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We don't get enough snow in the south for people to learn how to drive in it. It's just easier to shut the cities down for a day.

Also, we really don't even get much snow at all here. It's mostly sleet and ice. Snow would be better.

Yeah, the "snow" always melts and becomes a nice sheet of ice in about five minutes.

It gives us an excuse to sit inside and drink mint juleps, though.

While we polish the leaves on the magnolia trees.

59 degrees? That's freaking hot!


Remind me again why you people don't use Celsius?

Because the freezing point of brine and the body temperature of humans is more important to us than freezing/boiling temperatures of that silly substance known as "water".

Because temeratures sound more extreme in F ?


Somewhat on topic: It's long past time we should have had a hard, killing frost iin these here parts, but flowers are still blooming.


Weeeeiirrd.

Edited, Oct 22nd 2011 6:58pm by Bijou

I get real pissy when I get water on the suede

It's pretty damn intuitive if you've grown up with Celsius!

It makes everything heavier!

Edited, Oct 29th 2011 10:22am by Jophiel

I've got the heater on tonight because I live 10 minutes from the sea and my clothes won't dry if I don't put them right over the heater because there's too much moisture in the air.

I would like us to convert to the metric system, since I (generally speaking) understand it more than ours. But this is really one thing I hate about it--using Celsius for practical temperature purposes is just irritating. Okay, to be fair, it's not like it's THAT much worse (I mean, your degrees don't measure too much more on the scale than ours). But like Joph said, if I hear "negative..." I know it's REALLY F*CKING COLD in Farenheit. It was negative on celsius last night here, which was cold, but not cold enough that I was desperate to be bundled in winter clothes. I just walked briskly in my hoodie and was fine. I was certainly cold and wanting my jacket, but it's not like my body was in pain from the temperature like it would be at sub-zero temperatures.

For nearly everything else, though, I prefer metric. Well, I would once I got used to them (something like height or weight have relativistic definitions in my mind that would need to be recreated for metric measurments). But I understand the relation between grams and kilograms, etc.

I won't lie, I can never remember how many quarts to a gallon. The only reason I remember how many pints to a quart is because I worked a job that required me to know it. The fact that we use different units of volume for liquids and dry goods always confused me too. And it's annoying with baking. Sugar, for instance, acts as a liquid in a recipe, but you measure it as a solid. So you need to learn the liquid equivalent of your cups, tablespoons, etc. in order to properly balance a recipe (if you aren't just using one off the net, at least).

So... two cups is one pound!!