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."

...

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.)

(hi!)

Comments

[dorinda]

Toasty!! Hypothermia obviously begins the moment you step into the hot tub.

[arduinna]

See below for sholio and shoshanna's responses! I just managed to completely misunderstand what was being said (because as I told sholio, I clearly really don't grok celsius except in some sort of "... yes, those are numbers, and they mean something..." kind of way.)

All of this is great support for "let's get you out of those wet things!", though. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻