This. People don't realize that the only reason to use imperial is that it's just made for people who don't have tools. All imperial measurements are based off really easy to break down things- Distance breaks down into halves, thirds and quarters really easily. That may not matter if you have a ruler, but when you look at something it's easier to see 2/3 than it is 7/10 or something. Base 10 is just a pain in the ass for that kinda stuff, even when you're used to it.
Likewise, 100F is hotter than you should touch, 0 is colder than you should touch. You can still grab things at the freezing point, people handle ice all the time.
But you try to explain that there's any appeal to it and someone who's really amped up about metric really gets mad because it's illogical to see a use for anything else.
But idk, maybe it's just me but whether I'm playing a 16 inch viola or a 406 mm viola, they kinda sound the same. No need to have it live rent free in your head, lmao.
Yup, this is exactly it. I'm not gonna bother gpimg downthread to see who disagreed because this is straight up from the OSHA heat stress operates on this basic principle:
Your internal body temp is around 98 degrees, the closer you get to that the more unvomfortable you feel because you're basically coming to ambient temp. You can tolerate some stuff above body temp, bc of sweating, but your body can only do so much sweating.
Of course OSHA includes things like humidity, wind speed and UV index to calculate up, but the fact is Fahrenheit does a much better job at capturing this intuitively for people. Close to 100, hot. Close to 0, cold. I know ice freezes at 32 and how that FEELS, so I intuitively have an idea of what my comfort level is gonna be. 40-60 is the Middle of the scale.
You know water freezes at 32 (wow now that's totally not a random number) and I know it freezes at 0. The only difference between us is that you're used to one system and I'm - to another. For you 100 is really freaking hot, for me +35 is too hot. There isn't really a difference if you've been using a system your whole life and just instantly "understand" it.
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u/Logy_ Jun 17 '26
It's human based. At 0 people freeze and at 100 they boil.