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Surviving the winter

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    #62
    Mr Keek
    Registered Users Posts: 497 ✭✭Mr Keek


    Buy yourself a warm fleece and a decent waterproof jacket to wear over it

    Get a neck gaitor, much better then a scarf and you can wear it over your chin/mouth to stay warm.

    Throw a warm hoodie in the car and leave it there.

    Get a little flash light and keep it in you pocket for when walking on quiter roads, make sure cars see you.

    Love winter, great time of year, great chance to take some great photos when out hiking.

    Must invest in a cheapo snow shovel in the pound shop, wrecked my alloys when i curbed them when the footpath was covered in snow at home.


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    #63
    Miss Lockhart
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭Miss Lockhart


    I absolutely love winter and I hate the summer with a passion - even Irish summers are too warm for me.

    At least winter-haters get some sympathy - it's not socially acceptable to hate summer. You hear all about how the cold affects old people when you say you love snow, yet nobody cares that my health suffers in even moderately warm weather.

    So yeah, loving the cold at the moment!


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    #64
    Larianne
    Registered Users Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    Lived in Chicago where it got to -20 degrees and snow up to your knees. That was grand. You can wrap up well and wear boots/wellies and they clear the roads properly.

    Over here, it's the rain that makes it miserable.

    Fúck off rain! :mad:


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    #65
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    PandaX9 wrote: »
    FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WOMAN! Don't just say stuff like that and not give us details! The world was built on details! Where???? I was about to resort to stuffing cotton wool down my tights before you said that..

    :D

    Penneys, dunned, M&S!
    Penneys do boot tights aswell. Tights with a sock on the end!


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    #66
    Miss Lockhart
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭Miss Lockhart


    Deleted User wrote: »
    :D

    Penneys, dunned, M&S!
    Penneys do boot tights aswell. Tights with a sock on the end!

    Oh I have to check these out ASAP!


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    #67
    Red Pepper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,567 ✭✭✭Red Pepper


    Jaded Jester wrote: »
    I'm just pointing out how different life is for the suicidal...

    Well lets cancel winter then for all the suicidal people!


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    #68
    Jaded Jester
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 26 ✭Jaded Jester


    Red Pepper wrote: »
    Well lets cancel winter then for all the suicidal people!

    If only that were possible, it might mean fewer of us cancel their lives.


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    #69
    Red Pepper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,567 ✭✭✭Red Pepper


    Jaded Jester wrote: »
    If only that were possible, it might mean fewer of us cancel their lives.

    You might make a more postive contribution in this thread:
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056795524


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    #70
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users Posts: 12,390 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Just hibernate for 3 or 4 months, ignore November, December, January, February and most of March and you will be fine, just stay indoors. Or else book a holiday in Australia their summer is just starting.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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    #71
    df1985
    Registered Users Posts: 4,432 ✭✭✭df1985


    Onesies!


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    #72
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    I wear long johns and a thermal vest if it gets really cold. What I hate about that is I often end up getting too hot in them. I'm freezing when I go outside but after about half an hour I'm drenched in sweat.


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    #73
    BillyMitchel
    Registered Users Posts: 3,324 ✭✭✭BillyMitchel


    Lived in -15 most days last winter and it was grand if you wrapped up warm but with Irish winter it's all rain and crapy wind that makes it a million times worse.

    Wish I was rich enough so I could spend spring and summer in Ireland and autumn and winter somewhere else.


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    #74
    caste_in_exile
    Closed Accounts Posts: 135 ✭✭caste_in_exile


    Used to make me miserable, til I grew some skin was a proper melancholy little bollix thought I was looking at the infinite SADness


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    #75
    PickledLime
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,061 ✭✭✭PickledLime


    Homemade soup, tonnes of it.


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    #76
    [-0-]
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    Winter is great craic. Turf fire, peated whiskey, and a good book.


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    #77
    david75
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,611 ✭✭✭david75


    I have that seasonal affective disorder thing but I find it doesn't bother me November to February. It's too fold to rain generally them so it's mostly bright and sunny.

    As for long johns, dunno about that bit if there's an R in the month, I wear my PJs onujder my trousers at all times. Toasty:)


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    #78
    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    Winter? Sure 'tis 27 degrees here today.


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    #79
    holystungun9
    Registered Users Posts: 2,933 ✭✭✭holystungun9


    Grayson wrote: »
    Whatever you do, don't invade Russia.

    What a load of bolsheviks.


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    #80
    twinytwo
    Registered Users Posts: 5,113 ✭✭✭twinytwo


    the way people carry on about the cold in ireland..... travel a bit, ireland isnt cold.


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    #81
    fasttalkerchat
    Registered Users Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    Local-womanizer wrote: »
    Nothing better than taking a long walk up a hill in winter. If you wrap up warm then no problems.

    I'd rather have diarrhoea in mass!


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    #82
    fasttalkerchat
    Registered Users Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    Local-womanizer wrote: »
    Winter is lovely, the nice crisp mornings, the sun glinting off the frost and snow, the warm fires and food.

    Nothing better than taking a long walk up a hill in winter. If you wrap up warm then no problems.

    Irish people are afraid to adapt to weather I think, we would be fecked if a hurricane hit us!
    twinytwo wrote: »
    the way people carry on about the cold in ireland..... travel a bit, ireland isnt cold.

    It is cold! Its just less cold than other places. If you haven't eaten all day you're still hungry, just less hungry than an Ethiopian!


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    #83
    mfceiling
    Registered Users Posts: 12,774 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    Electric and gas bills that are through the roof.

    Christmas and the fortune that it entails.

    About 20 fcuking nephews and nieces birthdays.

    Cold, wet.

    Dark in the morning going to work. Dark in the evening coming home from work.

    Work generally starts to get quieter (self employed)

    Traffic is cùntish.

    Wet clothes.

    Washing machine is never off.

    X-factor shìte everywhere.



    Yeah it's great to see the winter coming...:rolleyes:


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    #84
    imitation
    Registered Users Posts: 1,815 ✭✭✭imitation


    The darkness is the only deal breaker for me really, I just hate having to wait until the weekend to see the sunlight !


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    #85
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,732 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Maximus Alexander wrote: »
    Winter? Sure 'tis 27 degrees here today.
    Fahrenheit ?


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    #86
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Just made a beef and chorizo casserole, and a lamb and winter veg stew, and butternut squash soup for the week. Winter food is awesome.


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    #87
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    mfceiling wrote: »
    Electric and gas bills that are through the roof.

    Christmas and the fortune that it entails.

    About 20 fcuking nephews and nieces birthdays.

    Cold, wet.

    Dark in the morning going to work. Dark in the evening coming home from work.

    Work generally starts to get quieter (self employed)

    Traffic is cùntish.

    Wet clothes.

    Washing machine is never off.

    X-factor shìte everywhere.



    Yeah it's great to see the winter coming...:rolleyes:
    Whinge, whinge, whinge.


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    #88
    mfceiling
    Registered Users Posts: 12,774 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    Memphis Creamy Anger wrote: »
    Whinge, whinge, whinge.


    Winter, winter, winter....


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    #89
    Teyla Emmagan
    Registered Users Posts: 5,641 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    imitation wrote: »
    The darkness is the only deal breaker for me really, I just hate having to wait until the weekend to see the sunlight !

    Me too, the only thing I really hate is the dark.


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    #90
    ElChe32
    Registered Users Posts: 2,690 ✭✭✭ElChe32


    Lots of vitamins! Keep the body and mind in shape.


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    #91
    Bipolar Joe
    Registered Users Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭Bipolar Joe


    An electric blanket. Put it on for five or so minutes before you get into bed, turn it off before you brush your teeth. When you get in it's wicked toasty.


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