all 71 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] 35 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I full on get vomitty if I get too hot. Give me winter. Give me cold.

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    Yeah I am the same exact way and have also been feeling very weird & sick lately (it was so bad I thought I had an actual flu or virus) but it's definitely because I am getting too hot. I lose my appetite. I can't think as straight. I get irritated. I start feeling lethargic but restless, and I feel lightheaded and wobbly. I only began to feel hungry and felt normal again when it's nighttime and cooler out. That's what clued me in to the fact that the heat was causing those issues the whole time.

    This gets me worried/panicked especially with climate change making it even more unbearable. I don't want to continue feeling miserable for half the year, every single year, for the remainder of my life...

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 27 points 4 months ago

    I like winter. If it’s cold I can just put on warm clothes. In the summer I can just bake.

  • source
  • [–] 70 points 4 months ago (13 children)

    I fucking hate summer and this is why.

    BuT iT's FrEeZiNg In WiNtEr. Not anymore because you need to fly to Asia for your vacations Bernadette! Also I can later clothes. Can't take off skin.

  • source
  • hideshow 13 child comments
  • [–] 28 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    it is freezing in winter! that's why it's better! try ice-skating on a lake in june!

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    It was around 50-60° for all of last winter for me. I live somewhere that people generally consider a cold place, too. I don't want winter to be gone. I felt very sad that I couldn't enjoy lots of the things that make winter so nice in the first place :(

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago* (4 children)

    My fingers and toes and nose would always stay cold in the winter, even if the rest of my body was so layered up that I was sweating. It's a bit odd wearing a ski mask indoors and wearing super thick gloves indoors is not always feasible either depending on what you're doing (eating, etc.). I compromised a bit with fingerless gloves, and it helped a bit, but not as much as I would have liked. And yeah eating foods with your hands just wasn't doable that way.

    Idk. I'm one of those people that is always too cold. I live in a hot climate now and it sucks major major balls for riding a motorcycle (just learned recently), BUT I prefer this environment in every other circumstance.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    I live in a hot climate now and it sucks major major balls for riding a motorcycle

    I only go touring in spring and fall for this reason. I use it when the weather's nice enough year round for errands that are too far for bicycle/public transit and don't require the car, but even riding 20ish minutes to the supermarket sucks in 30+ degree heat with 80+% humidity.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    try it the other way ? layer up the fingers, toes and nose and nude up everywhere else ?

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Like I said, hard to do that indoors. Generally people just walking around with a ski mask indoors look suspicious af. And then wearing gloves indoors makes it difficult to do things like use your phone and eat.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I'm with you, OP. Give me winter all the time. I might have to move North if this keeps up.

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Oh i hate summmer from the bottom of my heart. Already just thebrightness hurts and makes it harder to see anything, but the main curse is the heat. By the evening I'm just exhausted and head is stuffed. Of course the night isn't much better, it's not enough time to cool down and then sleep is disrupted and shallow.

    So I'm perpetually sweating, tired, grumpy, slower and weaker.

    Dark winter nights are the best, exactly that time when i cant see the sun at all, screw that fucker. No brightness, sleep is much deeper, always full of energy and it's just so easy to generate bodyheat that the cold becomes nearly irrelevant.

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    Summer was only better than winter when I was in school. It was better because there was no school for 3 whole months in the summer.

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Being able to do stuff after work with daylight in summer is nice. In winter its dark before I even finish work.

    Perhaps I should get a more powerful bike light and do after work evening bike trips in winter.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    No, it's frozen here and raining and yucky.

    Please send all your heats, we'll take them.

  • source
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    It's 42C here today, cooler than yesterday.

    Will that be cash or check? Wait, come back

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago

    Yeah I can wear my flowy showy shirts and pants during the summer.

    But I can't wear my turtlenecks, scarves, or snugly jackets. Not to mention that sitting under a nice hearty blanket sipping cocoa on a crisp evening.

    The summer I can chill in the shade of trees sipping iced tea though which is also hella nice.

    Both have perks and draw backs.

  • source
  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Just move to the half of the USA that's currently experiencing drought conditions and then at least you don't have to worry much about mosquitos. That's one point for climate change!

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    My area has been in a drought since last year, it's the 7th driest January-May since 1895. We still have very humid weather and mosquitoes.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago

    ♪ How can we dance when our earth is turning?
    How do we sleep while our beds are burning? ♪

  • source
  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    I will cry in cost of living but not in weather! (Berkeley, California)

  • source
  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Why get a good nights rest when you can instead be cooked alive, day after day?

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago

    I'll always take winter over summer if I had to choose between the two. I live in the northern US where it gets down to -10 degrees F regularly in the winter.

  • source
  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    glances at my A/C and window screens

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    As long as I have a fan strong enough to redirect typhoons, I love summer. Fresh peaches and melon, beautiful sun, and time off. Winter's also amazing, but only because my lamps can change colour temp to deal with the awful mornings and evenings. The transitional periods are just gray, drab crap.

  • source
  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    Nope, it isn't. At least not for me. I am more team "shoveling snow in a t-shirt".

  • source
  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago* (5 children)

    Summer

    The Good:

    • longer days, lots of time after work for outdoor activities
    • relax in the sun
    • fresh fruit
    • more cultural activities
    • swim in the see

    The Bad:

    • hot

    Winter

    The Good:

    • not hot

    The Bad:

    • more rain
    • drive to/from work when it's still dark
    • depressing
  • source
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    More rain in winter? Are you European or Pacific Northwest?

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Speaking as sometime from Central Europe, rain in winter is very much accurate. Typical Christmas weather is light rain at two degrees above freezing. When it does go below freezing in winter it's usually relatively damp air with no precipitation so there's no fun snow but a cold that becomes painful within seconds if you don't have much body fat.

    Even a full week of 43 °C wasn't quite enough to make me like summer less than winter.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    lots of time after work for outdoor activities

    Outdoor activities get cancelled more and more because of the heat this year. People not showing up at events because they don't like a heat stroke. It's a bit too much summer.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    It's 92F in my house at 9% humidity. I have my ceiling fan, and an iced coffee. I'm good. I moved to the desert because I hate humidity. I still sweat here, but it's not nearly as bad as California in the summer. I think I might literally die in Florida in the summer, I've never been to Florida and I never want to go, for many reasons, including the humidity.

    Winter here isn't too bad, mostly it's the short days and overcast that gets me. Windy cold days are the worst.

    Six months out of the year are great, six months not as great, but still better weather here than anywhere I can afford to live, so I'll stay here.

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    92° in your house? I hope you're okay and can find a way to cool it down, that sounds dangerous :( I should be grateful that my house only gets to 80° if it's almost 100° outside. I feel guilty running my air conditioning, but I just want to feel comfortable and be able to do stuff.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Autumn, weather is good and there are berries to harvest.

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Both are good and have their benefits. Working outside in the hot sun is a struggle. Working outside in -30 is a struggle.

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago*

    This week was nice but we had one last week and one's forecast for this coming week, though I don't think it's going to be as bad as the one we got first week of July.

    Glad I got my PV system installed before the first one hit. A/C just feels cooler when it's free 😎

    Heatwaves notwithstanding, still prefer summer. I hate shoveling snow, I hate being cold, I hate that people deal with slick roads every year but still can't learn to drive (or NOT drive) on them, etc. My only complaints about summer are the humidity and mosquitos.

  • source
  • the extremes get worse...

  • source
  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    ITT:

    Y'all a bunch a weather bitches.

  • source
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Honestly, I'm with you and I was gonna come on here and say something similar but my buddy is an electrician who works on new buildings and he deals with so goddamn much heat in those buildings that he can hardly function when he's not working. I'm all "go outside, drink electrolytes and lots of water, go swimming" but for some people this reality is hell.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] -1 points 4 months ago

    Humans are adaptable. We live at the poles. We live in the deserts. I've enjoyed time in the Arctic and the Sahara.

    I get what you're saying, but people also spend most of their lives in a 68-72 F / 19-21 C degree bubble. That trains the body only to accept homeostasis. Of course, three hours at 110 F one rooftop can be rough, but it's also a lot worse of that's 40 degrees away from what you spend 99% of your time at.

    Less AC. Be outside more. Cold showers and mid-day workouts.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    It's just the same rage bait posts all around the year. In winter they will post a stickman freezing outside with icicles in his nose and 7 layers of clothes with text "winter lovers be like"

    Autumn/Fall gets shits about rain and moody weather. Spring gets shit about allergies. One can't please everybody...

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Ethel Merman - We're havin' a heatwave (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSib3sMpuGo)

  • source
  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    I like summer because it means I'm harvesting things. And maybe one or two dips in the ocean per year. Other than that, it can fuck right off. We get in the 30s and routinely have super high humidity, especially this time of year in our rainy season. I look forward to only like 70% humidity later in summer (should we be so lucky). I also have to deal with ants, hornets, asian giant hornets (big as my thumb and I do not have small hands), and, as of late, potential boar and bears.

  • source
  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    The southern hemisphere be like...

    😆😁😄

  • source
  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Where I live it’s cold and foggy all summer

  • source
  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Yes and it's fantastic.
    Finally summer after the usual 10 months of cold dark and rain.

  • source
  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Even with the heatwave, yep. Winter is so fucking garbage. Depressing shitty fucking time. SAD is a legit thing. Me-sweaty-itis, isn't afaik.

  • source
  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I spend 8-13 hours in a cold room for work. Last thing I want to do is leave to even colder weather. Even wearing 3-5 layers of clothing doesn't help.

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Well... In the cold you can wear more and more clothes.. Cant Do much If you flat is 35°c inside at 10pm and you dont have a because your country didnt have that Kind of heat 5 years ago.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago

    I am in Arizona, south of the Sonora, and this shit is insane, yet at the same time WAY more manageable than any place with humidity. I went to college at ECU and was homeless in Miami Beach during the winter before, and that ish was hell despite being thirty temperature degrees cooler than here in the Phoenix area. It gets 120F some days, and it sucks biking in, but as long as you drink water continuously, it feels significantly cooler because all your sweat evaporates instantly, taking the heat with it.

  • source