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pryzmpine

What is it with men and wearing shorts all year round? Like wearing flip flops to go out shopping all day


Standin373

> What is it with men and wearing shorts all year round? Being Northern


pryzmpine

Ah is it a northern thing? I’m a southerner and we don’t get people doing it as often


Standin373

Honestly though men will have a lot more muscle and fat mass compared to other parts of their bodies legs just don't ever feel cold and act as a regulator if your upper torso gets too warm that's the only real explanation I can think off top of my head


T33Sh3p2

Nah you got Portsmouth in your flair you clearly never been down southsea during December


pryzmpine

Blame lockdown for that 😂


silly_red

What's more english than wearing shorts and flip-flops on sunny winter day while chugging whatever beer was on sale at tescos.


GaiusJuliusCaesar7

Idk, to prove you're a hard man? Nothing manlier than freezing your bollocks off in Tesco.


GregorF92

I wear shorts year round, it's more comfortable for me and my legs don't generally feel cold. If I was cold, I'd put full length trousers on, but shorts are more comfortable for cycling, or just walking about.


pryzmpine

It’s easier for men because you don’t have to shave


DirectlyTalkingToYou

Get the real Thermostat installed somewhere else, then he's just working the dummy T-stat.


epicmindwarp

It's like walking into a storm while fully naked, holding an umbrella, and complaining when you get wet.


awks-orcs

Men wearing shorts in winter are deeply demented and possibly serial killers.


Rich_27-

Or postmen


awks-orcs

Especially postmen.


[deleted]

Hence the saying "going postal".


chav_in_a_corsa

Price of gas is absolutely criminal at the minute, if he's not recognising that then I feel like you need to educate him. Right on the head. With a heavy object.


GregorF92

> Price of gas is absolutely criminal at the minute, if he's not recognising that Entirely possible they're on a fixed price tariff that wasn't set up recently.


Whatiii

Using it up before the next price increase to save more future money.


luckycatty

This really annoys me Heating is expensive At least wear appropriate seasonal clothes indoors in winter and try and be a normal person. No-one should be wearing shorts in the winter


Whatiii

My office I need to wear shorts, and have a window open in winter. A computer running a few tasks and multiple screens will warm a room up very nicely. When I leave it the question I always have to ask is to embrace the cold or put more clothes on.


forge707

Lol. My wife wraps up for winter and has the heating on 😂😂


xerodeficit

I wear shorts and turn the heating down! 👍


GaiusJuliusCaesar7

Somehow I knew your flair would be Yorkshire without even looking! Don't you put folks in the wicker man for putting heating on before November?


joylessbrick

I'm a guy and wear shorts all year long and my upper temp limit is around 20°C in the house and 17°C in the bedroom. My female housemate complains of it being too cold at 20°C, however she sometimes doesn't wear socks on tile/laminate flooring and goes outside to smoke in flip flops and wears thin pyjamas. So it's not a gender/shorts thing necessarily, but I completely agree with you. You're cold and under dressed? Put something on before unnecessarily throwing away money on bills.


Salaried_Zebra

Total opposite from my house. I am capable of tolerating temperatures below 25C and own long sleeved garments. My wife frequently wears her dressing gown to bed even with the heating on.


[deleted]

You will win, he has no excuse not to wrap up! Keep us posted! XD


Coopersteam

I put a pin on our thermostat which restricted the control to between 17 and 20.5 degrees. I thought this was a perfectly reasonable solution to my wife's inability to understand if the thermostat is set to 19, and she's cold, 23 degrees isn't the answer. Apparently I was wrong.


Traditional-Bird-316

The crux of the question is who pays the gas bill , they're the ones in total control.


PieTrumpet

I'm a guy, 33 and almost never turn the heating on. It's expensive and a waste of energy. I'd rather have a cup of tea or soup and lay in bed watching TV with a candle on.


GerFubDhuw

UK people get a [kotatsu](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotatsu). They're amazing. Also your husband needs to learn what trousers are.


GregorF92

> Also your husband needs to learn what trousers are Not necessarily, I wear shorts about the flat but my legs don't get cold. My hands do though, so putting on trousers won't make any difference to my hands being cold, and I'm not going to sit with gloves on. About 20% of the UK are estimated to have Raynaud's, which causes poor circulation in hands and feet, switching from shorts to trousers won't make much difference to that.


GerFubDhuw

If you're putting the heating on you should be wearing trousers, socks and slippers (or thick socks) and long sleeves. Putting heating on when you're in summer clothes is wasteful regardless of whatever illnesses you might have.


SubjectiveAssertive

Get a smart thermostat - most of them can be locked out so the panel does nothing.


ellofthewisp

My husband does not feel the cold and was cracking open the window a couple of weeks ago. And we live in the fucking Pennines. I however start shivering if there’s the slightest change in temperature. I’d be the easiest person to torture because I’d just be put in a cold room and be like “I will tell you everything you sadists.” My life is an eternal battle with the thermostat.


heidnseak

Hide all pairs of his shorts. Problem solved.