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RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works to memes@lemmy.world · 6 months ago

Americans using anything but the metric system

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Americans using anything but the metric system

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RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works to memes@lemmy.world · 6 months ago
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  • HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 months ago

    Bicycle is fine because it’s an everyday object I can visualise, but what the hell am I supposed to do with 800 burgers?

    • marcos@lemmy.world
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      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.

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      WTF my bike is about a metre twenty high

      Have they got fuckin dwarf deer there or something

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        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).

      • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        Mule or black tail maybe?

      • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world
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        I don’t understand what you’re saying. How many piled hamburgers in a metre?

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          With pickles?

          • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world
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            6 months ago

            There are now 14 15 competing measurement standards…

            • Doombot1@lemmy.one
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              6 months ago

              iunderstoodthatreference.png

    • negativeyoda@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Bicycles come in a variety of sizes and configurations tho…

    • MisterChief@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Eat em!

      • Jimbo@yiffit.net
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        6 months ago

        Ok, gimmie

      • HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        6 months ago

        Unfortunately, I have an eating disorder that limits my diet severely. Burgers don’t make the list, I’m afraid.

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          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).

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          I feel ya. I also can’t eat 800 hamburgers. We’re a silent majority.

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      6 months ago

      Invite guests round for dinner at the White House.

      • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        No, that’s hamberders.

    • Damage@feddit.it
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      6 months ago

      Americans are way more familiar with hamburgers that bycicles

      • JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org
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        Can confirm.

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      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.

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        … 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? 🤔

        • Juvyn00b@lemmy.world
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          From the Deer. Duh.

    • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Bicycles come in so many sizes and shapes that it’s as useful measure as a stone

      • Valmond@lemmy.world
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        Isn’t a stone an english measurement?

      • Stegget@lemmy.world
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        So do deer, this is intended as a mental shortcut to roughly approximate size instead of a precise measurement.

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      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.

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        And people are much closer in size - isn’t “the weight of your uncle Eddie” more meaningful?

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      It’s about 3/4 the weight of the average American.

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      Also what kind of deer?

    • runeko@programming.dev
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      Give em to yo mama for a light afternoon snack?

      • HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Haha that was a good one

    • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world
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      Divide by 4.

      • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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        what’s 1/4 of a Royale with cheese?

        • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world
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          15 grams.

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