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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

And for that matter both of those things happen in this same country. Should've seen the looks I'd get from southerners when I was operating a ski lift in a T-shirt.

Edit: celebrating the first snow by jumping in a lake has also gotten colorful reactions from outsiders.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's not long pants season until it hits 0C for some folks in New England. Ain't nobody wearing a jacket up to 30C though. The humidity kills up here, that would just be murder. It can get up to 40C, but we're generally all miserable then.

And yeah, I had to convert the temps online to make sure I knew what I was talking about. Well, minus 0C, I know that one.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I know what it is. I just don’t know how the numbers translate.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Multiply by 2 and add 32 right?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

See this why we should my balls degree standard.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

It's how water feels sweetums

[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 months ago

American: "But thoese are both cold"

[+] [email protected] -9 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Fahrenheit makes more sense for gauging human comfort. Most people can sense the difference in 1°F. Celsius crams half the degrees between boiling and freezing into one scale.

A difference of 10°F is notable, 10°C is quite notable. 60's is cool, 80's is hot. Now do a 20° difference in C. 16 to 26 doesn't sound like a big difference.

Celsius works better for almost every other useful measurement. Go Kelvin if you must.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

This is literally just you being used to one system but not the other. 16 to 26 sounds like a massive difference to me because it is. And decimals exist.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Hard disagree. Grew up in the US and moved to metric land. If we really need to, we can use .x (i.e. 10ths of a degree). However, not even my heat/aircon has half degrees. People seem to have no issue with it in 98.6 degrees (body temperature i.e. 37c) having decimals.

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