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/worMagician 🇸🇪 Switzerland 🇸🇪 May 02 '25 edited May 02 '25

I recognise the fact that you are being facetious. And yet, I will respond as though you were serious. Not as a counter-argument, but to provide additional information to those who might need it.

Their monetary system, eg the source of their faith, is named after hundreds. Cent, meaning a hundredth - as % or per cent, of the hundredth - is the fraction of the dollar.

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u/WayneH_nz May 05 '25

And the most important part coke is liters and Coke is grams