Comments by "Rob Fraser" (@krashd) on "Why America still uses Fahrenheit" video.

  1. By hundreds of millions of people you mean one country that happens to have three hundred million people. Don't make out as if half the world is Celsius and the other Fahrenheit. That's like saying as many people struggle with Zimbabwean as they do with Chinese when they clearly do not. 7 billion people use Celsius, 300 million use Fahrenheit.
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  2. It's not that other nations don't understand fahrenheit it's more likely "why should we?" Only one country uses it, if every nation on Earth adopted English but America decided to create a new language called Flibble we wouldn't be unfamiliar with it because we struggled with it, we'd be unfamiliar because there are better things to do than attend Flibble classes and practice our Flibble. Y'dig?
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  3. The birthplace of the British Empire uses imperial measurements.. well fancy that..
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  4. "Right, nobody cares about oceans.... Nobody at all." Precisely. The temperature at the bottom of the ocean is a number I am less likely to run in to in daily life than the freezing temperature of fresh water at sea level and the boiling of fresh water at tea level. "It's icy, it must be sub-zero." and "It's bubbling, tea is ready" are two phrases I have uttered in my life, maybe more than once. "The Titanic must be chilly" is not something I think I've ever said or written until this moment.
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  5. Do Americans also use stuff like the Wales scale or the double decker bus like we do in the UK? Did you know that Wales is exactly the size of Wales and that if you took just a single double decker bus and multiplied it by two you would have as much weight as two double decker buses? I'm not the best when it comes to football pitches but I'm sure there is 3 or 4 of them to an aircraft carrier but exactly one to a football pitch.
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