Did the Grand Tour way back when getting to half the cities on that list would mean going behind the Iron Curtain, which my mother was loathe to do. Several trips since then, mainly to the UK. Hit all the Great Britain cities on one of those.
That’s what we do.
Fortunately i don’t wear shorts because i don’t know what those temperatures
are in real money.
I’m the guy who wears shorts in the spring the minute the temperature is above 40. This embarrasses my gf a bit, but it’s my way of welcoming warmer weather.
I haven’t worn shorts in public since I was in grade school.
Wow. Unless I’m going to a fancy restaurant, I wear shorts all spring/summer. I’m all about comfort.
I rarely wear shorts these days, because I’m usually doing work and want my legs protected; and the shorts I have don’t have enough pockets for going to town, plus which I won’t have any tan on my legs and wouldn’t want to risk burning. [Yes, I know sunscreen exists. I prefer fabric.] I occasionally do if it’s really hot and I’m doing a mostly-paperwork day, though.
Long sleeves and pants of a light-colored material, worn loose and if necessary wet, are also actually cooler than shorts.
I wear shorts in warmer weather, including pretty much all through summer when I’m not at work. I also wear them in the house, even in cold weather, when I’m doing something that’s likely to make me sweat, like cleaning or moving stuff around.
I only use cursive for my signature. Otherwise I print, relatively legibly. I’m not sure cursive even needs to be taught in schools anymore, other than teaching kids how to sign their names. Clear printing is more important in this day and age IMHO.
We didn’t have “everything soup,” but my mom sometimes made “clean out the icebox” meals. An old phrase from her Elizabeth, NJ upbringing during the Great Depression was a meal of “fried accidents and stewed behabitents” (sp?). Here’s a great 1947 kids’ book about Stone Soup, BTW: https://www.amazon.com/Stone-Soup-Aladdin-Picture-Books/dp/0689711034
I was a reporter and editor for my student newspaper and later a reporter and editorial writer for my local paper, all in the Eighties, and I never saw the word spelled “lede” until the last ten years or so ago.
I’ve been in London three times, twice as a tourist and once for a college semester abroad, and during that semester I had a wonderful long weekend visiting a friend who was studying at the Sorbonne in Paris. That’s the only time I’ve been on the Continent; someday I hope to return and see some more European capitals, especially Rome and Dublin.
I read a lot but haven’t read any of the books on that list. I loves me some Scalzi, though, so I’m sure I’ll read his new book sooner or later. This may also be of interest to you: Your Top Ten books of 2023
No love for 80°F?
Does a utilikilt count as shorts?
My minimum temperature for wearing shorts is around 75°F. Since 70°F was the highest temperature given in the poll I basically rounded down and picked that.
Between about 65-75, it’s long pants and short sleeves.
Below 65°F, long pants and long sleeves.
Wait till they find out that 100°C is the same as 451°F.
I gotta introduce you to BMalion sometime…
I wear shorts when I’m boating for hanging out at home. Truthfully though, my legs don’t get hot in hot weather wearing long pants, and they don’t get cold in cold weather wearing shorts (unless it’s really cold). Shorts are marginally more comfortable, but most of the time I don’t even think to put them on instead of jeans.
I’m not putting on shorts until it’s at least 80⁰ F. In fact, I’m not taking off my sweatshirt until it’s 75° F or so.
As for the 40° thing, I knew there was some temperature where Celsius and Fahrenheit are the same, I have the internet right here on this little handheld device, so I’m not too worried about remembering the formula for conversion. I am aware that 0 C is freezing and 100 is boiling, so I was pretty sure that temperature couldn’t be 40.
I would say so.
In my case, I stop wearing shorts around 68 degrees F, but i will wear them to the beach even if 50F. Plus a sweater.
No. Its 212F
Whoosh.
There are these things called “emoticons” or “smileys” that indicate a joke. The SDMB has a huge supply of them.
The lack of them means it’s not a whoosh it’s simply ignorance or an error.
Being caught in an error doesnt mean you can say “whoosh” afterwards and it’s magically not an error. Your post was wrong. It was clearly not made as a joke.
It was literally made as a joke. Look at the number I chose to make Fahrenheit. Jesus.
I know there is a crossover point for Celsius and Fahrenheit, but I haven’t memorized it and started to answer the poll until I realized none of the selections made any sense.
I grew up in the Central Valley, with summertime temperatures as high as 40 C/F ( ), wearing long pants (jeans) all year except when going swimming (then it was cutoff jeans). Wearing shorts while dealing with bales of hay, fixing fence, walking along deer trails, etc. just leads to cuts and scratches all over legs. Now that I’m a city dweller, I could wear shorts when it is hot, but they just feel funny when out and about (hard to break the habit of a lifetime).
I also find baggy, calf-length shorts on overweight seniors like me to just be…offputting.
No, no, only remarks accompanied by emoticons count as jokes.
(That means, of course, that this particular post is deadly serious.)