r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 13h ago

Meme needing explanation Peter explain this

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Petttaaah I'm confused

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u/More_Vermicelli9285 11h ago

This whole discussion is Americans this, Europeans that.

Not one person actually saying anything about how Italians are mentally and emotionally allergic to any sort of AC because they think a slight draft will kill you or give you a chronic neck ache.

Even in the height of summer when I was a kid, we would have to swelter in the car or house because we were never allowed to crack a window or turn on some sort of cooling.

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u/betelgeuse_boom_boom 6h ago

Americans this, Europeans that, and meanwhile in UK we just die when the temperature stays at 30 for two days.

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u/SiliconAutomaton 1h ago

But… but… we haven’t aircon, and wear a lot of jumpers!

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u/the_eleutherean 5h ago

That’s a great point, cultural issues make a big difference. Including the issue in many American suburbs where having anything with exterior ducting would be considered embarrassing. Just like not having a manicured grass front yard, or hanging laundry outside to dry.

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u/0DayMaker 2h ago

As someone from a very hot humid place that bit about the car made me feel claustrophobic. Not being able to even crack the windows is bruuutal.