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[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 9 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 2 points 1 day ago

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

[–] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 2 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.

[–] 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.

[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 days ago (2 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 1 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 11 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

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

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[–] darthelmet@lemmy.world 52 points 2 days ago (16 children)

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

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 24 points 2 days ago (27 children)

They don't understand imperial either though.

[–] Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nobody understands Imperial.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 5 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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[–] M137@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They don't understand insert basically anything either though.

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[–] pound_heap@lemmy.dbzer0.com 86 points 3 days ago (9 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.

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (8 children)

I didn't know they were European, good times

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 54 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

It’s a Thai and Austrian company.

This is the original Red Bull

An Austrian dude found this drink in Thailand and then negotiated a deal with the family that owns Krating Deng (Red Bull) so he could sell a fizzy version in Europe and later the rest of the world.

Thanks to that Austrian guy that Thai family is now the richest family in Thailand.

[–] zerofk@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago

If it’s Austrian why do they use a bull instead of a kangaroo?

[–] taj@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

This is a great TIL. I had no idea red bull was Thai!

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[–] cholesterol@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Full load

Bursting with real juice

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

[–] Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago (8 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 36 points 2 days ago

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

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Don't think beverage, think drug.

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[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 12 points 2 days ago

This is exactly how propaganda works

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 35 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 25 points 3 days ago (6 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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