Around the internet, if you keep finding yourself mentioning the cold, you could be Posting Under the Influence of Winter. (PUIW)

If you’ve been around internet discussion sites for a while, you probably would have heard of PUI, or Posting Under the Influence.
According to the Urban Dictionary, PUI is:

Posting on a forum or message board while under the influence of intoxicants. Condition often results in strange and incoherent rants and ramblings peppered with misspelled words.

PUI is otherwise known as having a couple of wines and posting happy thoughts all over discussion forums, twitter, your blog…

PUIW on the other hand, is being darned cold and posting unhappy, wintry thoughts everywhere…

Winter means different things to different people. For some people, winter means heading for the ski slopes, a chance to wear scarves and boots, or just a reason to snuggle up with a blankie and hot chocolate.

But for others, winter  is a dismal season– the winter blues start the day the last leaf falls from the (deciduous) trees.

To check if you have been Posting Under The Influence of Winter, complete this small test: 

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  • You talk about chocolate as though it has become one of your four food groups.
  • Your posts are filled with weird typos (Your fingers have been numb and stiff for weeks now.)
  • You constantly find yourself posting or tweeting weather updates & analysing wind chill factors.
  • You post photos of the sixth pair of boots you’ve bought yourself this winter & you realise you’ve been consoling yourself with boot purchases.
  • You post snarky remarks at anyone who dare posts that they don’t really have a winter where they live.
  • You post photos of your cat in scarves and beanies at icanhascheezburger.com
  • You post about how energised you feel after weeding the vegie patch/walking the dog/running with the kids on the beach/cycling to work… and you wonder why you didn’t do this last winter.
  • You post and tweet sad goodbyes to winter as the weather starts warming. And look forward to next winter.

If you answered ‘yes’ to at least four of the first six points, you have the Posting Under the Influence of Winter (PUIW) condition. For relief, grab yourself a hot chocolate and remember the pesky flies of the Australian summer!

This post is part of the Blog Chicks weekly topic. This week was: Winter