r/boringdystopia • u/Konradleijon • Dec 18 '23

Environmental Degradation 🌍 What happened to the snow?

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u/thecuriousiguana Dec 18 '23

The UK is statistically more likely to have a white Easter than Christmas. Snow at Christmas in the UK is largely a myth created from idealised Victorian imagery.

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u/Cum_Rag_C-137 Dec 18 '23

Charles Dickens is to blame, he was alive during an unusually cold Christmas when it snowed, he wrote about it created the trope of a white Christmas even though that was never the norm.

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u/thecuriousiguana Dec 18 '23

Most of a Christmas comes from that era

Here is a very entertaining and interesting radio show about it

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07xl3bm

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u/lWantToFuckWattson Dec 18 '23 edited Dec 19 '23

Be so for real, are we seriously doing this??

All over the world it's warmer than it should be. That's not because of Charles Fucking Dickens; it's not snowing because it's fucking warmer.

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u/Cum_Rag_C-137 Dec 19 '23

Does being as ignorant as you are help you through life? Here's an article (one of hundreds) on this.

Heres a Reddit TIL on it

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u/lWantToFuckWattson Dec 19 '23

I don't live in the UK you dolt

I live in Canada, and it has snowed exactly one time here and it's December 19. It's supposed to be snowing, and it's not. I know that it's supposed to be snowing because I've lived here my entire life, not because Charles Dickens said so

You're not going to use Charles Dickens to Acktually away climate change