If it gets too cold I can bundle up. If it gets too hot theres only so many clothes I can take off before that bitch Brenda goes to H.R.
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I can put on 3 layers of clothes but i cannot take off my skin to get cooler
It's also easier to add heat in a room than to remove it in my exp
"Can only get so naked" is my go to also
This is only how a cold weather person thinks about heat. That's not how real life works.
One light layer of linen is amazing. Your body does the work on its own. Touregs in the Sahara wear a light layer of light fabric. Look at Saudis and the traditional outfit. Italy in the summer. All similar. All perfectly comfortable.
Italy in the summer
Sir i am Italian
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We also don't have anything similiar to what u mentioned
Every time I've been to Italy in the summer, north or south, everyone is in summer uniform. Same in Greece, but obviously the Italian version was fancier.
Unless... Are you an 80 year old man wearing polyester and wool and a vest and a hat in August on the farm?
Seriously, though, any search online for summer Italian wear is usual light clothing.
Tell me you have been only in turistic areas where everyone tries to strut and show off to turists without telling me you have been only in turistic areas:
Sorry but that's just a bad rappresentation of how yhe avarage people uses clothes in summer here, if you may, i think i know more how people dress here since...well i live here
A mix of both, really. Had to spend a week in some random part of Milan for a conference at a university some the space was free.
For real, tough, even Eastern Europe dresses in light summer clothing during the summer. You can't be telling me that people in Tirana or Sofia do this and Italians don't?
And sure, we're both just one data point of information. But so what would you say is the most common summer wear if not light clothes?
T-shirt and shorts usually, many also rock a tank top and usually in cities with beaches you will find shirtless people
So.... Light clothing?
We went from linen to light clothing huh?
Me saying a light layer of linen is great isn't also being applied to everyone else.
Touregs in the Sahara wear a light layer of light fabric. Look at Saudis and the traditional outfit. Italy in the summer. All similar.
My friend, Touregs don't wear linen. Neither do Saudis. Let's try this:
Cherry pie is great. Touregs in the Sahara enjoy beef pies. Look at Saudis with their empanadas. Italy and lemon tarts. All similar.
We're about to find out nature's wrath with new and fun weather in every season.
Don't have to shovel heat.
Don't have to mow, rake, weed whack, or trim the cold
That's because everything is dead and brown. I'll take the yard work in the heat for the green.
We've had those temps, and sweating all day with AC unit running sucks. I'd much rather put on a sweater if I feel chilly in the Winter.
I wish USA would go metric so I could instinctively understand what 45⁰C is without consulting a conversion calculator. I'm guessing 45⁰C is 90-100F? BRB lemme verify ... Oh jeez it's 113⁰F! 🔥
What I did, was I just switched my phone's weather app to Celsius and spent a year walking outside to work. It rewires your sense of temperature.
Yeah, F is just more accurate. I know you can use decimals, but I never see anyone post C temps as 20.2. It's 20 or it's 21, which is anywhere from 68-69.8F, expressed as 70. We've got a whole extra degree in there!
People round out time all the time, why is that different. C is more accurate, people round out of convenience. How accurate to a tenth of degree is almost never relevant. A cloud moves in front of the sun and you feel it change... so you ballpark it.
Honestly it doesnt matter. It depends on wind, humidity etc that difference between 20 and 21 is non-existent.
Technically people should hate me most cause i offend everyone. I like very continental climates so both hot summers and cold winters, i just like seeing the seasons and the smell in the air change, having a dip in a cold lake or sea during summer, having the perfect weather for outdoor activites during fall, being able to ski, build snowmen, chill inside during winter, etc. I know i have bias cause i was born somewhere where the climate is like this but i just love it. Everyone has their preferences.
Autumn and spring are better than both. Both of the extremes are getting less fun every year.
I don't like it when it's so hot I want to take off my skin
I also don't like it when it's so cold I have to somehow instantly magic another 4 layers on/off me when walking through a door to not freeze/sweat to death.
Give me comfortable 2 layer weather where I can wear the same thing indoors and outdoors and feel fine
It's not one thing, it's multiple things together.
Cold is okay alone, but add wind and/or rain and cold sucks.
Heat is okay without humidity, and as long as it still gets cool at night for a break. Heat with wind and/or rain is okay, but heat with wind and dust sucks. Dust always sucks.
Cold is okay alone
Someone's never been where it gets -40
I can always wear more.
I can never wear less than my skin and be miserable.
I have and I'll take it, please give me some of your cold weather. There's only so much you can do when it becomes 110 outside. The AC is on permanently to keep it at 85.
But the rain is one of the best parts
Having to go out in sleet can be awful yeah, I still like it though.
I am still on summer side. But if one happens to want to die and chooses between heat and cold, then cold is the better option
My stats for number of activities in cycling and running gives away my preference, but the winters gets rough in Scandinavia.

I am starting to come around on this one, winter is getting better an better. We hardly have snow any more!
Winter can suck my dick. Getting through winter with myotonia sucks ass
OK, but who is this guy and why do I keep seeing him?
on the shitpost meter, you score 50%
In an ideal world 65F or 18C would be a once in an absolutely never heatwave.
When its 0°K and some mf says winter is better than summer.
K does not use °, when will people learn?
Two words. Seasonal depression. You don't get that in the summer.
If you don't have an AC, you very much do
The sunlight makes up for it. Having like 6 hours of real sunlight fucking sucks. I also hate having to put on like six layers to take out the garbage without having the air hurt my skin
Sunlight isn't worth much when it's too hot to leave the house without fear of heatstroke.
The alternative is it being too cold to leave without fear of frostbite.
Also unless you're wearing a full Arctic exploration suit then the air is gunna hurt when it's -35c (with windchill) which fucking sucks for doing small errands. I'd rather just be a little hot and not need to put on a whole 10 layers to bring out the garbage or recycling
edit: I'd also rather die of heatstroke enjoying my 12 hours of sunlight than die frozen in the 3:30pm darkness
Come live in the hellscape of Texas. You cannot go outside from late may until mid October. It was 103F+ from mid July until 3 days ago. I paid almost $700 for my electric bill last month. The house is stale and hasn't had fresh air in months. I have a huge list of projects that I very much want to make progress on, but ten minutes outside takes me multiple hours to recover from. The temperature in the parking lot in front of the grocery store was above 120F a few days ago.
Seasonal depression occurs in the cursed summer here. As soon as my family members pass on, I will never return to this god forsaken, scorched wasteland.
Well then I invite You to Poland, where besides 3 months of summer everything is gray, cold and damp. The grass is always greener I guess.
I am thoroughly depressed all summer. The first cooler, shorter day I’m like a happy new person. I’m a redhead and can easily get sick being in the sun. Fuck summer, bring on the cooler, shorter, stormier days and I’m all in for snowball fights, sledding, soups, sweaters, cozy fires, and a good scotch.
Oh yeah? Cool, now turn off your air conditioning. Also RIP 6 out all your window screens. REALLY let the summer inside.
I know what you mean. But then you shoul also turn off the heating and open windows in winter to REALLY let the winter inside.
For runners, the difference between 60F and 100F (~15.5 - 37.8 C) is about 2 minutes per mile at the same effort. That's a huge difference. Humidity makes it worse because your body's main method for cooling itself doesn't work, but sweating, comfort, and preference aside, its literally harder to do anything in the heat.
What's with this guy suddenly showing up in all Lemmy meme communities?
I stand by it. Summer IS better than winter
What do you like about summers?
Sitting on a patio drinking beers, or swimming comfortably in a lake when camping
Seeing the sun, not having the air be so cold that any exposed skin hurts, air that isn't so dry I feel like I'm suffocating, grocery runs not feeling like a trek through the Antarctic
No flu, no sickness (maybe once), no runny nose, no stiff joints, wanting to actually do stuff, having more productive time to do stuff, being able to go into nature and hang out all the time.
Winters are absolutely depressing and miserable.
Sunshine on my face and skin. This contributes MASSIVELY to my mental health. Where I live winter is a constant claustrophobic grey.

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