I've been living here for most of my life now and I still haven't "acclimatised" and it's not that cold in the grand scheme. J's favourite taunt for me when I'm freezing to death is "we're in Perth not Siberia" XD Similarly I've met someone who grew up in Scotland (where it's apparently cold all the time) and basically moved to Australia because it was warm. I've just accepted the fact that I don't do cold. The kids are all able to deal with colder temperatures than I can, and youngest is actually the opposite in that he loves the cold and hates the heat.
and I have the heater going right now because the air is "cold" enough that my lungs have decided they don't want to work anymore, J just asked me if he could turn it down and got a glare
I see people complaining about having to wait two seconds for a page to load, or 15 seconds for their PC to startup. I hear people complaining about the food they are served, even though the same food twenty years ago would have been considered incredibly good. And of course, the comparison of everything to the best known form of it, so that nothing compares, nothing holds up to the judgement.
This simultaneously feels over the top and also doesn't surprise me in the slightest given that I've heard similar but different in lamentations of what people just shouldn't have to put up with.
I'm generally sympathetic, stuff happens and sometimes you just need to get something off your chest, but if they complain too much/constantly I do like to remind them how much worse it could be
We aren't "that far" from siberia here at times... though -50 is insane. It is interesting how we get used to conditions so fast though and I think that because we can temperature control our world, we likely aren't going to notice the subtle variations as much, until it is too late.
It isn't much of an exaggeration. Whenever there is the slightest technical difficulty, people will complain. Like hearing frustrated people complaining about the speed of the internet in a plane, eleven km above the ground.
Finland or Siberia or both are mobile?! :O
XD
Like I said I still haven't acclimatised, and apparently you might also have a hormone advantage with the cold weather.
Though thinking about it I have reaalised that a lot of people work in offices which are easier to climate control. We're just in our very old little house and I work in what's basically structurally a warehouse.
The people whining about the internet on the plane would not cope with the flights that are still telling you to switch to aeroplane mode XD