The masochist told the sadist, “Hurt me.”

The sadist said, “No.”

When it comes to Fahrenheit, there is some merit to the idea - 0 to 30 is a small scale compared to 0 to 100, and unlike Imperial vs. Metric, Celcius has no base 10 system that makes any more sense than Fahrenheit does. . The opposite is true of kilometers and miles - kilometers is more refined since each unit is a shorter distance.

I’d prefer the Metric system, but Farenheit over Celcius for temperature measurement.

In this particular instance, the Great Vowel Shift is to blame. What caused that is up for debate.

In general, English is so strange because it’s a mongrel language, incorporating words from a variety of other different languages.

If a person if truly interested in moving to a place with better discourse, they’ll make the effort. If not, they should stay on Reddit.