C has a sensible zero and 100, given how important water is to life. F is fucking stupid in every respect. K has a great zero but basing the increments on C just made it derivative. C wins.
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If rough-and-ready is good enough then the zero of C will do. But for repeatable accurate work it wonât. Who the fuck knows what Vienna Standard Mean Ocean Water is ? And Iâll bet most people think 0C is the freezing point of that water, when âof courseâ itâs actually the triple point. Iâve also just learned that since 1954 the degree C and K has been defined in terms of 0K and the triple point of VSMOW.
I reckon C went one up early on in the first half but K pulled them back after the break and slotted two more home as the amateursâ fitness faded 
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Flouncy cat bloke had a pint of that in the drinkies thread IIRC.
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For everyday use it makes more sense than F. I couldnât even tell you what zero in F is related to. At least with C you know that zero is freezing point of water and 100 is itâs boiling point.
Ps, just read the rest of the thread, even more convinced that F is as shite as I thought it was.
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Me too. Itâs just handy that
40F is Cold out
50F is Youâll be all right with a jacket
60F is Nice
70F is Nice and Hot
80F is Too Hot, really
90F is Oh, FFS âŚ
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I was raised on C. C makes sense to me.
It was 42C the day I was born and is fucking hot.
Whereas 107 F just has more numbers. Meaningless.
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The readership would stop buying it immediately as they probably used to feed a family of four for a week on that!
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You can do the same with C, just need to go in fives.
I was raised on F but have totally moved to C now.
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Filled that survey in and ticked the box for both systems to be used in butchers as Iâm used to ordering gammon joints in pounds.
The real purpose of Brexit. Economic areas outside of state control/regulation with P&O style employment conditions, rights & pay & if local residents donât like it theyâll have to move out of the area.
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Economic areas where people have fewer rights, preferably stuffed with Asian migrants from HK? Thatâs apartheid pure and simple. I canât imagine that the British people will entertain such a notion. Itâs not âfair playâ in anyoneâs book. Itâs just not British.
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Its British if you canât see it. Child labour making trainers and clothes, exploited locals near oil, gas and mining sites, environmental disasters for resource mining and ârecyclingâ. We and the west have outsourced all the nasty stuff for years and no-one really gives a shit because we donât have to see it.
There are sweat shops in Leicester making clothes, but because most of them are poor indian workers we donât see, there is no fuss and it just keeps going on.
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When the EU announced a clamp down on tax havens, corporate tax invasion etc in 2015 (Had been brewing a while)
Pressure from the City (Specialists in such chicanery) - See
Must have been immense to do what ever it takes to protect itâs havens and interests (and those of the USA.)
The bottom line is Money and power. Nothing new - Nothing changes.
Jebus overthrew the tables of the money changers, and their seats, And said unto them. My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
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And we had the referendum in 2016⌠what a shock
Our local MP spends most of his time in the Caribbean enabling this chicanery.
The Caymans do have an inviting climate.
The City make the Mafia look like delinquents at a bus stop.
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Incredible the influence a fucking little shit stain like Nigel Farage has had on this country.
People are screaming âthe emperor has no clothes onâ and still they canât countenance even rejoining the SM.
Had us all right off.
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