What makes winter better than summer?

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• Princess Alice

  2016-09-15 22:42:04

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  I have this long-held fantasy of you and I cuddling under a big thick comforter during a blizzard...
• Imipolex G

  2016-09-15 22:42:09

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  Winter is terrible and therefore we have to have holidays then to make it more tolerable (or less, depending)
  
• Anonus

  2016-09-15 22:42:56

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  The days are too short. The roads can be difficult to drive on. But it's not so goddamn hot out!

  Central Avenue said:

  I have this long-held fantasy of you and I cuddling under a big thick comforter during a blizzard...

  you really love that, don't you?
• Tatterhood

  2016-09-15 22:43:35

  christmas is bad though
  
  winter is better than summer because I live in a place with no air conditioning, but they're legally required to provide heating, hah!
  
  otoh, summer is better than winter because you don't have to wear winter boots
  
• Anonus

  2016-09-15 22:44:44

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  where I live there's so little humidity in the air that you can wear shorts on a cool day!
• Anonus

  2016-09-15 22:45:32

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  also, Christmas provides us with tradition, and Deepest Lore, and shit

  
  

  also there are no Rankin/Bass specials about Washingtide or whatever the fuck holiday I just made up
• Anonus

  2016-09-15 22:46:10

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  oh wait that was Fourth of July

  
  

  there's a Rankin/Bass Rudolph and Frosty special about Christmas in July and it's boring as shit

  
  

  See what I mean?
• Sredni Vashtar

  2016-09-15 22:47:54

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  Midsummer and Lughnasadh/Lammas Eve were pretty important back in the day.
• Anonus

  2016-09-15 22:48:09

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  how so?
• Sredni Vashtar

  2016-09-15 22:54:58

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  Lughnasadh (1 August) was one of the biggest Irish pagan holidays and Lammas Eve, which aligns with it for what should be obvious reasons, is the first of the big three harvest festivals in English tradition. And Midsummer, or the solistice—so called because "spring" and "fall" aren't particularly old ideas in a lot of places, contrary to what you might think—was traditionally a pretty big to-do in a lot of places because it meant that it was the midpoint of the warm season and a time to give thanks to the gods for all the nice stuff you had so winter wouldn't start creeping in early.