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  • (Score: 1) by zsau on Tuesday March 18 2014, @01:32AM

    by zsau (2642) on Tuesday March 18 2014, @01:32AM (#17882)

    High thirties (100 F) isn't "really hot". It's hot, but it's not like it's 45 degrees.

    On the other hand, it basically never gets below 0 Celsius, so to call that "fairly cold" would sound like a joking understatement.

    So basically, which temperature scale makes sense depends on where you live. Where I live, cold winter nights approach 0 Celsius (but rarely reach), and hot summer days approach 50 (but don't reach) degrees, so the Celsius scale makes a lot of day-to-day sense.

  • (Score: 2) by Marand on Thursday March 20 2014, @06:15AM

    by Marand (1081) on Thursday March 20 2014, @06:15AM (#18787) Journal

    On the other hand, it basically never gets below 0 Celsius

    Do you live in California or something? I've lived in multiple places in the US where temperatures below 0C (32F) are quite common for at least a couple months of the year. Seems a bit generous, or maybe naive, to say it "basically never" happens.

    That's not even considering the harsh, frozen north of Canada ;)

    • (Score: 1) by zsau on Thursday March 20 2014, @07:07AM

      by zsau (2642) on Thursday March 20 2014, @07:07AM (#18791)

      My point exactly. Did you see the image I replied to? The image presented one person's experience as if it was normal and would be shared by others, so I presented another experience in the same way. Then, I concluded that which one seems more natural will depend on where you live.

      In reality, which one is natural will depend on which one you're used to, and the arguments used to justify that will be picked based on what regularities they've observed. If I was Russian, I might have observed that 0 degrees Celsius presents a very natural midpoint in the annual temperature variation, whereas the Fahrenheit scale is off -- despite having a similar variation as parts of America.

      And no, I don't live in California; most of the world lives outside of the United States.

      • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Marand on Thursday March 20 2014, @08:45AM

        by Marand (1081) on Thursday March 20 2014, @08:45AM (#18810) Journal

        I saw what you replied to, but the explanation you gave for your intent doesn't match how your initial response read, unfortunately. It looked more like cluelessness, in response to a silly little joke image, by someone that has little experience with cold temperatures to me. I get what your intent was now, though.

        And no, I don't live in California; most of the world lives outside of the United States.

        That would be why I added the "or something" at the end, implying the possibility of something other than California with a similar climate that doesn't generally experience extreme colds. It was just a good location to mention there, because it's a location fairly well known for its nice weather, even outside of the US.

        --
        Veering way off topic with this, but what is it about some people absolutely needing to remind everybody that they aren't in the US every chance they get? "Guys, guys, did you know I'm not in the US? I'm not! I just thought you should know."

        It's like the guy that has to tell everyone how he doesn't watch TV [theonion.com] at every possible chance, or the people that make a huge issue out of telling you how they're female because you made the mistake of using a masculine pronoun in a case where you don't know the gender of the appropriate party (and thus are left with either "it" or "he" in English, and nobody likes being called an it).

        In each example it's usually irrelevant, unnecessarily nitpicky, and the quality of discussion just gets lowered by it being forced into the conversation for no reason other than the person has some sort of personal crusade to let everybody know.

        • (Score: 1) by zsau on Thursday March 20 2014, @09:28AM

          by zsau (2642) on Thursday March 20 2014, @09:28AM (#18819)

          Pot, kettle, black. Or, what's with posting an "irrelevant", "way off topic" aside which you "forced into the conversation for no reason other than [that you have] some sort of personal crusade to let everybody know"?

          Oh, right, it's not a "personal crusade", it's one you copied from a bunch of other people who pride themselves on their independence of thought.

          • (Score: 2) by Marand on Thursday March 20 2014, @05:40PM

            by Marand (1081) on Thursday March 20 2014, @05:40PM (#18973) Journal

            Pot, kettle, black. Or, what's with posting an "irrelevant", "way off topic" aside which you "forced into the conversation for no reason other than [that you have] some sort of personal crusade to let everybody know"?

            Illustrates my point perfectly. Your irrelevant "I'm not US and you must be told" crusade derailed this portion of the comments, because now it's turned into an argument about that, which has lowered the quality of the conversation.

            Granted, I took the bait and complained about it, but it didn't start with me.

            Oh, right, it's not a "personal crusade", it's one you copied from a bunch of other people who pride themselves on their independence of thought.

            And now you've moved on to trying to insult me and insinuate that I'm too stupid too form my own opinions because you don't like what I said. I'm done here.