Yeah no. I’ll take cold over heat any day. At least when it’s cold I can just add a few layers or do something to mitigate it. When it’s hot theres only so many layers I can take off without becomming a sex offender.
A lot of people say that, but it does fuck all for my hands and face, and I’m still breathing in cold ass air.
I have heat retention issues, not heat rejection issues.
Perhaps the grossest feeling I’ve ever experienced was while I was stationed near Chicago during the winter and my nose hairs were freezing inside my nose, all while bundled up in as many layers as possible.
Fuck the cold; I’d rather be in the heat.
That being said, extreme heat is still miserable.
I prefer the cold because our insects are small and non-poisonous. I love in a brutally cold climate as well, it’s worth it.
The best part is Spring and all the fresh life blooming all around… it’s amazing.
Living with such extremes makes me appreciate the warm months so much more than I otherwise would.
To each their own but I’d still rather have numb limbs and frozen snot than be stuck in the heat. I live in minnesota so I’m more than used to snapping off snotcicles at -20F while shoveling the driveway. At least when it’s cold you can still move your body without it making things worse. When it’s opressively hot all you can do is sit there sweating and feeling miserable. Any activity just winds up making matters worse. There’s nothing you can do except suffer. It’s the temperature equivalent of having congested sinuses.
Of course like you said, you have heat retention issues. Meanwhile my body runs like a damn furnace. I just wish it also burned calories like one.
“People that grew up in warm climates prefer warmer climates. People that grew up in cooler climates prefer cold climates”
Not always, am Aussie grew up in, and still live in miserable humid heat, it’s fucking terrible. Though our 3 days of ‘winter’ per year are rather nice
I’m the opposite. Grew up in a cold climate and hated it. Moved to the warmth now and loving life at the moment
What’s your preference between the two though? Not being a dick, just curious. I grew up pnw US. I’ll take the cold any day of the week.
Cold, you can mitigate it much easier. On a serious note our winter months are great, shorts and t-shirt and it’s just good temp all round, and cool enough at night for a blanket at times! But yeah the warm months are not a good thing!
My statistics professor said nearly the exact same thing just today, no joke. He only didn’t say the “without becomming a sex offender.” part.
I was thinking the other day, if all the “sensors” in your body for making you feel hot are in your skin, then surely removing the epidermis would be the last layer needed to be removed to avoid feeling hot.
Actually yes. People with severe burns over a large part of their body wind up with massive issues as far as keeping their body temp up. But if you’re burned that bad then you usually have much bigger things to worry about anyways. However your epidermis is mostly dead tissue so to have any real effect you need to go a little deeper and remove the dermis too. So if you skin yourself it can help keep your body temp down.
If you know, you know.
Ha I’ve said that my whole life except for the last part. I’d say “there’s a legal limit to how much you can take off”
160°F = 71.11°C
Thanks for that … I can never understand those freedom units.
That’s alright. Americans don’t either.
Not really hot enough to burn you instantly if you fall on it, usually only if you lose consciousness. Could be a heat stroke or something else.
This guy was in Phoenix, AZ. The pavement he fell on was bare minimum that hot this summer. Multiple people, including kids had severe burns after falling this year.
The biggest problem is it isn’t instant. Every try to stand up by pushing your hands down on 100°C pavement? How about when you fall hard on your side and then the skin on your leg, as you try to stand, sticks and doesn’t come up with the rest of you? It’s pretty fuckin brutal.
You think can there be anything much worse than being in a motorcycle crash? Yeah, being seriously injured in a motorcycle crash, stuck laying on the asphalt in Phoenix in the Summer. Like cooking in a frying pan.
Motorcycle will even peel the skin off for you.
And here I was looking forward to the crispy skin :(
Yeah, I was wondering as well, if there’s something more to it.
If my cup of tea is at 70°C, that does burn my tongue, but that’s in particular, because water conducts heat very well. I guess, if it’s very smooth asphalt and he gets full contact with naked skin, then it would conduct heat well, too…
i once walked around in the desert barefoot for so long i couldn’t feel it anymore on the soles of my feet. my feet were like shoes. i was miserable otherwise. can’t recommend it.
So how did you die?
I touched the ground…
Meesa man.
I can deal with standard cold and the snow. It’s the lack of sun and extreme colds that get me. Minnesota’s a good place, but Colorado looks awful tempting.
Why bother moving at this point? Your climate will warm up for you
This is literally Russia’s current plan for Siberia. They want access to the vast mineral deposits under the permafrost, and if they wait, getting at those minerals gets a lot easier.
Releasing millions of tons of trapped carbon deposits frozen in the ground … what could go wrong?
The floor is lava
The world is lava
Gotta love climate change
Get your dogs some summer shoes.
that’s just shitty city planning
