This is my brother. The weirdo wears shorts as long as it is at least -20 F.
Yeah but we also get really hot so we’re sucking during August. Meanwhile someone is walking around in a 3 piece suit without so much as a drop of sweat.
My wife and I have been watching “Ballers” and thing I’ve been trying to figure out the whole time is, who the hell walks around Miami all day in a suit?
A good wool suit is quite insulating. I wore a 3 piece wool suit this summer when it was a bit warm. I wasn’t really sweating any more than I would be if I was wearing shorts and a Tee shirt.
I swear I sweat constantly and its so annoying Like I’m not bothered by the heat I’m bothered by the constant feeling of being soaked in sweat
Sanka, you dead?
Ya, mon.
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That’s one of the few benefits of being fat.
Actually muscles are what keeps you warm.
The amount of fat required to provide significant insulation is not really feasible for humans with the addition that the feeling of being cold might even be increased.
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This is how I met my wife 10 years ago. It was -20 Celsius outside and I was in shorts waiting for a bus. She came over to ask why I was wearing shorts, which sparked conversations and now we’ve been married for over 5 years.
Well that’s adorable
Okay sure… But moreso confusing… Like, damn… That’s cold.
Do that person’s legs just not have feeling?
People feel temperature changes a bit differently. Some people come from colder climates and are acclimated to them.
I’m better with tolerating heat. My husband is better tolerating the cold. We’re all just a bit different and that’s awesome
Keep being rosy!
I fucking hate the cold but I’m also lazy and hate wearing clothes. If it’s just a bit I’ll take the hit just to avoid putting (more) stuff on.
He’s hacking a dart too
I’m surprised I’m not hacking a dart right now.
There’s a lot of bullshit in this thread. People can wear shorts in cold weather either a) if it’s not that cold, or b) if it’s not for a long period of time. I’ve been in -50 and -60 degrees fahrenheit weather in Alaska and Montana and Wyoming and when it gets that cold any exposed skin is a huge liability and will become frostbitten and/or severely painful in a very short amount of time. Left untreated it will turn necrotic which is not good. You also, pretty much no matter what you’re wearing, can’t stop moving at those temps unless you are in some kind of shelter.
When I worked on The Slope in Alaska back in the 90s we used to do 20 minutes outside and then 20 minutes inside for full 16-hour shifts.
That said, it can be kind of invigorating and of course you do get used to it and learn to not let it bother you.
Edit: Also, if anyone cares, I’m not proud of having worked for Big Oil on The Slope back in the day. At the time I was young, it was a big adventure and it paid big money that allowed me to do a lot of other things that I otherwise would never have been able to do. Also, it was all union work through IUPAT DC5 which I am still an active member/activist of today.
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You’ll be hot as fuck in your home, and then a woman will just turn the AC off and complain about how cold she is
It’s more likely that it’s from poor blood circulation than actually being cold. Commonly, because they need more cardio.
I just have shit circulation.
Women are biologically more susceptible to getting cold than men are (or conversely, men are more susceptible to getting hot than women are). Also most people in America need more cardio; it’s not a gender thing.
Didn’t say only women get cold from no cardio. Obviously, there are other factors like mild Raynaud’s syndrome
You’re still making this out like it’s an individual problem and not a genuine (and major) gender difference.
From a BBC article on office temperature wars:
Boris Kingma from Maastricht University Medical Center decided to take a closer look. He found that women have significantly lower metabolic rates than men and need their offices 3°C (5.4F) warmer.
That’s a huge discrepancy! Obviously not something you can chalk up to individual factors like exercise rates or medical disorders.
Sir I use my space heater in my home in July, and I live in the US South.
I’m shocked my husband has not divorced me over it yet tbh, but he can pry it from my (literally) cold, dead hands.
He’s probably waiting for it to catch fire and end his misery. The most passive aggressive murder-suicide of all time.
Tip over protection ftw!
In all seriousness, I do point it away from him explicitly because he swears he can feel it across the room.
Double blind test?
Space heaters are fantastic! My partner and I have very different ideas of comfortable, and they make liberal use of blankets and space heaters. That’s waaaay better than turning the entire house into an oven! Plus I still make use of the space heaters, too – making the bathroom toasty so you’re not freezing when you step out of the shower is the best.
You mean, to counteract the air conditioner? As a fellow resident of these southern United States, I can’t imagine it would be necessary otherwise.
I’ve been spotted!
And for us on the otherside, we see people bundled up like their going on an Artic expedition when its 50F out and they are walking 10 feet from their heated car to a heated store.
Being sweaty all the time sucks. Thats really what it is
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Yeah, basically.
A little bit of cold vs sweating
I’ll take the cold.
Hi, that’s me. I can handle endless heat, but fuck temps under 60.
Greetings, I’m your opposite. I can handle bitter cold just fine, but I melt at 60F.
I’m closer to you than to the other person, but damn, 60F is just about perfect for me. Nice, comfortable T-shirt and jeans weather.
That’s me as well. I typically don’t even start thinking about shorts until the triple digits.
On the other hand… I’m starting to layer up at about 65…
I do also have a higher than normal body temperature. I’m usually hovering around 99.3 and I always have to explain to the doctor that I’m not running a fever that’s just my normal temp.
In my hometown, we had “Mr. Noshirt”. He’d walk everywhere in any weather either without a shirt on, or with a flimsy dress shirt unbuttoned the whole way. In Canada, so it got cold. Rumors were “couldn’t feel cold” or the more likely “mental health problems.”
I think you eventually get used to it whatever you wear
I tend to be the shorts and t shirt in the middle of winter guy, but when I put a hoodie on it’s the most comfortable, perfect temperature you could imagine
As I get older, the cold bothers me more. Used to be, I could go outside and throw snowballs with my bare hands no problem. Nowadays, the temperature drops below 10, and suddenly my hands physically hurt if they get cold. It’s not even related to how physically fit I am given I started a five-day-a-week gym habit eight years ago and am in some of the best shape of my life. It’s just stupid aging as far as I can tell.
Randy bobandy just out there chugging cheese burgers. Noamsayin.
That’s how you spot the NPCs in the simulation
Funny story.
I lost 50lbs and gained 50 lbs within a year.
I can say, without a doubt, being fat definitely makes the air feel warmer. I don’t even think it makes sense, since your skin senses it. But hot damn if my house goes above 72F I have to keep towels around when I’m heavy
I don’t even think it makes sense, since your skin senses it.
It makes sense when you learn that your skin doesn’t sense ambient temperature at all, but rather it senses the rate at which you are losing or gaining body heat. This is why metal can feel cold at room temperature while something like a blanket actually feels room temp, it’s a better heat conductor so it absorbs body heat from you faster.
Having more body mass means you produce more body heat at any given time, so the rate at which you lose body heat to the air is decreased, making you warmer.
It’s not just a fat or muscle thing. Those both contribute of course; fat insulates and muscle produces more heat. But the real player is the surface area to volume ratio.
A bigger person has a lot more volume than they have a bigger surface area, and since heat is lost through the skin this has a major impact.
Could it just be a weight thing? So not necessarily fat, muscle could also help.
If you’re body is heating your whole body, the amount of heat added will increase linearly with volume. But your surface area, i.e. the skin, increases sublinearly with volume. So you get more heat per surface unit?
Nah, it’s fat. That’s why polar animals have blubber
Yep. I’ve lost 90 pounds. Finally not sweltering all the time
I don’t know… , I’ve never been fat and I completely disregard the cold like it’s not even there
I mean you kinda get used to the cold after a while lol
