Fahrenheit is a fuck. Everyone should use Celsius.
Edit: I will not take criticism from Am*****ns
It is currently -40 for me. That is so cold I don't need to specify.
Celsius is good and makes 100000000% sense.
Fahrenheit is as fucking cringe America.
The argument I've always heard is that fahrenheit is ~more intuitive~ or human or something because like "0 in F is cold to a human and 100F is hot to a human so it means something, whereas 0 in C is just normal and 100C is death" as if that makes any fucking sense - like bitch its all subjective, I can't just say hot or cold to people in Egypt and Russia and expect them both to understand it as the same thing. What they would both understand is the temperature at which a puddle freezes and what boiling water feels like, and the scale between those two points. It was literally called CENTigrade - cent as in hundred, or percent. Its just a precentage from literally freezing to literally boiling, anyone from anywhere can understand that.
Fahrenheit isn't 'intuitive' to humans or whatever, its intuitive to americans because they've been raised with it for 30 years or whatever. Thats the only way that even they have to understand it, just experience and comparison. Its a bullshit scale for bullshit people and I'm going to fight someone over it :angery:
This is the temperature equivalent to when some guy said French is the language of science and German is the language of literature, and some German guy said the exact opposite.
Fr though this issue does not exist in any capacity. If you were just going off the comments here you'd think people were dying of heatstroke and hypothermia left and right because they were confused over what the numbers in c meant.
How dare you imply that what people are getting salty about on the internet isn't a real issue? I'll have you know that we only discuss Serious Things on this shitposting forum smh
if you're healthy and dressed for it 0C shouldn't do anything to you, you might not enjoy it but you'll be fine, although i guess it depends what your local climate is.
"Hey kids, it's 20° outside"
Children put on heavy winter coats, step outside and die of sunstroke
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU USE CELSIUS AMERICA!!!
Only a true mayo could die of sunstroke in 20 degrees Celsius regardless of clothing.
The entire rest of the world gets along with using Celsius without being confused over what to wear. It's not an issue, like, at all. People know what the temperatures on the scale they were raised with feel like.
edit: relevant r*ddit thread
Here's a table for all the burgers who think Fahrenheit is somehow better:
-x to 0°C - If you leave your excuse for coffee outside you'll get coffee cubes. The rain is this weird solid stuff.
0°C to 10°C - It's really cold. Wear a good jacket
10°C to 20°C - The cool zone. You set your AC between 16° and 20°. A couple degrees higher for the ladies.
20°C to 30°C - Goes from long sleeve Tees to short sleeve tee weather baby. The optimum zone. 28° is the optimum of the optimum for white people.
30°C to 40° - Oh it's hot summer baby, the tops are getting shorter and the the fellas are playing basketball shirtless. Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff are out crusing.
40°C to 45°C - Oh it's hot hot hot. White people turn red and are advised to stay in the shadows or in air-conditioned spaces. Other cooler ethnicities can brave the heat but would rather not.
45°C to 50°C - Black and brown people stay inside too.
50°C - Asphalt starts to melt and if you stay outside for more than short durations you actually literally die. Also the projected average high summer temps for parts of Asia and Africa after the effects of climate change hit. Thanks whites.
See. Not that hard
This is great. I'll note that the only time Fahrenheit is acceptable is at -40, where it is the same as Celsius. This is also the temperature at which you will die from under 5 minutes outside.
40°C to 45°C - Oh it’s hot hot hot. White people turn red and are advised to stay in the shadows or in air-conditioned spaces. Other cooler ethnicities can brave the heat but would rather not.
Higher temperatures are worse for whites than other people? Wtf I love global warming now.
Fahrenheit is more human oriented. One of its defining points is literally based on human body temperature.
Celcuis is great for science and all, but Fahrenheit works just fine for weather.
I'll just quote the other commenter that said it better:
Fahrenheit has 0 for “god damn it’s cold out” and 100 for “holy fuck it’s hot out”
Well, if you've used Celsius all your life you would intuitively know what temperature is very cold vs very hot, just like if you used fahrenheit.
Human body temperature is like 36.6 Celsius, that's 97.88 Fahrenheit, I don't see why that is better.
Fahrenheit has 0 for "god damn it's cold out" and 100 for "holy fuck it's hot out"
It's shit and dumb for scientific measurements but it's almost perfectly aligned to temperatures we can live in
Exactly. Our bodies don't care about rigorous scientific constants.
Fahrenheit made his best observation of human body temperature and labelled it 96 degrees (not sure why 96 instead of 100, but close enough). Obviously his estimate wasn't perfect (neither is Celsius, water boils at 99.97), but it has the effect of putting body temperature somewhere around 100.
The real struggle session is would you rather the temperature be above comfortable or below comfortable?
I'd rather it be too cold than too hot personally ❄️☃️
Hard agree. If you're cold put something on. Wtf do I do if I'm to hot?
I can always put on more layers to stay warm. I can only get so naked before I have to molt and I can only do that every so often.
I think Celsius is even better for knowing what to wear, because each degree difference actually means something. The difference between like 64 and 66 degrees in F is basically non-noticable. The difference between like 18 and 20 in Celsius is quite noticeable. Also every ten degrees of difference is Celsius is significantly different. -10, better bundle up. 0, make sure you've got a scarf. 10, maybe pack some gloves. 20 is pretty nice, light jumper maybe. 30? Damn it's hot. 40? Don't go outside. 50? Move. F isn't like that at all. What's the difference between 50 and 60? Not that much honestly.
