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**BypeVupyide** · 06-29-2007, 05:55 AM

Hehe maybe you're thinking of your bag in your shorts...

Shorts are not underwear here. They're what you wear on the beach...

(bloody Americans knackering our language up...)

Ha..I thought you guys went the whole nine and called them "short pants", unless it's a swim suit, which, for some reason, would be called "trunks" here (no, not long-distance calls). In any case, don't get your shorts in a bag *wink*.

(we most commonly call them shorts here, too - it's all a matter of context)

On topic, it's been in the mid-90s (mid to upper 30s for you others) for the last few days with relatively high RH. I woke up this morning and my bedroom was a chilly 80F and I had the covers on. Today the cold front comes through, with some hopefully spectacular storms.

Off topic, what's up with Celsius? It's got half the resolution of Fahrenheit. When measuring environmental temperatures, nothing beats °F. It's based on the coldest days (0°) and the hottest (100°), not some arbitrary water phase thing. I mean, absolute zero (a good starting point for scientific temperature measurement) is -273.15°C - not exactly base-10, eh? I'm ardently for the metric system in all other ways, but Celsius just sucks for temperature measurement.

06-29-2007, 05:55 AM	#14
BypeVupyide Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 410 Senior Member	Hehe maybe you're thinking of your bag in your shorts... Shorts are not underwear here. They're what you wear on the beach... (bloody Americans knackering our language up...) Ha..I thought you guys went the whole nine and called them "short pants", unless it's a swim suit, which, for some reason, would be called "trunks" here (no, not long-distance calls). In any case, don't get your shorts in a bag wink. (we most commonly call them shorts here, too - it's all a matter of context) On topic, it's been in the mid-90s (mid to upper 30s for you others) for the last few days with relatively high RH. I woke up this morning and my bedroom was a chilly 80F and I had the covers on. Today the cold front comes through, with some hopefully spectacular storms. Off topic, what's up with Celsius? It's got half the resolution of Fahrenheit. When measuring environmental temperatures, nothing beats °F. It's based on the coldest days (0°) and the hottest (100°), not some arbitrary water phase thing. I mean, absolute zero (a good starting point for scientific temperature measurement) is -273.15°C - not exactly base-10, eh? I'm ardently for the metric system in all other ways, but Celsius just sucks for temperature measurement.
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