(August 27, 2016 at 9:07 am)Tiberius Wrote:(August 27, 2016 at 5:49 am)zebo-the-fat Wrote: I am British and have been involved in science and engineering all my life, in these areas almost everyone uses metric units. I have never understood why anyone would use the Fahrenheit scale for temperature, it is so illogical, centigrade is simple - 0 is freezing, 100 is boiling, 20 is room temperature. As far as distance is concerned I find it easy to switch between miles and kilometers, I have no preference. Volume and weight is simple - a cubic meter of water weighs 1 tonne, can't get easier than that!
Centigrade is awful. Why base temperature scale off water of all things?!?
Kalviners represent!
A fair point, maybe base it on the boiling and freezing points of brandy? I could go for that
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Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups
Arguing with an engineer is like wrestling with a pig in mud ..... after a while you realise that the pig likes it!
