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[sonerohi]

Personally, I feel fine in 30-60. Below and everything is too frozen to have fun with, like no surfing. Above 60 is too hot for me.

[Tarran]

I guess people will like the one they've grown up with more.

That's true on nearly everything. From your house to your games to your favorite food.

[smigenboger]

I'm still LOLing at the Robot Unicorn attack videogame. It must have taken a lot of LSD to think that game up

Just tried that game and..well, I think I like that sort of high fantasy acid trip kind of stuff. I laugh at it, but it's kind of awesome too. Usually when I think of high fantasy, I think of shitty B movies on Sy-Fy.

Oh yeah, my friend has Heavy Metal. Perhaps that would be to my liking.

[Flaming Dorf]

Ah, people who have tolerance for different temperatures... you jokes! I live in California, where it's always a perfect 75!

edit: Bah. Weather/temperature.

[Footkerchief]

Must-listen for Deus Ex fans.

[SolarShado]

Fun fact: The number of Fahrenheit degrees between water's freezing and boiling point (at sea level of course) is 180, the same number of degrees in a half a circle.

Stupid fact: 0 in Fahrenheit is the coldest temperature they could get stuff at the time the system was set up. I'm sure is sounded like a good idea at the time...

Also: I'm a math nerd...

Celsius makes a lot more logical sense... but it'd take me forever to re-train my brain to use it...

EDIT: HOLY CRAP TRIPLE NINJA ASSAULT!!!

[dragnar]

I guess people will like the one they've grown up with more.

Not always. Metric units of measurement are simply better. America needs to stop using it's insane, convoluted systems.

[smigenboger]

My inner Armok says both systems are arbitrary, why are measurements based on water any less convoluted as any other arbitrary system? These measurements are also in base 10, which probably only exists because most people have 10 fingers and toes.

[Cthulhu]

I guess people will like the one they've grown up with more.

Not always.  US Customary units of measurement are simply better.  Europe needs to stop using it's insane, convoluted systems.

[quinnr]

I'm still LOLing at the Robot Unicorn attack videogame. It must have taken a lot of LSD to think that game up

Spoiler: I know right? (click to show/hide)

That is pure win...must play

[SolarShado]

My inner Armok says both systems are arbitrary, why are measurements based on water any less convoluted as any other arbitrary system? These measurements are also in base 10, which probably only exists because most people have 10 fingers and toes.

Well... In the grand scheme, everything is arbitrary.

But base-10 is what most people on planet Earth are familiar with, and water is as good a chemical as any to use for temperature reference points, being both plentiful and essential to almost all life on Earth.

[dragnar]

These measurements are also in base 10, which probably only exists because most people have 10 fingers and toes.

Yes, but more because our number system has 10 numbers in it. Math is easiest in multiples of 16 in hexadecimal, multiples of 10 in an ordinary system.

Celsius isn't any less arbitrary, but the majority of the world uses it, so it is better simply by virtue of being widespread.

[Aklyon]

Fahrenheit is awesome with our 33 degree freezing and weird as fuck number boiling. Screw 0 and 100.

I think its 212 or something for the boiling point.

[smigenboger]

Could have sworn it was 32* and 212*. The liter/quart thing is pretty similar at least.

[Cthulhu]

These measurements are also in base 10, which probably only exists because most people have 10 fingers and toes.

Yes, but more because our number system has 10 numbers in it. Math is easiest in multiples of 16 in hexadecimal, multiples of 10 in an ordinary system.

Celsius isn't any less arbitrary, but the majority of the world uses it, so it is better simply by virtue of being widespread.

You did not seriously use that argument, did you?