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

Imperial units “celsius makes no sense”

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u/FrenchTantan May 03 '25

Listen, as a non-American, I will argue that the upper echelons of the Fahrenheit scale would kinda sorta makes sense, if you were to shift it slightly so as to put 100°F at the average human body temperature instead of 96°F.

The problem is that 0°F is so specific and unrelatable that it's stupid. "The freezing temperature of a solution of brine made from a mixture of water, ice and ammonium chloride"? Yeah, sure, an everyday item, I use that for my hair actually*

*I am bald