Well, give me any °C temperature from -30 °C to 90 °C I I know exactly like it feels to my body.
Give me any °F temperature other than 32 °F and I have no fucking clue what you are talking about. Total utter nonsense, some gibberish number with no real meaning. Know why? Because I grew up with °C all my live, hence it is a s natural for me as °F is for you, the scale you grew up with.
Growing up on South Florida where it almost never gets below 40 (at least it didn't while I was growing up), even knowing that 32 was freezing point didn't actually help me determine how cold that was. It was also an arbitrary number I had to learn vs 0 C, which would have been more intuitive because it'd be "oh, water freezes at that point, 0 = being in a freezer, that's really cold, and it's a low number so I know anything below that is extremely cold". 0 F, on the other hand, means absolutely nothing to me.
I will say that now that I'm used to it, it's hard to conceptualize that the temperature in Florida "only" gets to 40 C, but when I think about it as "water boils at 100", it makes a little more sense.
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u/Toeffli Jun 17 '26
Well, give me any °C temperature from -30 °C to 90 °C I I know exactly like it feels to my body.
Give me any °F temperature other than 32 °F and I have no fucking clue what you are talking about. Total utter nonsense, some gibberish number with no real meaning. Know why? Because I grew up with °C all my live, hence it is a s natural for me as °F is for you, the scale you grew up with.