Been back in the UK a couple of days. Been a heatwave here, and today
temperatures are in the upper 20s. Went for a haircut, local barbershop,
old building in centre of Grimsby. Three girls doing hair, all likely on
minimum wage (this is NOT an upmarket establishment!), none of them likely
to be confused with a university professor.... It was VERY hot in the
barbershp, no A/C.
While I was having my haircut, the three girl hairdressers talked among
themselves about which club they were going to this evening, what they were
going to wear etc. Then the conversation went like this:
Girl 1: It's way too hot in here - must be over 30 (I estimated it to be
around 32 - 34 deg C).
Girl 2 : We need to get a thermometer - isn't there a maximum temperature
you're allowed to work in?
Girl 1: Yeah - I think it's 45.
Girl 3: No, it's 43.
Girl 1: What's body temperature? [I was about to jump in here, but Girl 3
beat me to it.]
Girl 3: I think it's 37 [which I confirmed].
Girl 1: Well, it should be illegal to work in a temperature hotter than you
are.
Young male customer in next chair: And you babe are pretty hot already.....
Girl 1: Cheeky sod!
Etc etc
And who said Britan was not metric!
John F-L
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Armstrong" <[email protected]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Cc: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 6:51 PM
Subject: [USMA:48027] Re: Celsius weather app icon?
At 2010-06-29T21:02-0500, Paul Trusten wrote:
The icon for my iPhone weather app bears a "sample" temperature of 73.
You folks outside the U.S---how does your icon read?
If you set International->Region Format to a non-US format (e.g.
Australia or New Zealand) it displays 23.
It used to be that Google Maps also showed KM for distances but one of
the updates broke that.
Paul
