to think some people feel the cold and some people just dont!

[thefruitwhisperer]

I probably am being really tetchy about this, at least a little. But today, a girl came into the office wrapped up beyond belief. It may have been sightly nippy outside but Id gone in with a cardigan and was fine. I went off to make a tea, came back and said to her 'Still got your coat, scarf AND hat on! You cold or something!'

She turned to to woman who sits inbetween us and said "see. What did I just say. WHAT did I just say!"

I asked what she'd just said and she wouldnt tell me. Just "nah nah nothing, its nothing". The woman between us then told me it was that white people dont feel the cold.

Im a bit offended. More at her secretiveness about this comment than any racial connotations. If she didnt think it would bother me, why not say something like "oh I was just saying that white people dont feel the cold"

AIBU?

YANBU imagine the furore if you had said 'oh you're just cold because you're black' I don't think it's anything to do with that, some people just don't feel the cold. I might be whinging about my lack of heating on the snow thread, but tbh DP and I are still out riding in a polo shirt every day whilst my DDs and my DM are shivering in a million layers already.

yanbu
you'd get slated if you said it about black people
but yabu to get worked up about it

is she very thin , thin people get colder ime

i am always warm

my dd always feels cold

Thanks! I feel validated!

If she'd said people from hotter climates feel the cold more, I might have agreed. But we are both from London!

I defused the situation by telling her to shut up and eat a pie.

wot shirley said

Jesus Shirley,
Having a bad day?
Totally unnecessary

We have hot/cold wars in our office - I suppose it's better for people who feel the cold to wrap up rather than sit there in a T shirt in winter and ratchet up the heat to 80 degrees like they do in our office.

On the black/white question, in a previous office I worked in it seemed to be mainly black people who felt the cold. We all used to talk about this in a civilised way and one theory put forward by one of my black friends was that Afro Caribbean mums used to wrap up their babies so much in winter that the babies grew up feeling the cold more.

However, in my current office there doesn't seem to be any correlation between skin colour and feeling the cold, nor between size and feeling the cold for that matter.

I am white and I feel the cold. My sister in law does as well.

I feel far more than when I was 14 and invincible. Now I am 44 and whimpered when I saw the frost on the grass this morning. It's too early in the year for crunchy grass surely?

I will be finding my fingerless gloves and thermals soon ans restacking the firewood. I have already located my fleece yoga trousers.

I'm white and menopausal, I don't feel the cold

Oh, we have the hot/cold war in our office every day.

But I sit by the radiator and the window, so I win

A lot of southern european and african people do feel the cold more than northern europeans, and they are circulation differences, especially in the hands and feet. SE and African people are more prone to raynaud disease (circ in hands and feet "shuts down" in the cold) than northern counterparts
so yeah, some people are built for cold and some built for heat
that's why clothes are so handy. I really don't think it was an off comment at all, so don't worry.
This isn't a blanket difference, though (scuse pun!).

Lordy, it's got naff all to do with being black, white, yellow or whatever. Some people feel the cold. Some don't. End of.

I think maybe we should leave this here, people.

I am always cold, hands and nose freezing if it goes underneath 20 degrees but I'm quite slim..
I think you should keep your observations to yourself in the future, they seem a bit tetchy to be honest!

Agree with minimou

I'm v slim, and if it goes above 18C I get very uncomfortable, but there's a genetic (as in racial) reason for this. Making observations and finding out about the differences between different ethnic groups isn't racism at all - it's fascinating....we're all human, and we've all gone on a journey around the earth, from the same place (if our anthropologists are correct), adapting as we've gone.
Celebrate it, guys.