I'm always cold in winter. and here in Washington state winter is way too long. So long in fact that when summer finally arrives everyone in the state has to buy new sunglasses because we've lost the ones we bought last year. You'd never know it but Washinton state is the highest ranking state in sunglasses sales!
I have the same problem in both winter and summer because I'm somewhat of a freak. All winter, it's like "Why aren't you cold? How are you still wearing shorts?" Then all summer, it's "How in the hell are you not sweating?" Fortunately, explaining that I'm just a freak who doesn't feel temperature unless it's extreme satisfies them.
Scott, I've enjoyed your strip for a while but when I read the last line on the first panel I nearly popped something. "..or the people who are cold?" - Freaking hilarious.
Thank you. In California, this is extremely helpful. It gets cold sometimes, but I really don't until January, so this happens all the time to me from September to December.
raised in Miami (not just heat but also HUMIDITY) so I can take heat very well... this also means that living in Southern California is still not quite warm enough for me in the winter... then again, we hardly ever get what could be considered by others to be "transitional" seasons like fall and spring. we go from frigid to sweltering and back for a few weeks until it settles on whichever is actually appropriate for the season we're heading toward. that kinda sucks. but I do love living and working here, when there is actually work to do. so I'll suffer the cold winters and suffer the heat-complainers when it's 90 in the shade...
here in melbourne, australia, we're in autumn which means iced pavements in the mornings and blindingly sunny afternoons. standard casual wear right now is flip-flops, sunnies, a scarf and a jacket. melbournians need someone to invent a sun hat that keeps your ears from freezinng!
In meantime here in the rarely sunny UK... Back in the mid 90's I had a house with no central heating, and since then, the cold has never really bothered me, even when we went to visit Finland, (great place - highly recommend it). Heat on the other hand, I have a real problem with. Anything over 25c and I'm a nightmare to be around.
That's pretty much how it is in Dublin in Autumn, although I suspect my idea of "blindingly sunny" is different to that of an Australian's. We can't take too much heat or cold, which the Spanish and Americans find hilarious. We're world masters at dealing with rain, which is something, right? Right?
Scott - love your work. But you ought to try Canada, where it can be -20 C one day and +20 C a few days later, and our summers top out at about +38 C. Plus humidity. On second thought, just come in the winter.
One of my worst nightmares is to work on the same room with a bunch of female office workers, heat to top in winter, freeze your soul in summer, and you can't do a thing about it.
Awww, I thought this was going to be about one of my pet peeves: having to explain that you are not cold when you are, in fact, wearing a jacket. When I get cold, I put a jacket on (obviously). Immediately thereafter I get idiots asking me if I'm cold. It goes like this:
Idiot: huh, are you cold or something? Me: no Idiot: ... but you're wearing a huge jacket! Me: ... which is why I am not cold. Idiot: I don't get it.
I hate it when people do that! I can take cold and hot weather very well, (I live in Wisconsin. It was 35 degrees F one day this spring and then 85 degrees F the next AND NO ONE THOUGHT THAT THIS WAS STRANGE!) but when people sit there and ask me how I can't be freezing, it irritates me.
May 6, 2009
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I'm always cold in winter. and here in Washington state winter is way too long. So long in fact that when summer finally arrives everyone in the state has to buy new sunglasses because we've lost the ones we bought last year. You'd never know it but Washinton state is the highest ranking state in sunglasses sales!
socks and sandals... love your work!
Hey, you two! What are you doing outside your panels? GETbackinderrrrrrrrrrrrrre ...
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I have the same problem in both winter and summer because I'm somewhat of a freak. All winter, it's like "Why aren't you cold? How are you still wearing shorts?" Then all summer, it's "How in the hell are you not sweating?" Fortunately, explaining that I'm just a freak who doesn't feel temperature unless it's extreme satisfies them.
Scott, I've enjoyed your strip for a while but when I read the last line on the first panel I nearly popped something. "..or the people who are cold?" - Freaking hilarious.
Keep up the fantastic work.
Thank you. In California, this is extremely helpful. It gets cold sometimes, but I really don't until January, so this happens all the time to me from September to December.
I'm never bothered as much as others by temperature.
This is so, so very true. I walk around in a t-shirt when it's 30-40 degrees out, but then start sweating like a dog as soon as it hits 60.
raised in Miami (not just heat but also HUMIDITY) so I can take heat very well... this also means that living in Southern California is still not quite warm enough for me in the winter... then again, we hardly ever get what could be considered by others to be "transitional" seasons like fall and spring. we go from frigid to sweltering and back for a few weeks until it settles on whichever is actually appropriate for the season we're heading toward. that kinda sucks. but I do love living and working here, when there is actually work to do. so I'll suffer the cold winters and suffer the heat-complainers when it's 90 in the shade...
here in melbourne, australia, we're in autumn which means iced pavements in the mornings and blindingly sunny afternoons. standard casual wear right now is flip-flops, sunnies, a scarf and a jacket. melbournians need someone to invent a sun hat that keeps your ears from freezinng!
In meantime here in the rarely sunny UK...
Back in the mid 90's I had a house with no central heating, and since then, the cold has never really bothered me, even when we went to visit Finland, (great place - highly recommend it).
Heat on the other hand, I have a real problem with. Anything over 25c and I'm a nightmare to be around.
Just thinking about the time I wasn't cold and every one else was......you're not pregnant are you?
Hey Scott, you're not English are you? Wearing socks with sandals, you just need a knotted handkerchief on your head and you'll fit right in. :)
I'm not, I just look it, (Damn those sausage, bacon and egg rolls)
ARE THOSE SWEAT STAINS IN THE LAST PART OF IT? Ok that does it, this is my favorite online comic strip.
This conversation does not occur in Maine. Ever.
That's pretty much how it is in Dublin in Autumn, although I suspect my idea of "blindingly sunny" is different to that of an Australian's. We can't take too much heat or cold, which the Spanish and Americans find hilarious. We're world masters at dealing with rain, which is something, right? Right?
Scott - love your work. But you ought to try Canada, where it can be -20 C one day and +20 C a few days later, and our summers top out at about +38 C. Plus humidity. On second thought, just come in the winter.
Socks and Sandals are the uniform-of-the-day for transplants to Florida.
my favorite is to explain i am too poor to buy full pants
One of my worst nightmares is to work on the same room with a bunch of female office workers, heat to top in winter, freeze your soul in summer, and you can't do a thing about it.
Awww, I thought this was going to be about one of my pet peeves: having to explain that you are not cold when you are, in fact, wearing a jacket. When I get cold, I put a jacket on (obviously). Immediately thereafter I get idiots asking me if I'm cold. It goes like this:
Idiot: huh, are you cold or something?
Me: no
Idiot: ... but you're wearing a huge jacket!
Me: ... which is why I am not cold.
Idiot: I don't get it.
Argh!
I hate it when people do that! I can take cold and hot weather very well, (I live in Wisconsin. It was 35 degrees F one day this spring and then 85 degrees F the next AND NO ONE THOUGHT THAT THIS WAS STRANGE!) but when people sit there and ask me how I can't be freezing, it irritates me.
Not to a Seattlelite.