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Americans definitely love their larger 1/4 lb’ers over the smaller European 1/3 lb patties
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this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2026
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What’s more ‘Murican than not understanding the metric system?
They don't understand imperial either though.
Nobody understands Imperial.
No it's simple see 16oz is 1.2 flasks which is easy to remember because it's based on King Ralph's favourite cup and Ralph famously died tripping over a cocksnake (unfortunate name but I won't censor history) and what do you trip with? That's right, your feet. And how many feet do you have? Exactly, 2. Hence 1.2 flasks to 1 16oz can.
That's a ridiculous mischaracterization. The word "Ounce" derives from a word meaning "one twelfth", so just like the inch to the foot, an ounce is either one sixteenth of a queen Anne pound of wine (which is itself based on the Queen Anne gallon of wine, or 231 cubic inches of wine), or one twentieth of an imperial pint, which is an eighth of an imperial gallon, which is ten water pounds.
Flasks are a unit of mercury weight, obviously.
They don't understand insert basically anything either though.
Understanding things is COMMUNIST! We have the FREEDUMB to be completely illiterate!
Tbf does anybody? It's a pretty stupid system.
Tonnes of engineering white papers showing how much imperial measure errors cost US industry.
And what size are those white papers, that's right US letter standard
Don’t you mean kilograms of white papers? :P
Metric ton (1000 kg), not imperial/long ton (2240 lbs) or US/short ton (2000 lbs).
Metric 1000kg is a tonne. There is no metric "ton".
Both spellings are correct as far as I'm aware. Like how we call it the metric system and not système international d'unités, you can translate terms into your native language if desired.
If you want to be pedantic, do it elsewhere, because I honestly do not give a single shit.
I mean, one would hope that a nation would know at least one system. If they tell me one more time "it just makes more sense" about stupid fahrenheit it will be too much.
The freezing and boiling points of MALT does not a good system make!
You're just jealous you're not made of malt
Oh then we both have terrible news today....
uh oh. you tell me mine. im pretty stupid
It's a better system for weather, but that's about it. 0 is very cold, and 100 is very hot. No decimals needed.
It's not even about the units - a fraction is unitless. 1/3 of something is more than 1/4 of the same something.
As funny as it is, someone could just as accurately say to you "What's more Lemmy than commenting without understanding?"
This is a marketing statement against the smaller cans of other energy drinks on American shelves next to it. They are well under 500ml, usually closer to 250ml.
Nobody should buy this garbage anyway, but that's just my opinion.
Nooo they can't mean the most famous energy drink in the world with its uniquely small can that shares a shelf with it! They MUST mean the European Monster cans that exist on the other side of the planet!
The wut?
Not understanding anything at all