Aliens weather

[simont]

This morning I looked at the BBC website's 24-hour forecast for Cambridge in order to judge how wet I was going to get walking out to Tesco at lunchtime; it said it was raining a bit at 11:00, would be raining a lot by 13:00, and would become an outright thunderstorm by 16:00.

Trouble was, it was already after 11:00 and there wasn't a drop of rain in sight. So, on the basis that it might just be late, I went to Tesco as early as reasonably possible, and it was still bone dry.

But it's now past 13:00 and still not raining, and the BBC website still thinks it's pouring down out there. It's very much like the motion-tracker scene in Aliens, where the guy with the detector keeps insisting that the aliens are already inside the room and the guy in the room keeps saying no they're not. Only it would be rather hard for the weather to turn out to be hidden where the aliens were…

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[1ngi.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it's raining in their hearts...

[songster.livejournal.com]

Maybe you told the truth when you were seventeen?

[simont]

I assume that's a reference to something rather than a total non-sequitur, but I'm afraid not even Google has been able to tell me what to...

[songster.livejournal.com]

"Why [i]doesn't[/i] it always rain on me?"

[songster.livejournal.com]

Bah, wrong tag format.

[simont]

Aaah. OK, I see why my Google queries didn't pick that up. Thanks :-)

[isihac.livejournal.com]

Someone has been spending waaaaaaay too much time on forum boards.

[crazyscot.livejournal.com]

The Met Office maps suggest a load of scattered heavy showers heading in our general direction; their radar traces so far today are consistent with it. The aviation forecast gives a fair chance (P~=0.4) that we'll see passing cumulonimbus with thunder in the Cambridge area any time between now and the middle of the evening.

From the Lifted Index and CAPE maps on http://expert.weatheronline.co.uk/ I'd say we're looking at more serious thunder tomorrow across most of the south of the UK.

I used to set some store by uk.weather.com, but it seems to have gone off the boil recently.

[sphyg.livejournal.com]

Speaking of which, the Arts cinema is doing an Alien all-nighter on the 30th. I'm tempted.

[simont]

What, all four of them? Blimey, that would go on for a while. It's quite an effort to sit down and watch even three films back to back, IME.

(Sensible-length ones such as the Star Wars trilogy, I mean. Obviously watching the entire extended LotR would take more staying power than the entire Aliens!)

[simont]

Ah, no, it's only 1-3. Probably more sensible.

[lnr]

Someone else suggested 1,2,4 would have been even better, through omitting 3 which is considered dreadful by most who've seen it.

Oddly it's the only one I haven't seen, so I can't really comment :-)

[simont]

I think I'd agree. I don't think I thought 3 was actually unwatchable, but I certainly preferred 4.

I have all of them on DVD (I bought the box set), so if you want to fill in the gap, just shout.

[lnr]

Oooh, that would be more sensible than renting from lovefilm, which I was planning to do at some point. I'm not sure I've the stamina for an Aliens marathon :-)

[vyvyan.livejournal.com]

Whereas I can't stand 4 but like 3 best of the lot.

[sphyg.livejournal.com]

I quite like 3. But I can't do all-nighters anymore.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

For that, one needs a bouncy castle, or a room of beds.

[aldabra]

It's raining enthusiastically now. This is entirely predictable because it's just when I have to go and get K from school...

[isihac.livejournal.com]

You jinxed it! It was lovely out there, and I'd hung out some washing...

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Sorry, it was waiting until I had just finished trying to find out what ABS felt like when learning emergency stops, as well as for aldabra to go and pick up K.

I was so right not to leave my shoes out in the sun to dry from yesterday. Ha. That superior look from my housemate's pet rabbit was entirely uncalled-for.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Also, if we can assume everybody's seen Aliens or isn't going to, where were the aliens hidden? If I have seen it, scylla jumped on me at this point and I missed it while screaming.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

scy11a, rather

[simont]

The motion tracker said they were within five metres, but the room was more than five metres across and visibly contained no hard-to-miss enormous slavering death-machines. Then someone got a nasty thought, boosted themself up to the ceiling, and lifted one of the ceiling tiles. The ceiling space was crawling with the things.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

But they always hide in the ceiling! You'd think they would have thought of that by now.

In the old Cavendish, the weather does hide in the ceiling - you get a day of heavy rain and then a day or so later water starts dripping in through the ceiling and the bacterial colony in the carpet smells of fish again.