I checked for others who, like me, are too European to understand the joke: 50°F is 10°C.
A nice swedish summer evening (if it isnt raining).
Why wasn't I born in Sweden 😭.
That's just about perfect if you ask me.
You mean too rest of the world
Perfect for me would be more around 20°C
Ah, 10 is fine...
You mean to say that 50 °F is (approximately) 283 Kelvin, right? ;P
Shorts weather that one
Thanks bro I was about to ask
50 is pretty nice what are you on about
Yeah, I'm not going to the beach at 50F, but I can hike, golf, just hang out outdoors, etc. If it's sunny 50F can even feel rather warm.
Perfect running weather.
I don't touch a jacket until 40, 50 is perfect.
That's peak hoodie and jeans weather. Literally perfect.
Fahrenheit is like school grades: 60 is minimum tolerance and beyond 100 adds nothing but misery.
That's not how school grades work were I live but I guess I now understand Fahrenheit
With school grades, when you get >100, you get bullied by your peers
Anything past 85F adds nothing but misery.
About 30C to the people who use real units
Is it bad that this association exists in my mind because of a Kids Next Door joke?
Hell yeah C's get degrees while perfect A students tend to burn up in the world
I'd say 50 is perfect
This guy fats
I diagnose you with "weak, non-Finnish blood."
Put a coat on, loser
Found the Canadian
Between 50 and 63 I'm in heaven. Anything higher than that and all i want to do is go swimming, which as an adult with responsibilities, i never get to.
Anything lower than that, and i have to wear more clothes and look fatter than i am.
What the fuck, aren't most buildings kept at 72? How do you exist anywhere except in a walk in fridge?
I never said i got these temperatures. I just said I'm uncomfortable otherwise.
64-68 °F is fairly standard here. No more than 68. (18-20 °C)
Not to defend Fahrenheit, it's a nonsense scale, however: As with most subjective scales the entire scale can be split into good and not good. The top part is good and the bottom part is not good. The middle of the top part is seen as average good.
So around 75 degrees would be perfect, which is close enough for something as subjective as temperature.
This is why in things like movie or game reviews a 7/10 is seen as average. Like it's good, in the good part, but right in the middle not anything special. A 5/10 or lower is seen as not good, not worth seeing, not worth your time etc. This works for reviews, grades, person attractiveness rating etc.
Yet, Temperature is not a nonlinear star-rating by IGN, is it?
Are you saying global warming is actually caused by the bias of IGN reviewers?
The flooding of Amsterdam was really epic, 10/10 IGN
Can you prove that?
Why not? Most people only meaningfully engage with temperature scales when checking weather forecasts. It's all pretty subjective.
If course there's a need for Celsius or Kelvin in scientific applications, but that's not for the overwhelming majority of people.
75 perfect?
Well at least you have the right attitude the way our climate is headed
i appreciate your level headed analysis
this meme also works in Celsius.
0°C is not very cold... chilly maybe.
I mean, it's literally freezing.
Yes it is, but that's not very cold.
It is actually, literally freezing, then again temperature feeling is a bit relative. Anything under 20 is chilly to me.
steals your clothes and now?
I put on my robe and wizard hat.
I'm in Winnipeg. I saw an old buddy today grabbing some beer wearing shorts and a t shirt. He walked past the cars when we left, I assume he was walking home.
It was -4c today. My kid took his gloves and jacket off at the park. He's 2. We were there for over an hour.
It's not really cold around 0c. It's definitely manageable if you're moving around.
I steal them back 🤷.
It can be much more freezing than that.
People have no idea what -25°C feels like...
I was on holiday at Disneyland Paris at 14 in December or January one year and it was -14/15 °C and it was the coldest place I've been and it definitely felt like it. I'm from Ireland for reference so winters are pretty mild here.
-40°C and -40°F is where I take the kiddos outside with a cup of boiling water and let them make snow.
Depending on where you live, going below freezing, even down towards 0F (-18C), is common. I'd say things don't go into "too cold to go out" territory until the single digits for me.
If you score 100 on a test then that's a perfect, therefore 100 is the perfect temperature.
And if you score 51 you pass, so 51 is the passing temperature.
💯
In Phoenix, can confirm, 100°F dry heat is pretty awesome
Don't impose your imperialistic temperature views on the rest of us! Leave us cold lovers alone!
50 is indeed perfect.
And you get the throphy my man 👍👍👍.
NGL I could be jogging outside at windless 50 degrees everyday. That would be a dream compared to my current life in the hell that is the 47th Latitude Great Plains Region.
50 degrees Fahrenheit
Unless you are literally a demon
Quite the opposite, I think anything above 28 C would kill me in a day or two.
I'm Mister White Christmas, I'm Mister Snow.
I'm Mister Icicle; I'm Mister Ten below.
Friends call me Snow Miser, whatever I touch,
turns to snow in my clutch.
I'm too much.
Dont kink shame
Fahrenheit is the best human-focused temperature scale. 0 is super cold, 100 is super hot, 50 is the line between short sleeve and long sleeve weather (assuming no wind). Anything outside these bounds, it simply isn't worth going outside. But then everyone at a latitude <|37|° will say "that's not that hot" and everyone at a latitude >|40|° will say "that's not that cold," so really it's the best Kansas-focused temperature scale
Because weather is simple, right?
“It’s snowing so climate change can’t be real!”
Look, you're entitled to your opinion but I think it's a bit Kansocentric.
"the perfect scale"
Proceeds to list completely arbitrary temperatures and link them to completely subjective opinions
I can make all the same points about celsius with the added bonus of 0 and 100 being universally applicable and objectively measured
0 freezing
10 cool
20 room temperature
30 hot
40 very hot
Yeah I guess I agree, 0 to 40 makes much more sense in the context of temperatures humans typically exist in than 0 to 100
"It's the best scale if you happen to live in the perfect conditions for it"
That last sentence was a largely facetious, poking fun at people who live in areas where it can get colder than 0° in winter or hotter than 100° in summer, who have a habit of telling other people that the extremes aren't that extreme. In reality the fahrenheit scale is pretty useful the world around, barring deserts
I'm sure it's useful, but it's not really any better is what I mean
Most useful, or as some would say, best
It's neither though. It's not any more useful than Celsius, I'm sorry to say
Inb4 nonlinear temperature scale
It's the only way this meme makes sense. It's a complaint that humans don't like the average of the temperates that produce the feelings of extreme hot and extreme cold. You'd have to change math, change physiology, or lose linearity.
Nonlinear measures are used for
Brightness of lights
Loudness of noises
Magnitude of earthquakes
Why not temperature?
None of those scales have negative scalars.
Actually, earthquake magnitude can be projected to negative numbers. It's well defined but it stops describing earthquakes. For instance, a -3 magnitude earthquake is the energy released by a cat knocking your cell phone off of a nightstand. (see page 290 of this book). Pretty sure the others are also logarithmic scales which are well-defined for any negative number. It just so happens that those negative numbers don't describe anything we care to describe with those scales.
That negative number comes from taking a logarithm of a number less than one. Not from a negative scalar.
Hell yeah, 50 degrees is tee shirt and shorts weather IMHO.
after i moved from the southwest to the pacific northwest and got baptized by the snow for nearly half the year.. i very much agree
We could make it work like that. Just have the thermometer be narrower at the bottom.
That's going to add a lot to simplicity and ease of understanding, for sure. And don't change the name of the scale or it will be too easy to distinguish them
There are many people (particularly in northern regions) who would consider 50° to be quite mild/pleasant
New Englander born and raised. Thats hoodie and shorts weather. Best time of the year.
Same for c, but at half the scale tbh. (with a bit of a stretch to the imagination)
50 is very hot. 0 is cold. 25c is perfect.
25c is literally cock and ball torture what are ya on about. Then again I'm an Irish guy who hasn't left my country in nearly a decade so I don't even know what more than 25c feels like
25°C is 77°F; context for any Americans here.
It was 30c at midnight here last night
Same here in QLD, Australia
I'm Brazilian and, although I'm not in the hottest area, summer easily hits 40°C, so yeah, 25°C is not perfect, that would be 20°C, but is pretty good still
I'm Canadian and I agree. 25 c is the edge of what's bearable but closer to 20 c is better.
Hello, you, who walks the fiery path. I much prefer my 18, thanks.
Move to Saskatchewan if you want hell both ways, summers in the 40s and winters in the -50s. YAY
25C is the point where I start feeling sleepy because it's so warm.
If you think 25C is optimal then I'm curious as to what your "comfy sleeping temperature" is?
15-20 °C is ideal for me. Above 22-23 it starts being too warm. Below 10 I have to start wearing a sweater, which I dislike.
As a person from the north, it really is.
50f is pretty comfy unless you hate long sleeves or are super sensitive to it being slightly cold.
Shivers in Texan
50 is great for just a light jacket and jeans. You'll never get too hot, you won't get too cold. So, yeah, as long as you've got clothes on it's pretty perfect.
If I want to wear less clothes then 70 is a good bit better, but 50 is damn comfortable.
Why would 50 be perfect? 50 is fully dressed in regular clothes. You can wear a jacket. You can wear a heavy sweater or a blazer.
Is a 5/10 average? Or is that 7/10?
5/7 is perfect
with rice
So are we saying that Celsius isn't intuitive either? 50C isn't perfect after all.
if you're a duck
144 degrees is very hot. 0 is very cold. 72 is perfect. Fixed it.
Related, but how is it that our normal body temperature is just below the point where water boils? That's counterintuitive.
Body temp is 98.6° Farenheit. Water boils at 212° F, if I recall correctly. That's 100° Celsius.
Haha I'm dumb.
Uh.
50° is fucking perfect.
I love low to mid 50's. Yes I am white and overweight, no further follow-up questions, please.
50°C is very hot. 0°C is very cold. 25°C is perfect.
That almost works but 50c is a but quite a bit higher than very hot, 25c is 5c over perfect, and 0c is just regular cold.
I guess temperature relative to comfort level is subjective.
I guess that might be what I was poking fun about.
Weirdly how that works much better lol
50s is my perfect outdoor temperature range tbh.
I would argue that 50 f is closer to ideal than the mid point of any other temperature scale...
It's the perfect temperature for brine though
Depends on a brine. If it's for raw meat, I'd lower it to 4°C. If it's for vegetable fermentation, I'd bump it over 16°C. Actually I don't know what 50F is good for. It's 10°C, just a miserable temperature.
But if you were a brine solution, you'd be feeling great at 50°F
I don't have an imagination.
I had to look it up but the perfect temperature is 23F
I love a 50
Is 50% on the heat in the shower perfect?
50F is perfect tho
My brain rejects the very concept of Fahrenheit. Every American I've met has tried to tell me, "Oh, conversion is easy. All you have to do is grok calculus!" Fuck that noise
and then they just start fucking, in the grass, presumably
gringo coping.
Honestly people who insist on using Celsius for their daily lives rather than just for science have way more comfort than me having to deal with fractions of a degree on a regular basis. But I guess that's the point of metric, dealing with precise decimels constantly rather than just having a unit conveniently sized for the thing you're doing.
No one cares about fractions of Celsius, in my experience
I checked for others who, like me, are too European to understand the joke: 50°F is 10°C.
A nice swedish summer evening (if it isnt raining).
Why wasn't I born in Sweden 😭.
That's just about perfect if you ask me.
You mean too rest of the world
Perfect for me would be more around 20°C
Ah, 10 is fine...
You mean to say that 50 °F is (approximately) 283 Kelvin, right? ;P
Shorts weather that one
Thanks bro I was about to ask
50 is pretty nice what are you on about
Yeah, I'm not going to the beach at 50F, but I can hike, golf, just hang out outdoors, etc. If it's sunny 50F can even feel rather warm.
Perfect running weather.
I don't touch a jacket until 40, 50 is perfect.
That's peak hoodie and jeans weather. Literally perfect.
Fahrenheit is like school grades: 60 is minimum tolerance and beyond 100 adds nothing but misery.
That's not how school grades work were I live but I guess I now understand Fahrenheit
With school grades, when you get >100, you get bullied by your peers
Anything past 85F adds nothing but misery.
About 30C to the people who use real units
Is it bad that this association exists in my mind because of a Kids Next Door joke?
Hell yeah C's get degrees while perfect A students tend to burn up in the world
I'd say 50 is perfect
This guy fats
I diagnose you with "weak, non-Finnish blood."
Put a coat on, loser
Found the Canadian
Between 50 and 63 I'm in heaven. Anything higher than that and all i want to do is go swimming, which as an adult with responsibilities, i never get to. Anything lower than that, and i have to wear more clothes and look fatter than i am.
What the fuck, aren't most buildings kept at 72? How do you exist anywhere except in a walk in fridge?
I never said i got these temperatures. I just said I'm uncomfortable otherwise.
64-68 °F is fairly standard here. No more than 68. (18-20 °C)
I agree in Midwestern as I put on my shorts and tshirt (I'm not fat, BTW... you just sort of get used to those balmy 50° days)
As a former Midwesterner (grew up there and lived there for 26 years), I never got used to the cold so I eventually moved South.
But turns out now I get cold at anything below 70F lol.
Exactly! 👍
Not to defend Fahrenheit, it's a nonsense scale, however: As with most subjective scales the entire scale can be split into good and not good. The top part is good and the bottom part is not good. The middle of the top part is seen as average good.
So around 75 degrees would be perfect, which is close enough for something as subjective as temperature.
This is why in things like movie or game reviews a 7/10 is seen as average. Like it's good, in the good part, but right in the middle not anything special. A 5/10 or lower is seen as not good, not worth seeing, not worth your time etc. This works for reviews, grades, person attractiveness rating etc.
Yet, Temperature is not a nonlinear star-rating by IGN, is it?
Are you saying global warming is actually caused by the bias of IGN reviewers?
The flooding of Amsterdam was really epic, 10/10 IGN
Can you prove that?
Why not? Most people only meaningfully engage with temperature scales when checking weather forecasts. It's all pretty subjective.
If course there's a need for Celsius or Kelvin in scientific applications, but that's not for the overwhelming majority of people.
75 perfect?
Well at least you have the right attitude the way our climate is headed
i appreciate your level headed analysis
this meme also works in Celsius.
0°C is not very cold... chilly maybe.
I mean, it's literally freezing.
Yes it is, but that's not very cold.
It is actually, literally freezing, then again temperature feeling is a bit relative. Anything under 20 is chilly to me.
steals your clothes and now?
I put on my robe and wizard hat.
I'm in Winnipeg. I saw an old buddy today grabbing some beer wearing shorts and a t shirt. He walked past the cars when we left, I assume he was walking home.
It was -4c today. My kid took his gloves and jacket off at the park. He's 2. We were there for over an hour.
It's not really cold around 0c. It's definitely manageable if you're moving around.
I steal them back 🤷.
It can be much more freezing than that.
People have no idea what -25°C feels like...
I was on holiday at Disneyland Paris at 14 in December or January one year and it was -14/15 °C and it was the coldest place I've been and it definitely felt like it. I'm from Ireland for reference so winters are pretty mild here.
-40°C and -40°F is where I take the kiddos outside with a cup of boiling water and let them make snow.
lol 🤣
Depending on where you live, going below freezing, even down towards 0F (-18C), is common. I'd say things don't go into "too cold to go out" territory until the single digits for me.
Tbh all I care about with wether temp is wether it's possible to snow or not. So on that front Celsius is quite intuitive and useful.
1 or 2 to about 5°C is snowing temperature. Yes, I agree, quite intuitive.
I like the snow. I like cold, in general. I hate summers, I'm always too hot and sweaty.
45 is very hot, 0 is very cold, 22.5 is ok
Ok is -273.15 C.
Nice.
22.5 is about the point where it starts being too warm
In a few years, with global warming on the rise, we may be saying that 50C isn't that hot.
FML
Fuck, you're right
Very hot in Celsius is like.. in the 30s. At 100C you'd be dead.
If you score 100 on a test then that's a perfect, therefore 100 is the perfect temperature.
And if you score 51 you pass, so 51 is the passing temperature.
💯
In Phoenix, can confirm, 100°F dry heat is pretty awesome
Don't impose your imperialistic temperature views on the rest of us! Leave us cold lovers alone!
50 is indeed perfect.
And you get the throphy my man 👍👍👍.
NGL I could be jogging outside at windless 50 degrees everyday. That would be a dream compared to my current life in the hell that is the 47th Latitude Great Plains Region.
50 degrees Fahrenheit
Unless you are literally a demon
Quite the opposite, I think anything above 28 C would kill me in a day or two.
I'm Mister White Christmas, I'm Mister Snow.
I'm Mister Icicle; I'm Mister Ten below.
Friends call me Snow Miser, whatever I touch,
turns to snow in my clutch.
I'm too much.
Dont kink shame
Fahrenheit is the best human-focused temperature scale. 0 is super cold, 100 is super hot, 50 is the line between short sleeve and long sleeve weather (assuming no wind). Anything outside these bounds, it simply isn't worth going outside. But then everyone at a latitude <|37|° will say "that's not that hot" and everyone at a latitude >|40|° will say "that's not that cold," so really it's the best Kansas-focused temperature scale
Because weather is simple, right?
“It’s snowing so climate change can’t be real!”
Look, you're entitled to your opinion but I think it's a bit Kansocentric.
"the perfect scale"
Proceeds to list completely arbitrary temperatures and link them to completely subjective opinions
I can make all the same points about celsius with the added bonus of 0 and 100 being universally applicable and objectively measured
Yeah I guess I agree, 0 to 40 makes much more sense in the context of temperatures humans typically exist in than 0 to 100
"It's the best scale if you happen to live in the perfect conditions for it"
That last sentence was a largely facetious, poking fun at people who live in areas where it can get colder than 0° in winter or hotter than 100° in summer, who have a habit of telling other people that the extremes aren't that extreme. In reality the fahrenheit scale is pretty useful the world around, barring deserts
I'm sure it's useful, but it's not really any better is what I mean
Most useful, or as some would say, best
It's neither though. It's not any more useful than Celsius, I'm sorry to say
Inb4 nonlinear temperature scale
It's the only way this meme makes sense. It's a complaint that humans don't like the average of the temperates that produce the feelings of extreme hot and extreme cold. You'd have to change math, change physiology, or lose linearity.
Nonlinear measures are used for
Why not temperature?
None of those scales have negative scalars.
Actually, earthquake magnitude can be projected to negative numbers. It's well defined but it stops describing earthquakes. For instance, a -3 magnitude earthquake is the energy released by a cat knocking your cell phone off of a nightstand. (see page 290 of this book). Pretty sure the others are also logarithmic scales which are well-defined for any negative number. It just so happens that those negative numbers don't describe anything we care to describe with those scales.
That negative number comes from taking a logarithm of a number less than one. Not from a negative scalar.
Hell yeah, 50 degrees is tee shirt and shorts weather IMHO.
after i moved from the southwest to the pacific northwest and got baptized by the snow for nearly half the year.. i very much agree
We could make it work like that. Just have the thermometer be narrower at the bottom.
That's going to add a lot to simplicity and ease of understanding, for sure. And don't change the name of the scale or it will be too easy to distinguish them
There are many people (particularly in northern regions) who would consider 50° to be quite mild/pleasant
New Englander born and raised. Thats hoodie and shorts weather. Best time of the year.
Same for c, but at half the scale tbh. (with a bit of a stretch to the imagination)
50 is very hot. 0 is cold. 25c is perfect.
25c is literally cock and ball torture what are ya on about. Then again I'm an Irish guy who hasn't left my country in nearly a decade so I don't even know what more than 25c feels like
25°C is 77°F; context for any Americans here.
It was 30c at midnight here last night
Same here in QLD, Australia
I'm Brazilian and, although I'm not in the hottest area, summer easily hits 40°C, so yeah, 25°C is not perfect, that would be 20°C, but is pretty good still
I'm Canadian and I agree. 25 c is the edge of what's bearable but closer to 20 c is better.
Hello, you, who walks the fiery path. I much prefer my 18, thanks.
Move to Saskatchewan if you want hell both ways, summers in the 40s and winters in the -50s. YAY
25C is the point where I start feeling sleepy because it's so warm.
If you think 25C is optimal then I'm curious as to what your "comfy sleeping temperature" is?
15-20 °C is ideal for me. Above 22-23 it starts being too warm. Below 10 I have to start wearing a sweater, which I dislike.
As a person from the north, it really is.
50f is pretty comfy unless you hate long sleeves or are super sensitive to it being slightly cold.
Shivers in Texan
50 is great for just a light jacket and jeans. You'll never get too hot, you won't get too cold. So, yeah, as long as you've got clothes on it's pretty perfect.
If I want to wear less clothes then 70 is a good bit better, but 50 is damn comfortable.
Why would 50 be perfect? 50 is fully dressed in regular clothes. You can wear a jacket. You can wear a heavy sweater or a blazer.
Is a 5/10 average? Or is that 7/10?
5/7 is perfect
with rice
So are we saying that Celsius isn't intuitive either? 50C isn't perfect after all.
if you're a duck
144 degrees is very hot. 0 is very cold. 72 is perfect. Fixed it.
Related, but how is it that our normal body temperature is just below the point where water boils? That's counterintuitive.
Body temp is 98.6° Farenheit. Water boils at 212° F, if I recall correctly. That's 100° Celsius.
Haha I'm dumb.
Uh.
50° is fucking perfect.
I love low to mid 50's. Yes I am white and overweight, no further follow-up questions, please.
50°C is very hot. 0°C is very cold. 25°C is perfect.
That almost works but 50c is a but quite a bit higher than very hot, 25c is 5c over perfect, and 0c is just regular cold.
I guess temperature relative to comfort level is subjective.
I guess that might be what I was poking fun about.
Weirdly how that works much better lol
50s is my perfect outdoor temperature range tbh.
I would argue that 50 f is closer to ideal than the mid point of any other temperature scale...
It's the perfect temperature for brine though
Depends on a brine. If it's for raw meat, I'd lower it to 4°C. If it's for vegetable fermentation, I'd bump it over 16°C. Actually I don't know what 50F is good for. It's 10°C, just a miserable temperature.
But if you were a brine solution, you'd be feeling great at 50°F
I don't have an imagination.
I had to look it up but the perfect temperature is 23F
I love a 50
Is 50% on the heat in the shower perfect?
50F is perfect tho
My brain rejects the very concept of Fahrenheit. Every American I've met has tried to tell me, "Oh, conversion is easy. All you have to do is grok calculus!" Fuck that noise
and then they just start fucking, in the grass, presumably
gringo coping.
Honestly people who insist on using Celsius for their daily lives rather than just for science have way more comfort than me having to deal with fractions of a degree on a regular basis. But I guess that's the point of metric, dealing with precise decimels constantly rather than just having a unit conveniently sized for the thing you're doing.
No one cares about fractions of Celsius, in my experience
Me when my house is 20.462c instead of 20.463c: 😡🤬🥶
Does anyone feel the difference of 1°C?