too hot or too cold

crwth

i’d rather be too hot cause i’m a freak

Captain Inertia

Cold

Madican

Give me the cold, I can put on more layers if needed.

Eddy

My head says too cold but my heart says too hot

I'd rather deal with Southern summers than Northern winters

Too cold is Bon Iver, too hot is club bangers

Depressperado

I like it cold, I like it gloomy, I like when I go outside and it looks like the cover of a midwest emo band's album.

Kadith

Depends on the humidity

RMS Oceanic

There's more you can do to warm up than cool down

Captain Inertia

Eddy wrote: »

My head says too cold but my heart says too hot

I'd rather deal with Southern summers than Northern winters

Too cold is Bon Iver, too hot is club bangers

The problem with Northern winters is the gray

Colorado gets colder, temporarily, but still warms up to t-shirt weather many days in winter cause of the sun

Houk

too cold, always and forever

hot and humid is the pits

Shadowfire

Madican wrote: »

Give me the cold, I can put on more layers if needed.

Yep. Can't take them off or I get arrested.

furlion

Shadowfire wrote: »

Madican wrote: »

Give me the cold, I can put on more layers if needed.

Yep. Can't take them off or I get arrested.

Everyone always gets this question wrong. The question isn't, which one is easier to fix, the question is: Would you rather be shivering or have sweat run down the crack of your ass? If you aren't doing either of those things you aren't answering the question. I don't get cold though. You will at -80C. I don't get hot, try 40C at 100% humidity. Put yourself in those situations and imagine which one is worse.

In my case i would rather turn my taint into a swamp then be mildly chilly.

BahamutZERO

I don't think I've ever experienced -80 C, I have definitely been in higher than 40 C but it was no humidity. So I can't really imagine either.

Houk

hmm, thinking about it more I guess I'd say I'd rather be a little too cold than a little too hot, but assuming no like physical damage and death I'd probably rather be in extreme heat than extreme cold

shalmelo

I stupidly put myself into a situation in college where I was spending my winters in upstate NY followed by summers in DC/Virginia. Based on those experiences I absolutely prefer the cold, although a lot of that is because my roommates and I couldn't afford the electric bill if we actually used our apartment's central air in DC.

Now I've lived in Seattle for 20+ years, where the temperature is almost always pretty tolerable, although like a lot of people around here I don't have A/C at all, so August can be pretty brutal even if temps rarely reach the extremes that they do in other parts of the country

Librarian's ghost

Just live in Nebraska and you get both. Sometimes in a matter of 12 hours or less.

Poorochondriac

I would rather shiver than sweat, no question

Pinfeldorf

I've experienced -25F with windchill bringing it down to about -40. Gotta say? Not a fan of having a driblet of snot come out of my nose and then freeze to my fucking skin in less than three seconds.

Darmak

If I have to choose between some uncomfortable temperature, I'd rather sweat. I can always cool off but I can never get or stay warm.

Undead Scottsman

I'm on blood pressure medication which I recently learned my body temp is kind of low, 96.7 or thereabouts.

I am always too cold.

Pinfeldorf

I have gone through 3 days of having no air conditioning when it was 112, 116 and 114 outside, and I have gone through 3 days of having no heat when it was 29, 27 and 30 outside. At no point during the cold snap did I feel like I needed anything but more clothes or blankets. When my AC broke summer of 2022, I spent $300 on a portable swamp cooler and lived with my dogs in my bedroom for 3 days because it was the only space small enough I could keep below 90 with what I had. I will take the cold every time and never second guess myself.

spono

If we're not talking about being able to fix the problem with more/less clothing, then I'll take the heat

I hate the feeling of shivering to my bones, but I can sort of luxuriate in the melting heat as long as I'm expecting it

Surprise heat? No thank you

Duke 2.0

My brain becomes non-functional in the cold. World is dead, curl up in a blanket and lie down all day

Earlier today I was cycling in 90F heat and feeling great, energized me to keep on job searching and not doing the aforementioned curling up in a blanket all day

Librarian's ghost

I think the cleverest bit of writing I’ve ever experienced is how Trolls in the Discworld operate in extreme temperatures. Just so good.

Eddy

shalmelo wrote: »

I stupidly put myself into a situation in college where I was spending my winters in upstate NY followed by summers in DC/Virginia. Based on those experiences I absolutely prefer the cold, although a lot of that is because my roommates and I couldn't afford the electric bill if we actually used our apartment's central air in DC.

Now I've lived in Seattle for 20+ years, where the temperature is almost always pretty tolerable, although like a lot of people around here I don't have A/C at all, so August can be pretty brutal even if temps rarely reach the extremes that they do in other parts of the country

I also had the exact same situation in early adulthood with upstate New York winters and DMV summers

The problem with winters is that everything is so dirty, boots tracking in dirty water bleh

Andy Joe

My heater costs more to run than my air conditioner, so hot for me.

Taya

I can deal with being uncomfortably hot, but being cold sucks.

I admittedly live in a place that rarely gets to 30°C so I’ve never had to suffer through extreme unrelenting heat.

ChicoBlue

People have often told me that I am hot and cold.

And when they do I reply without lowering my eyes to them, "Oh, really?... And who are you, exactly...?", while sweat rolls down my rugged pectorals, visible through my billowing blouse.

Cello

Too cold is both addressable by layers but also genuinely better in colder climes because you get more blue skies in winter, which is better for seasonal depression

The last few years of warmer weather have meant more grey days here which is exponentially worse, and this year was so warm you couldn't even do most proper winter sports either (they generally boost morale)

Etiowsa

Fuck heat, that shit is awful. There are only so many layers one can remove before you get in trouble.

SirToasty

It's supposed to be close to 100 here on Friday.

Fuck summer.

Endless_Serpents

1. Dry cold
2. Wet hot
3. Dry hot
4. Wet cold

discrider

I'd rather risk hypothermia than summer.

sarukun

I'd definitely rather be hot than cold, but realistically if the ambient temperature is' like half a degree above or below 78, I'm probably complaining about it.

smof

Hot definitely. I can get through my day being too hot by just periodically saying "It's hot as balls". But if I'm cold enough to shiver I can't think about anything else.

Pinfeldorf

Endless_Serpents wrote: »

1. Dry cold
2. Wet hot
3. Dry hot
4. Wet cold

Can't help but notice you left out wet dry and cold hot.

Houk

Strangely enough icy hot is kinda both of those combos

Raijin Quickfoot

Always too cold.

Good is easier to deal with than heat and I like being a little cold.

Nothing beats wrapping up in a comfy blanket.

Plus I love wearing hoodies.

Captain Inertia

So the question is shivering vs sweating as temp control reactions

Sweating if I’m not at work and don’t have to worry about sweatmarks

Raijin Quickfoot

If it’s about human nature and temp control than I’ll pick hot.

I’ve been COLD COLD and you can shiver so violently that is fucking hurts

sarukun

I like clothes, but I don't like wearing clothes, y'know what I'm sayin'?

furlion

sarukun wrote: »

I like clothes, but I don't like wearing clothes, y'know what I'm sayin'?

My son must hold some sort of world record for shortest time from entering the house to being in his underwear. Not that i blame him, but it is funny.