I don’t like to be cold when I’m inside. But if I’m outside I prefer cold to hot. You can always put more clothes on when you’re outside. There’s a limit to how much you can take off.
@SSteve you stole my explanation of why cold is better than hot… I wear shorts when it’s above freezing, and won’t put on a coat or a jacket unless it is actually snowing and windy.
@SSteve Playing devil’s advocate: I have never encountered a day where it was too hot to go water skiing, but I have experienced quite a few days where I felt it was too cold to go snow-skiing.
The great thing is that we are both right because we have two different bodies! I water skied a lot growing up and I agree that there were never days too hot to ski. But there was a lot of miserable time sitting in the boat in blazing heat. Especially when my friend’s sister wore her coconut suntan lotion. The smell of that stuff makes me instantly sick to my stomach.
And any day with snow is too cold for snow skiing for me. I don’t do that thing. My wife, on the other hand…
Someday I will call you by your stage name @DrWorm
@DrWorm@SSteve I’ll water ski on hot days & snow ski on cold days. Occasionally the wind is bad enough to make me opt out of either/both.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
As far as coconut oil lotion, it makes me think wicked thoughts:
/giphy coconut bikini
Most places tend to overdo it on heat or cold in the respective times that it is the opposing temperature, but I don’t actually say anything. I just sit there and shiver in my short sleeves, wishing I had brought a sweater to this midsummer party. If it’s too hot I just go to sleep.
Asking how someone likes the temperature when they sleep is becoming practically a first date question for me now. It can come across as a bit forward, but I think thermodynamic compatibility is important. Basically everyone else in my family prefers to sleep with the air dramatically warmer than I want, and I struggle to sleep if I’m too hot. I don’t want to commit to someone and have to deal with decades more of that. Thermostat control has been one of my favorite things about moving out.
@jqubed I get cold very easily but I like to sleep in a cold room with lots of covers or an electric blanket. If I get hot I just stick one foot out till I cool down. I sleep better when bed is the nicest place to be.
@moondrake That’s exactly how I like it! Fortunately that seems to be more common than the rest of my family’s “let’s keep it close to 80° and sleep with minimal covers” preference.
@jqubed ugh, hell no. I can’t do just a sheet. I sleep with a comforter all year long. I usually have the thermostat around 76℉ at night with the ceiling fan on. If my partner is staying over, I might make it a little colder because sometimes it feels like I’m sleeping next to a furnace.
I’m not sure if my 76℉ feels like everyone else’s. If I’m dog sitting, it seems I always need to turn everyone else’s thermostat to 74 or under to feel as comfortable as my house.
When I was still living with my parents, my bed was positioned directly under the a.c. vent. I almost never fell asleep until the a.c. kicked back on.
@RiotDemon My brother lives with me and we’ve compromised on 74 for A/C, which still keeps me with my ceiling fan on medium or high. When he’s gone I drop it colder, though. I did finally figure out last winter that keeping the door to my room closed interferes with the HVAC and my room gets warmer than it should with the A/C on and colder than it should with heat on. Now things are more manageable.
@jqubed
If it were 80 at night I might have to wash my hair and leave it wet or something to get to sleep. I can sleep ok outdoors camping when it’s hot, but diificult indoors when there’s climate control.
@jqubed seriously. Sleeping temp can make or break a relationship. It can be -5 and I still want a window cracked in my room, probably a fan going, and a good comforter. We keep the heat around 58 at night.
Also, if it’s a “shower twice” kind of summer day - don’t try to snuggle me and keep your moistness to yourself. We can maybe touch feet.
“What temperature do you sleep best in?” should be a standard dating question - like, in the top 5.
I’m just waiting for it to get cold outside and then someone at corporate deciding that we need the heat on. It’s so miserable when that happens. It’s Florida. If it’s cold outside, our customers will be wearing hoodies, jackets, pants, whatever. They don’t want to walk inside and feel like they should be wearing shorts and a t-shirt.
I get hot and cold easily. I’d rather be cold and wear a jacket. Wearing minimal clothing and still being hot sucks. As @SSteve pointed out above, you can always put on more clothes, but you can only take off so much. Just tonight, I went to a restaurant that is normally freezing inside. I brought my hoodie. It ended up being uncomfortably warm instead.
@RiotDemon Once I get chilled, putting on more clothes doesn’t help. If my feet are really cold, even the electric blanket won’t warm them up, I have to take a shower or soak in hot water.
Inside temperatures should not form ice in the summer or melt chocolate in the winter. My biggest beef is waste. If you wear shorts in the house in the winter or if you sleep under blankets and a comforter in the summer you are wasting money.
As to all the people saying you can add clothes if cold, you can’t do fine work with frozen fingers nor with gloves on. I can handle summer heat without air conditioning if I have to, except sleeping. Cold gets very painful after a while.
Picking nits, but I don’t think I have ever said either of those phrases. I might say “It’s cold in here” or “It’s hot in here”. I don’t know exactly why, but putting the intensifier “too” makes it seem like I am being overly presumptive about what constitutes the “correct” temperature.
I’m Norwegian (technically Friesian, too; not much different from a thermal perspective. Whatever). I rarely feel cold and have fairly high body heat (see proverbial ‘bed furnace’ mentioned above). The only time I might say “It’s too cold in here” is in a movie theater in TX in the middle of summer, where they crank the A/C down to a frosty 62F.
@compunaut I was going to compliment you on your beautiful draft horses but a quick Wikipedia consult tells me the Friesian horse is from the Netherlands, not Norway. Well, your fjord ponies are cute.
@SSteve I’ll take all the compliments. My mom emigrated as a toddler from Friesland, Holland 65+yr ago. Dad was born in Chicago, but both of his parents came here (separately) from Norway 95+yr ago. So I’m 50/50 Norge/Dutch, 1st (1.5th?) generation American.
@compunaut My movie theater bag includes a lap blanket and a pair of earplugs. I usually bring a sweater to restaurants in the summer. I often joke that in the desert southwest we want go tell people it’s 75 here, so when it’s 100 outside they make it 50 indoors.
I don’t like to be cold when I’m inside. But if I’m outside I prefer cold to hot. You can always put more clothes on when you’re outside. There’s a limit to how much you can take off.
@SSteve Come on ladies, don’t listen to him!
@SSteve
@SSteve you stole my explanation of why cold is better than hot… I wear shorts when it’s above freezing, and won’t put on a coat or a jacket unless it is actually snowing and windy.
@SSteve Playing devil’s advocate: I have never encountered a day where it was too hot to go water skiing, but I have experienced quite a few days where I felt it was too cold to go snow-skiing.
The great thing is that we are both right because we have two different bodies! I water skied a lot growing up and I agree that there were never days too hot to ski. But there was a lot of miserable time sitting in the boat in blazing heat. Especially when my friend’s sister wore her coconut suntan lotion. The smell of that stuff makes me instantly sick to my stomach.
And any day with snow is too cold for snow skiing for me. I don’t do that thing. My wife, on the other hand…
Someday I will call you by your stage name @DrWorm
@DrWorm @SSteve I’ll water ski on hot days & snow ski on cold days. Occasionally the wind is bad enough to make me opt out of either/both.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
As far as coconut oil lotion, it makes me think wicked thoughts:
/giphy coconut bikini
Close enough
@SSteve that’s exactly my line, when it’s too hot you are limited. You can’t start to peel off your skin.
Most places tend to overdo it on heat or cold in the respective times that it is the opposing temperature, but I don’t actually say anything. I just sit there and shiver in my short sleeves, wishing I had brought a sweater to this midsummer party. If it’s too hot I just go to sleep.
Asking how someone likes the temperature when they sleep is becoming practically a first date question for me now. It can come across as a bit forward, but I think thermodynamic compatibility is important. Basically everyone else in my family prefers to sleep with the air dramatically warmer than I want, and I struggle to sleep if I’m too hot. I don’t want to commit to someone and have to deal with decades more of that. Thermostat control has been one of my favorite things about moving out.
@jqubed I get cold very easily but I like to sleep in a cold room with lots of covers or an electric blanket. If I get hot I just stick one foot out till I cool down. I sleep better when bed is the nicest place to be.
@moondrake That’s exactly how I like it! Fortunately that seems to be more common than the rest of my family’s “let’s keep it close to 80° and sleep with minimal covers” preference.
@jqubed ugh, hell no. I can’t do just a sheet. I sleep with a comforter all year long. I usually have the thermostat around 76℉ at night with the ceiling fan on. If my partner is staying over, I might make it a little colder because sometimes it feels like I’m sleeping next to a furnace.
I’m not sure if my 76℉ feels like everyone else’s. If I’m dog sitting, it seems I always need to turn everyone else’s thermostat to 74 or under to feel as comfortable as my house.
When I was still living with my parents, my bed was positioned directly under the a.c. vent. I almost never fell asleep until the a.c. kicked back on.
@RiotDemon My brother lives with me and we’ve compromised on 74 for A/C, which still keeps me with my ceiling fan on medium or high. When he’s gone I drop it colder, though. I did finally figure out last winter that keeping the door to my room closed interferes with the HVAC and my room gets warmer than it should with the A/C on and colder than it should with heat on. Now things are more manageable.
@jqubed
If it were 80 at night I might have to wash my hair and leave it wet or something to get to sleep. I can sleep ok outdoors camping when it’s hot, but diificult indoors when there’s climate control.
@jqubed seriously. Sleeping temp can make or break a relationship. It can be -5 and I still want a window cracked in my room, probably a fan going, and a good comforter. We keep the heat around 58 at night.
Also, if it’s a “shower twice” kind of summer day - don’t try to snuggle me and keep your moistness to yourself. We can maybe touch feet.
“What temperature do you sleep best in?” should be a standard dating question - like, in the top 5.
I’m just waiting for it to get cold outside and then someone at corporate deciding that we need the heat on. It’s so miserable when that happens. It’s Florida. If it’s cold outside, our customers will be wearing hoodies, jackets, pants, whatever. They don’t want to walk inside and feel like they should be wearing shorts and a t-shirt.
I get hot and cold easily. I’d rather be cold and wear a jacket. Wearing minimal clothing and still being hot sucks. As @SSteve pointed out above, you can always put on more clothes, but you can only take off so much. Just tonight, I went to a restaurant that is normally freezing inside. I brought my hoodie. It ended up being uncomfortably warm instead.
@RiotDemon Once I get chilled, putting on more clothes doesn’t help. If my feet are really cold, even the electric blanket won’t warm them up, I have to take a shower or soak in hot water.
Both will depend on the situation and the season. I will go according to the season.
Inside temperatures should not form ice in the summer or melt chocolate in the winter. My biggest beef is waste. If you wear shorts in the house in the winter or if you sleep under blankets and a comforter in the summer you are wasting money.
As to all the people saying you can add clothes if cold, you can’t do fine work with frozen fingers nor with gloves on. I can handle summer heat without air conditioning if I have to, except sleeping. Cold gets very painful after a while.
I’m in SE Georgia, so it is never particularly cold. I’m always hot.
Can we please run this poll again 6 months from now? It’d be cool to compare the results. You could sell heaters that day too, like hot cakes.
There is a reason I live in the PNW. I don’t like heat or cold.
http://crime.static-eric.com/ Also, there might be a correlation with higher temperatures and an increase in criminal activity.
@jmendenhall
@f00l That is my second favorite song about city life. The first is Fear’s "I love livin in the city#.
@f00l
Picking nits, but I don’t think I have ever said either of those phrases. I might say “It’s cold in here” or “It’s hot in here”. I don’t know exactly why, but putting the intensifier “too” makes it seem like I am being overly presumptive about what constitutes the “correct” temperature.
I’m Norwegian (technically Friesian, too; not much different from a thermal perspective. Whatever). I rarely feel cold and have fairly high body heat (see proverbial ‘bed furnace’ mentioned above). The only time I might say “It’s too cold in here” is in a movie theater in TX in the middle of summer, where they crank the A/C down to a frosty 62F.
@compunaut I was going to compliment you on your beautiful draft horses but a quick Wikipedia consult tells me the Friesian horse is from the Netherlands, not Norway. Well, your fjord ponies are cute.
@SSteve I’ll take all the compliments. My mom emigrated as a toddler from Friesland, Holland 65+yr ago. Dad was born in Chicago, but both of his parents came here (separately) from Norway 95+yr ago. So I’m 50/50 Norge/Dutch, 1st (1.5th?) generation American.
@compunaut My movie theater bag includes a lap blanket and a pair of earplugs. I usually bring a sweater to restaurants in the summer. I often joke that in the desert southwest we want go tell people it’s 75 here, so when it’s 100 outside they make it 50 indoors.
@moondrake
You in AZ? NM?
@compunaut
El Paso area.
@f00l @moondrake We have friends & family in Las Cruces - go NMSU!
@compunaut El Paso, far west Texas., Chihuahuan desert. Las Cruces is our next door neighbor.