Reason as to why winter fucking sucks

[Rafiq]

What's up with feeling depressed in the winter? I mean, january and febuary are literally the worst months ever. During these two, special months, I experience a massive wave of stupidity, a losing in all structural or theoretical knowledge, and become depressed as fuck. I get tired all the time, and things generally suck. I know it's kind of fucked up when I say I was hoping this global warming business would just kick in already so all the fucking snow can just melt.

Is there any scientific data that can provide us with an explanation as to why Winter has such a negative impact on people?

[Clarksist]

Yes! Seasonal affective disorder (ironically acronymed as SAD) is not uncommon. The low amount of sunlight is the general cause. I have it as well. I typically treat it by going to a tanning salon about once every two weeks or so.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_affective_disorder

[Decolonize The Left]

The reason why winter sucks is summed up in one word: slush.
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Nothing is worse than slush. Except falling in slush, or getting slush in your boots, or having a car drive by and spray slush on you.

- August

[piet11111]

The reason why winter sucks is summed up in one word: slush.
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Nothing is worse than slush. Except falling in slush, or getting slush in your boots, or having a car drive by and spray slush on you.

- August

How about walking on a sidewalk and then slipping on a frozen puddle of water underneath a thin layer of snow and falling right on your ass and having to limp about a mile home ?
My damn tailbone was hurting for weeks after that.

[Ocean Seal]

Yesterday I fell on black ice. Winter still kicks ass. The cold air blowing in your face, the warm feeling when you walk in a building, walking on 1 inch of snow and compacting it, snowball fights, watching your breath condense. All reasons why winter kicks ass. Come at me.

[Ostrinski]

I get depressed during the winter too. I think it's just the ambiance that winter creates. It's always dark and cold and you have to be in the house all the time.

[Decolonize The Left]

The cold air blowing in your face,

= runny nose, burned skin


the warm feeling when you walk in a building,

= sweating in your heavy winter clothes


walking on 1 inch of snow and compacting it,

= fun for about 10 seconds


snowball fights,

= fun until someone gets pegged in the balls


watching your breath condense.

= fun for about 5 seconds


All reasons why winter kicks ass. Come at me.

Your move.

- August

[Pretty Flaco]

Slush? How about her dirty bastard brother, ice?

[Ele'ill]

Portland is like 11 months of winter/rain and one month of half sunshine where everyone in the city goes crazy and crashes into each other in cars and other stuff

[Rafiq]

fuck those half assed therapy lamps. December really isn't that bad, so it isn't a sunlight thing. It's like january and febuary are just worthless let downs. Especially febuary. Nothing better than August, imo. Riding bikes in the summer everywhere (cars suck) with friends, etc.

[Leonid Brozhnev]

Winter may be my favourite season. Snow's a bastard when it comes to travel, but I generally find it more comfortable than summer. I love the almost perpetual darkness, wrapping up warm when it's pissing it down outside, the lack of insects invading your home, no fucking wasps, all those bastard stinging plants have died, not to mention that a sudden heavy snow shower usually means no work in the morning.

[manic expression]

I love winter. Snow is gorgeous, coffee/tea tastes better when it's cold out, bundling up is fun, you get to see your breath hang in that fresh air, you're surrounded by the timeless juxtaposition of light and warmth with dark and cold, winter clothes are classier than summer clothes...

Oh, and I get to chuckle at everyone from SoCal/Florida who thinks 50 F is "cold". :laugh:

[manic expression]

= fun until someone gets pegged in the balls
Right...then it's hilarious. :laugh:

[NewLeft]

No.. It's just you. I love snow and winter.

[CommieTroll]

For me it's the cold, wet and windy weather, and I walk everywhere so the climate just pisses me off if anything and I live in Ireland of all places!:cursing:

[Veovis]

Why would it suck? Winter fucking is just as good as fucking during any other season. Even better, because it keeps you warm.

[Ele'ill]

Abolish February!

[Ele'ill]

I really love the winter though. Especially winter in SE PA. I miss SE PA so much right now. Having moved from it I now know what being dead feels like.

[Ele'ill]

Why would it suck? Winter fucking is just as good as fucking during any other season. Even better, because it keeps you warm.

I have stories that cannot be shared.

[the last donut of the night]

i lived in canada...winter is amazing

[Le Rouge]

Winter is Amazing!
We don't have much snow this year. 20-30cm Max. Slush is rarely present during winter so... If you can cope with the cold (minus 10 to minus 30.) you'd love winter in canada. :)

[Rafiq]

Freaks

[Fawkes]

I miss SE PA so much right now. Having moved from it I now know what being dead feels like.

Because it is only now that you have left PA that you realize you and everyone else were dead the entire time there.

Driving through PA feels like walking through a gigantic corn maze filled with dead deer and WaWas.

[Fawkes]

oh yeah, and winter blows

[eyedrop]

The Sun is finally coming up tomorrow. A long time since last we met.

Winter is awesome, even an industrial park looks pretty cowered in snow.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

Sucks for me when I have to get out of bed at midnight, quickly throw on some clothes and head down to the fire station-running there through the snow-because some guy was fucking with fire.It doesn't help that when I am changing into my bunker gear the full force of the winter is whipping in my face.

[Olentzero]

A clear, crisp day when it's cold enough that the snow crunches under your feet and distant sounds carry farther than they usually do is an exquisite feeling and is what winter's all about. A quiet evening with the snow falling around you, deadening every sound as you make your way home also fills the bill.

Overcast days where everything is slushy and gray can bite my fat hairy ass, however.

[GallowsBird]

It's become somewhat Spring-ish up here at the moment; this is odd as the last two years we had deep snow from October to February.

[NoOneIsIllegal]

It especially sucks if you drive a little Honda Civic that can't bear driving in blizzards and on ice :crying:

Good time for black metal though \m/

[workersadvocate]

Winter sucks because the political people we need are nowhere to be found offline, because of the Christmas season (need I say more about that), because you don't feel like going out untill you are sick of being cooped up too long...only to go out and find you're the only sonofa***** to want to go out that night, then wake up hungover and a lot poorer because you drank your ass off and tipped quite generously due to the depressing situation of being the only fucker in town going out that night! Arghhhh!
It's not a lack of sunlight, but winter isolation (after Christmas...before that, I don't want to be near their craziness) that drives me mad.
As if that wasn't enough, soon comes Valentine's day, and I'll be constantly reminded by advertisements and coworkers that I am single in perhaps the worst place in America for a working class revolutionary communist hetero male non-Christian with drastically different tastes to be single. I'm a big city guy, but I can't fucking find work that could afford that sorta life anymore.
Oh, this is a car town...everybody seemingly has a fucking Fast and Furious car or a big redneck truck, except me.
So while I'm walking from place to place in the snow, several little middle class brats like to yell snotty shit at me from their cars. Do you have any fucking idea how infuriating that is! I can't even tell you what that tempts me to want to do. They think I'm homeless and talk shit...and it makes me want to get them a new home in the graveyard.
Homeless bashing ain't going stop til bashers get bashed back hard. Honestly, the only reason they're still breathing is that I want to get the fuck out of this middle class KKK enclave paradise and get back to a major city where the working class 67% has the potential power to rock the locality and beyond....then after the cities we're gonna come for these fucking enclaves in the heartland and these middle class shitstains better bow down before they get prole-slapped up against the wall. They say "the commies r coming"....FUCKING A RIGHT WE ARE COMING!

[hatzel]

I know somebody who fell and broke their leg in the frozen north and ended up lying on the ground in pitch black and -20°C or something for around 6-8 hours. If that happens to you I think you have legitimate reason to believe that winter does, indeed, suck.

[eyedrop]

I know somebody who fell and broke their leg in the frozen north and ended up lying on the ground in pitch black and -20°C or something for around 6-8 hours. If that happens to you I think you have legitimate reason to believe that winter does, indeed, suck.

Get some balance and falling reflexes, provided you aren't old or otherwise impaired.

Being drunk on ice is ... 'fun'.

[Olentzero]

hatzel, no argument there. Although I think lying on the ground with a broken leg for 6-8 hours under any weather conditions would suck.


Good time for black metal though \m/Try walking dead drunk through a Viking graveyard in the dead of a cloudless, moonless January night with at least a foot of snow on the ground.

[Red Future]

It's become somewhat Spring-ish up here at the moment; this is odd as the last two years we had deep snow from October to February.

All in all it has been a pretty unimpressive winter (no snow) compared to last year in the UK.

[A Revolutionary Tool]

Because I decided to shave my fucking head the day before it starts getting cold and rainy.

[mykittyhasaboner]

i understand why a lot of people hate winter, but i can't get enough of it.

Its january, and its still hot and humid. florida sucks soo much. We really don't have any real winter weather, except for the odd low 40's night.

The whole, feeling depressed because of lack of sunlight, thing is bullshit imo. What about too much sunlight?

[Yugo45]

I looove winter, it's my favourite season.. I'd pick being cold over being hot any day. In fact, even though it gets cold here over the winter, when ever I am on the computer I open the window and freeze like shit. I don't know why, but I love that lol. Then I close it, warm up, and do it again (yeah it sounds stupid). And the best thing is, I rarely get sick (can't remember last time I had a cold, even runny noses are rare)

So yeah :D During the summer everything is annoying as hell. Too hot, insects everywhere, people smell..

[piet11111]

I have stories that cannot be shared.

You cant say you have story's and then not share :glare:

Ice sucks i remember having to walk all the way to work because everything was so damned slippery but before i left i called me boss if we would have to work that day (with a lot of snow everywhere we cant do anything but hang at the workplace and drink all of the coffee) he said we had to come.
So i left and started walking with a colleague of mine that has a mobile phone and only 300 meters from the workplace he got a call from my boss saying we could stay home because of the snow.

It still pisses me off because i clearly told my boss there was a fuck ton of snow and now i had to walk 4 miles for nothing.
But crawling back into bed really made up for most of it though.

[workersadvocate]

Oh, just remembered something else about why winter sucks.
They clear snow on the main streets in commercial areas and in well off neighborhods, but don't get to the rest of us for days. Sidewalks might take a week or so to clear if snow. I live in one of those yeehaw redneckvilles where fuckers speed up when an animal crosses the road. Of course, some animals don't escape. I will pass by the same animal corpse for a week or more, even when left next to someone's driveway, before the body is removed.

[bcbm]

if i didn't have to goto work when it snowed winter would be okay

[Ele'ill]

I'd rather have a work day of chaos with blizzard white-out outside than a boring typical shift where nothing happens.

[bcbm]

i drive home in a white out last year. i never want to do that again

[KR]

Winter does't have a negative impact on me at all.

[Quail]

Because I decided to shave my fucking head the day before it starts getting cold and rainy.
I did that last year. It's amazing just how much you miss your hair in winter.

I think winter is okay. I love snuggling up in blankets. I do kind of dislike having to wear so many layers though because when I'm sitting still doing uni work or whatever, I need loads of layers, but when I'm walking around, I tend to walk pretty fast so I always get too hot and then have to carry a load of clothes around.

[Tim Finnegan]

I have sensitive teeth. The air here gets very cold in winter. This means that breathing outdoors becomes an unbearable torment from which there is no reprieve (give or take).

On the other hand, I get to stomp around in big coats for three months, which I do enjoy, so it sort of averages out.

[GallowsBird]

All in all it has been a pretty unimpressive winter (no snow) compared to last year in the UK.

Ah, where I live it did snow once and lied for a few days just before (but sadly not on) the Winter Solstice. But other than that it has been reasonably warm and even quite green. Being blocked in (other than when I was young and it meant not going to school) as has happened the last two years is annoying but I would have preferred a more traditional winter.

I am in the minority that likes winter, especially when it is snowy. Winter and Summer are my favourites. I am a man of extremes. ;)

[Искра]

I love winter. Then hipster girls wear their little white fur coats and they look lovley.

[Quail]

I have sensitive teeth. The air here gets very cold in winter. This means that breathing outdoors becomes an unbearable torment from which there is no reprieve (give or take).

Yes, I have this problem too! Sensitive teeth are the worst.

[workersadvocate]

Yes, I have this problem too! Sensitive teeth are the worst.

Free dental for everyone on demand without apology!