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If those Americans could read they’d be very upset.

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For the other Americans that came into the thread hoping to see a conversion:

  • 10c = 50f
  • 30c = 86f

Edit: I’d like to note that 10c is a very reasonable temperature for shorts. I’m a Minnesotan (basically Canada lite (please annex us)), people start raising eyebrows at around 0C

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F = C * 1.8 + 32

Just want to leave this here

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I just use

30°C is hot, 20°C is nice 10°C is cold, 0°C is ice.

Obviously that won’t apply everywhere, but in milder climates it works pretty good.

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40 is dying 50 is dead

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It’s the best way to think about it because if you’re always doing the calculation in your head you still always think in Fahrenheit first. Just get the feeling for Celcius instead of trying to shoehorn a worse system in (as a user of said worse system myself).

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And 40°C is the melting point of the human brain.

Which goes some way towards explaining some of the decisions happening in Florida, Texas and Arizona during their ridiculously hot summers…

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I understand and appreciate your joke, but is it really? And I imagine that the bones and skin would melt first, right? Idk. I’ve never considered that someone could melt from the inside.

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Not literally, no, but it can be very difficult to concentrate on anything else when you’re suffering under immense heat and a lack of concentration can lead to a figurative brain meltdown.

That being said, the brain is mostly fluid, fat and electric connections so it would DEFINITELY melt long before your bones.

Would have to be around 50-60°C for the 60% of it that’s fat to hypothetically melt if exposed directly to the heat rather than protected by the skull and cooled down by the blood, but that’s nothing compared to the 1670°C melting point of human bones.

Btw, I hope you’re happy with this reply since my Google search history looks rather grisly now 😂

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Irc the US is now the only (or one of two countries) that doesn’t officially use the metric system. Uncle Sam just needs to rip the bandaid off.

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Except they do use the metric system, all their imperial units are defined by metric units.

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That is at least a better basis than the barleycorn.

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Why does the US live rent free in so many European’s heads all the time?

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Because each time we look for some English content, they use some dumb fantasy metrics based on the size fo the feet of a king for some reason, and we need to look up a converter to change it to a metric used in 195 different countries.

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It’s really not hard to convert.

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Then why don’t you Just switch

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If you grow up in the US, you learn both systems and you’re able to convert between them. It’s easy.

2.2 pounds to the kg

1 inch is 25.4 mm

A gallon is 3.8 liters

But it’s fun watching supposedly intelligent people from other countries who reeeeeee when seeing imperial units.

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? i don’t know about you, but multiplying 19" times 25.4 isnt something easy at all to do quickly in your head. Also, not to mention the best example: when i have to convert cm to m I move the comma

when I have to convert from cm to freedom units: -Divide the height in centimeters by 30.48 and write down the whole number as feet

-Multiply the decimal part of the above division by 12

-Round the result of the multiplication to the nearest whole number and write it down as inches

like, really? you have to use two different units added together for one thing? How is that easy?

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