katie [email] said at 1:29 PM 03-17-2006: tell them to put on a sweater and eat some soup. tell them it's nice and warm in hell, where they're going. tell them it's probably just their frigid vaginas.
abby [email] said at 1:47 PM 03-17-2006: this comes up at the cafe a lot. students huddle around the outlets by the floor to ceiling windows, and then ask me why its so cold, can i turn up the heat. you're sitting in front of twelve-foot wall of windows!
i wonder if some people are naturally cold. it also seems to be a piece of social conditioning, prominent in women between the ages of 30 and infinity. in my experiences anyway. is it lupus?
woody [email] said at 2:54 PM 03-17-2006: We have a row of cubicles, 6 women in a row. At any given time, 2 of them are running space heaters, two are running fans. They are having climate battles, and then the next day, they switch teams!
art [email] said at 3:37 PM 03-17-2006: I saw an excellent documentary once that followed an Air Force experiment on two of their fighter pilots to see whether women got colder as per popular wisdom.
They put one male and one female in an environmental chamber and slowly lowered the temperature and recorded the changes using infrared sensors. Both sexes started out the same when it came to thermal distribution. As it got colder the man's body cooled consistently throughout but the woman's extremities cooled a lot quicker while her core remained warmer.
The researchers concluded that women rob heat from their extremities to keep their core temperature up as a survival mechanism because they may be carrying a baby and it has to be protected
emily [email] said at 4:01 PM 03-17-2006: I find that fat people are always hot and skinny people are always cold. If your in between you have neither problem.
carla [email] said at 4:49 PM 03-17-2006: I'm a 'tweener and I'm always cold.
And believe me, it annoys MYSELF.
Everynight during winter I stick the blowdryer down my pants, when I get out of the shower I blowdry myself. I sleep with a sweater on and two blankets.
It drives Chris crazy.
julie [email] said at 1:12 AM 03-18-2006: I'm always cold, too. At work I wear an extra sweater, and some days when it's really bad, a scarf and a lap blanket. My fingernails turn blue at my desk if I drink a cold drink. I sleep in what most people would wear on an Arctic expedition.
The weird thing is, I complained about always being cold to my last boyfriend, and he looked at me like I was crazy. He said, "Are you kidding me? You're always warm, you're like a little heater! You skinny people with fast metabolisms are always warm."
luster [email] said at 5:42 PM 03-17-2006: i ALWAYS get cold too. that is why i think im still in arizona... the hottest place of all time besides hell. that blowdryer down the pants works good though. when i was little all of my siblings and i would fight over the blowdryer in the winter mornings.
meredith [email] said at 1:28 AM 03-18-2006: If people would put the damn heat on in the winter things would be better. I keep a sweater in my office and drink coffee.
But I hate when people whine about temperature in general. Hot or cold.
reggie [email] said at 11:23 AM 03-18-2006: I'm always cold and I hate being cold. I hate cold weather. Being cold makes me sleepy. It's why I tend to nod off when I go the movies 'cuz movie theaters are always cold (and yet I continue to go the movies all the time, go figure.)
