It’s a scientific fact that legs cannot be or get cold. Much like birds, the legs of Midwesterners, Rock Mountain statesers, and Canadians evolved separated blood supplies in their legs that just exchange oxygen within the thighs to preserve core temperatures.
Source: someone who would lived in shorts year round until being forced to wear real pants by corporate America.
P.S. the best time to go to the beach in California is over Christmas, because you have the whole place to yourself and can laugh at everyone wearing coats in 60° sunny weather. Come on in, the water’s great!
That’s me. I’m that person.
As a mountain person I just want to let all of you normies know that 27°F is not ‘sleeves’ weather for quick exposure.
Like if I am taking out the trash or driving to the store or walking to the mailbox or whatever. I do not consider sleeves at all until about 26F°, but that’s just going to be a hoodie. At about 18°F or so, I’ll go for a light coat on top of that. Single digits is where I break out the winter coat. Subzero you start layering.
We’re not flexing. It’s adaptation. I can basically not handle physical work above 85 degree heat. 0 stamina. My body knows how to keep warm. My body does not know how to keep cool.
Proper mid-westerner here, -4F with no wind, all you need is a hoodie. I’ve cleared my driveway of snow with the snowbloer wearing shorts, a hoodie, and gloves (because the handle is metal). If I put on pants it’s either really nasty out OR I’m expecting to be outside for a very long time.
Growing up in snowy upstate NY, before climate change, when we’d get snow in October, and it would stay on the ground until March, I always wondered about those girls that would show up to school on the coldest days, wearing a dress or skirt, with their legs totally exposed to the bitter cold.
Now I know that at least some of them probably came from religious families where girls weren’t allowed to wear pants.
It is snowing in that picture so the cold wouldn’t wouldn’t be that bad.
Same temp in dry air would be so so much worse.
Its me :(
Northerners are weird animals. I’ve been known to wear a long sleeve shirt and a hoodie when the temp is expected to “peak” over 30f- but never shorts!
The local guy also wears flip flops
I was going to say:
You know it’s cold, he is wearing shoes.
High school kids. You cannot be different. My kids refuse to wear a jacket. Hoodie, t-shirt, and sweats, jeans, or tights depending if it’s a PE day or not. Doesn’t matter if it’s snowing, 0°F or 60°. Same clothes. They all wear the same stuff.
I’ve got 4 sons like this…
Future carpenter
I am from Winnipeg. Natural selection has made us immune down to -40.
Edit: but then we just shatter. My tombstone will say “Jim shat himself to death” and there will be a statue of me wearing shorts.
I feel you. I’m from northern Minnesota. And the sweat rolls off of you at 70F/20C because it’s too hot out.
I won’t have a tombstone. They cost too much…
In Quebec, we have guys who walk in -30 hunched over a thin leather jacket smoking for warmth.
Un dur à cuire -tough guy in leather.
Does shat mean the same thing in Canada as it does here?
I am from around so I can’t say definitively what is Canadian about that. I meant “shat” as in the past tense of shit and a word that sounds like shattered, like the bad robot in Terminator 2 when he froze. Never the best joke if it needs explaining; I was just being a bit silly.
This is me. I grew up in Western New York. This is just sort of normal there.
