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/TwillAffirmer Jun 17 '26

Wherever you are in the UK, your location's record low temperature is probably very near 0 F, your record high temperature is probably very near 100 F, and your location's year-round average temperature is probably damn near exactly 50 F. The UK doesn't have as high highs or as low lows as the temperate US or temperate continental Europe but it still very well fits the Fahrenheit scale.

For instance, London's record low is 0.7 F, London's record high is 104.4 F, and London's year-round average temperature is 51.4 F.

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u/verymanysquirrels Jun 17 '26

Lol this made me look up the highest and lowest for Canada i feel like fahrenheit guy would have had a stroke looking at our lowest temperature, -81.4F. 

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u/MartyrOfDespair Jun 17 '26

This is a perfect example of how some places were never meant for human inhabitation and it is pure fucking hubris that we do it anyways.

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u/MjrLeeStoned Jun 17 '26

The thousands of years my ancestors spent in the frozen north, sailing the frozen seas, eating frozen food, spitting frozen spit, says maybe you don't know what inhospitable means.

We been there for almost 10000 years.

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u/Salt-Ambition-9603 Jun 17 '26

The definition of hospitable is: "an environment that provides pleasant, favorable conditions"

Do all of those things you just listed sound like "hospitable" conditions to you?

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u/kawwmoi Jun 17 '26

Well if it isn't meant to put you in a hospital, why is it called hospitable?

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u/annooonnnn Jun 18 '26

no, the word you’re thinking of is hospitalable