So you want us to believe you weren't cold?

[Penelope Street]

We met you leaving Barnes and Noble. We were the pair scurrying in dressed like Paddington Bear. You held the door for us, thanks. Remember now?

With the wind chill it was like negative-I-don't-even-want-to-think-about-it and you didn't even have a coat on, nevermind gloves! Were you just trying to impress us or what? Or maybe you were cold and that's why it was a flannel shirt, with sleeves?

Ok, seriously, do men really not feel the cold or is it a stoic rite of manhood to prance about in the dead of winter dressed as if it's Midsummer's Eve?

 

[Xelebes]

Why else do you think we take polarbear dips?

 

[LoquaciousLady]

Some of us just don't feel the chill like others. I'm the one running around in the rare snows in my shorts and t-shirts while I make my kids bundle up tight as a tick on a hound dog.

 

[Guest]

Why else do you think we take polarbear dips?

To make your testicles disappear?

 

[Xelebes]

To make your testicles disappear?

It enhances our virility!

 

[AvoidingRealWork]

I took a quarter-mile walk around in the freezing cold a few weeks ago in the nude. Of course, it was after getting straight out of an over-heated hot-tub .

I have a super-high metabolism that I believe helps me to stay warm. My wife OTOH gets very cold at night. I have to (get to!) keep her warm.

 

[Guest]

It enhances our virility!

Cool!

 

[Penelope Street]

Why else do you think we take polarbear dips? It enhances our virility!

I took a quarter-mile walk around in the freezing cold a few weeks ago in the nude.

Ok, I'm thinking that's two votes for "stoic rite of manhood"

 

[TheeGoatPig]

When I am feeling healthy, after a good workout, or if I have eaten a lot, of if I'm just feeling thick of body, I feel my inside body temperature going up, and don't need so much clothing on in the colder days of the year.

 

[trysail]

At first it occurred to me that this might be a particularly opportune time to suggest that the characters you witnessed were, in fact, very surprised former adherents and promoters of the theory of anthropogenic global warming.

But, I reconsidered and decided that the gentlemen in question probably weren't Al Gore and his sidekick, Davis Guggenheim.

 

[Anna_Malia75]

Ok, I'm thinking that's two votes for "stoic rite of manhood"

This gives them an excuse for the shrinkage, you see...

 

[tickledkitty]

Well, hello there, Ms. Street. Good to see you.

Long, long ago, before I was married, I had a blind date with a Canadian. He was here for a work thing and tried to be all macho and impervious to our pitiful Ohio weather. He was from the Great White North, after all. It was around 25 degrees here and snowing. He didn't wear a coat. I laughed at him when his teeth started chattering, and we never went out again.

Yeah, it's a guy thang.

 

[jomar]

This gives them an excuse for the shrinkage, you see...

You got to the shrinkage joke before me!

 

[Anna_Malia75]

Well, hello there, Ms. Street. Good to see you.

Long, long ago, before I was married, I had a blind date with a Canadian. He was here for a work thing and tried to be all macho and impervious to our pitiful Ohio weather. He was from the Great White North, after all. It was around 25 degrees here and snowing. He didn't wear a coat. I laughed at him when his teeth started chattering, and we never went out again.

Yeah, it's a guy thang.

"Stoic" being guy-speak for "idiot."

 

[Penelope Street]

When I am feeling healthy, after a good workout, or if I have eaten a lot, of if I'm just feeling thick of body, I feel my inside body temperature going up, and don't need so much clothing on in the colder days of the year.

You'd think that feeling thick of body would help, but my personal case study suggests otherwise.

This gives them an excuse for the shrinkage, you see...

Is it not another rite of manhood to simply deny there even is a possibility of shrinkage?

Long, long ago, before I was married, I had a blind date with a Canadian. He was here for a work thing and tried to be all macho and impervious to our pitiful Ohio weather. He was from the Great White North, after all. It was around 25 degrees here and snowing.

I'm pretty aware it's a guy thing- I just wanna know why it's a guy thing. And 25F? I can't remember the last time we had a heat wave like that!

P.S. Did he get mad when you laughed?

 

[Anna_Malia75]

Is it not another rite of manhood to simply deny there even is a possibility of shrinkage?

In public, with their clothes on? Sure. In private, with their clothes off? "Does it seem cold in here to you?"

 

[tickledkitty]

I'm pretty aware it's a guy thing- I just wanna know why it's a guy thing. And 25F? I can't remember the last time we had a heat wave like that!

P.S. Did he get mad when you laughed?

Yes. I had to. He was a jerk.

So, I'm still thinking about this and wondering if it's not so much a guy thing as much as a certain-type-of-guy thing.

 

[SeaCat]

LOL

When I lived up north I was used to the cold. With my metabolism I could easily deal with the cold for long periods of time before I actualy felt cold. However when I started running out of energy I truly felt the cold and it took me a long time to warm up. (I have tales that would make your teeth shatter from the shivering.)

Then I moved to Florida. I have been here for a bit over 7 years. I have acclimated well. Now below 70 degrees is cold to me.

I don't deal with the cold to be macho, never have. I just deal with it to survive.

Cat

 

[Penelope Street]

In public, with their clothes on? Sure. In private, with their clothes off? "Does it seem cold in here to you?"

Ok. That's one I haven't heard.

Did he get mad when you laughed?

Yes. I had to. He was a jerk.

I think that's the only dating tip my daughter ever thanked me for: Laugh at a new boyfriend first chance you get- and if he doesn't laugh with you, dump him.

So, I'm still thinking about this and wondering if it's not so much a guy thing as much as a certain-type-of-guy thing.

I'm sure a certain segment of the population will use most any excuse to get attention, but how many are like LoquaciousLady and just don't feel the cold? And I mean *really* cold- not just near freezing.

When I lived up north I was used to the cold. With my metabolism I could easily deal with the cold for long periods of time before I actualy felt cold. However when I started running out of energy I truly felt the cold and it took me a long time to warm up. (I have tales that would make your teeth shatter from the shivering.)

Then I moved to Florida. I have been here for a bit over 7 years. I have acclimated well. Now below 70 degrees is cold to me.

I don't deal with the cold to be macho, never have. I just deal with it to survive.

Thank you! When you say 'deal with the cold for long periods of time'- how cold and how long? Did you go about without a coat with the wind chills well below 0F? I've been here about seven years too, and I'm feeling less acclimated than ever.

 

[Xelebes]

Well, hello there, Ms. Street. Good to see you.

Long, long ago, before I was married, I had a blind date with a Canadian. He was here for a work thing and tried to be all macho and impervious to our pitiful Ohio weather. He was from the Great White North, after all. It was around 25 degrees here and snowing. He didn't wear a coat. I laughed at him when his teeth started chattering, and we never went out again.

Yeah, it's a guy thang.

The guy was from Toronto. Figures.

 

[SeaCat]

Ok. That's one I haven't heard.


I think that's the only dating tip my daughter ever thanked me for: Laugh at a new boyfriend first chance you get- and if he doesn't laugh with you, dump him.


I'm sure a certain segment of the population will use most any excuse to get attention, but how many are like LoquaciousLady and just don't feel the cold? And I mean *really* cold- not just near freezing.

Thank you! When you say 'deal with the cold for long periods of time'- how cold and how long? Did you go about without a coat with the wind chills well below 0F? I've been here about seven years too, and I'm feeling less acclimated than ever.

I used to do things like shovel the drive in a T-Shirt and Jeans. (I was very active shoveling the snow.)

The worst cold I ever dealt with, okay the most absolutely miserable cold I ever dealt with was diving in 35 degree water in a 7mm wetsuit. I was in the water for roughly half an hour and had to be carried out.

I have dealt with cold down to -30F and dealt with it.

It all depends on what is going on.

I also have this strange belief. I dress for the weather. (Remember I grew up in the cold.) I dress for the conditions.

I grew up in cold climates. Now though I live in an area where the average temp. is roughly 80 degrees. I'm loving this and have acclimated to this. Now anything under 70 degrees feels cold to me.

Cat

 

[tickledkitty]

The guy was from Toronto. Figures.

I didn't say that, did I?

Do you know him? Are YOU him?

 

[lisa123414]

Like Lo-Lady said, its not just a guy thing. My neighbors tease me for coming down to the school bus stop without a coat. I am from the north and still have not adjusted to southern Virginia weather. I think my lack of an overcoat helped me in my adventure last week in Philly in 22 degrees! I do admit, I was getting a bit cold after waiting so long for a cab. Another 20 minutes and I would have dug my overcoat out of my bag.

 

[Penelope Street]

I used to do things like shovel the drive in a T-Shirt and Jeans. (I was very active shoveling the snow.)

We pay the neighbor's kid to actively shovel our drive in whatever he wants to wear.

I also have this strange belief. I dress for the weather.

Me too!

I grew up in cold climates. Now though I live in an area where the average temp. is roughly 80 degrees. I'm loving this and have acclimated to this. Now anything under 70 degrees feels cold to me.

Go figure. I grew up along the Gulf Coast and remember thinking 40 was positively frigid. Safe to say I'm over that.

Like Lo-Lady said, its not just a guy thing. My neighbors tease me for coming down to the school bus stop without a coat.

Ok, after the trio at the last Packers game became local celebrities, I kinda had to accept it wasn't *totally* a guy thing- but isn't there like some law of physics that says they can't be a size two?

 

[gauchecritic]

How to keep warm with minimal clothing...

Either become a Geordie or play football