The Celsius-Fahrenheit System

I live in the UK, and went on a date with an American once who thought the Celsius and Fahrenheit systems were the same thing. I think he believed Fahrenheit just meant hot, and Celsius just meant cold. I never really pushed him to explain the massive jump from the mid 50s in Fahrenheit to 0 in Celsius.

I assumed he had just never thought about it. I’ve learned to expect that Americans don’t understand the metric system, but this was a whole new level of dumb. Hopefully, the entire country isn’t like him. Reddit user: Boscoethadog