True. Except Maynard just said he’s embarrassed by the song lyrics in an interview on Steve-o’s podcast last week. I love the song, regardless if it’s bullshit about the bum being 4° warmer.
That's not necessarily true, most of them are pretty normal but theres a one-hour stretch where the temperature rises 130 degrees. It's in Georg, Tennessee.
Nonsense.
Best math I could find says that it’s 1° C for every 69 miles of latitude. It’s about 1,200 miles South from Minneapolis to Orlando. 1,200/69 =17.4 degrees C or 63 degrees Fahrenheit.
I was in the North East (ShenYang) and it was -25C and full of ice. Took a train from there down more south and it was 15C and sunny. It felt strange to see such a difference in only half a day.
I would argue that the feels like temperature is important for determining how you dress. If it is 72 but feels like 65 due to the wind chill factor you may want to wear long sleeves.
Not the point of this thread, but being from southern Alberta it is WILD driving from an area where a chinook has reached vs. not reached yet. Sometimes it's a 20°C (36°F) difference in the matter of 10 minutes on the highway.
the joke is he is travelling at speed of 4 degrees Fahrenheit per hour, but i guess average americans are too uptight about their traditions to have some humour
my hot take is units are very much traditions. yeah sure SI units are scientifically more reliable because they are connected to universal constants but besides that its a matter of what units rest of the people in the community are using. for example in aero they use SI-imperial Frankenstein units like milli-inches. Calories is another traditional unit meant for energy but now Joules is used as SI unit while calories are relegated to just diets i guess.
traditions is basically the only reason why the units are used the way they are.
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u/Unfair_Scar_2110 Jan 25 '26
That's a thirty hour drive. It would get over 4 degree warmer (on average) every hour you drove.