To be sick of people complaining that they are freezing

[Bookaboo]

When it's actually about 23' in the office. Just fed up of hearing it. I do wonder if it's because people heat their homes excessively and so most places end up feeling colder in comparison.

Also, outside. Temperatures have been mild yesterday and today compared to last week, when it genuinely was sub zero and people had grounds to complain. But people are still moaning that it's freezing when it's 10 degrees warmer!

Don't get it!

I agree that people need to harden up a bit but, having lived in Russia with regular double digit minus numbers, it is a different kind of cold here - wet cold . I experienced both in one winter and have to say that the uk felt weirdly colder.
But you are right ... put a bloody cardigan on!

I'm one of the cold complainers but you definitely won't find me complaining of summer heat. What summer heat, in the UK?

At my office we have a number of people who put fan heaters under the desk, and I've spotted the central heating set to 30 before. Meanwhile I boil if it gets about 25.

Temps can vary in different parts of the building though. At home our thermostat's on the landing and set to 19 and that's fine for most of the house, but the bathroom is always cold. It's got the ceiling right under the roof and I don't think there's any insulation.

I have the heating set at 18 at home because I find anything more oppressively warm. My mother in law who keeps her thermostat at 23 is convinced my baby is going to freeze.

I'm always cold. Never complain in the summer, there's no such thing as too hot.

I prefer to be in a cool room but with warm layers of clothing. Central heating makes me headachy and dries out my skin too much.

We have thermostat between 17 & 19; only at 20 when (very elderly) fil visits. I visit properties as part of my job - shocks me at how hot a lot of the homes are and people sitting around in T shirts!! Put warm clothes on in the winter! Very unhealthy to have heating up so high...and bad for the environment too! And it's a waste of money.

Oh yes I get sick of all the delicate little hothouse flowers on the bus. The moment the temperature drops below 20 degrees Celsius,they are aggressively slamming the windows shut. As if doing so aggressively will make a difference. Why don't they just wear warmer clothes,rather than subjecting the rest of us to an unbearably stuffy bus,that at this time of year is probably swarming with cold and flu viruses? And as for people who have their central heating on 30 degrees..... I have my heating on 18 degrees,and I only put it on if the outside temperature is lower than 12 degrees. If it's warmer out than that,I find I don't actually need it. If I'm chilly,I put a cardigan on! And I frequently hear people (usually women) saying 'I'm freezing' when the weather is actually quite mild,say 13 degrees. I feel like saying to them how will you manage when the weather really IS freezing?

I was taught that "room temperature" is 20C or 21C. Not 23, 25 or 27. 27 was the temperature in Florida in summer and it was sweltering.

It is fucking freezing in my office. The BMS can't seem to realise that you need to adjust the temperature to correspond with outside.

If you are unfortunate enough to sit along the ac vents you're sitting in an arctic wind.

I prefer a cooler temperature than roasting. I'm in the minority with my co workers who crank up a geriatric blow heater that puffs out hot air all day. Anyone that pops their head round the door always says its like a sauna and when they're out I fling open a window. I know when it's too hot as I start to nod off and I can feel my contacts lifting off my eyes. Sorry, I'm on a rant but I refuse to wear a t shirt to work in January!

I grew up in a house with thick frost on the inside of my windows my dad believed central heating made you soft, and I think he was right

I get very cold at work - specifically my mouse hand! Total desk job so it's my own fault really, if I moved more I wouldn't be cold.

But my colleague gets super hot so the radiator behind us is off and I put a little heater on under my desk in the mornings. I also wear wrist warmers which are a godsend (www.turtle-doves.co.uk/).

Yanbu, I am always cold, I get white fingers in the summer and never have bear arms unless it's an extreme heatwave. I also work in a cold garage, I wear several layers and use a hot water bottle and still feel cold, however, I get sick of hearing how cold everyone is!!!!
I do think it's a British thing, but really it's not hard to make small talk about other things, Have you been busy today? Are you up to anything nice at the week end? Or,just hello how you doing? Great thanks yourself? Maybe I'm so used to feeling the cold all the time I'm hardened to it a bit, or maybe it's just dealing with a very high turnover of customers all saying the same thing about the weather affecting my judgment:)

we are a bunch of whingers in general.

I’m terrible. Not in the office - there I put on a big heavy cardigan.
But at home I often have the heating around 25, fire on full and blanket over me.
It’s worse when i’m Tired.
And I always am tired lately. Actually need to get my ass to Drs as probably should get a blood test

I agree. One of my colleagues is forever cold but then she wanders around in bare legs, skirts abd flimsy tops. No wonder she's cold.
Someone joked that it's because she is dressed for summer. Colleague replied "no i'm not. It's just i'm inside all day so why would i wear big jumpers and stuff".
Sigh.

I'm a cold person and it's fucking miserable being sat in a cold office all day. I wear a thick cardigan, tights, scarf and boots but have to dress professionally so that's as much as I can do to stay warm as I don't think it would be acceptable to take a sleeping bag/duvet in!

So yes, to me, YABU

We have issues with the heating in our house so I think we're quite a cold house.
However, I think I'm colder this week than last when we had snow and sub-zero temperatures.

Funnily enough I just had a moan about oh turning the heating up.... Put kids to bed and they were both complaining it was too hot, looked at the thermostat and oh had put it up to 18!!!!! pffft it was quickly turned back down to 17.

If we feel cold we put a jumper on, but if its set to anything over 17.5 everyone in the house strips off to t-shirts! I cant imagine being sat in a house with heating cranked up to 23+... we'd have to open windows.

(maybe its because we're just used to it now as we refuse to pay so much on heating )

I'm warm at work most of the time - my classroom is about 19 degrees. But, I'm mostly on my feet pottering about.

When I settle down at home, which is admittedly a couple of degrees cooler, I'm quite quickly chilly as I'm not moving.

I take a bloody blanket with me for my legs when going to the cinema. It's warm enough in there, but sitting still leaves me feeling cold.

YABU. I am always cold in our office but that is because people always want the air con on - even this time of year! However, I layer up with long sleeve tops and wool jumpers and socks etc. The house is set at 20 degrees and so it’s not that I’m over heating either so that I then feel the cold.

I tend to keep my classroom heating at about 18 degrees.
When i first get in on the morning or late after school I turn it up to 22 degrees because it's a big cold space. (Old school, single glazing limited insulation). When thr heating breaks, i wear my coat but am usually still cold.

Where I work on occasion , every single employee has their own hot water bottle , without exception . We work shifts , and at about 4am , there’s definite drop in the temperature , so much so that the only warm place in the building is the lift . It’s not uncommon to see call handlers taking calls and typing in a woolly hat , scarf and fingerless gloves , and in winter , it’s actually warmer outside sometimes .

It’s made worse by the air con vents which blow up both freezing cold air from the floor , and from above your head as well .We took in a room gauge and it barely hit 15 , but despite numerous complaints to the management , they deny its that cold , because they’re never there at 4am , and it apparently costs over £400 to get an engineer out to turn it up .

We have heating set to 20 minimum in our house, bedroom gets put up to 22 and have a little oil filled radiator in there as well. Plus a 13.5 tog duvet. And I wear PJs and socks and a jumper to bed.

At work I was wearing heat tech thermals under my shirts and thick cashmere jumpers, two pairs of socks and keep an extra cardigan on the back of my chair (call it my work dressing gown). I've sat there in my scarf as well, and was debating fingerless gloves. I couldn't wear any more layers and still look vaguely professional!