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Living in England you pick up both systems fairly naturally (with more of a metric bias these days though) but the only thing I only understand metric for is atmospheric pressure: I know a typical imperial figure is 30-something inches of mercury, but that's as far as my understanding goes.
I also have picked up imperial better and can convert the numbers in my head but (sorry Americans) I do not like it at all. I still can't relate to it and 70,80,90 sounds meaningless to me as well as freezing being a random number like "32". It just sounds silly. Like when I was about 7 years old my sister's friend was on holiday in the USA, she got back and told her about it and my sister then said to me "oh claire said it was 100 degrees in america" (thinking she was using celsius) and I said "no it wasn't, the sea would have been boiling".
To me celsius is simple:
0, freezing
10, cool
20, mild
30, hot
Of course it's largely because I grew up using it. Well just an opinion anyway.
I also have picked up imperial better and can convert the numbers in my head but (sorry Americans) I do not like it at all. I still can't relate to it and 70,80,90 sounds meaningless to me as well as freezing being a random number like "32". It just sounds silly. Like when I was about 7 years old my sister's friend was on holiday in the USA, she got back and told her about it and my sister then said to me "oh claire said it was 100 degrees in america" (thinking she was using celsius) and I said "no it wasn't, the sea would have been boiling".
To me celsius is simple:
0, freezing
10, cool
20, mild
30, hot
Of course it's largely because I grew up using it. Well just an opinion anyway.
Exactly! I grew up using the imperial system, so I am used to it, but Celsius is so nice and it's based off of water, and Fahrenheit is based off of some guy
I also have picked up imperial better and can convert the numbers in my head but (sorry Americans) I do not like it at all. I still can't relate to it and 70,80,90 sounds meaningless to me as well as freezing being a random number like "32". It just sounds silly. Like when I was about 7 years old my sister's friend was on holiday in the USA, she got back and told her about it and my sister then said to me "oh claire said it was 100 degrees in america" (thinking she was using celsius) and I said "no it wasn't, the sea would have been boiling".
To me celsius is simple:
0, freezing
10, cool
20, mild
30, hot
Of course it's largely because I grew up using it. Well just an opinion anyway.
I'm American, and no offense taken. It was the opposite for me, though. The difference in degrees on the Celsius scale always seemed deceptively small, and colder than it really was. Now, I like how the metric system is based on powers of 10. I like how weather.com and weather.gov give me the option to switch between degrees C and F. Reference points like this crystallize it in my mind:
I have no problem converting between the two. Whenever we are in the states they say the temp in f and everyone always asks me to convert it to c. Get it right everytime as I basically have a conversion chart memorized.
I always got the impression that Patricius Maximus was an enormously fat nerd, something a bit like the Comic Book guy from the Simpsons but also with round glasses on.
What's you guys' idea of me? This is gonna be funny! No cheating from those who added me on FB...
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That gives me an idea...
I bet no one is anything like we imagine them in real life.
