Saturday, August 07, 2021

Thermostat

(via reddit)

5 comments:

WilliamRocket said...

What the ...
They use the European 7 with the line through it but then commit an atrocity by using an archaic, American only, measurement scale !
(American only apart from Myanmar and Liberia, who also still use old English terms for everything)
Just over 23 degrees for people in the OTHER 194 countries.

World wide web indeed.

Bicycle Bill said...

What's the old saying — "When in Rome.... ?"  If they wanted to measure things in degrees Celsius, then they should have stayed in one of those other 194 countries that measure things that way.

And personally, I will use the so-called 'European'-style seven when hand-writing something where there might be confusion between the digit '1' and quickly-scribbled sloppy '7'. I also will, if I think there might be a need, put a 'slash' through a zero to differentiate between 'zero' and the letter 'O'.  So it is not strictly a European thing.

Hillary2024 said...

I'm with Bicycle Bill.

lolarusa said...

That's funny. And it's some of the worst King James grammar I've ever hear.

Miss Cellania said...

It's a Monty Python quote.