Home made weather NP

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If you can have home made food, home made clothes and even home made boats why not home made weather? It would save all that worrying about a pound a minute to speak to the forecaster. You can just specify the weather you want then get on and make some. Obviously the level of fit out would make a difference and home made concrete weather wouldn't hold its price and be difficult to insure, but I reckon the general idea is a runner.
 

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Re: Home made weather

But wouldn't there be a premium on the good bits you needed as raw materials - sunshine v expensive - rain dirt cheap ?
 

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Re: Home made weather

This is where your African scores on raw materials. I think we could set up a Sunshine Futures Market. Equally we here could have a London Rain Index. Of course people who actually worked on the market wouldn't be able to speculate, because of inside knowledge. They'd have to go in for spread betting on Weather Derivatives.
 

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urgh it'll be rubbish! I bet that in a few years time i'll be invited down to someones boat with their ancient cheapish and badly put together homemade plastic weather and the sunshine will be old and manky. I'll probably end up having to fix the weather or at least give it a good clean, only for it all to go to waste by them sleeping till 11:30.
 

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Re: Home made weather

It'll be worse than that.
Chandlery weather will be twice as expensive as camping shop weather but the latter will come with bits missing. Imagine starting out on the annual jaunt, opening your cheapo weather box only to find out that the wind is missing, or is all in a furrin language, "tres forte" instead of a good old british F3.75. Then you'd have to go ashore to the local swindlery and sheepishly buy a box of force four at £500 a go. Except they'd have run out by then and you could only get either a two or a six.
In other words it'll be just as it is now. You'll even get chandlers complaining that nobody comes in and buys their winter weather, which is why the summer stuff is so expensive.
 
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