SNOW!

[Anne]

We call soccer soccer, but that's because we already a game called football ontop of rugby.

[Sofia]

Aussie rules is scary. So is rugby.

[Monkey]

I much prefer Celsius and the metric system... and I disregard football as a sport so I soccer is actually what comes to mind when I hear the word. xDD

[Mel]

xD I don't understand American football or rugby.

[Sorie]

I guess Fahrenheit is just more fun over here, because then we can be all "it got into triple digits this summer DD:" and get away with it. In Celsius, it'd only be like... 70s? Which doesn't sound nearly as cool.

As for the whole football/soccer thing, I don't really care for either, or any sport that requires excessive running for that matter.

[Anne]

Sorie, if we went into the 70s of C we would all be dead xD

70ºC = 158ºF

I believe the highest Australia has gone in modernish histry was something like 46ºC (114.8ºF) and HEAPS of people died.

[Monkey]

I like Celsius for the opposite reason. When it's in the 20s Fahrenheit it's way below zero Celsius, so it sounds much more awesome.

[Anne]

I like that our freezing point is at 0ºC. It seems silly that your freezing isn't a sub temperature but a whole number o.o

[Jo]

*Doesn't want to comment on anything related to the idiocity of America for fear of insulting/losing friends/other*

And once I start you will never stop me.

[Anne]

Jo is the most tolerant person I know

[Jo]

Never have truer words been spoken!

[Ice]

Nov 27, 2008 13:07:16 GMT -5 Anne said:

I like that our freezing point is at 0ºC. It seems silly that your freezing isn't a sub temperature but a whole number o.o

Well, it is a whole number... just a postive one. ;D But I believe Fahrenheit is defined by the freezing/melting point of another substance besides water.

Aha!

According to Fahrenheit himself in an article he wrote in 1724,[1] he determined his scale by reference to three fixed points of temperature. The zero point is determined by placing the thermometer in a mixture of ice, water, and ammonium chloride, a salt. This is a type of frigorific mixture. The mixture automatically stabilizes its temperature at 0 °F. He then put an alcohol or mercury thermometer into the mixture and let the liquid in the thermometer descend to its lowest point. The second point is the 32nd degree found by putting the thermometer in still water as ice is just forming on the surface.[2] His third point, the 96th degree, was the level of the liquid in the thermometer when held in the mouth or under the armpit. Fahrenheit noted that, using this scale, mercury boils at around 600 degrees. --Wikipedia

Still somewhat arbitrary, though. XD

[Anne]

I skimmed over the first sentence but got bored. Your sciences and reason for said sciences are of no concern to me, for I am the uneducated masses and I shall, and will, hate things regardless of their purpose, the idea behind their design or any other "logical" mumbo-jumbo witchcraft formulas that may make your foreign ideas more sensible then what I believe is better.

Which it is.

[Jo]

*Giggles and nods in agreement with Anne*