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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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.
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.
How old were they? That is forth grade math.
You can blank out on simple math at any age.
I still miss the grand Angus. It was a great patty that was usually seasoned well and the sauce was bangin
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.
This must be from AI since it is so confidently wrong.
Genuine curiosity, other than the Queen Anne pound of wine (a joke I meant to contrast the imperial gallon's definition) and saying "Queen Anne gallon of wine" instead of the "wine gallon" defined by Queen Anne in 1707 (now referred to as the "Queen Anne wine gallon"), which parts are incorrect?
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 1000kg is a tonne. There is no metric "ton".
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
THAT’S WHAT IT’S BASED ON?
One of my pet peeves is people thinking units of the past or people in the past were stupid, as opposed to just prioritizing different things.
The low end was based on the stabilizing temperature of a solution of water, ice and salt in a proportion lost to time. The benefit was that a water/ice/salt solution will stabilize it's temperature naturally until the ice melts, making it useful for calibrating something like a thermometer: "ice" can be below the freezing point, but you can use the solution to set a steady baseline: the liquid will be 0°F.
The next steady baseline was body temperature, available to anyone measuring.
The scale was then set so that the freezing and boiling points of water were 180° apart. This was useful because it put them on opposite sides of a dial.
It was before we decided that ten was the ultimate number that couldn't be beat, so people still played with circular symmetry, thirds and so one.
This meant you could calibrate your thermometer by setting 0 to bring, 100 to your body, and then pushing steam through it and adjusting the offset so that the intervals were right and you correct body temperature variance. Some specific numbers have changed over the years as we adjust the scale to be based on metric.
Not stupid or arbitrary, just prioritizing things we don't care about so much any more.
Celsius and the other are both based on absolute zero and a very specific change in energy levels in the medium, so it's ultimately moot. Neither is technically based on what they originally were.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_revision_of_the_SI
It's a better system for weather, but that's about it. 0 is very cold, and 100 is very hot. No decimals needed.
... Please stop. Its not only not true it is also very silly. No its not good for weather, 78 is not a temp for a room.
78F is not a typical room temperature.
I've always explained °Fwith:
0° = Cold AF
100° = Hot AF
50° = Chilly, but manageable
Why are you all like this?
For Celsius
0º - water becomes solid - it's cold
25º - water is refreshing - ideal temperature
50º - water is scalding - dangerous
100º - water is boiling - guaranteed serious injure territory from this point forward
And, since nobody seems to reach an agreement...
For Kelvin
0º - matter has ceased to move; collapse of matter and reality as we understand it - it's cold
273.15º - water is remains solid - still cold
298.15º - water is a fluid, drinkable, safe to enter - ideal temperature
323.15º - water is capable of delivering serious injuries upon contact - dangerous
373.15º - water is passing into vapour form at high rythm - avoid proximity and all contact from this point forward
FYI: Kelvin doesn't use the degree symbol. It's not degrees Kelvin, just Kelvin.
25º - water is refreshing
Get the fuck out of here with your miserable warm water, water is refreshing between 3° and 10°C.
You want to take a swim in water at that temperature? Be my guest. And drinking water that cold? I don't my teeth enamel redone.
If I want to be refreshed, yeah. Also, unless it's scalding hot it shouldn't damage teeth - you might want to look into the content of your water rather than it's temperature if it's damaging your tooth enamel.
So I take it 50°F is the ideal temperature for humans, since it's halfway between cold and hot?
They don't understand insert basically anything either though.
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.
It's not even about the units - a fraction is unitless. 1/3 of something is more than 1/4 of the same something.
It is a reference to an ad from the 80's. A&W ran an advertisement for 1/3 lb patties for the same price as the McDonald quarter pounders. It failed, because people from the U.S. can't do simple math.
That one is an even dumber mischaracterization. If you offer a bigger, but shittier burger than McDonald's, and people don't buy it, you can't just conclude that they didn't understand your burger was bigger.
Your opinion is not a fact.
The entire "AmErICANs dOnT kNoW 1/3>1/4!!" thing rests on AW'S declining sales not reversing from an ad campaign.
If tomorrow, Arby's starts offering 2 extra slices of meat with their sandwiches, and then you didn't buy them, would it make sense for me to run around saying "Haha Carl@sh.itjustworks doesn't know how addition works! He doesn't know when you add 2 to something you have more of it!"
I am not from the United States of Murica. There are 2 different A&W's. A&W Canada also only sells grass fed, and grass finished beef. Which are higher quality than regular beef.
It is over 1 hour drive to the nearest Arby's. I don't know anything about Arby's. That is like me saying you are missing out on $3 summer deal at Harvey's.
Haha Carl@sh.itjustworks doesn't know how addition works! He isn't driving 2 hours to buy a gross-ass Arby's burger because he thinks when you add 2 to something you have the same amount!
I accidentally put my rental car into kph, and it really threw me. I glanced down and it said I was doing 119. Panic face for a minute there.
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