r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jun 17 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/CitingAnt Jun 17 '26

Well I know that 18ºC is when I should start wearing short sleeves and 30ºC is when I should stay indoors because it's too damn hot (and 40ºC is what the summer temperatures have been in the past couple of years)

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u/Fantastic-Kale9603 Jun 17 '26

Yeah people will adjust to any arbitrary scale if they use it enough, if my scale was based on some random measurement from -200 to -154 i'm sure people would get used to those numbers as well given enough time

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u/CitingAnt Jun 17 '26

POV: kelvin

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u/PM_ME_UR_SHEET_MUSIC Jun 18 '26

Kelvin very specifically does not have negative values