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Originally Posted by ekbell
I can never remember the lower end of the Fahrenheit scale (ie freezing point) and always have to look up temperatures when Americans complain about being cold. And then I wonder how that temperature could be considered cold, 'over here that would be considered sweater weather!'. (my twelve year old son considers any temperature approaching the freezing point sweater weather. Sunny, still and -5C included.)  |
Shorts weather!
In the kitchen, I use metric when I can (grams/kilos/millilitres/litres), and have done most of the work to convert my old recipes to metric weights v. cups and Tablespoons. But I still use F. for the oven. Which I suppose is an improvement over the UK's Gas Mark, which is just plain odd.
For smaller measurements of distance, I'm as likely to use inches and fractions as centimetres. Old habits. And when I'm buying stuff in the store, I'm still trying to convert to $/pound.
But the one that I really can't get my head around is the L/100 km. That just is
wrong. The better your 'mileage', the lower the number. Hunh?