It must be demonstrably true to be considered true; but it also must be demonstrably false to be considered false. Perhaps there are people who have found what they consider demonstration of its veracity? Even if you doubt that, you cannot call it false until you have demonstrated it to be false.

Ah, my only gripe really is that atheism is neither the obvious solution, nor a scientific one. It's just another (minimised) system of faith.

Oh no! He thinks the world is 6000 years old!

Of my friends with iPhones, aprox. half have said they would not buy an iPhone again.
That said, of those who said they wouldn't buy one again and have bought a new phone, less than half bought a different phone. But that's not a representative set, they are the people who buy new stuff when new stuff comes out.
As an aside, of my friends with Android phones, none have said they would change. But the android phone owners are in the minority.
As presented, these facts don't make any sense to me.

Interestingly, I was out of the city with a bunch of mates recently and we took the opportunity to do a bit of star-gazing given that there the stars were visible. Most of them were city kids, and had never seen the stars. I did my best to point out a few constalations I remembered before a couple of them realised they had a star-finding app on their phone. This quickly turned into a planet hunt, but after scanning the skys for a while we were disappointed to find that the only celestial body above the horizon was Saturn; all the rest were on the other side of the Earth. Nevertheless most of the group was excitedly pointing out when they found the location of a planet until one guy excitedly yelled 'Hey, the Sun is on the other side of the planet too!'

He still hasn't lived that down.

Isn't that his point?

When we encounter aliens, the world will probably convert to their standard system of measurements for convenience when building the spaceships they designed. Of course, the USA (excluding NASA and the military), Liberia and Burma will stick with imperial. This will have the unintended consequence that an US built space ship will malfunction due to a mistake relating to a alien-measure/imperial conversion; resulting in the planet-sized ship crashing into Earth, killing everyone.

Thanks a lot America! Jerks!

But these are just cultural comparisons. I would explain, in celcius, that same temperature range as -20 to 40. It's not exact, but that doesn't matter. And as for thinking in terms smaller distances than a mile, 1km is an easy walk. 2km isn't bad, but tiresome to do every day, 3km is far when I'm tired, 4km is the absolute max I'll walk in one go. Obviously these figures are actually rounded off to general measurements that I'm used to. When driving, multiples of 5 or 10km are much more useful; anything less than 5 is just 'a short distance'. Scale and precision are not benefits of a system, they're just part of the way your brain uses the numbers.

As for what the body can detect, I bet that study was 'ok, let's change the temperature by 0.5 F and see if he notices', not 'let's change it by 0.40568 F and see if he can tell us that's what the change was'. If so, had they had done the study with 0.5 C, then their conclusions would be 'people can detect half degree celcius changes!'

I think you'll find that the issues come from both sides not keeping to the specs...

If your cell-mate protests your imprisonment by staging a hunger strike, it might not help you out, but it's a nice gesture.
If your jailer protests your imprisonment by disposing of that symbolic key to your cell you can be pretty sure he's not really doing you a favour.

Your logic is flawed; you can only state that you would have no opinion had you been aborted. Otherwise you would not only have no opinion on abortion, but should not be able to form the opinion that the GP is likely a creationist.

Northland summer: "occasionally rising above 30C"
No wonder there aren't many Aussies there; the good weather of Australia starts in the 30s.

Australia isn't really that kind of lucky. It's more lucky in the sense of, "That <animal/insect/natural disaster> almost killed me. I keep surviving these things, aren't I lucky."

There are people who care about precise meanings, and people who don't care about precise meanings. Sometimes one group will win out on how we move forward, other times the other will. The imprecise side of the collective 'us' allowed the American/rest-of-us spelling rift to take place, but it was the precise side that formalised it. You can get annoyed at people who, through their laziness, make it difficult for you to understand what they are saying; or you can choose to let it go. Nobody is perfect, and there is often lots of fun in pointing out the stupid things people say without meaning to.

I bought my first dell computer a year or so ago. The hard drive died a couple of months later. After an eleven minute phone call they'd organised a tech to come out and replace the drive and check why the hinge light had been flickering. I've never had such a short phone call with tech support before, even when I already know the problem they usually insist on doing some dumb check or subtly hint that it was probably something stupid I'd done; but this guy was like, 'yep, sounds like you're right'. It would have been two days for the tech to come except I wasn't available that day. Does happen.

I don't know about where you're from, but in Oz we have this thing called "grass". It's what people normally expect a playground to be covered in... except for the sand-pit... oh and basketball courts, etc.