My friend Paul lives in Chicago and wears shorts year round. I can't think of a time that I have ever seen him in pants. Paul is not crap, so I guess shorts in winter are not crap. I barely wear shorts even in the summer...so to each his own.

Whenever I am in Seattle I see the variant of Bald Guy with Pendleton Shirt wearing shorts and sandals.

It's like they need air conditioning all over, except their arms.

I rarely wear shorts in the Summer. That being said, I wear sandals all year round. I have two excuses though, first - I ride my bike to work with clipless pedals that mean I have to switch shoes upon arrival - then I stay inside here (sometimes being the only person working that day - and therefore cannot venture outside this aquarium with a nice 72 degree temperature) for 12 hours. My feet also stick in socks/shoes. Smell real bad - and while I'm not opposed to the vile smells my body sometimes offers, my girlfriend is.

Ok, crap on the shorts. Fuck it - crap on the sandals too - makes me feel like a goddamn hippy/brahdawg.

people who live in really cold weather just tend to be neurotic about this sort of stuff. defiance in the face of nature! i've lived through *somewhat* cold winters for my whole life (nj, nyc, and boston), and i can say that playing with the cold is not all that different from playing with fire.

but once i was outdoors with a friend on a cold, snowy day, and some dude went jogging by with only shorts. at first we were like, how is he doing that? but then my friend said "yknow, maybe thats the thing, he just doesnt care, so it doesn't get to him. maybe if we weren't so preoccupied with bundling up and walking around like a bunch of shivering, hunched-over slugs, it wouldn't get to us so much either." i thought he was kind of correct.

Well, do college campuses count? The winds on the prairie are so cold I feel them demonic. Nevertheless, above mentioned dudebros are in sandals and shorts. Then again, isn't that just because collegekidz are supposed to be ca-razy and irrational?


Either way.
In High School my friends and I wouldn't have many pairs of pants and it wasn't uncommon to sport yer shorts over some long johns. I'm sure it looked absolutely dumb. Oh well.
Crap.

busbus wrote:Most of the people I know who do this are large creatures.

Yeah, I'm a bit of a fat boy currently, and I'm usually not feeling the cold the same as skinny folks on any given cold day. So predictibly I was the first person to break out the shorts at work a little while back... to all manner of "Shorts!? Brrr!!" exclamations from female co-workers... but:

a) it was the first day of the year here to get over 60 degrees F

b) I sit on my ass indoors in a damn office all day

c) I have a parking space within the office building's garage

So that's my excuse.

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

I have no idea where this notion comes from - but I am honestly curious, as every so often I will hear a male say something similar.

Is it something regional, or tied to a religion that you practice, or passed down "conventional wisdom" within your family (or circle of friends), or is it just something you personally feel on your own?

Seriously, I'd be interested to know the origin, if any, of the sentiment.

Arson Smith wrote:

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

I have no idea where this notion comes from - but I am honestly curious, as every so often I will hear a male say something similar.

Is it something regional, or tied to a religion that you practice, or passed down "conventional wisdom" within your family (or circle of friends), or is it just something you personally feel on your own?

Seriously, I'd be interested to know the origin, if any, of the sentiment.

ha! the only religion i practice is Happy Hour...

it was mostly a tongue-in-cheek comment, but really... shorts suit your retired uncle on the golf course better than you or i. great for the cabin or the beach. that's about it. i say they make men look like boys but i could stand to lighten up a bit. bear in mind that i do spend 6 months of the year covered in snow, so maybe it is slightly regional?

buy some pants. my $0.02

Crap. Come next winter, I'll be buying yet another set of lined fatigues. They're good for my fragile kidneys.