@josh @MsMerope @paul_ipv6 I used to ride my bicycle to elementary school in sub zero temperatures with wet hair, arriving at school with ice chunks in my hair. That was a long time ago, LOL.
i managed to frost bite my nose having no scarf/hood, damp hair and standing on the chicago L platform with temp of 5F and wind chill of -25F. used to also bike to class downstate with wind chills as low as -50F. ah, to be young and stupid again. these days, i'm just stupid.
@josh @MsMerope @paul_ipv6 I also grew up in much cold, and my preferred space (Santa Cruz, but pretty much anything from S F. to Monterey) is nice (~65°F) ...
SoCal completely beat that out of me in three years. Then I moved to Seattle, at the beginning of Winter (not Winter Solstice, Seattle Winter time, totally different calendar) and had to reaclimate.
SoCal is fun like that. 2am in December in Century City? => Tevas and shorts.
@MsMerope @paul_ipv6 I’m in the mildest climate in Canada and after I looked up what that translates into and file I wouldn’t call it cold, I would almost definitely put on pants if my shorts were dirty and I were going to be outside for more than an hour or two.
I mean, I wouldn’t put on the heat, but pants..sure.
@geonz @Caution @MsMerope the printed lyrics (other than extra last verse) match the Weavers version, which is the one i learned as a kid. there are definitely lots of variations.
@paul_ipv6 @Caution @MsMerope Yes 😀 I was singin' the Weavers' to myself... (wasn't that a time???) I was singign it that time I rode my bicycle to work at 11 degrees below zero Fahrenheith ;)
@geonz @Caution @MsMerope my folks were huge weavers fans. they taught us some of their songs and one of the ways they'd try to keep my sister and i from killing each other on car trips was singing weavers songs.
@paul_ipv6 @Caution @MsMerope I can realate 😀 Mary Cliff had a folk radio show in D.C. for a million years. SO I heard Weavers, but also ... other songs about loggers (Erm, no, not "I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay..." ) Radicalized 😀
@thatKomputerKat OK, so I made fun, but it is 50 here and a light breeze and I was FREEZING this morning in normal work clothes. So, big talk buuuuuuut.
As someone who grew up in SLC & Phoenix, it took me a year to adjust & now I prefer it. The only time I'm bothered is when the 4:10pm sunsets on standard time hit in late Nov/Dec.
@Nshrubs yeah, at least I dont have to work in an office anymore it was soo depressing to go to work and its dark, then come out to leave work and its dark.
I remember walking to school in -43 temperatures when I was in high school. Indianapolis didn’t provide school buses for my high school because most students lived within three miles of the school. Yes, it can get mighty cold in Indiana
@dougfir it is not unusual in Monterey to see people in tank tops and people in parkas standing side by side at the crosswalk waiting for the light to change. I’m sure that @douglasvb can confirm.
@BegoniaArizona A few years ago, we stopped in Truckee for lunch. It was late winter/early spring, with big snow drifting the parking lot. Tourists from the bay area were identified their big puffy coats and ugly boots Locals were wearing hoodies or sweatshirts. I was completely comfortable in jeans and a tee shirt.
@dougfir to be fair, we do have a lot of young military joggers (DLI) and a lot of couch potato tourists and retirees, so both types of dress are perfectly suitable for 58 degrees with a salt air breeze from ocean to bay.
its a thing, if you want to think warm and try to make yourself feel better about it the coldest I have ever been in was -65F (-53.8C). it was soo cold clouds refused to form and the diesel in our fuel lines started to crystalize in some of the vehicles we couldnt start, which was fine because we were not allowed to start them till the weather warmed up, the engine blocks had "frozen over" so the metal was too brittle to start.
yeah Upstate NY in the winter is a special sort of frozen over hell. our most common injury report was frostbite of the lungs because if you did PT outdoors below about -2F the speed at which you were breathing could cause frostbite.
Yeah the Army was like "soo you grew up in Seattle and have spent the last 6 years in the south east US... uhh Fort Drum, that's where you need to go" God bless the US armed forces
After a detailed search at the trailhead, we checked carefully back at the hotel room. It was only on me, from ducking off trail briefly to water the bushes.
(Enzo is a poodle with a single coat and we keep it pretty short, and happened to be wearing a shirt/sweater that day, so that helps)
The trail was a tight former railway bed and we saw deer scat in the area, so that’s what did it.
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@womble @josh @MsMerope @paul_ipv6 Bicycling was fine, the being in the back of a station wagon with leaded gas (where the fumes sucked into the back of the station wagon, enough to make us sick) that probably was not great.
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i'll tell you what i keep telling my greek partner. if the temp in C isn't two digits and a negative sign in front, it's not cold. 😀
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SoCal completely beat that out of me in three years. Then I moved to Seattle, at the beginning of Winter (not Winter Solstice, Seattle Winter time, totally different calendar) and had to reaclimate.
SoCal is fun like that. 2am in December in Century City? => Tevas and shorts.
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in reply to MsMerope • • •@MsMerope @paul_ipv6 I’m in the mildest climate in Canada and after I looked up what that translates into and file I wouldn’t call it cold, I would almost definitely put on pants if my shorts were dirty and I were going to be outside for more than an hour or two.
I mean, I wouldn’t put on the heat, but pants..sure.
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in reply to Paul_IPv6 • • •Yes 😀 I was singin' the Weavers' to myself...
(wasn't that a time???)
I was singign it that time I rode my bicycle to work at 11 degrees below zero Fahrenheith ;)
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in reply to Paul_IPv6 • • •I can realate 😀 Mary Cliff had a folk radio show in D.C. for a million years. SO I heard Weavers, but also ... other songs about loggers (Erm, no, not "I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay..." )
Radicalized 😀
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56°F is shorts and sandals weather.
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in reply to Bill • • •P'raps not in September. Light long pants and sandals ;)
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in reply to Jim Hubbell • • •my relatives in FL used to break out the thick down coats w hoods when it hit 50F...
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(Disaster was adverted because I happened to have tucked-in pants, long sleeves, etc.)
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in reply to AI6YR Ben • • •After a detailed search at the trailhead, we checked carefully back at the hotel room. It was only on me, from ducking off trail briefly to water the bushes.
(Enzo is a poodle with a single coat and we keep it pretty short, and happened to be wearing a shirt/sweater that day, so that helps)
The trail was a tight former railway bed and we saw deer scat in the area, so that’s what did it.
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...unless you're working from home, not in the office. 😉
Here's a reminder that 'way back in the day, Magnus, Robot Fighter might have been intended to have worn a tunic, but when that tunic was...shall we say, cochineal? ...he looked like he was in a hot pink miniskirt.
Manly men can wear hot pink miniskirts.
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