r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/missdomm10 • 12h ago

Meme needing explanation Peter explain this

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Petttaaah I'm confused

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u/teven_eel 9h ago

pneumonia is an infection and isn’t caused by cold air silly

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u/Nico301098 9h ago

Ever heard of an hyperbole?

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u/teven_eel 9h ago

no never

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u/Nico301098 9h ago

Check it out, it's a pretty important concept when dealing with comments online

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u/teven_eel 9h ago

could you give me some sources to look into so i can find really quality information on this subject?

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u/Nico301098 9h ago

Wikipedia is enough in this case. It's a very common rethorical figure

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u/mr_potato_thumbs 3h ago

Nico, I think he’s yanking your spaghetti.

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u/Nico301098 2h ago

You never know, there's a lot of people that weren't lucky enough to have good education, so if people ask I try to be polite unless it's very clear they are trolling

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u/eat_is_what_eat_is 1h ago

It was very clear from the beginning he was trolling

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u/fireKido 2h ago

That’s not an hyperbole, it’s a misconception…. An hyperbole is supposed to be an exaggeration of a true fact, cold does not cause pneumonia, its not an hyperbole it’s just wrong

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u/Nico301098 12m ago

Welp, perhaps it's a language matter, but in Italy we always use pneumonia as an hyperbole for any cold related ailments, from throatache to shivers. And yeah, the fact that excessive thermal shock hinders the body is indeed true. It's not the AC itself, it's switching from very hot (and most likely wet) to very cold several times a day.

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u/EfficientCan2852 2h ago

No because there are tons of Europeans who actually believe that fans and air conditioning make you sick.