If you're cold in winter you can always put on another layer.
If you're hot in summer, eventually all you can do is suffer. :)
It feels like we have to keep screaming this at peoples faces for them to understand.
It's impossible to survive and be productive or do anything useful in the fucking heat.
barefoot & shirtless == unproductive/no-expectations-from-me and i wouldn't have it any other way. lol
It's impossible to survive and be productive or do anything useful in the fucking heat.
Everyone who lives anywhere near the equator, most farmers, Australians, and the entire African continent might take exception to that claim. You can say you prefer the cold all you like, and that's fine, but this sound like a you problem.
Just cleared a baseball infield 2 days in a row in 98-degree heat with jeans on. You will never catch me out there in winter. Scream all you want, I hate the cold and am fine with the heat.
My layers only keep the cold inside, I suspect I might be a reptile.
Also it’s trivial to turn matter or electricity into heat, but you can’t go the other way. Best you can do is move the heat from inside to outside, and make it everyone else’s problem.
In Holland we have 99% humidity all winter with temperatures right around freezing and no matter how many layers you add the cold wet air seeps in and chills you to the bone.
This cliche has always landed flat for me. Always cold or uncomfortable in the winter with a dozen layers, and don't suffer in the heat ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Right? No matter what I wear, I'll inevitably start freezing/being cold, especially my feet which I can't just put extra layers on. Add to that eyes watering intensely in the cold, windy weather, plus runny nose, so can't wear anything over it for any extended time, lest I bathe my face in snot. No, thank you. Give me summer and a fan.
I love winter. 6 hours of sun per day and the color gray is all I ever wanted in life.
Gray his house With a gray little window And a gray corvette And everything is gray for him
I think Winter is pretty. The blowing snow, the silhouettes of trees, icicles… And the sounds are pretty cool, too. The wind, the crunchy footsteps…
Crunchy? In wet and salty sludge?
You’re mistaking winter for a christmas postcard.
i love winter too. here it's ice and snow, and no sun. during summer the damn sun won't go down at all so i can't sleep!
Ah yes because staying inside all day because it's too hot and humid and the grey skies from rain is amazing as well.
Come on now. Sometimes it's in that sweet spot where it's not hot enough to kill you but it's hot enough to make you want to go to a place full of gritty sand, sharp rocks, obnoxious birds, and aquatic predators so you can cool down in the water which will ensure you need to consistently reapply the cancer-prevention lotion that makes it impossible to hold your drink that you desperately need to finish to stay hydrated in this nice relaxing open-air oven.
Way better than wearing a scarf. You'd have to pick out one that's aesthetically pleasing to you, and then feel all cozy wrapping it up around your chin. Yuck. Give me kneecap sunburn any day, thank youuuuu!
This. 100000 times this.
I'd live in perpetual winter if I could. You can dress for the cold, but at some point the heat and humidity make it impossible to be comfortable outside regardless of your outfit.
I used to think as you do, but in the heat a moist cooling towel worn about the neck, especially when paired with a wide brimmed hat, can be a great comfort.
Pull off your skin
Being hot and sweaty is uncomfortable, granted.
But there's a point where the cold is outright physically painful. And unless you're wearing a full face mask, you're pretty much always going to have some part of yourself exposed.
You also have to weigh the discomfort of being hot against the discomfort of wearing a ton of heavy clothing, and even all the time wasted pulling on and taking off coats, hats, & etc. every time you to outside.
For me, summer wins every time.
To each their own of course, but I'm perfectly fine dressing for the cold. Sure, once temperatures get below -35C it's not the most comfortable to be outside and you'll want to get good at layering, but I still much prefer it over the inverse (temperatures of 35C and over).
Winter is hell for me. I live in Sweden, and the winters are just the worst. Everything sort of comes to a stop, people feel miserable, it's constantly dark and you sort of go into an emotional hibernation of sorts. Also dressing for the cold is not exactly easy either, you would have to go around with a balaclava to not get that biting cold that just cuts through all clothing and hurts your face.
But yeah, cold in itself would be manageable to a certain degree if it was bright until like 7 PM the winter around. Cold is annoying and difficult, and dark is annoying and difficult, but together it's almost handicapping to me, even though I don't feel like I have SAD or anything like that.
It doesn't help that it seems as though our climate has changed so we either have A) Summer from June to August, and then a fucking eternal autumn (but the sad part of autumn without any leaves and constant grey skies and wet brown leaves on the ground) from September to January, and then winter from January to April, spring from late April to June.
B) Summer from June to August, autumn in late september to October, then winter and snow from November to fucking May, and then we have spring for 2 weeks and then we head directly into summer.
Yeah idk. Winter is not for me.
It depends on where in Sweden you live of course, but I always loved the moment the first snow was on the ground. It immediately makes the entire surroundings feel less glum, even during the short days of winter.
Agree on the impact of climate change though. The seasons used to be reliable like clockwork, and that hasn't really been the case for the last decade and a half or so.
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laughs in Icelandic 16°C no mosquitos summer
that's it, I'm moving to iceland
Watch out for the inbreeding tho.
Sometimes I wonder if I'd prefer mosquitos over swarms of lúsmý, at least they don't bite
Too bad about the cost of living there, but it sounds like absolute paradise outside of that.
Autumn is better than both of them
Autumn has leaves that I need to rake.
You dont need to rake them, you want to rake them. They make nice piles to dive in if you have a lot
I have radiators. What I do not have is an air conditioner. Summer is constant suffering.
Any reason you don't buy one? If summer is so hard it seems like a good investment. You can even get the portable kinds that are way easier to install.
Here me out please.
Throughout most of the time humans existed we lived a migratory existence. It is only with the adoption of agriculture that staying in one place sense made sense.
Now here we are, with like 2% of our population involved with agriculture and still living that way.
We should all migrate like birds and stay in cooler climes during summer and warmer climes in the winter.
Obviously this is a huge change, but we can do it!
You’re not fooling me, birds. I know a bird account when I see it.
Yeah, nah. We weren't that migratory. Birds change continents on the regular. We might move inland or down the river a bit.
But think of the industries, how will the CEO's and shareholders buy their second yacht, if all the lowly employees got to live comfortably. The masses must suffer for the benefit of the few.
And why do you think they buy yachts? To make sure that they can migrate.
Can I just retreat to a dank cave like I normally do in the summer?
Dank
Over time, agriculture led to ownership culture, and one of the most stable investments and forms of wealth has always been land.
As long as land is a valued commodity, nomadic culture is impossible.
There is no such thing as too cold. There is only under dressed. At least that's what the old fucks say. I like me a toasty summer but that doesn't make it any less true thst its easier to get warm when your cold than it is to get cool when your too hot.
There is no such thing as too cold. There is only under dressed.
Which comes with extra kilograms of clothes on you. When it is getting warm and you get rid of them, it is one of the best feelings.
You ever been swarmed by mosquitoes in the snow? No? Case closed.
It's not the heat that kills me. It's mostly the added humidity. (Germany)
I'd rather be cold and miserable then hot and angry.
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Summer here (south of Spain) is shit. The heat is unbearable.
Truly missing the suffering I experienced there with 39°C under shadow. Eternal suffering. Having to change clothes 3 times a day.
OP:
I can't say I'm unhappy to not live in a no place with no mosquitoes because it is the worst
That's great and all, but living in cold climates is less sustainable and uses more resources than warm climates: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130328075710.htm
Very US centric take. I'd be curious to see how Dubai or Singapore stack up in terms of energy consumption per capita compared to large cold-climate cities. Everything is air conditioned and there is so much enclosed space because being outside sucks so bad.
There are extremes at both ends. I live in a place where you have to pay for heat 6 months out of the year to survive. Most of the warm climates I've lived in have 1-2 unbearable months max. Why do you think you see so many homeless in warm climates?
Wait what. I don't see any mosquitos in summer. But in winter it's hell.
That's because your winter is many people's summer temps.
Oh makes sense. So mosquitoes don't survive extreme heat or cold. Got it.
No clue where you live, but in the southeast US the mosquitoes aren't nearly as bad in winter, in my experience.
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I personally like summer and heat. A lot. But I realize that it's objectively bad for most people.
Is it so hard to open a window for some people, or to go out past 20:00? For the record, I live in Spain as well.
Skill issue!
