# Then take off your fucking sweater, beotch! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 12, 2003, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/then-take-off-your-fucking-sweater-beotch/174756 "2003-05-12T18:41:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/then-take-off-your-fucking-sweater-beotch/174756/1 "2003-05-12T18:41:16Z")
Just because you’re having hot flashes is no excuse for making the rest of us freeze!!! I’m gonna reprint those signs I made last month saying “Welcome to the cryogenics lab. If you’re freezing, it’s working”. It is so cold in my pathetic cubicle I can barely type. My fucking nose is cold! And the breather salad lady next to me needs to take it in the lunchroom. Apparently some people can’t chew and inhale & I’m sick of the wheeze. Chomp chomp smack smack wheeze wheeze. grrrrr ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/then-take-off-your-fucking-sweater-beotch/174756/2 "2003-05-12T18:55:06Z")
Hail Caesar? ---
**Author:** ![Ego\_Mk2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/58956e/32.png) [@Ego\_Mk2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ego_Mk2)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/then-take-off-your-fucking-sweater-beotch/174756/3 "2003-05-12T19:08:08Z")
I’m hot. ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/then-take-off-your-fucking-sweater-beotch/174756/4 "2003-05-12T19:11:32Z")
sssssseending cccool airrrr yourrr waaay clackety clackety (that was my ttttteeth) ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/then-take-off-your-fucking-sweater-beotch/174756/5 "2003-05-12T19:11:35Z")
I saw “Take your sweater off”… and thought I was gonna be treated to some sex, flirting, TMI lust fest. But no, it’s about menopausal women. Thanks a lot. Buy a sweater. ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/then-take-off-your-fucking-sweater-beotch/174756/6 "2003-05-12T19:31:18Z")
His smile made her warm. He caught her eye and grinned, twinkling mischief, taking in her skirt and blouse. They were both married to other people, but glances are free. His smile said he’d been thinking of her, looking forward to a pretense for conversation. Any excuse to stand closer…closer…ccclossser… ccan’t…type…ssmut…toooo…cccold. ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/then-take-off-your-fucking-sweater-beotch/174756/7 "2003-05-12T19:34:18Z")
What, exactly, do you do for a living? ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/then-take-off-your-fucking-sweater-beotch/174756/8 "2003-05-12T19:45:20Z")
Speechwriter for OFL in the White House (can’t you tell??). ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/then-take-off-your-fucking-sweater-beotch/174756/9 "2003-05-12T19:49:27Z")
Sorry **fessie** - yer not gonna get any sympathy from me - I’m always cooking - and that’s with my sweater off. It’s much easier to put on additional clothes than it is to take them off - bring a damn sweater. ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/then-take-off-your-fucking-sweater-beotch/174756/10 "2003-05-12T20:01:48Z")
If the beotch in question wasn’t going around bundled up, I’d agree w/you **aiw**. However I have just discovered that an empty computer paper box is a wonderful makeshift hat - just cut out a slit for the eyes, like on _The Day the Earth Stood Still_. I drew on some features w/my tongue sticking out. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/then-take-off-your-fucking-sweater-beotch/174756/11 "2003-05-12T20:10:30Z")
Well, if she’s got the heat cranked down to 18 and she’s walking around in a shwack of sweaters, I agree that’s really dumb. I’m not entirely sure what the “hat” is for… ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/then-take-off-your-fucking-sweater-beotch/174756/12 "2003-05-12T20:15:50Z")
warmth! conserving heat lost through the head!! we’re talking critical survival skills here! winnowing out of the weak through hypothermia and excessive bathroom trips! tee-hee…schwack… ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/then-take-off-your-fucking-sweater-beotch/174756/13 "2003-05-12T20:21:10Z")
Try not to get too hot under the collar about it. ---
**Author:** ![Faerie\_Nuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/76d3ee/32.png) [@Faerie\_Nuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Faerie_Nuff)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/then-take-off-your-fucking-sweater-beotch/174756/14 "2003-05-12T20:22:00Z")
I disagree with it being easier to bundle up than to strip down. My old boss used to keep the office freezing and he’d come on in a wool suit and complain it was too hot and turn on the air conditioning even more. I could try to bundle up, with it’s really fucking hard to type with gloves on. You hot people really piss me off. ---
**Author:** ![JayElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@JayElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JayElle)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/then-take-off-your-fucking-sweater-beotch/174756/15 "2003-05-12T20:56:20Z")
Yeah! I’m always cold so I have a space heater going in my office, _my_ office, my office that I do not share with anyone else. Yet people are constantly coming in and saying _Why is it so damn hot in here? What the hell is wrong with you?_ It’s MY office! I am COLD! And I will find the jokester who changed my screensaver to scroll _Is it hot in here, or what?_ ---
**Author:** ![Stonebow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Stonebow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stonebow)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/then-take-off-your-fucking-sweater-beotch/174756/16 "2003-05-12T20:58:03Z")
but hey, as long as i’m young and hot, what the fuck do i care if i piss you off? okay…so i’m not hot. but i AM young. mostly. in my head. sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/then-take-off-your-fucking-sweater-beotch/174756/17 "2003-05-12T21:48:41Z")
Someone needs to invent a Personal Climate Zone suit that contains the air around you and heats or cools it to the desired temperature. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/then-take-off-your-fucking-sweater-beotch/174756/18 "2003-05-12T22:28:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Duke of Rat \* > \*\*I saw “Take your sweater off”… and thought I was gonna be treated to some sex, flirting, TMI lust fest. But no, it’s about menopausal women. > > Thanks a lot. > > Buy a sweater. \*\* Oh GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!! I so agree with the OP!!! I work in an office with all men, all of whom start declaring that they are “burning up” when the temp is a sweltering 40 degrees outside. They then open all windows and doors for the “fresh air”. Guys! I love you, but this is ALASKA!!! 40 degrees is NOT “hot”. Now, I"m willing to compromise, open _A_ window, every opening in the office does NOT need to be wide open just because the snow is gone. And as for **Duke of Rat’s** comment “buy a sweater”? That doesn’t help a freezing face or fingers when one is trying to keyboard. ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/then-take-off-your-fucking-sweater-beotch/174756/19 "2003-05-12T23:08:29Z")
Women in the office want to dress very lightly while guys are supposed to wear suits. Sorry but if I have to wear a suit then 70F is fine and you better get used to it. If you feel cold it’s your problem, not mine. Put some clothes on. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/then-take-off-your-fucking-sweater-beotch/174756/20 "2003-05-12T23:18:45Z")
I had the same problem with my mom. She’d turn the heat in the house down to some ridiculous temperature, and I’d be freezing, and then she’d go under an afghan blanket and complain that she was hot. However, since menopause also involves mood swings, I figured it wouldn’t be wise to mention the inherent problem in her actions. Except when we were in the car. I asked her to take her coat off instead of turning off the heat. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/then-take-off-your-fucking-sweater-beotch/174756.md?page=2)