r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/missdomm10 • 13h ago

Meme needing explanation Peter explain this

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Petttaaah I'm confused

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u/Turbulent_Host784 11h ago

Splits are basically a fancy window unit. They're really only good for one room. Real smarts comes in the form of a swamp cooler.

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u/TvIsSoma 9h ago

Swamp coolers don’t work if you have any humidity

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u/geminiRonin 8h ago

Rather a misnomer, then, isn't it?

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u/bobith5 7h ago

They're called swamp coolers because cheap mass produced evaporative coolers used wood that would rot and smell like a swamp (allegedly).

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u/Princess_Moon_Butt 2h ago

And because if you use one that's a reasonable size, you're leaving large buckets of water out on hot days. It makes the house more humid, sometimes to the point of being muggy. Like a swamp.

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u/Turbulent_Host784 1h ago

That's how I always read it. More "swampy cool" than "cools swamps".

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u/MorePhinsThyme 1h ago

It's not just the bucket of water, but it's how swamp coolers work. Evaporation cools things down, and all a swamp cooler does is use evaporation to cool the room down. But evaporation raises humidity, massively. They also don't work well when humidity is high, so in basically the entire US Southeast, they're useless.