someone is being wrong on the tv

[arduinna]

I am idly watching an old documentary show that involves some people who had to ditch into the North Sea, and the narrator has just earnestly and intently explained that "for a person in the water, hypothermia can begin when the temperatures of air and water added together is below 50 degrees Centigrade."

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This is not an American show, and the narrator is definitely not American. So you would think he would have noticed how nonsensical that is.

(He does go on to say, quite accurately, that in the North Sea in winter, the temperature is far below that. I would be willing to go even further and say that the temperature of the North Sea is far below 122F even in the hottest days of summer.)

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Comments

[klia]

I've never been able to convert celsius to fahrenheit in my head, but always remember the lyrics in Beds Are Burning, "The the western desert lives and breathes in 45 degrees," so even I'd know that was... nonsensical. Mistakes like that make you go hmmm about the whole production.

I also haven't seen or heard it called centigrade for decades.

(Hi!)

[dorinda]

Just had to say HI to your icon! <3____<3

[klia]

I love and miss those two, and am still sad our vid kind of fell off a cliff. ;__;

I love your icon, too!

[arduinna]

I basically have "20-25C is 70s" carved in stone in my brain so I at least have a clue if I need a coat. It falls apart with the single digits, though, which always read "zomg freezing cold" to me, even though technically they just mean "yeah, kinda chilly".

And yeah, the "centigrade" was just weird all around - but the show is literally 20 years old, so at least it fits!

[klia]

As a kid, I swam in Lake Michigan (in a 2-pc bathing suit) quite a bit, and it's pretty much always cold, and the lakefront chilly, so I guess I should consider myself lucky I never got hypothermic?