Are all women permanently frozen?

[andy_wrx]

tea shirt ?

They put on a special shirt to have their tea in Newcastle ?

(edit : for Southern readers, this means 'supper')

 

[NickM]

Improving muscle tone won't keep you warmer, rather the opposite. Subcutaneous fat works as insulation.

And people of similar lean body mass don't have significantly varying metabolic rates - whatever articles in diet magazines might assert. The laws of thermodynamics tell us this :?:

Your body doesn't expend energy purely on maintaining core temperature until you start shivering. Even then, the resultant increase in body temperature is attributable to the ~25% efficiency of energy use for movement, which is what shivering is, albeit involuntary. A few star jumps would have much the same effect.

 

[Arch]

Pardon me, minister, but if the men were out hunting sabre-tooth tigers, where did the women get the mammoth steaks from?

Good lord, a man who can think logically, it's a miracle....

I don't know if I tend to be more cold than a man, since I live alone, I have no-one to compare with.

I do have the hang of putting more layers on if I am cold though - can't afford to blow a load of money on heating.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

I'm from Yorkshire. We're contracturially obliged not to admit to being cold in front of anyone from south of Sheffield.

 

[Carwash]

Are all women permanently frozen?

On the contrary! Judging by the number of girls I see tottering from pub to pub through the frozen December night in nothing but a crop top, tiny skirt and no coat, I am forced to assume that women must contain within them a powerful radioactive isotope, the decay of which outputs enough heat to power a blast-furnace but which is instead devoted to keeping them warm.

 

[jack the lad]

Mrs J just doesn't get the concept of the thermostat. If she's a tiny bit cold she'll whack the heating up to full and 5 minutes later when she's sweating buckets she'll whack it back down to minimum...and this goes on all day. Drives me bonkers. She's even at it in the car. Turning the heater up to full has NO EFFECT until the engine heats up, leave the bloody dial where it is.

 

[Arch]

Mrs J just doesn't get the concept of the thermostat. If she's a tiny bit cold she'll whack the heating up to full and 5 minutes later when she's sweating buckets she'll whack it back down to minimum...and this goes on all day. Drives me bonkers. She's even at it in the car. Turning the heater up to full has NO EFFECT until the engine heats up, leave the bloody dial where it is.

Have you actually tried explaining all this to her?

 

[MrGrumpy]

My wife never stops complaining that she's cold; she runs the heating full blast, turns up the room stat, burns the woodburner too hot and still sits huddled up on the sofa shivering, while my son and I are sweating. Now she is complaining that the heating isn't performing (doesn't seem to have noticed that it's quite cold outside) and wants me to DO SOMETHING about it.

One clue might be the fact that for supper last night she ate one single slice of cheese on toast. My belief is that if she exercised more regularly she would have better muscle tone, which would keep her warm and she would be able to eat a higher calorie diet without worrying about putting on weight.

Am I alone or do other blokes suffer in the same way?

Yer totally agree i`ve nick named my wife the ice maiden, take a can of de icer to bed everynight

 

[sheddy]

Mrs J just doesn't get the concept of the thermostat. If she's a tiny bit cold she'll whack the heating up to full and 5 minutes later when she's sweating buckets she'll whack it back down to minimum...and this goes on all day. Drives me bonkers. She's even at it in the car. Turning the heater up to full has NO EFFECT until the engine heats up, leave the bloody dial where it is.

I have heard of plumbers fitting a FAKE thermostat (just for their wife) so as to get over this problem

 

[jack the lad]

Have you actually tried explaining all this to her?

 

[Cranky]

Yes, super-cool wife here, too. Blanket over her while watching telly (with the central heating on), winter duvet goes on in early autumn and I'll be hanging out of the side to stay cool. If we're in the car it's a T shirt for me and layers for her so that we can find a compromise on the heater.

 

[gavintc]

I am so glad it is not just me. I get really confused at the desire to dig a blanket out to watch telly in a very warm room. I am glad our car has a separate heating controls for the driver and passenger - but the sauna temp still wafts over to my side.

 

[ufkacbln]

being cold is no excuse for frumpyness, sorry girls but you have to think about us blokes first. It says so somewhere in the government manual of proper human sexual relations.

I have been married for 26 years - hence I bought my wife some silk underwear!

The difference is that 26 years ago it would have been skimpy, cold and impractical.

Now I recognis my wife's needs and it consists of:

Is this good or bad?

 

[Aperitif]

Cosy - although she will look like an extra from a Woody Allen film...

 

[LLB]

I have been married for 26 years - hence I bought my wife some silk underwear!

The difference is that 26 years ago it would have been skimpy, cold and impractical.

Now I recognis my wife's needs and it consists of:

Is this good or bad?

Had you considered that the physical needs may be overridden by the psychological ones.

If I got my O/H a head to toe set of thermals I think she would be less than impressed.