# I despise you, winter light! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 18, 2001, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-despise-you-winter-light/88126 "2001-10-18T02:05:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-despise-you-winter-light/88126/21 "2001-10-18T15:21:54Z")
Note: I am no fan of heat. While I do prefer sun for as much of the day as possible, I prefer the temperature to be around 72 and breezy. šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2001, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-despise-you-winter-light/88126/22 "2001-10-22T05:45:24Z")
I love sun, I love hot weather, 85 F is perfect for me. No, I donā€™t know why Iā€™m living in Ireland either šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![Chas.E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e99b99/32.png) [@Chas.E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chas.E)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2001, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-despise-you-winter-light/88126/23 "2001-10-22T06:03:15Z")
Isnā€™t it a little early to gripe about winter? I mean, I know that Christmas displays have already gone up in the stores, but itā€™s still not even Halloween. But in general, I do agree with the point. I hate winter. But I hate summer too. Thereā€™s a good stretch of a few weeks in the spring when the pollen hasnā€™t yet bloomed, and thereā€™s a good stretch in the fall when all the pollen-bearing plants have died. Weā€™re in that stretch right now. And soon the temps are going to be damn miserable around here. 2 or 3 years back, it got down to -38. ---
**Author:** ![WortMeWorry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@WortMeWorry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WortMeWorry)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2001, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-despise-you-winter-light/88126/24 "2001-10-22T06:09:04Z")
Stoid, I understand completely! Today I had to turn the parking lot lights on at 5:30. I also agree with everyone that goes to work in the dark,only to come home in the dark. Iā€™ll settle for 12 hours of daylight. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2001, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-despise-you-winter-light/88126/25 "2001-10-22T06:39:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Stoid \* > **Man, nothing sucks quite like watching the days grow shorter.** What? A whole message board committed to the fighting of ignorance and no-one calls him on his thread title? Days grow longer in winter. Letā€™s hear it for winter, when the horrible process of night triumphing over day is miraculously reversed. The days diminishing down like that is terribly depressing. When they start to get longer again it calls for celebration. Some people call it ā€œChristmasā€. Stoid, you should celebrate the onset of winter. Perhaps in the traditional way: getting drunk and asking rich people for money. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2001, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-despise-you-winter-light/88126/26 "2001-10-22T08:19:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by betenoir \* > \*\*celebration. Some people call it ā€œChristmasā€. > \*\* Ah, see, thatā€™s another thing I despise. Christmas is just another day to me. No gifts, no cards, no special food. Just reruns and nuthinā€™s open. My motto: Go ahead and have yourself a merry Christmas, just donā€™t drag me into it. (If my kid self were here to read this, sheā€™d have a fit) stoid ---
**Author:** ![bagkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ab992/32.png) [@bagkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bagkitty)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2001, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-despise-you-winter-light/88126/27 "2001-10-22T09:40:52Z")
Another winter lover. I feel bad for the people who really are affected by SAD, but in general I think people whine about winter because of some cultural expectation. Winter is great, the lighting is wonderful, especially after a fresh snow fall, it smells better, damn, even the sounds are better ā€“ the squeak, squeak of fresh snow when it below minus 10, the muffling of sounds when it is actually snowing. We had our first snowfall last weekā€¦ I smiled all the way home (walking). ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2001, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-despise-you-winter-light/88126/28 "2001-10-22T15:29:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Stoid \* > \*\*(If my kid self were here to read this, sheā€™d have a fit) > \*\* I am here, I am reading this and I am having a fit. Thanks, Mom. šŸ˜ƒ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-despise-you-winter-light/88126.md?page=1)