Hot or Cold?
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Re: Hot or Cold?
Warm is fine.
But HOT ( extreme aussie summer hot ) is something you cannot even imagine until you have experienced it.
Hot nights are totally unbearable.
Summer fashion ( shorts and a singlet ) is the most unattractive thing on anyone male or female after age 17.
I can stand up to 28C and dont feel even slightly cold until it goes under 3C, so I am fairly tolerant.
UV is my absolute enemy, after living here for 8 years I began to react to it severely, quite common it seems, its like your immune system wants to fight it. Fair skinned people with the pale eyes and light hair basically should not live here unless they want a constant battle with covering up and seeking AC/shade.
But HOT ( extreme aussie summer hot ) is something you cannot even imagine until you have experienced it.
Hot nights are totally unbearable.
Summer fashion ( shorts and a singlet ) is the most unattractive thing on anyone male or female after age 17.
I can stand up to 28C and dont feel even slightly cold until it goes under 3C, so I am fairly tolerant.
UV is my absolute enemy, after living here for 8 years I began to react to it severely, quite common it seems, its like your immune system wants to fight it. Fair skinned people with the pale eyes and light hair basically should not live here unless they want a constant battle with covering up and seeking AC/shade.
#17
Re: Hot or Cold?
As I suffer from MS it is important that I don't get too hot, or the symptoms get worse. However, I also have Reynauds, which means that below about 16 degrees my circulation shuts off. I moved from the UK because the winters were so dreary and I also had SAD. Sydney is mostly ok for me in summer- not too many days over 35. However I am also a lot colder in winter!!
#18
Re: Hot or Cold?
Warm is fine.
But HOT ( extreme aussie summer hot ) is something you cannot even imagine until you have experienced it.
Hot nights are totally unbearable.
Summer fashion ( shorts and a singlet ) is the most unattractive thing on anyone male or female after age 17.
I can stand up to 28C and dont feel even slightly cold until it goes under 3C, so I am fairly tolerant.
UV is my absolute enemy, after living here for 8 years I began to react to it severely, quite common it seems, its like your immune system wants to fight it. Fair skinned people with the pale eyes and light hair basically should not live here unless they want a constant battle with covering up and seeking AC/shade.
But HOT ( extreme aussie summer hot ) is something you cannot even imagine until you have experienced it.
Hot nights are totally unbearable.
Summer fashion ( shorts and a singlet ) is the most unattractive thing on anyone male or female after age 17.
I can stand up to 28C and dont feel even slightly cold until it goes under 3C, so I am fairly tolerant.
UV is my absolute enemy, after living here for 8 years I began to react to it severely, quite common it seems, its like your immune system wants to fight it. Fair skinned people with the pale eyes and light hair basically should not live here unless they want a constant battle with covering up and seeking AC/shade.
I have light-ish eyes and fair skin but dark hair and when I was in Australia I found the light to be very bright, if that makes sense much brighter than the UK, even on a hot sunny day in the UK it's still not as bright as Oz, in my opinion.
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Re: Hot or Cold?
Warm is fine.
But HOT ( extreme aussie summer hot ) is something you cannot even imagine until you have experienced it.
Hot nights are totally unbearable.
Summer fashion ( shorts and a singlet ) is the most unattractive thing on anyone male or female after age 17.
I can stand up to 28C and dont feel even slightly cold until it goes under 3C, so I am fairly tolerant.
UV is my absolute enemy, after living here for 8 years I began to react to it severely, quite common it seems, its like your immune system wants to fight it. Fair skinned people with the pale eyes and light hair basically should not live here unless they want a constant battle with covering up and seeking AC/shade.
But HOT ( extreme aussie summer hot ) is something you cannot even imagine until you have experienced it.
Hot nights are totally unbearable.
Summer fashion ( shorts and a singlet ) is the most unattractive thing on anyone male or female after age 17.
I can stand up to 28C and dont feel even slightly cold until it goes under 3C, so I am fairly tolerant.
UV is my absolute enemy, after living here for 8 years I began to react to it severely, quite common it seems, its like your immune system wants to fight it. Fair skinned people with the pale eyes and light hair basically should not live here unless they want a constant battle with covering up and seeking AC/shade.
Oh yes, the burning sensation of the Aussie sun's rays. Never felt that strength elsewhere. In other countries "slip, slap, slop" is almost optional. Here it's compulsory.
#20
Re: Hot or Cold?
I don't like being hot or cold, thank you very much.
This time of year (in this bit of NSW) is pretty perfect - cool mornings, lovely, warm sunny days and cool evenings/nights.
Magic.
This time of year (in this bit of NSW) is pretty perfect - cool mornings, lovely, warm sunny days and cool evenings/nights.
Magic.
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Re: Hot or Cold?
Have to agree, it's funny how people forget what it is like to be either when they are other...(does that makes sense?) A cold rainy day in Melbourne soon makes you forget the heatwave the week before..
If anything, I prefer to be warm than cold even if it is alledgedly easier to warm up than cool down. A hot day in summer is soon solved by a pool or nightfall, and in Melbourne the truly hot days don't go on for ever. Take away a wood fire and my winter would be a pain all through. Both heat and cold wear you down.
I prefer the cold for clothes - I am over t-shirts and shorts by April. But ask me again in August and I will be looking forward to spring.
If anything, I prefer to be warm than cold even if it is alledgedly easier to warm up than cool down. A hot day in summer is soon solved by a pool or nightfall, and in Melbourne the truly hot days don't go on for ever. Take away a wood fire and my winter would be a pain all through. Both heat and cold wear you down.
I prefer the cold for clothes - I am over t-shirts and shorts by April. But ask me again in August and I will be looking forward to spring.
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To be honest, you've raised an asthetic point: people in summer could actually dress a bit better rather than wear what used to be basically underwear. Perhaps a return to 'older' fashions from the 1960s when people wore t-shirts without massive logos and designs. I sometimes refuse to wear t-shirts all summer, trying long-sleeved shirts rolled up etc.
I work in an office so tend to keep out of most UV. It's only recently I've even been to the beach.
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Why 17? What about 25? I'm with you - I am fairly temperature tolerant I don't feel the cold as much like others. I notice it but do not suffer, and only light a fire for the asthetic quality.
To be honest, you've raised an asthetic point: people in summer could actually dress a bit better rather than wear what used to be basically underwear. Perhaps a return to 'older' fashions from the 1960s when people wore t-shirts without massive logos and designs. I sometimes refuse to wear t-shirts all summer, trying long-sleeved shirts rolled up etc.
I work in an office so tend to keep out of most UV. It's only recently I've even been to the beach.
To be honest, you've raised an asthetic point: people in summer could actually dress a bit better rather than wear what used to be basically underwear. Perhaps a return to 'older' fashions from the 1960s when people wore t-shirts without massive logos and designs. I sometimes refuse to wear t-shirts all summer, trying long-sleeved shirts rolled up etc.
I work in an office so tend to keep out of most UV. It's only recently I've even been to the beach.
Looking stylish in furnace or steam room heat is difficult but look at Italy they manage it, even in summer.
Summer fashion pre 70's was elegant, those tiny nipped in waist summer dresses, the guys in the james dean T and pleat front pants, big fan of the retro stuff myself I guess the fact people were mainly slim and had waists back then helped a lot too.
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Re: Hot or Cold?
It should be 25, agree, but in reality the muffin tops and beer guts seem to appear much earlier these days.
Looking stylish in furnace or steam room heat is difficult but look at Italy they manage it, even in summer.
Summer fashion pre 70's was elegant, those tiny nipped in waist summer dresses, the guys in the james dean T and pleat front pants, big fan of the retro stuff myself I guess the fact people were mainly slim and had waists back then helped a lot too.
Looking stylish in furnace or steam room heat is difficult but look at Italy they manage it, even in summer.
Summer fashion pre 70's was elegant, those tiny nipped in waist summer dresses, the guys in the james dean T and pleat front pants, big fan of the retro stuff myself I guess the fact people were mainly slim and had waists back then helped a lot too.
#25
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Hot but dry heat only - hate humidity. A few months ago we were getting mid-40's dry heat and I didn't mind it. The Highveld where I grew up has perfect summer weather - mid-30's tops and refreshing afternoon thundershowers, warm evenings. Pretty cold winter weather though - including snow every 10 years or so
I've only experienced extreme cold a few times in my life - New York, New Zealand and didn't really like that. The UK has an overall mild climate - often that grey, cool 'nothing' weather for much of the year and rarely gets really cold, except at the extremities. Cold, clear, crisp winter days although a rarity are quite nice
I don't know how people could move to the more extreme parts of Canada though - the winters would kill me. Vancouver and surrounds don't get the ultra cold but it rains too much. My friends there are always moaning about it
I've only experienced extreme cold a few times in my life - New York, New Zealand and didn't really like that. The UK has an overall mild climate - often that grey, cool 'nothing' weather for much of the year and rarely gets really cold, except at the extremities. Cold, clear, crisp winter days although a rarity are quite nice
I don't know how people could move to the more extreme parts of Canada though - the winters would kill me. Vancouver and surrounds don't get the ultra cold but it rains too much. My friends there are always moaning about it
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Re: Hot or Cold?
In my younger days I preferred cold, now I'll take hot (ideally warm). I suspect that 20 years from now I'll be that old man wearing a sweater on a 75F day,
#28
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Hot but dry heat only - hate humidity. A few months ago we were getting mid-40's dry heat and I didn't mind it. The Highveld where I grew up has perfect summer weather - mid-30's tops and refreshing afternoon thundershowers, warm evenings. Pretty cold winter weather though - including snow every 10 years or so
I've only experienced extreme cold a few times in my life - New York, New Zealand and didn't really like that. The UK has an overall mild climate - often that grey, cool 'nothing' weather for much of the year and rarely gets really cold, except at the extremities. Cold, clear, crisp winter days although a rarity are quite nice
I don't know how people could move to the more extreme parts of Canada though - the winters would kill me. Vancouver and surrounds don't get the ultra cold but it rains too much. My friends there are always moaning about it
I've only experienced extreme cold a few times in my life - New York, New Zealand and didn't really like that. The UK has an overall mild climate - often that grey, cool 'nothing' weather for much of the year and rarely gets really cold, except at the extremities. Cold, clear, crisp winter days although a rarity are quite nice
I don't know how people could move to the more extreme parts of Canada though - the winters would kill me. Vancouver and surrounds don't get the ultra cold but it rains too much. My friends there are always moaning about it
Hate the cold. It hurts me High 20s is probably the most comfortable for me, but can cope with warmer as long as it is dry.
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Yup, me too. Been uncharacteristically humid here today. Awful. Was running around this morning for work and was just dripping...felt faint at one point which is most unlike me
Hate the cold. It hurts me High 20s is probably the most comfortable for me, but can cope with warmer as long as it is dry.
Hate the cold. It hurts me High 20s is probably the most comfortable for me, but can cope with warmer as long as it is dry.
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Re: Hot or Cold?
I reserve the right to change my mind but I can't see myself wanting more heat in retirement.
My idea of hell would be living, and not working, in a sort of mini-Florida.
My idea of hell would be living, and not working, in a sort of mini-Florida.