Comments on: 8 Reasons Why The Wind Can Blow Me

By: Elandre Potgieter

Elandre Potgieter — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:35:48 +0000

I am from PE… and man you can give me rain, snow, extreme cold, but wind… I hate it and here you can pretty much expect it every day.

PE Vibe out!

By: steve

steve — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:34:15 +0000

kaapstorm has some good points there, most of all his final unnumbered one, the wind does indeed suck when most people think it blows. i don’t have the time to go into the physics of this, but trust me it does suck.

anyway, point3 is kinda my stock answer. we have one of the most awesome windy cities in the world, so don’t fight it join it. you won’t believe how excited we get when a proper south easter pomper comes up ont he windguru predicition screen

but there already too many of you hacks on kites getting in the way of us windsurfers.ja the wind sucks

By: kaapstorm

kaapstorm — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:41:14 +0000

Shaun, I bumped into your site while hoping to find Nelson’s Eye’s menu. Your blog is crass, funny, and rather moreish. Well done!

I have to comment on a couple of up-sides to the wind, which does, of course, suck as much as, if not more than, it blows.

(1) But if we didn’t have such crap wind, we would have more Vaalies. (They can change the name of their province in an attempt to obscure their identity, but we all know they are still Vaalies.)

(2) If it didn’t blow our beautiful City Bowl would smell like a rancid combination of stale, wet ashtray and unwashed, 40 degree armpit. Which, you might counter, could also deter Vaalies, but on a good day, that’s exactly what Joburg smells like. They’d just feel at home.

(3) If you took up kite-boarding, you’d be able to do something useful with the wind, and spend a few seconds between the car and the surf with some hot woman changing into or out of her wetsuit (if you aren’t already thinking about women in rubber, now is the time), while the good Cape Doctor tries his best to wrestle her towel from off her waist.

So, the wind does suck. But sometimes sucking has benefits.

By: JackTheSpliffer

JackTheSpliffer — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:09:56 +0000

It’s not that bad. I’m in University Estate and the wind blows here pretty much always. So I’m used to it. I do wear pretty hard gel though.

By: gossipgirl

gossipgirl — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:37:08 +0000

The wind messes up YOUR hair? Think of us poor women; there’s almost no point in doing your hair in the morning (i.e. brush and straighten) as the wind will go and mess it up as soon as you step foot outside. Gotta love living in the windy city!

By: Nash

Nash — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:12:36 +0000

I despise the cocking wind with a deep, burning passion. My hatred is unrelenting and if somehow the wind manifested it’s self as a living thing I would lock it in my basement and torture it for years using the cruelest techniques known to man. I would donate my own blood and organs to the wind to keep it alive just so I could torture is more. Tarantino would come to me for advice on how to make his next movie more bloody and gory based on my torture techniques.

I hope that gives you a better idea of my feelings with regards to the wind.

Nash…
OUT!

By: MothaCitysBoy

MothaCitysBoy — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:18:25 +0000

It makes women not want to wear short skirts/dresses for fear of them blowing up and revealing their unmentionables.

There are, of course, some women who deliberately wear skirts/dresses on a windy day hoping for this to occur. These are often very lonely, desparate women… and a few ho’s too.