How cold is "fucking cold?"

[NoJo]

HUGE, 200 pt headlines in the newspaper last night --
-10º

-- that's Celcius - which is 14º F.

My brother in Chicago is unimpressed, as is my Russian mother who remembers -40º winters from her childhood. I don't know whether she meant Farenheit or Celcius.*

But to me it feels fucking cold.

What's "fucking cold" to you?



*By a nice coincidence -40F is the same as -40C.

 

[wishfulthinking]

Anthing below -6 feels the same to me - fucking freezing.

Where I live, there isn't much of a polarisation between winter and summer [notice I don't mention the other seasons, because all we seem to have is hot and hotter ] Winter during the night might get down to 9 or 6 degrees celcius. Summer peak during the day - about 36, maybe 40 degrees celcius. Summer nights might get down to 26, 27 degrees C.

 

[hugo_sam]

HUGE, 200 pt headlines in the newspaper last night --
-10º

-- that's Celcius - which is 14º F.

My brother in Chicago is unimpressed, as is my Russian mother who remembers -40º winters from her childhood. I don't know whether she meant Farenheit or Celcius.*

But to me it feels fucking cold.

What's "fucking cold" to you?



*Actaally, by a nice coincidence -40F is the same as -40C.

Not wanting to waffle on your question, but again I think it is situational and not dependant on actual temperature.
If you have been in bed with your lover and having fun, under the covers, then if the heat is off and you get out of the warm bed, 50F would be fucking cold. In western NY after a winter's worth of cold weather, the first time the temp gets into the upper 20's F then it is warm enough for short periods of shorts and t-shirts. In south Alabama, in the 20's F is pretty much always funking cold. It think it is point of view and what you are accustomed to.
IMHO
Hugo

 

[australwind]

Anthing below -6 feels the same to me - fucking freezing.

Where I live, there isn't much of a polarisation between winter and summer [notice I don't mention the other seasons, because all we seem to have is hot and hotter ] Winter during the night might get down to 9 or 6 degrees celcius. Summer peak during the day - about 36, maybe 40 degrees celcius. Summer nights might get down to 26, 27 degrees C.

All I know is its fucking hot here now.....

 

[dr_mabeuse]

The coldest day we had in Chicago was January 20, 1985. The temperature was -27 F, which is about -33 degrees C. WIth the wind gusting to 36 mph, the effective temperature (what we call the wind chill) was -93 d F.

Still, it didn't seem as cold to me as did a night a few years earlier when it got down to about -18 F and I decided to walk out to a bar just to see what it was like. The streets were absolutely deserted and there wasn't a sound but the wind blowing the dry snow around. The air felt like crystal and seemed to cut into your face like shards of glass, and the breath froze on the rims of your nostrils. You could almost imagine hearing wolves in the streets. It hurt to blink your eyes.

Hugo, you can talk about relativity, but there's a point where cold stops being cold and just turns into pain. I think it happens around that temperature. That's just fucking absolute cold.

--Zoot

 

[impressive]

When the moisture inside your nose instantly freezes each time you inhale, it's fucking cold.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

When the moisture inside your nose instantly freezes each time you inhale, it's fucking cold.

I like it when you wear a scarf around your mouth and your breath freezes in it. Then when you get inside and it thaws, you can smell what you had for lunch.

Yeah. That's great.

 

[carsonshepherd]

When the moisture inside your nose instantly freezes each time you inhale, it's fucking cold.

Amen.

I lived in Milwaukee before I came here. The coldest I remember it being was -30F, so cold that temperature was irrelevant. Cars wouldn't start and locks froze all over the city;but we pulled on our long underwear, mittens, sweaters and hats and carried on. But down here where I live now, 30 is considered cold, because people don't wear enough clothes.

 

[NoJo]

Amen.

I lived in Milwaukee before I came here. The coldest I remember it being was -30F, so cold that temperature was irrelevant. Cars wouldn't start and locks froze all over the city;but we pulled on our long underwear, mittens, sweaters and hats and carried on. But down here where I live now, 30 is considered cold, because people don't wear enough clothes.

You sound so exactly like my mother, its worrying.

 

[carsonshepherd]

You sound so exactly like my mother, its worrying.

I thought I told you to zip that coat!

 

[cloudy]

I was raised in SoCal, and live in Alabama now, so for me, any time it's under 35 F, it's fucking cold.

I went to Denmark one winter (silly, I know), and had to be met at the airport with clothes, because I didn't own anything appropriate, and couldn't find it to buy, either.

 

[Boota]

With the exception of the chill coming off the lake it usually stays about the same temperature here in north central Indiana as it is in Chicago, give or take a few degrees. I don't remember the exact temp, but I think it might have been around 1985 like Doc mentioned. It was so cold that cars would freeze on the highway while they were driving at full speed. The State Police were out in specially suited vehicles picking up stranded motorists and promptly taking them to jail for violating the state of emergency orders. When you're driving at 55 mph and even then your car isn't generating enough heat not to freeze, that is fucking cold.

 

[Alex756]

Being from the phallus of cold (watch a map in the winter there is a penis shaped cold area over northern minesota often).

When your contacts freeze to your eye ball between blinks is my deffinition. So I take the wind into consideration alot. That being said, a properly maintained car will run fine in the cold in the US. 57 bellow the morning I was born, my dear father had left the old LTD in the driveway and she started on the first try ahh parents.

~Alex

 

[Liar]

When it's too cold to fuck, I guess.

Humans are made of 60% water, or something like that. Water turns solid at 0 C. That's too cold for me.

Then why the hell do I live up there, you ask. I've asked myself the same thing countless of times. Brrr.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Watched "March of the Penguins" with the kiddos the other day... -48, folks, there at the ole South Pole... I wonder if penguins get cold??

and then I thought, holy cow, someone is FILMING this out there in this weather!!! That's dedication... yeowch!

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

HUGE, 200 pt headlines in the newspaper last night --
-10º

-- that's Celcius - which is 14º F.

My brother in Chicago is unimpressed, as is my Russian mother who remembers -40º winters from her childhood. I don't know whether she meant Farenheit or Celcius.*

But to me it feels fucking cold.

What's "fucking cold" to you?

*By a nice coincidence -40F is the same as -40C.

That'll do for me.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[zeb1094]

The coldest day we had in Chicago was January 20, 1985. The temperature was -27 F, which is about -33 degrees C. WIth the wind gusting to 36 mph, the effective temperature (what we call the wind chill) was -93 d F.

Still, it didn't seem as cold to me as did a night a few years earlier when it got down to about -18 F and I decided to walk out to a bar just to see what it was like. The streets were absolutely deserted and there wasn't a sound but the wind blowing the dry snow around. The air felt like crystal and seemed to cut into your face like shards of glass, and the breath froze on the rims of your nostrils. You could almost imagine hearing wolves in the streets. It hurt to blink your eyes.

Hugo, you can talk about relativity, but there's a point where cold stops being cold and just turns into pain. I think it happens around that temperature. That's just fucking absolute cold.

--Zoot

I remember that night! I was working at the then Rosemont Horizon at a Tennis Match. We had to chip the ice off the inside of the doors with fire axes in order to open them after the match was over. The ice was 2 inches thick. That's the only night that my car wouldn't start.

 

[Lisa Denton]

I read the story about that guy who was left for dead on Mount Everest, or some Mount Sumpthin, but then he lived.

Anywho, after he came home he said he was walking down his hallway and his nose fell off.

Its ok, they grew another one on his forehead for months and then stuck it where a nose goes.

I dunno, but I figure anyone whose nose fell off, knows what "fuckin cold" is.

 

[Honey123]

I am always cold.

I love the Winter season, but I could just as well do without.

I think I saw the Discovery Channel episode that Lisa is talking about. I don't remember the nose being grown off his forehead....

 

[NoJo]

I read the story about that guy who was left for dead on Mount Everest, or some Mount Sumpthin, but then he lived.

Anywho, after he came home he said he was walking down his hallway and his nose fell off.

Its ok, they grew another one on his forehead for months and then stuck it where a nose goes.

I dunno, but I figure anyone whose nose fell off, knows what "fuckin cold" is.

Personally I'd have just left it on my forehead. Near enough.

 

[rgraham666]

Closest I came to fucking cold was when I lived in Northern British Columbia, and worked for the railroad, night shift, outdoors.

The temp was -60 Fahrenheit, approx -50 Celsius. I spit and it froze before it hit the ground.

It got nearly that bad once here in Toronto, about 12 years ago. I missed my last bus to work. Buses and subways were all screwed up. So I walked the last four kilometers to work. I had an inch of ice in my beard by the time I got to work. I also got dinged for being an irresponsible asshole by being very late.

 

[NoJo]

Closest I came to fucking cold was when I lived in Northern British Columbia, and worked for the railroad, night shift, outdoors.

The temp was -60 Fahrenheit, approx -50 Celsius. I spit and it froze before it hit the ground.

It got nearly that bad once here in Toronto, about 12 years ago. I missed my last bus to work. Buses and subways were all screwed up. So I walked the last four kilometers to work. I had an inch of ice in my beard by the time I got to work. I also got dinged for being an irresponsible asshole by being very late.

It might have been fun to try tking a piss.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

The coldest temperature down here in Southern Illinois that I can remember is about -25 F the winter my son was born. A few weeks ago, it was 13 F and our furnace went out, so of course what you think is "fucking cold" seems to change when you have no heat. I think it just depends on the situation, I can handle anything from the warmth of my house, lol. Most of the winter here, we think 25F is pretty decent weather.

 

[Lisa Denton]

I am always cold.

I love the Winter season, but I could just as well do without.

I think I saw the Discovery Channel episode that Lisa is talking about. I don't remember the nose being grown off his forehead....

Oooooh, I missed the movie?

I read the book. Anywho, after his nose fell off they had to make one that wouldn't be rejected. You can't just stick anybodys nose on your face (that sounds kinky). So they grew a nose on his forehead for a long time, then they
put it in the right place when it was full grown or sumpthin.

I remember that part good because he knew who his one good buddy was. While his nose was growin on his forehead he would usually wear a knit hat to cover it, but if peoples seen it they would go "uck, gross" and look away and stuff. His good buddy seen his nose growin on his forehead and fell on the ground Laffin.

 

[NoJo]

Oooooh, I missed the movie?

I read the book. Anywho, after his nose fell off they had to make one that wouldn't be rejected. You can't just stick anybodys nose on your face (that sounds kinky). So they grew a nose on his forehead for a long time, then they
put it in the right place when it was full grown or sumpthin.

I remember that part good because he knew who his one good buddy was. While his nose was growin on his forehead he would usually wear a knit hat to cover it, but if peoples seen it they would go "uck, gross" and look away and stuff. His good buddy seen his nose growin on his forehead and fell on the ground Laffin.

Could have been worse: He could have been a dickhead.