Are we though?

In world first

I thought Germany has had this for over a decade now. Or am I being mistaken?

I’ll be the counterpart and just say it right there. I’m the Mr. Frodo on most parties. But I aspire to be the Gandalf on some! :)

No, it’s not. I’m people and I don’t feel like Fahrenheit. Lower than 10°C is cold, lower than 0°C is freezing (quite literally) and warmer than 30°C is too hot. See? Easy to remember numbers. Almost as if people feel numbers they’re used to.

You mean potential danger like ice forming on the streets? Well, too bad we don’t have an easy to remember number for that… /s

So, what you’re saying is that body temperature in Fahrenheit is also a completely random number?

Seriously, these are amazing halfling names for my PnP campaigns. I’m so gonna steal this!

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Plus not everyone here is American. I’m so thankful that here in Germany these notifications only get used for catastrophic events (which is never) or the yeary test that got postponed 3 times in a row, lol.

I assumed you meant the entire quoted paragraph including the part about the EU. Therefore my bad.

Nothing. I just live in the EU and am very happy about that fact. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠༼⁠ᴼ⁠ل͜⁠ᴼ⁠༽⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Not for me :)

Fahrenheit was invented at a hospital for identifying patients outside of the normal range…

0°F is outside the normal human temperature range? No shit!

You’re talking a bunch of bullcrap! Fahrenheit was developed by a German Scientist and he just chose two measurements that were halfway decent to reproduce. That’s all there is to it. Got nothing to do with hospitals.

Why compare it to 40°? Because I know what 40° feels like because I’ve been living in a civilized country with a civilized measurement system all my life. I can tell you that 65° is too hot, because I make my tea with 70° to 80° hot water. Therefore just before that will probably be too hot for my skin.

In the end, there is no objectively better system when it comes to day to day temperatures. But there is one when it comes to science, reliability and universality and that is Celsius.

All international science uses metric and slowly but surely the resistance amongst US universities melts away and they switch to metric as well. Give it another one or two generations and we’ll finally be rid of the outdated and arbitrary imperial system!

Honestly, there’s nothing uplifting about this and as a European I’m appalled by how such things as child debt can even exist in a country that claims to be “the best country in the entire world”. Classic Murrica…

Do they know that they can hire shepherds to mow it for them? It’s quite cheap and a lot more environmentally friendly!

Another very important factor is that in Germany it’s extremely difficult to become the official father of a child when you’re not married to the mother. This obviously comes with a lot of problems. For example when the mother suffers complications during birth. It’s just way easier to marry instead of doing all of that paperwork.