_number8_Which is the best part of winter: the sun setting at 5pm every day, or it literally hurting to go outside?
AdaFor me, the best part is that it’s over and we’re heading in to summer!
I’m jealous.
0x4E4FNot having to tear my own skin and have the AC running at -20C in order to feel comfortable.
Why is your skin tearing?
To get cooler… that might not have been the best choice of words 😂.
Cold winters are worth it for cool summers. But now I live somewhere where the winters are cold but the summers are hot :(
Man, I feel that. Used to live in MN for quite a few years, and both the summers and winters could be brutal. I’m about 300 miles south now and somehow both winter and summer are milder 🤷♂️
Other than super dry skin, taking 3x the time to leave the house and white knuckle driving every day?
My honest favourite part of winter is 4 fold:
radixA bunch of leaves fell at my place this year after snow was already on the ground. As if raking leaves out of bare grass weren’t bad enough.
Yeah that does suck. My neighbours did that this year, so I’ll be dealing with it in the spring
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆I like the burn of frigid air going through my lungs.
The best part about winter, is that it’s nice inside. In summer, it can get to a point where it isn’t even nice inside anymore.
But also all the downsides of winter outside can be mitigated and navigated. The downsides of summer outside can’t be.
Agreed. My house insulation sucks. Summer would be 85°F outside and 90°F inside. Now it’s 56°F outside and 65°F inside and I’m not running any sort of heating. I can tolerate the inside temps at this level too. The summer inside temps were unbearable.
cm0002You can always add more layers of clothing, you can only take off so much before you get arrested.
Det finnes ikke dårlig vær, bare dårlige klær.
That’s a popular saying among Scandinavians on the theme. Translated: There is no bad weather, only bad clothes.
Ook the LibrarianDay 25 of our one year mission at this inhospitable outpost: If that Swedish guy says “Det finnes ikke dårlig vær, bare dårlige klær” one more time, I’m going to kill him.
But what about the darkness? How do you mitigate the fact that it’s pitch black so early in the day?
Swedneckwhy do you think christmas lighting exists?
Darkness doesn’t bother me. I like to go for walks at 3 am in summer, seeking out the times when it’s still at least a bit dark.
I wish it set at 5pm… 4:25pm here and it’s not even December!
That said, I honestly don’t mind winter. You can always add layers, but heat and humidity are just plain miserable. Plus I think it’s much more pleasant to come inside to a warm house after being out in the cold than it is to come into an air conditioned house from the heat. The former actively feels cozy and relaxing while the latter just feels like relief.
IMO summer and winter are just the price you have to pay to really appreciate those fleeting perfect weeks in the spring and fall.
You're my spirit animal
The sun will set at 3:47pm today where I live. It’s kinda crazy.
16:30 here, right at the end of my last meeting of the day here in ~ one hour :/
The suicidal agony.
But then there’s the best part of waking, the Folgers in your cup.
You should try filling it to the rim with Brim instead.
And your brother surprising you by coming home for Christmas from the Peace Corps and getting to fuck him
Da fuck?
My bad, I just naturally assume everyone knows of this amazing commercial. Go to Google or YouTube and search “Folgers incest” or “Folgers brother sister” and enjoy!
Brought to you by Maxwell’s House premium coffee.
OurTragicUniverseI like the long dark, it's like 13 hours of that 3am feeling of being the only person awake, so I'm free to exist unbothered by the rest of the world. I end up far more productive and content at this time of year too, and mostly nocturnal. Living by lamp light is far too nice.
I like the long dark
It’s all fun and games 'til you hear drums in the deep.
What's the reference?
Lord of the Rings (jump to 1:40 for the particular moment where it’s mentioned)
Here Lies Balin LOTR 1.16 [HD 1080p]
PoggervaniaI’m sorry, is this some sort of Northern/Southern Hemisphere joke I’m too close to the equator to understand?
theodewereOP is just asking for a little latitude
guyrocketSon of a BITCH
LeftHandedWaveLOL
Zing!
To actually answer your question: In the northern US and most of Canada days get shorter and weather much colder in winter which is generally considered unpleasant.
So this is asking the sarchastic question of which shittyness do people "like" the most.
cries in SAD
RandomStickmanThe hurting for sure. It hurts so good. I love winter air. And the scilence from a blanket of snow. And the crubshing when you walk on them. Nothing like it. I've moved to Canada from a tropical place for over a decade now and everyone (Canadians and family alike) looks at me like I'm mad every time I tell them I love the weather here.
I love it being dark and cloudy. Also the cool temperatures are fantastic! Unfortunately, we’ll be going back to positive single digits in Celsius for the rest of the week
I was just thinking about something similar to this as I appreciate the first snow of the season in my region, and scroll through events across the world. But it was more along the lines of ‘does the hardship of a tough living season which we all endure as a collective actually enhance our condition?’
The past year I ponder the events of my life and how they have unfolded, and in some way they come around to start of another season, returning that familiarity, that hardship.
Having never grown up in a year-round temperate environment, where there is a lack of this variation, I can’t relate. But anecdotally I wonder if that the lack of that cycle removes a sense of urgency, to prepare for the hard season ahead, and results in a regional complacency.
Fuck the sun
Fuck yea, fuckin POS
As a photosynthesizes, I disagree with this comment. Just went to Oregon for 3 weeks and got massively depressed. And it’s not even technically winter yet
TrickDacyLong live the fuckin beast!
ryvenEarly sunset is the best. I begrudgingly admit that the burning light of our star is necessary for life, but I appreciate that during the winter it is mostly inflicted on other people.
GreasyTenguI get an excuse to stay indoors.
Touch grass? Can’t, its under 3ft of snow!
Also!
No. bugs.
Spiders are cool tho :(
kometesI’m from Florida and what is this?
LegionEris [she/her]Ex-Floridian here. It’s a wild ride every time. You can probably handle it, since you can definitely handle extreme weather. But you need a lot of equipment for it. You need a whole winter gear and skill loadout you swap to every autumn. I enjoy the adventure element of winter the same way I enjoyed the storms of Florida. Both make you face off against nature to be outside. But people are afraid of the weather here. Florida is filled with brave and foolish weather warriors. People don’t die to idiocy every big snow like they do every hurricane. I’m not saying it never happens, but there is no equivalent to the guy on the news before every hurricane declaring his faith in God and his boat.
I don’t know… have you ever seen those massive pile ups on highways during winter? Doesn’t even have to be a lot of snow. In my experience, people generally don’t know how to properly drive when conditions are perfect, let alone when conditions are harsh. Unfortunately, it leads to a lot of unnecessary deaths.
It isn’t even idiocy, just a lack of understanding how to properly handle a vehicle, making sure you have the proper equipment (snow tires vs summer), the equipment is maintained, etc.
I always hate feeling like “that guy” whenever I have to explain that AWD is not a safety feature, but a performance feature. AWD isn’t going to do dick if you’re riding on summer tires, driving 10mph over the speed limit while visibility is trash, you’re up the ass of the person in front of you, and snow’s coming down. It also isn’t going to help if you don’t know how to make corrections or if you hit a patch of ice.
I’m from the north east, so I can’t speak to what people are like with hurricanes in Florida, but it’s frustrating how many people up here don’t take driving in inclement weather seriously.
Captain JanewayJust imagine the opposite of your hurricanes and humidity.
Probably the stunning beauty, no rain, no bugs, and snow is pretty great for so many activities
Snowmobiling and Ice Fishing are my favorites.
dunzThe sun sets 14:56 today where I am, still love winter. It’s so quiet outside with the snow muffling sounds, it’s beautiful, I prefer being too cold to being too hot(I can always put on more clothes, can’t take off my own skin), the sun sets properly(it doesn’t in summer) .
So what’s it like, having the ability to spawn more clothes at will? Do you have to recite a spell or is just thinking about the clothes enough to magic them into existence?
It’s more like… Having an extra layer or two stashed at convenient locations like a chipmunk.
Yeah,and if I’m too hot I can take a layer, or my beanie(I think that’s the right word?), or whatever off