When there are doubts in your mind,
talking about the weather for an hour is worthless when compared to five minutes of solid, healthy conversation.
So, having conversational skills will help for sure, because a mature man will get tired
of talking about the weather or the next destination for your vacation pretty soon.
You can finally say this about the notion that
everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it: Well, Roland Emmerich has done something about it.
We sat ourselves down in front of a large bowl of ice cream (which we later discovered was our shared guilty pleasure) and indulged
while talking about the weather, politics and our favourite sports teams.
And it's especially hard to get the probability of an event perfect when the circumstances keep changing — as they do when we're
talking about weather events, which become more or less common depending on the underlying climate.
«Someday soon we hope to be
talking about weather reports for alien worlds not much bigger than Earth, and to be making comparisons with our home planet.»