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Winter CD.

From: SimonC (CHAOS SPIN)21 Nov 2006 22:45
To: mr_swayzee 51 of 126
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I'm going to be awkward and suggest 'untitled' by Sigur Ros, from the ( ) album (it's track number 3, but all 8 tracks are untitled). Give me a PM if you can't find a DL of it and I'll put it on my server.
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From: Kenny J (WINGNUTKJ)21 Nov 2006 23:06
To: mr_swayzee 52 of 126
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I'd like Kalpol Introl by Autechre, from their Incunabula album. I tend to play it when the first signs of frost appear. Either that or the Imposter's Mix of Tricky's Christiansands, which usually what goes on after it.

Or, to get away from the bleak coldness of winter, how about Merry Christmas by Wesley Willis, as demonstrated here. How could one's cockles not be melted?

*Awaits post from Trig saying it's stupid and gay and the only people allowed to write songs about Christmas are East 17, because they did it in the '90s*
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From: milko21 Nov 2006 23:56
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The Ice Storm by The Go! Team please. Can provide. It's a b-side, very snowy and nice.
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From: Manthorp22 Nov 2006 00:15
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FEEL the regret oozing from Swayzee's every pore as he realises what an obscurity hunt he's let himself in for.
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From: mr_swayzee22 Nov 2006 00:18
To: Manthorp 55 of 126
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;-)

I'm actually doing pretty well just now Mr ManTHROB.

just can't listen to any of it for the moment sadly as 'er indoors is in the other room listening to audiobooks off the puter.

I will do a mp3 player review session on the way to work tomorrow,

also. I just realised that this means I get to put whatever tunes on of my own that I like!!!!

mwwwwaaaha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha 

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From: Manthorp22 Nov 2006 00:25
To: mr_swayzee 56 of 126
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Unchained Melody, Dirty Dancing and other seasonal favourites here we come...
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From: spinning_plates30 Nov 2006 21:54
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Just for the record


Winter 2006-2007 starts: Dec. 21, 7:22 PM and ends: Mar. 20, 7:07 PM apparently. So we're still ~3 weeks away from the start.
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From: Dave!!30 Nov 2006 22:19
To: spinning_plates 58 of 126
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I find it daft that Winter actually (supposedly) begins on the shortest day of the year. No sooner has Winter started then the nights begin to pull out again :S
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From: JonCooper 1 Dec 2006 08:16
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that's about what I thought, yay me !
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From: spinning_plates 1 Dec 2006 15:51
To: Dave!! 60 of 126
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Oh I completely agree, it seems ridiculous. I always though as a kid that winter started in November some time. However, I was, evidently, wrong.
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From: Peter (BOUGHTONP) 1 Dec 2006 16:09
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It is ridiculous, and that's why it's a definition that should be ignored, and one of the more accurate definitions uses instead.

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Astronomically, it starts with the winter solstice, and ends with the spring equinox

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In meteorology, it is by convention counted instead as the whole months of December, January and February in the Northern Hemisphere.

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the winter solstice is traditionally considered as midwinter[citation needed], the winter season beginning 1 November on All Hallows or Samhain. Winter ends and spring begins on Imbolc or Candlemas, which is February 1 or 2.

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the three-month period associated with the coldest average temperatures typically begins somewhere in late November
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From: JonCooper 1 Dec 2006 16:14
To: Peter (BOUGHTONP) 62 of 126
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Astronomically, it starts with the winter solstice, and ends with the spring equinox


isn't that the same as what he said? ^^
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From: Dave!! 1 Dec 2006 16:27
To: JonCooper 63 of 126
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Yes, but BP's point I believe is that there's loads of different definitions about when it does and doesn't start. As has been mentioned, I think it's daft that it supposedly begins on the shortest day.
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From: MrTrent 1 Dec 2006 16:52
To: Peter (BOUGHTONP) 64 of 126
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In meteorology, it is by convention counted instead as the whole months of December, January and February in the Northern Hemisphere.
That's the definition of winter i've always gone by.
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From: Peter (BOUGHTONP) 1 Dec 2006 17:11
To: JonCooper 65 of 126
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Indeed it was, but to expand on what Dave!! pointed out, sp hadn't mentioned that it was the Astronomical definition.
Personally I find the climatic definition to be the most sensible - since winter is generally 'the cold part of the year', so why not make it align with the actual coldest part of the year.
(and the time of the year when the autumn leaves have mostly finished falling and the time where mid-winter is actually in the middle.)
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From: spinning_plates 1 Dec 2006 17:52
To: Peter (BOUGHTONP) 66 of 126
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Well, here at least, the coldest part of the year probably is between about Dec 21st and March 21st. It's not gotten really frigid yet and it doesn't tend to start thawing out until the end of March.
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From: JonCooper 1 Dec 2006 18:01
To: Peter (BOUGHTONP) 67 of 126
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it does align with the cold part of the year, end of Dec to end of March
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From: Dave!! 1 Dec 2006 18:04
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I disagree. I consider December in general to be colder than March. We've already been having frosts and whatnot here. I tend to find those begin dying out towards the end of Feb / beginning of March.
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From: JonCooper 1 Dec 2006 19:39
To: Dave!! 69 of 126
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eh? frosts? nah, it hasn't dipped below 10O yet (here)
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From: Peter (BOUGHTONP) 1 Dec 2006 20:41
To: JonCooper 70 of 126
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start of december, to mid-march.
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