uriaheep Posted July 22, 2006 Share Posted July 22, 2006 A few days ago I was over at a mate of mines and he wanted to show me a sim he was playing. (Yes, yes I should know better) He says, "You play pc games don't you?" You guessed it - it was a train sim. Okay it held my attention for a few minutes, the realistic sounds, the great looking scenery, working signals but it's just a train set on the tv. What struck me though was that this track I was on was in the UK, and what do you know, within 20 seconds of the game starting the heavens opened and it rained. "Is the weather always this poor?" I asked."Yeah," he shrugs, "well in the UK anyway." Now I've noticed this with real world sims that take place in the UK, you set the weather to realistic, and before you can say 'Global Warming', the sky turns as black as the Prince of Hells riding boots, extraordinarily loud cracks of thunder resonate across the landscape and lightning the like of which I have only seen in The War of the Worlds issues forth, and it pee's it down of course. Now, I can't remember the last time it rained here and to be honest the first time it does I will take a shower outside. Does everyone not from the UK think that the weather here is really like that or is it just game developers who spend too much time indoors and are a heartbeat short of a life? Tell me, I need to know because I think I may be living in my own 'Matrix'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blehm 98 Posted July 22, 2006 Share Posted July 22, 2006 maybe they all think that Oregon is actually a province of England, and so they model it after oregon. I guess it rains like 250+ days of the year over there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Accounting Troll Posted July 22, 2006 Share Posted July 22, 2006 It tends to rain far more in Wales than it does in southern England, but even here we often have brown lawns in the summer, and it was too damm hot to do anything much earlier in the week. We only ever get thunderstorms in the summer, and torrential rain is quite unusual. Normally, we get the soft drizzle that keeps going for weeks at a time regardless of what's happening in the rest of Europe. THis is the normal monthly weather where I live: January: freezing fogs/soft drizzleFebruary: freezing fogs/snowMarch: soft rain/snowApril: moderate rain/sunny spellsMay: dittoJune: mostly sunny, but occasional torrential downpoursJuly: sunny, no rainAugust: sunny, but some thunderstormsSeptember: soft drizzleOctober: soft drizzle/some freezing fogsNovember: moderate rain all monthDecember: freezing fogs/soft drizzle (no snow) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blehm 98 Posted July 23, 2006 Share Posted July 23, 2006 lucky, where i live it goes like thisWinter: Cold and frosty, lots of rain, but no snowSummer: It gets extremely hot, tomorrow's temperature is predicted to be 109 but yeah, its possible that they heard it rains in some parts of england, and they live in oregon (the developers), so they make it rain a lot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Accounting Troll Posted July 23, 2006 Share Posted July 23, 2006 Give me their names! I'm going to give them a well-deserved kicking for thinking that Wales is part of England Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uriaheep Posted July 23, 2006 Author Share Posted July 23, 2006 109 is pretty hot, I thought it was damn hot here but 109 beats Lincolnshire. Every time I go to Wales AT, the clouds seem to be on the ground, and I rekon the last time I looked they are supposed to be in the sky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Praetoris Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 In england it rains all the time, everyone wears grey clothing, drink tea and act very posh or talk about football all the time. I though everyone knew these things by now!? I guess it's just about as accurate as polar bears living in Sweden *sigh* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uriaheep Posted July 24, 2006 Author Share Posted July 24, 2006 I guess it's just about as accurate as polar bears living in Sweden *sigh* You mean they don't? Does this also mean that not all Swedish people are blonde and are eight feet tall. What we need is a new post for misconceptions about all the countries of the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Accounting Troll Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 Too right. For one thing, not everybody in Wales is a good singer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uriaheep Posted July 25, 2006 Author Share Posted July 25, 2006 Oh this is terrible, all my images of people on SC are being shot to pieces. So I guess you are going to tell me that you are not a rotund, 5 feet tall bloke in a suit with a red face singing all the time whilst munching on a leek? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Praetoris Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 and this calls for a new thread:Topic - "What do you people look like??" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Accounting Troll Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 I am (a little) rotund, but I'm 6'2" and I can't stand leeks. I think the only reason why they are our national vegetable is that all the good ones were taken by other countries - we share our national flower with Cumbria. I don't much like rugby either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kernel Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 I thought all welsh people were miners? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uriaheep Posted July 25, 2006 Author Share Posted July 25, 2006 Not at all, some are adults - or is that minors? Strange that AT about national flowers, the leek is really a North Eastern veg. They are the kings of leeks. Mmm, descriptions...... I think I like my anonymity too much. I'll go as far as saying I'm a burly type, the sort that you may see outside a nightclub with a suit on. But it may be a good idea to start the thread Praetoris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ki-tat Chung Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 Perhaps this thread should be titled "Busting Stereotypes"?There certainly arn't any kangaroo's hanging around in my back yard...and last i checked, my backyard is grass, not some outback dessert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 Dessert? Sounds tasty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ki-tat Chung Posted August 1, 2006 Share Posted August 1, 2006 gah...damn spelling =p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikal Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 Statistically the UK is something like the 3rd or 4th dryest country in the European Union and similarly the most densely populated. Hmm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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