I'll start. Fahrenheit is the superior temperature system for weather reporting. We should use metric for literally everything else, even Celsius for cooking, but I'll be dead in the cold ground before I abandon a system in which you actually get to experience both 0 degrees and 100 degrees. Freezing being 32 instead of 0 is literally the only downside, and it's not a hard number to remember. I'm prepared to die on this hill in the comments.

  • slevin [none/use name]
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    Stick your hand in a boiling pot of water and you get to experience 100 degrees Celsius as well. Nonsense argument.

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        What you mean is nonsensical. What is the advantage for the temperature of the weather to always be confined to between 0 and 100, which isn't even the case?

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          It's more intuitive. Temperatures are also spread out along a longer scale, so each group of ten (the 60s, the 80s, etc) has a distinct feel.

          Downvoting isn't an argument.

          • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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            the only people i've ever heard say that fahrenheit is more intuitive are yanks or ancient english

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              I'm sure being raised with it influences my perspective. But can you think of a single downside besides "hurr 0 isn't freezing?"

              I'm not trying to tell you to switch to F, I'm just saying that I refuse to switch to C. Give me meters and kilos, fuck Celsius.

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                using the same temperature scale for weather and cooking/sciency shit gives me a better idea of how hot shit is i guess

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                  I'd argue no one really has an intuitive sense of temperatures that are extreme enough to kill you, no matter what scale you're using

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                    I don't know why you're stuck on the intuitive thing, the only reason it's intuitive to you is because you grew up with it

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            so each group of ten (the 60s, the 80s, etc) has a distinct feel.

            So what you are saying is, it has 10 times too much precision for the task at hand.

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              No one can feel the difference between two individual degrees Celsius, much less Fahrenheit. The sheer precision isn't the point, it's the spread of the scale.

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                I would actually say that a degree Celsius is actually a quite nice measure for "perceptibly different".

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                  I'll give you that. Congrats, you've found a single upside to Celsius that isn't "freezing is 0."