To be fair: if anyone’s going to intuitively know the weight of 800 hamburgers, Americans are it. :)
Also, I’m not entirely opposed to using “every day” analogies for stuff like this.
Yeah they even named their official weight measurement after the quarterpounder hamburger
I use metric, so you tell me weight in kg and I imagine it in half the number of (2 liter) water bottles. Which I have a pretty good intuition for since I often carry anywhere between 1 and 12 at a time.
Of course if I had to suffer imperial, I would like analogies as well.
Same with me on the water. I grew up Australia.
Since moving to the UK, I’m still trying to get used to medieval bollocks. Gimme analogies, because Stones used to be 1 Stone of wheat was a different weight to 1 Stone of, say, actual stones. Mental.
That’s how you know that Americans hate even their own imperial system. As an American myself, I gotta ask, is it the weight of a Cheeseburger or the Big Mac?
Roughly 1/800th of a deer.
A Big Mac is ~250g, a cheeseburger ~120g.
An American male mule deer is 95 - 150kg.
So to answer your question, they’re using something closer in size to the cheeseburger and not the Big Mac, as 800 Big Macs is about ~190kg whereas 800 cheezburgers is about 96kg.
I once saw a tsunami tidal wave height described in refrigerators tall. Something like it could reach the height of 2.5 refrigerators.
You might have noticed. It’s kind of our thing, doing things differently from the rest of the world for no good reason.
Different measuring system Different cars Different health care system Different social ethics Different system of government Very few trains
We’re just a bunch of silly dumbasses here.
I mean there is a good reason… And that reason is, which I will state in this comment, is that the reason is very good in terms of the fact that hereby unto forthwith hence that reason is valid.
You’re not, you’re aware of that.
But some people are super America-centric and can’t imagine switching to anything unamerican.
Most of our people are that way. Our arrogance in this stupid notion of American Exceptionalism holds us back, and too many of us are too stupid to realize it.
According to google, a deer has a height between 0.85 to 1.5 metres. According to the Texas Almanac, the Lone Star State extends 801 straight-line miles (from north to south). This equates to 1289084,54 metres.
Taking this into account, a deer is between 0,00000066 and 0,0000012 Texas.
I hope this helps.
But how many square burgers is that?
Great question!! Ok a rough estimate is the best I can do. As everything is bigger in Texas, I will take a relatively big deer for reference. As you will understand, I must compare area with area, so here goes:
Taking a BigMac as a reference and assuming a patty diameter of 10.4cm Source. This would lead to an area of 84.95cm2.
A bigger deer skin could be 150x139 cm Source. On the one hand this is an overestimation because those are the maximum measures and it’s not perfectly square, but on the other hand we’re not taking certain area’s such as the hooves and head into account. The area comes to 20850cm2.
So one deer is, in terms of area, as big as 245,4 hamburgers.
Again, I hope this helps.
I assume you’re still measuring in Texas Deer units…
Yes, very helpful!
Sir, this isn’t Wendy’s.
Good catch!
How do Americans find out how big a bicycle is?
Oh, you know. We see them at schools, on the news…
Some of us steal them.
Average ballsack height.
Well going by that measurement, the ladies are gonna have an ahem, interesting ride…
So you’re telling me that deer are made out of hamburgers and bicycles?
According to my calculations, deer are bicycles made of hamburgers
Perfect.
This math checks out.
The person who wrote this is on a bicycle to work off the 800 burgers made from deer.
I want this on a T-shirt.
What’s the convention rate from hamburger to American frie’s?
3 bags of five guys fries per burger.
why doesn’t someone just push it out of the way?
Or… punch it?
It’s the police, they’ll just shoot it out of the way.
Chris Redfield is busy somewhere else
Looks like something you can manipulate with a sheikah slate
Hamburger units feel appropriate for things that can be hamburgers.
But that includes organs and stuff so they also need to tell us how many hotdogs. I weigh 783 hamburgers and 132 hotdogs
You forgot to add in the 15% sawdust…
Maybe, but there’s a lot of most animals that I don’t want in a burger or any kind of ground meat. Bones, cartilage, organs, etc.
800 hamburgers just sounds like a challenge.
Fun facts:
1 Mile Per Hour ≈ 2.511 Bananas Per Second
1 Kilometer Per Hour ≈ 1.561 Bananas Per Second
Calculated with the assistance of http://bananaforscale.info/
Keeping it at seconds still makes it relatively comfortable for me. Bananas per minute (BPM) is where it’s at
1 Mile Per Hour ≈ 150.688 Bananas Per Minute
1 Kilometer Per Hour ≈ 93.633 Bananas Per Minute
Of course then when you ask how tall a bicycle is they’ll tell you it’s about as tall as a deer. Damn useless
About… yea high. Like, two dozen hamburgers.
With or without cheese?
Round 'bout two dogs worth of cheese, yeah.
Thank you, I have a good sense of the height now.
Bicycle is fine because it’s an everyday object I can visualise, but what the hell am I supposed to do with 800 burgers?
Invite guests round for dinner at the White House.
No, that’s hamberders.
Hum… What part of the bike exactly? And there are bikes with widely different sizes out there.
Overall, it lets me have an idea of the size. Unfortunately, not as good an idea as that reference-free photo.
WTF my bike is about a metre twenty high
Have they got fuckin dwarf deer there or something
I don’t understand what you’re saying. How many piled hamburgers in a metre?
With pickles?
There are now
1415 competing measurement standards…iunderstoodthatreference.png
Mule or black tail maybe?
Apparently, they do. For example, the white-tailed deer has a shoulder height of 1.0m to 1.1m, and that’s in the North. Towards the South, they get smaller.
I guess, that would be a general thing. Mainland US is relatively temperate. The real giant kinds of deer, like e.g. moose/elks, only really live in colder regions, which are further north (including in Alaska).
Eat em!
Ok, gimmie
Unfortunately, I have an eating disorder that limits my diet severely. Burgers don’t make the list, I’m afraid.
But you don’t have to eat a weight to understand how heavy it feels. Just picking it up is usually sufficient (within human lifting range of course).
I feel ya. I also can’t eat 800 hamburgers. We’re a silent majority.
Americans are way more familiar with hamburgers that bycicles
Can confirm.
I worked at McDonald’s for quite a while as a teen. A regular hamburger patty there is 1/10 lb and a quarter pounder is…as you might suspect 1/4 lb. That would make an adult deer weight between 80 - 200 lbs.
The average weight of an adult male whitetail deer is 203 lb (maximum, 405 lb). The average weight of a female is about 155 lb (maximum, 218 lb).
I don’t recall receiving any training on the weight of the condiments or buns, but I’d suspect they weight slightly more than the small patty amd slightly less than the larger one, so let’s assume 1/5 lb. That changes our original 80 - 200 lb range to be 240 - 360 which is a little too heavy.
In conclusion, hamburgers are a shit measurement, but if you had a mix of 800 child-size and adult-sized burgers and you hit it with your truck, it would do a similar amount of damage as hitting a deer.
… child-size and adult-sized burgers and you hit it with your truck …
I’m sorry, but where does McDonald’s get their meat from again? 🤔
From the Deer. Duh.
Bicycles come in so many sizes and shapes that it’s as useful measure as a stone
So do deer, this is intended as a mental shortcut to roughly approximate size instead of a precise measurement.
Isn’t a stone an english measurement?
It’s about 3/4 the weight of the average American.
Also what kind of deer?
Give em to yo mama for a light afternoon snack?
Haha that was a good one
Bicycles come in a variety of sizes and configurations tho…
Divide by 4.
what’s 1/4 of a Royale with cheese?
15 grams.
Yeah, it’s particularly weird, because surely people from the US have a good sense how much a pound weighs, and a pound weighs more than a burger, so you need to imagine a less big number of them.
And people are much closer in size - isn’t “the weight of your uncle Eddie” more meaningful?