On the U.S. west coast, at least in my city, we have a high of 27° fahrenheit.
I think my eyeballs nearly froze over.
On the U.S. west coast, at least in my city, we have a high of 27° fahrenheit.
I think my eyeballs nearly froze over.
Meanwhile, I walk around a muddy slushy city without waterproof shoes and cry.
On the eastern side of the U.S, we reached single digits a few weeks ago, and are due for a blizzard on Sunday. Good thing I love snow so much.
..you americans still use fahrenheit?
Even the reason behind it's developement it's dumb.. salt and ice??? WTF??
I really don't understand why you're not using Celsius... So linear, so simple.. boiling at 100° and freezing at 0° without involving stupid salt 0.0...
In medicine do you use that 96°F thing or you use the 37°C ?
It is cold. And my university had a bright idea on Tuesday: "Oh hey! Let's close the parking lot at 5:00 even though we have classes at 6:00! Students will love walking all the way from the nursing building's parking lot through freezing weather!"
Americans use Fahrenheit because they want to be elitist and the majority is stupid enough to justify the childish terms.
'Teehee! 4 cups! Tablespoons!'
We had a wind chill in the negatives a few weeks ago. And I forgot my scarf and gloves.
@Sandwich: Actually, most of us Americans are just born knowing Fahrenheit. Stop making those stereotypes, it's childish and elitist.
Yes, but those terms are so...elementary compared to the metric.
Example:
Feet (footsies! Yay!) and yards (I play in dem every single day!) vs. Meters (We decided to do some measuring of the Earth and divided that into segments.)
Red herring fallacy. The use of "foot", "yard", and "meter" in areas outside the context of measurement do not necessarily pertain to their use within the context of measurement, nor do they lend any meaningful information toward the intelligence, maturity, or elitism of any single person using any of the aforementioned terms, or the intelligence, maturity, or elitism of people living in a geographic area that commonly uses said terms. Your argument is downright illogical, and it's also highly impolite. (It is agreed that we don't like everyone of our nationality being called stupid with one illogical catch-all, correct?)
Anyway, enough of this ridiculous measurement snobbery. It's freakin' cold out there and this thread is for complaints about the aforementioned cold. Ahem...
I can't tell whether the worst part is walking in the cold or having to drive in it. On the way to school, I drive through a residential area with cars parked on both sides. There's no room for two cars. Normally I can just get off to the side when another car comes by and let them through. In the snow? I did that and ended up spending ~10 minutes getting the car out of the snow.
The fact is that the terms being synonymous with their elementary definition almost makes it seem that Americans have an average intelligence comparable unfavorably to that of a table and require such low-level terms. But this is getting rather off-topic, so let's stop.
Ha, you spent only 10 minutes? I had to borrow a shovel off some random pedestrian for a half hour. And it was night, so the snow was nearly ice.
We had three days in a row with wind chill of -20 degrees. One of those days i waited at my bus stop for an extra 20 min. Soooooooooo cooooold!
/e *shivers*
@Sandwich: I apologize for going back off topic, but I really don't take kindly to you comparing the intelligence of myself and everyone I know "unfavorably with that of a table". Not only is it a hasty generalization fallacy, it's rude and bigoted.
No, the terms' definitions in measurement aren't synonymous with the definitions outside measurement. Take "foot" for example. A "foot" outside measurement is, well, a foot, the thing on the end of a leg. Or yards, which you unceremoniously mocked with "I play in dem every single day!" The origin of both of these is not in any particular yard or foot, but in this old British document copied and linked here. Translated, that document snippet means: "It is ordained that 3 grains of barley dry and round do make an inch, 12 inches make 1 foot, 3 feet make 1 yard, 5 yards and a half make a perch, and 40 perches in length and 4 in breadth make an acre."
Nothing to do with actual feet or actual yards. Not nearly synonymous.
And if they were synonymous, your measurement snobbery would still not be justifiable. If a person prefers Fahrenheit rather than Celsius, that means... they grew up with Fahrenheit rather than Celsius. It does not provide any information as to the intelligence of the person in question. They can be a complete moron, or they can be the next Albert Einstein. Basing a conclusion on the system of measure someone uses is entirely irrational.
And, as I said in the second sentence of the post, it's incredibly rude, and when applied to the population of a nation, bigoted. Stop.
EDIT: Back on topic... ouch. A half hour in that crap.
The snow was like ice here, too- at least for a while. Hopefully this is the last of this weather.
Cold in the west coast? Isn't Florida on the west coast? Anywho, come on down to Canada! We boast temperatures of usually - 20 degree CELSIUS. Fun eh?
Hehehe, fulfilling clichés.
Wait, isn't -20 Celsius warmer than -20 Fahrenheit, because of the conversion rate? 9/5(-20) + 32 is -4 Fahrenheit.
Oh, and Doctor, I do like a bit of satire from time to time, but if it offended you, I'm rather sorry. Also note that I'm lumping myself in the list of compared unfavorably to a table. Then again, some tables are pretty smart.
I'm sensitive to cold temperatures. Having a polar vortex hanging above my head is the tip of the iceberg.
Even Google sent me an alert basically saying "Yeah, don't go outside today."
There's people outside... D:
Butanywaysbacktothetopic, It's all about the... all around "ideal" weather where I live. 70s all year around!
Well our snow turned to slush then water in about two days.
#northwestweather
We got a thunderstorm last night. Then it turned into hail. Then to slush.
My (Footsies, Yay!) are cold. Really cold. Through my boots and two pairs of socks.
it snowed where I live...
...it doesn't usually snow here