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I wear shorts because my body saw the "sweat" in sweatpants and took it as a challenge for all pants.

I'm heavy and my calves are like rocks from supporting all this mass. Those bastards are working their ass off when I'm walking they're often dripping with sweat. If it's over ~5c it will look like I slogged through a shallow stream - my pants will be visually wet within no time at all.

I was diagnosed with leukemia a couple years ago and a funny moment during treatment was my toes getting cold for the first time relative to my body temperature. I'd never experienced that before - it blew my mind and I became such a baby about it. It was totally intolerable. I finally understood what all the women in my life complain about regarding cold feet. ... Who knew?

I'm a school bus driver and I pick up many kids in Winter wearing only Summer clothes and no coats. What amuses me the most is how much energy they put into complaining about how cold it is. I guess that's how they stay warm.

I remember going for a walk with a friend midwinter, underestimating the distance, overestimating the temperature (i mean, it -was- snowing, but that meant nothing... right) So we went out in our tshirts and shorts.

In the end, my mum spent 2 hrs trying to turn 2 goth smurfs back into human boys. I'd say I learnt a lesson that day, but one must not tell lies.

I won't speak for all "white dudes" but I know why I do it.

First, my thermostat is just different from average. If it's 70F/21C, there's a very high chance I'm going to be sweating, especially if I'm indoors and there's limited air movement or I'm outdoors and there's any bit of direct sunlight. Shorts make that a bit more bearable.

Second, given my warm nature, the climate where I live and my lifestyle make wearing shorts practical for much of the year. In the "colder" months of the year, it's usually a case where it's cold in the morning but warms up to a reasonable extent during the day. Guess what? I have an indoor, office job. I don't give a flip about how cold it is during the early parts of the day because I'm going to be indoors where the temperature is pretty much guaranteed to be above the 70F/21C limit I mentioned in my first point. By the time I'm off work and out of the office in the evening, it's warmed up to the point where shorts are totally appropriate and comfy (for me). Sure, I could waste time and energy doing multiple wardrobe changes throughout the day, but that's just bullshit and quite frankly, stupid, if I don't have to do it.

Third, who gives a fuck? Apparently a lot of people -- as it's very common to get questions or comments when I wear shorts during colder weather that lesser humans can't tolerate in shorts. I don't go around acting as the fashion police for your stupid crocs or question your multiple changes of clothes per day like you're Beyoncé doing a concert. So leave my cargo shorts in the middle of winter alone.

I know a guy who always wears shorts, even in freezing winter temperatures. Hell, he got married in shorts.

Postie legs! I am a proud owner of some Royal Mail branded shorts and I occasionally cosplay as a postie with my hot Scottish legs.

I thought it was my body my choice.

Tell me what else I should do with my life. Tell me of the future.

This used to be me as a teenager. Hated pants. Turns out, I was poor growing up and had never had a pair of pants that actually fit me properly.

I wore shorts and flip flops to a grocery store in the dead of winter. Guy asked if I was cold, and I was like "I went from one climate controlled box into a drivable climate controlled box, and now I'm in this climate controlled box"

Yeah, things could go wrong like a car wreck or something where I get stuck outside for an extended period of time and would become uncomfortable. But it is what it is.

It's a point of pride.

Literally Canadians in the middle of winter. With a T-shirt and flip flops.

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We wear light clothes because we're not cold. How exactly would they suffer from hypothermia without being hypothermic?

This is the way.

I read about the guy who lost his legs because he fell asleep in his car with wet socks on a cold night.

Only white dude things.

Pennsylvania tuxedo

Hey now. I don’t even own shorts.

Denmark checks in

I love in the land of harsh winter even for Canadians, but one thing I'm never worried about are my legs. So long as the core and head are protected, I could wear shorts no problem. Legs are not the spot we are losing heat, especially the calves.

They just don't get cold!

Tell them I always wore crocks.

What's wrong with full length pants?

Born and raised in California, I was seventeen when I discovered warm clothes existed.

That was when I flew out to see my mother who had somehow ended up in Wisconsin.

I got on the plane, in December, wearing shorts and a T-shirt.

When we landed, it was at a small airport where you have to get off the plane via stairs and walk across the tarmac to the terminal.

It was twenty below zero before taking wind chill into consideration.

I spent that trip wearing her boyfriend's clothes. He was well over three hundred pounds. I was one sixty in a wet towel back then.

Fashion hilarity ensued.

I'm kinda like that, except with jean pants instead of shorts

Massive respect

It don't get that cold.

This is me… but I live in Southern California where we get 1 day of winter every 10 years.