The Weather Thread.

[Wage Slave]

Eat your heart out Tacky:

http://www.marksandspencer.com/l/men/all-shoes/slippers-n-c3jsv

[dimwit]

Now there is a thought. Slippers that don't actually make you look like a dork. Marks and Spencer. Sigh. That is something I miss about England.

[Samurai_Jerk]

there is just a slight quantitative(not qualitative) difference between normal socks and camping thick socks. it means you need not to be particular about it. or you guys are on barefoot in the room? conversely if you stick to such a trivial difference, you should not wear any clothes indoors, while making your room temperature a tropical one.
and i just dont like the airs dry by heating, which hurts my skin and throat and the smell of kerosene causes me a bad headache.

If you're getting headaches from your kerosene heater, you need to find out where the leak is.

[kurogane]

Allowing that all slippers are even gayer than all manbags those M&S ones actually look like they might pass muster. They probably come in adult foot sizes and you can slip them on. Hence the term, me thinks.

Out of curiosity, have any other slipper haters ever managed to negotiate a long term detente over their use (by which I mean one's inalienable right not to bother wrapping one's feet in useless ill fitting filth traps)?

[Taro Toporific]

...have any other slipper haters ever managed to negotiate a long term detente over their use (by which I mean one's inalienable right not to bother wrapping one's feet in useless ill fitting filth traps)?

Never ever worn slippers in my 30 years here---I just point to my 30cm EEEEE feet and say 合わない/don't fit.

[matsuki]

You forgot "death traps" Kuro...I saw a dude lose his slipper and take out a few people in one of those "in a real historic building" museums with narrow stairs. (No handrails either)

I don't mind slippers but hardly need them to keep me warm as I wear merino wool and olefin socks. Cotton socks are fucking terrible.

[Grumpy Gramps]

your body gets to be cold from your feet.

Wrong, the head it is, where the body heat gets lost. Heat always goes up and out as in a chimney. A good ushanka would be more important than germy slippers.

Watch and learn

[Samurai_Jerk]

You forgot "death traps" Kuro...I saw a dude lose his slipper and take out a few people in one of those "in a real historic building" museums with narrow stairs. (No handrails either)

I don't mind slippers but hardly need them to keep me warm as I wear merino wool and olefin socks. Cotton socks are fucking terrible.

Word. Those merino wool socks are the shit. My last pair just wore out. Gotta get more before next winter.

[matsuki]

your body gets to be cold from your feet.

Wrong, the head it is, where the body heat gets lost. Heat always goes up and out as in a chimney. A good ushanka would be more important than germy slippers.

Watch and learn

He's using soccermom "logic" Grumpy.

Yeah, your hands and feet feel cold first but it's just a result of your body regulating blood protecting your vital organs and brain.

[matsuki]

You forgot "death traps" Kuro...I saw a dude lose his slipper and take out a few people in one of those "in a real historic building" museums with narrow stairs. (No handrails either)

I don't mind slippers but hardly need them to keep me warm as I wear merino wool and olefin socks. Cotton socks are fucking terrible.

Word. Those merino wool socks are the shit. My last pair just wore out. Gotta get more before next winter.

Just as good in the summer. They keep your feet cooler and wick away sweat

[wagyl]

wick away swear.

Fucking oath!

[matsuki]

fixed...ain't nobody wicking away my swear!

[kurogane]

Word. Those merino wool socks are the shit. My last pair just wore out. Gotta get more before next winter.

LLBean Japan. BTW, merino works all year, but for that you might need icebreaker.com, or REI. Seriously, that lightweight shit is bomb in the heat. Weird stuff, myan.

PS slippers = gay = brightly coloured manbag

[Grumpy Gramps]

He's using soccermom "logic" Grumpy.

Hmm, I tried this out just this winter, because I heard this theory - sometimes in great detail - from several sources and was puzzlified. Did some doggie walks with good foot wear, but no hat and then some dog walks barefoot in my crocks but with a warm hat. The latter definitely felt warmer and more comfy to me. But then, it was not really cold, just about freezing.

BTW: What is soccermom logic?

[wagyl]

Hmm, I tried this out just this winter, because I heard this theory - sometimes in great detail - from several sources and was puzzlified. Did some doggie walks with good foot wear, but no hat and then some dog walks barefoot in my crocks but with a warm hat. The latter definitely felt warmer and more comfy to me. But then, it was not really cold, just about freezing.

This seems to be the current popular science view. https://www.theguardian.com/science/200 ... nbehaviour

[Coligny]

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BTW: What is soccermom logic?

When some native american with an axe to grind aboot smallpox blankets give winter living advices going against a prepper...

You cover your hands and feets to protect them from freezing injuries, you cover your head and chest to stay alive...
But for some people the brain seems to be designed only as a blood cooling device... (Belief held by most of my highschool teachers... Especially the math teachers...)

Sidenote, didun't check the video (internet dreadfully slow these days) but I hope he cover the importance of layered clothing that you can pull on/off to avoid -at all cost- sweating in cold weather/heavy clothes.

[Russell]

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BTW: What is soccermom logic?

When some native american with an axe to grind aboot smallpox blankets give winter living advices going against a prepper...

You cover your hands and feets to protect them from freezing injuries, you cover your head and chest to stay alive...
But for some people the brain seems to be designed only as a blood cooling device... (Belief held by most of my highschool teachers... Especially the math teachers...)

Sidenote, didun't check the video (internet dreadfully slow these days) but I hope he cover the importance of layered clothing that you can pull on/off to avoid -at all cost- sweating in cold weather/heavy clothes.

Nope, he assumes that he doesn't have that many clothes.

Rather, he makes the straw man argument that one should dress like a Muslim woman...

[Coligny]

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BTW: What is soccermom logic?

When some native american with an axe to grind aboot smallpox blankets give winter living advices going against a prepper...

You cover your hands and feets to protect them from freezing injuries, you cover your head and chest to stay alive...
But for some people the brain seems to be designed only as a blood cooling device... (Belief held by most of my highschool teachers... Especially the math teachers...)

Sidenote, didun't check the video (internet dreadfully slow these days) but I hope he cover the importance of layered clothing that you can pull on/off to avoid -at all cost- sweating in cold weather/heavy clothes.

Nope, he assumes that he doesn't have that many clothes.

Rather, he makes the straw man argument that one should dress like a Muslim woman...

Great, now I have to watch that video because yer splainin' makes as much sense as a 1980 japanese VCR instruction manual...

[Grumpy Gramps]

This seems to be the current popular science view. https://www.theguardian.com/science/200 ... nbehaviour

Interesting this, thanks. Though it doesn't say, how much heat you lose without proper head gear vs with headgear. To go walk the dogs in winter wearing only a swim suit as the article says, though, is IMO a slightly less realistic scenario. But then, these are the scientists, not me; what do I know...

[Coligny]

This seems to be the current popular science view. https://www.theguardian.com/science/200 ... nbehaviour

Interesting this, thanks. Though it doesn't say, how much heat you lose without proper head gear vs with headgear. To go walk the dogs in winter wearing only a swim suit as the article says, though, is IMO a slightly less realistic scenario. But then, these are the scientists, not me; what do I know...

As is the rule these days, I'll wait for the study debunking the study...

[kurogane]

This seems to be the current popular science view. https://www.theguardian.com/science/200 ... nbehaviour

Interesting this, thanks. Though it doesn't say, how much heat you lose without proper head gear vs with headgear. To go walk the dogs in winter wearing only a swim suit as the article says, though, is IMO a slightly less realistic scenario. But then, these are the scientists, not me; what do I know...

We in Canadia were also quite surprised by this debunking of a dearly held myth, but you are still right in that it's warmer with a hat. Coz that way even less heat is lost. As for your weird winter shoe choice, could it not be that your feet are smaller than your head and so lose less heat overall? Or confrmation bias and differences in your own meatbolism, mood, etc. on the days in question? At any rate, MOST heat is not lost through the head but some is, that chimney effect is apparetly not as strong as we were taught, and it's still warmer when you wear a hat. At least until Coligny's debunking the debunking study comes out.

[wagyl]

This seems to be the current popular science view. https://www.theguardian.com/science/200 ... nbehaviour

Interesting this, thanks. Though it doesn't say, how much heat you lose without proper head gear vs with headgear. To go walk the dogs in winter wearing only a swim suit as the article says, though, is IMO a slightly less realistic scenario. But then, these are the scientists, not me; what do I know...

The article suggests that you would lose 10% of body heat from the head, if you were completely naked. Where the 45% figures came from is that you would lose 45% of your body heat from your head if your head was naked and the rest of your body was in an Arctic survival suit. And that makes sense.

You are correct that perception of cold and where body heat actually dissipates from can be different. I know that I feel a lot happier about my conditions if my feet are warm. Even though I generally dislike hats, I do wear them when it is cold enough. Then again, I also have a hairy face.

As an experiment, go into your tiled bathroom floor in bare feet. Try it first without a hat. Then try it with a hat. Does the second feel 45% more comfortable?

[Takechanpoo]

namely it means that your body becomes cold from the part of thinly wrapping up and the part touching something cold, doesnt it?
and it also depends on the conditions. that thing is easy to understand in everyday life without having to quote scientific research.
in the case of me, what i need to warm rather than the rest in my rooms is my feet always touching fucking cold wooden floors.

[yanpa]

Shurely you mean "fake wood effect veneer floors"? Hint: carpet.

[Takechanpoo]

i dont like carpet which makes room dustyfeeling. and also dont like curtain for the same reason(i favor using window blinds for years).
you would be surprised to see how my rooms are dreary coz im a long time minimalist.

[matsuki]

BTW: What is soccermom logic?

Pretty much this:

that thing is easy to understand in everyday life without having to quote scientific research.

[Grumpy Gramps]

You are correct that perception of cold and where body heat actually dissipates from can be different. I know that I feel a lot happier about my conditions if my feet are warm. Even though I generally dislike hats, I do wear them when it is cold enough. Then again, I also have a hairy face.

Maybe, the (flawed?) perception comes as well from the memories of days long past, when my younger self often went into the great outdoors and spent the odd cold autumn/winter night somewhere in the mountains tucked up behind a rock to protect me from the wind and half of the rain/snow. Regulation of tempereture was easily done by sticking my head out of the sleeping bag when too warm and pulling it back in, when it got too cold.

[Coligny]

At least until Coligny's debunking the debunking study comes out.

Hats works for me in winter. Study say they do not...
Good for them. until they make a law aboot it to micromanage everyone I will keep on not giving a fuck 'boot the new claim of the week coming out of the grauniaud...

Meanwhile...
I'll keep my chapkas...
even moar debunk by staying in mah bunk when is too cold...
or abuse the remote start to prewarm the whip... cheap diesel ftw...

[Coligny]

What I think I look like...

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What I more likely look like:

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What google think I want for answer when searching for "idiot with chapka":

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[Mike Oxlong]

28 right now. Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate.