I think Winter is terribly underrated

ancapailldorcha

Think about it. Winter gives so much and asks for so little in return:

• The snow outside is pretty
• It gives you an excuse not to go out and do things you don’t want to do
• You get to appreciate being warm
• The cold is refreshing and helps you focus
• You don’t have to feel conscious about sweating
• You get to spend more time indoors with your loved ones/videogames/whatever
• You don’t feel guilty about staying in

Sure there are downsides but most of these can be circumvented with some caution and wit. Who’s with me?

I'm with you. I love a good Winter.

ancapailldorcha

I was wondering if you'd post when I was typing this for some reason.

I may have mentioned how much I like it before or something.

Ski holidays ftw.

Me!! I am with you acd! Winter is my favourite time of year. Now I skip in to work wrapped up and full of energy compared with summer when I sweated and struggled.

Yayyyayyy for winter!!

Harry Palmr

Yesterday was probably the worst day of the whole season - every bad aspect of weather - windy, wet, cold (but no snow down here) and yet there are some nutters who delight in same. As I look outside it's glorious winter - wall to wall sun, dry and not much of a breeze. So in that regard we've had a "good winter" - even the farmers are not complaining with the cattle out already.

It has the best time of year: Christmas.

Sitting beside a fire/stove in the pub drinking a rake of pints can’t be beaten.

Your Face

ancapailldorcha

Kyla Broad Videodisc wrote: »

It has the best time of year: Christmas.

Sitting beside a fire/stove in the pub drinking a rake of pints can’t be beaten.

Y'know it saddens me that fireplaces in pubs seem to be becoming less and less common. Met a friend in Stoneybatter once and we'd a great time chatting over a few pints beside the fire.

ancapailldorcha

Candie wrote: »

I may have mentioned how much I like it before or something.

Ski holidays ftw.

People at work think I'm insane. Then again, they're all Mediterraneans.

begbysback

Get the fcuk outta here, its bleedin Baltic out

riffmongous

Nope, I love summer, nothing better than sitting outside, looking up at a deep blue sky and feeling warm sunshine on your face

xi5yvm0owc1s2b

"Winter," by the beautiful and amazing Tori Amos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWmETxWM0h0

JohnnyFlash

I read before that introverts tend to prefer winter as they can naturally retreat without feeling like they are missing out in social events that tend to happen during the summer

I like aspects of the winter: stews, National hunt racing, midweek soccer, drinking a scatter of pints down the local. Not a fan of the weather though.

Slattsy

Winter - proper stout weather!

Gimme A Pound

Yeah, winter in Ireland on the other hand is usually not that cold but really wet, no pretty snow or dry crisp cold (current conditions the exception) and the ever present damp ****s with people's lungs/chest/sinuses.

Other than that, agreed.

gibgodsman

I love the cold weather, but when you mix in rain and cycling to work daily, its a nightmare.... in saying that, I prefer that to sweating ass off in a shirt all day while working

DEFTLEFTHAND

Sullivan Gray Teaspoonful wrote: »

Yeah, winter in Ireland on the other hand is usually not that cold but really wet, no pretty snow or dry crisp cold (current conditions the exception) and the ever present damp ****s with people's lungs/chest/sinuses.

Other than that, agreed.

Yeah aside from the past few days this winter so far has been pretty rubbish.

The usual mild wet muck. I'd prefer if we got nice dry crisp cold weather.

Arghus

Love January and February, my two favourite months of the year.

orourkeda1977

Kyla Broad Videodisc wrote: »

It has the best time of year: Christmas.

Sitting beside a fire/stove in the pub drinking a rake of pints can’t be beaten.

Beer garden is way better. A lovely warm summers evening with a few beers. Life always seems better.

Yeah,I like it, apart from the roads being bad..

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Outdoor exercising is much more pleasant in winter, IMO. In Ireland’s winters anyway. I always much preferred the winter cycle to work over the summer. In winter it helped me warm up fast and I laughed in the face of rain whereas even in our only mild summers, cycling was a sweaty endeavour.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

Outdoor exercising is much more pleasant in winter, IMO. In Ireland’s winters anyway. I always much preferred the winter cycle to work over the summer. In winter it helped me warm up fast and I laughed in the face of rain whereas even in our only mild summers, cycling was a sweaty endeavour.

Nothing better than a cycle on a cold and calm morning into the low sun.

Wibbs

I bloody hate the cold and damp and short days and rain and sleet and all that dour shite. Bores the hell outa me. Give me late spring/summer any day of the week. May, June, July, August for the win. If I could I'd summer in Ireland and winter somewhere warm, the Canaries or somewhere similar. The only time I want to see snow is in a nature documentary, or from the first class lounge of a Jumbo jet as I fly over it to get to somewhere warmer.

Dial Hard

I love winter. Nothing nicer than bundling up warm and taking the dog for a frosty walk on a cold, crisp morning.

Sideways rain and damp, not so much. But I love proper dry cold. And snow. I would LOVE if we were guaranteed a couple of weeks of proper snow every year.

orourkeda1977

orourkeda1977 wrote: »

Beer garden is way better. A lovely warm summers evening with a few beers. Life always seems better.

I like the beer garden too but of the two Id pick lashings of stout beside the fire in winter than being able to sit outside in the beer garden in summer.

I like the winter in general though, just wish we got more cold frosty weather rather than wet as I love cold frosty weather with the sun shining. I’d hate to live somewhere that was warm all year around.

Ariadne

I absolutely love winter. I love being able to wrap up, I like that I'm not sweating when I'm walking around. I like dark cold nights spent in front of the fire with a blanket around me. Mulled wine, hot chocolate, the promise of snow. No guilt for staying inside. I am a miserable sweaty insecure mess in summer, no thank you.

Wibbs

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

I read before that introverts tend to prefer winter

Maybe that's it J? Anytime the introvert/extravert subject comes up on Boards it seems pretty heavily skewed towards the introvert folks and when this winter thing comes up again it's pretty heavily skewed towards folks who prefer and like it. Hardly scientific but could be why?

Dakotabigone

You don’t have to feel conscious about sweating

What in the blue Jesus is that about op?

Dial Hard

Wibbs wrote: »

Maybe that's it J? Anytime the introvert/extravert subject comes up on Boards it seems pretty heavily skewed towards the introvert folks and when this winter thing comes up again it's pretty heavily skewed towards folks who prefer and like it. Hardly scientific but could be why?

Not the case with me, anyway, I'm about as extroverted as they come.

Spanish Eyes

I love all the seasons. But the day the clock goes back at the end of October brings me down a bit. But hopefully that's gone this year. Permanent Summer Time maybe?

There cannot be anyone who does not like a very bright, sunny, cold, frosty day like today. Fabulous altogether. But when it's windy, dark and very wet, no so good.

Have to say I found the heatwave last Summer a bit difficult to deal with, not that it wasn't welcome, it was just such an effort to do anything.

Every season has its pluses and minuses, but I really enjoy this time of year for reasons mentioned above.

Billy86

So on top of it being -38 with wind chill and public health warnings to not talk outdoors unless absolutely necessary or take deep breaths, this is what the subway looked like two days back......



........thanks, winter!

Franz Von Peppercorn

I do like a scarf. I can scarf with the best of them.

Purple Mountain

If we had the crisp dry winters like in Russia then maybe.
But the damp here kills me.
It gets right into your bones.
Everything outdoors is slimy and covered in moss or fungus.
Horrible time of the year.
Not to mention only 8 hours of natural daylight.

Winter..4/10..

r93kaey5p2izun

Love Winter! The only thing I don't love is dark mornings. Hate the clock change in March and dreading it becoming permanent.

Capt'n Midnight

Cold rain from the North is the worst. Do. Not. Want.


But cold and dry I can do, and things look lovely in the snow , but not when it's dirty slushy snow.

Cold weather or windy nights are perfect for snuggling under the blankets and reading The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard.

"Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised,”

Takes a while to get going. But it is relentless. It just gets worse and worse, you know that your wet sleeping bag will freeze at night and you still set off in the darkness of an Antarctic winter to nick some penguin eggs.



Heros and masochists.

Pauliedragon

Winter is about as fun as genital warts. How can you like multiple layers of clothing, dark constantly and pissy rain as opposed to Summer, shorts t shirt, long bright evenings and chicks with shorts so short you can smell their breakfast when you walk behind them.

mzungu

As long as extremes are avoided, I find winter pretty damn enjoyable. By extremes I really mean heavy rainfall because that just messes things up. Everything else can be overcome quite easily.

Wheres Me Jumper?

i hate Vinegar. cant stand the stuff, except on chips that is.

Wibbs

Fuaranach wrote: »

Vivaldi's 'Winter'

To be fair F oul Tony Vivaldi could knock up an ode to the bit of bog roll that gets stuck to the sole of your shoe and it would be bloody fantastic

Franz Von Peppercorn

Today was a lovely day. Bright. Frosty to begin with. Nip in the air. Clearly stronger sun than recently. Lovely. Mostly winter is grim though.

Favourite time of year is late April to May. The winter storms end. The sun is hot but the air is cool and less humid than later in the year.

Agricola

If it was crisp drier weather for the five/six months of Irish winter, then yes I'd like it. But as it is, its a long long time of short days, long nights, damp, cold, miserable slop outside. It gets very old by late February.