Comments on: Celsius Please http://op-expat.com/2009/12/celius-please/ An Expat's Hilarious Observations About Life Abroad Fri, 18 May 2012 13:02:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: mimie http://op-expat.com/2009/12/celius-please/comment-page-1/#comment-329 mimie Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:42:07 +0000 http://op-expat.com/?p=334#comment-329 It's funny with measurments.. I grew up in Sweden where one uses the term (1)Decimeter = 10 centimeter. Doesn't work in Austria - at all. Same thing with (1)Hekto = 100 Gramm. In Austria they instead use (1)Deka = 10 Gramms. After seven years in Vienna, I still get confused. And by the way, here in Stockholm we have -10 today, THAT is cold :) It’s funny with measurments.. I grew up in Sweden where one uses the term (1)Decimeter = 10 centimeter. Doesn’t work in Austria – at all. Same thing with (1)Hekto = 100 Gramm. In Austria they instead use (1)Deka = 10 Gramms. After seven years in Vienna, I still get confused.

And by the way, here in Stockholm we have -10 today, THAT is cold :)

]]> By: Betty Peterson http://op-expat.com/2009/12/celius-please/comment-page-1/#comment-327 Betty Peterson Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:58:34 +0000 http://op-expat.com/?p=334#comment-327 See...I totally agree with you on the Celsius part. I've lived in the states for...hmm...20 years now. I still can't grasp Fahrenheit. Kinda like I can't stand imperial measurements either. The rest of the world gets it. 0 degrees means freaking cold. Anything with a - sign in front of it means REALLY freaking cold. 100 degrees is the boiling point. There are 10 millimeters in a centimeter. 100 centimeters in a meter. Not the 12 inches equals a foot crap. HAHA! See…I totally agree with you on the Celsius part. I’ve lived in the states for…hmm…20 years now. I still can’t grasp Fahrenheit. Kinda like I can’t stand imperial measurements either. The rest of the world gets it. 0 degrees means freaking cold. Anything with a – sign in front of it means REALLY freaking cold. 100 degrees is the boiling point. There are 10 millimeters in a centimeter. 100 centimeters in a meter. Not the 12 inches equals a foot crap. HAHA!

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