Ah yes, the midwesterner.
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And the Valleys and Cardiff
Canadian?
Oh absolutely. Had some Sault Ste Marie relatives in town and if it is over 5°C/40°F they dress as though they're going to the beach!
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Haha, beat me to it!
I've seen them go outside in shorts and t-shirts when it breaks 0, and washing their cars when it breaks 32.
That's me, I'm never cold. Cold wind can be cold, but when there is no wind, there cannot be cold.
I've discovered my body's secret to cold immunity is going backpacking with a hammock and no under quilt when the lows are in the 20s, with a sleeping bag that lied about its rated temperature.
Unfortunately I have to repeat it every 5-8 years.
It is important to note that the trip where I discovered this was supposed to have lows in the 60s, but a blue northern rolled in on the first night.
I was insufficiently prepared for the first night in a camping hammock.
It was at a music festival in West Virginia on a mountain top.
90s (32-34) during the day, 50 ( 10c ) maybe at night.
Dewpoint somewhere inbetween with nearly 100% humidity.
The party favors don’t help my lack of sleep but I almost drowned AND got hypothermia in that thing over night lmao
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Its me :(
It's a scientific fact that legs cannot be or get cold. Much like birds, the legs of Midwesterners, Rock Mountain statesers, and Canadians evolved separated blood supplies in their legs that just exchange oxygen within the thighs to preserve core temperatures.
Source: someone who would lived in shorts year round until being forced to wear real pants by corporate America.
P.S. the best time to go to the beach in California is over Christmas, because you have the whole place to yourself and can laugh at everyone wearing coats in 60° sunny weather. Come on in, the water's great!
I’d rather be uncomfortably cold for the 15 minutes I spend outside than uncomfortably hot for the majority of the time inside.
Or lose my jacket because I don't want to be uncomfortably hot.
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I am from Winnipeg. Natural selection has made us immune down to -40.
Edit: but then we just shatter. My tombstone will say “Jim shat himself to death” and there will be a statue of me wearing shorts.
I feel you. I'm from northern Minnesota. And the sweat rolls off of you at 70F/20C because it's too hot out.
I won't have a tombstone. They cost too much........
In Quebec, we have guys who walk in -30 hunched over a thin leather jacket smoking for warmth.
Un dur à cuire -tough guy in leather.
Proper mid-westerner here, -4F with no wind, all you need is a hoodie. I've cleared my driveway of snow with the snowbloer wearing shorts, a hoodie, and gloves (because the handle is metal). If I put on pants it's either really nasty out OR I'm expecting to be outside for a very long time.
That guy just had a sports practice and his body temperature is elevated.
Signed, an athlete in a winter climate.
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I am this guy. I get warm so fucking quick. It'll be -10c outside but the moment I walk up a flight of stairs I'll be sweating
When I was in undergrad, I used to walk to and from my jujutsu dojo a mile away from my dorm. The way back had a big hill leading up to my dorm; I would start out at the bottom wearing a big coat and end up at the top with the coat tied around my waist! The weight of the winter gear and the difficulty of trudging through fresh snow just makes it that much more of a workout.
It's a real problem. I do 10km a day. In winter I have to strip to just one layer because if I wear multiple layers I end up sweating which end up becoming problematic when the wind chill picks up.
I've lost so many beanies and gloves because it's cold as fuck when you start.
I've dreamt of clothing that can open and close itself based on a temp you want set. Like a car's cooling system will close up when it's cold but open up when it's hot to circulate the coolant to the radiator.
High school kids. You cannot be different. My kids refuse to wear a jacket. Hoodie, t-shirt, and sweats, jeans, or tights depending if it’s a PE day or not. Doesn’t matter if it’s snowing, 0°F or 60°. Same clothes. They all wear the same stuff.
I've got 4 sons like this...
Cold is a mindset most of the time.
Exactly. There’s a huge gap between ‘feeling cold’ and ‘being cold’. The human body is perfectly capable of operating for extended periods at temperatures that we deem ‘uncomfortable’. After all, our species survived to the present day, and proper clothing and central heating are relatively new inventions.
The human body itself produces a tremendous amount of heat. Go sit in a cold room with a few friends and it’ll soon get toasty.
I’ve spent a good amount of hours outdoors in cold and rainy weather. If you give in to ‘feeling cold’, the body doesn’t really learn to adapt to it. I know exactly when my body goes from ‘this feels cold’ to actually being cold and at risk of hypothermia.
proper clothing and central heating are relatively new inventions.
central heating, yes, but proper clothing? I think you're underestimating how effective animal hides can be...
and while we didn't have "central heating" as you're referring, we did have "central fire" (a big fire pit in the middle of a round house or similar) 😅
It's snowing so it can't actually be that cold, it's fine
Growing up in snowy upstate NY, before climate change, when we'd get snow in October, and it would stay on the ground until March, I always wondered about those girls that would show up to school on the coldest days, wearing a dress or skirt, with their legs totally exposed to the bitter cold.
Now I know that at least some of them probably came from religious families where girls weren't allowed to wear pants.
#NeverPantsGang
#NeverPantsGang
Fuck that crap. Not only my shorts all the time, but, I have 2 kilts. A utilikilt and a dress tartan kilt.
This is me. I grew up in Western New York. This is just sort of normal there.
There are microbes that generate heat, some have more than others
Where can I get them
Future carpenter
As a mountain person I just want to let all of you normies know that 27°F is not 'sleeves' weather for quick exposure.
Like if I am taking out the trash or driving to the store or walking to the mailbox or whatever. I do not consider sleeves at all until about 26F°, but that's just going to be a hoodie. At about 18°F or so, I'll go for a light coat on top of that. Single digits is where I break out the winter coat. Subzero you start layering.
We're not flexing. It's adaptation. I can basically not handle physical work above 85 degree heat. 0 stamina. My body knows how to keep warm. My body does not know how to keep cool.
That last sentence - yes! 0 degrees outside? No problem, coat. 80 degrees outside? I turn into a fussy baby. At 90 I'm like non functional
I was this guy when i lived in hungary but the funny part was that it was actually like 10c and spring(even tho historically it used to go below minus 10 there during winter). Now that i live in sweden i realize people are also like that here but thankfully the large amount of finns who live here spice it up. Im not even kidding when it was my first winter here and a guy showed up in shorts in -20c while i had two hoodies and a winter jacket on and was still freezing. Always the finns.
I had a buddy who challenged himself to only wear shorts for the whole year.
He technically didn't succeed because he had to go to an event with a dress code, but I still consider it a success because he didn't choose to wear pants.
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I feel called out.
I only freeze my finger and back
So i just wear some wind proof jacket/shirt and shoes
Hands in pocket is often enough too
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If it's -20°C and the wind isn't bad you can dress like this no problem, and a thin jacket or even just a hoodie is fine.
Best way to keep yourself warm is to wear a mask and keep the moisture leaking the warmth trapped. It's funny how many people who lived through the pandemic seem to have forgotten this. They might as well be this guy in regards to getting colds.
Like when I was shovelling snow at -10C in a t-shirt. My neighbor came out to do the same, wrapped up in thick coat, hat, scarf, gloves, etc, and still shivering.
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Hos don't get cold
Because I ain't a little bitch, cameraman. Now let's flip it around and see you handle 115F/46C+ temps, it's only fair. Dying of heatstroke already? There is always this person smh
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