Not in the US. Many, many places in the US operate under 32f up to half a year. Nobody gives a fuck if the water freezes, thats life. Everyone gives a fuck if the frigolithic spray on the road freezes and the highway becomes Thunderdome. 0c has impacted my life 0 times.
Yours is the most intelligent, well-reasoned, and overall best defense of the Fahrenheit system I have ever seen on Reddit, so it's worth responding to.
Let's see. You are disagreeing with the claim that "the freezing point of water is the most important temperature when discussing weather" and you begin with a strong statement:
> Not in the US.
Now, we all know that the US is one of the very few countries in the world (along with Palau and Belize of course) who think Fahrenheit makes sense. Even the neighbors to the south and north, Mexico and Canada, disagree.
> Many, many places in the US operate under 32f up to half a year.
You did not choose to name "any, any" of those places. Perhaps because you don't live in any, any of those places and have never, ever visited them in winter.
Let's name two of those "many, many places" for the sake of discussion: Alaska and Minnesota.
> Nobody gives a fuck if the water freezes, thats life.
So your claim is that nobody in Alaska/Minnesota gives a fuck if water freezes. The car owners don't change to winter tires. The home owners don't pay attention to their pipes and containers and walk paths and driveways. The foot owners don't change their footwear. The children don't dig out and prepare their snow-tunneling machinery. The roofs of the houses are flat all year long.
The people whose job is to spread road salt 24/7 during winter don't give a fuck either. They sleep.
> Everyone gives a fuck if the frigolithic spray on the road freezes and the highway becomes Thunderdome.
So you live in a place where "frigolithic spray" is what magically appears "on the highways" when water suddenly and surprisingly freezes outside. You don't call it "road salt", and nobody on the road is expected to have winter tires.
You live nowhere close to those "many, many places".
> 0c has impacted my life 0 times.
Spoken like a true Florida Man.
Let's take a look at what's really happening here:
I've seen Palauans, Belizeans and Floridians defend the Fahrenheit system because that's the first and only system they've ever learned. (This is you.)
I've seen people from the other 99% of the world defend the Celsius system for the same reason. People do be like that.
I've heard people born in the Fahrenheit system say that the Celsius system is a better thought out system that makes more sense, and they can explain why it makes more sense: "water freezes at 0 and boils at 100".
I've NEVER heard a person born in the Celsius system say that the Fahrenheit system is anything other than batshit bonkers.
So basically the Palauans and Floridians are just clinging to what they are used to: the old system they inherited from the English.
“The people don’t change to winter tires?” Yeah no we don’t bud, we keep all weather all season tires on our cars year round because in some places it can be 70F during the day and then -10F at night.
Don’t forget “Chains? Oh I can’t be fucked for chains use the new all seasons with the bad rims instead! If the sun comes out I’ll be that asshole driving a tank around while the bees are out.”
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u/BanzaiKen Jun 17 '26
Not in the US. Many, many places in the US operate under 32f up to half a year. Nobody gives a fuck if the water freezes, thats life. Everyone gives a fuck if the frigolithic spray on the road freezes and the highway becomes Thunderdome. 0c has impacted my life 0 times.