6d ago

A guide for our friends outside the U.S.

Let no one accuse me of being a competent artist or comedian.

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Das hat er wohl aus unerFAHRENHEIT gemacht!
- I had to use Google Translate creatively to get this joke, but I'm delighted none the less.
Fahrenheit 451
Is that not -90f?
- Nah if 0° is upright 90° rotates that counterclockwise. Blame trig.
- Back when I took trigonometry, they taught me positive was counterclockwise.
  
  I will blame trigonometry, because orienteering says it’s the other way around.
  
  Another American thing maybe? Always been clockwise for me
  Edit: ah duck me, trig goes the other way round, forgot, everything else is clockwise tho
For everyone from the real world, not fluent in retard units.
12 inches = 1 foot
3 feet = 1 yard
22 yards = 1 chain
10 chains = 1 furlong
8 furlongs = 1 mile
3 miles = 1 league
And here is my favourite 2 dimensional unit:
1 furlong x 1 chain = 1 acre
Edit: bruh.
What even is zero Fahrenheit? Isn’t it some random point above freezing that is cold but not that cold?
- Zero Fahrenheit is like -18 C.
- it's a pretty interesting science experiment. it was the temperature of a mix of water, ice and ammonium chloride, which forms a eutectic mixture that stabilises itself at the temperature that fahrenheit chose as zero.
  ...he didn't write down the amounts he used though.
- The freezing point of a saturated brine of ammonium chloride.
- Yeah, 0F° is close to leave-a-faucet-dripping-lest-your-pipes-freeze weather. Quite a ways below the freezing temperature of water at standard atmospheric pressure.
100° = really fuckin' hot
0° = really fuckin' cold
- 0°C - pretty cold
  100°C - pretty hot, grab a beer with you and remember towel under your ass
  
  What's the beer for? To be paired with the human ham I'll turn into if I am exposed to 100 °C for too long?
  
  0°C - water go hard 100°C - water make funny bubbles
  
  100 is too much. The sweet spot is somewhere around 80.
- It's the one part of Murica measurements that makes decent sense. Science aside I just want to know what to wear that day in a human scale.
  
  Yeah, celsius users will be like "I can't understand this scientific celsius scale, how can I possible know whether it is saying I should wear shorts or a big fur coat. I wish I had a human scale".
I will never need this information.
- Lucky.
Surely you can’t be serious‽
- Yes, and don't call the Shirley
mr fahrenheit seems to have a drinking problem
0f, you just walked outside of a station in Antarctica
100f, you walked outside in a city built in the middle of a desert during the daytime
-40, the temperatures the same in f or c, but you're not gonna like it regardless
They call me heat miser Whatever I touch Starts to melt in my clutch!
90's fine. Hell the 100's are fine. It's when you get to 110 and above that ded

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