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It's a scientific fact that legs cannot be or get cold. Much like birds, the legs of Midwesterners, Rock Mountain statesers, and Canadians evolved separated blood supplies in their legs that just exchange oxygen within the thighs to preserve core temperatures.

Source: someone who would lived in shorts year round until being forced to wear real pants by corporate America.

P.S. the best time to go to the beach in California is over Christmas, because you have the whole place to yourself and can laugh at everyone wearing coats in 60° sunny weather. Come on in, the water's great!

Its me :(

Growing up in snowy upstate NY, before climate change, when we'd get snow in October, and it would stay on the ground until March, I always wondered about those girls that would show up to school on the coldest days, wearing a dress or skirt, with their legs totally exposed to the bitter cold.

Now I know that at least some of them probably came from religious families where girls weren't allowed to wear pants.

High school kids. You cannot be different. My kids refuse to wear a jacket. Hoodie, t-shirt, and sweats, jeans, or tights depending if it’s a PE day or not. Doesn’t matter if it’s snowing, 0°F or 60°. Same clothes. They all wear the same stuff.

Yea it's probably cold if you're like a 6th grader, but I'm in seventh grade now.

Proper mid-westerner here, -4F with no wind, all you need is a hoodie. I've cleared my driveway of snow with the snowbloer wearing shorts, a hoodie, and gloves (because the handle is metal). If I put on pants it's either really nasty out OR I'm expecting to be outside for a very long time.

Ah yes, the midwesterner.

That's me. I'm that person.

It is snowing in that picture so the cold wouldn't wouldn't be that bad.

Same temp in dry air would be so so much worse.

As a mountain person I just want to let all of you normies know that 27°F is not 'sleeves' weather for quick exposure.

Like if I am taking out the trash or driving to the store or walking to the mailbox or whatever. I do not consider sleeves at all until about 26F°, but that's just going to be a hoodie. At about 18°F or so, I'll go for a light coat on top of that. Single digits is where I break out the winter coat. Subzero you start layering.

We're not flexing. It's adaptation. I can basically not handle physical work above 85 degree heat. 0 stamina. My body knows how to keep warm. My body does not know how to keep cool.

I am from Winnipeg. Natural selection has made us immune down to -40.

Edit: but then we just shatter. My tombstone will say “Jim shat himself to death” and there will be a statue of me wearing shorts.

I am this guy. I get warm so fucking quick. It'll be -10c outside but the moment I walk up a flight of stairs I'll be sweating

Northerners are weird animals. I've been known to wear a long sleeve shirt and a hoodie when the temp is expected to "peak" over 30f- but never shorts!

That's me, I'm never cold. Cold wind can be cold, but when there is no wind, there cannot be cold.

Future carpenter

The local guy also wears flip flops

That guy just had a sports practice and his body temperature is elevated.

Signed, an athlete in a winter climate.

I’d rather be uncomfortably cold for the 15 minutes I spend outside than uncomfortably hot for the majority of the time inside.

I've got 4 sons like this...

This is me. I grew up in Western New York. This is just sort of normal there.

Cold is a mindset most of the time.

There are microbes that generate heat, some have more than others

It's snowing so it can't actually be that cold, it's fine

#NeverPantsGang

Keep the core warm

I had a buddy who challenged himself to only wear shorts for the whole year.

He technically didn't succeed because he had to go to an event with a dress code, but I still consider it a success because he didn't choose to wear pants.

I feel called out.

I was this guy when i lived in hungary but the funny part was that it was actually like 10c and spring(even tho historically it used to go below minus 10 there during winter). Now that i live in sweden i realize people are also like that here but thankfully the large amount of finns who live here spice it up. Im not even kidding when it was my first winter here and a guy showed up in shorts in -20c while i had two hoodies and a winter jacket on and was still freezing. Always the finns.

I only freeze my finger and back

So i just wear some wind proof jacket/shirt and shoes

Hands in pocket is often enough too