Bloke on tube in shorts and flipflops

[LaurieFairyCake]

Mad. It's really quite chilly in London today (was 2 degrees).

Maybe he's from Liverpool or Newcastle?

I've seen a surprising number of women on the tube this week with bare legs - funnily enough not so many men feel the need to come to work with their legs out. Though there's a teacher at DD's school who is in shorts pretty much all year round - you known when it's really cold when he's in trackie bottoms and a parka - happens a couple of times a winter, max.

It does drive me mad this judgement of people. I quite often still go bare legs for work, or a night out, I’m generally only outside for a few mins at a time - I WONT GET COLD!

I also still wear shorts and vest to gym and running, sometimes I’ll pop into the shops on way back, you would think I was wearing a live crocodile on my back for the ‘concerned’ looks I get, who cares???! I don’t judge people for wearing coats in the summer, it doesn’t affect me.

People wear different clothes / have different body temperatures shocker.

A lot of men I’ve worked with over the years were knee length shorts in all weather types. They didn’t wear flip flops though, it was big steel toe cap boots all year round too.

Possibly this chap just flew in from somewhere hot. There’s always a few people you see in passport control whose outfits made perfect sense at their point of departure, but not so much at Heathrow in winter.

Goodness, I'm not judging you, Buster.

Boggling, yes, but not judging.

I come over all concerned and guilty when I see my ParcelForce chappy out in the cold with bare legs, all for the sake of my parcel of tat, while I snuggle closer to my hot water bottle on the sofa. But I've managed to restrain myself from enquiring whether he's wearing a vest and does he look after his chilblains...

Happens all the time in Glasgow, the only time I've not seen people (usually young men) cutting about in their simmit and shorts was last year when we had the red weather warning - risk of imminent death was the only thing that stopped them

It goes the other way too - even when its roasting there is a significant proportion of the population (usually older women) still in their overcoats.
There's an anthropological study waiting to be done.

I bet he was South African. At the mere sight of sun they're always the first in flip flops and shorts where we live. I admire their optimism.

Probably Canadian. Well hard. +2 is practically summer.

I pretty much live in shorts, even in the snow! I just don't feel the cold that much on my legs.

Zombies, old ladies ALWAYS need their overcoats 😂

I live in a very hot country and the locals always switch to winter clothes at the beginning of October despite the temperature only dropping from 30c to 28c. They all walk round in puffa jackets

I saw a teenager in the coop with flip flops on!

It's 'Wear Your Pants On The Tube' day today isn't it?

It's for charity

still in shorts here

That'll be my son Ina few years. He wears shorts all year round and hates wearing socks and shoes!

He's already moaning that he can't wear shorts when he goes up to high school this year!

We’re in Scotland and DS(16) wears shorts much of the time. No flip flops, though. He doesn’t seem to feel the cold. He works p/t as a swim coach and swims a fair amount as well and I think he can’t see the point in changing out of poolside clothes.

Some boys and girls in my DC's school are still in shorts (no flip flops though). Wind chill factor was making it feel like -3 today....

He was probably doing it for a bet.

-2 in West Yorkshire this morning. Dd(7) acquiesced to the house rule that she needs to wear trousers to school rather than her usual shorts, when the temp goes below 4 degrees.

She wore trousers to breakfast club. Upon arrival she took her shorts out of her bag and said “you only said I had to wear trousers to school, now I am at school i’m putting shorts on”. She was still in them when I picked her up. Seems happy enough though.

Bet he's from northern Scotland. My friend from the Black Isle didn't own a coat. His concession to the freezing cold Scottish winters was a rugby shirt.

Costa, I have a pal like that, too, - always wears a t shirt. I once met him in a howling blizzard and his one concession was a long sleeved shirt - I was full wee old wummin in my overcoat, hat, gloves, furry boots, thermal vest, etc, etc, etc