Which do you prefer?

[Liquid]

Interesting debate broke out in the pub recently and I'm curious to know what GTP thinks.

Wrapping up like a caterpillar cocoon or having a hot shower with cold extremities is far better than melting with a fan or dousing oneself in cold water. Each have their merits, I enjoy a hot afternoon by the lake, but warming up in winter just feels better.

 

[RX-7_FD3S]

From experience being really cold and warming up is usually coming with some pain. Either your fingertips or eartip getting really hot. So yeah I prefer hot to cold maybe because I prefer colder temperature.

 

[TheCracker]

As a Brit currently 'looking forward' to spending the next 8 months in cold, damp weather. The thought of warming up is pleasing. This 'being too hot' is largely an alien concept i find hard to contemplate.

 

[PeterJB]

Warming up is easier than cooling down.

 

[Jimlaad43]

I utterly despise being cold, and walking from the cold to a warm bit is nice, but being hot and walking into an Air Conditioned room is just amazing.

 

[Wiegert]

I tend to warm up fast without exerting much effort. The comfort I get from moving from freezing to toasty doesn't last long before I start feeling uncomfortable.

As someone who's more content with feeling the chill, keeping a fan on at home or walking into a supermarket with air-con during the summer is simply unbeatable.

 

[wvmgmidget]

I prefer cooling down. I hate the burning feeling of "thawing" in my hands once I'm out of the cold.

 

[W3H5]

Personally I cope well with heat and while I do love relaxing in an aircon'd space after being outside in extreme heat I think I prefer the feeling of getting warm after being freezing as the cold is much harsher on my body compared to the heat.

If I had a choice between 45 degree heat wave or -40 degree blizzard I'd take the heat wave any day. Being cold and getting warm feels so much more lovely than the other.

 

[Adamgp]

Warming up for sure.

 

[Com Fox]

As a hot blooded individual who loves to get to the pool and swim, I love cooling down when the heat rises up

 

[kikie]

I can stand warm weather much better than cold t°. I think I prefer warming up.

 

[Dolph Drago]

I tend to sweat pretty easily in the heat. Don't get me wrong; I love air conditioning. Sitting in front of or standing under an AC vent helps me cool down, but as soon as I leave it I may start sweating again until I'm fully cooled off. On the other hand, once I warm up next to the heat , I stay warmed up.

Also let's say you don't have air conditioning or heat or they happen to be out. You can strip down to your birthday suit and still be hot. But you can always put on something or grab a blanket if it's cold and warm up that way.

 

[SRV2LOW4ME]

Curling up under a warm duvet in front of the fire after sledding all day = Orgasmo

 

[Joey D]

I don't function when I'm cold, but I feel like death when I'm overheated. I often find it easier (and cheaper on my utility bill) to warm up when I'm cold than vice versa, so I'll go with that.

 

[Daniel]

I prefer colder weather, so I guess warming up is better than cooling down. If you get colder you can always put more layers on.

You can only take off so many layers until parents start covering their children's eyes and you get arrested for public indecency.

 

[Lizard]

Warming up when I am cold.

To make it feel even better it needs to be raining really hard outside.

 

[Valkyr1313]

Being cold and warming up because you can do that so many ways: throw on a big hoodie, curl up in your bed, cuddle, have some warm soup or hot chocolate, warm fires. So many ways

 

[Lizard]

Actually the perfect situation.

Feeling really cold and wet then getting on a train in the pouring rain and going somewhere whilst showering and eating and relaxing.

I find it better if I am in something that moves because I just think 150 years ago I would have had to walk and get soaked.

 

[Pupik]

It depends...I never know if I'm going somewhere that's prepared for freezing temps, to the point where you only get cold when you walk out to your car; or it could be some place that doesn't have heat. Trust me, when it's 25F in northern Florida and nobody has a working heater, or 40F in California and you forgot a sweatshirt, it sucks.

I'm not terribly used to cold weather. Being really cold, then warming up, and possibly getting too warm, then sweating it out (and repeat the process) is really uncomfortable. You're either over-dressed, under-dressed, or luckily hit that sweet spot. You can't just ask others to turn the heat off at that point. And you have to be mad to turn on the A/C. And you can't trust anyone to open a window. You can kind of get used to it if you keep active, but damned if it's one of those 30-degree mornings followed up by 70 at mid-day, where you need to pack an entire wardrobe just to go grocery shopping.

There's one perk to being hot, because you can take off your clothes...and preferably, take off someone else's.

 

[1241Penguin]

Warming up is so much easier than cooling down. Usually a jacket and a cup of hot chocolate will do. To cool down though? Unless you have a fan constantly blowing at you or air conditioning in your house, you're going be so uncomfortable.

 

[TB]

I'd rather be cold in Hawaii than hot in North Dakota.

 

[Exorcet]

I prefer the cold and hate the heat, so I guess that's the second option. The fall/winter is really my preferred time to be out and about. I'm perfectly content with remaining in an air conditioned building in the summer. An air conditioned building that keeps all the insects and other summer nuisances outside and away from me.

I also like to wear more clothing rather than less, which is harder to do in the summer. The same goes for sleeping where I like being covered by something. There aren't many things that feel as good as getting under a really cold bed sheet or comforter and going to bed.

 

[Liquid]

I think I am the odd one out in that I enjoy the cold and therefore see being in the cold and warming up afterwards as the better option.

 

[Omnis]

One of the best feelings in the world is being really cold and taking a hot shower.

Cooling down sucks because it takes too long.

 

[Bobert power]

Cooling down is the best feeling when you live in the South. It's a fact.

 

[eran0004]

I prefer being warm and cooling down. Not so much because the cooling feels better than the warming, but because I hate being cold.

On a related note, I believe that the concept of hell as being a place of fire and heat is because the idea originates from the warmer regions of the world. Had hell been invented in the north, it would most likely be a place of ice and cold. Maybe that's why Swedes for example are not very religious: "I might end up in hell you say? Eternal fire and all that? Well, it doesn't sound too bad if I'm honest."

 

[Mike_grpA]

As a half Scottish man living in one of the most southerly places in the world, I absolutely love the cold. I run very hot normally, so single digit temps are comfortable for me. I find Summer particularly uncomfortable, as even down here it gets into the mid to high 30s during summer, and it's not so easy to cool down. Not a big deal for me though, since we get about a month of "Summer" and the rest of the year is freezing haha.

 

[Pupik]

On a related note, I believe that the concept of hell as being a place of fire and heat is because the idea originates from the warmer regions of the world.

The Middle East isn't well known for its ski slopes and ice fishing.

Conceptually, I think they chose "fire" because of its transformative effects, rather than the fact it will melt your skin. After all, ascension into heaven means you lose your breath and freeze to death.