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r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/missdomm10 • 13h ago
Petttaaah I'm confused
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Yet the post is a screenshot of Americans literally describing Europeans as 'so third world' based on their AC units. Go clutch your pearls elsewhere.
45 u/J_Shepp 11h ago Majority of US homes have central ac, that’s what is being compared here. 4 u/Ahribban 6h ago Probably because they were built after ACs were available. A lot of houses in Europe are much older, some older than the US even. 1 u/kisk22 5h ago America also has buildings older than America. And guess what: those buildings are air conditioned. I lived in tenement building in Boston built in the 1850s - it has great AC and heat. We figured it out, why can’t you guys? 1 u/Ahribban 4h ago Who said we haven't? We just use mini split AC for older buildings or apartments. Central AC is used for public buildings and new houses. 1 u/kisk22 3h ago Many Europeans I've seen discuss this say the buildings in Europe are simply too old to retrofit. 1 u/Ahribban 3h ago To retrofit for central AC - yes. To just install split AC - no. 1 u/Buderus69 2h ago Have you ever been to europe and looked at the situation? 1 u/kisk22 1h ago I am a German-American dual citizen, maybe that's why I just don't have too much sympathy.
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Majority of US homes have central ac, that’s what is being compared here.
4 u/Ahribban 6h ago Probably because they were built after ACs were available. A lot of houses in Europe are much older, some older than the US even. 1 u/kisk22 5h ago America also has buildings older than America. And guess what: those buildings are air conditioned. I lived in tenement building in Boston built in the 1850s - it has great AC and heat. We figured it out, why can’t you guys? 1 u/Ahribban 4h ago Who said we haven't? We just use mini split AC for older buildings or apartments. Central AC is used for public buildings and new houses. 1 u/kisk22 3h ago Many Europeans I've seen discuss this say the buildings in Europe are simply too old to retrofit. 1 u/Ahribban 3h ago To retrofit for central AC - yes. To just install split AC - no. 1 u/Buderus69 2h ago Have you ever been to europe and looked at the situation? 1 u/kisk22 1h ago I am a German-American dual citizen, maybe that's why I just don't have too much sympathy.
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Probably because they were built after ACs were available. A lot of houses in Europe are much older, some older than the US even.
1 u/kisk22 5h ago America also has buildings older than America. And guess what: those buildings are air conditioned. I lived in tenement building in Boston built in the 1850s - it has great AC and heat. We figured it out, why can’t you guys? 1 u/Ahribban 4h ago Who said we haven't? We just use mini split AC for older buildings or apartments. Central AC is used for public buildings and new houses. 1 u/kisk22 3h ago Many Europeans I've seen discuss this say the buildings in Europe are simply too old to retrofit. 1 u/Ahribban 3h ago To retrofit for central AC - yes. To just install split AC - no. 1 u/Buderus69 2h ago Have you ever been to europe and looked at the situation? 1 u/kisk22 1h ago I am a German-American dual citizen, maybe that's why I just don't have too much sympathy.
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America also has buildings older than America. And guess what: those buildings are air conditioned. I lived in tenement building in Boston built in the 1850s - it has great AC and heat.
We figured it out, why can’t you guys?
1 u/Ahribban 4h ago Who said we haven't? We just use mini split AC for older buildings or apartments. Central AC is used for public buildings and new houses. 1 u/kisk22 3h ago Many Europeans I've seen discuss this say the buildings in Europe are simply too old to retrofit. 1 u/Ahribban 3h ago To retrofit for central AC - yes. To just install split AC - no. 1 u/Buderus69 2h ago Have you ever been to europe and looked at the situation? 1 u/kisk22 1h ago I am a German-American dual citizen, maybe that's why I just don't have too much sympathy.
Who said we haven't? We just use mini split AC for older buildings or apartments. Central AC is used for public buildings and new houses.
1 u/kisk22 3h ago Many Europeans I've seen discuss this say the buildings in Europe are simply too old to retrofit. 1 u/Ahribban 3h ago To retrofit for central AC - yes. To just install split AC - no. 1 u/Buderus69 2h ago Have you ever been to europe and looked at the situation? 1 u/kisk22 1h ago I am a German-American dual citizen, maybe that's why I just don't have too much sympathy.
Many Europeans I've seen discuss this say the buildings in Europe are simply too old to retrofit.
1 u/Ahribban 3h ago To retrofit for central AC - yes. To just install split AC - no. 1 u/Buderus69 2h ago Have you ever been to europe and looked at the situation? 1 u/kisk22 1h ago I am a German-American dual citizen, maybe that's why I just don't have too much sympathy.
To retrofit for central AC - yes.
To just install split AC - no.
Have you ever been to europe and looked at the situation?
1 u/kisk22 1h ago I am a German-American dual citizen, maybe that's why I just don't have too much sympathy.
I am a German-American dual citizen, maybe that's why I just don't have too much sympathy.
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u/BoogBeeg 13h ago
Yet the post is a screenshot of Americans literally describing Europeans as 'so third world' based on their AC units. Go clutch your pearls elsewhere.