People who don't say what tempreture unit they are using are infuriating

The experiment occurred at a cool -40 degrees.

Kelvin? Oh god! Below absolute 0!!!
- Fun fact: there's no degrees Kelvin since it's an absolute scale.

I have been guilty of this but I will change!

From now on, I will be sure to specify that the sum of the interior angles of a triangle is 180 degrees fahrenheit and of a square is 360 degrees celcius.

If I said it was a comfortable 22 degrees, there's really only one unit I could be referring to.

A chilly -40 in Siberia
Fahrenheit!
- Kelvin!
Obviously f, that's the ideal fall temperature.
25°C is (according to a british youtuber) hot in england. 25°C is getting out jumpers/hoodies for me in australia.
- You'd be more comfortable at -5C?

Context clues

The weather today is nice at 22, but back home it was -10 last week.

I’m in Europe and traveling. How do you figure out the second? If I am American it’s not going to be converted, so that would be F, almost every else would be C.

Context can’t help you in a lot of situations.
- 22 would rarely be nice in F unless (context clues) we’re in a bad winter but going to a much worse one.
- Where would you be living if 22F is considered nice weather?
100 degrees

Tell me if that's in fahrenheit or celsius

Hint: it has nothing to do with the weather
- Well you haven't given the context. We can't guess the context and the units.
- If somebody has a fever of 100, F. If you're cooking, C. If it's weather, F.
- You're cooking, so boiling water

I assume when talking to Americans that they're using Fahrenheit. Damn near everyone else uses Celcius.

People who use farenheit are infuriating

I like C because it is 0 at freezing 100 at boiling but I like F because the degrees are smaller units. The only thing that bothers me is when the news says our 90F feels like 110F. The 'heat index' or 'wind chill' expression of temperature drive me crazy because 90F by definition feels how it feels outside, nobody lives in a climate controlled box.

I assume people are using the superior Celsius.

Until recent years, there was no reason to be ther since you mostly talked to people near you

But I don’t see how it matters: in normal conversation it’s usually obvious. I work with people in the UK a lot and there’s no impediment to conversations where they complain it’s 35° and I complain it’s 95°. We knots linens summer and we’re talking hot but livable conditions so it’s obvious what units were each using

We knots linens summer

So no confusion around temperature but you find other ways to confuse each other?
- For sure, and I don’t even remember what I was trying to say there before Siri “corrected” it

Its a balmy 273° today

A lot of people type the way they speak. It would sound ridiculous to include it in a casual conversation with someone you know is using the same standard as you.

I do agree though that a unit should be included when speaking to a broad audience though and I don't think that would be a very unpopular opinion tbh. I'm a man of science though and I've been trained by enough teacher saying "30 what? Bananas?!" that I pretty much always include them be default even when it's clear.

For Celsius I'm pretty sure I hear people say "C" right after they say the temps
- lol maybe in the US
Is it ridiculous to include it? Or were you taught that? We were taught to include it, granted, we have to deal with metric and imperial measurements from imports, but why is it ridiculous to make sure you’re providing the right information?
- I would laugh if my buddy told me it was going to be 90 f tomorrow. Obviously it’s Fahrenheit, it’s not possible to be 90 c where we are.
- Ridiculous is definitely not the right word to use in this case, I will admit. I think my point still stands though. Many people are used to being in a situation where people implicitly understand what they're referring to. If people can shorten language in any way while still retaining the same meaning they will in a lot of cases.

Or K. Everybody always forgets K.

Being in Canada when talking with very senior Canadians (from before metric times) or just People from the US, I know they are talking in American Freedom Units when it comes to this. When they say anything high 90s I suspect we aren't talking about almost boiling water. Pretty much any number above 50 and I'm fairly sure they are still talking in American.

I also know when it comes to 37 in Phoenix in the first weekend of April it's time to head back north to cooler temperatures of the mid 20s. I also know an American might think I meant Alaska with those numbers for April so it can get a little tricky there but it's only the weather and not a lab experiment.

Things become more confusing if you are in Antarctica. I wonder how people deal with units there.
- Cold, colder, and frostbite
- At -40 there is no difference so it stops mattering very much

Always assume Kelvin and see where it goes

I find it’s typically Americans who don’t put F down, if it’s about celcius it’s typically done. Probably a cultural me thing there.

So if it’s not denoted, usually safe to assume the measurement is imperial.

I recipe on TikTok said to cook the chicken in the oven at 180° but didn't specify c or f. So I baked the chicken at like 180° for like an hour and it was still raw. I raised the temp and it all worked out but I guess i should have been a bit sus

For future reference, the average temperature for baking is 180c or 350f. Anything under 300 is a pretty good indicator of it being Celsius. Unless it's something that is going to bake for 6+ hours, like brisket.

I feel that. Me coming from a science background - always use your units. 20 and 20C are not the same thing. Without a unit, a number exists only as a mathematical idea. Even in my own personal notes, I use proper unit notation.

My physics teacher used to get mad at us. "2.63? ... 2.63 what?! Slug lengths?!"

Deleted and removed comment chain because it could be considered brigading. I just found it funny, and didn't think it through. Apologies, I'll do better.

I have heard that most of the Us Americans are living far away from the coast or border, and so they hardly know anything about the world outside. And since America is now great again, they think the outside is so much smaller than the inside.

/s

Those dolts make me hot under the collar, at least a good 20 degrees hotter I tell you.

What's the context here? I'm in canada where it's always Celsius unless you're cooking.

Pool water temperature is also in farenheit, for some reason.
- I never noticed that. This would confuse me.

No. You put “k” for Kelvin. Everything else is assumed to be Celsius and Fahrenheit should be abandoned.

People who are using Fahrenheit are infuriating.

Don’t tempt us.
I love Fahrenheit, especially for weather. It's the only non metric unit I prefer. I just really enjoy it.

Edit: I'll always love the scale. Forever.