Reasons to hate cold weather

[jjirons69]

I know I don't know what real cold weather is due to being raised in the South, but I can still hate the weather we get.

Reasons:

First and foremost - static electricity. Seems like every piece of clothes I know is a mini Tesla coil.

Second - dry nasal passages and dry skin. My nose turns upside down in the winter. I'm not a big lotion guy, but I'm forced to use it in the winter time.

I've got another several months of dealing with both of these. Yah...

[Heavy_d]

I know I don't know what real cold weather is due to being raised in the South, but I can still hate the weather we get.

Reasons:

First and foremost - static electricity. Seems like every piece of clothes I know is a mini Tesla coil.

Second - dry nasal passages and dry skin. My nose turns upside down in the winter. I'm not a big lotion guy, but I'm forced to use it in the winter time.

I've got another several months of dealing with both of these. Yah...

I feel you and agree whole heartedly. Especially about static. I've got a kinda fuzzy grey shirt I love for winter, it's good and warm, but it generates enough electricity to power a small city every time I wear it.

[Remo]

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I hate it because it's cold!!

[Steve]

No kidding Jamie, looks like winter is about to set in down here...got down into the mid/low 50s here last night. Got to enjoy a tasty cigar, a warm fire, with a hot lady last night!

http://oldchurchbbq.com/sharedpictures/2013-11-24_Fire%20With%20Holly/2013-11-24_Fire%20With%20Holly%20001.jpg

http://oldchurchbbq.com/sharedpictures/2013-11-24_Fire%20With%20Holly/2013-11-24_Fire%20With%20Holly%20002.jpg

Brrrr...










































;s

[icehog3]

I hate it because it's cold!!

I hate it because it's not warm!!

[markem]

You need a reason to hate cold weather? :confused:

I hear ya on all you are saying. We don't get the static, much, but until about February we are all about dry sinuses and throats. After that, it is all about moss on the skin - but we have nice skin :noon

[Remo]

I hate it because it's not warm!!

Or that :r

[MrClean]

No kidding Jamie, looks like winter is about to set in down here...got down into the mid/low 50s here last night. Got to enjoy a tasty cigar, a warm fire, with a hot lady last night!

http://oldchurchbbq.com/sharedpictures/2013-11-24_Fire%20With%20Holly/2013-11-24_Fire%20With%20Holly%20001.jpg

http://oldchurchbbq.com/sharedpictures/2013-11-24_Fire%20With%20Holly/2013-11-24_Fire%20With%20Holly%20002.jpg

Brrrr...


;s

Good to see your wife smiling and enjoying the 'cold' weather with you. :tu

[14holestogie]

One word... Shrinkage! :)

[Steve]

Good to see your wife smiling and enjoying the 'cold' weather with you. :tu

Thanks!

She has been wanting a fire, and was feeling pretty good this weekend so I figured it was time.

[AdamJoshua]

Yah! Lemme tell you it got down to about 63 last night! :lv

[MrClean]

It was in the lower teens this weekend, felt pretty good to me. All you whiney old men need to put on a few more layers.

:fu

[dwoodward]

I hear you on the tesla coil bit. My cat becomes a static discharge machine in the winter. Visible arcs are not uncommon from him lol.

[cmitch]

We have a local 4 star hotel, Marriott Shoals Hotel and Spa, that has a back patio with fire pits. They put up side walls in the winter to help with the comfort. Smoking cigars is welcome, too. We were there last night and it was 29º outside, about 55º on the patio.

[jjirons69]

I'll share my static electricity trick - I know most of my coats were made in the Telsa lab, so I hold my pocket knife in my hand and allow it to ground on door knobs, door frames, etc. before I use my bare hand. You see a hell of a spark and very minimal jolt. It's almost routine now. Nothing like getting shocked on the lips when kissing your kids or wife though. It almost pisses me off.

[icehog3]

One word... Shrinkage! :)

I know you can't afford that, Tim!

[Dave128]

One word... Shrinkage! :)

I know you can't afford that, Tim!


I WAS IN THE POOL......


The high today was about 31*. Seems as though winter is starting to slowly settle in for the long haul around here.

[bruceolee]

Tell me about it! The frigid winters of south Florida are brutal! The sunny cloudless skies, The high temps in the low 70's or upper 60's, The nights in the mid 50's, and the tough snowless landscapes it's no wonder we don't get more fatalities every year. All i can say is I hear ya brothers...............:D

[icehog3]

Funny, Dave! :r

Bite me, Jason. ;) ;s

[jjirons69]

Another GREAT reason - Ice/sleet/freezing rain. We see so little of it in the South and when it comes, the world is in full stupid-mode. I've got an aggravating Bradford Pear tree in my yard that will undoubtedly succumb to any frozen precipitation. Potential hurricanes are bad enough - I didn't sign up for this mess coming our way!!

[Steve]

Because this

http://oldchurchbbq.com/sharedpictures/Fishing2/Great%20Day.jpg

beats this

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3144/2981639166_beb7401e2c.jpg




:D

[equetefue]

Amen !

[CigarNut]

Because this

http://oldchurchbbq.com/sharedpictures/Fishing2/Great%20Day.jpg

beats this

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3144/2981639166_beb7401e2c.jpg




:D

Damn right!

[Dave128]

Because this

http://oldchurchbbq.com/sharedpictures/Fishing2/Great%20Day.jpg

beats this

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3144/2981639166_beb7401e2c.jpg




:D


EAD, Steve!!!! :gary

[hotreds]

Reasons:

First and foremost - static electricity. Seems like every piece of clothes I know is a mini Tesla coil.

Second - dry nasal passages and dry skin. My nose turns upside down in the winter. I'm not a big lotion guy, but I'm forced to use it in the winter time.

I've got another several months of dealing with both of these. Yah...

Get a (few) warm mist humidifiers. Will solve both those problems!(Even IF you have a whole house humi attached to your furnace!)

[Stevez]

Because at my age temps in the single digits with wind chills below zero just HURT like hell. Every year older I get the more I can relate to the snow bunnies who move south for the winter when they retire. Already starting to look at where I may want to go when that magical day comes.

[longknocker]

I hate it because it's not warm!!

This!

[hotreds]

http://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/sexy-girls-in-bikinis-9.jpg?w=762&h=554

VS

http://media.theweek.com/img/dir_0090/45162_article_full/this-ohio-native-is-all-bundled-up-while-waiting-in-line-for-a-tour-of-the-white-house-on-jan-22.jpg?170

[stearns]

http://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/sexy-girls-in-bikinis-9.jpg?w=762&h=554

VS

http://media.theweek.com/img/dir_0090/45162_article_full/this-ohio-native-is-all-bundled-up-while-waiting-in-line-for-a-tour-of-the-white-house-on-jan-22.jpg?170

point = proven :r

[bruceolee]

As the states freeze just remember brothers.............it was 75F today in South Florida today :D

[SNKBYT]

Where's Global Warming when it's needed?........in the immortal words of Lewis Black "F*ck it's cold
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zpgai0n0cI

[icehog3]

Where's Global Warming when it's needed?........in the immortal words of Lewis Black "F*ck it's cold
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zpgai0n0cI

I love how the extremists in the "Global Warming" camp are saying that Global Warming is responsible for the Polar Vortex and the arctic temperatures. Rain or drought, hot or cold, humid or dry, Hell, locusts or killer bees, the Global Warming people will somehow say it's due to this. :lr

[Col. Kurtz]

http://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/sexy-girls-in-bikinis-9.jpg?w=762&h=554

VS

http://media.theweek.com/img/dir_0090/45162_article_full/this-ohio-native-is-all-bundled-up-while-waiting-in-line-for-a-tour-of-the-white-house-on-jan-22.jpg?170

Hugh. You win at internet today.

[mikesr1963]

In the freaking teens and snowing. I'm not going to get a smoke in until March if this continues.

[shark]

http://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/sexy-girls-in-bikinis-9.jpg?w=762&h=554

VS

http://media.theweek.com/img/dir_0090/45162_article_full/this-ohio-native-is-all-bundled-up-while-waiting-in-line-for-a-tour-of-the-white-house-on-jan-22.jpg?170



Nice! Maybe the first girl can help me because my left nut has frozen to my thigh....

[Robulous78]

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2887/12200763206_23a53c3afb_c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/86665059@N08/12200763206/)
Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/86665059@N08/12200763206/) by Robulous78 (http://www.flickr.com/people/86665059@N08/), on Flickr

This... (the view off my front porch today) :bhd

[Heavy_d]

In the freaking teens and snowing. I'm not going to get a smoke in until March if this continues.

I feel you man. And here in my neck of the woods we've been known to have snow even into March, so it may be May for me before I can comfortably enjoy the porch at this rate.

[kelmac07]

Woke up to find this...6+ inches. For an area that usually gets a few inches every third year...EVERYTHING is shut down.

http://i672.photobucket.com/albums/vv82/kelmac07_photo/Misc%20Stuff/IMG_6397_zpsdb878ad3.jpg
http://i672.photobucket.com/albums/vv82/kelmac07_photo/Misc%20Stuff/IMG_6399_zpsbad80f9f.jpg
http://i672.photobucket.com/albums/vv82/kelmac07_photo/Misc%20Stuff/IMG_6400_zps1a4a8436.jpg

[RobR1205]

I would have to say the frequent bloody noses and the fact that I barely get to smoke during the winter.

[Boz]

Woke up to find this...6+ inches. For an area that usually gets a few inches every third year...EVERYTHING is shut down.

http://i672.photobucket.com/albums/vv82/kelmac07_photo/Misc%20Stuff/IMG_6397_zpsdb878ad3.jpg
http://i672.photobucket.com/albums/vv82/kelmac07_photo/Misc%20Stuff/IMG_6399_zpsbad80f9f.jpg
http://i672.photobucket.com/albums/vv82/kelmac07_photo/Misc%20Stuff/IMG_6400_zps1a4a8436.jpg

It was 5° in Nashville this morning. I would've been fine with that if we had at least gotten a little snow. Then my kids could be outside having fun. But no, its just farking cold. Eff Nashville :r

[CoffeeWaterBeer]

The poor kids will be going to school until mid-July

[markem]

and people wonder why I live in rainy Oregon. It's because we don't get Georgia weather!

http://www.weather.gov/

[maninblack]

Bunch of whiners. Man up. ;)

[shilala]

I keep two whole house humidifiers running all winter long. I have to fill the jugs that go in them most every day. If it weren't for them, I'd dry up and turn into a pork rind.
I used to hate winter with a white-hot intensity. Now I just ignore it so I don't snap.

[icehog3]

Woke up to find this...6+ inches. For an area that usually gets a few inches every third year...

That's what she said, Mac. :noon

[stearns]

That's what she said, Mac. :noon

I'm just glad he uploaded the wrong pictures... these ones are just of his house :r

[G G]

They are saying it's a good possibility for sleet in NE Florida north of Interstate 10. Want to guess where I'm at? I know sleet with flurries isn't a big deal to the snowmen here, but for Florida it's a nightmare, because the temps are only in the mid 30s now as soon as the sun goes down it will freeze pretty quickly and all the idiot drivers will still drive 85+ miles an hour and the roads are possibly going to have a sheet of ice on them.

[G G]

It happened in 1989 and it was cars in the ditch every 7 feet.

[stearns]

Here's to hoping you don't end up in a ditch, Greg :)

[G G]

Here's to hoping you don't end up in a ditch, Greg :)
haha Ben.:r but I shall not be out driving in it, I guess I should have clarified and said "the other idiots" :r

[CigarSquid]

Damn global warming!

[TFed]

Don't hate it. Embrace it.

I love bundling up and sitting outside in the winter with a good cigar as long as it isnt much below zero. Last Saturday night 1am, my son in law and I sat out on his enclosed but unheated porch, 3 below, smoking for an hour, then went for a short walk while we finished off our smokes.
Very cold, but the brandy helped. ��

[hotreds]

http://www.treadstonemortgage.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/fro-car.jpg

[Heavy_d]

http://www.treadstonemortgage.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/fro-car.jpg

When did you come take a pic of my car? :r

[icehog3]

Don't hate it. Embrace it.



I'd love to embrace it, my two hands firmly embracing it's evil neck. ;)

[bruceolee]

I love how the extremists in the "Global Warming" camp are saying that Global Warming is responsible for the Polar Vortex and the arctic temperatures. Rain or drought, hot or cold, humid or dry, Hell, locusts or killer bees, the Global Warming people will somehow say it's due to this. :lr

Global warming is the modern boogieman. Had a bad day at work? Global warming! Get pulled over for speeding? Global warming!

But don't you know that there have been warmer times in our recent history? Blah blah blah CAN'T HEAR YOU!!!!! Global warming!!!!

One volcano eruption puts more CO2 into the atmosphere than all the major cities of the world COMBINED! Don't you think..............AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! SHUT UP GLOBAL WARMING CAUSES ALL OUR PROBLEMS!!!!

Surface temps cannot be measured accurately without full cooperation from all world governments to get such data would cost billions to do, not to mention that a long terms study would have to be done for at least 100 years costing billions every single year and the latest satellites tell us that atmospheric temps are actually down indicating a cooling period and that is the cheapest and most accurate way to measure temps globally.......AL GORE GLOBAL WARMING AL GORE GLOBAL WARMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[GWN]

My FIL is a man of few words, but he sums up my feelings toward winter beautifully in this frame:

http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w149/GWNJeff/DSCN0447_zps25adfb39.jpg (http://s175.photobucket.com/user/GWNJeff/media/DSCN0447_zps25adfb39.jpg.html)

Though I will admit, it does offer a few benefits:

http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w149/GWNJeff/IMG_0616_zps1ea55974.jpg (http://s175.photobucket.com/user/GWNJeff/media/IMG_0616_zps1ea55974.jpg.html)

And it does make it easier to sell my wife on trips such as this:

http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w149/GWNJeff/IMG_1054_zps352d99ea.jpg (http://s175.photobucket.com/user/GWNJeff/media/IMG_1054_zps352d99ea.jpg.html)

[Steve]

I'd love to embrace it, my two hands firmly embracing it's evil neck. ;)

"Love"!

[Subvet642]

Global warming is the modern boogieman. Had a bad day at work? Global warming! Get pulled over for speeding? Global warming!

But don't you know that there have been warmer times in our recent history? Blah blah blah CAN'T HEAR YOU!!!!! Global warming!!!!

One volcano eruption puts more CO2 into the atmosphere than all the major cities of the world COMBINED! Don't you think..............AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! SHUT UP GLOBAL WARMING CAUSES ALL OUR PROBLEMS!!!!

Surface temps cannot be measured accurately without full cooperation from all world governments to get such data would cost billions to do, not to mention that a long terms study would have to be done for at least 100 years costing billions every single year and the latest satellites tell us that atmospheric temps are actually down indicating a cooling period and that is the cheapest and most accurate way to measure temps globally.......AL GORE GLOBAL WARMING AL GORE GLOBAL WARMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And another thing, we only just emerged from the "Mini Ice-Age" in the 1830's, or so. Wouldn't one expect to get warmer when emerging from an ice-age? Oh yeah! If we are getting warmer, then warmer than what? In what year was our climate theoretically correct? They tell us that our climate is "abnormal" (my word); was there a time, a year that it was "normal"? If not, then there isn't any normal at all and thus there cannot be any abnormal. :tf
Note that they call it climate change, now. Like it's gonna do anything else.

[jjirons69]

Since last night and still holding strong today, we have ice everywhere! Everything is covered in ice with a nice powdering of snow and sleet. Low 20s tonight so it's going nowhere. This is the edge of America and we don't suppose to have things like this. I bet half my folks call out tomorrow because daycares and schools are still closed. I am playing golf Sat and Mon though, suppose to be in the mid-60s both days. Can't freaking wait!

http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t178/jjirons69/P1060088_zpse47a04a7.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t178/jjirons69/P1060091_zps73add068.jpg

[Heavy_d]

Know what you mean about the ice. Trying to get down my front steps has been an epic artic adventure the past three days. I've salted them, but temps are so low it just freezes back every night.

[jjirons69]

My FIL is a man of few words, but he sums up my feelings toward winter beautifully in this frame:

http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w149/GWNJeff/DSCN0447_zps25adfb39.jpg

That's an awesome picture, Jeff. I bet when he said have my daughter home at 11 p.m., you did it.

[shark]

Hate to tell you, but those plants are likely going to be dead, if they're not already.

[jjirons69]

Another dumping of ice - all my employees are scattered to the four winds. Winter sucks.

BTW - Plants made it through, Ron.

[blugill]

Why hate the cold? You certainly can't change it, it's a natural part of the world we live in, so why not find reasons to enjoy it.

[hotreds]

https://scontent-b-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/t1/1900167_10152569453928238_362480201_n.jpg

[shark]

It can be nice though:


http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7310/12273198933_6ddf48530c_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/97465131@N04/12273198933/)
DSC_5793_1 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/97465131@N04/12273198933/) by sairtapdlanor (http://www.flickr.com/people/97465131@N04/), on Flickr


Looking across the end of the Detroit River towards Canada.

[icehog3]

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa73/icehog3/deer.jpg (http://s196.photobucket.com/user/icehog3/media/deer.jpg.html)

[shark]

Also....


http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7295/11777435763_1bb3306a17_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/97465131@N04/11777435763/)
DSC_5755 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/97465131@N04/11777435763/) by sairtapdlanor (http://www.flickr.com/people/97465131@N04/), on Flickr

[markem]

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa73/icehog3/deer.jpg (http://s196.photobucket.com/user/icehog3/media/deer.jpg.html)

Negative, Ghostrider. The pattern is closed

[Steve]

Negative, Ghostrider. The pattern is closed

:tu:tu

[bruceolee]

UGH! Had a cold front come through last night with some nasty weather. Now it's *GULP* 68F! We might get "cold" tonight! :D

[MurphysLaw]

UGH! Had a cold front come through last night with some nasty weather. Now it's *GULP* 68F! We might get "cold" tonight! :D

I heard it'll be in the 40s, might have to turn on the heater tonight

[jjirons69]

My parents in central SC have been without power for over 30 hours now. An inch of ice. Nothing to like about this.

[mikesr1963]

I hate getting in a cold car the most so I bought one with remote start. It's the best option for me. The car before had electric seats and I didn't like them as I thought I would. :dr