this all started because of the claim that Fahrenheit is better for “human” temperatures. when saying “that’s just because you’re used to it” apparently wasn’t valid, it spiralled on into this massive discussion where i’ve tried to show with what i feel is quite a lot of anecdata that indeed, you only feel that Fahrenheit is better for human temperatures because you’re used to it. meanwhile, the rest of the world can’t understand these numbers at all because they are not used to them, and use Celsius for human temperatures every day.
of course it doesn’t matter. at least, not in a vacuum. but when interacting with the rest of the world, it does.
this all started because of the claim that Fahrenheit is better for “human” temperatures.
so technically, it was originally a shitpost about how fahrenheit temperatures can go above 100, which is clearly better.
beyond that, a lot of people just proposed that fahrenheit is nice because “the 0-100 metric is kind of nice and lines up conveniently” which is perfectly accurate, as evidenced by people existing and using it, there’s not exactly a psyop for making people think fahrenheit is better lol.
literally the primary distinction here, is that celsius users think celsius is better because “water freezes at 0, and boils at 100” and fahrenheit users have merely proposed that “fahrenheit lines up fairly nicely with the human experience such that 0f is cold and 100f is hot”
and then celsius users have pretty much gone ape shit over these statements.
like to be clear, both of these arguments are literally the same.
meanwhile, the rest of the world can’t understand these numbers at all because they are not used to them, and use Celsius for human temperatures every day.
this is like being an english only speaker, and then discovering that the french language genders tables. And then becoming entirely irate over the fact that this language that you don’t know, and can’t speak genders tables.
You see my problem here right? Like it’s funny as a shitpost, but celsius users are grabbing a ratchet, realizing they don’t know how to use them, accidentally clobbering themselves over the head with it, and then being really confused and mad when people think that this is a pretty silly thing to do.
like it’s great that you guys don’t know fahrenheit because the rest of the world uses celsius. That’s great for you, who asked though? You can do the same things with race and gender as well. “white people are more advanced, surely we must be smarter right?”
like with all due respect, to you and everybody else who uses celsius, this is stupid. I don’t know if you guys think that fahrenheit people don’t know that celsius has a better boiling point of water, we know all of this shit. And we can even convert back into celsius, more often than not, because we have to interact with you guys, more frequently. Because statistically, there are more of you. Like the sheer amount of people in this thread that were just pretentious for no reason, is mindbogglingly astounding.
Like unironically, having seen this thread twice, once on reddit. I legitimately hold less of an opinion of Europeans now. Like from my perspective, these people are just whining and complaining about the most asinine of things, “oh no 96f, that’s not a nice number” yeah, it’s a conversion bro. What did you expect? And then when i mention that these are unreasonable opinions, as they are. Obviously. (so would any countering opinions, naturally) they get really confused or just say really stupid things? I’ve had people unironically tell me that there are different climates, like america doesn’t have any of those. I’ve had someone compare 0f to 100f, in the same exact situation. Literally just going outside naked. Why? Who goes outside naked when it’s cold?
You could tell me that this is a once yearly european psyop to make americans think that europeans are stupid, and i would believe you.
like i’m genuinely so confused, because i can’t tell if this is just some incredibly elaborate troll, or if celsius users genuinely can’t think outside of a box.
You see my problem here right? Like it’s funny as a shitpost, but celsius users are grabbing a ratchet, realizing they don’t know how to use them, accidentally clobbering themselves over the head with it, and then being really confused and mad when people think that this is a pretty silly thing to do.
this all started because of the claim that Fahrenheit is better for “human” temperatures. when saying “that’s just because you’re used to it” apparently wasn’t valid, it spiralled on into this massive discussion where i’ve tried to show with what i feel is quite a lot of anecdata that indeed, you only feel that Fahrenheit is better for human temperatures because you’re used to it. meanwhile, the rest of the world can’t understand these numbers at all because they are not used to them, and use Celsius for human temperatures every day.
of course it doesn’t matter. at least, not in a vacuum. but when interacting with the rest of the world, it does.
so technically, it was originally a shitpost about how fahrenheit temperatures can go above 100, which is clearly better.
beyond that, a lot of people just proposed that fahrenheit is nice because “the 0-100 metric is kind of nice and lines up conveniently” which is perfectly accurate, as evidenced by people existing and using it, there’s not exactly a psyop for making people think fahrenheit is better lol.
literally the primary distinction here, is that celsius users think celsius is better because “water freezes at 0, and boils at 100” and fahrenheit users have merely proposed that “fahrenheit lines up fairly nicely with the human experience such that 0f is cold and 100f is hot”
and then celsius users have pretty much gone ape shit over these statements.
like to be clear, both of these arguments are literally the same.
this is like being an english only speaker, and then discovering that the french language genders tables. And then becoming entirely irate over the fact that this language that you don’t know, and can’t speak genders tables.
You see my problem here right? Like it’s funny as a shitpost, but celsius users are grabbing a ratchet, realizing they don’t know how to use them, accidentally clobbering themselves over the head with it, and then being really confused and mad when people think that this is a pretty silly thing to do.
like it’s great that you guys don’t know fahrenheit because the rest of the world uses celsius. That’s great for you, who asked though? You can do the same things with race and gender as well. “white people are more advanced, surely we must be smarter right?”
like with all due respect, to you and everybody else who uses celsius, this is stupid. I don’t know if you guys think that fahrenheit people don’t know that celsius has a better boiling point of water, we know all of this shit. And we can even convert back into celsius, more often than not, because we have to interact with you guys, more frequently. Because statistically, there are more of you. Like the sheer amount of people in this thread that were just pretentious for no reason, is mindbogglingly astounding.
Like unironically, having seen this thread twice, once on reddit. I legitimately hold less of an opinion of Europeans now. Like from my perspective, these people are just whining and complaining about the most asinine of things, “oh no 96f, that’s not a nice number” yeah, it’s a conversion bro. What did you expect? And then when i mention that these are unreasonable opinions, as they are. Obviously. (so would any countering opinions, naturally) they get really confused or just say really stupid things? I’ve had people unironically tell me that there are different climates, like america doesn’t have any of those. I’ve had someone compare 0f to 100f, in the same exact situation. Literally just going outside naked. Why? Who goes outside naked when it’s cold?
You could tell me that this is a once yearly european psyop to make americans think that europeans are stupid, and i would believe you.
like i’m genuinely so confused, because i can’t tell if this is just some incredibly elaborate troll, or if celsius users genuinely can’t think outside of a box.
…yeah.