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**Kimmitmelvirm** · 10-30-2009, 06:35 PM

It gets more confusing in the UK where they tend to use one scale when its hot and the other when its cold(dont ask me which way round it is)

edit: a gallon in the UK is 4.somthing liters

That's not entirely true

It's media sensationalism.... the highest temperature EVER recorded in the UK is 38.5c (101.3F) so in the summer, when we are very lucky to see a temperature above 30c (86F), the papers will start their usual summer scaremongering and switch to F as it looks closer to 100 in print.... which everyone would usually associate with boiling point, therefore: "WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE, PANIC PANIC PANIC!".

Weather forecasts and people who are not total cretins stick with one measurement all the time.

Having said that we are a bit of an odd one as a country. Celcius for temperature, Miles for distance, Pints & Gallons for Beer & Milk, Litres for petrol and everything else. Kilo's for weight, Stones, Pounds & Ounces for weight of people, etc.... Don't think we've quite made up our minds yet

10-30-2009, 06:35 PM	#13
Kimmitmelvirm Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 416 Senior Member	It gets more confusing in the UK where they tend to use one scale when its hot and the other when its cold(dont ask me which way round it is) edit: a gallon in the UK is 4.somthing liters That's not entirely true It's media sensationalism.... the highest temperature EVER recorded in the UK is 38.5c (101.3F) so in the summer, when we are very lucky to see a temperature above 30c (86F), the papers will start their usual summer scaremongering and switch to F as it looks closer to 100 in print.... which everyone would usually associate with boiling point, therefore: "WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE, PANIC PANIC PANIC!". Weather forecasts and people who are not total cretins stick with one measurement all the time. Having said that we are a bit of an odd one as a country. Celcius for temperature, Miles for distance, Pints & Gallons for Beer & Milk, Litres for petrol and everything else. Kilo's for weight, Stones, Pounds & Ounces for weight of people, etc.... Don't think we've quite made up our minds yet
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