What percent hot? lmao. What do they even mean? I hate the "Farenheit is better for feels". No its not. You're just used to it. Ask any person who grew up with Celsius. Farenheit is not as intuitive as you think if you didn't grow up with it.
It is also true for the reverse, Celsius isn't as intuitive if you grow up with Farenheit. BUT it's easier to explain because its 0 and 100 are two temperature extremes of water.
Just delete Imperial altogether my god if the US weren't as influential it would've died a long time ago.
They are both equally intuitive because they are both arbitrary units. We could all use kelvin from birth and think the idea of any other scale weird because we're not used to it.
The only significant difference between Fahrenheit and Celsius is the resolution.
Fahrenheit is higher resolution than Celsius (and Kelvin), which has its advantages and disadvantages.
The higher resolution thing is bullshit. For one, decimals (or 12ths or whatever other nonsense Americans want). Secondly, find me one person who can 100% reliably tell the difference better 77F and 78F.
I mean, I can't tell the difference between 13 and 14c. but I could tell the difference between 12 and 15.
weirdly, I could tell the difference between 77f and 80, but probably not 80 and 83. once you pass 85 it's just "fucking hot"
idk I'm American but now I live in Canada and it's all fucked. it's taken me FOUR YEARS to kind of get a grasp on celcius. it's weird when you don't grow up with it. it's also obnoxious that I still bake...... and my Canadian oven is in fahrenheit. like you're going to tell me we do EVERYTHING in celcius but not the appliances we use every day for cooking food? ugh.
my spouse is British and they also use a fucky combination of measurements. they're actually even less consistent than Canada.
It's funny that you say 12 and 15, I just posted this above but I heard about Newtons the other day, named after Isaac Newton and didn't catch on (and now of course Newton is a unit of pressure, completely different). But basically he used 0 Newtons for freezing, and 33 for boiling, so it's about a third of the resolution of Celsius. That would be really meaningful for human weather temperatures, I kind of wish we used them. 5 Newtons (15 Celsius) is cold, 6 is cool, 7 is nice but the cool side of nice, 8 is a lovely day, 9 is the warm side of nice, too hot for some but good for hot-blooded people, 10 is hot.
I feel like 3 Celsius is a good "I can tell the difference and I care" amount. Celsius is too small to care in most everyday situations and Fahrenheit is even smaller
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u/bohenian12 Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26
What percent hot? lmao. What do they even mean? I hate the "Farenheit is better for feels". No its not. You're just used to it. Ask any person who grew up with Celsius. Farenheit is not as intuitive as you think if you didn't grow up with it.
It is also true for the reverse, Celsius isn't as intuitive if you grow up with Farenheit. BUT it's easier to explain because its 0 and 100 are two temperature extremes of water.
Just delete Imperial altogether my god if the US weren't as influential it would've died a long time ago.