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.
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.
using the same temperature scale for weather and cooking/sciency shit gives me a better idea of how hot shit is i guess
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
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
I grew up with Celsius, but have lived around people who use Fahrenheit for most of my life. Fahrenheit still makes no sense to me. Inches and pounds I'm used to (though hate their irregularity). But the idea that Fahrenheit is more intuitive is 100% because you grew up using it.
Celsius: 30+ = hot as hell, want AC, high 20s = hot summer weather, want fan, mid 20s = warm summer weather, comfy unless you do physical labor/exercise, low 20s = cool summer weather, consider socks, 15-20 = long pants/long sleeves, blanket, 10 = jacket/sweatshirt, around 0 = hat and gloves, thick blanket, -10 = add extra layers, scarf/handkerchief, -20 = cold as fuck, minimize time out, -30 = you can feel the frost on your face when you're out, you'll be cold unless you wear special gear.
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I admit the feel of different temperatures is very different depending on your climate and body type. (I also personally enjoy being able to suffer through extreme temperatures without complaining.)
The point is that people who use Celsius can also categorize it into intuitive chunks in their minds.
for me, i love the cold and would happily live in the arctic circle if I could get good internet, but i hate the heat with a passion, anything over ~10 makes me uncomfortable
you would think i might be a chunky boy, but nope
I'm sure that influences my perspective. But can you at least see from that perspective why it would be attractive to keep Fahrenheit instead of switching to Celsius?
you could do the horrific thing we do here and keep both
Good luck getting Americans to use Celsius lol. We can't even adopt the objectively superior meters and kilograms
my measurement brain is a mess lol
I think of distance in both miles and kilometres
but think of speed in miles per hour unless it's very fast, then it's metres per second
I think of length in both centimetres and inches
but height in only feet and inches
I think of weight of people in stone
but weight of literally everything else in metric
I think of liquid volume in purely metric
except fuel efficiency I think of in miles/gallon
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