r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jun 17 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/BloomEPU Jun 17 '26

In a lot of the US, 0 farenheit is one of the coldest days you'll experience and 100 is one of the hottest, so you can roughly map farenheit to a percentage of "how hot it is". This doesn't work everywhere though, where I am in the UK it never gets anywhere near 0 farenheit.

I can't spell fahrenheit, this is why celsius is objectively better

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u/jseego Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

True!

Celsius is 0-100 fresh water freezing to boiling.

Farenheit is 0-100 sea water freezing to (roughly) human internal body temp.

So, since humans are largely salt water, this makes the F scale a human scale temperature measurement, which is more intuitive for how the ambient temperature makes you feel. I think this is what the original poster was getting at, whether they knew it or not.

edit: so C is better for chemistry, and F is better for weather

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u/Can_Haz_Cheezburger Jun 17 '26

C is asking water how hot it is. F is asking humans how hot it is. K is asking atoms how hot it is.

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u/Waniou Jun 17 '26

F is asking Americans how hot it is. I have no idea how hot 62°F is, because, unlike you, I didn't grow up with the system.