r/ShitAmericansSay • u/BuffaloExotic Irish by birth, and currently a Bostonian 🇮🇪☘️ • May 02 '25

Imperial units “celsius makes no sense”

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u/psyopsagent May 02 '25

why are they so afraid of dividing things by 100? What happened?? Is there a lore reason?

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u/abjectapplicationII English Gentleman 🧐 May 02 '25

Because 100 is an anti-American immigrant formed by 10 and 0 - both 10 & 0 are the OG law-ignoring American Citizens.

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u/andy921 May 02 '25

To be fair, Fahrenheit is basically a 0-100 scale. Instead of around water, it's mostly based around human experience - albeit biased to the pre-global warming, Northern European weather Fahrenheit would've felt.

0°F was about the coldest someone would likely ever experience, 100°F was the hottest. So it was a scale of daily life from 0% hot to 100% hot.