[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Weather: Hot vs. Cold (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 12/13/2013 5:48:19 PM EDT
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Which do you handle better: hot as fuck or cold as shit?
My preference: 1. 75-80 and sunny (obviously) 2. Cold as shit, calm wind 3. Hot as fuck 4. Hotter than fuck 5. Cold as shit, high winds I can handle cold and calm. Once the wind starts blowing, I'll take swamp ass and soaked shirts, please. In my mind: Hot weather "wins" since I live in an area devoid of the seasons known as "spring" and "fall" (VA) |
I hate being cold. Absolutely fucking hate it. I used to really like it as a kid, and then being in the infantry in Scandinavia broke my will 
Literally, as I am typing this, I am about to get into my sauna - where the upper bench will be close to 200 degrees. Yeah!!! 
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I'll take hot because I can still go for a nice bike ride or run without freezing my extremities or burning my lungs. Evaporation cooling becomes more efficient at higher differences between the temp and dew point so a 100F day isn't even that uncomfortable as long as the humidity is relatively low. |
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WRONG. Polar Bear Plunge. <a href="http://s86.photobucket.com/user/groovyrascal/media/599678C1-6BBB-4E1A-A110-A96CB9DBF35C_zpsssnviyky.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k94/groovyrascal/599678C1-6BBB-4E1A-A110-A96CB9DBF35C_zpsssnviyky.jpg</a> Quoted:
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Hot weather for me. Also, women don't wear bikinis in the cold.  WRONG. Polar Bear Plunge. <a href="http://s86.photobucket.com/user/groovyrascal/media/599678C1-6BBB-4E1A-A110-A96CB9DBF35C_zpsssnviyky.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k94/groovyrascal/599678C1-6BBB-4E1A-A110-A96CB9DBF35C_zpsssnviyky.jpg</a> I hate frigged women no matter how they look.... 
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WRONG. Polar Bear Plunge. <a href="http://s86.photobucket.com/user/groovyrascal/media/599678C1-6BBB-4E1A-A110-A96CB9DBF35C_zpsssnviyky.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k94/groovyrascal/599678C1-6BBB-4E1A-A110-A96CB9DBF35C_zpsssnviyky.jpg</a> Quoted:
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Hot weather for me. Also, women don't wear bikinis in the cold. WRONG. Polar Bear Plunge. <a href="http://s86.photobucket.com/user/groovyrascal/media/599678C1-6BBB-4E1A-A110-A96CB9DBF35C_zpsssnviyky.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k94/groovyrascal/599678C1-6BBB-4E1A-A110-A96CB9DBF35C_zpsssnviyky.jpg</a> Once a year doesn't count. 
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Hot weather for me. Also, women don't wear bikinis in the cold. WRONG. Polar Bear Plunge. <a href="http://s86.photobucket.com/user/groovyrascal/media/599678C1-6BBB-4E1A-A110-A96CB9DBF35C_zpsssnviyky.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k94/groovyrascal/599678C1-6BBB-4E1A-A110-A96CB9DBF35C_zpsssnviyky.jpg</a> I hate frigged women no matter how they look.... Oh you poor lost soul. The desert sun has fried your brain. |
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Hot weather for me. Also, women don't wear bikinis in the cold. WRONG. Polar Bear Plunge. <a href="http://s86.photobucket.com/user/groovyrascal/media/599678C1-6BBB-4E1A-A110-A96CB9DBF35C_zpsssnviyky.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k94/groovyrascal/599678C1-6BBB-4E1A-A110-A96CB9DBF35C_zpsssnviyky.jpg</a> Once a year doesn't count. You have no idea what you're talking about. Winter time is best time. |
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Oh you poor lost soul. The desert sun has fried your brain. Quoted:
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Hot weather for me. Also, women don't wear bikinis in the cold. WRONG. Polar Bear Plunge. <a href="http://s86.photobucket.com/user/groovyrascal/media/599678C1-6BBB-4E1A-A110-A96CB9DBF35C_zpsssnviyky.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k94/groovyrascal/599678C1-6BBB-4E1A-A110-A96CB9DBF35C_zpsssnviyky.jpg</a> I hate frigged women no matter how they look.... Oh you poor lost soul. The desert sun has fried your brain. If I posted women pics from the "hot side here" this thread would be shut down....
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Cold kills the nasty bugs, freezes the mud, and drives the FSA indoors.
Power goes out, I have the woodstove and can stay warm, cook, and have no shortage of water. Stuff in the freezer goes outside, stuff in the fridge goes into a cooler with a chunk of Ice from anywhere. Spend the days doing normal shit, and nights reading, scrumping, and living a normal life. Heat? You have to open the windows and sweat like a pig with all manner of biting insects chewing on you, and no matter what you try, you're not getting any cooler. Disease and parasites thrive in the heat and humidity, and food goes rancid in hours. Been through a couple dozen epic "blizzards", did the winter warfare thing, hunt and camp in the shit, and spend every winter working outdoors. It's a PITA at times, but I can live with it. Just takes a little more time and thought. Stank ass hot weather storms, and no power sucks. It's easier, and it wont kill you, or make body parts fall off like the cold will, but it sucks....and itches, and stinks. I'd rather nut up, work a little more, and just deal with a little cold. One exception. Got stranded for a 72 in the P.I. at Angeles, thanks to a 'Phoon once... Had a HELL of a time!! Y'all down south do Hurricanes totally wrong! 
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Give me the heat.
I went through part of my tech school on the ramp at Luke AFB in August-September. It was awesome. The rest of my class was laid out in the shade trying to cool off on their toolboxes. I didn't even have to take off my BDU shirt. This single-digit Iowa crap sucks red donkey ass. I'm moving back to the southwest just as soon as I can get a job there. |
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Cold kills the nasty bugs, freezes the mud, and drives the FSA indoors. Power goes out, I have the woodstove and can stay warm, cook, and have no shortage of water. Stuff in the freezer goes outside, stuff in the fridge goes into a cooler with a chunk of Ice from anywhere. Spend the days doing normal shit, and nights reading, scrumping, and living a normal life. Heat? You have to open the windows and sweat like a pig with all manner of biting insects chewing on you, and no matter what you try, you're not getting any cooler. Disease and parasites thrive in the heat and humidity, and food goes rancid in hours. Been through a couple dozen epic "blizzards", did the winter warfare thing, hunt and camp in the shit, and spend every winter working outdoors. It's a PITA at times, but I can live with it. Just takes a little more time and thought. Stank ass hot weather storms, and no power sucks. It's easier, and it wont kill you, or make body parts fall off like the cold will, but it sucks....and itches, and stinks. I'd rather nut up, work a little more, and just deal with a little cold. One exception. Got stranded for a 72 in the P.I. at Angeles, thanks to a 'Phoon once... Had a HELL of a time!! Y'all down south do Hurricanes totally wrong!
I keep a small window unit stored in the shed next to the generator. 4KW will run the window unit and the fridge just fine...OTOH I have a heat pump and no wood stove... it takes a pretty big spike in generator capacity (and cost, and fuel demands, etc) to run a heat pump/central A/C. It's a lot easier (for me) to deal with a summer outage than a winter outage. |
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Quoted: Cold kills the nasty bugs, freezes the mud, and drives the FSA indoors. Power goes out, I have the woodstove and can stay warm, cook, and have no shortage of water. Stuff in the freezer goes outside, stuff in the fridge goes into a cooler with a chunk of Ice from anywhere. Spend the days doing normal shit, and nights reading, scrumping, and living a normal life. Heat? You have to open the windows and sweat like a pig with all manner of biting insects chewing on you, and no matter what you try, you're not getting any cooler. Disease and parasites thrive in the heat and humidity, and food goes rancid in hours. All good points. If I didn't like to exercise outside I'd prefer the cold. I'd keep my house at 45-55F with a nice fire and have zero cooling or heating bills. |
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Just got out of the sauna, getting ready to go back in soon. Heat rocks. The hotter the better Sauna in your house is awesome. Sauna outside sucks. You have that backwards. I have a friend who's parents own a house up on lake Vermillion. They are of Finnish decent and have a real Finnish sauna on their property. You go in the sauna and get all spritzed... then you jump in the lake through a hole cut in the ice, get wet and then go back in the sauna. Fucking awesome! |
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Just got out of the sauna, getting ready to go back in soon. Heat rocks. The hotter the better Do your wood shoes swell in the humidity? No clothes of any kind - including shoes (wooden or otherwise) - in the sauna. 
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Just got out of the sauna, getting ready to go back in soon. Heat rocks. The hotter the better Do your wood shoes swell in the humidity? No clothes of any kind - including shoes (wooden or otherwise) - in the sauna. Go on. 
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