Sam Ewalt wrote:
>
> On Sun, 06 May 2001 20:25:46 +0000, Mel Evans, Registered Arachne User wrote:
>
> > Spain was lovely. Mild spring weather, all around 19 to 20 degrees, very
> > pleasant to sit with a San Miguel (or two, or three *>} ) and watch the
> > world go by.
>
> 19 to 20 degrees? Don't tell me us Yanks are the only ones still
> using the Farenheit temperature scale?
A few of us retreads in Canada still talk and think in Fahrenheit, and the
weather forecasts usually give us both, but I'm afraid we've lost that one.
I don't mind the metric system in all other respects, but the Centigrade/
Celsius temperature scale is just plain stupid for relating to the human
sensations.
With F you know that 0 is bloody cold and 100 is too damn hot - the degrees
of discomfort are about the same, and you will survive.
With C you find 0 rather pleasant and at 100 you've been dead a long time.
If they wanted to be scientific about it, why didn't they use the Kelvin
scale ? At least there can be SOME logical argument for THAT.
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