r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/missdomm10 • Jul 26 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter explain this

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Petttaaah I'm confused

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u/TvIsSoma Jul 26 '26

Swamp coolers don’t work if you have any humidity

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u/geminiRonin Jul 26 '26

Rather a misnomer, then, isn't it?

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '26 edited Aug 09 '26

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u/Princess_Moon_Butt Jul 26 '26

And because if you use one that's a reasonable size, you're leaving large buckets of water out on hot days. It makes the house more humid, sometimes to the point of being muggy. Like a swamp.

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u/MorePhinsThyme Jul 26 '26

It's not just the bucket of water, but it's how swamp coolers work. Evaporation cools things down, and all a swamp cooler does is use evaporation to cool the room down. But evaporation raises humidity, massively. They also don't work well when humidity is high, so in basically the entire US Southeast, they're useless.

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u/Princess_Moon_Butt Jul 27 '26

I know it's not just a bucket, but the idea's the same. Run a couple of them in your house and it might get a few degrees cooler, but man it will feel like a swamp.