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  • So here (and maybe it’s just my family?) I’ve always seen the home thermostat set in F, while the weather outside is strictly C. So like my house is set at 70f but if I were talking about outside I’d use C. Which is funny because the thermostat in F also means nothing to me, I just notch it up or down a few degrees depending on how cold I am in the winter 😂😅


  • Braysl@lemmy.worldtoCanada@lemmy.caHow to measure things like a Canadian?
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    11 months ago

    Ontario checking in, 100% accurate. Actually I would add home temperature (like the thermostat) under F, but body temperature (like checking if you have a fever) under C. Also we’re so used Americans using miles for distance/speed we’ll sometimes use it in idioms ("They ran out of here at 100 miles per hour!”). I never realized this change between measuring systems wasn’t the norm until I started chatting with Europeans.





  • It’s even worse with The Sims. I remember when I was in highschool, and an avid sims 2/3 player, I found this mod that would remove the pixels from the sims when they’re naked. Of course the sims by default had no genitals, and being a hormonal teenager I also downloaded a mod that would fix that issue.

    Because of how modded content for the sims is, a lot of the times the download sites are just link aggregators, so to download a mod you’d be sent to a different site that actually hosted the file. Downloading the naked mod led me down a rabbit hole to a site called sexysims3.com (or something like that) that had just… Every type of sex/porn mods you could think of.

    From giant dongs to incest, it was all there.

    I was pretty horrified and noped out of there pretty quick, and cleared the browser history because it was a shared family computer.