Which feels better?

[teela brown]

Getting warmed up when you're chilled to the bone?

-OR-

Cooling off after when you're hot and sweaty on a hot summer day?

Poll coming, if I can remember how to do one.

For me, it's close. A cool plunge in a pool on a 102 degree day is delicious, but even better is warming up half-frozen hands and feet over the furnace in the winter.

[Sunny Daze]

I think you should do the same poll in the middle of Winter. I suspect it's a billion degrees and people want to be cold. Sweet, sweet cold. It's a theory anyway.

[Cochrane]

Cooling down always feels better, especially coming from the heat into my air conditioned house. But it never really gets cold in southern Arizona.

[Giraffe]

Warm up, all the way. I don't mind being hot, generally, and if I get a bit overheated it feels less urgent to get my temperature down immediately, whereas when I'm chilled to the bone it feels much more important to get warmed up all the way.

[SNFaulkner]

I moved across the country to never be cold again. A warm up takes you from in pain to normal and can take hours. Where as a cool down takes you from uncomfortable to ahhhh in four seconds flat.

[Nisslbody]

I get warm-up hives, which are deeply, deeply painful, so I vote for cool-down.

[Ludovic]

y no third option? Neither is really satisfying: I'd rather not be in the situation to begin with. It's slightly more difficult to get a satisfying cool-down: while I've experienced literally a handful of very great warmups next to a fire, the only viscerally, immediately, satisfying cooldown was my first (and thus far only) time donning a wetsuit, when I was waiting around in the 70-something weather for my friends to finish said donning, and once we had walked to the spring I was completely boiling in the black suit and instead of daintily dip into the spring stairs I just plunged in and the 65 degree water felt so great!

That said, I'd prefer the temperature to be too cold for my tastes than warm, because I can always bundle up, and it takes less time to warm up than it does to stop sweating.

[stormie]

Cooling down feels essential; warming up feels nice.

I do not do well in heat, having the astounding ability to sweat in a pig-like manner - the liquid iron, which is about the same temperature as me. I'm guessing that if I was getting frostbite I would like to be warmed up, but then again I might just take off my clothes and run around like a fool - my usual weekend plan.

[Dirx]

My thoughts while warming up: "Ahh, nice and toasty!"

My thoughts on cooling down: "SWEET MERCIFUL RELIEF! PRAISE BE UNTO WHOMEVER THE FUCK THE GOD OF COLD IS; MAY HEAT NEVER SCORCH THIS LAND AGAIN, AMEN!"



So, chill-down it is.

[Zeener Diode]

As much as I'm enjoying a good cooling-off after being outside on a scorching day, there's just something indescribable about coming indoors from the bitter cold and warming up by a fireplace. Preferably with a large steaming cup of hot cocoa and a big-ass marshmallow floating on top.

[JackieLikesVariety]

Originally Posted by Nisslbody

I get warm-up hives, which are deeply, deeply painful, so I vote for cool-down.

I've never heard of that, geez.

being too hot feels lousy and cooling off a relief, but cold is painful and warming up is the pain going away. in the winter, I crank up my electric blanket and then let myself get cold in a way I wouldn't if I wasn't going to get into a nice, warm bed. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.


BUT - that goes for being too hot here, in a dry climate. yucky humid heat is a completely different animal.

[pickle berry]

The cocoa swayed me.

[Darmund]

Originally Posted by JackieLikesVariety

...cold is painful and warming up is the pain going away.

Not if you're REALLY cold. I know from experience (splitting firewood in subfreezing temperatures) that if your fingers get cold enough to go numb, the warming up process as the nerves wake back up is extremely painful.

Also I hate being hot much more than cold, so cool-down gets my vote.

[Khampelf]

Originally Posted by Zeener Diode

As much as I'm enjoying a good cooling-off after being outside on a scorching day, there's just something indescribable about coming indoors from the bitter cold and warming up by a fireplace. Preferably with a large steaming cup of hot cocoa and a big-ass marshmallow floating on top.

I'll see your hot cocoa and raise you a cold beer, after mowing a lawn, with a dip in the pool mid-beer.

[Wolf Larsen]

Us lizards like it warm.

[Wolf Larsen]

Originally Posted by Dirx

My thoughts while warming up: "Ahh, nice and toasty!"

My thoughts on cooling down: "SWEET MERCIFUL RELIEF! PRAISE BE UNTO WHOMEVER THE FUCK THE GID OF COLD IS; MAY HEAT NEVER SCORCH THIS LAND AGAIN, AMEN!"



So, chill-down it is.

Yo Dirx! How you been?

[Guinastasia]

A chill down. I HATE THE HEAT. Winter can't come soon enough for me.

[Borborygmi]

Warm up thoughts: Ahh. I will live another day.
Cool down thoughts: Ahh. It is worthwhile living another day.

[Ludovic]

Originally Posted by pickle berry

The cocoa swayed me.

It was made with Irish cream.

[Karma]

I appreciate a warm up, but I LOVE a cool down. I've been so cold that various body parts hurt, but that doesn't compare to the all over misery of feeling like your blood is boiling, of feeling the heat radiating inside your clothing, magnifying it, feeling like you're being marinated.

Two years ago, the air conditioning went out at work, and it was well over a hundred degrees in the building for about a week. I wound up with what I can only compare to a diaper rash, and it took another week after 'til it went away. I've never had any lasting condition from being too cold.

(People should not sweat when sitting still.)

[Carolia]

Warm up for me every time, because I despise being cold, and it takes a lot for me to overheat. When we got stuck in the Canadian ice storm a few months ago, nothing was better than coming inside after being out in the freezing weather. Breathing didn't hurt anymore. I could feel my hands and feet again. Life was suddenly worth living again.

[Jaglavak]

When the air is cold you get to make more heat. And that usually involves fun.

[Anacanapuna]

Warm-up, to me, is more pleasurable because there's a part of it that makes me feel safe. When we're camping in the fall and it's damn chilly outside and I have to walk 50 yards to take a midnight piss, when I get back to the camper and jump into that double-wide sleeping bag I share with MsPuna - ahhh, that's heaven! Cooling down after spending a hot afternoon mowing the lawn feels better, but it's comfort without the pleasure.

[Solfy]

I hate being cold more than just about anything. Every winter I reach a point where I feel my core is chilled and I will never be warm again. Months of being perpetually just slightly too cold add up.
But warming up takes time, and there's nothing quite like the immediate feeling of being covered in sweat with heat radiating off you in what feels like visible rays and walking into a stream of cold air. It's so immediately refreshing that it gets my vote.

[Jaglavak]

I just go by sound. Walking into a cold room from the hot sun gets an aaaaaaahhhhh. But a blow dryer under the sweatshirt on a cold day makes orgy noises happen.