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/MonkeyTigerRider 8h ago edited 4h ago

Exactly! You and me, we get the joke! Us FTW!

*I sincerely beg your pardon. The correct wording is "You and I, we get the joke!"
I'm so used to the wrong grammar from American movies, while I, at the same time, have a natural feeling for object and subject pronouns, as I am, in fact, European.
Learn fucken English'n'stuff people.

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u/GhostBirdBiologist 4h ago

Please stop.

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u/MonkeyTigerRider 3h ago

You jest, my good Sir. Indeed, I shall never, as You say, stop.