AIBU to get pissed off with all the Autumn and Winter "cosy" people

[Alicatz66]

Now that the evenings are getting darker I feel sad that summer is ending .. and pissed off with the "cosy" people !! I hate winter .. what is "cosy" about bumbling about in the dark and scraping ice off your car, getting fat with stodgy food , seeing all the shit sentimental Christmas TV adverts and being pale , corpse like and with drizzled on hair !!! .. this is light hearted but I just don't get it ! .... I've stayed away from the " We hate summer" threads as instructed as they were not for me ... so now it's my turn !!

I agree OP I have fibromyalgia and Raynauds and am always cold. Living in Scotland we had a good summer but not scorching like down South. I’m back in my fleecy PJs and socks again. My muscles contract in the cold and it hurts me. I hate the dark night, dark mornings, snow, ice everything about winter apart from Christmas although it starts in September.

I'm with you OP. We get so much cold miserable weather that its a lovely novelty to have some proper heat. I also have back problems and they're worse in cold weather. The long summer evenings are fab, I hate the autumn when the clocks go back and the height of winter where you barely see daylight if you work 9-5.

Yabvu. Fucking hate summer.

Now people are saying they're cold and this is my normal level of warm! I must run hotter than most people. :S

Again, this is so dependent on where you live. This summer in London must have been awful.

I live in Yorkshire, and this summer has been fantastic - so many warm and hot sunny days. We haven't had the humid, stifling heat and hot, stuffy nights that London has had.

I wish people on posts like this would state where they live, to give context.

I wish people on posts like this would state where they live, to give context

I live in Yorkshire. I’ve found this summer utterly hideous, hot and humid

Of course it depends where you are, I would hate it if it was endless rain and misery but for me, in London, after the awful heat we’ve had autumn and winter are bliss and not too extreme. I hate London in the heat, much better in colder weather.

Short days aren’t great. But that’s about it.

Oh, and I hate shops and ads ruining autumn with Christmas shit. I love Christmas but not in fucking September and October. And Halloween here is great as the kids all know to only knock at decorated houses.

I'm pretty high up, on the edge of the Pennines. It is usually 3 or 4 degrees cooler where I am than in Sheffield.

"Oh, and I hate shops and ads ruining autumn with Christmas shit. I love Christmas but not in fucking September and October. And Halloween here is great as the kids all know to only knock at decorated houses."

I'm with you on this.

I'm in London and this summer has been a joy. Long, sunny days, air-conditioned office and shops, and happy children running around in very few clothes.

Ah well, I’ve not been in air conditioned anything (not even the car!) and DD has sometimes been as much of a wet lettuce as me (averaging 29 degrees upstairs for at least a fortnight). All much happier in the West Country on holiday at about 21 degrees.

A friend told me she’s read that for the body to be able to regulate its temperature after being very hot you need to be in air conditioning for 30 minutes. So if air con isn’t part of your world it’s pretty bloody unpleasant.

"So if air con isn’t part of your world it’s pretty bloody unpleasant."

I think that has been part of the problem for many people. I work in an (over) air conditioned office, and drive to work in a car with aircon, so I have had some respite from the heat. My respite at work has been at lunchtime to get out of a freezing cold office to warm up outside.

Yes, DH seems better acclimatised to it as he was in a chilly office all day (and he doesn’t suffer with the heat as much anyway).

I find people who don’t like the heat haters but who, it turns out, are benefitting from aircon for 8 hours a day a bit annoying!

I’m in London and our office’s air con broke for over a week :( In a building with almost full length glass windows it was basically a green house...

Autumn and winter... candles, nice gloves, not feeling as body conscious in big clothes (although I do love not wearing tights in summer, I’ll give you that!), mulled wine, crunchy snow. And the smell of the cold. Much better than being sweaty and sunxreamed up all the time!

Mixed feelings on this. I love the sun, but the heat we were getting in July was too much. I love Autumn and winter when it’s the cold, crisp days, blue skies but properly cold. But I hate the days that turn into weeks of relentless damp, dark, rainy drizzle and then pouring rain that seems to seep into your bones and make you permanently cold and miserable. I also used to hate leaving the house and coming back home both in the dark for work. This is better now I don’t work FT.

I hate the autumn and winter because the flu/vomiting/seasonal viruses and bugs starts then. People who like autumn and winter forget I think about how many people get ill during those seasons.

MN is always full of threads from people who are ill or worried about children who are ill, or about losing their jobs if they take another sick day throughout the autumn/winter.
All of DSs worst illnesses (one of which included a hospital admission for meningitis, which thankfully turned out to be viral not bacterial) have been around Christmas and New Year. Give me hot weather and long evenings any time, even if I am sweating and struggling to sleep some nights.

Oh and I live in Oxfordshire where we had very little rain from late May throughout Jun, July and most of August, with temperatures in the low 30s very common and definitely no air conditioning for me anywhere.

I like a bit of both. But mostly I like that the seasonal changes here in UK are really not that big. Definitely don't deserve all the aggro they get.

bumbling- you make a good point, my DS’s second winter was absolutely horrendous with several hospital admissions. Winter is definitely miserable and sometimes dangerous for some groups of people. Mind you, so is extreme heat.

I do feel that winter is so so hard on people who have very low incomes- when you have to choose between putting the heating on or eating. Summer is much easier from that point of view.

We never hit 30 degrees where we live.

South East. Sign me up as a full member of the "fuck off Autumn" party.

I hate the dark creeping back.
The unreliable weather so whatever you wear is wrong.
Hate the back to school routine.
Hate all the commercial shit for Halloween, Bonfire night, Christmas and New Year. ( worse you get in summer is " buy BBQ food").
Hate the smelly candles
Hate the smell of musty clothes because there's always something damp drying somewhere.
Hate the cold mornings.
Hate having to wear shoes
Hate having to buy twice as many clothes than in summer at twice the price - Summer ;vest top, skirt, flip flops £15 all in. Autumn; Boots, tights, skirt, top, jumper , scarf, waterproof £100 sodding pounds.
Hate the garden looking half dead and without colour.
Hate the grey skies
Hate the sun blinding you with a low orange glare when you drive.
Hate turning the heating on and dry skin
Hate all the worms in the rain and all the slugs coming back.
Hate the clocks going back.
I could go in....

Mostly I dislike all the people ganging on about how wonderful Autumn and Winter are. You are ALL wrong.

Leaves. Bonfires. The crispness. Clear blue skies. Mist. Woollen layers. Scarves. COSINESS.

Get over it, you killjoys.😉

YANBU - summer is the only time you get to actually see the sky and contemplate the vastness of the universe. The rest of the year is suicide inducing, smothering, greyness. Why do you think Brits drink so much? Because the weather is crap for 80 percent of the year! All these people talking about fleecy socks that make your feet itch - days where you can’t even venture outside - who are you people? Not Londoners, surely.

I’m so sad that summer will be over soon. I love the long days.

We have an open plan house which stays cool and airy in the summer, but in the winter it’s freezing. I also hate the damp feeling when it’s cold. Heating is expensive and so is drying the clothes. It’s dark when you wake up, dark when you get out of work. If you manage to have a lie in, you have about 2.5 hours of daylight to play with. The lack of sunlight is draining. I don’t feel like going to the gym in the winter and I live in unflattering layers of clothes. Can’t take the kids out anywhere. Annoying Christmas music starts blaring in shops practically in September. The cat leaves muddy paw prints all over the place every day. Trees are bare and there’s nothing but dreary grey drizzle. The list goes on...

I’m with you, OP. Summer is the most beautiful time of the year.

I absolutely love summer. The long nights, being able to wear skirts without tights, everyone being so much happier and having a beer on the grass.

But I also love Autumn of Halloween, bonfire night, the leaves changing colour and the run up to Christmas. The only thing I'm starting to dread is that Christmas to June is a very long time and nothing seems to happen between.

I'm praying (obviously not for the effect on our environment) is for the heat wave to last until October :P

Anyone else hate winter clothes? "Layers" itch and feel like there's no air getting to my skin. I hate the restrictiveness. And they don't look good either. Big clumpy boots and dysentery "autumn" colours. Yuck. Hat hair on arrival anywhere. Jumpers add bulk and make me look and feel like a sack of spuds. I love my bright and colourful summer trousers and vests.