Requesting moratorium on the phrase "If you don't like the weather, wait five minutes!"
10I’ve lived in 4 different cities in the United States and somebody always says “If you don’t like the weather, wait five minutes!” as if the weather always changes just in their particular area.
The weather changes all the time, everywhere. Your location isn’t that special. Besides, there have been days where the weather was unlikeable and it took weeks to change!
This moratorium also includes similar phrases such as “there’s only two seasons here winter and road construction”.
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Were all 4 of those cities in Maine?
Meh. I use that in Florida because there’s many days that it literally only rains five minutes.
@RiotDemon If this moratorium passes you are no longer allowed to use this phrase.
@RiotDemon Same. Florida is the only place I’ve ever heard in connection with that phrase, and it makes sense. Even with weather reports and radar, sometimes you just can’t make outdoor plans!
@RiotDemon Back in the 70s that’s what made it so great for mushroom ‘shopping’ in the cow pastures.
Pretty sure they use this everywhere.
@Targaryen - Where I live they say, “If you don’t like the weather, drive five miles!”
Yeah, I’ve heard it in Rhode Island, Maryland, and Alabama. I also heard a guy from Wisconsin give it as an example of “Wisconsin humor that only locals would really appreciate.”
Source:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/which-city-has-the-most-unpredictable-weather/
Among cities that do fall within the most populous metro areas, those with the most unpredictable weather are as follows:
Kansas City, Missouri;
Oklahoma City;
Minneapolis;
Cincinnati;
Indianapolis;
St. Louis;
Birmingham, Alabama;
Boston;
Milwaukee;
Dallas.
@medz lol, i’ve lived in three of those cities. Indianapolis, Boston, and Dallas.
@Kevin @medz Which suggests that the people who told you that were right.
I request a moratorium on people using the term “moratorium”.
I would like to put here, the original quote referred to the good side of the country!!
"If you don’t like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes.” – Mark Twain
@mikibell Thank you!
I was prepared to be shocked and surprised that this quote is not uniquely and specifically about New England.
Had to Google the veracity of the claim attributing it to Twain and I can confirm it is true.
So, yeah - us New Englanders get to own it, the rest of you can just STFU.
@DennisG2014 So if I have lived in 3 New England states but don’t currently live there can I use it or not?
@Kidsandliz - You can use it when talking with Mark Twain.
@Kidsandliz You can use it about New England, regardless of where you are from or where you live now…
Sorry for the confusion - the claim about the weather belongs to New England, not New Englanders.
@DennisG2014
@DennisG2014 How do you like those apples?
First time I heard this was in Houston, which is bullshit because the phrase should actually be “don’t like the weather? Just wait five minutes, it’ll be more humid and the mosquitos will come out”
@Moose
“That, so they say that, in ya know
Like, Houston or something, you’d
Say it’s a hundred and eighty degrees,
But it’s a dry heat.”
“In Houston they say that?”
“Oh, maybe not. I’m all mixed up.”
“Dry until they hit the swimming pool.”
It feels like our county just has two types of summer, drought and flood. We usually have a week or two of each in a row. Makes for some interesting times but none too bad.
Can we add
"It’s always in the last place you look!"?
@llangley But I don’t think anybody claims to be unique in ceasing to look for something after they find it…
@llangley yes! that’s always said in some kind of disbelief way too.
Huh, I have never heard this phrase before. I’ll admit, the weather around here rarely changes, that must be why.
Can we add, “Hot enough for ya?”
@Thumperchick no because then what would vapid teenage girls ever have to say?
Can we add, “Slicker than snot on a glass door knob.”
@medz and “Slicker than goose snot on a slate shingle”??
@medz @mikibell “Went thru like shit from a goose”
Move to Phoenix and you’ll never have to hear it again. Here the weather only changes twice a year: from “hot” to “hot and humid” in May, and then back to just “hot” in about September.
@Dweezle
hot, very hot, very very hot, with the occasional not quite so hot
@Dweezle nah in December people pull out the winter coats and say it’s cold
But wait, if we can’t discuss the amazing variety of local weather, we’ll only have the discussion topic of how uniquely bad our local traffic is, so much worse than anywhere else, and how you can’t really understand it unless/until you live here.
@mossygreen Just traveled past Springfield, MO twice. They really do have crappy highway traffic.
Well, I woke up this morning, the weather was weird with the wind blowing very hard and some rain. Waited 5 minutes and the weather was nice. Worked out for me…not so much for the fence and the basketball standard that were blown over…
I hope this doesn’t mean I have to stop saying,
“It’s rainin’ like a cow pissin’ on a flat rock.”
I really never hear the phrase but, where I lived at my last house in N. Alabama, I was at the edge of a mountain overlooking Huntsville and it really did have different weather than anywhere nearby many times. My husband was an air traffic controller and his specialty was running aircraft thru storm systems. He had to always take new courses etc on weather and he said that the area I had lived in was one of the worst around for them to predict anything for (and it was only maybe 2-3 sq mile area). I could be totally fogged in and not able to even get out of the driveway but it would be like passing thru a wall 200’ out and 0 fog. I had rain, snow and ice and none of my friends a few miles away did. Or, they did and I didn’t. It was a real crap shoot for about a 2 square mile area on that bluff.
Resistance is futile. You WILL be assimilated. We are borg.
I cringe a little everytime I hear someone use the phrase “it’s a mute point”, but alas arguing with those people is moot.
KuoH
@kuoh You sound pretty portentous.
@Limewater Guards, throw him in the dungeon!
KuoH
@kuoh They’ve muted the moot.
Thanks, but I do occasionally try to help the odd peasant here and there to give the impression that I’m a benevolent ruler.
King KuoH XVII
If you don’t like what Meh is selling, just wait a day.
/giphy weather or whether
@bleedmichigan Whether the weather is good, whether the weather is bad, weather through today and tomorrow you will likely have different weather…
Apparently your request has been denied!
Does it bug you that much? I hate the fucking weather… I say it to a lot of people… We can have it snow, and then be super hot in the same day… But I didn’t know it would piss anyone off enough to say this…
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I think that just maybe this topic bothers me more than it should…