0°C = outside the sauna

100°C = inside the sauna

yup, i take baths in 100C regularly bc its warm :3

came to.comment this. lol

It's a warm sauna.

I very much prefer to cook/bake/prep in metric grams.

2c white flour, sifted.
1c brown sugar, packed.
1c room temperature water.
2tsp active dry yeast.
2tbsp vegetable oil.
1/2tsp baking powder.
2 egg yolks.
5 egg whites.
Pinch of cinnamon.

Fuck you. Tell me how many grams that is. I don't need five different tools to measure out my ingredients. I need a wet bowl, a dry bowl, and a scale.

Also this isn't a real recipe I just started naming shit at random.

Having the more granular temperature seems more practical. I often find myself adjusting my thermostat by just a single degree F. Do heating/ac thermostats in Europe use half degrees as increments? Even then I don’t think it’s as granular. But just integer values would be super annoying.

If they'd just standardized on one unit per measurement and apply si prefixes it's still an imperial unit but easier to work with. Say a quart for volume, and a yard for distance, because they're close to liter and meter. But I guess a kiloyard and a deciquart is taking it too far.

I know it's all based on what's familiar, but I imagine I'd have a hard time converting to Celsius for a weather report. I've lived in tropical climates in the US for over half my life so when people say things like "it's a hot 30 degrees out there!" it just short-circuits my brain.

different units for different magnitudes

I'm not sure I get what you mean? Are you saying how we use ounces for tiny weights, pounds for "human"-ish weights, and tons for huge weights?

Measuring solids by volume (mostly) doesn't make sense.

This could be apocryphal, but I seem to recall hearing that a lot of American recipes got established during times of westward expansion, and that it made more sense for people moving out to the frontier to carry a measuring cup and a set of spoons that it did for them to carry a carefully-calibrated scale.

It's funny because all of the imperial units are mathematically based on metric anyway.

I'm an American, so I started with imperial units, but I am making the very slow progression of converting to metric. I already use metric for work, and it's already the scientific standard here and has been since the 70s. It's just turbo annoying to try and get used to a new measuring system that I use reflexively especially when surrounded by imperial units. Makes it too easy to trip up and fall back.

"It's a bit warm today."

That's how I like my showers

Boiling warm is still warm

On a cosmic scale 100C is practically freezing.

I had an American explain “well you just know that 68 is long sleeve warm, 80 is shorts” or something, as if people cannot memorize that 18 is chilly and 21/22 is usual room temperature, 26 is shorts.

The only thing I dislike like about Celsius is that my thermostat supports both, but doesn’t allow half degrees Celsius, so it provides less granular control in Celsius than if you set it to Fahrenheit.

Most metric units are designed around water in some way. Very easy to convert to different units because of this. 1mL of water is equal to 1g of water which is equal to 1 cubic cm of water, for example.

And weight also revolves around water. 1L of water is 1KG which is 1000cm^3^ whereas 1cm^3^ is 1g. Super easy to calculate things.

Edit: correction

*at sea level, assuming pure water

It's intuitive with respect to water. Applying it to anything else is exactly the same as the Fahrenheit scale: you associate various things with numbers.

Also…

• 30 is hot
• 20 is nice
• 10 is cold
• 0 is ice

People who say 100°C is warm make my blood boil.

As a woman I also only take 100ºC showers

*For some definition of warm

No, the original “Make America Great Again” guy? The first actor elected President who presided over an unprecedented health crisis and ignored it because he hoped it would only hurt the “right” people, and plunged America into an economic disaster the likes of which we are still feeling today and may never recover from? That guy?

God this place actually sucks

We could have had it as early as 1793, but the ship carrying the metric standards was attacked by pirates.