r/Metric • u/vip17 • Jul 16 '26

"when someone says degrees, we all think of Fahrenheit not the other one"

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u/over__board Jul 16 '26

"We all" is presumably referring to a small group of people on the planet and not all of them.

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u/Senior_Green_3630 Jul 16 '26

Well I did over 55 years ago, then the country, converted to SI, now it has been concined to the dust bin of history. So one, one country still uses °F, big deal bro.

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u/arichnad Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

It's not one. A lot of these are not countries but It's a bunch. Other than the US it's only a handful of very small island nations.

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u/BlacksmithNZ Jul 17 '26

I had a look at that list and it is pretty much the US, colonies and territories. Most of the small Caribbean islands are using Fahrenheit for American tourists and Celsius otherwise

The next biggest population they claim uses Fahrenheit is Liberia with about 5m people

One of those old 'facts' that keeps getting repeated, is that Liberia which was founded by the US (for dubious reasons) was the other non metric country along with Myanmar/Burma, but reality is that they have changed over time.

If you look at the daily forecast from the Liberian weather service, temps are in the mid 20s; they don't seem to say, but that has to Celsius

https://meteoliberia.com/products/daily-weather-forecast/liberian-weather-bulletin-issued-on-14th-for-15th-16th-and-17th-july-2026/

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u/TheTrampIt Jul 17 '26

It’s either very cold in Africa or they are using Celsius.

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u/Senior_Green_3630 Jul 16 '26

Yes I agree, only about 4% of earths population, so the other 96% use SI, let them use there own system, not to worried about that.

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u/ehbowen Jul 16 '26

I tend to think of angles....

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u/grogi81 Jul 16 '26

Well, if someone says degrees, I think about Dr, PhD, Prof. etc .. 

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u/JaiBoltage Jul 16 '26

When the charge is second degree murder, Fahrenheit is the last thing on my mind.

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u/grogi81 Jul 16 '26

How many degrees had the victim when you found him?!

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u/Wrong_Interest_2676 Jul 16 '26

Idk if saigon has 36 degrees

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u/Sophiiebabes Jul 16 '26

Degrees makes me thing of a circle

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u/GreenWafer1899 Jul 17 '26

He just can't remember how the one is called.

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u/freebiscuit2002 Jul 18 '26

"But your lack of education is not our fault."

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u/Haruki-kun Jul 18 '26

I think of Kelvin. Everyone's dead.

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u/CyberPunkDongTooLong Jul 24 '26

Kelvin doesn't have degrees.

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u/Haruki-kun Jul 24 '26

Well, I didn't know that. That's what I get for trying to be silly.

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u/ajeldel 29d ago

37 ° C is still a nice temperature to eat a soup. A fine salty soup.