spankmeister posted:

shut up about your dumb units nobody cares

Snapchat A Titty posted:

nah dude

1. nobody can tell the difference between 57 and 58 fahrenheit. and even if they could, thats circa half a degree celsius which most thermometers can handle & display.

2. the zero and hundred points make sense: freezing and boiling, these are useful values to know if you want to freeze or boil a thing.

3. the temperature extremes on earth are p much -50 to +50 celsius, centered on a cool freezing zero.

4. also i would have preferred if fahrenheit was at least human temperature instead of a cow's. who gives a poo poo if a cow has a fever?

5. ur a dumb

6. being used to whatever scale or thing doesnt mean its better than the thing you aren't used to.

tumblr hype man posted:

Wait till Shaggar finds out about gas marks

Luigi Thirty posted:

no, the blue stains on the walls were planted by (((globalists)))

Shaggar posted:

was designed to be a scientific scale but it was based on outdated science and is now obsolete. only the biggest retard everybody outside the US would use celsius for air temps on earth

Shaggar posted:

Dumbass foreigner: "Time to bake something! Let's set the oven to 176.667 celcius"

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

they're customary

Captain Foo posted:

I don't care about any of this slapfighting, but: lol Quebec

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

i thought we had infected canadia w/ fahrenheit for baking and weather since we make all of their ovens and thermometers and they receive a lot of our news media/forecasts due to all of them living within 50 miles of the border


i mean naturally quebec is gonna be different but aren't they always

FrozenVent posted:

Shaggar posted:

People can definitely tell the difference between a few degreases f, especially when you're up in the 60-80 range.

Nobody irl uses temperature to figure out when stuff freezes and boils, plus those values change based on irl conditions that celcius does not take into account. People stick water in the freezer or stick it on the stove when they want it to boil. they don't pay attention to the temperature at all.

the common earth temp range in celcius is -17.7778 to 37.7778.

Fahrenheit is a scale designed for human usage on earth and at that it works really well. celcius was designed to be a scientific scale but it was based on outdated science and is now obsolete. only the biggest retard would use celsius for air temps on earth

Shaggar posted:

Dumbass foreigner: "Time to bake something! Let's set the oven to 176.667 celcius"

Shaggar posted:

You use it because you're used to it and you don't know any better.

Shaggar posted:

Dumbass foreigner: "Time to bake something! Let's set the oven to 176.667 celcius"

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

i thought we had infected canadia w/ fahrenheit for baking and weather since we make all of their ovens and thermometers and they receive a lot of our news media/forecasts due to all of them living within 50 miles of the border


i mean naturally quebec is gonna be different but aren't they always

mishaq posted:

canada still uses imperial units for lumber measurements

probably because they ship all their lumber to us

spankmeister posted:

Canada is weird, they have kilograms and Celsius, but they say aluminum.

Dislike button posted:

Montreal owns and I want to go back

Luigi Thirty posted:

the strange case of Dr. Radian and Mr. Degree

he's here to gently caress up your trigonometric functions because you didn't convert your god drat units

Sagebrush posted:

ah yes, 350 degrees fahrenheit, the universally constant temperature at which bread bakes. set the oven to 175 celsius and you'll just end up with a pile of mush


canada is complicated

it was basically the same situation as the USA until the 1970s, using imperial units and moving towards metrication. except where the USA became lazy and snotty and gave up, canada managed to get most of the way until a conservative prime minister stalled it in 1985 when the conversion was 95% complete, the last incomplete step being to make the use of imperial units illegal for trade.

so in the end the canadian system officially requires SI, but you'll regularly see, for instance, stores advertising meat for sale in pounds (though officially they have to sell it per hundred grams [though small businesses are exempt from this requirement]).

almost every canadian uses celsius for the weather, even older ones, because that's how the weather report goes. however, everyone knows their height in feet and inches, even though your driver's license has it in centimeters.

if an oven has a dial it will be dual units. the only people i know who use celsius on the oven are people who immigrated from another country after learning to cook there. everyone else uses fahrenheit because cookbooks are from america.

people know their weight in pounds more commonly than they do in kilograms, again because of media. the doctor will tell you in kg but it's more important to be able to compare yourself to the american celebrity du jour.

you buy fuel in litres and drive in kilometers, but everyone knows their car's fuel efficiency in miles per gallon because of american advertising (and because all canadian cars still have miles on the gauge, etc, being dual-market designs). this led to a really stupid situation where the canadian govt told car dealers that they weren't allowed to use MPG because it wasn't an SI unit, and they had to use the official SI litres-per-100km figure. everyone loathed that change, because (1) people want to know how far they can drive on a tank, not how much gas they need to buy to go an arbitrary distance, and (2) no one had any idea whether a car that gets 5.4l/100km was any good. so after six months or so the government recanted and said "okay, you can use MPG...but you can't use dirty US customary gallons. we are purportedly part of the british empire and you will use the imperial gallon for your calculations."

so end result is that canadian cars all appear to get really great gas mileage on the sticker because the MPG figure is using a gallon that's 20% larger.

Improbable Lobster posted:

"hurr i'm american and i'm gonna use a measurement system that uses eighths because i'm incapable of understanding what a decimal is"

Improbable Lobster posted:

"hurr i'm american and i'm gonna use a measurement system that uses eighths because i'm incapable of understanding what a decimal is"

Captain Foo posted:

I don't care about any of this slapfighting, but: lol Quebec

Shaggar posted:

its because non-americans don't use measurements irl otherwise you'd understand why eighths and sixteenths and thirty-seconds are useful

Shaggar posted:

sorry you cant understand fractions I guess.

Captain Foo posted:

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