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[–] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 55 points 6 months ago (21 children)

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

[–] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 34 points 6 months ago (3 children)

WTF my bike is about a metre twenty high

Have they got fuckin dwarf deer there or something

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't understand what you're saying. How many piled hamburgers in a metre?

[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There are now ~~14~~ 15 competing measurement standards....

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[–] MisterChief@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago (4 children)
[–] Jimbo@yiffit.net 4 points 6 months ago
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[–] Damage@feddit.it 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Americans are way more familiar with hamburgers that bycicles

[–] JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 6 months ago

Can confirm.

[–] Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

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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[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

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

[–] Palerider@feddit.uk 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Invite guests round for dinner at the White House.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

No, that's hamberders.

[–] runeko@programming.dev 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Give em to yo mama for a light afternoon snack?

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[–] EvilEyedPanda@lemmy.world 38 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 9 points 6 months ago (4 children)

why doesn’t someone just push it out of the way?

Or.. punch it?

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's the police, they'll just shoot it out of the way.

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[–] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Chris Redfield is busy somewhere else

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[–] NotSpez@lemm.ee 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago (4 children)

But how many square burgers is that?

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)
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[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Are we talking 1/4lb, 1/3lb, or 1/2lb? Then are we talking single, double, triple? Hamburgers as a unit of measurement is a horrible idea.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago (3 children)

A hamburger weighs as much as 3 bananas, everyone knows that silly.

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[–] greentreerainfire@kbin.social 9 points 6 months ago

Say what you will about the American education system, but I know it’s a 1/4 lb burgers because you could get close(ish) to 200 lbs of meat from a deer if you were lucky in Oregon Trail.

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 6 points 6 months ago

I need a conversion to cheeseburgers. I rarely work with regular hamburgers.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Hamburger units feel appropriate for things that can be hamburgers.

[–] anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

But that includes organs and stuff so they also need to tell us how many hotdogs. I weigh 783 hamburgers and 132 hotdogs

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[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

What's the convention rate from hamburger to American frie's?

[–] DragonOracleIX@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 months ago

3 bags of five guys fries per burger.

[–] Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

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?

[–] Default_Defect@midwest.social 6 points 6 months ago

Roughly 1/800th of a deer.

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[–] eldoom@lemmy.ml 10 points 6 months ago (3 children)

So you're telling me that deer are made out of hamburgers and bicycles?

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

According to my calculations, deer are bicycles made of hamburgers

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[–] Chef_Boyardee@lemm.ee 9 points 6 months ago

I want this on a T-shirt.

[–] Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (8 children)

1 centiyard is about equal to 1 centimeter

1 miliyard is 3 milifeet

1 kiloyard is 3 kilofeet

It would be the same as the metic system having something like a "hand"

That if you wanted to express 1/3 of a meter you could just call it 1 hand. 2/3 meter would be 2 hands.

If you were using this metric system and knew that something had to be two hands long. You'd simply call it 2 hands instead of .66 meters or 66 centimeters.

If something had to be 2.5 hands long it would be .825 meters or 82.5 centimeters

Meter and yard are both random established lengths. Using miliyards or millimeters is exactly the same.

US customary units just have smaller unit names you can call them if it is convenient. If you never wanted to use anything but yards like the metric system does meters, it's possible. Don't want to use miles? Then megayards.

I do think 1 simple system that everyone uses is needed and the metric system is simple.

But if stupid Americans can use the "difficult" system, it can't be too hard.

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[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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/

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[–] PsychedSy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I'm willing to defend the use of US Customary.

Come at me, bitches.

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[–] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 5 points 6 months ago (4 children)

How do Americans find out how big a bicycle is?

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oh, you know. We see them at schools, on the news...

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[–] user1234@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 6 months ago

I once saw a tsunami tidal wave height described in refrigerators tall. Something like it could reach the height of 2.5 refrigerators.

[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's a ridiculous way to weigh a deer. There is plenty of parts you don't eat and a hamburger is more that a piece of meat.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Mmmmm, venison burgers! I’m considering a new grill and that would put me over….. I wonder how many venison burgers my chest freezer holds

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

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.

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[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago (4 children)

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

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