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Re:The Argument of Twelves and the Metric System by aviation_ on Sunday September 01, 2019 @04:16AM (#20851124)
I don't live in the UK but nearby in Europe. I know a handful of Brits but have never heard them express temperatures in Fahrenheit (and they know I'm American, so if they switched I always figured it would be for my benefit). Is that really true about the hot weather thing?

Just this past week for example, my colleagues were complaining about the 33 degree heat wave, were excited for the weather to drop back down to the 20s on Friday, and were complaining about the random 31 degree heat wave coming on Saturday.

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Re:The Argument of Twelves and the Metric System by Symbiote on Sunday September 01, 2019 @05:11AM (#20851281)
The only times I've heard reference to Fahrenheit in the UK is my grandma in the 1990s, and in tabloid newspapers when the temperature reaches 100°F.

These are the same tabloids that will do anything anti-European they can think of. I don't think it matters that people don't really know what 100°F is.

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