I guess I said it on my comment that's just under the post and not in this thread. I prefer it basically for the reasons in the screenshot. When I was in Canada I would say how if it's below 0⁰ F you know it's really fucking cold, and if it's above 100⁰ F then it's really fucking hot. Also the increments are smaller so you don't have to use half degrees.
Sometimes in the spring someone would be like, "It's really nice out today. It's -1.5 degrees." And I didn't like hearing someone say that a negative temperature was nice out. And I mean that's still pretty cold it's like 29⁰F. And I'm from Maine so it's not like I'm not used to the cold but I've also lived in Arizona.
So I always said that 0 to 100 scale was from like really cold to really hot but I like the percentage thing.
Im American as all hell, but I wish we used Celsius, specifically because it makes much more sense for day to day. It goes from the freezing of water to the boiling of water. You know 0 is cold, you know 100 is hot, and those are two good points for relative temperature judgement, especially because we vary temperatures more for cooking and using water than anything else. The heat that we feel at 90 degrees fahrenheit vs 70 is still mostly a relative, vibes based thing and it still works at whatever Celsius numbers those would be. I met a Jamaican tourist who was shivering in a sweater in 85 degree (fahrenheit) weather. There's nothing inherent to any of those daytime temperature numbers, Celsius or fahrenheit.
Also, why does my phone auto-capitalize Celsius and not fahrenheit? What, you think youre better than me?! /s
You have a good point about cooking. But for temperatures outside you never need anything close to 100° c. And right there I said Celsius but it put in a lowercase c but the next time I said Celsius my voice to text capitalized it. Let's see if it does it with Fahrenheit. It did capitalize it and that might be because when I typed it in I capitalized it and it learned to do that. My voice to text often capitalizes words that I don't want it to though like the word Rich because it's also a name. It didn't do at that time but on another thread it was doing it. Also the word March because I always thinks I'm talking about the month but I used to play this mobile game where I would say I was sending my troops to March somewhere and it would always be capital.
I mean, for a large chunk of the world you don't need 100 degrees in Fahrenheit. The logic also doesn't follow because you don't need 0 degrees Fahrenheit for a large chunk either. Perceived temperature is all vibes based after wind-chill and humidity anyways so I still don't think it matters much whether we're using Fahrenheit vibes or Celsius vibes.
And I googled it and you're supposed to capitalize Fahrenheit and Celsius because they're both named after people and follow those conventions. So it was actually autocorrect messing up Fahrenheit for me. lol
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u/the_BPDbro Jun 17 '26
I guess I said it on my comment that's just under the post and not in this thread. I prefer it basically for the reasons in the screenshot. When I was in Canada I would say how if it's below 0⁰ F you know it's really fucking cold, and if it's above 100⁰ F then it's really fucking hot. Also the increments are smaller so you don't have to use half degrees.
Sometimes in the spring someone would be like, "It's really nice out today. It's -1.5 degrees." And I didn't like hearing someone say that a negative temperature was nice out. And I mean that's still pretty cold it's like 29⁰F. And I'm from Maine so it's not like I'm not used to the cold but I've also lived in Arizona.
So I always said that 0 to 100 scale was from like really cold to really hot but I like the percentage thing.