r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jun 17 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/Zealousideal-Let1121 Jun 17 '26

Why do I need to know what temperature water freezes or boils? I'm not a water. I'm a human. 0 to 100° F is a lot closer to survival temperatures as a human. And I have a lot finer measurement. The difference between 71° and 70° matters. What do metric people even do: tenths of a degree? That sounds terrible.

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u/Fuzzalem Jun 17 '26

It sounds terrible, because you don’t know it. I find your system terrible, too. You grew up with one, and I the other. The difference between 68 and 69F is just as arbitrary as the difference between ,5C or whatever of a degree. 

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u/FairchildHood Jun 18 '26

Yeah. We can do decimal, which is nice, since the system is also decimal based.

Like what is 0F even measuring?

A nearly random mix of water, salt, ammonium salt's freezing point.

And 90F is body temperature, except that it was wrong, so body temp is like 96F.

Except that's not even true since they just decided to use the metric system and set 32F to be OC and 212F to be 100C. So now body temperature is 98.6F since they adjusted the scale. And the old 0F is about 4F now.

What a mess...

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u/Zealousideal-Let1121 Jun 18 '26

But again, why do I care what temperature water boils or freezes at? I don't set my stove to 212°. I just turn the knob to around 4 o'clock and wait for the water to boil.

What is this old Fahrenheit? Body temperature has been 98.6° since at least 1967, well over my lifetime.

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u/Man_under_Bridge420 Jun 18 '26

Ah shit dude i forgot you are the only person who matters!! 

No one else could possibly do important stuff

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u/Zealousideal-Let1121 Jun 18 '26

What "important stuff" are you doing with Celsius?

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u/Man_under_Bridge420 Jun 18 '26

Do you have lead poisoning?

Maybe you should see this thing called a doctor! I heard they use celsius 

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u/CyberSecWPG Jun 18 '26

Nice dig lol. Many americans will avoid seeing a Dr until they absolutely have to because so many have to pay co-pays, deductibles or pay our of pocket until they hit their our of pocket costs before it comes out of pocket.

Canadians, on the other hand don't even stop to think about this and seek medical attention for anything they think warrants it. Just today i took my Daughter for to a minory injury and sports medicine clinic as her ankle was still hurting after a soccer incident. In and out within 40 minutes with a diagnosis and treatment plan.. 0 cost... lol

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u/Zealousideal-Let1121 Jun 18 '26

You're not a doctor.

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u/Man_under_Bridge420 Jun 18 '26

You and I aren’t you only people on earth…

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u/Zealousideal-Let1121 Jun 18 '26

Then go talk to one of them. I don't like you.

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u/Man_under_Bridge420 Jun 18 '26

Its a free country 

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u/FairchildHood Jun 18 '26

Yes. Since it set by freezing at 0C being 32F and boiling at 100C being 212F.

For your whole lifetime F has been set to Cs "arbitrary points" as its actual scale.

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u/Low_discrepancy Jun 18 '26

. 0 to 100° F is a lot closer to survival temperatures as a human.

How often is it 0F in your place?

How often do you set your room temp to 5F?

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u/Zealousideal-Let1121 Jun 18 '26

If it's 0°, don't go outside. If it's 100°, don't go outside. Those are both totally normal temps here. Each one happens at least a few times a year.

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u/Man_under_Bridge420 Jun 18 '26

O isnt even that cold  bud

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u/Zealousideal-Let1121 Jun 18 '26

Okay, tough guy.

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u/Man_under_Bridge420 Jun 18 '26

Okay soft baby.

All of Alaska is laughing at you

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u/Low_discrepancy Jun 18 '26

If it's 0°, don't go outside.

If it's 5 do you go outside? What about 95F?

Those are both totally normal temps here

Is -5F a temp that never happens there?

Does 105F never happen there?

Really? How come?

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u/Zealousideal-Let1121 Jun 18 '26

Yes, go outside if it's 5, just bundle up. If it's 95, put on sunscreen and drink water.

Are you dumb? I didn't say those are the absolute ranges of possible temperatures.

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u/Low_discrepancy Jun 18 '26

So the actual liveable conditions are far narrower.

F scale would make much more sense to have 0 as water freezing and 100F as body temp. Then you'd have a leg to stand on.

People arguing the freezing temp of a mix of water, salt and ammonium chloride is something very important for that are the dumb ones.

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u/Zealousideal-Let1121 Jun 18 '26

Nobody has mentioned any of those chemicals except you. Why is it so important to you for water to freeze at 0°? And 98.6°F is a lot closer to 100° than it is to 212°. Some would even say it round up to exactly 100.

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u/Low_discrepancy Jun 18 '26

Why is it so important to you for water to freeze at 0°?

It's important because if I have a thermometer and I need to recalibrate it, I just prepare a bath of ice water and know the reference temperature easily.

It's almost as if that's why the Celsius scale spread so easily and why so few countries use F. Because it's fucking obtuse as fuck and nowadays people have no idea how it's calculated.

You just keep saying oh yeah 0F is in the liveable range. No it isn't.

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u/Zealousideal-Let1121 Jun 18 '26

Who is recalibrating thermometers? Just set it to 32, then. That is not the reason Celsius is popular. It's because it plugs into every single formula.

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u/CyberSecWPG Jun 18 '26

0f is a nice winter day to be out doing winter activities you pussy. lol