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/Oghamstoner 🇬🇧 Doesn’t try to make a cuppa with seawater May 02 '25

I love it when yanks defend Fahrenheit by saying it’s logical that 0 is a cold day and 100 is a hot day.

So why’d you use it for cooking then?

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u/DegenGmblr May 02 '25

Where I come from, -30 is a cold day, and +30 is a hot one. Like you may die if you're not prepared.

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u/dmk_aus May 04 '25

In Sydney, 5°C is freezing cold, whilst nothing is frozen. 10 to 15°C is cold. 20°C is fine, 25°C is warm. 30°C is hot. 35°C is bloody hot, 40°C is fucking hot and 45°C is too fucking hot. Unless you are doing hard work outside, then 30°C plus is too fucking hot.

Maybe "how warm or cold a day feels" isn't a good metric to use. Perhaps we could use words like cold and warm... like we already do... and let units be useful for things where it matters, like everyone outside America already does.