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Fahrenheit is better.
0 is real cold, 100 is real hot. How much sense does that make? Lots.
What the fuck is Celsius? Maybe if you are doing chemistry it is better. 0 is kind of cold but not really, 40 is real hot, 80 is unsued in practice, 100 is when water boils. Great, that'll come in real handy the next time I need to find out whether it is boiling-water temperature or not outside. How much sense does that make? 0. Which is the right number to use for roughly the bottom of the scale.
For everything else, the US's medieval "how many hogsheads in a farthing" units are far inferior, I will 100% agree. Fahrenheit is better though. If you disagree then why not just use Kelvin, that's even more chemically accurate and even less related to human relevant temperatures which is the goal I guess.
Uh... 0C is also real cold. 100C is also real hot.
100c would be "end of the world hot"
100f is "warm summer day"
100C is "my tea is ready" hot.
100°C is tolerable in a sauna
0C is not real cold
It's cold enough to be concerned about ice on the road, which is more relevant information than fahrenheit ever provides.
The whole "0 is cold, 100 is hot" argument is just a subjective preference anyway. Having 100 as your "hot" point instead of 38 doesn't provide any actual benefit. It's just a number you're used to.
Buddy if I can go outside in nothing but my underwear to take a swim and shoot my smith & wessons and drink an ice cold miller light then it ain't cold.
RICKY GETS IT
-10F is cold, +80F is hot.
0C is "maybe it's time to think about switching from summer shoes to winter shoes; there's better grip on my winter shoes and that's getting relevant today"
Not sure if you know, but 0C is so cold that water freezes. Whoa. 🤯