The Off Topic Topic

[Josquius]

Ah remote working.
Today a meeting was interrupted when mid talk a guy said "excuse me a minute, somebody is getting robbed outside my house"

[Sheilbh]

Wut?

Covid: UK town crier championships to be held in silence
By Ben Moore
BBC South

image captionThe British Championships usually take place in public in a host town with up to 100 criers taking part

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-56766202

[Admiral Yi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHn_lLbnm8c

I have no feel for Centigrade, and the actual conversion formula is just to much to run every time Beeb says "it's a balmy -15C today!"

So handy approximation formula.

2 times Centigrade + 30 ~Farenheit.

(Farenheit -30) / 2 ~ Centigrade.

[grumbler]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHn_lLbnm8c

I have no feel for Centigrade, and the actual conversion formula is just to much to run every time Beeb says "it's a balmy -15C today!"

So handy approximation formula.

2 times Centigrade + 30 ~Farenheit.

(Farenheit -30) / 2 ~ Centigrade.

  I'm shocked that you are just now finding this out.

[Tamas]

What's shocking is people still using Fahrenheit. Barbaric.

[The Brain]

As long as people don't bring in wind chill I'm happy.

[Josquius]

Humidity is the true killer. Amplifies British temperatures both ways quite dramatically.

[The Brain]

Knock it off, Hudson.

[Sheilbh]

Humidity is the true killer. Amplifies British temperatures both ways quite dramatically.

"It's not the heat I object to, so much as the humidity."

[garbon]

Humidity is the true killer. Amplifies British temperatures both ways quite dramatically.

"It's not the heat I object to, so much as the humidity."

While I broadly agree, I don't think I could see any Brits regularly handling this:

https://weather.com/weather/tenday/l/Palm+Springs+CA?canonicalCityId=2b7dcde5ee26ebcfc29ebbc1da52d74cf9b763202f8b97421f273cc344b5ba46

[Sheilbh]

I mean it's warm for April - my ideal temperature is around the high 20s/30s with a sea breeze and most of my life is dedicated to finding that location and retiring there ASAP.

But I don't know that I've ever actually experienced dry heat. People talk about it but I've no idea what it's like I don't think

[Richard Hakluyt]

Greece can be surprisingly ok even when the temperature is in the high 30s, wear a hat of course. It is a combination of low humidity, evening breezes off the sea and the built-up environment that takes heat seriously. London gets to be pretty horrible at much lower temperatures.

[Josquius]

420.
I just don't get it.

[Grey Fox]

Which part?

[grumbler]

What's shocking is people still using Fahrenheit. Barbaric.

The real barbarians are those who use "stones" as a measurement of peoples' weight, and those who use "beets" as a term for currency.

Compared to them, Fahrenheit is just a lower rung on the ladder to European Smug Ball of Light status.