I wish it were fall vacation, and normalized for even adults (around the world, not just as a job benefit for some but as a fact of life) to take at least a month off somewhere between late August and the end of October. That’s peak time to go outside and enjoy the changing weather, perfect temperature for a light jacket, enjoy the scenery with all the trees changing colors, etc – the middle of summer’s just too fucking hot, now. You’re either boiling alive in the sun or it’s pissing rain, and no in-between. It’d probably do wonders for the average person’s mental health, and air quality/the environment, too.
Buuuuut line must go up and we’ve got pumpkin spice lattes to sell, so.
Big autumn head myself! It’s just so fucking cozy.
I have a big lake here and everyone is just walking around it in circles all day long because Autumn is just so cool.
The falling leaves are my kind of cherry blossoms, very short lived but so beautiful.
I don’t how anybody would prefer any other season. Like whats is wrong with you?!
Everyones talking about how great flowers in spring smell, but have you smelled autumn?!
Im just a bit sad it took me 24 years to realize, if not I would have cherished them alot more.
It is no use though to dwell in past though, looking forward to lots of really cozy autumns!!October is rainy and November is plain miserable.
Rainy can be cozy depending on the severity. November is only miserable because its so close to Winter, that has nothing to do with Autumn.
November is part of the autumn
Like right smack in the middle of it: Sept 21- Dec-21. “[November] has nothing to do with autumn” lmao, what?? No month is more autumn than November
Summer holiday: its probably to hot for school. Winter holiday: its probably too snowy to get to school safely. Easter holiday: go pretend to care about religion instead of school. Autumn holiday: go help your family get ready for winter instead of school.
So time off was never part of the equation.
In my country at least, summer holidays were used to help bringing in the harvest.
You saw snow? I’m in my 40s in Southern California, and I can confidently say that I’ve only witnessed snowfall a handful of times before it completely melted away. Throw a snowball for me?
We got so much time off in November due to teacher student conferences, teacher days, and other fuckery we usually did go on vacation in fall.
One year we went to Disney and the boat guy asked where we were from and over half the boat said NJ, he asked if we were a group and we all laughed and said no. Cause we weren’t. We just all decided vacation instead of teacher learning days.
As someone who hates the cold, gonna have to disagree on it being a bad season. As much as I hate the bees/wasps/mosquitoes, I hate the Devil’s Dandruff ( snow ) and the ice that follows with it more.
I can handle the higher heat, but struggle a lot more with the cold.
Personally, I’m over-insulated (fat), naturally run hot and sweaty even besides that, and am from a Nordic country so I suffer in anything over 20°C (68F).
Except when cycling outdoors, then I PREFER it hot, easily tolerating over 30C (86F) as long as I have plenty of water, sugar, and electrolytes 😁
I have never in my life supplemented “electrolytes,” and have always been fine, and I run distance.
It’s more marketing bullshit for beverages than anything. You are already getting too much salt I can assure you.
But if you do find yourself getting muscle cramps, it can be from low potassium.
Fun fact: when cycling, I usually do at least 60km, sometimes 100 or above and I tend to already start to sweat profusely 5 minutes into any kind of workout.
Also, since I’m very heavy, I’m slow in spite of putting around 180-220 watts to the pedals throughout, so that’s many hours and many liters of water, salt, and other minerals expelled with nothing coming in except for water, a couple bananas or three, and a few electrolyte tabs in one of the two water bottles I bring and frequently refill.
I guarantee you that, no matter what the “average” person of average weight with average amounts of perspiration doing an average to long duration workout needs, I DO see a significant benefit from the electrolytes compared to when I had nothing but water and bananas for the 4-8 hour rides.
Potassium is an electrolyte.
I know, that’s why I mentioned it, along with salt, which is an electrolyte as well.
If you have a decent diet, you don’t need to supplement electrolytes, according to The Guardian, and my experience.
But if you do notice muscle cramps, you want to try to up your potassium to see if that’s the problem, which is what I was trying to say.
I agree 100%, but I think it mostly has to do with more natural light during the day.
The translation of the Greek term for summer is “good weather.”
Go back to whatever frigid Baltic rock you came from, OP. Talk shit about me with the puffins, it’s fine.
That translation makes sense - Mediterranean climates (like Greece has) don’t have to deal with humid summers. It’s easier to like hot weather when your sweat evaporates.
In places with hot, humid summers, sweat just piles up until you’re a shiny, dripping, salty mess. And you still feel hot.
It also makes sense if “sunshine” is considered “good weather.” Mediterranean climates have their wet season in winter, so summers are the dry season, with clear skies and little rain. It makes sense in Greece, but other places get regular thunderstorms in summer, occasional tropical storms/hurricanes, or season-long monsoons that bring torrential rain inland.
Baltic
puffins
Sounds like you’re as knowledgeable about pelagic seabird distribution as you’re tolerant towards differing weather preferences 😄
This is the most unique insult I have read in a while.
Yes, that’s correct. See, look, you can get that right. Why not go personally inspect puffin habitats and let me know where they are?
Why not go personally inspect puffin habitats and let me know where they are?
Because it’s easier to read Wikipedia than going to the nearest puffin place (the North Atlantic Ocean) from the non-baltic peninsula with hardly any rock on which I live 😄
When I was a kid, summer was max 25 degrees. Perfect! Now it gets above 35 degrees regularly. The actual season did not used to be atrocious (for me).
I’ll still take it over winter any day.
Anybody have that screenshot of the post saying “summer sucks it just has good marketing”?
Spring is my favourite season. When you get the first warm day after a depressing winter and the new leaves are growing and the cherry blossoms are in bloom.
We got summer in spring this year. In fact I think we got summer in winter (February) this year too.
Right there with you.
Summer has been pretty brutal this year, just so ungodly humid. Fortunately a dehumidifier costs a lot less to run than air conditioning.
And fall is ok temp wise, and the smells and colors are nice, but all the work of raking leaves and shit sucks big time. Especially when you have trees that don’t drop until the very tail of fall, after the brutal cold has started.
Mmmm, pollen. The plants are having sex in my nose.
Plus not many bugs yet
Almost no bugs now, until we get a good bit of rain. No bugs to speak of for a month here. Or longer. I am leaving my door open with no insect intrusions.
Also, where I am, early spring might not have many parasitic insects, but there are explosions of ticks, wood tick types, they don’t generally carry disease but still. After it dries out in the summer there are like none now.
Plus spring has tons of cold snaps here. We get leaves later than moscow even though they are way north.
That sounds nice. Where I am there are lots of mosquitos, flies, bees and wasps from late spring until we get a good cold snap. So there’s usually a couple weeks where it’s warm enough to have the door and windows open with no worries for those pests.
My favourite season is Autumn.
Well do I have good news for you (assuming you’re in the northern hemisphere)
Nah. Lake + beach + half naked ladies.
I go fishing so much over the summer. Also, it was a bit cooler weather when I was a kid.
cringe
Awwww some dude admitted he liked boobies and this has hurt your feminine view of the world 😭
Touch grass. You people need to interact with real people more.
get bent
Good advice… but I’m way ahead of you. I’m not even sure there’s even a word for how bent I already am.
I dont know who this guy is behind me that is bending me right now but I would like to sincerely thank them . They probably read [email protected]’s comment and they just tryna help me out… wonderfull…
Wait… theyre doing a bit more than just bending me over-Hnrgnth
Folded? Creased? Rolled?
Cringe
The only thing I hate about this post is associating prudeness to feminism.
Many, many women are fine with showing off their bodies, on the beach or otherwise. And yes, I agree with you on the idea it’s fine for people to like that image. Feminism would just be about giving women control of the decision to show themselves off, not about claiming “sexy images = Male-gaze-powered, and therefore toxic”
Indeed! We must give all adults of all genders the right to determine what they can do with their bodies…
SHowing it off or not…
Not cringe, actually
You might want to change your perspective of life cause this is just sad
if you wanna see naked people you can go to a nudist beach
Not in the winter.
True
Not with that attitude!
Don’t go to a nudist beach for the purpose of seeing naked people.
That’s creepy.
Also, you will see all kinds of naked people.
And it was time off because all the kids were kept at home for helping on the farm in summer. School teachers gave up and closed school. That turned into bevestiging time.
I don’t mind being hot. I hate being cold.
Real talk! I grew up on the equator and moved to somewhere it snows on occasion. All the mfers saying “I can only get so naked” haven’t experienced the cold.
I’ve experienced subzero cold and 110°+ heat.
I’ll take the cold thanks.
All the mfers saying “I can only get so naked” haven’t experienced the cold.
I grew up (and still live) in a part of Canada where it regularly gets below -40°C in the winter, and… no. I 100% will say stuff like “I can’t take off any more clothes.”
Winter is fine, I can always add another layer. Summer sucks now, it didn’t get this hot nearly as often in the past, and I mostly hate summer now.
You are contradicting yourself not one line break later.
Please humor me, where is the contradiction?
You said summer is more hot.
I think our frames of references are cattywompus.
Yes, summer is indeed more hot.
It’s hotter than the other seasons, and it’s hotter than it used to be.
I don’t like the hot.
I prefer the cold, and my comment was saying I prefer the cold, specifically because I can’t handle the hot well.
I was saying it’s very silly to claim that the only reason people claim to prefer the cold season is because they haven’t experienced real cold.
I’ve experienced the cold. I prefer it.
I still see no contradiction, but maybe I’m just dense?
Yeah, cold all the time, barely see the sun because I’m at work the entire time it’s out. Can’t do much of anything outside, roads are frequently shit, can’t get together as much with my friends because none of our homes are big enough, think about offing myself constantly because of the above factors, winter blows.
Every reason you gave was because of capitalism
Capitalism is making it cold outside?
Climate change
It would still be cold if there was zero pollution.
Cold air damming increases with climate change, so unironically yes.
The cold is only an issue because capitalism, yes. Fwiw, “it’s cold outside” is a neutral statement.
No it’s an issue because I fucking hate being cold. I’d still hate it if the government was taking care of my needs. It’s not like I’m living on the streets, I’m living in a house with HVAC, I still fucking hate it.
Oh, well that wasn’t said. If you could be with your friends, got to see the sun, the roads were easy and third spaces managed, you wouldn’t notice how miserable the outside is for you. Also you could just move somewhere warmer instead of thinking about offing yourself for 1/3 of a year.
Also you could just move somewhere warmer instead of thinking about offing yourself for 1/3 of a year.
Unless they need you exactly where your job is so you won’t get an apartment in another city somewhere where it’s warmer. Perks of a planned economy.
Like I’m fairly sure half the soviet union would’ve moved to somewhere around the black sea if they could have.
Yeah I’ve asked my mom, it was cold here in the winter in the soviet era too. And I believe a lot of people had these things called “jobs”, except they were even less voluntary than they are now, so being at work for the entirety of the sunny daytime period of 10 AM to 3 PM hasn’t exactly been invented with capitalism.
The one thing capitalism has changed is it gathered everyone into the cities because there’s a lot less support of small countryside schools and such. So instead of walking 5 KM to bus stop to take the bus to school, kids can now take a city bus that stops closer to their home and comes every 30 minutes at most.
There’s a bunch of problems you could solve by abolishing capitalism, but weather ain’t one of them.
they were even less voluntary than they are now
People that don’t have jobs today lose their housing and starve to death. You think there’s a level below that?
And no, what caused that was mechanization of farming.
Now, thanks to capitalism, we’re dealing with heatwaves beyond predictions and snowstorms that out freeze historic data, so I wouldn’t say that capitalism isn’t impacting the weather. Also, before it, people had the ability to take breaks from work, which doesn’t really exist today.
If you’re cold you can always put on another layer. If you’re hot, you run out of layers to take off
I can put 15 layers on in winter and still be cold. My toes and face are the worst. If I try to protect my nose, I get snot everywhere and it’s gross. If I don’t, I feel like my face will freeze off my body. Too hot sucks as well. No winning for me except for spring maybe.
You can always take off more layers
My hands feel like they’re being crushed by boulders, and face feels like needle face x1000 in the cold. The peak of summer may be miserable but I can still function without extreme pain. And before anybody mentions better gloves or a face covering, it doesn’t help. I’ve tried every magical glove in existence. And heated ones make me sweat after 5-10 minutes and I’m arguably in a worse position, same with full face coverings. FUCK WINTER.
I hate winter. Switching all my winter wardrobe to wool has made it at least less sweaty under all the layers. Seems like every winter thing is made of some synthetic fiber that acts like wearing a plastic bag when you sweat. Wool is the way.
Wool is the only (that I am aware of,) fabric that will keep you warm after it’s wet. Cotton is the worst, it sticks to your skin when wet.
If you are caught outside, stranded, they say to make sure to take layers off, because if you sweat, you die.
I don’t mind being hot but I hate humidity. It’s 7am and the temperature is 67 with a “feels like” temperature of 77. And there is no breeze. There is never any breeze here. I fucking hate it
Really depends, if youre sitting in a pool with a few beers or not. Living in a condo like a rat i basically skipped summers. Hate to share public places who litter and either themselves or their dog pees or poos in the place.
Get a garden and it’s fun again. I know it’s not possible for everyone but condo life is, for me, inhumane.
