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[–] 155 points 3 months ago (15 children)

you've got me, I don't know what C° is, I only know °C

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  • [–] 31 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    Now that you pointed it out, this annoys me more than people who put the currency sign after the amount.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I dont know why that annoys me. It does annoy me but it shouldn't because at least it has a logic to it.

    £2 Is spoken "two pounds" not "pound two"

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Is because with it being before, you get to know that the number is for a currency immediately, instead of finding out it's a currency afterwards

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Listen do you say Dollars 300 ($300) or do you say 300 Dollars (300$)?

    I rest my case lol

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    I'll give you my 2¢ on this: I like the dollar sign before the number. When I say "3 dollars" I see it as "$3" not "3$" and I don't see it as "dollars 3" unless I'm telling a riddle.

    Just like with American date structure: I'll say July 26, 2026 and will see it as 07/26/2026.

    (But when I put a date in files I go for YYYY/MM/DD format)

    (Whoever created these systems had a funny sense of synergy lol)

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Technically, I think that C° is used to express differences or ranges of temperatures. For instance the difference between 15 °C and 20 °C is 5 C°. Or you could say something like, "5 C° more is all it takes for me to start wearing shorts".

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I feel like that would have come up at some point during my two years of thermodynamics classes where we were constantly using ∆T. just did a search for "C°" in quotes, and for delta T; first one returned nothing, second showed a bunch of sources where the units of ∆T were °C. any idea where you might have heard this?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    I'm old. Google tells me that "Celcius degrees" used to be used for differences or ranges, but modern standards just use "degrees celcius" for everything. My experience would come from thermodynamics classes in the 1980's.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    I've always seen Kelvin used to describe differences in temperature, since Kelvin has a real zero point and the steps are the same as Celsius. Or people just use °C because they don't know or care that it's technically wrong.

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  • [–] 65 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    FYI this is like 283 and 303 kelvin

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  • [–] 29 points 3 months ago

    I'm aware, but it's more fun this way.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 months ago* (11 children)

    Heatwaves in London are strange. You see a few people outside in light sweaters. It's like they don't know what to do. It's like they don't own t-shirts

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I always wear long sleeved shirts, because I burn very quickly and don't want skin cancer and I really dislike applying sunscreen all the time.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Same, but when it's 30c+ outside there's a huge difference between us going out wearing long sleeved linen shirts and light trousers, and the handful of people I always end up seeing (at least!) wearing puffer jackets and wooly hats.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    But a heat wave in London is, what? 25 degrees?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    unfortunately it did go over 30° the last time i was there. but tbf also that's the hottest it gets

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  • it did go over 30° the last time i was there. but tbf also that’s the hottest it gets

    40C in London in 2022,

    https://www.londonworld.com/news/weather/heatwave-london-weather-highest-ever-temperature-recorded-uk-heathrow-airport-3773879

    37.7C last month (June 2026)

    https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/blog/2026/june-2026-heatwave-a-recap-of-the-temperature-records (for avoidance of confusion those are the records for June - the 40C was July 2022)

    Anything over 28C is currently classified as a heatwave, but I think they're going to have to revisit that, or just say "all summer is a heatwave try not to die" given 32-35C has been consistently hit pretty much every summer this decade.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

    That's only 86F. It's not a heat wave in the US until it's in the mid 90s. That's 35 Celsius.

    That 111 you see is 43.9C.

    fixed image

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    yeah it's not bad globally, but it is pretty bad for london, the infrastructure isn't prepared for it
    esp because it's pretty humid as well, sweating doesn't do much

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, the humidity also doesn't compare. The US is, as with most things especially lately, way worse.

    None of this means the UK has it easy, don't misunderstand. It means the people stuck in the US are in a crazy land of stupid things which includes the weather. But at least there aren't Australian murder fauna I guess.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    62% humidity outside right now, 99° F "real feel", 92° F "real feel shade". 88° F actual temp.

    I think what folks from not humid places don't realize is how hot the shade is. Shade is always better than sun, obviously, but it sort of only takes the feeling of the sun against your skin. The air is still hot. I'd compare it to a sauna sort of. Like it's still stuffy.

    The first time my wife went to somewhere that actually has dry heat she said it was amazing. She was actually cold in the shade. Not just cool. That concept is so foreign to me.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (4 children)
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    An Australian family moved to my town on some kind of exchange and yah, the one kid was still wearing a jacket at 30. Literally never wasn't cold.

    Taught us how to play cricket, he was a cool kid.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    as someone who has visited one of the hottest countries on Earth, yeah... 30C in countries like that, is considered chilly. There were a couple of days in a row where the temp reached 50 and kept crawling. My Scandinavian ass was not ready.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago

    10° is a completely normal temperature to wear shorts at

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago

    That's not even flexing with the shorts. It's -15°C that's the flex

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    "When will I ever use this in real life?!?" I wonder how successful "to understand the international memes" would be in the classroom 🤔

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    Yeah but, 10c is 50f, which is not cold for shorts. Maybe cool at best? I wear shorts year round though 😬.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    That entirely depends on where you live and what temperatures you're used too. I live in a hot part of Australia and absolutely wouldn't wear shorts in 10c because my body is acclimated to hotter weather.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    Australians totally wear shorts all the way down to 0 degrees.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Kiwis too, on the south island while wearing jandals in June.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    if you been in stem in the US, you would use metric. people get wierd when you say kg, instead of lbs, or m/KM instead of miles.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Just use Clicks. Then people will thank you for your service.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    For those who don’t know the quick and dirty conversion it’s double it and add 30. So both temps are ~50F and ~90F

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Come to New Zealand, we wear shorts (or stubbies as they are known over here) all year round!

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    Americans are used to being able to infer unknown scales of measurement

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    I don't really get the hate for fahrenheit. It's a nice 0 to 100 scale for everyday weather temperatures. But also every 10 degrees is different enough that you don't even need to be precise when talking about it: "We'll probably need the AC today, it's going to be in the 80s".

    I'm an American that's all for converting to metric but I would still use fahrenheit for weather since it's just so easy and convenient.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago

    You do realize that we're not ignorant to the metric system, right? Anyone with even the slightest interest in science and/or computing knows what celsius is.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    You dropped de minus on 10C.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    I know neither one is freezing. Or boiling, because my coffee brews at 95° C, max.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I suppose posting this meme with F instead of C would confuse more of the world than this one will. When trolling its all about numbers people.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    I understand because of a useful mnemonic I learned a few years ago. 30 is hot. 20 is nice. 10 is cold. 0 is ice. 30 is still pretty nice for most US citizens since we're not Canadian.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    Ah, you see it’s easy! 10°C is 70°F in Canada and 30°C is 35°F in Australia. Fahrenheit is based upon comfortable temperature and since that differs by person and population the amount differs too!

    Celsius is just boring old math though. Kind of like metric measurements. Everything devisable by 1000? Pffft, boooring! Give me my 600 feet to the mile and 8-1/2 football fields to league like a truely patriotic measuring system! Did I mention I actually prefer needing a lookup table to figure out unit conversions.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    Im one of the few people in America that uses C unironically

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Does everyone ask you "whats that in Fahrenheit"?

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    Do you also say random words in foreign languages and then explain that "ライブラリー" means "biblioteca"?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    No but sometimes but my vocabulary randomly and sometimes for no reason at all contains some words that British ppl use and sometimes Australian :3

    (Although its extremely tempting to learn German just so I can randomly start speaking in German)

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    30c is what my CPU is at when idle.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Do Canadians also don't know why they did this as kids

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Of course I do, it stands for Percentage of Commie.

    These poor folks don't even know in a free country you can wear jackets and shorts any time you like.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Wait. So is it a flex to wear shorts at 10? Is a jacket at 30? I'm so confused. That's like the mildest of temps. How about when we do yard work when it's 37.5c? Or go kayaking in 7c because like all those things happened are normal here. I was building a fire pit area today and it was 100° and earlier in the year I was on the lake kayaking when it was 45°.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Guess I'm a Canadian adult in the USA.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Also me knowing what the hell that figure is supposed to be.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    I wear black jeans and black tshirt in the height of summer cuz aesthetic beats comfort any day

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)