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[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Gotta give the yanks the w here. We're the real losers for poisoning ourselves ever so slightly more

[–] AvocadoCumToast@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Don’t stret too much about it, we’re poisoning ourselves with diarrhea lettuce and PFAS potatoes

[–] grayclouds@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I poisoned myself with these once, so I can't drink them anymore.

[–] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Fun fact: because Canada and America's economies are so intertwined but we don't use imperial measurements for products anymore, our Monster drinks come in 473ml (16 oz) cans.

[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 20 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I really miss the 1/3 lb burgers at so many places that dropped them because idiots don't understand fractions...

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

How is it even that difficult to understand? ¼ is 25% of a pound ⅓ is 33% of a pound.

33 is a bigger number then 25. Where is the confusion coming from?

[–] TBi@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

3 is smaller than 4. And they don’t understand fractions

[–] Eh_I@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Not a teacher, are you? lol

[–] boaratio@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You'd be surprised how bad our education system is.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago

Where is it they're getting confused is it that people don't understand fractions or that they don't understand percentages? Because fractions are taught to 12 year olds using cake or pizza is an analogy I thought Americans would be on board with that.

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[–] darthelmet@lemmy.world 69 points 2 days ago (17 children)

What’s more ‘Murican than not understanding the metric system?

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 30 points 2 days ago (36 children)

They don't understand imperial either though.

[–] Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nobody understands Imperial.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 11 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] FluidBeef@quokk.au 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Still traumatised by the time I ordered a slice of cherry pie in an American diner, and instead of the brobdingnagian monstrosity decades of movies and TV had accustomed me to expect I got what I can only describe as minimum viable pie.

[–] revelrous@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You experienced the on going desecration of the american social contract. The diabetic-coma inducing, entirely proposturously large servings of small town diner pie is absolutely a thing. I am sorry you were cheated of this.

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[–] pound_heap@lemmy.dbzer0.com 114 points 3 days ago (23 children)

To be fair, that marketing language is likely pointed at the main competitor of Monster drinks in US - Red Bull. Which is a European brand and is packaged in smaller cans.

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[–] cholesterol@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Full load

Bursting with real juice

Why do I feel like I'm listening to an ad on Radio Los Santos?

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[–] boaratio@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

We here in America are proud to measure everything in hamburgers. You Europeans using standardized measurements can get bent.

[–] Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world 31 points 3 days ago (18 children)

I'll never understand how people drink this axe spray flavored toxic piss. They all taste like what I imagine chemical runoff tastes like.

[–] Drekaridill@lemmy.wtf 42 points 3 days ago

You can pry the chemical piss from my dead hands, which should be soon because I drink chemical piss

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 48 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I worked at McDs during the 1/3 Angus burger and... yes. It happened, more times than I'd like. I tried convincing a couple people, then after that who cared. I was getting $8/hr. Fuck it it's a worse deal and you get a smaller burger but you do you genius.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 33 points 3 days ago (7 children)

I used to work in a deli. Our scales gave weights in decimals, people always ordered in fractions. One day someone asked for an eighth of a pound. My coworker asks me "Is that .8?" I politely told her "it's .125, so it needs to say about .13." I guess part of it was panic, maybe if she had thought about it for a second she would have gotten it, but to think it's more than a half pound was crazy. People ask for a half pound all the time.

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[–] ASK_ME_ABOUT_LOOM@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago (7 children)

It's like an AP Honors US History book

Tell me you don't know what the fuck you're talking about without telling me you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.

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[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 14 points 2 days ago

This is exactly how propaganda works

[–] moopet@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Ah, so that's what 16oz means.

Here in the UK I see more and more places (coffee shops modelled after Starbucks mostly I guess) and places serving soft drinks mention them in ounces and I have no idea what they mean. I'm 99% sure it's illegal to do so as well, but the relentless march of USI continues.

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