All this from not wearing a coat? What have I done to myself?!

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Went out without a coat today, rushing to get in the car. Went to a high street so lots of time outside. I was probably outside 15 mins in total, in and out of shops, with a bra and thin jumper on. I felt so cold we had to go back to the car. I have been shivering now for hours. Heating is on, still not warm. Had a warm drink. Is this normal? What have I done?

Well, reading through this has just wasted a while off my life. What a strange thing to post, unless OP thought that she may have hypothermia, then NHS website would be more use than MN. Ah well, by now I hope your chills have disappeared and you are fully warmed up!

This!! Spot on 👌

This!!! Very VERY well said 👏

@Mumof3PrettyBoys

amazing😂😂

reading a sentence or two is having an opinion forced on you? You must feel violated every time you open this thread.

keep digging…

Wow, some people have taken this really way too far.

The good news is OP is long warm now and doing fine. I can’t see this topic is serious enough to throw insults over something minor.

@Mumof3PrettyBoys So you think that you’re so special that I should just ignore you name checking me and personal name calling, telling me to piss off/fuck off and generally bullying your way around the forum and not respond to that?

Happy to dish it out but don’t like any response aimed specifically back at your general nastiness?

If you don’t like the @ function, turn it off.

You're just describing meteorological and astrological winter, they aren't uniquely french or British or whatever definitions. They are just different things. In France meteorological winter is 1st Dec to 28th/29th February

Hope you've bought some socks as cold feet make it all worse

Do what???

How the hell do they make the washing machine any dirtier than underpants do?

You wear shoes without socks day in and day out? I'd consider that dirty! Presumably you can't ever wash the shoes in the washing machine if you wouldn't wash socks? The build up of sweat and skin from even clean feet would make them pretty dirty!

I was describing my experience of this debate with ordinary people I’ve met in different places. On French 2023 calendars, ´winter’ is marked as starting on the 22nd of December. I’m not saying this is a uniquely French way of calculating things - clearly it’s linked to the solstice so it wouldn’t shock me to find other people using the same definition in different contexts. But it’s just how people generally, in my experience, define winter’s beginning in France, and I’ve never come across this idea in the UK before, so I associate it with France.
My Irish example comes from an Irish friend I also had a conversation with about this. I don’t know for sure if there’s total consensus that Irish summer starts on the 1st of May but she was telling me that it’s a widespread point of view. I think in France people would be very supremely at the idea that May is summer.
My whole point was that there are different ways of defining winter and posters tearing strips off each other because November is or isn’t winter is daft.