112 points

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

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I’d take offense if I could; but you’re right… I think… idk, I can’t think. I’m not upset, you’re upset!

What’s an up set?

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5 points

Nothing, what’s an up set with you?

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1 point

This line could’ve come out of Gob’s mouth

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Oh my Gob! It’s adventure time… come’on grab your friends

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96 points

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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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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31 points

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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3 points

Well, looks like, we have to test that. Any volunteers?

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17 points

and 30C° is a typo

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12 points

40 is dying 50 is dead

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5 points

I guess, I am dying.

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5 points

I’ve been dead a few times this summer.

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3 points

What would you then call sauna temperatures which range between 80 to 120?

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What’re ye units? Can’t know what ye measure unless ye specify! 🦜

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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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8 points

All those are still shorts weather.

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And it’s always helpful to remember that 40 below is 40 below, in both F and C.

(Whew, ninja edit so I don’t look like an idiot, on Reddit I’d already have six people correcting me)

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5 points

More like 30° I’m melted into the pavement, 20° warm but good, 10° is near perfect, 0° starts getting cols, -10° put on a jacket, -20° and below put on a good jacket.

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That doesn’t rhyme for shit, man. Ha :)

I’m going to try and add some flair to your post

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1 point

I don’t know how I didn’t realize yours rhymed, whoops I feel dumb

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5 points

100°C is steam

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Your reply didn’t rhyme, try again next time. 😆

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4 points

“30°C is hot” - laughs in Texan

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6 points

Texas is Hell though. Anyone who’s been there understands this. From the heat to the guns to the people, it’s far and away the least desirable or interesting place I’ve been to. Austin wasn’t terrible though.

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Austin is the common “island of sanity” that happens with American cities. Is it enough to say in Texas… Not for me.

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Don’t Texans just stay in air-conditioned buildings and vehicles all the time? I just saw a YouTube video where a guy in Texas was complaining that his air conditioning setup wouldn’t get the temperature below 76°F, which I found odd since I set the thermostat on my AC to 26°C (which is nearly 79°F.)

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Yeah that’s absolutely a thing all over warm weather states in America. It drives me crazy that I try to acclimate to the higher heat and just end up inside with 68° air conditioner settings. Absolutely freezing my ass off. But the reality is that is more middle/ upper class living. If you’re doing manual labor or living in poverty, you know what the heat is actually like.

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4 points

Spot on

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What’s -10°C then?

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3 points

Colder, like the shoulder I’m giving you. 😆

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3 points

It doesn’t fit into the rhyme, but -10°C is the point where just wearing a coat isn’t enough. You need to either start limiting the time you spend outside or put some serious thought into the protective clothing you wear beyond just throwing a coat on as you go out the door.

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I had a water bottle in my car when it was around -11 °C, and when I tried to drink it, the supercooled water instantly froze solid, which was startling, but hardly surprising.

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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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37 points

F = C * 1.8 + 32

Just want to leave this here

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34 points

Oh come on. Now you expect us to learn math too??

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3 points

And if you want to do the math fast and just get close enough, you can just do “double it and add 30”.

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16 points

its true, legs are immune to cold. shorts and a jacket is a reasonable outfit

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0C? Fellow Minnesotan here and I’ve definitely seen plent of people wearing shorts at temps below -5C. But I’m also in a college town so that may change things.

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I once amusedly watched girls sunbathe in bikinis at St. Lawrence University with patches of snow nearby in, I think March.

Conversely, I personally wore shorts and a tee one fine vacation in Florida around Christmas. It was 60f, and everybody was running around in jackets looking like they were in Chicago in January.

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4 points

Lmao, that brings back memories of going to open gym in high school while wearing basketball shorts in -40 with my winter jacket on

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6 points

I learned during the polar vortices that when it’s -40 out it’s the same in both Celsius and Fahrenheit

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The quick conversation I use is take off 30 and half the rest to go F to C or double it and add 30 to go C to F.

20C doubled is 40 and add 30. 70F

80F take off 30 is 50. Half that is 25. 25C

It’s not completely accurate but close enough for conversation purposes.

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Yeh 0C was exactly what I thought and then you mentioned it.

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49 points

Paraphrasing an old meme:

Fahrenheit - how hot humans feel
Celsius - how hot water feels
Kelvin - how hot atoms feel

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9 points

What about Rankine?

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19 points

Pretentious freedom-loving atoms

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How measuring devices see it:

| Celsius | How hot humans feel | | Fahrenheit | Measure Celsius and do a calculation | | Kelvin | Measure Celsius and do a calculation |

Clearly, Celsius is superior here

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C° or °C bud?

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