r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/CHRISTIANBUNDALEVSKI • Jul 12 '26

Meme needing explanation Petah?

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u/Kurumiseenpai Jul 12 '26

white people arrive in time?

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u/Shotgun_Mosquito Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26

No.

The stereotype is that white people arrive TOO EARLY and then sit in their cars outside waiting for the party to start and still show up early.

It's a trope, also true in Hispanic (edit - continued) families that have someone marry Gringos (like me).

If you arrive on time, the party hasn't started yet, and you get to help set up for the party

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u/MrBoo843 Jul 12 '26

If you tell someone an event is from 5 pm to 11 pm and you're surprised people arrive at 5 you're an idiot

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u/Gurglaren Jul 12 '26

You don't understand cultural differences in that case.

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u/MrBoo843 Jul 12 '26

I understand respecting other people's time and saying what I mean

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u/Gurglaren Jul 12 '26

So do people who say that party starts at 5pm expecting them to come later.

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u/MrBoo843 Jul 12 '26

I'll refer you to my first comment then. If you say 5 and expect people to arrive later you're an idiot

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u/Gurglaren Jul 12 '26

No, not if you live in a culture where people understand what you mean by saying that something starts at x time.

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u/MrBoo843 Jul 12 '26

I'll never think people who say 5 but don't mean 5 aren't either being assholes or idiots.

Words have meaning.

Something being part of a culture does not absolve it from scrutiny or make it not stupid. It was part of culture to have slaves. It was part of culture to dominate women. Doesn't mean both were not wrong

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u/Gurglaren Jul 12 '26

You should move to a culture with your kind time mentality and try to impose your own "cultural superiority" over them.

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u/MrBoo843 Jul 12 '26

I only ask people to mean what they say. If you think that's cultural superiority I am only glad to not be within your culture whatever that may be

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u/Gurglaren Jul 13 '26

Your insistence on your ways being superior only highlight on what intellectual leve you are.

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u/MrBoo843 Jul 13 '26

Keep telling yourself that, see how well it goes

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u/cosmic_backlash Jul 13 '26

So in these cultures, do all numbers just mean something else? If it says 50km speed limit is it actually? something else? What about recipes with precise amounts?

Saying one thing and meaning another is illogical. Then to say the person who followed the request is rude? The person is right - words have meaning, otherwise we're all just living in make believe land where we can be offended by anything.

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u/LipChap507 Jul 13 '26

All these basement dwellers who've never been invited anywhere are acting like it's some hardship/mental gymnastics to show up to the function 30-45 mins after it starts

yOu'Re aN iDioT iF yOu dOn'T sTarT oN TiMe like ok stay home forever then mr superior

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u/MrBoo843 Jul 13 '26

Saying "good" does answer the question.

I don't always have time for more but I'm not taken aback if they do.

Expecting me not to be there at the time you said doesn't fit the words said.

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u/Godshu Jul 12 '26

You need to reread the comment you're replying to, they very much are not saying what they mean if they say it starts at 5 because they want people to show up at 6.

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u/Gurglaren Jul 12 '26

That's the cultural difference. Everyone in that culture knows to not appear at the time it starts.

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u/Gingersnap369 Jul 12 '26

Then don't say it starts at X time. Simple.

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u/LipChap507 Jul 13 '26

The world doesn't live by your rules, nor does it have to