# Canada and the Metric System **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 19, 2021, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-and-the-metric-system/938264 "2021-03-19T23:13:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-and-the-metric-system/938264/121 "2021-05-12T18:16:03Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > Well, if you had internalized the F system you’d use slightly different points that didn’t seem so random So true ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-and-the-metric-system/938264/122 "2021-05-12T18:16:07Z")
Stay inside at -20? Why? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-and-the-metric-system/938264/123 "2021-05-12T18:17:23Z")
I’m a whiner. I start whining at that temp (not if its snowing out but -20 plus wind chill and I no likes.) ---
**Author:** ![Acierocolotl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acierocolotl/32/6241_2.png) [@Acierocolotl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acierocolotl)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-and-the-metric-system/938264/124 "2021-05-12T18:35:55Z")
I need to add a bit of Quebecois culture to this: (It’s kind of rough-sounding punk, so you probably don’t want to play it.) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/2iX7o_589yY/hqdefault.jpg "Overbass - Moins 60 avec les vents") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iX7o_589yY) Moins soixante avec les vents. Signs that it’s -60 (with windchill): Snowmen have moved indoors, the squeegee punks aren’t at work, and even the pigeons have effed off. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-and-the-metric-system/938264/125 "2021-05-12T21:00:35Z")
> [@minor7flat5](#): > > For warmer regions, 40C is a bit of key temp, meaning “Blistering Hot”. > Kind of like how we say “It’s over a hundred” for our hottest days in the States. For warmer regions like Dubai, 40C is a key temperature meaning “average daily high” during the summer. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2021, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-and-the-metric-system/938264/126 "2021-05-18T08:37:13Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > When Canada switched our morning show host came out with: > > 0 is freezing > 10 is not > 20 is pleasing > 30 is hot Interesting! On this board I learned an inverse rhyme at some point: 30 is hot 20 is nice 10’s getting cold 0 is ice ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2021, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-and-the-metric-system/938264/127 "2021-05-18T18:07:51Z")
Some cable guys came by my house today to replace an underground line. I asked them how deep they needed to dig and they replied “six inches”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-and-the-metric-system/938264.md?page=6)