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Huh. So I can blame the British for influencing Canada to be fucked up.
Frickin' temperatures. Fahrenheit for ovens and pools and Celsius for the rest. Why.
Wait what. You lot seem to have taken our madness and truly ran with it
Using mixed temperature units just seems uniquely unhinged
As a Canadian, yes, yes it is.
I've never really understood it. My Mom asks me to check her pool's temperature. "24 degrees"
And she's confused! "I have no idea what that means! Tell me in normal pool temperature"
But if I told her the outside temperature in Fahrenheit she'd be utterly confused, as would I. Only thing I know about Fahrenheit is that 30 is cold and 100 is very hot.
The pool thing is completely crazy.
I can understand the oven thing though. It's so hot that it might as well have nothing to do with other everyday temperatures. So if you get ovens and recipes from the United States, I can see why it wouldn't really be a problem. It's treated as basically just a power level.
Still I wish we all switched to Celsius. It just feels useful to me to know how far you are from the boiling point of water, for instance.
Want more craziness?
Ovens: the YouTuber Atomic Shrimp just had his kitchen rebuilt and he noted that his new oven had the temperature control set 90° when pointed right, 180° when pointed down, 270° when pointed left - you rotated the knob the number of angular degrees you wanted in Celcius degrees. He noted that the fahrenheit version wouldn't be able to do that
Australia is very metric. Though our 25mm water fittings will fit with pre-metric inch fittings (and likewise for all of plumbing)
We have pints in beer glasses, regionally have to specify British pints due to some places having a metric pint a fair bit smaller
Hah, that's smart. I like that.
Also woo, dials. I hate how most ovens use capacitive buttons nowadays.
No, blame our close trading relationship with the states and a unfathomable thought process by Parliament during the transition to metric.
I'm all for blaming the US (it's a fun pastime) but can you expand on that transition process? Sounds interesting.