Ugh, I’m one of those people who will defend imperial as not being irrational, just built ad-hoc for purposes that aren’t in alignment with modern ones and … No, that’s not what Fahrenheit is.
Fahrenheit was trying to make a temperature scale that was easy to recreate to ease the calibration of thermometers. Zero is a temperature that can be created in your garage with some ice, salt and water. 100 was his best, ultimately inaccurate, attempt to measure human body temperature, since it’s another easy calibration point, and from there water was defined as 32 and 212 so that they were 180 degrees apart, which would fit will on a temperature dial.
Not irrational, not a comfort scale, and not in alignment with current needs.It’s pure coincidence that it kinda lines up with comfortable outdoor temperatures in the opinion of a good chunk of a population living in the northern part of the western hemisphere.
Yeah we know it’s a coincidence. That’s kinda a part of the joke. No need to flex your knowledge here Mr smarty pants
100% hot by what understanding? If I set my oven to 100F, the peak of heat by this memes reckoning, that roast chicken is going to kill my family.
If I run a warm bath at 50F, the medium-est of heats, My testicles are going to implode faster than a billionaire in a homemade submarine when they touch the water.
If we are talking human comfort, then 50F is also way too cold to be considered “50% hot”.
💯 hot! We bring out the weird chili sauce for you!
No, but seriously, babe, the whole Imperial system gets a bad rap…
I’ve been trying to work out how I knew those memes were related and fine. It’s fine.
The only temperature system that isn’t arbitrary would tell you how spreadable butter is. Zero degrees butter is utterly not spreadable while 100 degrees butter is the maximum spreadability it could achieve before melting.
Every day I learn that people are even dumber than I previously thought.
I worked retail for a decade. There is no bottom to the barrel. There are people driving around in cars who genuinely shouldn’t be left unsupervised with metal utensils.
If they can’t handle utensils, they definitely shouldn’t be driving around in 2 ton killing machines either.
See you tomorrow champ
It is kind of nice waking up, having a bad day or something, but then I’m reminded "At least I’m not that fucking stupid.
I’ll try to remember this tomorrow. And the next day.
My eye is twitching just reading this. I wonder how I survived 110 percent hot days.
I suppose the takeaway is once the weather is 100 or higher, I don’t care it’s just too damn hot.
After being in 115 degree heat, 100 degree heat still feels just terrible.
Similarly below zero, subjectively I didn’t need specifics anymore. I know that salting ice outside is probably not going to work anymore. Yes it does make a difference, but comfort wise I just hate it either way.
So I can see, mostly joking but a grain of truth that you have “stupidly cold” then 0 to 100 scale of usual air temperature then “too damn hot”.
It’s like the only way the farenheight scale is kind of appealing from a “humans like 0 to 100 scale”, but it’s mathematically painful and nonsense apart from comfortable human temperatures.
I’m one of those people who knows we should standardize, bit also finds Fahrenheit just very convenient.
Like, when people say it’s 50 out, I immediately know that it’s going to feel about halfway between what I know 0 and 100 feel like. No one can even put up the pretext of doing that with Celsius, because not even the most pedantic person ever bothers to tell you when it’s 100 c out.
In seriousness though, the Fahrenheit scale isn’t non-sense, it’s just addressing things we don’t much need help with anymore. The zero point was chosen as a temperature you can create reliably without particularly sophisticated tools, and the range is so freezing and boiling are 180 degrees apart, putting them on the opposite sides of a dial.
It’s because the government controls the weather!!
Probably the same way people survived the -110% hot days.
And of course if going by averages, half the people are dumber than that
I use a binary thermometer. 1 is hot, 0 is cold.
I’m 98.6° Greg. Am I hot?
That depends, can I milk you?
Only from the toes
Scared to reach your full potential, eh?
I got a fever and there is only one cure
Technically, you’re a 9.8/10. But I can round it up to 10/10 ;)
Who are you to judge a person’s rounding error
Edit At least you were nice about it tho.
Oh baby, you certainly are
Celsius is the perfect system to describe how hot or cold it is, assuming you’re a water molecule.
People are mostly water, no? Makes perfect sense then.
Ugly bags of mostly water, yes.
Very judgemental of you to call me mostly water!
Found the microbrain.
Most people die from heat way before water starts to boil though. And we also don’t freeze solid at 0°C, although it is pretty cold, I’d say that end fits slightly better.
Unlike water, humans tend to feel temperature differently.
So it is unreliable to use as a base for anything that requires precision and especially science.
And it would be pretty dumb to have a completely different system just for every day life.
Got 'em.
Normal body Temp is 36.6 Celsius…
Is if they say you have room temperature IQ, it’s not so bad unless you are European.
In IQ of 70 is considered the threshold for mentally disability. (Lowest 2% of population)
I mean I’m here, so it can’t be that bad.
At what temperature does a normal body boil
Depends on what altitude you’re at; get high enough and the depressurisation will boil the water in your blood straight out of every orofice available using only your body’s latent heat.
Yeah gimme that how much
All it takes is either a multi million dollar human scale pressure chamber, or volunteering for some mad billionaires high altitude mach 5 manned vehicle tests
Or, hear me out: a bathtub, some shrinkwrap, a bicycle pump and so e good old fashioned grit and determination.
Unless you could get an acrylic plate wth a seal around the edge to go over the bath, got the bike pump working in reverse and reinforced the bath, you might stuggle even with some proper elbow grease
Squeaky mini this and the, such Fuck me for mentioning Greenland. And all the icy
Love Greenland
I might not get paid this time around but j fucking love Greenland
At 100%, obviously
Boiling isn’t the way to do it, roasting will bring out the flavor much more nicely.
A combination works best to break down those connective tissues and develop meaty complexity, try braising.
Of course a warner would know how to properly cook.
I love your username. Not bad cooking advice too. Add some garlic and tomatoes and you have an excellent dish.
Relevant username?
Thank you for noticing
normal bodies are generally full of normal water i think
Yeah, but it’s mixed with other stuff which impacts the boiling point.
To offset that, make them drunk. Drunk people boil at lower temperatures than sober ones.
I’m scared to Google this to confirm.
Then just ask Claude.
Room temp is 20C. It’s literally iso 1!
-40 to 40 is acceptable human range.
Above or below that and you’re stuck inside.
also 50C is roughly as hot as it gets on earth, and 0 is when things freeze (icy roads, snow, many things change) so even “round human temperature range” is a bullshit argument… 0C is much more useful for human temperature than 0F
Are we speaking real units or american made up ones?
Well for one of those two both the fake units and the American ones are the same.
You guys are too ignorant to see how full of shit OP is.
50F is not 50% hot, it’s cold. If your house was 50F you’d be saying “something is wrong with my HVAC”. You’d never heat to only 50, and you’d never cool that far. It’s cellar temperature (colder than a wine cellar, warmer than a root cellar).
70F is 50% hot. It’s a temp you’d cool to in the summer, and a temp you’d heat to in the winter.
100F isn’t 100% hot either, most people enjoy a hottub to be a little hotter.
Tldr: OP is wrong
When I’m running tho, 50 degrees is a medium amount of hot.
32 percent hot is water freezing tho? Idk… 1/3 hot seems like not the right amount for water freezing.
50 degrees feels pretty fucking warm when i get out of the below zero walk in
This one (bath thermometer) goes to 111°F
You clown, hot has been defined as 100°F since 1724. Therefore 50°F = 50% hot.
Americans using the word propaganda for “something I don’t understand because my school system failed me so now I overcompensate by making up factoids that make me look even more uneducated by the rest of the world”
Repurposing words like that is underrated.
Americans using the word propaganda for “something I don’t understand because my school system failed me so now I overcompensate by making up factoids that make me look even more uneducated by the rest of the world”
Whoosh.
I’m geniunly curious why you are getting down voted. The “propaganda” word choice is clearly part of the joke.
I mean, I wish we used C instead of F, but this take is still a whoosh.
I’m curious, why? I think metric makes sense in most regards but I like the granularity of F. The difference between 70F and 75F is pretty noticeable, but in C, it’s like what? 1 degree?
Because my partner uses C. The constant jump scares from temps is annoying 😀
Separate from that, I use temps for what to wear, so exactness is less important to me. In truth AQI and humidity are much more important metrics to me.
Plus:
- Equipment temps are always in C
- Using C is a gateway to metric use
- Devices built for C are just… better. Example: Any washing machine for C has the temperatures listed on the settings vs the ever so useful “warm” or “colors”
- Kettle boils when it hits 3 digits. More fun.
So, lots of ancillary reasons I guess, vs any one direct reason.
How is freezing cold, 32% hot? What am I missing here?
Because I can still walk to the mailbox in shorts at 32
You could still do that at -10F, so I don’t get your argument.
Yeah but I can’t be -10% naked, at 0°f I’m 0% naked, I have on all the layers that I could possibly layer. At 100°F I want to be 100% naked, minimal clothing socially required because it’s hot outside. My outfit might change from 90 to 100, but after 100 I’m capped out on what I can remove before I need to either move to a place that allows public nudity or just resolve myself to public indecency charges. At 32°F I can still run out to the mailbox in shorts and a hoodie, that’s not 0% naked that’s frankly still a long ways away from fully clothed.
Or pull the trash cans to the curb!
no i can’t. i’m not risking garbage water getting on my slippers and freezing into them
and then theres Kelvin, where 0 literally is 0% hot
I have to be that guy: it’s K, not °K.
Thank you for your service.
ok
You’re supposed to get rid of the circle, not make it bigger!
We need a new scale where 0 is 0K and 100 is the temperature of the big bang.
Another balmy day of approximately 0 degrees out.
May I suggest calling it the Morphius scale?
“The temperature will be 1 °M today”
“In the beginning it was 100 degrees Morphius”
Get your ass outside at 0ºC and I guarantee you it’s 0% hot.
32F is sweater weather.
0 F is colder. 0C is 32F
Yeah, it was 7F when I walked the kids to school this morning. 0C would’ve felt like a nice spring afternoon.
i tell them i use a 100 hour clock. Day starts at 0 at ends at 100. They see how much better it is and they have an existential crisis. And then everyone clapped
Honestly it’s not the worst idea, the french have tried something like that during one of their revolutions.
Semi-relatedly, I’m salty they didn’t push for duodecimal numbers and base metric on that, it would incorporate the only good part of imperial system & 12-based time system, not only into measurements but also all other aspects of life.
Then they could make time more consistent too, maybe have like 10000 (20736 in decimal) “metric seconds” in a day (which would mean 1 “metric second” ≈ 4 “normal” seconds) and derive stuff from there (e.g. 100 “metric seconds” in a “metric minute”, 10 “metric minutes” in a “metric hour”, 10 “metric hours” in a “metric day”). Would be really quite neat.
Technically, 1000 beats per day - but yes, Swatch tried this back in ‘99:
I loved it for removing the messy timezones.
I learned with that a lot of other problems are created, hehe.
Thanks, I hate that I love it
Fuuuuck. That’s the coolest thing I seen all day! I’m in. On .beat time now!
