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5 hours ago, HardcoreHunter said:

In a few hours we'll know if it's 6 more weeks of winter or 6 more weeks till spring. 
 

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If you have never been to that party in western PA... let me tell you.... sluts... you're gonna get laid... ever if you're mistake (misaka, lol autocorrect tho) or jeffchaos

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4 minutes ago, Sawdamizer said:

Awful lotta honkies

I mean....can you imagine anyone other than white people having a holiday where we worship a giant immortal rodent, and stand in a field for like 4-5 hrs in the middle of the night in February regardless of the weather? It's something that kinda makes you think of white people without having to say it. 

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1 minute ago, HardcoreHunter said:

I mean....can you imagine anyone other than white people having a holiday where we worship a giant immortal rodent, and stand in a field for like 4-5 hrs in the middle of the night in February regardless of the weather? It's something that kinda makes you think of white people without having to say it. 

Well, it is the year of the rat for a certain.... people.

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24 minutes ago, HardcoreHunter said:

You know that it's the same amount of time no matter what. 6 more weeks of winter vs 6 more weeks till spring. It's just an excuse to have a party. 

Here its 6 more weeks of winter or 6 more weeks of winter 

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6 hours ago, HardcoreHunter said:

In a few hours we'll know if it's 6 more weeks of winter or 6 more weeks till spring. 
 

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Hey, Woodstock IL is a happening town!  First Styx played the HS Gym...and then only a mere 20 years later, they shot the movie!  Unfortunately, tsar lived there briefly sometime in between.  

Wonder if they still think the Opera House is haunted.

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That club is about the most cultish snobby ridiculousness I've ever heard of. I've heard a few facts over the years, but I really never cared much enough about it to know it's full history. I learned some pretty interesting, but stupid facts about it yesterday. I don't get how Groundhog Day is still a nationally syndicated thing. If any foreigner ever asks me why Amercians have a tradition where they watch an overweight glorified rat come out of a hole to predict the weather I'm just going to tell them to get rammed by a Groundhogese trap and walk off.  

They (The inner circle) 🎩decide beforehand whether or not they want the rodent to see it's shadow anyway.. Probably after just reading the farmers almanac. :|

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Ironically enough in their defense their predictions are only a little bit less accurate from what weather experts consider a good forecast:

"The Groundhog Club’s records show that Phil has predicted more winter 103 times, and an early spring only 19 times. Based on data from the Stormfax Almanac, that means Phil’s accuracy rate is a pathetic 39 percent… but there’s a twist. Although Phil’s resume isn’t looking very good, it’s really not that bad when compared to the accuracy of professionals in the field. According to National Weather Service meteorologist David Unger “if our forecasts are about 60 percent accurate or higher, then we consider that to be a good estimate”. That means our leading experts in the field, with the latest and greatest weather predicting technology, consider a “good estimate” to be only 21 percent higher than the accuracy of a mid-sized meteorological rodent."

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15 hours ago, PhilosipherStoned said:

That club is about the most cultish snobby ridiculousness I've ever heard of. I've heard a few facts over the years, but I really never cared much enough about it to know it's full history. I learned some pretty interesting, but stupid facts about it yesterday. I don't get how Groundhog Day is still a nationally syndicated thing. If any foreigner ever asks me why Amercians have a tradition where they watch an overweight glorified rat come out of a hole to predict the weather I'm just going to tell them to get rammed by a Groundhogese trap and walk off.  

They (The inner circle) 🎩decide beforehand whether or not they want the rodent to see it's shadow anyway.. Probably after just reading the farmers almanac. :|

The holiday was a german thing, but they used a hedgehog that would roll into a ball if he saw his shadow. PA has a large german population so they brought the tradition with them, but there aren't any hedgehogs in PA, so they used a groundhog. It's mostly just an excuse to party. The inner circle are just a meteorology club that has a quirky tradition that benefits a small nowhere towns tourism. 

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10 minutes ago, Seight said:

I saw a Tweet where someone said "It would be like if we decided a volunteer fire department's parade had national importance."

Kind of fucked up with that one though.. Those volunteers deserve a ton of more local community praise than these fat cats ALL THE TIME.

 

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