University will get ya, eh?

Oh, look, career advice. :corn:

Who’d have thought engineering would be so fickle. Let me tell you there’s absolutely nothing more obsolete than a successful development engineer. :third:

Luckily the ratio of developments to engineers has skyrocketed in directly inverse proportion to the western world’s demand for developments and it's production of engineers. :niceone:

[ellipsis]

...sometime during the '80s, Michael Fish who was the BBC1 weather man, was voted 'sexiest' TV front man in Europe, all the while being vilified for fucking up peoples lives with the highly inaccurate forecasts...google up an image of him... it put's it all in perspective...

[Big Dog]

your in the wrong Job

Move to wellington there are many that are so inept but can command large salaries

As of yet I have never seen one of them at my local WINZ

Stephen

Yeah, but who'd want to be a politician? :bleh:




Stupid phone / Tapatalk, apologies in advance.

[unstuck]

Yeah, but who'd want to be a politician? :bleh:




Stupid phone / Tapatalk, apologies in advance.

Hundred grand a year plus, for doing sweet fuck all. Sounds ok to me. Imagine if we paid the dole bludgers a hundred G a year for doing sweet fuck all. There would be executions in the streets.
Or maybe not, we as a society seem to accept the politicians getting huge pay packets for doing nowt, maybe we could learn to tolerate doleies getting the same. :crazy:

[Big Dog]

Yeah, public eye, upheaval to family life, the frontal lobotomy... Everyone has a price. Mine'd be a damn sight higher.


Stupid phone / Tapatalk, apologies in advance.

[swarfie]

Oh, look, career advice. :corn:

Who’d have thought engineering would be so fickle. Let me tell you there’s absolutely nothing more obsolete than a successful development engineer. :third:

Luckily the ratio of developments to engineers has skyrocketed in directly inverse proportion to the western world’s demand for developments and it's production of engineers. :niceone:

Yep, Toolmaking is rooted too...I only stay in the job to make my motorbike bits :killingme

[Swoop]

Oh, look, career advice. :corn:
Nothing wrong with engineers! Very fine people with pocket protector, tie and calculator fetishes...
"Forecasters", however...:oi-grr:

[george formby]

Not hard to learn a little bit about the weather and it's localized patterns. That way you have a much better chance of figuring it out for yourself. I only listen to the long range mountain forecasts, and from that I can pretty much tell what it is likely to throw my way. And it is interesting, IMO.:2thumbsup

I have a bit of seaweed by the front door.
If it's moving it's windy. If it's wet it's raining. If it's dry, the sun is out. If it's damp the weather is changing.
I don't pay it a cent.

[unstuck]

I have a bit of seaweed by the front door.
If it's moving it's windy. If it's wet it's raining. If it's dry, the sun is out. If it's damp the weather is changing.
I don't pay it a cent.

You sir, are genius.:2thumbsup

[Gremlin]

I have a bit of seaweed by the front door.
If it's moving it's windy. If it's wet it's raining. If it's dry, the sun is out. If it's damp the weather is changing.
I don't pay it a cent.
I dunno. Little River had a forecast rock that worked in very much the same way. However, it also featured a tornado setting (it was gone). I don't think your seaweed would work in that scenario (it'd be gone in a wind rated slightly higher than "puff").

Actually, the last time (probably a few years back) I went through Little River, it was gone (the Rock, the town... ok, shops, are still there). Was there a Tornado?

[Paul in NZ]

Weather forcasting is part science (bloody lot of science actually) and partly an art... The closer the foecast is the more accurate it is. A four day forcast is more art than science, a one day ahead forcast is more science than art.

Observing your local weather is important. You pick up the cloud formations, wind directions and the changes and that allows you are fair chance of knowing whats going to happen over the next 12 hours.

[Big Dog]

I find it curious that yahoo and google weather apps are more accurate than met service.

When I used to pick a route to ride home by based on weather (cycling, footpath under the sea if I'm wrong etc) met service was wrong lots, close to as often as right. Google never, yahoo only wrong when it disagreed with google. So a couple of times.

But then that is looking at hour by hour breakdowns.
I'd check them the night before to plan a route. Then check for changes as I was leaving. Looking at the sky is not accurate enough when spending an hour riding across Auckland. Weather in CBD can be opposite to Waitakere.


Stupid phone / Tapatalk, apologies in advance.

[Ocean1]

Yep, Toolmaking is rooted too...I only stay in the job to make my motorbike bits :killingme

If it's what you've got then stick with it, there's only so much room at the top.

And the dole bludger and state servant positions ar eall full. :shifty:

[Ocean1]

Nothing wrong with engineers! Very fine people with pocket protector, tie and calculator fetishes...
"Forecasters", however...:oi-grr:

Cheaky cunt. My range of fetishes is far more substantial.

[Akzle]

Nothing wrong with engineers! Very fine people with pocket protector, tie and calculator fetishes...
"Forecasters", however...:oi-grr:

ti82.

And if you wear a tie youre either a not a real engineer, or a muppet

[Indiana_Jones]

The avatar sums it up eh......:girlfight:

http://i.imgur.com/ZW3b7.gif

-Indy

[Swoop]

And if you wear a tie youre either a not a real engineer...

Hmmm. All the Apollo engineers wore ties. With short sleeved shirts as well!

I seem to remember doing the same some years back to annoy a boss. Perhaps it was the shorts that had the "added effect"?

[Akzle]

Hmmm. All the Apollo engineers wore ties. With short sleeved shirts as well!


and they couldnt even get a rocket to the moon! Whats your point?

[Ocean1]

Hmmm. All the Apollo engineers wore ties. With short sleeved shirts as well!

I seem to remember doing the same some years back to annoy a boss. Perhaps it was the shorts that had the "added effect"?

That's the reason I left Auckland in the 70s y'know. Compulsory walkshorts.


Well, that and... nevermind.

[Brian d marge]

walk-shorts were/are are a crime against Humanity

Stephen

[Big Dog]

walk-shorts were/are are a crime against Humanity

Stephen

They're baaack... http://www.hyperride.co.nz/product/walk-shorts/270/list
http://www.northbeach.co.nz/m-category?i=188


Stupid phone / Tapatalk, apologies in advance.

[Swoop]

and they couldnt even get a rocket to the moon! Whats your point?

You'd better go tell that to Buzz and collect your free smack in the face at the same time.

[Ocean1]

You'd better go tell that to Buzz and collect your free smack in the face at the same time.

S'not that he doesn't tolerate fools gladly though, it's just his way of saying g'day.

[F5 Dave]

your in the wrong Job

Move to wellington there are many that are so inept but can command large salaries

As of yet I have never seen one of them at my local WINZ

Stephen

Well I'm in wgtn or at least commuting distance and I consider myself pretty inept. Looking for another career. Any leads?

[ellipsis]

...i'm unregistered in my trade of 42 years, I obviously cant do my job anymore...can I go now?...

[Brian d marge]

Well I'm in wgtn or at least commuting distance and I consider myself pretty inept. Looking for another career. Any leads?

Sorry you have just typed 2...no 3 complete sentences, all of which made sense.

Too qualified I am afraid.

Now if you could expand the above into 50 or more words and try to use words that send the fear of god/terrorists/Muslims/Asians/dark people and unemployment into the common man

you may have a chance

Stephen

or the old trick of ...... two pencils up the nose and say " Wibble "

[Voltaire]

ti82.

And if you wear a tie youre either a not a real engineer, or a muppet


Pic of me, with my US corporate bosses hand :banana:

https://img0.etsystatic.com/042/0/6152636/il_340x270.523757746_tm8m.jpg

Probably find most of the politicians have similar US or these days Chinese hands:hug: