AdamCrock
Polish Pirate
I don't know ! I am just using a rule of thumb here - that it's all the Brits fault
They do it all wrong 


Isn't metric french?
At least they aren't blaming DeCaprio...Place is on fire right now because the government thought it was a good idea to deny climate change and slash the fire fighting budget
I recall it originally came from France sometime during or a bit after the French Revolution. Though memory is a bit fuzzy on that.Isn't metric french?
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Not about the English, but I thought this video had a decently believable explanation for why the US has held out on measurement systems.The English though - They - I bet have entirely different measurements !I don't get it , why they so badly want to be different ?
[Miles] and [Fahrenheits] sure create a lot of confusion ! I have grown up with Kilo[meters] and [Celsius] , good thing is that 1 second is actually 1 second ! =) The English though - They - I bet have entirely different measurements !I don't get it , why they so badly want to be different ?
Just because you're used to something doesn't mean there's not a better alternative.
I was talking about it earlier, it has to do with how air temperature affects humans. The big thing is that average temperatures you're likely to regularly experience come from about 0 F (freezing cold) to 100 F (super hot); which translates to about -18 C and 35 F, and it just doesn't have that same impact, you know? At 0 C you're a little cold and at 100 F you're long dead, lol.Why do you think it's better though? What benefits does it provide?
Also neither C or F is technically the metric system, that would be Kelvin(they are both decimal systems though).
But say for example you're more familiar with driving a horse-drawn carriage, does that mean a car isn't a better option, especially for distance travel?
I feel you can say one is objectively better in different situations. C's so much better for measuring water temperature for science purposes, because that scale's based on water. But F's better for air temperature, because that scale's designed around average Earth air temps. 1 degree of C = 1.8 degrees of F, which is why the latter's more precise for small shifts.
My scale I posted's nice and round (notice I did put C equivalent at the end) But like 0C to 10C is a HUGE swing in how temperature feels; you'd have to go 0 to 5 to get a similar effect that you do with F, but your scale even has to (unpleasantly) start well into the negatives rather than at 0.