Fahrenheit or Celsius... which do you use?

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Which do you use? Fahrenheit or Celsius... and why?

Just that a pizza reheat thing told me in F, but who the hell uses that?!
 
Celsius, i don't think i've ever owned a device that only works via Fahrenheit, certainly had many that only have Celsius readings (cookers etc).
 
Celsius. Fahrenheit is a useless scale.

I'd be quite happy to see the whole country metricated just to wind up all those mail readers who whinge about EU this and that :)
 
Celsius. Fahrenheit if its a special occasion, but not too much, it can be a bit overpowering if you use too much.
 
Celsius or Kelvin are the only temperature measurements I recognise, due to their relation of magnitude.

Kelvin is the international standard. Fahrenheit was the first defined scale.
 
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Ok, I have a bizarre personal system.

For the weather: for low temperatures (say 10c or below) I use Celsius, but for high temperatures (above 70ishF) I use Fahrenheit. If it's hot and someone says it's 26C, I have to convert to Fahrenheit to make it fit my frame of reference. Vice-versa with low temperatures. I guess I ignore temperatures in between - or at least I don't talk or hear about them. I don't know. :)

I think this originated because when I was on holiday when I was young I always heard/talked about the temperature in Fahrenheit, so that's how my frame of reference got formed for hot temperatures, and it's stuck.

For cooking, PC component temps, and anything else, I use Celsius.
 
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