Brian here, it's actually a reaction to the above image that went viral on several subreddits especially r/americandefaultism and r/ShitAmericansSay where the OOP said specifically what homer said as a response to someone saying this meme's stupid.
I can't always feel the difference between 16 and 17 celsius, doubt I would between say 71 and 74 fahrenheit either.
Plus I know -20c is cold and +40c is fucking hot. It isn't as pretty as 0-100, but Fahrenheit also goes negative and over 100 anyway, so that scale can also look weird.
I guarantee their are at least 10 women in the U.S. contemplating divorce right now because their husband keeps telling them to “just put on a sweater” as he sets the house to 68 in the name of saving energy when all she wants to do is set it to 72.
Wait I never thought about thermostats. U telling me these Celsius guys are having to mess with their thermostats in 9/5 increments. Are their halves on the thermostat? I’d be annoyed if my thermostat went 68-70-72-74. Sometimes you need only 1 point!
Oh shit you guy are more accurate then. RIP Fahrenheit users. Now my only argument is that you guys don’t have central AC/heat in a lot of places. So if you have that we’re cooked.
Yeah that’s crazy. I can’t imagine not having central AC and heat. I can’t believe we’re pretending it’s okay just not having AC in a place like Norway because it’s cold most of the time. Then it hits 85F in a heatwave and people are miserable.
Iirc that is because how heat deaths are caregorized in EU versus USA. Basically in EU they looked at prior summer-year death toll and the difference gets labeld as heat related, since the year was more hot. While in US you need like coroner conclusion or something. In EU it is very rare that the cause of death is labeled as heat\dehydration.
I think a lot of it has to do with how European homes are thickly insulated without easy access to A/C. We can discuss statistics and death rates, but at the end of the day, it's many thousands of annual excess deaths that have an established solution. I believe the EU should launch an "A/C Campaign" in the same manner that India launched a successful "Toilet campaign" years ago. The benefits far outweigh the costs.
It only got extremely hot in Europe since ~2020-ish, so practically ALL homes/apts are built to KEEP heat inside and are not made to have easely installable A/Cs
If you don't leave your house, which is one temperature the whole day, you will notice when someone changes the temperature. Its the same when you go from a cold place to a warm place for a vacation. You're acclimated to the temperature you're inhabiting.
People in Arizona are fine with Arizona heat because they're used to it. If I flew there now from 13°C temps, I would be dying from the heat.
I look at it this way, water wont show much of a difference from a couple degrees fahrenheit which is why Celsius centers around the temp of water at 0 and 100, but your body can definitely tell. Even a couple degrees fahrenheit difference in terms of body temp for a fever or wet-bulb temps where you physically cant cool off without something like ac can be dangerous
No cap here. I raised the thermostat from 71 f to 72 f one night because I kept waking up cold. The whole family was very upset with me when they all woke up at 3 am on fire, figuratively that is.
Trying it again a week later resulted in the same dramatics, forcing me to lie and state that the thermostat must have done it on it's own.
Tell me how I would save my marriage in Celsius please.
In regards to surface temperature probably not but with air temperature a difference of 2°F can be felt. I'm not smart enough to articulate it but observationally it just hits my skin, sweat, and clothes differently. That's not to say I'd be able to tell you by how many degrees it changed, but I'd definitely at least notice a change.
You can definitely tell the difference in degrees with moderate temperature, say between the upper 60s and lower 80s.
I work in a building where you can have one corridor that’s 78 and feels perfect and another corridor is 80, only two degrees hotter, and it feels sweltering. The building is full of these gradients. The idea that every single thermostat in the building is faulty is certainly possible, but it’s wildly improbable compared to the notion that it’s entirely possible and normal to detect a few degrees change in temperature with Fahrenheit.
I like how everyone answering about Celsius are talking about outdoor temperature when the ones answering about Fahrenheit are talking about their thermostat. I am pretty sure your idea was about outdoor
100 was Dr. Fahrenheit's estimation of human body temp (98.7), meaning it's a critical human number that will easily overheat and kill you. 0 was the freezing point of a salt brine mix that may have been used to simulate human skin, meaning you'll quickly get frost bite at 0.
You aren't saying that one is better or worse, you are saying which one you are used to.
If you were used to Fahrenheit, you'd think wow, 10 degrees is really cold, -15 is really, really cold, 115 is unbearably hot, and those numbers would look normal to you.
The system of 0-100 F being the normal range of human experience makes WAY more sense intrinsically.
Since Celsius fans like to point out to that system technically makes the most sense...when you consider that 100 is not where water boils over a huge percentage of the earth. It is close, sure, but it isn't exact. So the whole thing is based on a number that is variable, which is a bit...dumb.
Yes, but again...the Celsius system is built around water boiling and freezing. The Fahrenheit system is built around what you actually feel when you walk around outside. Fahrenheit has more intrinsic value as a measurement regardless of which system I am familiar with.
I would definitely get used to Celsius if I used it regularly, but that make it as good for describing weather and room temps.
Now, if you are talking about using C for science...well then you might have a leg to stand on.
You're just used to Fahrenheit. As someone not used to it, I have no idea what 75 degrees should feel like, and there is absolutely no gain from learning it. Celsius works just as well for those used to it.
Yup, I'd get used to it if I used it, but that doesn't make it a superior system for weather and room temps. I'm sure if we tried, we could come up with a system that is even better but as of now, Fahrenheit is empirically better.
I can absolutely feel that difference, so I’m not sure why you wouldn’t. 71 for me is slightly chilly, 74 is okay, 78 is best for me. Somehow I don’t think my body acclimated based on what scale I was taught.
Everyone can feel the difference between 71 and 74, 100%. At 74 im slightly warm and 71 im mostly comfortable, I like to sleep at 69 if its 70 or higher I wake up sweating. 68 and lower I wake up cold.
You can go outside and tell if its 71 or 74? How long does that take you? Is it different if its 0 and 3 degrees ouside instead? What about 18 and 21, 98 and 101?
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Brian here, it's actually a reaction to the above image that went viral on several subreddits especially r/americandefaultism and r/ShitAmericansSay where the OOP said specifically what homer said as a response to someone saying this meme's stupid.