to quote Adrian Bott

[james_davis_nicoll]

'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

Just had conversation with a British couple who have a holiday home near us. They voted for Brexit and have made no arrangements whatsoever for what happens on Jan 1. They have now discovered the reality of their situation.

The blame apparently is with "Brussels".

— RS Archer (@archer_rs) June 29, 2020

Comments

[dormouse1953]

What gets me is the number of people my age or younger who still use Fahrenheit. They started giving temperatures in Celsius (or centigrade as we called it then) in the early sixties.

[andrewducker]

Most adults around me still used Farenheit for air temperature all the way through my schooling (up to the late 80s), so it's what I'm used to for that.

[dormouse1953]

I wonder why. Weather forecasts on TV are all in Celsius. Public thermometers are usually in Celsius. Sometime in the last fifty years I've switched over to thinking in Celsius. I know 30 is very hot, 5 is very cold. The weather apps on my computer and my phone display in Celsius.

When I'm staying in hotels in the US where possible I set the thermostat to display in Celsius. The hotel where I was staying for Sasquan in Spokane a few years ago, the room had an alarm clock which included a temperature display. I set that to Celsius. Seeing public thermometers in the US, I need to do the conversion.

[andrewducker]

I actually find I think in centigrade for near freezing, and Fareinheit for hot. So "5" is chilly, and "90" is hot.

Which is very unhelpful in the middle.

[dormouse1953]

I've heard that one before.

I find Celsius breaks up into nice five degree intervals:

<0 - freezing (by definition)
0-5 - very cold
5-10 - cold
10-15 - cool
15-20 - tolerable
20-25 - warm
25-30 - hot
>30 - very hot

[ethelmay]

I learned "Thirty's hot, twenty's nice, ten is chilly, zero's ice." Every ten degrees C is 18 F, starting from 32 F = 0 C, so 0, 10, 20, 30 C are 32, 50, 68, 86 F.