Care to disclose your location? For example, it's gonna be 78º in Austin today. Might as well get a jumpstart on those pasty white legs before summer.[/quote]

Chicago. Worst winter in 40 years and it's snowing today.

i kept seeing the same kid at the metro with the same sorts every morning for quite some time... it was January ish. it was (is) winter. he was wearing shorts.

total crap.

i would almost give shorts crap overall. i wear jeans/pants all year long. men should not wear shorts.

What about girls who leave their coats in the car in January when they go to the club and waddle hunched and shivering along the sidewalk hugging themselves and saying, Oooo it's cold! I've heard it's because they don't want to have to "deal with" their coats in a bar. I suspect they think winter coats make them look fat. Going without them merely makes them look stupid.[/quote]

Perhaps they will breed with the shorts people and mutate into a form of mole people who use cars as a type of ectoskeleton.

Rysie please weigh in on this topic.

busbus wrote:One of the more recent cases in my city is a bartender who has worn black shorts and a cut off black concert t-shirt for as long as I have known him, maybe since 1992. He also sports the ZZ Top long hair and beard look accessorised with black wayfarers. It's cool for him as he always seems to live above the bars he works at. Man is he an awesome bartender though.

Is this the particular fella who happens to wear a certain black cut off t-shirt that says "SHUT UP BITCH" in gigantic letters?

He is an excellent bartender.

I remember a few years back, two letter carriers made the Chicago local news with a bet over which one could go longer into the cold season, walking his route every day while wearing his shorts.

This "underdressing for the cold" thing makes no sense to me. Outside of bar bets, macho dares and the Polar Bear Club, I can think of no reason why somebody would choose to wear shorts and sandals in the dead of winter.

Kyle Motor wrote:Is this the particular fella who happens to wear a certain black cut off t-shirt that says "SHUT UP BITCH" in gigantic letters?

He is an excellent bartender.

Yes, indeed ^2. Real nice guy too.

i wore shorts in winter in college. it rained a lot and wearing shorts was an easier way to stay dry during classes.

aside from that, crap.

Dugong wrote:It's that time of year when it's obviously too cold for shorts and sandles but I've spotted a few of these so I'm going to make a thread about it without first searching.

I swear there are one of these threads for every winter season.

Shorts year round right here. Pants when a job or social event requires it. On ridiculously cold and snowy days I'll throw some pants on by choice, only because I bike to get anywhere. It would have to be a longer ride to persuade me, though.

NC.

i always see really skinny dudebros sportin' the shorts and sandals in wintertime out here...