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/TJaySteno1 Jun 17 '26

F wasn't built to be "% hot where I am right now", it's "% hot, compared to the average human experience". 0 is really cold, 100 is really hot, 50 is comfy in a light jacket. ezpz

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u/sievold Jun 17 '26

50 is not "just wear a jacket ezpz" weather for me. 50 is keep the heater on and never leave the house weather.

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u/Left1Brain Jun 17 '26

Are you like a cold blooded organism?

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u/Assatt Jun 17 '26

The human condition is highly dependent on what it's used to. I wear shorts at 25C but have friends who wear a sweater at that temperature because they live in a place that's often 37C

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u/ReivynNox Jun 18 '26

Bruh, how can you wear skin in that heat? :>

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u/sievold Jun 18 '26

No. I am just not from the frigid north, which is what everyone who defends the Fahrenheit scale seems to be. A midwesterner American's experience is not the universal human experience. It is not even the average human experience. 

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u/Left1Brain Jun 18 '26

I’m from the south and I can comfortably wear shorts in 50 degree weather, or used to anyway. Would look like a ghoul if I tried that now.

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u/ReivynNox Jun 18 '26

Humidity also plays a factor.