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.
Does shat mean the same thing in Canada as it does here?
I am from around so I can’t say definitively what is Canadian about that. I meant “shat” as in the past tense of shit and a word that sounds like shattered, like the bad robot in Terminator 2 when he froze. Never the best joke if it needs explaining; I was just being a bit silly.
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
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
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.
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.
Keep the core warm
That guy just had a sports practice and his body temperature is elevated.
Signed, an athlete in a winter climate.
That, or they’ve recently moved from somewhere much colder and still haven’t acclimated to the new temperature range. I was this guy for a solid year after moving back home when I’d spent two years living much further north and getting used to a far colder climate while I was at college. 15 years later, my feet start getting cold if I don’t wear heavier socks and boots when it dips below 20°C, but I also don’t feel like I’m sweating enough to flood my apartment when it starts pushing 40°C in the summer any more.
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) 😅
I can do just scarf, gloves, and summer clothes. When it gets really cold a long sleeve shirt and heated gloves. Its actually great. get legs splashed with muddy slush by a car? grab some clean snow and use it to wipe off your legs.
Ah yes, the midwesterner.
Northerners in the uk
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!
Sault Ste Marie Is only the northern tip of Michigan.
It’s colder in ND than there!
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 only -4°F for the yanks. No biggie if it’s not too windy. We ski in that all the time.
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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’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.
ahh yes fellow hammock camper, i gave up at 3am, started a fire and stumbled around in the dark with a headlamp trying to gather more wood.
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
Yeah, unless the lows are in the 70s or above, and under quilt is necessary.
I made the right choice buying REIs structured hammock, because I ended up using it on the ground as a tent.
#NeverPantsGang
#NeverPantsGang
Fuck that crap. Not only my shorts all the time, but, I have 2 kilts. A utilikilt and a dress tartan kilt.
I’d rather be uncomfortably cold for the 15 minutes I spend outside than uncomfortably hot for the majority of the time inside.
Coats can be a pain when you are going somewhere you can’t hang them up. But if you are hot indoors during the winter in long pants you should probably consult someone. Unless you are visiting your aunt Edna who keeps her house at 80F
Oh good I’m just hot indoors all year in long pants.
Or lose my jacket because I don’t want to be uncomfortably hot.
I saw a guy like that in a blizzard last week
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.
That’s why there are nice kilts for “dressy” occasions. You do not need any heritage reason to wear a kilt. Can get them in plain colors, eg: khaki.
