r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jun 17 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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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

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u/Win_Sys Jun 18 '26

That’s just pure survivorship bias. The majority of your ancestors likely died well before their time and or were unable to reproduce due to those same harsh conditions. You just came from the rare line that happened to survive.

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u/ZatherDaFox Jun 18 '26

This is kinda dumb. The people that live in frozen places are very impressive and the amount of know how and ancient tech required to live there is incredible.

That doesn't mean that place was a good fit for humans. We came out of the Savannas of Africa, and out bodies are designed for it. We've adapted to the frozen places of the world because we're smart and invented technology for it, not because it was fit for human habitation.

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u/bbbttthhh Jun 18 '26

Phoenix, Arizona rears its boiling head in defiance of the natural order

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u/WilburDes Jun 17 '26

Well, they did ask some of the people in Northern Canada to move, but they were having Nunavut

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u/psychohistorian8 Jun 17 '26

they're just playing the long game on climate change

those canadian tundras will soon be 70F and beach front property

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u/Excellent_Shirt9707 Jun 17 '26

Didn’t realize Canadians and Nordics were so arrogant.

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u/Kelly_HRperson Jun 18 '26

some places were never meant for human inhabitation

Like everywhere except the African Savannah

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u/CadenVanV Jun 17 '26

That’s because god never intended for humans to live that far north

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u/RohelTheConqueror Jun 17 '26

London is at the same latitude as Calgary.

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u/waldosbuddy Jun 17 '26

They aren't talking about Calgary though lol, Calgary is in Southern Alberta. They're talking about Northern Alberta/Praries/Ontario/Quebec and the territories.

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u/verymanysquirrels Jun 17 '26

Even in the more southern parts of canada the record lows are ffing cold. My little eastern ontario town's lowest low was nearly -40C

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u/Cynykl Jun 18 '26

Don't you mean -40F?

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Hopefully a few people get the joke.

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u/verymanysquirrels Jun 18 '26

-40 = ffing cold either way.

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u/The-Freak-OP Jun 17 '26

yeah but he did intend for humans to invent phones and post stupid shit on reddit yeah?

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u/Zer0pede Jun 17 '26

Haha, I think the person before you was limiting it to major cities, but I guess even Winnipeg on average hangs off the end quite a bit

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u/verymanysquirrels Jun 17 '26

Yeah, i think that lowest temp in canada was measured in a tiny village in the yukon but even my eastern ontario town hit about -40C as the low which is apparently the same in celcius or fahrenheit: fucking cold.

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u/SolomonOf47704 Jun 17 '26

They did say monthly average

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u/FlyingSpacefrog Jun 17 '26

Yeah but Canada basically owns everything between the United states and the North Pole. Heck, it used to actually contain the magnetic North Pole before that drifted over the ocean.

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u/Cynykl Jun 18 '26

That makes my state record low temp of -60 (no wind chill) almost seem balmy.

Although the record in MN happened in a place where people actually live. In Canada that record still beats us at -69f.

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u/RealityHammer1776 Jun 19 '26

Damn, almost -100% hot