I love WEARING SUNGLASSES.
I love WEARING A HAT.
I love DRINKING WATER.
I Love WEARING SUNBLOCK.
Jesus christ dude, if you get yourself into some kind of shape that isn’t round, you aren’t going to have these problems.
OP thinks sunny days are too hard. I have no idea how he survives rainy days. A bit of snow would kill him instantly.
I only disagree with the drinking water one to be honest. The others I find legitimately annoying. I still wear sunscreen, but only because sunburn is even worse
Doesn’t bother me; it’s 2 minutes to spray it on, and then re-apply every hour that I’m outside. As long as I’m wearing a hat to shade my face, I don’t have to worry about putting any on my face, and then sweating it into my eyes.
Doing hard manual labor in the mid-day sun at the height of summer though? That’s def. unpleasant as fuck. I can do 2-5 hours, and then I’m just done for the day. I don’t know how some people can do that for eight hours a day, day in and day out.
Try 10 to 12 hours outside working. If you work outdoors, you ain’t doing no measly 8 hours as a rule.
Disagree; most people that work outside are still working for a wage, and OT pay kicks in once you break 40 hours in a week. That limits most places to 8 hours, unless you’re talking about undocumented immigrants that don’t have any labor protections, or people that are self-employed in some way.
You’ve never been on a construction job site meeting a deadline have you? Been there, done that, got the tan, and I wasn’t an undocumented immigrant.
Yeah, I have, and I got stiffed out weeks of pay I was owed because it was with a fly-by-night contractor that had a nose-candy problem. …Which is why I don’t do that any more. (Plus, he insisted on doing shit in the most backassward, bullshit way. I’ll be surprised if his shit doesn’t kill someone some day.)
If you work for a reputable company–not as a 1099 contractor, which is self-employed–then you probably have to be paid overtime pay. If you get a W2, and you’re not getting OT when you have to put in more than 40 hours in a week, then you need to consult with an employment attorney.
So you chose poorly the one time. It often happens to the young and dumb - that’s why you got hired. I had a similar situation where I didn’t get paid either. I took the guy’s semi tractor and trailer and kept it until he paid me.
I’ve done construction work building pole barns over a 3 state area and then I did some road construction running heavy equipment. They always paid overtime after 40 and travel expenses when needed. With road construction the pay could vary depending on if it was for township, county, state, or federal though. The hours almost always 50 to 70 hours a week. Because there was always the next job waiting and a deadline looming to get it done with heavy penalties if you missed them. So OT was never an issue.
I hate sunscreen, the only thing worse than being sweaty all day is being sweaty and oily and sticky.
Meanwhile, people who say they love cold weather:
“I like sweaters, coats and boots, bundling up, sitting inside by a fire with hot cocoa.”. Really sounds like they enjoy being warm, not cold after all.
So maybe “I like air conditioning, watching the sun from inside, the feeling of coming in out of the heat in the summer, a refreshing cold shower in the morning, being able to wear fashionable sunglasses and hats.”
I like feeling the cold around me while protecting my vitals from it.
As I’m sure you’ve heard and maybe even contemplated, I can generally warm myself up. It’s a lot harder to cool myself down, at least past a certain point.
I have the opposite problem, when it gets past a certain coldness I can’t warm up without an external heat source. Hot weather I can be cool IF I am in the shade with a breeze, grew up without AC in Florida so probably just adapted.
School kids here do have to do heat danger videos for athletics though, for some ungodly reason they do practices in the afternoons not before school and kids were dropping in the heat. It is dangerous like extreme cold is, I don’t go do yardwork when it’s the top of a summer day.
Was just saying that if people can say they “love the cold” because they like being warm, it’s no sillier to say you like the heat because you like cooling off.
Isn’t cooling off what going to the pool/beach is all about?
Late autumn repping the best temps, tho.
There’s more of a comfy-ness to being enveloped by warmth when its cold out.
Yeah, but that’s just a mindset. You can turn that mindset on in the Florida summers too. When you get in your car and it’s an oven until the AC cools it you just pretend you’re in a sauna, breathing that hot air from the coals. You’re sweating while you’re doing a job/project, you just pretend it’s like hot yoga.
A hot tub feels amazing. The heat can too when you decide it does. When you finally give into the heat and decide you’re just gonna be sweaty today, it feels great.
Solutions to being too cold - put on more layers, get a hot beverage, do some light exercise
Solutions to being too hot - get to some AC, splash water on yourself, take off layers
The problem is that the first set of solutions is generally more accessible and work-friendly. I can’t take off my shirt on a site visit for work (or even wear shorts, and being in damp sweaty clothes is miserable compared to being chilly and needing to warm up.
I love wearing 10kg of clothes just to stay warm while I’m outside
I literally do. Layers are so comfortable and safe feeling
I prefer being outside in cold weather. If I had my druthers I’d keep my house at 60 degrees in the winter and bundle up. I’ve lived in a house where I could wake up and see my breath in my own bedroom on especially cold days and it was glorious.
Ha! Well as much as I hate the cold, I hate the heater even more. Resist turning it on until it’s really too cold in long sleeves and a sweater. Air conditioner we keep at 78F, and it helps to keep the house from mold/mildew, improves air quality. Heater dries everything out and feels awful. We do set the heater to 60F, and don’t run it often.
Yeah, but I’m too poor for AC so the summer is all suffering. Climate change is making it worse and worse and I hate the whole world more and more.
Yeah I grew up before there was A/C all over, even in school didn’t have it until I was 12, and as bad as heat with no air conditioning is, it’s not as deadly as freezing weather with no heat. What do the homeless people do in cold places, do they just die in the winter? There is no season here where going outside in regular clothes would kill you, at least. Uncomfortable, sure.
But again, I think it’s some epigenetic adaptation, I really do run cool, and now my kids do too.
Those people can speak for themselves. I like getting plastered then walking around shirtless in below freezing temps. Makes me feel alive.
Ah, a fellow man of culture.
I swear shorts and t-shirt until about 5 degrees C, love it.
Same, but I hate cold weather. It’s not because I’m uncomfortable, it’s because I hate all the things associated with cold weather:
- shoveling snow
- icy roads
- so many ads (Black Friday + Christmas)
The temperature itself is fine, and sometimes I’ll even shovel snow in shorts. It’s everything else that pisses me off.
Who gets chapped lips from a sunny day? Where are you, the fucking Sahara desert?
This happens pretty frequently for a lot of people, especially if it’s a super dry climate.
Life in a northern climate at this time of year, my dude. Already had to bust out the chapstick from how dry it’s been.
Chapped lips in the summer? I’ve only ever gotten chapped lips in winter.
Just live in the Mountain West - Colorado, Arizona, Utah. The air is so dry it actively mummifies you every day of the year.
Eh, I live in Utah and I also only get chapped lips in the winter. It sucked the first year when I moved here, but my body adapted.
I love the desert heat. Chapped lips aside it’s my dream.
The best chapstick is enough water.
“normoids” is really something.
the comments here made me smile. glad to know lemmy isn’t all basement dwellers
Some of us dwell in caves.
partly cloudy weather best weather
Bri’in moment 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧☁️☕🔪
In the fall we usually get a few hours of rain and then it clears away to cloud or sun and that’s my favourite weather.
You don’t have to lie out in the sun naked from dawn to dusk without water to enjoy a sunny day.
I love sunny, snowy days. 20°C and above is just “hot” for me
I love sunny day, but even more…
I LOVE THE RAINY NIGHT.
I am the normoid. I really enjoy it. I guess I’m well equipped for the future.
They forgot skin cancer
Because the warmth from the sun feels wonderful on my skin. It’s energizing and uplifting.
