• rosco385@lemmy.wtf
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    8 hours ago

    Australian Version

    Χ very tired    √ fucking knackered
    Χ very poor    √ fucking skint
    Χ very thirsty √ dry as a dead dingo's donger```
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    7 hours ago

    bounced on my boy’s challenging lengthy to this until he boisterous stuffed

  • imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 hours ago

    Dunno if it is me, non-native English speaker, but it seems that very old can vary depending on context, while ancient barely changes on the context. And it seems few others could be divisive and a few green ticked ones repeat.

    Edit: ah, this is shitposting comm :@

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    Very cold and freezing are different things. You can be very cold but above 0°.

    Most of these are dumb.

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      Listen, I need to introduce you to any hot climate’s weather terms (done in american and rest-of-the-fucking-world-but-liberia units for funsies):

      • >90/32 = hot
      • >28/82 = stifling (if humid) / little warm
      • >78/25 = warm
      • >75/24 = nice out
      • >22/72 = okay
      • >70/21 = cool
      • >68/20 = chilly
      • >60/16 = cold
      • <16/60 = freezing

      You can be very cold and freezing. You can’t be very cold and not freezing. ;)

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        I have some hot takes regarding this scale.

        • 68/20 isn’t chilly - it’s room temperature during Winter. (Also, 75/24 is room temperature in Summer and whatever-temp-it-is-outside is room temperature during Spring and Autumn.)
        • How can 78/25 be warm, but 28/82 (dry) is “little warm”?
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          It’s said in the same manner as a mild sarcasm. I’m not sure the word for it, but deliberate understatement that specifically plays on it being hotter than ‘warm’ is.

          As far as 20/68 being chilly, to me it’s downright hellish. During the summer, we would keep the house temps around 85/30, because you’d be so used to the sweat and heat of the sun that it wasn’t too bad with a light fan… and that was in the houses lucky enough to have heating/cooling. The rest just made do with shade and designs that promoted a breeze.

          Anyway, as I said, this is a hot climate’s weather terms. If you were able to keep the room temperature the same as the outside in spring or autumn, you probably aren’t in a hot climate.

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            We have long stretches of 90/32+ and high humidity in the Summer and long stretches of <30/-1 in Winter. And our Spring and Autumn are both notoriously ephemeral, so those rules only apply for a few days to a week most years.