On 15/11/2010 03:12 PM, nemesis wrote:

> I thought it was Christmas already, with all the Santa Claus in display and
> winter-snow thematics in plain brazilian Summer...

Yeah, as I walk around looking at all the winter-themed shop displays I 
do wonder how many children around here /don't actually know/ what snow 
looks like.

When I was a child, it snowed every single winter. Maybe not on 
Christmas, but there was always at least a day or two where there was 
deep snow on the ground, and there were many weeks of icy frosts.

Today, we sometimes go the entire way through winter without a single 
flake of snow ever falling.

This makes me wonder whether there are children in this country who have 
only ever seen snow on TV. They might not know, for example, that snow 
is cold. Or that it crunches when you walk on it.

Then again, when you consider that the entire country malfunctions 
almost to the point of collapse when we /do/ get a fraction of a 
millimetre of snow, maybe it's a good thing it doesn't snow often...

Do you know, I went out for a meal last weekend, and half the pub was 
covered in white cotton wool in imitation of snowdrifts.

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