(Could have gone for a header pic of Michael Fish or Carol Kirkwood, but was distracted by this warm front coming in from the US! – DA)
…WEATHER FORECASTERS, especially TV weather forecasters!
They get paid a very good salary (don’t have exact figures but I bet its probably well over minimum wage!), for spouting any old bollocks about the weather for today and the next few days!
They will argue/defend themselves by saying “these are just forecasts” Which basically means its just an educated guess, and therefore they can’t be held responsible if these forecasts don’t materialise.
Of course most of us remember quite fondly poor old Michael’s Fish’s “It’s not a hurricane” forecast on the BBC back in 1987. And despite the subsequent ignominy, he still received his monthly pay slip.
But forecasters generally, are a bunch of smug, grinning bastards, standing in front of a map of Britain playing with lots of fancy graphics and banging on about the latest super-duper computer that can calculate 10 billion operations in a second, but still can’t give a definitive answer on whether it will piss down in Torquay this afternoon!
Moreover, when I check the BBC’s online weather page for my area first thing of a morning, it will say sunshine tomorrow morning, and then rain tomorrow afternoon. Great, I think, I can go and cut the lawn in the morning!
But then I check the same site a few hours later, and the rules have changed: rain in the morning, rain in the afternoon. Fuck!
Following morning, check the weather: a complete reverse – rain in the morning, sunshine in the afternoon. But when I look out of my window there’s not a fucking cloud in the sky and its 26C in the glaring sun!
Weather forecasters – just a bunch of well paid bullshitters!
I hope they all get sucked up in an unexpected tornado and end up dumped in the middle of the ocean and eaten by sharks or an unhinged kraken (can Jess Phillips swim?)
Nominated by: Technocunt
