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Would you rather be hot or cold? (1 Viewer)

Which would you choose?

  • Feeling very cold

    Votes: 62 34.8%

  • Feeling very hot

    Votes: 109 61.2%

  • Hate both equally

    Votes: 5 2.8%

  • Neither bothers me

    Votes: 2 1.1%
  • Total voters
    178
gianmarco

gianmarco

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Pretty simple. If given the choice, would you rather be more uncomfortably cold or uncomfortably hot (i.e. no heat in the house during winter or no AC during summer......being outdoors for a game in frigid cold vs. same but in stifling heat)?

And no, I'm not talking about just bundling up so you can be comfortable in the cold. I mean actually feeling cold or sweating your nuts off and there's nothing you can do to remedy that situation.

 
Tough call.

If I'm outside, I'd rather be too hot.

If I'm inside, I'd rather be too cold.

If you're serious about not being able to remedy the situation at all, I'll take too cold.

 
I'd rather be too hot. But if I lived further south I'm pretty sure I'd say I'd rather be too cold. The grass is always greener.

 
I'll take being too hot easily. Being too cold is so uncomfortable. Ever been to an outdoor game when it's cold and getting wet and just feeling cold and miserable? Or staying at someone's house who keeps it at 60 degrees at night and you've got only a top sheet with no blanket? I HATE that.

Gimme the heat and it's not even close.

 
gianmarco said:
I'll take being too hot easily. Being too cold is so uncomfortable. Ever been to an outdoor game when it's cold and getting wet and just feeling cold and miserable? Or staying at someone's house who keeps it at 60 degrees at night and you've got only a top sheet with no blanket? I HATE that.

Gimme the heat and it's not even close.
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:goodposting:

 
Unless youre like stuck in the middle of nowhere in the middle of winter, there's always a remedy to actually get warmer.

I understand thats not the parameters youre asking, but I prefer being cold because yes, I can always find a way to warm myself up. I cant stand being too hot, stuck in a building thats too hot for my liking, or being outdoors when its 90+ degrees and Im not by the ocean or a pool.

 
I'm ignoring the "hate both equally" option because it's boring and doesn't help your poll, but normally 99% of people would hate both equally because you're talking about hot and cold outside of the human comfort zone.

So I'm just going with cold.

 
Too hot 100%. It just doesn't bother me like the cold does. I will say the one thing that makes the heat absolutely suck is if I'm hungover/dehydrated. Then it makes me feel like I'm overheating and need to puke.

Side note: Today's January weather here = 61 and sunny :thumbsup:

 
Given the rules, are we to assume that in this hypothetical we are stuck inside?

Because being outside when it's too hot or too cold with no means to remedy the situation is generally dangerous.

I don't get cold very easily, so if I'm stuck outside for too long in weather I find cold, am way under-dressed, and can't build a fire, hypothermia probably isn't too far off.

Same with uncomfortable heat without access to water or shade.

In that scenario, it has to be too cold.

There are few things more miserable than being stuck inside a house with a cold-natured woman in charge of the thermostat.

My usual remedy is to be outside, again, I take it that's not an option?

 
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I am stuck on this choice.

I hate cold during the day but sleep very well when it is cold under many blankets.

I love heat during the day but can't sleep in even mildly hot weather.

 
As someone who works outside, I'll take the cold. Not really close either. It's gonna be 4 degrees tomorrow? Ok, I'll just layer up. It's gonna be 104 degrees tomorrow? I'm screwed.

Having read the situation in the OP, I'll still pick cold.

 
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mon said:
I'm ignoring the "hate both equally" option because it's boring and doesn't help your poll, but normally 99% of people would hate both equally because you're talking about hot and cold outside of the human comfort zone.

So I'm just going with cold.
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If I hated both equally, then I think I'd give the edge to the option where women tend to take clothing off rather than put more on.

 
Man In The Box said:
As someone who works outside, I'll take the cold. Not really close either. It's gonna be 4 degrees tomorrow? Ok, I'll just layer up. It's gonna be 104 degrees tomorrow? I'm screwed.

Having read the situation in the OP, I'll still pick cold.
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I didn't read it as whether you'd rather the temperature be colder or hotter but whether you'd rather be perpetually hot or cold.

 
Christo said:
matuski said:
There is a reason people and animals go south for the winter.
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There's a reason people and animals go north for the summer.
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Certain animals maybe, I'm unaware the trend for humans to move north during the summer.

eta - Or are you referring to the animals and humans that move north when it is warm/hot again?

 
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Dippa said:
mon said:
I'm ignoring the "hate both equally" option because it's boring and doesn't help your poll, but normally 99% of people would hate both equally because you're talking about hot and cold outside of the human comfort zone.

So I'm just going with cold.
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If I hated both equally, then I think I'd give the edge to the option where women tend to take clothing off rather than put more on.
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I'd rather warm them up when they're cold.

 
As long as plenty of liquids are available, preferably cold ones, my body can deal better with uncomfortable hot.

 
Because I'm on Coumadin, I get freaking cold when it gets cold. OTOH, it's almost impossible for me now to get very hot.

I choose hot.

 
I'd rather be hotter inside the house and colder outside. I remember the heat being off in the dead of winter as much more intolerable (particularly within the parameters of the OP) than the AC being off in the summer.....plus....I remember sitting at baseball games in the sun in Mid July or Aug with that 95 degree 80% percent humidity cranking being much more painful than 20 degree and damp.

 
How long do we have to be in the heat/cold?

Short term, I'll take the cold - joining the Polar Bear club wasn't that bad.

If we're talking days and no way to remedy being hot/cold, I'll take the heat and drink gatorade.

 
Thunderlips said:
I'd rather be hotter inside the house and colder outside. I remember the heat being off in the dead of winter as much more intolerable (particularly within the parameters of the OP) than the AC being off in the summer.....plus....I remember sitting at baseball games in the sun in Mid July or Aug with that 95 degree 80% percent humidity cranking being much more painful than 20 degree and damp.
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Interesting. I'm the complete opposite.

 
I can't sleep well when I'm hot. But when I'm too cold camping I have a hard time sleeping too.

I'd rather be too hot. Cold is really miserable. I feel bad the whole time. Hot I forget about sometimes.

 
I went out to put air in the wife's car when it was -30 with wind chill here the other day. I was dressed warm, had gloves on, and a ski mask. Every exposed millimeter of skin HURT LIKE A MOTHER in that wind.

I'll take too hot ANY DAY.

 
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If its for an extended period of time, I'd choose being too hot. If it's for a short period of time (under 4 or 5 hours), I'll go cold every time. I've been in zero degrees to 130, and being in Kuwait when the heat index was over 140 was probably the worst thing I've ever experienced. 120 degrees, 96% humidity. #### that, give me the cold.

 
Doctor Detroit said:
If its for an extended period of time, I'd choose being too hot. If it's for a short period of time (under 4 or 5 hours), I'll go cold every time. I've been in zero degrees to 130, and being in Kuwait when the heat index was over 140 was probably the worst thing I've ever experienced. 120 degrees, 96% humidity. #### that, give me the cold.
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This is kind of where I fall.

But the older I get, the narrower my preferred extremes get. When I was a kid, 0 or 100 - didn't matter. Nowadays, anything over 85 or under 35 and I'm whining.

 
Doctor Detroit said:
If its for an extended period of time, I'd choose being too hot. If it's for a short period of time (under 4 or 5 hours), I'll go cold every time. I've been in zero degrees to 130, and being in Kuwait when the heat index was over 140 was probably the worst thing I've ever experienced. 120 degrees, 96% humidity. #### that, give me the cold.
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I get the impression that's more extreme than we're supposed to be considering. I'm thinking garden variety south Florida or Phoenix in the summer heat versus Chicago or Boston cold.

 
Doctor Detroit said:
If its for an extended period of time, I'd choose being too hot. If it's for a short period of time (under 4 or 5 hours), I'll go cold every time. I've been in zero degrees to 130, and being in Kuwait when the heat index was over 140 was probably the worst thing I've ever experienced. 120 degrees, 96% humidity. #### that, give me the cold.
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:yes:

There's a reason hell is supposed to be hot, not cold.

 
I grew up in Alaska, and you just have to go out in the cold to play, or you won't get to play. I got used to it.

The one thing that bugs me, though, is frozen fingers. I can handle frozen ears, nose, and toes. But frozen fingers really suck - growing up in Alaska with a fisherman dad is a bad setup for that.

 
The problem is that the weather extremes aren't equal in their magnitude.

Lets say 70 degrees and sunny is 'perfect' for human comfort. The hottest anyone has really experienced is 130. So that's a 60 degree spread.

But on the cold end, -20 is possible in the continental US, and Canada, Siberia, far north Scandinavia etc, it can get -40. So that's a 90-120 degree spread.

I'm far more comfortable at 20 degrees (50 less than perfect) than 120 (50 degrees more than perfect). But -20 ####### hurts. But to compare, that's the equivalent of 160 on the hot end, which would probably hurt worse.

 
I used to hate the cold until living on Guam for a couple years then I hated the heat. Over the years I have arrived at the point where neither really bothers me because I know one extreme will eventually give way to the other. If we are talking a perpetual condition - I would rather be perpetually hot than perpetually cold. Cold just sucks.

 
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