Losing warmth. So cold. Send rescue.

What method- intuitive or eccentric as it may be- do you use to beat out the cold?

From switching to wearing warmer undergarments to changing up your diet to occult rituals, I'm interested any changes or traditions you may have, however small or unusual. I mean, my self-survival may depend on your answers, after all. :shivers:

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When winter comes, I..,

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Drink a lot of alcohol. Fake warmth is the best warmth. [Hot toddy and mulled wine vote goes here.]
Drink a lot of (non-alcoholic) hot tea, milk, or coffee. Warming myself from the inside-out is the best approach!
Just crank that central air up to max, and create an artifical indoor jungle. Denial of what's outside my door is the best policy! ..it's a policy that I apply to a lot of things, actually.
Put space heaters everywhere. I shall put up an impenetrable fortress of warmth! ..right up until the circuit breakers blow.
Wear enough layers of clothing that damage taken from attacks and by falling gains a significant reduction. Also, one's personal bubble levels up to have physical presence! ..struggling one's way out of the clothes can be a bit of a challenge, though.
Share body heat. Nothing warms you up as thoroughly as the even, balanced, steady warmth of another living being. ..also, if they have fur, that's a super snuggly bonus.
I regularly escape into hot water (showers, baths, saunas, etc) as a form of escape. Sure, leaving afterwards is.. daunting, to say the least, but it's not like I can stay in there forever, haha! ...wait, can I?
Temporarily lose sanity and wrap oneself up in a delusion of being on a tropical island. You cannot deny the power of my crazy coconut, ahahaha! ..oh gods, I need a real vacation.
Mmrph. Why, I am rich enough to afford to travel according to the seasons- hey, hey! Stop throwing rotten fruits at me, you damn jealous peasants!
The cold is not a threat to me, for I have the ultimate protection! ..I actually DO live on a tropical island and/or near the equator. Mmm, toasty.
Live in the southern hemisphere. Getting to freely laugh at the northern hemisphere for half a year is great! I mean, you'll forget us again by the time your chance at revenge comes around, anyway.
I pray to R'hllor to keep me warm and bring in the spring sooner, and offer him tribute by starting lots and lots of [bon]fires all winter long. ..the fire itself helps a lot, of course.
I use various tools, such as hot water bottles, to keep me warm.
I cut open tauntauns and hide inside their cooling corpses. Sure, I smell all winter long, but I've long since lost any rational approach to dealing with winter, so it's totally.. chill.
The cold never bothered me, anyway.
(We must pool our wisdom to combat the forces of entropy! I have a suggestion that I've made in the comments. =)

Just be Scottish.

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Cold is good. At least better than hot.

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Today, minus 10 degrees.
I do not want to approach the windowpane.
Into people's stuffed animals, lurking in the crowd. Probably warm.

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-10C (14F) and -10F (-23.5C) are pretty different, so I'm not sure just how much sympathy you require. :P
Our typical usual winter daytime temperature range is between 28 and 48F (-2 and 9C), but getting down to the -10C range is fairly normal for our colder days (or for our nighttime temperatures), and we get down as far as -9F for a few days each winter.
(The record low is apparently -24F, but thankfully I haven't seen it break -9F while I've lived here.)

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Oh, are they Celsius and Fahrenheit?
It's in Celsius.
However, if it is only temperature, it does not matter whether it is -10 or -20.
Let's avoid the wind .... It is very cold with wind.

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Wind and ice make things colder, while snow insulates, yeah. Those distinctions definitely matter, yeah.
Well, we maintain temperature by producing body heat faster than the cold can leach it. The colder things are, the faster heat is leached. For healthy people, they're not really at risk until much colder temperatures, but for those who can't generate body heat at a normal rate, differences in temperature can become a lot more demanding. Similarly, wind strips away body heat in an instant regardless of one's circumstances, so it's a significant problem for anyone.
(Of course, up to a point, you can mitigate both ambient cold and the effects of wind a fair bit with quality winter clothing.)
To sum up, the wind is definitely a major concern all-around, but there are also those of us who have problems just with the cold alone. :S

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You forgot Kelvin. Then again Kelvin only goes down to 0 which is absolute zero ie the point when atoms stop moving.

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Celsius and Kelvin are actually the same measurement standard.

degree Celsius is a special name for the kelvin for use in expressing relative temperatures, and the magnitude of the degree Celsius is exactly equal to that of the kelvin

Kelvin is used for science-related matters, Fahrenheit is for expressing precise relative temperatures, and Celsius is the unintuitive black sheep of the otherwise superior [in terms of intuitiveness] metric system. (Sorry, you should not have to use decimal points to express how the weather makes you feel. That's how mathematicians are born, y'know!)

Ahem. So in sum, pretty sure we won't be using Kelvin for this conversation, since it's basically just a better version of Celsius that people outside of scientific fields inexplicably neglect in favor of Celsius. (Kelvin is Celsius + 273.15, for reference.)

Personally, I find utilizing a range between 250 and 300k much more intuitive than Celsius's comparable -23 to 27 [the comparable range in F would be -10F to 82F], so it doesn't even seem to have clear utility as far as making temperature notation more intuitive.

Of course, that unintuitiveness is understandable, given that Celsius was based exclusively around the freezing and boiling points of water [0 and 100C, respectively] at 1 atmosphere of pressure. Since none of that relates to human perceptions of temperature, and given that such measurement is not only arbitrary (and meaningless as far as benefits) in its associations but also deeply unreliable due to how widely atmospheric pressure varies location to location, the entire concept of Celsius is nonsensical, especially for its current meteorological utilization.

To sum up, I totally would have gladly substituted Kelvin in place of Celsius, but I decided to go with the option people'd more intuitively comprehend. :P

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The logic behind Celsius is easy: 0 is where water turns to ice, 100 is where water turns to steam
For purposes other than weather, it’s great

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You think the basis for the Fahrenheit scale is more logical or intuitive than that of Celsius?

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I don't like cold, but I favor it nowadays. Better to endure de cold than be on a hot day with my PC burning it's video card.

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-30C [-22F] or more

That may be one of the most terrifying sentences I've ever encountered. :X

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I will never wear anything to bed though!

My indifference towards wearing clothes has always easily succumbed to the overwhelming practicality of wearing them. :P
Trying to get out of bed into a freezing room while wearing nothing, sounds like one hell of a punishment game. :X

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We have had a warm December so far. From 0,2C to 10,1C
So I still have the window open 24/7.
When it goes below 0C I usually close the window and when below -10 I keep the heater on.

On topic, I drink lots of Coco, and Tea to keep myself heated when I'm freezing.
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Neck warmers! They're so essential for me.

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Well, 6 months from now, when its not 25 degrees outside, celsius that is, I will wear about 4 or 5 layers, only 2 now.

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Winter hibernation is the only approach worth considering.

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You've got my agreement, for sure.

Bears've got it all figured out-
"Screw dealing with the cold, and I'll smack the shit out of anyone who tries to force me to do anything during it."

If only we could make equal use of that wisdom. :|

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Try indoor window insulation film kits, weatherstripping on bottom of doors & around windows, heavy curtains, and Double-sided reflective bubble wrap insulation for hardwood floors (hidden under rugs). :)

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Since I already drink nothing but tea and coffee [and straight water] year-round, I actually end up drinking more cooler beverages during the winter (since I start feeling more inclined toward creamy and sweet flavors- eg, shakes and smoothies). I do also start drinking hot chocolate and hot milk (with honey) during the winter, though, so those would be my warming winter indulgences as far as drinks go. ^.^

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Fleece and cozy toes foot warmer. If your head and feet are warm the rest of you will be too.

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I put on slightly warmer clothing, and wonder if we'll get more than 2 days of snow this year around. shrug

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Mwahahahahaha!!!!!!

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Okay, but- is it the evil laughter that keeps you warm, or are the diabolical schemes to credit for it? :P
..I'm just saying, I will totally aid you in your schemes if they result in me being warm (excluding circumstances wherein I am also on fire). In the meantime, I'm gonna go practice my villain laugh.. just in case.

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That was my maniacal laugh cos i live int the southern hemisphere. My plan is going EXCELLENTLY. taps fingers againts each other and grins crazily

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grins crazily

Yeah, that's just what I'd expect from a south hemisphere-er. 😒

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FOR THE NIGHT IS DARK AND FULL OF TERRORS

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You just do your job as a sun god, and you walk that white straight the hell back up north, okay? :|

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the gods work in mysterious ways ◔_◔

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Oh boy I love that song

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I'm just waiting for someone to make an account here that has a picture of Jim Halpert and posts nothing but Office quotes.

Or just posts gifs of the "look" that Jim gives the camera.

If anyone is lurking out there waiting to get to that registration requirement, please do this.

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That's because you didn't bring a jacket

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Not only do I live in the southern hemisphere but also in a subtropical region, let's just say that January is scary for completely different reasons.

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I've lived in places that hit 115F in the summer, so I may perhaps be able to properly commiserate with that.
My current location breaks just over 100 each year, with a typical summer range going between 80s and high 90s.
Humidity is also very high (both for my current location and the 115 one), and that's something which doesn't exactly help with summer comfort; So I'm well familiar with that aspect of things (as well as the issue of low wind activity during hotter days) as well.

Still, my body deals with heat much better than cold, so summer is a discomfort I can much more readily put up with. :X

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I get so much radiant heat from my neighbors' apartments that not only do I leave my heat off, but I also frequently have to crack my window open even while it's snowing.

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Just to be sure, have you encountered any other examples from the "signs that your neighbors may be hellspawn from the fiery pits of hell" checklist? :P

Well, that sounds pretty easy to manage on your part, so it's free heating; That sounds rather enviable, from multiple angles.

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The hell spawn live a few apartments further away than that.

The only problem is that it's harder to maintain an ideal temperature. Leave the window closed for too long and I'm sweating. Leave them open too much and I'm shivering. But it's still not horrible.

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You can't just leave the window very, very slightly cracked (sticking something in [eg, a popsicle stick] to keep it from closing, if it won't hold in that position naturally)? I'd assume having a stready, small drain on the heat would keep it pretty well checked, and since you can so reliably count on your neighbors to keep their heat on, you shouldn't have problems with any drain becoming too pronounced in its effect (say, if you leave the window that way overnight). Similarly, if it does get chilly, you can just fully close the window.

It's a wee bit [energy-]wasteful of an approach if you leave it that way for too long, admittedly, though.

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On milder days, when it's consistently above freezing, I can leave it cracked. But colder days, especially if it's windy, I'm still letting in too much cold air to keep it cracked all the time. Not a big deal though. I just open and close as needed.

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Such a great poll, wish I could choose more than one option lol

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I screwed up the phrasing on a few of them so, as usual, I regret SG's inability to edit polls. :P

An "all of the above" option woulda been nice, but- even putting aside the unusual circumstance in which someone both has the money to visit tropical islands and suffers from delusions of visiting them [just how overworked a rich person are you? And why are you spending your winters inside of flaming tauntauns while at a hot spring?]- it'd just be too easy a choice for those of desperately trying anything to keep away the cold of winter. :P

Besides, we've already got the East Europeans, Canadians, and/or Frozen fans pushing the poll in a certain direction as-is.
No need to add a counterpart to that. :P

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Fire, and lots of it.

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Remember the pain of summer. And then suddenly freezing to death looks kind.

40 degrees (C) is a bitch.

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1) Hot drinks.
2) Curse my weird habit of getting freezing toes even in a warm house, and occasionally run hot water over my feet in the shower.
3) Play The Long Dark (endless winter survival game); and get amazing immersion, and try to derive sympathetic warmth through in-game means.

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Had my first hot toddy recently. It was darn delicious!

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“No one said anything about the cold” while freezing myself half to death and not wearing nearly enough clothing? Yeah that’s Texas surprisingly letting you know winter does happen here, it’s just late, and December is when it decides to set in. It’s practically summer from April to November otherwise.

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That's like GB being hit by a yearly non-explainable heatwave that takes everyone by surprise, also known as summer.

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A little bit of coffee with little bit of alcohol. If I want a warm beverage at night and don't want it to keep me up, I make coffee with Irish cream. The alcohol in the Irish cream is enough to counter the caffeine high and not keep me up all night. And it's GOOOOOOOD!

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