#michael fish

[80sheaven]

BBC Weatherman Michael Fish in 1980. Remember those magnetic symbols?

Whatever Happened to Michael Fish?

[thedepartmentofdiscoveries]

Photos of Bowie wearing Michael Fish taken at his residence Haddon Hall at the time by Keith MacMillan for "The Man Who Sold the World" (1971)

[fuzzysparrow]

What was the year of the Great Storm of Britain, which forecaster Michael Fish said was not going to happen?

In an infamous weather broadcast on 15th October 1987, Michael Fish denied claims that a hurricane was going to hit Britain. A few hours later, the hurricane hit, causing devastation across the UK that claimed 22 lives and cost an estimated £2 billion worth in damaged.

The great storm of 1987 was a violent extratropical cyclone that occurred on the night of 15–16 October, with hurricane-force winds. Greater London and the East Anglian coast suffered the most damage due to the storm, as did the north coast of France. Winds reached a high of 190 km/h (120 mph).

Michael Fish's claim that any suggestions of a storm was a false alarm is celebrated as a classic gaffe. As a result of the storm, significant improvements were made in atmospheric observation and the training of forecasters.

Fish (born 1944) was a presenter for 'BBC Weather' from 1974 to 2004. During the broadcast on 15th October 1987, he said "Earlier on today, apparently, a woman rang the BBC and said she heard there was a hurricane on the way. Well, if you're watching, don't worry, there isn't!" He later claimed he had been referring to a different hurricane. Nevertheless, the error has gone down in British history and has led to the creation of two phrases. "The Michael Fish effect" refers to forecasters predicting the worst to avoid another major error. The term "Michael Fish moment" is applied to forecasts that turn out to be embarrassingly wrong.

[copepods]

trip to the fair :) tubbo won the rabbit at a ring toss booth

[id: a drawing of c!tubbo and c!ranboo, walking with michael between them holding their hands. they’re all laughing and talking together. tubbo’s wearing an orange sun visor, sunglasses, a blue shirt that says “proud dad of a freaking awesome kid,” a red fanny pack, and khakis. michael is wearing red shorts with hearts on them, a white shirt with a picture of three chickens, and a rainbow baseball cap. ranboo’s wearing a brown sun hat, a brown shoulder bag, and a yellow dress patterned with sunflowers. he’s holding a blue stuffed rabbit in one hand. end id]

[dubblebubbleibuprofen]

The Berzattos

[antiqueanimals]

Ranger Rick's Nature Magazine; January 1967 edition.

"Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc. from FISH DO THE STRANGEST THINGS by Leonora and Arthur Hornblow.

Illustrations by Michael K. Frith. Published by Random House, Inc., Copyright, 1966, by Random House, Inc."

Internet Archive

[creese]

Lemon Hariwake Koi painting by Michael Creese

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[eroticwound]

i think a big thing that they did right this season (and maybe surprised me with) was about carmy and the berzatto siblings and how they relate to their mom

like donna was *exactly* how i imagined she would be, but i thought sugar would be the drunk whisperer and carmy would be the one outside of her graces. but in fishes to see that it’s the reverse? like suddenly carm not being capable of going to the funeral makes SO MUCH SENSE. like if he had gone, he would have gotten exclusive donna duty in the midst of NY chef trauma and the unmitigated grief for michael…

like… he went into survival mode by not going.

and then there’s the pesky similarities between him and donna… how they internalize and can fly off the handle… the fact that carm’s clock/alarm motif is actually donna’s. carm couldn’t go to the funeral and donna couldn’t go to the restaurant opening. and of course richie calling carm “donna” in the walk-in, which really triggers him

and fucking SUGAR!!!! natalie my saint! who *wants* to be the one to take care of her mom, but not being able to get the nuance and cadence of her mental illness. g-d it kills me!!!

then you have sugar treating carm the same way she treats donna, because sugar sees so clearly how unwell both of them are… and yet carm and donna obviously hate how she goes about ittttt

anyway, shoe-horned romance aside, this season was incredible and this bit of family dynamic explains SO MUCH

[actual-changeling]

bear with me here but i think michael would actually be quite a nice person if they were alone with someone they're not in a power struggle with.

we see what heaven is like, the higher your position, the more influence and power you have over the other angels, archangels included, and being a low ranking angel fucking sucks.

there is michael and uriel hashing it out over gabriel's position and they never STOP doing that, every single time we see them they're still competing to see which one will take the empty throne/have the most to say. it's michael bringing up being duty officer, it's uriel being the one to turn off the alarm with that smug little look and voice, it's the entire scene with the match box - all of it.

gabriel has no one to fight for power and he makes the others feel it. especially his arrogant, almost mocking "you can ask but i don't have to answer". the fact that they all let him go and only belatedly are like "fuck me he doesn't have a desk".

and then how absolutely terrified they all are when they realize who the metatron is. did we do something wrong and suddenly all power struggles with each other fall away because holy shit he can hurt us in a way we cannot (and never would) hurt each other.

i think an interesting little tidbit is also michael's behaviour when they bring the holy water to hell for the trial in season 1. that aura of smug superiority to defend their status and be the person with the most power in the entirety of hell in that moment.

all of this does have a point, and we're getting to it now.

get michael and dagon alone in a room, and, after the initial awkwardness and once they realize there's no reason to play tug of war with power, i am certain they'd bond. angels are lonely, and dagon honestly seems like fun (their fake vomiting gets me every time), and give michael the room to just relax for a fucking second and a person to catch them, and they will.

we see it happen with crowley and aziraphale, we see it with gabriel and beez, even with muriel in their initial conversation in the bookshop.

dagon and michael having somewhat secret meetings because their companies are a fucking mess, and it's nice to share the responsibility with someone, to not have to keep up a mask. a few meetings in, michael's had a horrible day, and right before they leave for heaven, they hesitate.

it's a i don't wanna go back and it's nicer here with you and i'm exhausted and it scares the shit out of them. but there's that moment during which they just look at each other, and dagon is a demon, they're not supposed to feel any good feelings, let alone love or care, yet they reach out and squeeze michael's hand, and they're both so shocked they let it pass without a word.

then michael spreads their wings, dagon mutters "fucking show off" because it isn't actually necessary, and with one last thankful little smile, they're off.

(somewhere in heaven, the metatron gets a sudden headache.)

(somewhere in... somewhere, god smiles)

[can-a-tuna-fish]

Once again thinking about how important it is to me that Michael tells Jeremy he’s “cooler than a vintage cassette” knowing how excited he gets about Retro stuff. Like “I value you more than this thing I find very cool and interesting” shrivels up under my heat-lamp and dies.

[shynrinn]

Eyes on the file Dagon.

...sort of HC on how their relationship started

[bronzeagepizzeria]

FISH TANK (2009) dir. Andrea Arnold

[copepods]

epic fish moment i drew this a week ago and forgot to post it

[samwinchestersgspot]

Adam and Michael in the cage 100% annoyed the shit out of lucifer and thing is luci didn’t even realise Adam was there so he just thought that Michael had finally pulled the stick out of his ass. Adam found out luci didn’t know he was there and used it to his advantage, he’d take over and say shit just to piss him off and luci was really confused because he didn’t know that Michael even knew about half the shit Adam was rambling on about and when he found out Adam was with them in the cage everything kinda clicked for him and instead of getting pissed he just suggested that they all play go fish. Luci and Adam kept losing to Michael even though Michael hadn’t been paying attention to how to play. Adam beat both of their asses in uno though. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.