The struggle is real! Ask any starfish.
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Itās just their way of expressing how upset they are at being mildly inconvenienced. Iāve heard the phrase loads, and itās always funny, especially when itās directly associated, as it often is, with a fear of the government using masks to control us.
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Iāve been wearing neoprene facemask since I started snowboarding in like 1988 or so.
Oh! But this yearā¦ 
Iād probably take fear of the virus over itās keeping my face warm 
I confess that I asked my wife to order me these from Target
Red velvet is my weakness. Pop tarts are my weakness. Damn you Kelloggs. Cheesecake is also a downfall of mine.
I ALSO confess that I panic bought a bunch of piedmontese beef because they were having a Presidentās Day sale that I almost missed out on. @punnyguy donāt know if you caught it.
ANY I ALSO confess I bought stuff from a supplement company Iāve never actually purchased supplements from simply because they were viking themed. Getting a new shaker bottle and a t-shirt that says āBerserkerā. Itās kinda lame though, because a bunch of white power dudes have co-opted vikings now. Not like vikings were really great role models to begin with, but stillā¦
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Actuallyā¦this is my problem jogging here. Do I gasp for warm air through the mask or do I let the cold air dry my nose and mouth out lol. (my nose is not anatomically suited to cold air)
In very cold weather, breathing through your mouth can freeze your lungs.
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This actually true?
Go for the mask dude. I mentioned it in someoneās log but I wore a face covering (not a āmaskā that we think of now) a few years ago when I ran a lot. Helped keep the air I breathed in more moist (hate that word but itās the best option here) and warm, which felt a lot better.
My thing was basically this:
So it didnāt really get any weird looks (compared to a surgical mask while alone outside). It definitely can impact your breathing, but I just told myself that since it was a little harder to breath Iād get in better shape, haha. No idea if thereās any truth to that, but oh well.
And jeez @TriednTrue, really?
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From what Iāve read, yes. Breathing through cloth first then the nose is recommended. Iāve not spent much time in Arctic temperatures though.
Interesting. I would have thought that the air would warm up by the time it gets down to the alveoli? It would probably feel quite unpleasant either way if the air was that cold though.
In those temperatures, if people are going to be outside for extended periods, theyāll be wearing (non-cotton) clothing over their faces, nose included.
When it got to -60 with windchill in North Dakota, youād feel your nose hairs freeze once you stepped outside. It was quite an experience.
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Wouldnāt want your nose to freeze and fall offā¦ or your nose hairs for that matter.
So if you pinched your nose, would it make a crunchy noise?
It was hard to hear over the sound of me swearing.
Iāve never heard my wife swear before we moved there, but it gets so cold it just makes it come out of you. Weād judge how cold it was by what words came out of our mouths when weād get out of the car.
āItās a Jesus F**king Christ kinda day out thereā
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Haha that box " naturally and artificially flavored" what a brag - there is some small remnants of something natural in here!
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I still love how Kellogās likes to brag that āA study found that children who eat Poptarts for breakfast perform better in school than children that skipped breakfastā.
Poptarts: theyāre better than starving.
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At -24C? Nah, not for walks. For XC-skiing, biking, and jogging, sure.
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@T3hPwnisher Appreciate the attempted heads up on the piedmontese beef sale. I missed it, but Iām still stocked up from end of year; kind of surprised they donāt email recent purchasers (like me) about the sale.
Fun fact -I tried to purchase tomahawks from piedmontese for New Yearās but was foiled by bad weather; I confess I wound up paying $175 for 2 from a local butcher (wagyu) vs the much more economical piedmontese tomahawks for $110 (on sale from $140).
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Thanks for the info, @Voxel 
My very limited knowledge is from reading about an extreme dog mushing event in north-central Alaska to retrieve vaccinations for a diptheria outbreak decades ago. The musher commented that he had to force himself to breathe through his nose despite intense exertion to not freeze his lungs. If I recall, the temperature dipped to -50* F/ -45* C.