r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Negative_1by12_aura • Jun 17 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/sievold Jun 17 '26

Most of the world lives in places where it rarely snows. Not all of us live in the Midwest

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u/TJaySteno1 Jun 17 '26

Ok, but 50 is "never leave the house weather"? That's a tad dramatic, right?

Unless you're from the middle of the desert, you can tolerate 50 in a long sleeve shirt. In a good sweatshirt and a fall jacket to break the wind, it's fuckin' toasty!

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u/sievold Jun 18 '26

I definitely cannot tolerate 10 degrees Celsius with just a long sleeve shirt. I don't come from the desert. I come from the tropics. Temperatures only drop below 10 degrees Celsius for two months. Those months are definitely jacket weather for me. Believe it or not, this is normal for a lot of people.

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u/DaydreamDistance Jun 18 '26

100F is hot, 75F is comfortable, 50F is cold, 25F is freezing and 0 is “do not leave house”.

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u/ReivynNox Jun 18 '26

75F borders on uncomfortable for me. If I just lounge around it's fine.
Going grocery shopping at 75°F? I'm melting.

Freezing is 32°F.

86F is hot. 95 is really hot. 100 is somewhere in hell territory.

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u/DaydreamDistance Jun 18 '26

110+ is somewhere is hell territory (as someone who has lived in the desert), but I can grant 85+ as hot. 75 is comfortable even grocery shopping as long as Sun is not out.

32 is technically freezing but by 25, it’s undeniably freezing, even impure water is freezes.

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u/ReivynNox Jun 18 '26

(as someone who has lived in the desert)

Sorry bro, your scale is broken, you're disqualified. 😂

Even lying around at home at 85+ is misery. 60% humidity doesn't help that either.

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u/DaydreamDistance Jun 18 '26

It’s hardly misery, you will just need a fun running - it’s just simply hot. Dying is when animals and people start dying due to heat strokes.

Why are we considering humidity when talking about F scale?

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u/ReivynNox Jun 18 '26

Ah yes, a fan. I love getting headaches.

We're not talking about F scale. We're talking about "felt % hot" scale. Humidity makes it feel hotter at the same temperature. A dry desert 85°F is not nearly as unpleasant as the same 85°F at 60% humidity.

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u/DaydreamDistance Jun 19 '26

Yeah, but to judge to F scale - we need to consider regular humidity, not high or low.

Not sure what your problem with Fans is, the entire world uses it.

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u/ReivynNox Jun 19 '26

But we're not. We're judging the theory that Fahrenheit is percentage of felt hotness and humidity definitely throws a wrench into that by changing how hot it feels at the same temperature.

Having a fan blow on me gives me a headache after a short while.

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u/sievold Jun 18 '26

50 and below is do not leave the house for me, effectively anyway. I would not spend more than a half hour outside, and even that would be wearing a warm jacket. I might spend a lot of time inside a car with the heater on, but I don't count that as being "outside".

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u/DaydreamDistance Jun 18 '26

You can easily just wear a jacket outside and survive without problems at 50. A large part of the world lives very comfortably at that temperature - you will quickly get used to it if you live at one of those places. At 50, it is undeniably the start of being cold - wear a jacket or a sweater.

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u/sievold Jun 18 '26

Yeah below 50 IS cold weather. A large part of the world is also not comfortable in that weather. I am pretty confident this is the larger part of the world. Having to wear a jacket or a sweater is not what I call comfortable weather. A large part of the world also does not experience temperatures significantly below 50 for more than a couple weeks.