@sicc574
We smoke in our garage but I still like to open the door bc the smoke fucks my allergies bad but my boyfriend will smoke with the door shut and you come in smelling horrible.
@blaineg In case you’re wondering, that’s Maurice Herzog at base camp after leading the first successful climb of an 8000 meter peak. I think it was 1950. He lost his mittens at the summit and had to come down all the ropes and everything on the way off the mountain. He ended up losing about half of each of his fingers. The book he wrote is called Annapurna. It’s excellent but get a copy with photos and maps.
@blaineg HAHAHA I lived where that was a daily issue up in W Canada. A group of us decided to set up a guessing game about the temp based on that and after paying attention for a couple of weeks we were pretty good being within a degree or two.
While there are a lot of major annoyances, the minor ones include: a metal water bottle sticking to a glove, having to unzip a coat to reach an inside pocket, trying to use a phone while wearing mittens, leaning over and having a coat hood cover your eyes, and that weird sensation of walking across crunchy grass.
Scraping ice from the windshield. We are spoiled from parking the cars in the garage at home, so that makes the task even more annoying when we have to park outside somewhere.
Not having a car starter on this car and actually having to go outside and start the car. My hands and feet always being extra cold from Reynards phenomenon, hands being dry and it’s just to dam cold to go outside.
Hat hair. Scraping ice off the windshield, especially if I didn’t pre-plan time to do it. Shoveling snow. Notes from the HOA when I don’t shovel the snow. Never being able to find the other glove.
@kostia
Ahh ha, that OTHER glove! My mom is notorious for not having that OTHER glove! Someone’s going to get rich when they start selling 3-4 to a set!
@Paigehodges The ones that last just long enough to cause all of the embedded digital clocks in appliances to lose their time setting, yeah. If they’re off long enough to discharge the UPS units, they’re no longer small annoyances. If they last long enough to cause the pipes and house plants to freeze, they’re way beyond major annoyances.
When I worked in NW Ontario about a 2 week canoe paddle from James Bay it was -40 to -60 (F) at night, typically about -20 to 0 during the day. We used outhouses, had no electricity (can’t run a generator much below -5), got water from the lake (through, eventually, an 8’ hole in the ice, heated with wood (and had chimney fires and had to bring the wood inside to thaw first or it would put the fire out), the sauna was used for “showers” (had to roll in the snow or jump in the lake through a hole in the ice, umm nope I melted snow or heated some water and did the sponge version as I hate cold water) and for laundry - learned the hard way not to knock ice off your jeans as it also knocks off the frozen leg of them… Back then we slept out while taking people dog sledding while also cross country skiing (at base camp were in cottages we heated by wood and used kerosine lanterns and outhouses.
Cold toes.
@yakkoTDI Or maybe Meh.com not being updated correctly at Midnight EST.
Everything!
Not being able to feel my pinky. (The brain is fine.)
Having to go outside to smoke but not really wanting to because it’s way too f’ing cold.
@sicc574
We smoke in our garage but I still like to open the door bc the smoke fucks my allergies bad but my boyfriend will smoke with the door shut and you come in smelling horrible.
Gloves that make your hands colder
@somf69 Seems like it’s the tight fitting ones that do that to me.
Takes too long for the inside of the car to heat up.
Gas bills
The worst thing about cold weather is that it is COLD
(i.e., anything < 60°F)
@2many2no I’ll see you and raise you: Anything < 70℉
@2many2no @Weboh Your ancestors were small and weak.
@tweezak Yea, ok, I have no complaints.
@blaineg In case you’re wondering, that’s Maurice Herzog at base camp after leading the first successful climb of an 8000 meter peak. I think it was 1950. He lost his mittens at the summit and had to come down all the ropes and everything on the way off the mountain. He ended up losing about half of each of his fingers. The book he wrote is called Annapurna. It’s excellent but get a copy with photos and maps.
@tweezak Thanks, I’ll check out the book. I knew I’d seen the picture before, but I couldn’t remember who it was.
not as convenient to pee outside
@spacemart Did your dog ask you to post that?
@spacemart But writing your name in the snow can be entertaining.
@macromeh But then everyone will know who did it, assuming they can read your *“hand”*writing.
When it hurts to breathe. Why do I live where the air hurts my face?
Getting hives from being allergic (cold urticaria) to the cold!
There are no small annoyances when it comes to cold weather.
Having to listen to people whine about how cold it is up north.
@ETFrisco Having to listen to people whine about how “cold” it is down south.
@blaineg Touché
That lovely sensation of feeling your nose hairs freeze when you inhale.
@blaineg You can tell the temperature pretty accurately using how far up you nose it freezes until about 20 below by that.
@Kidsandliz Cool, I had no idea.
@blaineg HAHAHA I lived where that was a daily issue up in W Canada. A group of us decided to set up a guessing game about the temp based on that and after paying attention for a couple of weeks we were pretty good being within a degree or two.
While there are a lot of major annoyances, the minor ones include: a metal water bottle sticking to a glove, having to unzip a coat to reach an inside pocket, trying to use a phone while wearing mittens, leaning over and having a coat hood cover your eyes, and that weird sensation of walking across crunchy grass.
Scraping ice from the windshield. We are spoiled from parking the cars in the garage at home, so that makes the task even more annoying when we have to park outside somewhere.
Not having a car starter on this car and actually having to go outside and start the car. My hands and feet always being extra cold from Reynards phenomenon, hands being dry and it’s just to dam cold to go outside.
Hat hair. Scraping ice off the windshield, especially if I didn’t pre-plan time to do it. Shoveling snow. Notes from the HOA when I don’t shovel the snow. Never being able to find the other glove.
@kostia
Ahh ha, that OTHER glove! My mom is notorious for not having that OTHER glove! Someone’s going to get rich when they start selling 3-4 to a set!
@kostia @Lynnerizer Now that’s a brilliant idea. Maybe in the meantime if you give her gloves you should always give her two pairs!
So many people complaining about how cold the winters here are.
Sure, it’s colder than in summer, but it’s not as cold as the winters I grew up in. And I know that even those aren’t as cold as winters can get.
@xobzoo People in the Midwest who tend to gripe about warm winter weather are about to get what they’re asking for.
@werehatrack Oh, I never complain that it’s too warm. I just complain about the people who complain about it being colder than it actually is.
@werehatrack @xobzoo
Well, right now it’s -6 here. I think I’m entitled to complain!
Power outages
@Paigehodges The ones that last just long enough to cause all of the embedded digital clocks in appliances to lose their time setting, yeah. If they’re off long enough to discharge the UPS units, they’re no longer small annoyances. If they last long enough to cause the pipes and house plants to freeze, they’re way beyond major annoyances.
When I worked in NW Ontario about a 2 week canoe paddle from James Bay it was -40 to -60 (F) at night, typically about -20 to 0 during the day. We used outhouses, had no electricity (can’t run a generator much below -5), got water from the lake (through, eventually, an 8’ hole in the ice, heated with wood (and had chimney fires and had to bring the wood inside to thaw first or it would put the fire out), the sauna was used for “showers” (had to roll in the snow or jump in the lake through a hole in the ice, umm nope I melted snow or heated some water and did the sponge version as I hate cold water) and for laundry - learned the hard way not to knock ice off your jeans as it also knocks off the frozen leg of them… Back then we slept out while taking people dog sledding while also cross country skiing (at base camp were in cottages we heated by wood and used kerosine lanterns and outhouses.
@Kidsandliz Aww, hell no!
But your story does remind me of one minor annoyance that I’m happy not to have to worry about… Shrinkage! 
@ircon96 I absolutely HATE getting in cold water!!!
@ircon96 Missed the edit window. I’d never voluntarily do a Polar Bear Plunge. NO WAY EVER.
@Kidsandliz I’m with you there, shrinkage or not!
I can’t even tolerate an unheated pool in my dotage!
Ever try to poop in the snow? I win, or loose. Both WOOF!!