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Well, if the end result is I can travel a mile in a London cab without selling a kidney, I can't say I'm too worried about Uber coming in.
by tragic 12y ago
Well, if the end result is I can travel a mile in a London cab without selling a kidney, I can't say I'm too worried about Uber coming in.
- JetSpiegel 12y agoIf you want to travel a mile, you can just walk.
- MRSallee 12y agoRains a lot in London.
- sp332 12y agoIt rains less now that the gulf stream is shifting. It's going to get a lot colder, though. Edit: well according to http://www.bbc.co.uk/climate/impact/gulf_stream.shtml http://www.bbc.co.uk/climate/impact/gulf_stream.shtml "This slowing will have a cooling effect but the temperature will still increase in the region overall" due to the global warming effect.
- gmac 12y agoLuckily, humans are waterproof. :)
- Dylan16807 12y agoUnluckily, they don't travel through rain naked.
- JetSpiegel 12y agoDon't they?
- ZenPro 12y agoWater resistant. Unless you have a superpower that makes you impervious to drowning.
- iaskwhy 12y agoIt's one of my missions to correct this falacy. The number of days with rain in London is just around average and the overall precipitation is quite low. Here's an example with data comparing London and Lisbon (which people usually believe is always sunny): Rainy days per year in London: 110.4 Rainy days per year in Lisbon: 117.0 Precipitation (mm) per year in London: 591.8 Precipitation (mm) per year in Lisbon: 774 Sources: London: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London#Climate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London#Climate Lisbon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisbon#Climate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisbon#Climate
- JamisonM 12y agoCheck out the mean sunshine hours in those tables to figure out why Lisbon is perceived to always be sunny, it is because it is. Literally twice the sunny hours a year. There is a pretty big difference between 12 hours of cloud and drizzle and 2 hours of steady rain followed by 10 of sunshine in terms of the human misery factor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_duration http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_duration
- iaskwhy 12y agoWhile I understand your point, my experience doesn't really follow that logic (I have lived in Lisbon for 25 years and I'm on my third year in London). In my experience, while it's usually sunshine, when it rains in Lisbon it does rain most of the day and it's usually not drizzle but heavy rain (which I believe is the reason why precipitation is so high in volume in Lisbon; Oporto is even worse) while in London it can drizzle every day for a couple of minutes and then stop and "clear" (clear London style, meaning less clouds) and then drizzle again hours later. I assume London's sky is more chaotic because we're in an island in the middle of the sea but I'm no expert on the matter. I usually say my Portuguese friends about London: "It doesn't rain a lot but it rains every day. Thing is, by Lisbon standards we would never call this rain." :) Another curiosity is how tough the winter is in both cities. In London it's the greyness and lack of sunlight for months and months. In Lisbon it's the heavy rains. I spent this last winter in Lisbon and it was most probably one of the winters with more precipitation. Humans exagerate, I know that, but it really felt like it (heavy) rained for almost six months. It stopped a few weeks ago, sunny Lisbon is back again at full throttle!
- tragic 12y agoWell, exactly. If I want to travel a distance that could be usefully traversed in a cab, then it's both kidneys and half a pound of bone-marrow. Also, I only ever get taxis when I'm in a state of refreshment sufficiently advanced that walking becomes unwise.