As an European I never understood what’s wrong with Fahrenheit besides no one else using it.
Unlike feet/miles/pounds there is no need to convert them to anything else so… why?
Water freezing/boiling point being 0 and 100 is neat but nowhere near being fucked like American distance units
Check out Chicago: where you can ask for directions and ‘a couple blocks’ could mean 500 feet or 3/4s of a mile, depending on what part of town you’re in .
I’ll still take a fairly straightforward grid over the spaghetti road map that many East Coast/European cities have.
The evil trinity of American excellence:
Healthcare System
Banking System
Temperature Units
I didn’t know just how fucked up it all was until I moved to Canada.
Also:
As an European I never understood what’s wrong with Fahrenheit besides no one else using it. Unlike feet/miles/pounds there is no need to convert them to anything else so… why?
Water freezing/boiling point being 0 and 100 is neat but nowhere near being fucked like American distance units
Check out Chicago: where you can ask for directions and ‘a couple blocks’ could mean 500 feet or 3/4s of a mile, depending on what part of town you’re in .
I’ll still take a fairly straightforward grid over the spaghetti road map that many East Coast/European cities have.