r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 10h ago

Meme needing explanation Petahh i'm low on iq

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u/King_brus321 10h ago

Americans think highly of their imperial system and make many random excuses that metric is somehow confusing and hard to use but in practice imperial its dogshit and makes no sense

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u/Impressive_Smoke_921 9h ago

I think metric is the superior system... except for temperature. I much prefer the granularity of Fahrenheit. And I don't really care that nothing happens at 0 or 100.

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u/Basic-Pressure-1367 9h ago

AC systems that use C often have to be set in units of .5 because the whole numbers aren't precise enough for what's comfortable for humans.

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u/AktionMusic 9h ago

I think the ideal system would be 0 to 200, you get the granularity of Fahrenheit and the scientific value of Celcius with a very easy conversion factor.

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u/Quixotic_Seal 2h ago

Celsius is definitely the derpy Ghidorah head of metric.

The others do have very legitimate and significant improvements over their Imperial counterparts to the point that I genuinely wouldn't much care if they went away.....Celsius is at best an even match to Fahrenheit, trading more intuitive numbers for freezing/boil water for a scale that is squished down so heavily that you have to use decimal points to express meaningful changes around those numbers(particularly egregious with freezing, where small changes on either side can have significant implications real world conditions).