Nothing, what's an up set with you?

This line could've come out of Gob's mouth

I understand and appreciate your joke, but is it really? And I imagine that the bones and skin would melt first, right? Idk. I've never considered that someone could melt from the inside.

I've been dead a few times this summer.

I guess, I am dying.

What would you then call sauna temperatures which range between 80 to 120?

Your reply didn't rhyme, try again next time. 😆

That doesn't rhyme for shit, man. Ha :)

I'm going to try and add some flair to your post

Texas is Hell though. Anyone who's been there understands this. From the heat to the guns to the people, it's far and away the least desirable or interesting place I've been to. Austin wasn't terrible though.

Don't Texans just stay in air-conditioned buildings and vehicles all the time? I just saw a YouTube video where a guy in Texas was complaining that his air conditioning setup wouldn't get the temperature below 76°F, which I found odd since I set the thermostat on my AC to 26°C (which is nearly 79°F.)

Colder, like the shoulder I'm giving you. 😆

It doesn't fit into the rhyme, but -10°C is the point where just wearing a coat isn't enough. You need to either start limiting the time you spend outside or put some serious thought into the protective clothing you wear beyond just throwing a coat on as you go out the door.

Oh come on. Now you expect us to learn math too??

And if you want to do the math fast and just get close enough, you can just do “double it and add 30”.

I once amusedly watched girls sunbathe in bikinis at St. Lawrence University with patches of snow nearby in, I think March.

Conversely, I personally wore shorts and a tee one fine vacation in Florida around Christmas. It was 60f, and everybody was running around in jackets looking like they were in Chicago in January.

Lmao, that brings back memories of going to open gym in high school while wearing basketball shorts in -40 with my winter jacket on

I use that trick too! I just wanted to make sure I got it correct as a service

Pretentious freedom-loving atoms

Lower Manitoba 😂 so that makes Saskatchewan into Northest Dakota and the Okanagan is Upper California?

Yup. At least in my area. It's not going to be pretty. Hell I'm outside right now and it's over 30C at nearly midnight. I walked out the door and felt like I stepped into a sauna.

Oh shit.

What when there is no north anymore?!

The global north is heading up significantly faster tho

Found the Canadian

26 very hot? It was 25 the other day in winter here. (Melbourne)

That's because Fahrenheit is % of hot, based on what we feel. Therefore, °F is better for everyday use.

1 yard is about a meter. 3 feet in a yard. Just divide by 3 and that's good enough for 99% of cases.

I measure in freedom units brother!

Also how did feet/metric get brought up, that's not even remotely relevant, tf lol.

If you grow up in the US, you learn both systems and you're able to convert between them. It's easy.

2.2 pounds to the kg

1 inch is 25.4 mm

A gallon is 3.8 liters

But it's fun watching supposedly intelligent people from other countries who reeeeeee when seeing imperial units.

That's American geography

They aren't, which makes this meme even funnier because in my experience Canadians and Aussies are pretty likely to understand both systems and wouldn't have a problem identifying either.

I'd put money on this having been made by a European.

I always found fahrenheit a lot more arbitrary: in Celsius 0 is the freezing of water, so if you are driving/walking, that is a very important temperature to look out for. Also 30 being hot or 100 being hot outside does not really make a difference. Some people find 30 hot, some other find it OK, since its subjective anyway

Fahrenheit is asking a human how hot it is, Celsius is asking water. This is what I was taught. I have no idea how you ask water for anything

You are already using Celsius as well. If you just did not know Fahrenheit, you obviously would not miss it. To us Celcius feels just as natural as Fahrenheit does to you. It would be nice to have one global system we can agree on, just like we agree on english being the language of the internet. English is my 2nd language and if I can learn a whole other language, then americans can learn metric. (Is celcius part of the metric system? I have no idea tbh)

How often do you convert temperature to different units? Isn't that what we are stupid for doing?

And I would like to know why precision is irrelevant for temperature but relevant for other things.

I'm being genuine, I'm not trying to shit on you. I'm pretty open about liking the metric system, and I think the reason we don't use it is largely the extreme administrative costs of doing so more than anyone thinking imperial is actually better. I think most agree it's pretty clearly worse.

But I legitimately don't understand how people can argue Celsius over fahrenheit when the arguments for fahrenheit largely match those for the metric system.

Fahrenheit has a fairly sensible 0 - just as Celsius is the temp of ice water, Fahrenheit is the temp of salty ice water.

Why write 36.111 C when you could write 97 F? Its the same reason you write 3cm instead of 0.03m. Its just more convenient even though its the same thing.

It may astonish you to learn that it's very easy to work in fractional degrees Celsius and it's done commonly.

Ah the old "it's what everyone does so it must be better" argument. A classic.

-60C your hands freeze in minutes without very thick gloves.

In the UK this summer we've been lucky if it hits 20°C this year. I've been in shorts all summer. We had a nice June but since then it's been cloudy and rainy. Regardless I've been in shorts since June. Winter is typically a single figure affair so summer is always very much welcomed. Feels like we haven't had one this year :(

I personally use metric as much as I can. The temperature on my phone for example is in celsius, try me.

Because for weather, °F is arguably better. 0°F - 100°F is the general range that most weather on the planet happens at (yes I know there are extremes where it gets to like -30°F or 120°F, but bear* with me). You can then further break those up into 10°F segments that are a bit more practical and granular than 10°C segments:

• under 0°F: stay inside
• 0°F - 10°F: really fucking cold, don't stay out too long or you risk hypothermia
• 10°F - 20°F: still really cold, but you can stay out long enough to shovel your driveway without fear of losing fingers/toes, if you're wearing winter gear
• 20°F - 30°F: cold but not bitterly so. Perfect weather for outdoor winter activities like sledding or snowball fights
• 30°F - 40°F: Snow starts melting here, and you can probably ditch the scarf, but you still need a winter jacket
• 40°F - 50°F: Too warm for your heavy winter jacket, to cold for your light spring jacket. It's layering season baybee
• 50°F - 60°F: still layering season, but you can probably get by with just a light jacket at this point, especially if you're doing something active outside. Some people start breaking out the shorts, but that's not the norm.
• 60°F - 70°F: a more generally acceptable range to start wearing shorts and short sleeves. Perfect temps for doing yard work and sipping beers on the patio alike
• 70°F - 80°F: definitely shorts weather, and pools start coming into play. If you're doing something rigorous outside, you're probably sweating
• 80°F - 90°F: you'd probably rather be inside, if you're not in a pool. You'll be sweating just lounging in your deck chair.
• 90°F - 100°F: hot as balls, probably not worth going outside for very long, as the pool water feels like taking a dip in lukewarm soup
• Over 100°F: stay inside

Now I know you can do something similar with °C, but the workable range there is smaller, because you're going from like -15°C to 40°C. It's less granular, and the start/stop temps are more awkward.

Is it weird that water freezes at 32°F and boils at 212°F? Sure, absolutely. When you're doing stuff in that context, it absolutely makes sense to use Celsius, where you're working on a nice, neat 0°C-100°C range. But weather, the thing most people contextualize temperatures with, doesn't happen in that range. It starts well below freezing, and (hopefully) doesn't get anywhere close to the boiling point of water. For that, I'd argue °F is actually a little more useful.

Because it doesn't have as much resolution as Fahrenheit.

There are 180 degrees between freezing water and boiling water in °F. But 100 degrees between the two in °C. So with Fahrenheit we can give mote accurate temperature info without resorting to decimal degrees. And if your response is "learn to handle decimals" then the same argument can be given for inches vs mm.

No need to convert. 0 to 40 is the part of the scale for weather, where 0 is dangerously cold and 40 is dangerously hot.

American are like "cut 37/64 and 52 thousandths of an inch off your 2 by 4 inch piece of wood, that's obviously not 2 by 4 inches", and don't get me started on wire gauge.

Fuk yeah brother! God Bless the Double Large Coke freedom unit! /S

That is at least a better basis than the barleycorn.

The US doesn't use imperial, it uses US customary.

There's no US customary Roman mile, ell or skeine, for example.

Chains and links are basically standard surveyors chains. They're distinct units in their own right in the sense that a metric chain or metric link is. Should your metric chart have a metric chain on it? What about light years or parsecs?

Hands are used in measuring horses, and that's basically it. They're used in commonwealth countries, the US and South Africa.

When doing a simple double/half, 30 will give less average error between 0° and 100°C. Though the real formula is C * 9 / 5 + 32 = F

That is honestly a good question lol

Loss of precision. Most digital thermostats only display two digits for cost savings. I've had experiences with mini-splits that are too cold at 27 and too hot at 28.

45 is shit

Isn't the downvkte button just another way of showing that you disagree?

I enjoy rabble rousing C-freaks. I lived in a Celsius country for 3 years (Hong Kong), each degree is too much, decimals for weather is silly.

Farenheit is so simple, on a scale of 0-100, how fucking hold/cold is it?

talk about your silver lining! Hey, we never really got to use 50 deg C in weather yet! Hype!

Sorry, I should have added an /s.

The only important property of a temperature scale is that it exists and is agreed upon for science. Farhenhiet and Celsius do that job equally as well.

The US is a cultural hegemon so it is often picked on. There are tons of idiotic peoole and cultural practices here in Spain. But the rest of the world isn't really aware... I mean I don't blame them. One cannot keep up with everything.

But believe me, stupidity and insular thinking is just as endemic here as it is in the States. It just annoys me when "enlightened" Americans habitually paint other Americans as somehow dumber than dumb people elsewhere.

You mean "in Western Europe."