Nah. Lake + beach + half naked ladies.

I think it depends on where you live. I have visited places where summer is the best season. I live where summer is the worst season.

Where I live, winter means:

• Freezing cold weather.
• Snow/slush/ice/sleet/freezing rain.
• Bad road conditions.
• Cloudy skies.
• No sunshine for days or weeks at a time.
• Cold/flu season.
• Gets dark outside at/before 5pm.

I hate all those things. I love summer because it’s the opposite.

Summer holiday: its probably to hot for school. Winter holiday: its probably too snowy to get to school safely. Easter holiday: go pretend to care about religion instead of school. Autumn holiday: go help your family get ready for winter instead of school.

So time off was never part of the equation.

Ok summers are bad now but man there was something special about walking outside on a sunny day with some of your friends and no plans. Even as an adult, no plans and good weather is a recipe for a good time.

I don't mind being hot. I hate being cold.

Spring is my favourite season. When you get the first warm day after a depressing winter and the new leaves are growing and the cherry blossoms are in bloom.

We got summer in spring this year. In fact I think we got summer in winter (February) this year too.

The fuck's a "season"?

As someone who hates the cold, gonna have to disagree on it being a bad season. As much as I hate the bees/wasps/mosquitoes, I hate the Devil's Dandruff ( snow ) and the ice that follows with it more.

I can handle the higher heat, but struggle a lot more with the cold.

I LOVE summer.

I HATE the feeling of cold on my skin. Even just a little bit.

100 degrees farenheit? Bring it. I'll take it over being even a little cold.

The heat means I can hang out naked. It means I can jump in the river. I means I can go camping. It means I can do anything but sit inside and freeze my ass off all winter in the darkness.

I only feel complete between May-September.

I liked summer back when it was the only season that was tolerable to be outside in as a kid living in the Northeast. Now it's the only season where I live that's intolerable to be outside in so I'm all good on it.

I didn't change. Fucking summer changed. There's a South Pacific hurricane season now. Everyone's talking about climate change like it's a distant threat. The climate has already changed. I whine about it very little because most localities have it way worse than we do in southern California.

When I was a kid, summer was max 25 degrees. Perfect! Now it gets above 35 degrees regularly. The actual season did not used to be atrocious (for me).

Summer really is the worst.

Here's three months or so where it's so stupidly hot you can't even sleep properly at night, and if you want to go outside you have to smother yourself in goo repeatedly because the sky will kill you. Also there are millions of what are essentially flying dirty syringes who's only purpose is to steal your blood that are seeking you out constantly. And not only do they steal your blood, the place where they stole it from will turn red and itch like crazy for no discernible purpose other than fuck you presumably. You can sort of keep these away by smothering yourself in a second type of goo that's probably poison of some sort.

Good thing we invented housing so we can avoid this right? It would be, except that as soon as it starts everybody seems determined to spend every second of it outside, and becomes fixated on making everyone else be outside too. There also seems to be some connection with sunshine and everyone wanting to be as loud as humanly possible.

I genuinely wish I could just hibernate like a bear through summers lol, as soon as June 1st hits just peace out until September.

I grew up in the northern part of the USA. Summer is also when we didn’t have to bundle up in 8 layers.

A lot of us like sundress / bikini season.

Spring & fall were generally the planting/harvest season so work was a LITTLE lighter in the summer.

All that said, fuck this heat. I’ll take cold any day.

I'll still take it over winter any day.

You know what else sucks? beaches. By most individual metrics they are a shitshow, but when you add all these ngatives together in peoples minds, they end up with a positive impression somehow. Do I want to go sit in sand in full sun, consume sandy food and lukewarm drinks, with limited access to normal amenities, listening to other peoples dipshit music, closely packed together with pasty bloated whale like humans without clothes? No I dont.

The translation of the Greek term for summer is "good weather."

Go back to whatever frigid Baltic rock you came from, OP. Talk shit about me with the puffins, it's fine.

I like summer because I can wear something skimpy, it's light out, and it's just generally the season people tend to be out doing stuff and having fun. I also love spring.

Winter is the worst. It's too cold, too dark, generally miserable, and everyone just wants to sleep it away. Autumn is fine though

My favourite season is Autumn.

Hard disagree. In summer plants are doing a lot of cool things as are the insects and all that activity invites many interactions with larger animals also. Whereas in the winter almost everything closes shop and goes dormant which makes invasive ne’er-do-wells like Youngia japonica and Lamium amplexicaule more prominent.

Early Autumn/Late Spring is peak.
The height of any season is (usually) bad.

I have always hated the whole “it’s summer you must come outside and do things with us right now” thing. I don’t get why you don’t spend time outside all year round. Why is it important now that it’s intolerably hot and bright?

Summer used to be nice and not too warm, but we're way past that at this point unfortunately

I wish it were fall vacation, and normalized for even adults (around the world, not just as a job benefit for some but as a fact of life) to take at least a month off somewhere between late August and the end of October. That's peak time to go outside and enjoy the changing weather, perfect temperature for a light jacket, enjoy the scenery with all the trees changing colors, etc -- the middle of summer's just too fucking hot, now. You're either boiling alive in the sun or it's pissing rain, and no in-between. It'd probably do wonders for the average person's mental health, and air quality/the environment, too, if everyone just took a month off around the same time each year and it was just a thing you were expected to have.

Buuuuut line must go up and we've got pumpkin spice lattes to sell, so.

Maybe if global warming hadn't reached this point it'd be enjoyable.

I'll never understand why it became the norm to use fire to cook outside during the hottest months of the year.

Completely disagree. Even if your working and don't have "summers off" like you used too. Summer time weekends heading to the lake, going outdoors for a hike or a picnic. Just generally having the sunshine on you is still far far far better than a winter world that becomes black and white for a few months.

If summer wasn't better than winter in pretty much every way, S.A.D. (seasonal affective disorder) would be most common in summer instead of winter.