Discuss.

if any male member of this board votes for mittens, they should be immediately banned.

I love mittens.

 

 

(granted, I'm a girl, but I still love them.)

i voted for mittens because i like not being able to use my fingers

I'm a girl

wha, wha, wha?

if any male member of this board votes for mittens, they should be immediately banned.

 

 

By a previously negotiated agreement between Southsider2k4 and myself, I am not allowed to discuss any weather related topic from October 1 to May 1.

 

I'm a glove man myself.

i voted for mittens because i like not being able to use my fingers

Would you mind fleshing out this concept a little? That is, if it can be told in polite society. Has it something to do with self-abnegation?

 

I always have one pair of mittens around, just because I think I should. But I never seem to wear them. Otherwise, it's gloves, gloves, gloves. One mistake I often make is to go cheap and then regret what I've gotten, so I end up with a box full of gloves that don't fit properly, or aren't warm or protective enough depending on their intended use.

 

Come to think of it now - the poll was a bit vague. Are we talking just winter gloves here? Not garden gloves, or barbed-wire stringing gloves, or snake catching gloves, or...? Me, I have different tools for different purposes.

For walking out to my car, and that is about it? Gloves.

 

For anything even remotely dealing with spending time outside? Mittens. If you have ever worked outside, you will fully understand why gloves suck. The best are the hunting mittens. They are fingerless gloves that fold over to being mittens. With gloves, your fingers will NEVER stay warm, no matter what types of material you are using. With mittens, your fingers are able to keep each other warm. Try running a gun on a survey crew for 10 hours in 20 below zero temperatures, then tell me the people using mittens are not "men".

I voted for Don't Need 'Em. I rarely wear gloves. I'm not sure I even currently own any. I don't think I've worn mittens since I was about 5 years old. Even as a kid, what good are they? How the hell could you throw a snowball?

If just driving somewhere, gloves. If I am going to be outdoors for a length of time, gloves and mittens.

Neither. I'll just stick my hands in my pockets if they're too cold.

I dont wear gloves. (I can get twice the benefit by just sticking my hands in my pants and rubbing them around.)

 

gloves, two sizes too small. didn't nobody learn from Orenthal?

 

 

 

FYI, Soxy is a girl.

 

 

FYI, so is Southsider2k5

For walking out to my car, and that is about it? Gloves.

 

For anything even remotely dealing with spending time outside? Mittens. If you have ever worked outside, you will fully understand why gloves suck. The best are the hunting mittens. They are fingerless gloves that fold over to being mittens. With gloves, your fingers will NEVER stay warm, no matter what types of material you are using. With mittens, your fingers are able to keep each other warm. Try running a gun on a survey crew for 10 hours in 20 below zero temperatures, then tell me the people using mittens are not "men". 

 

I do just fine with gloves. Half the time my hands start to sweat.

 

You are not buying the right gloves...

I wear mittens. They fit my crab claw hands better.

The best answer is a compromise - when my son was in Boy Scouts we found these neat gloves that covered your fingers about 3/4 length with a mitten like cover that folded back when you needed to use your fingers!!!

 

Think we got them at either Sport-mart or REI

I do just fine with gloves. Half the time my hands start to sweat.

 

You are not buying the right gloves...

 

Trust me, I've bought "the right gloves". I've spent so much money on gloves it's ridiculous. Stand outside in the dead of winter, without moving anything but your arms slightly, for 8 hours. Then tell me there is any glove that works. The only ones are the hunting gloves I mentioned, and they are basically mittens.

The best answer is a compromise - when my son was in Boy Scouts we found these neat gloves that covered your fingers about 3/4 length with a mitten like cover that folded back when you needed to use your fingers!!!

 

Think we got them at either Sport-mart or REI

 

Those are the hunting gloves I mentioned. They are one of the greatest inventions of mankind. Use a thin thermal glove liner, and you will never get cold.

Trust me, I've bought "the right gloves". I've spent so much money on gloves it's ridiculous. Stand outside in the dead of winter, without moving anything but your arms slightly, for 8 hours. Then tell me there is any glove that works. The only ones are the hunting gloves I mentioned, and they are basically mittens.

 

Maybe it's just me then. My wife complains that I give off a lot of body heat anyway.

 

My biggest problem is keeping my feet and nose warm...

Maybe it's just me then. My wife complains that I give off a lot of body heat anyway.

 

My biggest problem is keeping my feet and nose warm...

 

The feet are hopeless, especially if your job was like mine and you didn't move at all. Nothing can save them.

 

For the nose, on COLD days, get yourself one of those Head Sock things. Those things are amazing!

can we just rename this poll "Are you a guy or a girl?"

Mittens or gloves, don't need 'em in L.A.......... Now on the other hand, in Chicago.........

 

 

can we just rename this poll "Are you a guy or a girl?"

 

Lord, and to think some people want to base "manliness" on hand wear. Who's the bigger chick here?

 

Fashion Nazi's.