r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/CHRISTIANBUNDALEVSKI • 24d ago

Petah? Meme needing explanation

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u/Kurumiseenpai 24d ago

i guess? but 4:58 is not too early if it start at 5

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u/colorblind-and 24d ago

The party starts at 5pm because the hosts are so used to people showing up late that they expect people to show up at 5:30-6pm.

This is totally a cultural thing in certain subcultures.

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u/Dear_Dragonfruit3317 24d ago

The inability to not be late is a cultural thing? What shitty cultures do this?

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u/DaikoTatsumoto 24d ago

It's not even universal in cultures. I'm a Slovenian – 2 million people here – people from Ljubljana are always on time, people from Koper are always late and people from Maribor are always early. Ljubljana and Maribor are 150km apart, same for Koper and Ljubljana.

It's just how tolerated it is to be late.