Brrr I'm, Cold...NO I'M NOT! YOU ARE!-Tips for dealing with bitter Irish Winter

pwd

If you're outside a lot, wear a decent pair of snowboarding pants. These are so warm and comfortable even in extreme, cold, wet and wind. You can get them at a reasonable price in TK Maxx. You can get pairs that look like a nice pair of tracksuit bottoms.

Otherwise wear pyjama bottoms under your jeans.

90% of lost body heat goes out through the top of your head. Make sure you have a decent hat!

A few light layers of clothes provides better insulation than a couple of bulky layers.

Windchill is a big contributor to making you cold in Ireland. Get a jacket that is fairly windproof. A decent snowboading jacket, leather jacket, or raincoat will make a huge difference.

Don;t go out in the cold on an empty stomach! This will make you get very cold very easily.

meditraitor

Wear wellies, so if you feeet get cold u can piss into them

tman

also. wear a wetsuit under your clothes and wee into it

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good thinking, meditraitor.

ED-209

I'm off to Bavaria for christmas. It can get to -20c there sometimes.

Now that's fu*king cold.

I think we have it easy in Ireland when it comes to the winter

Kêrmêttê

I've a simpler solution. Stay at home and sit beside the fire for the whole season! You'll be nice and warm and comfy with no bother whatsoever!

woosaysdan

turn on the heating

tman

Kêrmêtt&#234 wrote:

I've a simpler solution. Stay at home and sit beside the fire for the whole season! You'll be nice and warm and comfy with no bother whatsoever!

yeah. you could even wee into a basin and warm your feet in that!

Spalk0

meditraitor wrote:

Wear wellies, so if you feeet get cold u can piss into them

LOL.......but wont you look like a prat?.....Unless your on farm or something now!

HAHA designer wellies!

meditraitor

Trigger! wrote:

LOL.......but wont you look like a prat?.....Unless your on farm or something now!

HAHA designer wellies!

Once the sheeps hind legs come out of the wellies the feet get cold pretty quick, worry about appearences later

dsab

Which winter ? Winter in Ireland in general is a joke. Not really cold at all.

You should live on the continent in December, January, February, and you will never complain anymore. TBH, I don`t like it too cold, but especially around Christmas I miss the bitter cold, going after work onto a christmas market, have a "gluehwein" and something nice to eat, and just to take in the nice atmosphere. Even better when there is snow.

BTW, I am still wearing short sleeve shirts in the office and outside.

meditraitor

dsab wrote:

Which winter ? Winter in Ireland in general is a joke. Not really cold at all.

You should live on the continent in December, January, February, and you will never complain anymore. TBH, I don`t like it too cold, but especially around Christmas I miss the bitter cold, going after work onto a christmas market, have a "gluehwein" and something nice to eat, and just to take in the nice atmosphere. Even better when there is snow.

BTW, I am still wearing short sleeve shirts in the office and outside.

You should have felt the cold cold this morning bucko, i was out in the back field sniggin turnips at 7 o clock, still have chillblanes

ED-209

tman wrote:

yeah. you could even wee into a basin and warm your feet in that!

What's with the wee thing Tman ???

You have "issues" !!!

seamus

Pffts, wimps.

Driving a bike makes you hardy in the Irish winter. I walk around in T-shirts when there's ice outside, and people shiver. It's great.

pwd

Are you, and I'm not trying to be rude here, very fat and/or very very hairy, however?

meditraitor

I used to have a bike that made hard too, she moved out a while back though

Canis Lupus

meditraitor wrote:

Wear wellies, so if you feeet get cold u can piss into them

Coming from a rural background I can't see that catching on

DEmeant0r

How many t-shirts though?

meditraitor

Canis Lupus wrote:

Coming from a rural background I can't see that catching on

Were getting of the subject boys and girls,,

lovely fleeces in dunnes for 6yoyos, coming from a rural backround yu might appreciate that :cool:

Gordon

Buy some hot packs.

http://www.latestbuy.com.au/hot_packs_lifestyle.html
for example

seamus

pwd wrote:

Are you, and I'm not trying to be rude here, very fat and/or very very hairy, however?

It has more to do with a better tolerance or more likely a desensitisation to the cold. I'd still be as cold as someone else, but I wouldn't react to it as much as they would. Much the same way as I don't react very much to certain types of pain on my skin (burning, stabbing, pinching), I tend not to react to the cold until my testicles have retreated inside me and I can't feel my kneecaps anymore.

pwd

My bro was talking about importing a load of those and selling them at a fraction of the price shown there. Hadn't realised they sold for that much!

Gordon

I know a few producers in China that export them and are quite cheap. PM me if you need more info.

BolBill

If youre a bloke, grow a beard.
If youre a girl, dont shave your armpits.