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Old 24 September 2009, 20:46   #1
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Weather Conspiracy.

Chatting to a lady yesterday who held a senior management position with a major food manufacturing company. Apparently, she required daily weather forecast updates from the met office in order to predict demand trends.

According to her, the 'bbq summer' forecast was a government instruction designed to boost the flagging economy and keep spending in the UK.

She was Welsh, so It could've been crap and a ploy to keep me chatting whilst her bloke slipped my Missus a dodgy draft for our Shogun.
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According to her, the 'bbq summer' forecast was a government instruction designed to boost the flagging economy and keep spending in the UK.
Some good old fasioned propaganda
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She was Welsh,
Ah
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Her name wasn't Codprawn, was it?

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I had similar when I dealt with an Ice cream company - you knew it would be a good weekend when they called to say all their vans would be out on the road over the weekend . I'm guessing though no conspiracy involved in that one !
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i can believe that the government do that but we will never know rain or shine tho u still get wet anyway
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