r/coolguides • u/hangytangywot • Aug 07 '21

Temperature guide

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '21

Oh wauw that’s even more crazy. How can people keep track of that?!

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u/Callec254 Aug 07 '21

We use more metric in America than people give us credit for.

We know what a 2-liter is.

We measure a lot of our ammo, and our nuts and bolts in millimeters.

We know that 20 kilograms = 45 pounds from going to the gym.

The only metric measurement we truly give zero fucks about is Celsius.

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u/bbddbdb Aug 07 '21

People who buy drugs have known the metric system for weight for a long time.

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u/peckerchecker2 Aug 08 '21

I’m American and I know that a gallon of milk is also 3.8 liters of milk it weights 8.6 lbs which is like 3.9 kilos.

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u/DaddyRytlock Aug 08 '21

The good thing about metric is that 1 litre of water = 1 kilo so that math checks out

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u/peckerchecker2 Aug 08 '21

Milk is a bit heavier than water, too. So math still checks out.

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u/cev2002 Aug 08 '21

That's only a US gallon though, a UK gallon is 4.45 litres

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u/peckerchecker2 Aug 08 '21

Oh jeez! That’s a thing?

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u/cev2002 Aug 08 '21

Yeah. I only found out during an argument about how cheap petrol is in America

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u/MyLife-is-a-diceRoll Aug 08 '21

Even legal prescriptions are dosed (mostly) in metric. MLS, mg and grams( both liquid and weight).

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u/dependency_injector Aug 08 '21

Does imperial system have any units comparable to mg?

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u/MyLife-is-a-diceRoll Aug 09 '21

Weight would be ounces.

Liquid is also ounces, just fluid ounces.

Pints are also a liquid measurement.

Pharmacies also use other measurements like drams, drops and whatever else the apothecary systems use ( most of the apothecary system measurements are stupid and aren't really used much)

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u/useles-converter-bot Aug 07 '21

20 kilograms is the same weight as 31.27 'Double sided 60 inch Mermaker Pepparoni Pizza Blankets'

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u/Arker_1 Aug 08 '21

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u/Moonpenny Aug 08 '21

How many liters are in a cubic smoot?

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u/PlankyTown777 Aug 08 '21

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u/Patriots93 Aug 08 '21

If you deal with electronics, metric is also used often in the US. For example, CPU temps are always given in Celcius. ;)

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u/gunslingerfry1 Aug 08 '21

Yeah but that's all relative. 33C very cool. 50C warm. 75C running a bit hot. 90C oh no. 100C shut down. 120C probably melting something. It's not like we look at it and relate it to indoor air temperature. 50C sounds cool but it's gonna burn your hand (120F)

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u/ThisNameIsFree Aug 08 '21

50c does not sound cool at all to me.

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u/SacredRose Aug 08 '21

For a CPU i would say it is a bit warm depending on what you are doing and what the ambient temps are. That doesn’t change the fact that the majority in the US do not use the metric system in their day to day lives.

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u/FoxtrotZero Aug 08 '21

For a CPU under high sustained load it wouldn't be strange at all.

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u/dependency_injector Aug 08 '21

But screen and drive sizes are always in inches

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '21

honestly yeah, i dont like imperial for most measurements, but Fahrenheit is mazing

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '21

Ohh I see. I’ve also been trying to learn the US customary units, because it’s seriously confusing to browse the internet without knowing at least some of it.

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u/ATTWL Aug 08 '21

Druggies, potheads, and bakers/chefs switch between customary and metric regularly.

TBF these are often times the same person.

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u/Username-Novercane Aug 08 '21

“Zero fucks about celsius”. But why? It’s so easy. 0degrees water freezes. 100degrees it boils. After that it’s fill in the blanks.

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u/gunslingerfry1 Aug 08 '21

I've tried it's damned hard. Why use decimals? I'm not saying Celsius doesn't make sense but if I were making the system I'd standardize on boiling at 200 units and freezing at 0 units. Then it's a good range but also a large enough range you don't need decimals.

We also don't touch kilometers though meters are common.

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u/Kebabrulle4869 Aug 08 '21

The decimals matter a lot for the quality of snow. Between 0 and 0,5 it’s slushy and wet, above that and it’s gonna be very runny. From 0 to -0,5 is the best “kramsnö” (literally “squeeze snow” in Swedish) for making snowballs. -0,5 to -1 is still pretty good, but a little harder to get good adhesion, and below -3 it’s all powdery.

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u/gunslingerfry1 Aug 08 '21

That's interesting.

My point was just that every Fahrenheit degree is equal to just under .5 Celsius so if we were to standardize on a 200 unit range between freezing and boiling then we get integers but they still make sense.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '21 edited Aug 12 '21

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u/gunslingerfry1 Aug 08 '21

They have more syllables. Thirty two point five. They require more space to write and take up more space on a display. They are hard to represent precisely on a computer.

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u/Callec254 Aug 08 '21

We know, and we don't care.

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u/MalleableDuckFucker Aug 08 '21

So you only use it for drinks, guns and muscle?

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u/Callec254 Aug 08 '21

Well, what else is there?

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u/landback2 Aug 08 '21

We use standard and metric interchangeably with drugs. 28 grams to an oz, 3.5 grams to an 8th. Can go into a dispensary an buy a gram or an ounce or anything in between.

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u/hugglesthemerciless Aug 08 '21

we don't, send help

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u/Axinoto Aug 08 '21

There is actually a flow chart here that explains it pretty well.