I hope that someday you get to experience snow! It is alot of fun if you have the right mindset. I look at winter as a chance to enjoy the outdoors in a different manner and to play and do differant things.
How do you feel about winter?
- Thread starter Lisa
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I hope that someday you get to experience snow! It is alot of fun if you have the right mindset. I look at winter as a chance to enjoy the outdoors in a different manner and to play and do differant things.
Flatlander
Grandmaster
Winter
Pros:
- No Mosquitos or other bitey insects
- Superbowl
Cons:
- Car doesn't want to start
- Can't go outside without 68 lbs. of coats, touques, mitts, boots, etc.
- No golfing
- Everyone on the road is trying to kill me
- Regular falling on *** due to ice
- Snotsicles
- Peeing outside is really uncomfortable and potentially dangerous
- No outdoor marital relations
- Travel time increases by 300%. (time spent travelling is time wasted)
- All vegetation goes dormant. I find this to be very depressing. I love vegetation.
- 8 hours of sunlight. I find this to be very depressing. I love sunlight.
- Due to a lack of sunlight and heat, my tan disappears, and I take on a pale, sickly skin tone.
- BBQing becomes less enjoyable, therefore happening far less frequently.
- Heating bills skyrocket.
- No golfing
- Proliferation of colds, thus increasing the likelihood of rather large and unmanageable snotsicles.
- Due to above, Kleenex budget increases.
- Rising Kleenex budget pressures encroach on liquor budget.
- Christmas. I really don't care for Christmas.
- The only places to be other than home are filled with other people who need to get out of the house, stamping around all grumpy. I hate crowds, especially stir-crazy, grumpy crowds. Due to this, I avoid malls, thus increasing the concentration of stir-crazy, grumpy crowds I encounter when doing Christmas shopping at the last minute, due to my previous avoidance of the mall. I hate Christmas.
- No golfing
- Everything mechanical fails in the winter. Ever try to fix your car in the winter? **** man, I hate winter.
- I have to shovel the walk regularly, or else the mail carrier leaves bitchy notes in my mailbox. Without fail, this causes more snotsicles.
- Stress of winter living, added to stir-craziness of remaining indoors too much causes me to want to drink whiskey. Whiskey budget is tight, due to Kleenex usage, causing angst, guilt, and increased desire to drink whiskey.
- Late sunrise creates a tendency to sleep in. This in turn reduces income potential, further pressuring the Kleenex and whiskey budget.
- No golfing
- Large snowdrifts increase fear of dropping keys to extreme phobia status. This fear is further exascerbated by the numbness and lack of dexterity in hands, due to extreme cold.
- Knee high arctic boots must be worn to protect toes from frostbite. Knee high arctic boots + business attire = very unhip combination. Self esteem declines.
- Unhealthy amounts of time spent on XBox due to lack of enthusiasm regarding outdoor activities. Bill Gates steals my power, damaging the balance of power in the force.
That about wraps up my feelings regarding winter. Honestly, I don't care for it much.
Pros:
- No Mosquitos or other bitey insects
- Superbowl
Cons:
- Car doesn't want to start
- Can't go outside without 68 lbs. of coats, touques, mitts, boots, etc.
- No golfing
- Everyone on the road is trying to kill me
- Regular falling on *** due to ice
- Snotsicles
- Peeing outside is really uncomfortable and potentially dangerous
- No outdoor marital relations
- Travel time increases by 300%. (time spent travelling is time wasted)
- All vegetation goes dormant. I find this to be very depressing. I love vegetation.
- 8 hours of sunlight. I find this to be very depressing. I love sunlight.
- Due to a lack of sunlight and heat, my tan disappears, and I take on a pale, sickly skin tone.
- BBQing becomes less enjoyable, therefore happening far less frequently.
- Heating bills skyrocket.
- No golfing
- Proliferation of colds, thus increasing the likelihood of rather large and unmanageable snotsicles.
- Due to above, Kleenex budget increases.
- Rising Kleenex budget pressures encroach on liquor budget.
- Christmas. I really don't care for Christmas.
- The only places to be other than home are filled with other people who need to get out of the house, stamping around all grumpy. I hate crowds, especially stir-crazy, grumpy crowds. Due to this, I avoid malls, thus increasing the concentration of stir-crazy, grumpy crowds I encounter when doing Christmas shopping at the last minute, due to my previous avoidance of the mall. I hate Christmas.
- No golfing
- Everything mechanical fails in the winter. Ever try to fix your car in the winter? **** man, I hate winter.
- I have to shovel the walk regularly, or else the mail carrier leaves bitchy notes in my mailbox. Without fail, this causes more snotsicles.
- Stress of winter living, added to stir-craziness of remaining indoors too much causes me to want to drink whiskey. Whiskey budget is tight, due to Kleenex usage, causing angst, guilt, and increased desire to drink whiskey.
- Late sunrise creates a tendency to sleep in. This in turn reduces income potential, further pressuring the Kleenex and whiskey budget.
- No golfing
- Large snowdrifts increase fear of dropping keys to extreme phobia status. This fear is further exascerbated by the numbness and lack of dexterity in hands, due to extreme cold.
- Knee high arctic boots must be worn to protect toes from frostbite. Knee high arctic boots + business attire = very unhip combination. Self esteem declines.
- Unhealthy amounts of time spent on XBox due to lack of enthusiasm regarding outdoor activities. Bill Gates steals my power, damaging the balance of power in the force.
That about wraps up my feelings regarding winter. Honestly, I don't care for it much.
lol!!! You said 'touque'! That's just one of the greatest words ever!
OP
OP
You have never experienced snow?
I all of a sudden have a new found hatred for you
You have never experienced snow?
I all of a sudden have a new found hatred for you
It wasn't me it was Donna! We get alot of snow here in Michigan!
Besides, people who have not experienced snow need to experience it because it is one of the best seasons of the year.
bydand
Senior Master
Lisa, I think Brian was refering to the post above him from Australia. Alma, MI gets some snow, just not as much bitter, biting cold as you or I will get this winter. Actually, I'll bet everyone in the entire State of Michigan except the snowmobilers are hoping for a repeat of last winter. I was in Ludington, MI last winter and we didn't get diddly for snow. NEVER more than 12 or 15 inches on the ground. LOVED IT!!!!!!!!!!!
Moved back to Maine March 24th and had 24 inches still in the yard, HATED IT!!!!!!!!!
Moved back to Maine March 24th and had 24 inches still in the yard, HATED IT!!!!!!!!!
That is alot of cons.
Besides I always thought you could golf in the snow. What is wrong with XBox, Gamboy's, Gamecub, etc. Time spent improving your gaming skills could be time spent doing work.
John Brewer
Blue Belt
I grew up in Illinois, so I've seen snow. Now I prefer to stand outside in my shorts and barbeque for Christmas. Sometimes I call people in the snow just to let them know it.
However, for us snow lovers we just kind of snicker when we get these calls and feel bad for people not around the snow. My parents do that same thing and I really have alot of fun with them. :rofl:
OP
OP
It wasn't me it was Donna! We get alot of snow here in Michigan!
Besides, people who have not experienced snow need to experience it because it is one of the best seasons of the year.
oh, I get it... It wasn't Brian..
No matter, I hate him anyways cause he is blaming me for everything in the other "Last Person" thread.
My Dad grew up in Bangor Maine, (* So I am a second Generation Maniac
*) and he says it is cold here in Michigan. While in High School another student transferred in from Alaska and said it was much colder here than in Alaska.
With Wind Chills it is getting better on how the cold effect people with wind as well. What also needs to be considered is the humidty of the air and what it does to the "Chill" Factor.
I know it is Cold south on me in Ontario Canada (* Windsor is south of Detroit and Michigan *), but we have some cold winters here as well. The really old license plates used to read, "Winter Wonderland". Given last winter where the lower penninsula did not get much snow it was not as cold as well.
I like Winter, I get to go visit my Parents in Florida
I hate winter! It sucks! And unfortunately, it is coming again.
How about you?
I'm with you Lisa...Let the snow bunnies and their male counterparts stand out and direct traffic at the scene of a bad accident for 2 hrs or more and the love of snow wears off real fast...
Hey Drac I have directed traffic in the snow and that is simply no fun!
I'm wit you...Besides freezing your wad-she-call-it off you have to avoid being struck by some idiot rubber necker or by a speed demon who believe that because he has 4 wheel drive he has better traction and can stop faster...
I don't mind the cold really, but I'm sick of shoveling and of snow all together! So I guess add me to the I hate winter list.
bydand
Senior Master
My Dad grew up in Bangor Maine, (* So I am a second Generation Maniac
Ask him about the County. We are about 3 hours north of Bangor and they have a much nicer winter than we get in the Caribou/Presque Isle area. Same as the difference between Gaylord and Lansing would be.
True there are places in MI that get some of the bitter cold. I actually grew up in Michigan; born in Ludington, graduated from the SOO, worked in Gaylord for years. I was back in Michigan for a couple of years until March of this year and the winters all over the state were MUCH milder than they had been, and that was the opinion of everybody I know that stayed while I was in Maine for 16 years. After living in the SOO I tell people I moved to Maine to get away from the cold and snow.
I wasn't refering to wind chills when I mentioned the -30F for weeks or the -50F for a couple of days. We regularly have wind chills in the -80F range. I agree that SOME places in Michigan get a real old fashioned shot of winter (Pellston, SOO, Marquette, Escanaba) but from about the Ludington/Bay City line south, never has had real BAD winters by contrast. That is where I was refering to when I made that comment. I guess I should have been a bit more clear, both states are long North to South and therefore have vastly different weather from the top to the bottom of them.
Lake Michigan moderates the temperature some along the West coast. It keeps it warmer than further inland in the winter and cooler in the summer. But the lake effect snow that can dump on us can be a doozy.
The last few years it seems the heavy bands of snow have been coming in between South Haven and the Indiana border, so snow hasn't been too bad around my area.
