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The dark nights are drawing in, but we don't care: we love winter because...

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 31 August 2003 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)

1. You don't need to wear different cool clothes every day. One good coat is all it takes, then it doesn't matter what you've got on underneath, you're just always stylish.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 31 August 2003 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)

2. You don't sweat so damn much.

― hstencil, Sunday, 31 August 2003 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

3. Bears vs. Packers on Monday Night Football

― phil-two (phil-two), Sunday, 31 August 2003 21:35 (twenty-two years ago)

4. you don't need a reason to justify staying in all day!

― hstencil, Sunday, 31 August 2003 21:37 (twenty-two years ago)

5. See #2.
6. Girls in sweaters.
7. Better movies than summer

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 31 August 2003 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)

8. I don't get sunburnt.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 31 August 2003 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)

9. CHRISTMAS

― Venga, Sunday, 31 August 2003 21:46 (twenty-two years ago)

10. HANNUKAH!
11. KWAANZA!
12. RAMADAN!

― hstencil, Sunday, 31 August 2003 21:50 (twenty-two years ago)

13. SANTARCHY! -- the streets will run RED with the blood of the non-Santa!

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Sunday, 31 August 2003 22:39 (twenty-two years ago)

14. No more fucking salads

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 31 August 2003 22:40 (twenty-two years ago)

15. fall is better
16. but here it stays pretty much temperate through winter

― dengo matherton (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 31 August 2003 22:42 (twenty-two years ago)

cos when its winter for you, its summer for me!

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Sunday, 31 August 2003 22:43 (twenty-two years ago)

18. seeing Greek Cherokees with 4x4 capability, stuck in snowdrifts.

with new jersey plates.

SUCK ON ANN ARBOR WINTER! AWWWWW YEAH

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Sunday, 31 August 2003 22:45 (twenty-two years ago)

winter sucks

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 1 September 2003 00:39 (twenty-two years ago)

sexist!

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 1 September 2003 00:48 (twenty-two years ago)

19. Cuddling up in a warm blanket, drinking hot chocolate, watching it snow outside.
20. Christmas lights. I like the little white ones strung on trees.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Monday, 1 September 2003 00:53 (twenty-two years ago)

it snowed here this weekend, well 35 miles away.

― keith (keithmcl), Monday, 1 September 2003 00:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I mean there ARE definitely nice things to say about winter but if you spent January and February here I don't think you'd be sayin' them!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 1 September 2003 01:00 (twenty-two years ago)

21. Christmas music

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 1 September 2003 01:05 (twenty-two years ago)

like jingle cats?

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 1 September 2003 01:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes. And the Chipmunk's Christmas, played too fast or too slow.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 1 September 2003 01:09 (twenty-two years ago)

22. My birthday!
23. Cool weather!
24. Sun not so strong!
25. Long-sleeved blouses!
26. Hot cocoa & lots and lots of lovely hot coffee!
27. Soup/stew season!
28. Outdoors time!

Winter winter winter winter I LOVE WINTER!

― Just Deanna (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 1 September 2003 01:37 (twenty-two years ago)

yes, i always forget how much better coffee is in winter.

― dengo matherton (dubplatestyle), Monday, 1 September 2003 01:39 (twenty-two years ago)

It is good. In winter.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 1 September 2003 01:40 (twenty-two years ago)

29. Flannel pajamas

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 1 September 2003 01:48 (twenty-two years ago)

30. YULE LOGS!

― hstencil, Monday, 1 September 2003 01:51 (twenty-two years ago)

31. Candy canes easier to find.
32. Accidental melting far less likely.
33. Cautionary tale "Grandma got run over by a reindeer" saves many elderly from death at the hooves of ruminant mammals

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 1 September 2003 01:53 (twenty-two years ago)

34. Egg motherfuckin' Nog!

― hstencil, Monday, 1 September 2003 01:54 (twenty-two years ago)

35. Ginger motherfuckin bread!

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 1 September 2003 01:58 (twenty-two years ago)

36. Christmas cookies in great abundance.
37. Ice skating.
38. Watching the way small dogs have to leap through deep snow.
39. Big cozy scarves.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Monday, 1 September 2003 02:02 (twenty-two years ago)

40. Drinking liquor to "stay warm."

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 1 September 2003 02:07 (twenty-two years ago)

(This thread is alternately cheering me up and bumming me out; I wasn't sure I'd have any for the list, since the prospect of the upcoming winter here strikes me as incredibly bleak and depressing. But there are obviously good things about it, too, even without cheating and thinking of "winter" in terms of "New Orleans winter.")

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 1 September 2003 02:14 (twenty-two years ago)

40. Furry Ear Muffs

― Carey (Carey), Monday, 1 September 2003 02:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Tep - winter in Bloomington isn't that bad! Buck up!

― hstencil, Monday, 1 September 2003 02:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm trying, I'm trying. I was okay with it, but a classmate moved here from Hawaii/New Orleans/California, and said that it took her years to get used to the grey slush. The grey slush is what does me in! Fluffy white, that's fine, terrific, but grey slush is terrible.

(On the other hand: the first time it snows, campus is going to look gorgeous.)

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 1 September 2003 02:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, you gotta take your small pleasures from winter I guess.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 1 September 2003 02:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm pretty sure Southern Indiana doesn't get all that much snow! What's the annual snowfall situation like there? Can't be much more than Louisville, where I grew up.

― hstencil, Monday, 1 September 2003 02:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I asked the mailman and a few other people when I moved here, and they gave the "well, it ain't like it used to be!" answer, which was virtually identical to the answer I give when people ask me what winter is like in NH -- except for magnitude. It sounds like the last ten years, things have been a lot more mild, with a lot less snow, than they used to be, but you'll still get a big storm once in awhile (Bloomington's surrounded by lakes, so the humidity in general is higher than it would be otherwise, and I'd guess maybe the precipitation too).

It's just nervousness. Isn't that weird? I haven't spent more than four or five days in winter in ages, and those four or five days always made me sick because I was travelling from sixty degrees to zero.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 1 September 2003 02:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Bloomington's not surrounded by GREAT lakes. Seriously though, you lived in Massachusetts, right? Well winter anywhere in Indiana south of Indianapolis is not nearly as bad as it is in the Berkshires.

― hstencil, Monday, 1 September 2003 02:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Dug a tunnel from the second floor to the driveway when I was five. I probably have nothing to worry about :)

(But I need to buy pants!)

(I know, ILE is anti-shorts-on-men anyway. Me buying pants is hardly a bad thing.)

I'll be able to buy boots for the -- oh, here we go:

41. BOOTS. Do you know how silly you look wearing boots and shorts in New Orleans? Pretty much just as silly as you look wearing boots and shorts anywhere else in the world. So I don't own boots. And now I will.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 1 September 2003 02:48 (twenty-two years ago)

42. Moon Boots
43. Those kiddie gloves that change color in the cold.

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 1 September 2003 05:13 (twenty-two years ago)

44.Sledding

― oops (Oops), Monday, 1 September 2003 06:43 (twenty-two years ago)

oops your email address is cracking me up

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 1 September 2003 06:46 (twenty-two years ago)

45. Sliding on ice. (I can't ice skate)

(btw, I just realized that I have royally fucked myself up doing both of the previous two activities. Broke my collarbone in 5th grade when my friend's sister pushed me while playing on ice. Also, had to have paramedics trudge through a half mile of snow to come rescue me when I hit a tree while sledding and couldn't move my legs)

― oops (Oops), Monday, 1 September 2003 06:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Why autumn/winter RoXoR's for me:
a) It's not hot.
b) The days are shorter.
c) I can wear more and better clothes.
d) It's easier to sleep and generally take it easy.
e) My appetite for food returns, especially cakes.
f) I feel more creative.
g) The winter sky.
h) It snow's if I'm lucky.
i) Christmas. I love Christmas, and the great X-mas shutdown.
j) I can go for long walks and not see many people.
k) Orion is in the sky at night.
l) Music sounds better.

I'm always just generally happier when the summer's over.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 1 September 2003 15:29 (twenty-two years ago)

46. Christmas

― Cozen (Cozen), Monday, 1 September 2003 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

47. "How will we survide the night? We'll freeze to death, surely!"

"Well, I can think of a way to stay warm..."

― ModJ, Monday, 1 September 2003 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I get a very strong, entirely intangible feeling as autumn starts. It's this inner knowledge of BELONGING, and it ties in, I think, with all my memories of childhood, which are probably just an amalgamation of everything with an average (i.e. autumnal) weather scheme.

It's one of the few good things about the coming of winter. Especially now that I don't play conkers anymore.

― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 1 September 2003 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)

while I kind of like winter, I really don't like the transition from summer to autumn. It's because it brings me face to face with the passing of time and all the things I haven't got round to doing over the summer.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 1 September 2003 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)

There we go. Yeah. I like autumn once it's rolling. Not crazy about the lead-in. That's why I have to disagree with the September love. October's much nicer.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 1 September 2003 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

i wonder how many of you would think like this if you lived in the northern half of the U.S.

say, one of the Great Lakes states...

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 1 September 2003 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd give it a go. But, of course one's love for any type of winter/autumn is context based. So, I couldn't say for sure. I mean maybe I'd like summer more if I lived in the artic circle, and it never got dark, and I took up playing midnight golf.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 1 September 2003 17:43 (twenty-two years ago)

October is my favorite.. just not in Southern California... CHANGE, LEAVES, WHY WON'T YOU CHANGE????????????

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 1 September 2003 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)

48. cross country skiing (haha I haven't actually gotten to do this for several years)
49. when it's overcast at night, and for some reason (city lights? the moon? does anyone know what I'm talking about and can explain?) it's not dark and everything outside is visible, because the snow and sky have a kind of even glow from the reflected light. This reminds me of when I was little, and makes me feel all cosy and nice :-)
50. the way the snow makes things sound quiet and muffled

― Poppy (poppy), Monday, 1 September 2003 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

51. 'Cos the Stones have a song called Winter, and cos they sing "the sunshine bores the daylights out of me"

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Monday, 1 September 2003 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Similarly,

52) "Winter" is one of the only Tori Amos songs I like.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 1 September 2003 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

53)

http://www.thanksforthemusic.com/events/2002grammypics/2002grammy16.jpg

― Priscilla Beaulieu Magnatech (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 26 October 2003 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Because Turtlenecks/Polonecks are the most perfect form of clothing ever invented and you can't wear them during the summer!

― kate (kate), Monday, 27 October 2003 09:49 (twenty-two years ago)

You can in Ireland.

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 27 October 2003 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)

(this is a good thing)

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 27 October 2003 17:36 (twenty-two years ago)

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