Originally Posted by
lhbernhardt
I'm a dual citizen myself - raised in Berkeley and Oakland during the 60's, living in Canada since the 70's.
Water freezes at 0 degrees Celsius, and it boils at 100 degrees Celsius. So you want to be careful when the temperature is around 0, and it will be really hot when it gets above 30 degrees. Where the hell does 100 degrees Fahrenheit come from?
Hmmm... An aging draft dodger, in other words??
But frankly I think that Fahrenheit is a much more "human" temperature scale than Celsius. After all, I can tell you from experience that 100F is "damned hot" and 0F is "damned cold"! So it's 33C across the river in Ontario now. What's that mean? Is 33 hot? And on the other side, it would be "below zero Celsius" in these parts for most of the winter, and I wouldn't get bragging rights for going out running in "sub-zero" temperatures like I can on the Fahrenheit scale.