Scottish children

[mtbc]

Here it's currently 49°F with wind and light rain. There's a kid playing outside in t-shirt and shorts. I remember my surprise on first moving to Scotland at seeing kids still wearing thin short-sleeved school shirts at the end of Fall. As a kid I don't think I was ever like that even down in Cornwall.

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[fanf]

I am amused you are still measuring temperatures in foreign currency :-) 49F is about 10C?

[mtbc]

Yes, just under. Mmm, many of my conversations about non-work matters are with people born in the US — i.e. my immediate family! (And the youngest UK-born extended family I talk to the most are in their 60's and 70's — my parents' younger siblings — so also fine outside metric.) Also, since GROGGS dropped below critical mass, more of my non-work online chat is with Americans and even at work in Dundee my usual immediate boss is American and my official boss is too, just now back from California.

Recently my exposure to metric has really just been in helping my children with science homework and in seeing what the Germans say about submarine matters in Das Boot (2018) but that's more distances and pressures and whatnot.

I think in Fahrenheit for this kind of thing partly because with Britain being the only metric-using country I have lived in, my personal experience of temperature ranges is rather narrower in Celsius: in Fahrenheit I have an intuitive sense that extends beyond oceanic climates. I am far better traveled in the US than I am in Europe, partly because when living in the US we tend to have more disposable income.