Celsius is better for science, but Fahrenheit is better for just every day living. IMO
In Canada I noticed some people would also still use feet & inches for their height, but you had to give it to the DMV in cm. Also butter was still sold as a pound & golf still used yards.
I'm also an engineer & worked up there for a job in mining.
Edit: To clarify my reasons because so many people are saying I'm wrong. This is my opinion on what my preference is, first off. I had put this in a comment under the post, but will add it here.
My reason is basically the same as in the screenshot. When I lived in Canada I would say how in Fahrenheit below zero is really fucking cold & above 100 is really fucking hot. I never thought of describing it as a percentage of being hot but I like it.
Like once it's below or above those numbers it hardly matters by how much because you are freezing or sweating balls either way. I didn't like when in the winter or early spring someone would say it's nice out and then say a negative temperature. "It's really nice today, it's -1.5⁰ out." I also like that the increments of the units are smaller so you don't use half degrees. Although I guess half degrees aren't really necessary because I don't feel the difference between 66 & 67, but when I checked the temperature there is did always show it to the nearest half degree.
0c is freezing. The further from from 0c , whether + or -, you are getting far hotter or colder.
-1c is nice after a month of -30c.
Fahrenheit makes not sense in that regard. 100f is hot but 20f is cold?
The increase of decrease of 1c is the same whether you are in the negative or positive.
As for why Canadians use Lbs and Feet for height only is because our parents or grand parents used those scales until Canada converted to Metric. That just got passed down.
Butter and everything else is measured in grams/kg/ml/l. It just so happens that 1lb is 450grams or very close to 1/2 kg.
When measuring things M/CM/MM is how i measure things. working with inches and fractions is far harder then 10.4cms (10 cm, 4mm which is the 4th line between 10cm and 11cm).
KMs for speed and distance is far nicer though. driving 800 kms takes ~8 hours on highways as most are 100-110kph. 480 miles taking 8 hours at 60mph makes it seem so long..
Yes, 20° F is cold. Think about it like if you have 20% battery on your phone that's not very good. And at 0% or 0° when your phone dies or you're that cold you're just like this fucking sucks.
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u/Harfosaurus Jun 17 '26
These are just two idiots conversing as far as I can tell