Fahrenheit? Like seriously? Let's measure my temperature when I'm having fever, great let's say it's 100 degrees of Fahrenheit. And while I'm at it, let's measure how cold it's outside. Splendid, let's make it zero degrees. It's not like anybody would use this super scientific scale anyway, right?

// End of rant.

I was having a discussion that turned into a screaming match with my wife. She's American, I'm not. She started getting mad when I said Celsius is based on two easy to remember metrics: freezing point and boiling point of water.

She started yelling at me that it makes no sense and Fahrenheit is just based on how hot or cold it is. She doesn't need to know the boiling point of water to know how the weather is outside.

I love my wife for many reasons, but her logic isn't one of them.

Make America great again

What if IT had US and Imperial units?

Some examples with conversions:
497 yawns - 800 MHz
129 blinks - 3 GHz
1 mouthful - 35 bits
1 letter page - 4871 bytes
1 bookful - 1.479 MB
1 shelf - 69.827 MB

And of course, all these units would differ slightly between the US and UK. Ah, what a clustermess that would be.

Best thing about being in the army was we used meters and kilometers (klicks) and the 24 hours clock

++ for genuine rant.

@birdlawexpert I think I read in "Generation Kill" that the marines use both metric and imperial measurements for some reason (forgot why). I always wonder how that works.

I had a thermostat that was in celsius and I could never get my apartment to the temperature I liked because it would've been 20.5 C but I could only choose 20 or 21 so it was always a Fahrenheit degree off, it drove me nuts

in the metric system only the kilogram is not based on an universal constant(they working on it).

@BirdLawExpert
When I was in America I was astonished that you called the '24 hour' time "army time". Apparently no one else used it there.

Ah good, another rant about measurement units and how the ones Americans use are substandard relative to other measurement units.

Well I just think it's ridiculous that we don't all use kelvin. It's so easy to work with. 0 degrees is absolute zero and I don't have to care about what fluid and atmospheric pressure I'm working with. 0 degrees is absolute zero and 100 degrees is... uhh... a hundred degrees above absolute zero.

It's so self-explanatory and obvious!

@Grumpy Yeah, it's a good thing we don't use anything like 1024 instead of 1000 all over the place or anything. That would be just so awkward!

@PRein pretty much just the military and emergency services types of places police fire ems/hospitals etc

@capnsoup Kelvin is the same as Celsius, just offset of the value of the absolute zero.

Anyway I was just pointing out how the Fahrenheit scale was actually invented. Zero was the coldest temperature during one random winter and hundred was Fahrenheit's highest temperature during that winter. It's super random and it makes no sense how it could spread.