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[+] -21 points 2 years ago (6 children)
  • [–] 93 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    "Fahrenheit is how people feel" only makes sense if said people have never used another scale. You know how 100F "feels" because that's what you use. If you used Celsius you'd know how that scale feels instead, and be used to using the more useful scale generally.

    See also: people who think they don't have an accent.

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  • [+] -17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    You know what? I just enjoy being able to set a thermostat to a comfortable level by just using whole numbers instead of resorting do decimal places.

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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago

    It only works if you grew up in a country that uses Fahrenheit. I didn't, so to me Celsius is how I feel. I've no idea whether 20 f is jeans and a t-shirt weather, or if I should be getting my coat. 20 c however I know that as long as it's not windy I'll be good with jeans and a t-shirt, but that it's still a little too cool to get out my shorts.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    You mean other than the fact only a tiny proportion of people in the world use Fahrenheit?

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  • [+] -9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    5-ish percent isn't exactly tiny

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  • [+] -13 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    It didn’t say which people. Also, I’m from South East Asia and have used Fahrenheit my entire life as a means to measure body temperature using mercury thermometers during fever time. It’s so much easier to say whether a fever is above 100 or not and then how much above 100.

    So people do feel in Fahrenheit. A fuck ton of them do.

    Yes, I know the meme is about the weather but… take a chill pill and look at your prejudices.

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  • [+] -9 points 2 years ago

    It also closely matches the weather experience in many places. Where I live 0 F is about the coldest it ever gets and 100 F is about the hottest it ever gets. I know there are places that get a little hotter or colder, but we have humidity here which prevents it from getting hotter, and this region just doesn't get colder. It's a 0-100 scale of human experience.

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