Me too, I have ignored them for years and tell everyone I know to do the same, especially when someone refers to them!
My Mum has always fell for this nonsense, although once they (and she) got it right in the very early 90's, might have been 1991 I was 15 so still young. I recall fondly phoning home saying I was going to stay over at a friends and Mum saying that they have forecast snow overnight and that you should think about coming home. I said they always they say this and nothing ever happens! (nothings changed! ) Well, the next morning was one of the biggest dumpings of snow I have ever seen in Nottingham, must have been around 1-2ft easily. I managed to get into the city centre, before they cancelled all the bus services, the snow was knee deep, the one and only time I experienced this in the city itself. It was quite awesome. Looking back it would have been great to have had a mobile phone, but alas that tech was still in its infancy, expensive and the size of brick
Like one of the other posters mentioned up thread, it is hard not to get disillusioned with Winter in the UK these days and the older I get the more I think I won't get to experience a truly severe Winter like a 47, 63, 79, or 82. I was born in 75 so don't recall 79 and barely remember anything from 82. I do remember enjoying Winters in the mid 80's though, probably where my love of snow came from and dragging a sledge to primary school
I suspect the rest Winter (following next week) may now go the way of the , hoping it doesn't, but once a pattern changes back to mild and the vortex gets reorganised it's usually always a bad sign