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 !!

ilovesooty ... Agreed ... "cosy" ison the shit list with picky food, holibobs and hubby !!!!

I also hate winter, can't see the point of it.

Spring, summer, autumn, all fine, but winter is just dark, cold and pointless.

It's an endurance every year.

I never complain about hot weather but I love Autumn.

I like being cozy but it’s a bit of a load of old shit. Let’s face it, more often than not it’s just soaking wet but shops like to push the cosy myth by acting like we live in the fucking artic.

As for the £2.48 contribution- you could thank him for the contribution and tell him what you will buy for it.. ie a shoe lace
Tell him it was much more than you expected to receive from him. That will certainly piss him off

Wrong thread inlector

I love summer and loathe autumn and winter. Crisp days - bollocks. It is wet and grey. Not enough daylight, flu, wet and icy roads etc etc. Compare that with long days, warm and sunny. Sitting outside with a glass of wine, people smiling more.
I’m dreading this winter. My DF has pneumonia last year over Christmas and New Year. He was in hospital for a month and his dementia took a huge turn for the worst. He survived, but is now in end stage dementia and another bout of pneumonia will kill him.

I would normally be with you, somewhat, OP (although I have HATED this awful hot weather we've been having). My gripe with winter, even though this isn't normally anything I have to worry about much, is the snow. After being stuck on a bus for literally 5 and a half hours and then still not being able to get home with my feet killing me because of the snow, I can't stand it. BUT this year we will have our first baby with us. Our little boy due in just over 5 weeks time and I could not be happier to share these wonderful events with him. I'm so excited to hold him in my arms and to show him Christmas. So, you're on your own there I'm afraid.

Whoo is forcing the OP to eat stodgy food in the autumn? Her choice surely?

The end of summer signifies the run up to Christmas for me.

I hate Christmas.

It’s very wet here (NW), and today is the second day the log burner has been lit- to dry off the dogs. I must admit it’s nice to sit in front of .

To be fair, there are some miserable bastards on here.

A lot of the time, change is great. I like the changing seasons.

Autumn is a lovely season. It’s just right like Goldilock’s porridge!

I do find it fails to live up to expectations though.

September and August are similar. In September we all magically expect autumn to descend but it is actually blazing sunshine.

October more of the same but with heavy knitwear and boots in shops.

November - grey and wet. Shops try to convince us it’s snowing.

December - grey wet and dark.

I hate winter. The darkness is hugely depressing, I loathe December in Scotland where it's barely light from 10am to 3pm then back to pitch darkness. After the shortest day on 21st Dec my spirits lift considerably as its getting lighter again, rather than going the other way.

People who witter on about "making memories" with hot chocolate and snuggling under a blanket on a sofa can fuck right off.

Autumn is OK. Enough light to get out and about and on a bright day with the leaves turning colour everything is crisp and lovely. It's when the clocks go back that the slippery slope of crap begins. It doesn't help that I can't abide most Christmassy things either, and clocks going back is just about the time when people ramp up the "festive fun" which quite frankly makes me want to strangle them.

I've been in heaven this summer and am very sad it's drawing to an end.

I LOVE summer, and hate autumn/winter - there is nothing cosy about early morning feeds in the dark and wet, late night checks in the dark and wet.

I did however love the snowy crisp weather this year when all the animals were in their shelters warm and snuggly eating hay and making contented animal noises. It was actually rather magical.

My ideal year: February, March, April, May, June, July, September, October, December.

February just scrapes in purely because it is short, the crocuses and snowdrops give hope and there is actually some evidence of a thing called daylight around a 9-5 working day by the end of the month.

August is an odd month. Generally dull and dampish. Rarely actually summery. September is often nicer.

November and January can just fuck off to the far side of fuck and keep going. Cold as in chilling your bones, muddy, wet, grey, dark. They rarely have the fantasy crisp days bollocks that people fantasise over. A winter of December and February would be plenty enough darkness and frost to make spring worth lusting over.

I love spring. Shame we didn't get one this year. By the time the daffodils ventured out at the end of April, they quickly got cooked into oblivion.

I love the simplicity of good summer weather. Less faffing with layers of clothes. Simpler food with less cooking.

I like a good autumn. It can be stunningly beautiful as the leaves change and the light quality of low sun and a light mist. That's not guarenteed though and a soggy dull autumn of mucky squelchy leaves quickly gets tiresome.

Winter is far too long for its own good. Decent frosts are too rare as is the right kind of snow which comes deep enough for playing for a couple of days then quickly melts away. Permanently feeling cold despite being bulked up like the Michellin Man is a pain. Joints are stiff. Getting out to play and keep fit is uninspiring. No vitamin D.

The difference between winter lovers and summer lovers is that winter guarentees months of grotty cold winter that requires bulky jumpers, hot chocolate and log burners (which quickly lose their novelty), whereas frequently summer can be fairly indistinguishable from the rest of the year. Last year saw August to April with barely a ray of sunshine. If every year was like this anomalous year, the summer haters might actually have a point, but it's pretty galling when the weather finally gets above 20oC and the summer haters commence whinging immediately.

We were owed this summer as recompense for the bloody awful winter that limped on from last August to April!

Love Autumn. Seems to quieten people down, no screeching and shouting as has been the case all summer. Autumn in Toronto is truly beautiful. Winter can be a PITA as I rely on the train for work and if we get really bad weather it's a nightmare.

We were owed this summer as recompense for the bloody awful winter

We're in Scotland and it was the worst winter in living memory. The Beast from the East hit us enormously and the novelty of snow wears off quickly after three days of being snowed in. Even in a "normal" summer it's grey, dark and cold from the end of October to the end of February.

A "normal" summer in the UK does not guarantee warm and sunny weather for a similar four month period.

I’m with you Op.

This has been the best summer ever.

You can do so much more when it’s light and hot late. So sociable. So much more outdoor activities. So much happier.

I’m with you OP. All this shit about ‘you can always warm up’. No. No you can’t. If your house has inadequate heating, or you have to work in a building with inadequate heating, or you have to spend significant amounts of time outside you can’t get warmer. There’s a limit to the number of clothes you can put on. I hate gloves so my hands are always cold. My feet are always cold. My nose freezes. In hot weather you can get in the shade, wear natural floaty fabrics and be ok (yes, I was in places where the temperature was over 30 this year, yes I had to do things).
I’m also confused about people who feel (positively or negatively) that summer means endless salad. It’s pretty hot in India and they gave us curries...eat what you want!

I think people only like winter if they don’t have to go to work, they don’t like going outside and being sociable.

I just want proper, distinct seasons. I don't mind a cold winter if I'm guaranteed a hot summer.

But its the whole sitting inside with fire and candles on whilst its cole, dark and rainy outside. Love that feeling :)

Me too Whisky and it seems bizarre to me that anybody wouldn’t like it...but I’m sure it seems just as bizarre to them that I don’t like summer and all the associated delights it brings.

To a PP who wondered if summer-haters go on holiday to hot places: I certainly don’t. I went to Scotland in February and I’m going to Wales in November