American things

Probably the one called "American things" tbrr

Why not just have it where 0 is freezing and 10 is boiling. Then you can just say, "Oh, it's nice today. It's only 2. Hope it doesn't get all the way up to 3!"

Here's what you get when you watch the Australian

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weather report, all ten seconds of it: "Today, it was 23. Tonight, it will be 18. Tomorrow, looking at a high of 23." It's all too broad and general!

but the difference between 18 and 23 isn’t massive. it’s not even a layer of clothing. also as sic said there’s so many other factors (humidity being a huge one) that being vague about the number for a forecast (which turns out to be wrong anyway) is fine. the difference between 22 and 23 isn’t perceptible at all, so i don’t know why anyone who’s not a scientist needs to distinguish between 68 and 69.

Fahrenheit lets you denote more exact measurements of temperature. I mean, you all say the average human body temperature is "37" whatever that means.

it means 37.0

We say 98.6. And where 99 is a mild fever and 97.5 means your thermometer isn't working right, that's a big deal!

oh so that just means you need to buy a celsius thermometer

it's a 0-100 scale where 0 is "about as cold as it ever gets" and 100 is "about as hot as it ever gets", that seems like a pretty good scale for describing the weather to me...

That's wildly inaccurate but I'm giving you benefit of the shorthand doubt

Humidex for the warm months

Wind chill for the cold months

universal scale:

nonsense
freezing
cold as fuck
cold
cool
nice
bit warm
kinda hot
bloody hot
fucking hot
nonsense

American cheese
string cheese
Velveeta
government cheese
Cheez Whiz
Philly cheesesteak

And the best worst cheese of all time, provel

"stop talking about American things on the American things thread" is a pretty fun example of the totalitarian nature of American cultural entitledness, good job Tombot

wow just further proof of american thing #1: america is #1

jk our country is terrible

*takes roll call of Celsius nations who have planted their flag on the moon*

measuring and showing your dick to see whose is bigger

Yes we definitely invented that

You invented measuring it in Fahrenheit

*takes roll call of Celsius nations who have planted their flag on the moon*

• trying to win arguments with “the moon”

*counts number of higgs bosuns in his penis*

Higgs boatswains?!?!

What a disaster for European science and on a personal level my penis, trevor

Should a Boatswain's Mate meet eligibility requirements, he can elect to become an SO (formerly SEAL), SB (formerly SWCC), ND (Navy Diver), or EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician).

Clarification:

The construction " , Trevor" at the end of a sentence is a reference to English classic colour commentary in football.

My penis is not named Trevor.

which begs the question

If you're not close enough to read the name on the collar then you can safely presume you were not meant to know

It's "Kielbacca" isn't it

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month date year is truly nonsensical

Month/Day/Year is like Minutes/Seconds/Hours, ie insane.

month day year is so obviously insane and stupid that it's kind of awesome

ok i'm not saying you have to like it or agree with it but there is a logic. if someone asks you a date, like, what's your birthday, a very common way to say it is "august twelfth, 1979" (if that is in fact your birthday) i.e. MM DD YYYY

"when's your birthday?"

"december second"

"you're insane and stupid"

But I suspect folks from DD MM YY areas would be more likely to say 'twelfth of August, 1979'.

Well, it makes slightly more sense than Australians putting wickets before runs in a cricket score - or should I save that for an Australian Things thread?

"remember, remembith, november fifth!"

Until Never Twelfth, and that's a long long time.

There is nothing logical about entering data for processing by aping verbal tics!

ok i'm not saying you have to like it or agree with it but there is a logic. if someone asks you a date, like, what's your birthday, a very common way to say it is "august twelfth, 1979" (if that is in fact your birthday) i.e. MM DD YYYY

“what time were you born?”

“four pm and thirteen seconds and twenty eight minutes”

Well, it makes slightly more sense than Australians putting wickets before runs in a cricket score - or should I save that for an Australian Things thread?

wickets before runs is much more logical, I won't hear of this!!!!

Thing is people do say "ten past eleven" but minute-hour-second would still be dumb

these things that no one does would in fact be pretty dumb yes

i am currently agnostic on the wicket issue but am keen to find a way of taking sides

It would be if the score was being given for the fielding side.(xxp)

Nobody does minute-hour-second for the exact same reason that nobody does month-day-year!

look at the thread title

Yeah America and the Philippines and nobody else in the entire world, for a reason

how do britishes say dates then ? Twenty five October or Twenty fifth October or twenty fifth OF October or twenty something else ?

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the correct form is "25 10 17" (or whatever the year might be)

anything that takes longer to say than that is time-wasting and rude iirc

nobody appreciated my "taking sides" cricket joke ;_;

which i didn't realise I'd made tbf

Id imagine you won't be alone in that

lol 5 Live here i come

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This does not explain why anyone would enter dates into a database in an illogical fashion