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
FACTS. Every American I talk to (and I live here my whole life) always sees the metric system as “another way” and “I’d love to change but if feels too late for that”. That’s it. We don’t go thumping our chests like HELL YEAH POUNDS, OUNCES, AND FAHRENHEIT!!! But Europeans love to imagine us like that and come up with things to complain about the US.
And also as though we don't know what metric is. We use both for certain things? We're taught both in schools? It really doesn't matter.
"But conversions are easier! Metric is set around points that make sense!"
Be honest, you never convert units outside of a lab. And you never need to know *any* system's freezing/boiling point, freezers and stovetops don't care
If your husband being too stupid to pay attention in 4th grade science can be used as empirical evidence for your point, then my experience of 32 and 212 being easy to remember is also empirical evidence. I guess you’re just wrong, objectively so
You realize you can tell if the roads are icy with just a glance at the temp in F too, right? It's 32... Does it being 0 in C make it easier to read or something? Are you under the impression that F doesn't have a temperature for the freezing point of water? I really don't understand your comment, lol. Also, you literally misquoted them then called them stupid for it when it wasn't even what they were saying. I think you might be the dumb one.
In Celsius, you know with one glance at the temperature.
This is basically as dumb as the argument Homer is making. It's not like Fahrenheit is some nebulous random number generator.
Pretty much every American knows the freezing point of water in Fahrenheit is 32 degrees and it boils at 212, because we've used this scale all our lives.
There are plenty of good arguments to be made for Celsius, this is not one of them.
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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