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Andy Capp 13 Aug: Lost in translation?

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Ted Nolan <tednolan>

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Aug 14, 2021, 1:05:54 AM8/14/21
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https://www.gocomics.com/andycapp/2021/08/13

Did the gnomes at Go Comics translate the Bermuda temp from Centigrade
but leave the UK temp alone?

Obviously 78 cannot be Centigrade and 11 is implausible Fahrenheit...
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D.D.Degg

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Aug 14, 2021, 8:43:49 AM8/14/21
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Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
> https://www.gocomics.com/andycapp/2021/08/13
>
> Did the gnomes at Go Comics translate the Bermuda temp from Centigrade
> but leave the UK temp alone?
>
> Obviously 78 cannot be Centigrade and 11 is implausible Fahrenheit...

It's reading the same in the UK:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/cartoons/andy-capp/andy-capp-30th-july-2021-24634161

Ted Nolan <tednolan>

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Aug 14, 2021, 1:13:02 PM8/14/21
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In article <fbb059ec-5a3a-4a53...@googlegroups.com>,
OK, so summer sea at Blackpool is below freezing then.. :-)

Quinn C

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Aug 15, 2021, 12:25:43 PM8/15/21
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* Ted Nolan <tednolan>:

> https://www.gocomics.com/andycapp/2021/08/13
>
> Did the gnomes at Go Comics translate the Bermuda temp from Centigrade
> but leave the UK temp alone?
>
> Obviously 78 cannot be Centigrade and 11 is implausible Fahrenheit...

Did Reg Smythe work on the Mars Climate Orbiter project?

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Mark Jackson

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Aug 15, 2021, 8:12:30 PM8/15/21
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British Imperial units (including degrees Fahrenheit) are in general use
in Bermuda, whereas England began metrification in the 1960s and now
generally uses degrees Celsius. While it seems idiosyncratic for a
newspaper to report world temperatures in the units used in each country
- as opposed to translating as necessary to report all of them on the
same scale - I suppose the English press might do this.

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D.D.Degg

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Aug 15, 2021, 10:29:34 PM8/15/21
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Ted Nolan wrote:
> >> Obviously 78 cannot be Centigrade and 11 is implausible Fahrenheit...
> >
> >It's reading the same in the UK:
> >https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/cartoons/andy-capp/andy-capp-30th-july-2021-24634161
> OK, so summer sea at Blackpool is below freezing then.. :-)
> --
Or we can talk of many things in Bermuda...
"And why the sea is boiling hot —"

Darryl H

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Aug 16, 2021, 6:53:51 AM8/16/21
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I wish the Andy Capp artists (current version) learned about this late 1970's Metric related PSA/TV ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUXutV6Vk6k
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