Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

Lol the temperature mix up for me is always 32F or 36F (for the "freezing" point of water).

Nathan For You
Joe Pera Talks To You

xp I discovered yesterday after much viewing of american youtube airfryer recipes, that between 250 and 400f you can basically halve it for c, if +/- 5c is acceptable.

Assume you guys all know at which temperature they are both equal.

Just had to look up Centigrade to refresh my memory of what it was.

xp of course! solve x = x * 9/5 + 32 for x.

At point I decided to memorize the F for 10, 20 and 30 C because there was enough of a pattern and it was only three numbers anyway. Let me see if I recall. Ah, yes.

When I lived in a country that used the metric system, I got used very quickly to every measure but temperature.

I still tend to think in Fahrenheit for hot temperatures and Celsius for cold ones.

The whole thing confuses me so much I just want the scale to be Very Hot / Hot / Quite Hot / Warm / Warm-ish etc

Carl Maria von Weber
Christoph Willibald Gluck

(xp) brass monkeys, Baltic etc.

I still remember being on an Air France flight when the pilot told us what the temperature would be upon arrival and some Frenchman in the cabin repeated it in some kind of sarcastic ironic tone, “douze dégrés!” I puzzled and still puzzle over what was amusing to him about that: the way the pilot said it, that particular temperature, the metric system itself?

Maybe it’s some kind of perfect wine cellar temperature?

I still tend to think in Fahrenheit for hot temperatures and Celsius for cold ones

This makes sense to me because when I'm sweating my ass off I want to see a high number like 90 whereas if I'm freezing I want to see a low number like zero.

xp He was French, man.

Ha!

Josefa otm.

The Conformist
The Informant

The Conformist
The Conversation

I don't get either of those two mixed up but they make it hard to remember the name of the Jancsó film The Confrontation.

Immaculate Grid has revealed many pairs or groups of baseball players who have morphed into one player for me over the years. Example:

Reggie Cleveland
Rick Wise
Mike Torrez

Peter & Christopher Hitchens, another pair of siblings I'd always somehow collated into one vile gasbag of humanity

nigel stock
nigel bruce

Anton Fig
Anton Fier

Surely someone posted that already, maybe me, but I guess it bears reposting.

The Leftovers
The Holdovers

John Maynard Keynes
Maynard James Keenan

I have just realized that each of these gentleman's respective names acts as a serious block whenever I am trying to conjure up the other.

The Afghan Whigs
Arab Strap

George Clanton
Clarence Clarity

Normal People
Ordinary People

(The books)

Lionel Trilling
Calvin Trillin

Classic

Tom Hollander says he received seven-figure Avengers bonus meant for Tom Holland

Until 5 minutes ago I thought Karen Allen and Margot Kidder were the same actress

And Brooke Adams. Add Karen Carpenter for more samesiness

Debra Winger, same vibe

James Fox
Edward Fox

Supertramp
Styx

For me it's Styx and Foreigner.

Add one more pairing - Rush and Yes - and you have a quadruvium of AOR that seemed interesting at the time but has aged badly. Add REO Speedwagon and Chicago, it's a sextet of boring.

I hate Supertramp but I am not in danger of confusing them with anyone else. I firmly believe that tenor voices and falsetto were in vogue in the 70s because they worked on the radio and could cut through chunky guitars (cf. Robert Plant and his many spiritual descendents).

I am also working on a companion theory that lower male voices coming into the culture (cf. Crash Test Dummies and the late-career resurgence of Johnny Cash) were partly a result of better audio technology.

Those are interesting theories!

I do not have the energy for an exhaustive study but one could look at male vocal ranges vs. chart positions there may well be a trend.

Bon Scott, Steve Perry-era Journey. Look at Paul Simon solo vs. Simon & Garfunkel. I believe better studio tech (and the parallel development of better home sound systems at home) may have allowed Simon to function effectively alone, and he needed Art less and less.

This is probably not the thread for it though

Cabaret
Chicago
Casino

Add Company to that list, for me. I don’t get them mixed up but I have to do a secondary ID-check subroutine, always

Add REO Speedwagon and Chicago, it's a sextet of boring.

Largely agree, but early Chicago still holds up, and "Roll with the Changes" is a banger.

EBM
EDM
EDF
EDL

Unbelievable!

Boulder
Bozeman

Emmanuelle Béart
Béatrice Dalle

Daevid Allen
David Peel

Robbie McIntosh
Robbie McIntosh

IQ
It Bites

Secret Samadhi
Razorblade Suitcase