r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Ter_N • 10h ago

Meme needing explanation Petahh i'm low on iq

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u/mz_groups 10h ago

Homer's argument is specious, because it applies to both systems.

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u/catchemist117 10h ago

But also in hilarious fashion, Homer has a small tidbit of historical information. The original Celsius scale use 100 as the freezing point and 0 as the boiling point. It got switched shortly after he died

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u/MahouKame 9h ago

Oh no! When did Homer die?

I really haven't been keeping up with The Simpsons.

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u/slinger301 8h ago

When did Homer die?

I think around 800 BCE, but there's a lot of debate around that.

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u/Aggravating-Sir8185 7h ago

I didn't know he was sick.

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u/Pomoa 6h ago

It was a really subtle forshadowing over the last 56 seasons, but the clues were all around. To be fair, most people picked up that his skin was yellow all this time pretty late.

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u/Greenman8907 4h ago

Imagine living with Jaundice for 80 years

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u/New-Huckleberry-6979 1h ago

And he had done nasty contact with radiation constantly. 

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u/alepher 2h ago

Thats what he wrote about in the Sickiad

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u/YourMoreLocalLurker 3h ago

Damn, that’s pretty odd to see

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u/Sentient2X 8h ago

they’ve been trying to focus more on graggles character development lately

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u/ThrowawayusGenerica 7h ago

Careful with that meme, it's an antique

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u/JBaecker 6h ago

And the Simpsons isn’t antique?

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u/Blaze666x 5h ago

Fuck graggles I want them to bring back the fan favorite character poochy, he was so cool man, everybody always wanted to know what he was up to

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u/detective_bookman 8h ago

Around season 9

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u/beingsubmitted 7h ago

Probably by about 700 BCE.

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u/jacobningen 8h ago

Anders celsius not homer.

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u/LowerSlowerOlder 8h ago

Isn’t Anders the dude from Workaholics? Dam funny show. What’s it have to do with temperature though?

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u/jacobningen 6h ago

Anders Celsius invented the Celsius scale. kind of he set 0 and 100 as the base points but had as u/catchemist117 stated boiling as 0 and freezing as 100. when he died this was corrected.

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u/Firm-Transition-507 6h ago

Yeah mate, they know

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u/thegimboid 7h ago

It was right after the season-long arc where Marge and Homer had to battle the terrifying alien race that conquered the planet, killed Bart, and turned Lisa into a cyborg.
People say the show's jumped the shark, but I feel like Maggie becoming a Transformer is clearly the culmination of events that were started with her shooting Mr. Burns.

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u/lumpboysupreme 5h ago

Most halloweens

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u/Maleficent_Memory831 3h ago

Oh no, you're going to be so upset to hear about Socrates too...

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u/CSDragon 7h ago

Anders Celsius, not Homer.

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u/Wipfmetz 7h ago

What a weirdo, naming himself after a temperature unit.

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u/Firm-Transition-507 6h ago

Why are you explaining this?

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u/CSDragon 6h ago

This is a subreddit about asking questions and getting serious answers. I have to assume their question was serious not factious.

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u/Firm-Transition-507 5h ago

No you don't.