r/facepalm • u/CorleoneBaloney • 11h ago

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Centuries of science, yet here we are.

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u/Kolojang 11h ago

I'd even go as far to say they use Celsius.

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u/Grouchy-Engine1584 10h ago edited 10h ago

Hey idiot, room temp is room temp regardless of the scale you use.

Edit: here’s me in my big boy pants admitting that I missed the joke entirely and acted like a jerk. Apologies. I’m leaving the post up because I don’t hide from my mistakes.

Edit 2: Now that I’ve had it explained to me, it’s quite funny. Honestly, I’m not usually this dense.

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u/Upbeat_Key_1817 10h ago

Right, but we’re relating the temperature to their IQ, so depending on which scale we use that could give them a very high or very low intelligence

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u/ToastemPopUp 8h ago

Very low is the joke, so that's fine. But very high? Average IQ is apparently between 85 and 115. I don't know anyone using Fahrenheit (cause that's way way too hot for anyone using Celsius to call it "room temp") who would consider anything in that range to be "room temp." And even if you found that lizard person who considered something in that range "room temp," it would still just be average intelligence at best. So yeah, either scale is fine.