• douz0a0bouz@midwest.social
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    “When will I ever use this in real life?!?” I wonder how successful “to understand the international memes” would be in the classroom 🤔

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      An Australian family moved to my town on some kind of exchange and yah, the one kid was still wearing a jacket at 30. Literally never wasn’t cold.

      Taught us how to play cricket, he was a cool kid.

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      as someone who has visited one of the hottest countries on Earth, yeah… 30C in countries like that, is considered chilly. There were a couple of days in a row where the temp reached 50 and kept crawling. My Scandinavian ass was not ready.

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    Of course I do, it stands for Percentage of Commie.

    These poor folks don’t even know in a free country you can wear jackets and shorts any time you like.

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    I don’t really get the hate for fahrenheit. It’s a nice 0 to 100 scale for everyday weather temperatures. But also every 10 degrees is different enough that you don’t even need to be precise when talking about it: “We’ll probably need the AC today, it’s going to be in the 80s”.

    I’m an American that’s all for converting to metric but I would still use fahrenheit for weather since it’s just so easy and convenient.

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    Ah, you see it’s easy! 10°C is 70°F in Canada and 30°C is 35°F in Australia. Fahrenheit is based upon comfortable temperature and since that differs by person and population the amount differs too!

    Celsius is just boring old math though. Kind of like metric measurements. Everything devisable by 1000? Pffft, boooring! Give me my 600 feet to the mile and 8-1/2 football fields to league like a truely patriotic measuring system! Did I mention I actually prefer needing a lookup table to figure out unit conversions.

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    Come to New Zealand, we wear shorts (or stubbies as they are known over here) all year round!

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    I understand because of a useful mnemonic I learned a few years ago. 30 is hot. 20 is nice. 10 is cold. 0 is ice. 30 is still pretty nice for most US citizens since we’re not Canadian.

  • Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world
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    I suppose posting this meme with F instead of C would confuse more of the world than this one will. When trolling its all about numbers people.

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    I know neither one is freezing. Or boiling, because my coffee brews at 95° C, max.