how measurements work in canada (ie/ badly)
@/teaboot
This isn't even a joke it's just what we do
@macavitykitsune IS THIS THE WAY YOU LIVE?!
EXTREMELY BOLD OF YOU TO ASSUME I AM SURVIVING THIS BUT YES. YES IT FUCKING IS
Tbh it never registered as odd at all until I tried telling an American friend that something was X hours away
I'm going to be honest, Emi darling, that is the least puzzling part of this chart. XD
Given the spread of our space, I think time makes a reasonable proxy for distance in a way it doesn't in places that are much closer to one another. Telling someone it'll take me 3 hours to get to a city the next state over, or that I have a 14.5 hour drive to visit my mom means a lot more than saying it's x distance away, yanno?
On a personal level, the pool temperature thing is the most baffling apparent-consensus measurement thing. (Cooking instructions these days increasingly come with both Celsius and Fahrenheit, so that's gotten less bizarre at least.)
The pool thing is throwing me for a loop. Are you saying you use different systems to talk about the air outside the pool and the water inside? Surely the point of a knowing a pool’s temperature is to directly compare it to the temperature of the air around it
You would THINK, but apparently liquid temperatures and air temperatures have to be formally segregated. Or something!
