[MK Chris]

I love a good thunderstorm - I haven't seen one for a long time.

Me too, the last great one I saw was when we were camping in the Lake District. We stayed up for about 2 hrs watching it, the tent went from pitch black to almost the equivilent of daylight, and the thunder was like nothing I've ever heard. The storm was directly above us for ages. Greast stuff, and very cosy too!

See, I find this madness. A thunderstorm directly overhead is just as capable of killing you as a tornado - and unlike with a tornado you have absolutely no indication prior to a strike as to exactly where its going to hit.

I'm sure I've said this before - some friends of mine had their house destroyed and one of them killed by a lightning strike. Storms are spectacular to look at, but you really should treat them with a bit of respect - especially when they are directly overhead. You people are all mad!!!!!!!!

Well, I wouldn't stand under a tree or anything in a thunderstorm, I'd tend to unplug everything and just watch from the window.

Somethings making me smile today, but I am not going to discuss it.

All I will say it's proof, if it was ever needed, that this is the best fan site in the whole wide world.


Wooop Wooop dewoop.

Oh man! Now you have to tell us!

Tell me you don't mean that...?!

[Yudster]

Well, I wouldn't stand under a tree or anything in a thunderstorm, I'd tend to unplug everything and just watch from the window.

How is that going to help? Your house gets struck, the glass shatters and cuts you to pieces, the fire resulting from the strike burns you to a crisp (which is what happened to my friend) - you're just as dead as if it hit you directly.

[MK Chris]

Sorry.. didn't mean to stir your emotions - I always understood your house was a safe place to be in a storm, seems I was wrong.

[Yudster]

Ha - not so much my emotions, as my incredulity! I am always astonished at how people are so blase in the face of things which can kill them! But then I am a scaredy cat.

[MK Chris]

I must admit I genuinely thought that the home (and the car) are the safest places to be in the event of a storm.

[Yudster]

Car is safe. Faraday Cage and all that.

[rustybike]

Somethings making me smile today, but I am not going to discuss it.

All I will say it's proof, if it was ever needed, that this is the best fan site in the whole wide world.


Wooop Wooop dewoop.

Oh man! Now you have to tell us!

Tell me you don't mean that...?!

Yes and No. Mainly the

Somethings making me smile today, but I am not going to discuss it.

bit.

I always like a good story.

[MK Chris]

OK... think about what has gone on in the last couple of days. Then think about what we have been advised not to discuss. Then come to your conclusion.

[Zoot]

OK... think about what has gone on in the last couple of days. Then think about what we have been advised not to discuss. Then come to your conclusion.

My bad breath?

[rustybike]

OK... think about what has gone on in the last couple of days. Then think about what we have been advised not to discuss. Then come to your conclusion.

Ah. Ok.

[Sunny So Cal]

Storms are spectacular to look at, but you really should treat them with a bit of respect

I was treating it with awe. Is that OK?

[Yudster]

Depends - if you were putting yourself "in its path", then no! Tornadoes are awesome, but unless you are a lunatic you don't go standing and watching them come for you. Why is a lightning storm any different, especially when lightning is even less predictable than the path of a tornado?

[ladbroke]

I love a good thunderstorm - I haven't seen one for a long time.

Me too, the last great one I saw was when we were camping in the Lake District. We stayed up for about 2 hrs watching it, the tent went from pitch black to almost the equivilent of daylight, and the thunder was like nothing I've ever heard. The storm was directly above us for ages. Greast stuff, and very cosy too!

See, I find this madness. A thunderstorm directly overhead is just as capable of killing you as a tornado - and unlike with a tornado you have absolutely no indication prior to a strike as to exactly where its going to hit.

I'm sure I've said this before - some friends of mine had their house destroyed and one of them killed by a lightning strike. Storms are spectacular to look at, but you really should treat them with a bit of respect - especially when they are directly overhead. You people are all mad!!!!!!!!

I was in a tent, there weren't a great deal of places to go! Plus being in a tent, we were surrounded by lots of taller things, i.e. trees, although we weren't underneath them obviously. I smoke, so statistically I would imagine there's more chance of that doing me harm than being struck by lightning. *I'm not a statastician. Life's a lottery.

[Yudster]

All true. But I am irrational on the subject of storms (in case you hadn't worked that one out for yourself!).

[ladbroke]

I'd noticed

[Boboff]

OK... think about what has gone on in the last couple of days. Then think about what we have been advised not to discuss. Then come to your conclusion.

Ah. Ok.

See Topher does get what I am going on about!

[Sunny So Cal]

Sssh. Let's not go on about it.

Yuds, I was watching from the safety of my bed. I opened the curtains and watched it. Then when it was time to get up, I confess, I did go outside in my pajamas to see where the big clouds were heading off to. We had blue sky by then. It's OK to be irrational about it. I am about spiders, * and ticks.

[MK Chris]

OK... think about what has gone on in the last couple of days. Then think about what we have been advised not to discuss. Then come to your conclusion.

Ah. Ok.

See Topher does get what I am going on about!

Haha, about 50% of the time I can just about work it out.

[S4B]

Raising £1227 for Macmillan on our quiz night on Friday is making me smile. I've now raised all the money I needed (and then some) so thank you Viv, Tial and S4B for sponsoring me and in S4's case, donating stuff for the quiz.

All I have to do now is run the damn thing...

A. Well done
B. You are very welcome on both counts
C. Never gonna happen your calves will let you down!

Making me smile today Meeting Alan Carr, having a wonderful event with him and loving every second of it. Pics will be on Facebook in about half an hour!

[Andy B]

I love a good thunder storm when I'm inside and it's nice and warm. When a bolt of lightening zaps a set of goalposts 20m away setting off every car alarm for 200 metres, you're soaking wet from the rain and standing in what used to be a puddle but can now only be described as a lake then I poo my pants and run inside as fast as I can!

[MK Chris]

Depends - if you were putting yourself "in its path", then no! Tornadoes are awesome, but unless you are a lunatic you don't go standing and watching them come for you. Why is a lightning storm any different, especially when lightning is even less predictable than the path of a tornado?

You make me feel less stupid about my reactions to thunderstorms. I hate them so much.

You are scared of escalators. Your opinion is therefore invalid.

[catherine]

We made homemade pizzas today, cheese overload, very yummy though.

[rustybike]

OK... think about what has gone on in the last couple of days. Then think about what we have been advised not to discuss. Then come to your conclusion.

Ah. Ok.

See Topher does get what I am going on about!

Shame the rest of us don't.

[MK Chris]

I'm not back in work until 13th October and I had a brilliant lie in this morning.

[rustybike]

Very nice! Got any plans?