Off Topic: The Passing Of The Seasons

41 responses to “Off Topic: The Passing Of The Seasons”

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   Jickle

   September 4, 2012 at 11:33 am

   Through winter-time we call on spring,
   And through the spring on summer call,
   And when abounding hedges ring
   Declare that winter’s best of all;
   And after that there s nothing good
   Because the spring-time has not come —
   Nor know that what disturbs our blood
   Is but its longing for the tomb.

   Yeats, ‘The Wheel’

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      D.C.

      September 4, 2012 at 11:34 am

      Think I’m gonna have to +1…

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2. 

   Lone Wolf

   September 4, 2012 at 11:35 am

   Spring has to be my favourite season, warmer days but still wet enough to enjoy.
   I grew up in southern Western Australia, where rain is something that mostly happens to other people, except when it doesn’t.
   So while growing up in Scotland taught you to appreciate the warm days, Mark, growing up in Perth taught me how special rain is and how to appreciate a cool breeze on a hot day.

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3. 

   Silkyn

   September 4, 2012 at 11:35 am

   Fuck summer. Winter is coming. . . in the northern hemisphere.

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4. 

   DAN!

   September 4, 2012 at 11:36 am

   Winter wins hands down.

   Sweaty pits and stank? No thank you.

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      Banjo Ward

      September 4, 2012 at 11:37 pm

      Hells Yeah!

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5. 

   Reign

   September 4, 2012 at 11:37 am

   Love Winter, hate Summer.

   Can’t get to sleep during summer with no airconditioning.

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      Banjo Ward

      September 4, 2012 at 11:37 pm

      Same here.

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6. 

   Korwin

   September 4, 2012 at 11:37 am

   Winter is the superior season, I’ll take a good night’s sleep any day of the week (something I have a much harder time getting during the warmer months).

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7. 

   Braaains

   September 4, 2012 at 11:39 am

   Hey, I got sunburned on Saturday, too! *high five*

   For me, Autumn is the best. Nice weather, like Spring – not too hot, not too cold – but without all the annoying allergy crap that I sometimes (but not always) get in Spring. Also Autumn is start of footy season which is a welcome relief after a summer full of tedious cricket and tennis rubbish.

   Plan for summer: avoid getting sunburnt.

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8. 

   Glib

   September 4, 2012 at 11:39 am

   I don’t like summer. Summer is my least fave season. It just keeps getting hotter and I’m not built for heat. I definitely prefer the cooler seasons, autumn and winter.
   And yet, in the middle of winter where did I go? Port Douglas. Why? For the heat.
   I’m inconsistent but there’s this gelato place up there that’s brilliant.

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9. 

   DivineMonkey

   September 4, 2012 at 11:44 am

   I like Spring generally, except for the whole hayfever thing. I am currently mentally preparing myself for the worst.

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      Strange

      September 4, 2012 at 11:48 am

      I get hayfever all year round, so I don’t dread Spring as much even though it does get worse right about now.

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      Greenius

      September 4, 2012 at 11:50 am

      Oh god… bloody hayfever!

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10. 

    D.C.

    September 4, 2012 at 11:45 am

    Seasons don’t fear the reaper!

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11. 

    Michael

    September 4, 2012 at 11:46 am

    I prefer the cold weather to the hot weather. Cold I don’t mind, I actually wear t-shirts for most of Winter in Sydney. But the heat really knocks me around.

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    Strange

    September 4, 2012 at 11:46 am

    Summer is the worst.
    Queensland is also the worst. We transition straight from Winter to Summer and back to Winter again without any of the nice balanced temperatures of Autumn and Spring.
    But yes, when the weather becomes unbearably hot there’s no way you can cool down properly, but if it gets unbearably cold you can just put more clothes/blankets on. Summer makes it impossible to get anything done because you can’t sleep well and just want stick your head in the freezer all the time. And lets not get started on the sunburn…I just have to go get the mail and I’ll be sunburned. Stoopid sun.

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13. 

    GerminalConsequence

    September 4, 2012 at 11:48 am

    Winter is my favourite season, and my favourite days are light rainy days. Sadly the two are often mutually exclusive. Summer is my least favourite, mainly because Brisbane Summers are filled with oppressive humidity and insects.

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14. 

    Dr.Man.Person

    September 4, 2012 at 11:50 am

    I’d say Autumn is my favourite. I hate Summer because it’s too hot, and makes it hard to get too sleep, and you always wake up early. I hate Winter because, though it is easy to get to sleep, you know that you’ll be freezing the moment you get out of bed. I wish Summer and Winter would just go to hell, a cycle of Autumn and Spring would be great.

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15. 

    Greenius

    September 4, 2012 at 11:52 am

    Wow surprising to see how much people here prefer Winter over Summer. I guess we’re all vidya gaem nerds anyway who generally prefer indoors 😛

    I also prefer Winter over Summer. If it’s cold you can just wear more layers, if it’s hot? Well you can’t really do much :P. Autumn is windy I guess and Spring… Spring is flower sexing season and runny nose and itchy eye season for me. Damn hayfever!

    Irrelevant stuff: That picture reminds me of Xenoblade!

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16. 

    Callum

    September 4, 2012 at 11:53 am

    My favourite season was the Summer of Ska, but that was in the Nineties.

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17. 

    Slyph

    September 4, 2012 at 11:56 am

    I used to prefer the cold, until I started getting old and no longer have central heating. Summer sucks too. Fuck.

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18. 

    Andy

    September 4, 2012 at 12:01 pm

    Summer for me! I never complain about being too hot, while I really can’t stand being at all cold. Summer is all fun and excitement and outdoors and beaches and bikinis and long days and bbq dinners and parties and awesomeness.

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19. 

    os42

    September 4, 2012 at 12:02 pm

    Winter for me. Cold can be dealt with easily – just pile on more blankets/clothes, shut the doors and windows, turn on a heater (or all my consoles and computers, which serve the same purpose equally well, albeit slightly less efficiently)… but heat? Heat is oppressive. Closing the doors just leads to stuffiness, leaving them open just lets more heat in, and fans just move the hot air around without actually cooling anything. There’s no way to isolate yourself from it, unless you’ve got A/C, but I never really had it outside of school (and later, work, albeit intermittently – server rooms in the height of summer with broken A/C are the worst).

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    Bish

    September 4, 2012 at 12:03 pm

    I’m looking forward to Autumn.
    Because when everyone here refers to it as “Fall”, I die a little inside.
    Generally speaking though, I think Autumn is a pretty col guy. Nice weather without the extremes or the horrid flower sex getting all up in your nose.

    Also, Canadian Summer is hilarious. It hit a whole 28ish degrees last week and it was referred to as “hot”. Meanwhile I was just sitting in the sun reading whilst everyone else was rushing to air conditioning.

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       TheLastQuestion

       September 4, 2012 at 12:09 pm

       My Canadian wife and I had a discussion about the terms “Fall” and “Autumn” and why our different countries use different names for the seasons.

       As far as we could deduce, it’s because the leaves actually fall in a Canadian Autumn, and that event is what defines the season in their minds. Whereas here in Australia we don’t actually see falling leaves as a symbol of the season of Autumn.

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21. 

    N3RD1001101

    September 4, 2012 at 12:04 pm

    Mark, you should move to Melbourne, the only city in the world to stick a middle finger up at nature and decide to cycle all four seasons into each and everyday. Pouring down one second, sunshine the next. sometimes both!

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       Greenius

       September 4, 2012 at 12:05 pm

       Not to mention hail the size of tennis balls :/

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22. 

    CJ

    September 4, 2012 at 12:08 pm

    Autumn and Winter are the best. Especially as a Barista and doing this zoo work, the hot months really suck.

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23. 

    Mawt

    September 4, 2012 at 12:08 pm

    In Winter, you can pile on layers to keep yourself warm.
    In Summer, you can only strip down to your skin.

    I am not going to hate on any season, since that’s a strong word. I greatly dislike Summer. And Spring. This year’s autumn wasn’t too bad – it was cool and dry fairly early on. I’m definitely a “foreigner” in Australia – family line has been here 222 years (2nd fleet), so that’s really not enough time for my united kingdom genetics to have adapted to this dry, arid but also tropical landscape.
    I sweat. I sweat ALL THE GORRAM TIME. Pretty much any time “between when the sun comes up to when it goes dark again” has a high chance of being time I will spend sweating if I am exposed to the sun. Not a single building ever built in Australia has ever been built to accommodate our weather either, although they are slightly better at cooling than heating. Not that it matters, since whoever’s programming the thermostat has worse conditioning than I do, just usually opposite. It’s probably the same people that regulate City Rail’s airconditioning for the handful of trains that actually use it. They operate on a “two season” policy. June through to November is “winter” and so “furnace hot” air is pumped through the carriages. December through to May is “summer” and that time is spent trying to achieve zero degrees Kelvin.

    So yeah, I mostly just hate weather in Australia. You’d think it would have sorted itself out by now, what with being the oldest continent and all. Maybe it’s forgotten how ( obligatory #OldManAustralia).

    I spent a year in the UK in 2001 and it was the most comfortable year ever. Also, I’m not afraid of the rain like everyone else in Sydney seems to be (The Wizard of Oz was not a documentary on precipitation in Australia, water will not kill you).

    Anyway, I’ve been rambling and now you all probably know more about me than you feel comfortable knowing. Hi!

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24. 

    Ian

    September 4, 2012 at 12:09 pm

    Oh you’ll learn to hate the 40’C summers soon enough Mark.

    Having made the opposite move, OZ -> UK, I can’t say I appreciate the ever present gloom, but the cooler temperatures are certainly more welcome. I’ll take snow to heatwave any day of the week.

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25. 

    Michael

    September 4, 2012 at 12:21 pm

    My favourite is the Summer of ’69!

    Oh yeah!

    Standin’ on your mumma’s porch
    You told me that it’d last forever
    And when you held my hand
    I knew that it was now or never
    Those were the best days of my life!

    (Disclaimer: I wasn’t actually alive in ’69, but it’s a kickarse song regardless)

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26. 

    Thom

    September 4, 2012 at 12:26 pm

    I prefer the summer myself. I like to keep fit, and I find it really tough to maintain the rage on a cold morning. Also, I get pasty as all hell in winter.

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27. 

    Dire Wolf

    September 4, 2012 at 12:53 pm

    I much prefer the cold over the heat, but I do love the thunder storms summer brings.

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28. 

    js

    September 4, 2012 at 12:59 pm

    Winter. Footy.

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29. 

    Wood_league

    September 4, 2012 at 1:25 pm

    Summer by far, nothing better then a bbq, a few cold beers and getting the sloppy rig out =)

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30. 

    Stevorooni

    September 4, 2012 at 1:29 pm

    I prefer cooler weather over hot weather because when it’s cold you can put on more clothes to get warm, but when it’s hot there’s only so much you can take off!

    I don’t like being too cold though, so Spring is my favourite season. The weather is nice and gives you a gentle breeze, I can plant up the vegie garden, the year is wrapping up and most of the big videogame releases hit during this time too.

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31. 

    Parker

    September 4, 2012 at 1:53 pm

    There are few things I hate, but Spring and Summer are two of those things.
    Anything over about 15 degress is too hot, IMO.

    My goal in life is to either move somewhere that is cold most of the time, or have enough money to swap hemispheres every 6 months.

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    Ben J

    September 4, 2012 at 2:14 pm

    I’m a huge fan of winter. Sitting in front of the heater with my dog (Newfoundland, big) snuggled right up beside me is something I’ll miss, along with getting sleep! But spring is my favourite season.

    Remember that living in Tasmania, our summers are about as hot as Queenslands winters! It snowed on the roads and blanketed towns only a week ago 😛

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33. 

    Effluvium Boy

    September 4, 2012 at 2:32 pm

    Hate summer.
    Early Spring is alright in my books, but Autumn and Winter are where the action is.

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34. 

    Geezer

    September 4, 2012 at 3:21 pm

    I hate both sunburn and sunscreen; therefore I hate summer from 10am-4pm

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