Oh, I don't know. There's the cold, the sense of decay and death in the air, the coming of a cruel and depressing winter and all the misery that comes along with it.
Fall is illness and winter is death.
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i live in an allergy basin. lots of wind, lots of crops year round since california. we get a week of mild allergies, 49 weeks of moderate allergies, and 14 non-consecutive days of bad allergies. i don't know anyone not on prescription allergy meds.
and even with those half of us are panel four. one of these days my wife will start teaching children who know how to blow their noses, but like, the littles are so much fun despite being the finest disease vector man has invented
Still better than being too hot under a relentless sun.
Anything is better than that. After 3 months mostly indoors, the good weather is finally coming.
Fall temperatures are great, and a huge relief from the punishment we call summer in my part of the world. But personally, I'm just not a big fan of Fall overall. The shortening days are depressing. Everybody raves about the leaves changing color, but I find it sad, a bunch of living material literally just dropping dead, turning brown, and rotting away. And don't get me started on mold/fungal allergies this time of year. Then before you know it, it's the start of the holidays. Supposed to be a wonderful time of celebrations and gatherings, but seems like most people just get stressed out (with greater frequency and severity each passing year).
I always found it to be melancholy but lately I've been seeing the whole cycle, and how if we don't have fall, we can't have spring. I suppose it helps I moved 1,000 miles south so winter isn't really a thing anymore. I do encourage that.
Try living in Ireland,September is the freak worst month for weather,spiders and sick days. It terrible,the whole nation has to readjust to the 8 Month winter
Ireland
8 Month winter
sobs in Canadian
Hey its not all bad,you guys have got hockey. And snakes
Cobra chicken is all we have. Unless you are referring to Carney.
If you have one snake you have more than us
It really depends how you define winter; but I realized that where I live, too, the time it's not nice to be outside is way longer than the rest of the year. Glorious crystal white winter days notwithstanding of course, but those are getting fewer, too.
Heh. It got down to 76F 24.4C last night here. It was so cool outside.
I was waiting autumn like crazy, but all I see is 23-30C , no leaves falling. Sad.
We’ve still got 3 days
Fingers crossed!
I'm in Irelands North coast,I think it's been above 30 twice in the last 4 years
Autumn around here is just rainy winter lite that leads into winter standard, followed by winter extended cut, before I finally get my two weeks of summer again.
Third day of rush hour public transport. I just know im about to come down with the lurgy
We've got one member of the household down with COVID, one down with a cold (so far) and two feeling like a bag of smashed crabs. The Autumn lurgy has hit like a steam shovel this year.
The thing that's driving me mad. Stuffed carriages, everyone coughing and sneezing around, not a single mask in sight, and bRo It'S jUsT tHe CoLd, but it's still fucking annoying to deal with, and I wouldn't have to if people weren't inconsiderate as hell. And especially at this day and age when we're supposed to get people to use public transport because of the environment, and every single atom of mine is screaming for my own little personal space where I don't have to go down with the snot plague just because I'm locked in with another 63472864 people coughing into my neck. RRRraaawr, I hate public transport in the cold.
Bicycles, my brother!
Yep I'm just waiting for mine to hit
I wish wearing masks on public transport remained normalised
It still can be. There's absolutely nothing stopping you from wearing one. I still do on occasion.
I think they're saying they wish other people would wear them when they're sick, as most masks are a lot better at blocking outgoing viruses than incoming ones
Yeah but the main benefit is everyone else wearing them to prevent the spread in the first place.
They wouldn't look cool though.
Lurgy?
A word used a lot here as a humorous stand in for colds etc - https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/lurgy
Gotcha. Thanks!
The last panel:
If you want extreme, try this.
now that's a memory. so on open mic sunday at one of the cults i used to attend (oh geez there's a phrase) there was this old lady up there giving her monthly spiel. in this religious tradition, crying and tears = sincerity and "i swear i'm not making this up". there's some for which that's true but a lot that exploit the language.
so this old lady is crying mid-speech, as is expected of her, and pretty soon she's got a dangler. there are tissues up there, but i guess she's either reached the age where she either doesn't notice or doesn't care. by the gods we were paying more attention to her booger than we were to her, just waiting for that thing to snap or splat. well, it yo-yoed with every sniffle, and at the end of five excruciating minutes she snorked it all right back up.
now here's the thing. i was just visiting that location that sunday. I do not know why no one grabbed her a tissue. that seemed it would be like the polite thing to do, but i was like 10. maybe no one liked her. maybe they were as hypnotically spellbound as i was. i don't know. but like, if it were me i'd like someone to give me a tissue and let me have a little dignity rather than be a story everyone there remembers and tells the rest of their life. seems like it'd be the kind thing to do, and i guess i know what to do next time.
at the end of five excruciating minutes she snorked it all right back up.
Oh you're refering to the GIF. Too disgusting to post embedded, I decided. But still, a kid. Seeing that on an old woman, whoaa
Also fully agree on your last paragraph. Something about misunderstanding the meaning of politensess. Basic decency & civil courage (though courage feels like too big a word here). Just do the decent thing.
Fall I can deal with. Spring makes me look like I’m dying.
I used to have the flu at least twice a year.
But I haven't had the flu or a cold for 15 years now.
It is also 15 years since I was tested Vitamin D deficient, and started taking 85 µg per day.
Are the 2 connected? IDK for sure, but it seems likely IMO.
Possibly, but people also tend to get the flu less often as they get older. There's a lot of different viruses around, but at some point your body will have seen enough of them to fight them more effectively.
I would expect that to be a gradual effect, for me it absolutely wasn't gradual. It was straight from getting the flu almost every time it was around, to never getting it for 15 years straight!
This is not "less often" it's straight from always to never.
I love the colors of Fall. I do not love my Fall allergies.
I am coughing and wheezing rn, so i can relate.
Two weeks after thanksgiving is rough.