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.
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.
It's an Austrian company even though 51% of it is still owned by the Yoovidhya family. They co-founded the company in Austria with Mateschitz and hold the current patent. But it's still an Austrian company, not a Thai one. At least I could find nothing that clearly states it's legally Thai in any capacity.
jesus so many different sizes in this thread! we got 473ml, 500ml, 250ml, 355ml, 330ml
to top it all off I checked my collection and I got a 368ml one too!
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.
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?
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!
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
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!
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.
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.
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.
my brain has to be under very specific conditions to do math. if any of those conditions change i draw a blank. adding a $5 tip sounds easy right? it's just +5. Not when some teenager is watching you. it's like peeing in public. here it comes... damnit someone walked in.... oh near they can instant piss. probably doing calculus in their head too.
I can get that. Whenever I am sharing my screen or someone is watching me use a computer I turn into a boomer. I can't type. I can't find anything. I lose where the mouse is. Very annoying!
Idk, math comes naturally to me. I would get my sleep in during math class lectures, and finish before everyone else. English on the other hand was confusing to me, still is. One has straight forward rules, the other is chaotic.
I don't know about dogs but cats can't synthesize their own taurine, kind of like humans can't synthesize vitamin C, so their food has to be enriched in it.
I really like the taste, I wish I could get something with it that wasn't an energy drink and with a lot less sugar (light/sugar sugarfree anything makes me feel sick so that's not an option).
I dont like the normal energy drinks, they indeed taste like piss, but oh my gawd all these fucking sour apple guava fruit punched in my face shit tastes great 😭 please Lemmy, give me an alternative
I buy energy drinks once in a blue moon, and they taste like nothing else. Chastising people for their taste preference is short sighted, pointless, harmful, and stupid.
I understand it. That piss is good! They come in sugar-free varieties and the caffeine content is less than that of a large mug of coffee. I will never see a breakfast consisting of orange juice and coffee among other things as being better for you.
Funnily enough, that would be pretty hard to find in Estonia these days, only a few alcohol stores carry Russian stuff anymore
Very multi-cultural though, you got a "czech style" beer made in Russia from Estonia
Of course the truly big beers come in 2 liter bottles and are consumed by... well let's say not the favourite customers of store clerks working in small grocery stores in small towns.
Apparently that is actually the measurement of gravity in the Plato scale. The beer has 4.9% abv, and 12 degrees of gravity (??)
Here's what I found from wikipedia
"By considering the original gravity, the brewer or vintner obtains an indication as to the probable ultimate alcoholic content of their product. The OE (original extract) is often referred to as the "size" of the beer and is, in Europe, often printed on the label as Stammwürze or sometimes just as a percent. In the Czech Republic, for example, common descriptions are "10 degree beers", "12 degree beers" which refer to the gravity in Plato of the wort before the fermentation."
Is that centiliters? I wasn't aware that was a commonly used unit. I've only ever seen ml. But how does the 50+6.5 thing work? Is there like a second reservoir, or is it just a different way of saying 56.5cl?
We have cl on a lot of stuff here too, in northern Europe. And many recipes use deciliters! Love deciliters! Metric is fun!
And as a small side rant, honestly cups can go to hell, worst way to measure for a recipe! Liquids, sure if you must, but flour and sugar needs to be by weight goddammit!
Common enough in a drinks context. But really, that doesn't matter because it's metric: you're not going to end up with 4269 fartbuckets to the whateverthefuck. Instead it says centi so it's a 100th of the thing, which is barely even mental arithmetic at all.
It's slightly larger than the standard 500ml can, the + is because they'd like to emphasize the "bonus"
Prefixes aren't specific to individual units, the beauty is it still means 1/100 no matter if you're talking about length, weight, mass, volume, voltage, magnetic flux... go nuts.
(This being said, tens and hundreds are rarer for most units. Centiliter for drinks and centimeters for e.g. someone's height are common)
right, I'm fairly metric-fluent. Advocate for the switch and whatnot. I just had not personally seen centiliter used on a commercial product like that. I'm guessing each country (or perhaps it's more language specific?) chooses different common units. In my experience, I have only seen milliliter and liter used for beverages, and gram and milligram used for foods. I know the others exist, and I'm sure someone somewhere measures distance or size in decimeters, it's just not something I've seen someone doing.
It's basically just saying "hey, it's more than 50cl!" (Which is a common can size). It's a pretty stupidly small amount to have different cans and advertise for IMO, at least make it 10cl more.
I thought it was that most Americans would be too ignorant to know that the European one is larger anyway and they wouldn’t bother to check. They’d just think “fuck yeah, murica” or something, and get back to their 78 hour working week.
Hey! Thats 78hr workweek, no healthcare, and poorer living conditions to you!
(Plus delivering food on the side so we have money to lose on sports betting)
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.
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.
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.
Sucks, too, because 1/3 pound was the right size. Two 1/4 pound patties are too much, which is the only option now, since, yes, Americans are poorly educated. And, it's getting worse.
I'm not blaming teachers, at all. Their hands are tied by admin and parents.
Can someone tell me what they're trying to say with that line? Does someone in the Monster marketing department think the covers of history textbooks are... Exciting?
"This isn't a drink for some woke liberal blue-haired nerd!"
It almost feels like negging. They're somehow trying to appeal to the non-nerd by playing up fake nerd cred? I don't know. It's entirely too confusing.
Well besides not having enough education to know AP and Honors classes are different things; they're trying to raise a patriot boner when some maga walks up to the drink case so they'll buy the can. ~"This drink is so patriotic that you'll be an expert in US history, and (take a shot at europe because magas are anti-europe) this ain't no small European can," referencing the tendency for 330ml (11.1oz) cans in the eu instead of the 12oz (~473ml)
The funny thing is I don't think I've ever seen the 330 ml monster can. Not that I really been looking since I've had one monster drink at one point in my life, and felt like I was gonna die.
I only do energy drinks if I'm on the road for long hours late at night, just before i know i'm going to get tired and I slowly ramp up until i get tired again anyway.
That tracks, considering at some American sports stadiums you can buy a regular (20oz) beer for $4 that neatly fills up the cup for a large beer (24oz allegedly) that costs $7. Humans in general, and Americans in particular, are not good at judging beverage volumes.
You can tell that's an old article because you haven't been able to get a $4 beer in sports stadiums in forever. I ordered a tall boy at a baseball game this season and it set me back $20!
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.
Americans have too much freedom to bother with pesky little details like that. Don't you know how bad some Jethro-Bobby-named dumbass thinks it is over here?
Flavour is one of the lowest dietary priorities. If you eat it regularly and it is remotely similar to food, you will come to enjoy it. Why not fall in love with something you control rather than with something a corporation is openly trying to use to control YOU??
I just quit using caffeine everyday. It sucks but you can do it, just make sure you drink water when you want caffeine. You'll need to pee more but you'll make it.
What's an even funnier experiment with toddlers is to give yourself two cookies and the kid only one. When they're upset you break their cookie in half so that they now have "two" and are satisfied.
It's a real enough thing that kids do. If you mean the fact that it's a completely pointlessly sloppified AI version where the water slops on the outside because slop, you're completely right.
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pound_heap@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 115 pts · 1d
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 · 26 pts · 1d
I didn't know they were European, good times
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world · 77 pts · 1d
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.
taj@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1d
This is a great TIL. I had no idea red bull was Thai!
zerofk@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 1d
If it’s Austrian why do they use a bull instead of a kangaroo?
Airfried@piefed.social · 5 pts · 1d
It's an Austrian company even though 51% of it is still owned by the Yoovidhya family. They co-founded the company in Austria with Mateschitz and hold the current patent. But it's still an Austrian company, not a Thai one. At least I could find nothing that clearly states it's legally Thai in any capacity.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 21h
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 1d
Crazy story! I'm so glad it worked out for each party.
strahlemann@sh.itjust.works · -2 pts · 1d
what is your stake in this?
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d
Yeah, Austrian with the original development done in Vietnam
childOfMagenta@jlai.lu · 9 pts · 1d
Thailand I believe.
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 4 pts · 1d
The US could never tell the difference...
/S
horse@feddit.org · 4 pts · 1d
I hate to ruin things for you, but the founder was a right wing piece of shit.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 8h
Better than the other career path for an Austrian right wing piece of shit at least.
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 21h
Oh, well it figures I guess
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
Red Bull straight up own the Red Bull Ring racing track in Austria, formerly Österreichring i.e. ‘Austrian circuit’.
scutiger@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1d
I don't know about the US, but in Canada Red Bull comes in 250ml, 355ml, and 500ml sizes.
xistera@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 1d
In the US you can get 8.4oz (248ml), 12oz (355ml), 16oz (473ml), 20oz (591ml).
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 1d
The "euro can" is 33cl/330ml
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1d
jesus so many different sizes in this thread! we got 473ml, 500ml, 250ml, 355ml, 330ml
to top it all off I checked my collection and I got a 368ml one too!
jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 7h
anyone have a pic of the resaleable 24fl oz ones?
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1d
Danquebec@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 23h
That's weird. Does the audience know that Monster is US American and Red Bull is European?
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 8h
Red Bull is Thai, but its marketed as british in America.
darthelmet@lemmy.world · 69 pts · 1d
What’s more ‘Murican than not understanding the metric system?
M0oP0o@mander.xyz · 29 pts · 1d
They don't understand imperial either though.
Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de · 22 pts · 1d
Nobody understands Imperial.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 9 pts · 1d
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.
prime_number_314159@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1d
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.
Arcka@midwest.social · -1 pts · 21h
This must be from AI since it is so confidently wrong.
prime_number_314159@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 15h
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?
M137@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1d
They don't understand insert basically anything either though.
darthelmet@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1d
Understanding things is COMMUNIST! We have the FREEDUMB to be completely illiterate!
darthelmet@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1d
Tbf does anybody? It's a pretty stupid system.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 1d
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!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1d
You're just jealous you're not made of malt
M0oP0o@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 1d
Oh then we both have terrible news today....
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
uh oh. you tell me mine. im pretty stupid
village604@adultswim.fan · 2 pts · 17h
It's a better system for weather, but that's about it. 0 is very cold, and 100 is very hot. No decimals needed.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz · -1 pts · 17h
... 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.
village604@adultswim.fan · 2 pts · 17h
78F is not a typical room temperature.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 16h
Yes! And how would anyone know one way or the other?! Its american madness
jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 7h
look at arizona and boil in the heat of the average house
darthelmet@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
THAT’S WHAT IT’S BASED ON?
ricecake@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1d
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
argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org · 3 pts · 1d
@darthelmet @M0oP0o
Nobody really knows for sure. It's lost to history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit
M0oP0o@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 1d
Oh sure, it just so happens to line up just so and comes from a time where malt (max saturation of salt in water) was common.
Fun thing though is that due to this its the one thing f is good at. No point salting a road at or below zero f. Yeap that's it, wooooo
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today · -1 pts · 1d
I've always explained °Fwith:
0° = Cold AF
100° = Hot AF
50° = Chilly, but manageable
M0oP0o@mander.xyz · 7 pts · 1d
Why are you all like this?
CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1d
I heard they have A1 steak sauce in schools, for teaching.
qyron@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 1d
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
Simon_Shitewood@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 20h
Get the fuck out of here with your miserable warm water, water is refreshing between 3° and 10°C.
qyron@sopuli.xyz · 0 pts · 18h
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.
forbiddencherry@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 20h
FYI: Kelvin doesn't use the degree symbol. It's not degrees Kelvin, just Kelvin.
qyron@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 18h
I'll leave as a testimony of my idiocy. May those seeking to demonstrate my ineptitude never lack evidence.
amio@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
This is not the explanation you think it is, over there.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
So I take it 50°F is the ideal temperature for humans, since it's halfway between cold and hot?
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 23h
Tonnes of engineering white papers showing how much imperial measure errors cost US industry.
darthelmet@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 22h
Don’t you mean kilograms of white papers? :P
ignominous_wombat@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 21h
Metric ton (1000 kg), not imperial/long ton (2240 lbs) or US/short ton (2000 lbs).
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1h
Metric 1000kg is a tonne. There is no metric "ton".
echodot@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 9h
And what size are those white papers, that's right US letter standard
Fmstrat@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
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.
glimse@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1d
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!
kamen@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
It's not even about the units - a fraction is unitless. 1/3 of something is more than 1/4 of the same something.
skisnow@lemmy.ca · -4 pts · 1d
CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1d
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.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1h
Enjoy our new 1/8 pound burger, only $16!
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz · -1 pts · 8h
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.
CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 5h
Your opinion is not a fact.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz · 0 pts · 4h
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!"
CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 4h
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.
remon@ani.social · 1 pts · 1d
Definitely don't quit your day job to become a bot detector.
Rooster326@programming.dev · 2 pts · 1d
The wut?
FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
Not understanding anything at all
MintyFresh@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1d
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.
Varesti@lemmy.zip · -6 pts · 1d
The 151.1959447 gram burger has such a nice ring to it!
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech · 48 pts · 1d
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 pts · 1d
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.
Stinkywizzleteats@piefed.social · 19 pts · 1d
my brain has to be under very specific conditions to do math. if any of those conditions change i draw a blank. adding a $5 tip sounds easy right? it's just +5. Not when some teenager is watching you. it's like peeing in public. here it comes... damnit someone walked in.... oh near they can instant piss. probably doing calculus in their head too.
JackbyDev@programming.dev · 3 pts · 1d
I can get that. Whenever I am sharing my screen or someone is watching me use a computer I turn into a boomer. I can't type. I can't find anything. I lose where the mouse is. Very annoying!
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1d
Me too!
CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1d
How old were they? That is forth grade math.
stephen01king@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 5h
You can blank out on simple math at any age.
CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 4h
Idk, math comes naturally to me. I would get my sleep in during math class lectures, and finish before everyone else. English on the other hand was confusing to me, still is. One has straight forward rules, the other is chaotic.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFEG0Eu4OOc
lordziv@lemmy.nz · 3 pts · 1d
I still miss the grand Angus. It was a great patty that was usually seasoned well and the sauce was bangin
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech · 2 pts · 1d
The mushroom Swiss was genuinely a great burger. Of course hardly anyone ordered it.
Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 1d
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 pts · 1d
You can pry the chemical piss from my dead hands, which should be soon because I drink chemical piss
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 1d
Don't think beverage, think drug.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
chug beverage
VicksVaporBBQrub@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 1d
Yup. Taurine for pep. Same reason they put it in cheap dog food.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 1d
I don't know about dogs but cats can't synthesize their own taurine, kind of like humans can't synthesize vitamin C, so their food has to be enriched in it.
Rubanski@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 1d
Speak for yourself
Aneorthisio@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 1d
Jtotheb@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1d
Cocaine has some additional interactions with the body that one might consider fairly pivotal.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1d
I have never once heard anyone describe the scent of cocaine.
Rooster326@programming.dev · 2 pts · 1d
It's the white can. It's sugar free but definitely does something for my ADHD
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 2 pts · 1d
It has other kinds of sugars in it, like inositol. Not to mention the caffiene.
M137@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
I really like the taste, I wish I could get something with it that wasn't an energy drink and with a lot less sugar (light/sugar sugarfree anything makes me feel sick so that's not an option).
Magnum@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 1d
I dont like the normal energy drinks, they indeed taste like piss, but oh my gawd all these fucking sour apple guava fruit punched in my face shit tastes great 😭 please Lemmy, give me an alternative
jerkface@lemmy.ca · -2 pts · 1d
People come to like what they consume regularly. People's insecure clinging to dietary preferences is so short sighted, pointless, and harmful.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
I buy energy drinks once in a blue moon, and they taste like nothing else. Chastising people for their taste preference is short sighted, pointless, harmful, and stupid.
jerkface@lemmy.ca · -1 pts · 1d
If that's how you want to take it, I'm not going to correct you.
SalamenceFury@piefed.social · 2 pts · 1d
White Monster at least tastes pleasantly citric to me. Everything else is kinda ass.
distal@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1d
I understand it. That piss is good! They come in sugar-free varieties and the caffeine content is less than that of a large mug of coffee. I will never see a breakfast consisting of orange juice and coffee among other things as being better for you.
remon@ani.social · 27 pts · 2d
Amateurs:
666dollarfootlong@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 2d
My mom bought me one of these from Estonia, 900ml.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 14 pts · 1d
Funnily enough, that would be pretty hard to find in Estonia these days, only a few alcohol stores carry Russian stuff anymore
Very multi-cultural though, you got a "czech style" beer made in Russia from Estonia
Of course the truly big beers come in 2 liter bottles and are consumed by... well let's say not the favourite customers of store clerks working in small grocery stores in small towns.
cabillaud@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
12 volts, 900ml. It would be a 2 days hangover for me.
666dollarfootlong@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1d
Apparently that is actually the measurement of gravity in the Plato scale. The beer has 4.9% abv, and 12 degrees of gravity (??)
Here's what I found from wikipedia
"By considering the original gravity, the brewer or vintner obtains an indication as to the probable ultimate alcoholic content of their product. The OE (original extract) is often referred to as the "size" of the beer and is, in Europe, often printed on the label as Stammwürze or sometimes just as a percent. In the Czech Republic, for example, common descriptions are "10 degree beers", "12 degree beers" which refer to the gravity in Plato of the wort before the fermentation."
cabillaud@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
I didn't even see the "4.9%“. I thought it was one of those horrible beers. Plato scale. OK, I learnt something.
JenIsBringingTheDrugs@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1d
Reminds me of this one I found in Germany, 1l & 10%
remon@ani.social · 1 pts · 1d
Ah Faxe, classic Pennerbier!
M137@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
What is 12% and what is 4.9%?
Tabula_stercore@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
4.9% is the alcohol percentage, 12% is the sugar percentage that was present at the start of the brewing.
Didn't find a better source that this wiki page. There's another similar sugar related unit which is degree...
All inferior as it is an indirect measure of the amount of alcohol in the can.
amio@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2d
Faxe
KondiDanechad 1lt cans mog thatdharmacurious@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 1d
Is that centiliters? I wasn't aware that was a commonly used unit. I've only ever seen ml. But how does the 50+6.5 thing work? Is there like a second reservoir, or is it just a different way of saying 56.5cl?
remon@ani.social · 13 pts · 1d
Yes, Switzerland is weirdly obsessed with centilitres, not sure why. But it's metric so it's not a big deal.
Yes.
Butiki@mander.xyz · 10 pts · 1d
We have cl on a lot of stuff here too, in northern Europe. And many recipes use deciliters! Love deciliters! Metric is fun! And as a small side rant, honestly cups can go to hell, worst way to measure for a recipe! Liquids, sure if you must, but flour and sugar needs to be by weight goddammit!
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1d
Because deciliters is proper metric notation. We don't count large distances in millimeters.
amio@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1d
Common enough in a drinks context. But really, that doesn't matter because it's metric: you're not going to end up with 4269 fartbuckets to the whateverthefuck. Instead it says centi so it's a 100th of the thing, which is barely even mental arithmetic at all.
It's slightly larger than the standard 500ml can, the + is because they'd like to emphasize the "bonus"
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 1d
US or British Fartbuckets ?
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 1d
Yeah, I know the prefixes, I just hadn't seen it used with liquid like that
amio@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
Prefixes aren't specific to individual units, the beauty is it still means 1/100 no matter if you're talking about length, weight, mass, volume, voltage, magnetic flux... go nuts.
(This being said, tens and hundreds are rarer for most units. Centiliter for drinks and centimeters for e.g. someone's height are common)
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 20h
right, I'm fairly metric-fluent. Advocate for the switch and whatnot. I just had not personally seen centiliter used on a commercial product like that. I'm guessing each country (or perhaps it's more language specific?) chooses different common units. In my experience, I have only seen milliliter and liter used for beverages, and gram and milligram used for foods. I know the others exist, and I'm sure someone somewhere measures distance or size in decimeters, it's just not something I've seen someone doing.
M137@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
It's basically just saying "hey, it's more than 50cl!" (Which is a common can size). It's a pretty stupidly small amount to have different cans and advertise for IMO, at least make it 10cl more.
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d
Imma grip n’ sip.
chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 2d
Pretty sure this is a poke at 8oz Red Bulls and not their own brand... But, you know, anything to make fun of the idiot Americans, eh?
Codpiece@feddit.uk · 58 pts · 2d
I thought it was that most Americans would be too ignorant to know that the European one is larger anyway and they wouldn’t bother to check. They’d just think “fuck yeah, murica” or something, and get back to their 78 hour working week.
Zulu@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 2d
Hey! Thats 78hr workweek, no healthcare, and poorer living conditions to you! (Plus delivering food on the side so we have money to lose on sports betting)
Codpiece@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 2d
Don’t forget your piss-poor food standards.
shartgargle@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 1d
We have food standards?!?
Codpiece@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 1d
Very appropriate username!
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it · 2 pts · 1d
Wait but they do sell a 16 oz one according to redbull
I don't live in the US of A, tho
amio@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1d
Well... yes. Yes, kinda. The "1/3 is smaller than 1/4" is a real thing being referenced, and how smart is that?
cholesterol@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 1d
Why do I feel like I'm listening to an ad on Radio Los Santos?
Meron35@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 16h
Crozekiel@lemmy.zip · 19 pts · 22h
I really miss the 1/3 lb burgers at so many places that dropped them because idiots don't understand fractions...
echodot@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 9h
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 · 12 pts · 9h
3 is smaller than 4. And they don’t understand fractions
Eh_I@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3h
Not a teacher, are you? lol
boaratio@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3h
You'd be surprised how bad our education system is.
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 16h
No one in the world has ever accused Americans of being smart.
rumba@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 17h
The bodacious bacon cheeseburger at Roy Rogers.
They were slightly elongated but otherwise the same, bacon, cheese, zesty ranch. Served on a matching elongated bun.
Damage@feddit.it · 19 pts · 1d
MANLY EXTRA STRAWBERRY DREAMS!!
FluidBeef@quokk.au · 17 pts · 1d
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 · 10 pts · 22h
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.
LodeMike@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 17h
"Contract" 💀💀💀
Noodle07@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
That'll be 15 dollars
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone · 14 pts · 1d
This is exactly how propaganda works
Fleur_@aussie.zone · 13 pts · 14h
Gotta give the yanks the w here. We're the real losers for poisoning ourselves ever so slightly more
AvocadoCumToast@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 8h
Don’t stret too much about it, we’re poisoning ourselves with diarrhea lettuce and PFAS potatoes
moopet@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 1d
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.
Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 1d
Its illegal if its US customary floz. Needs to be British imperial floz along side metric unless its for certain products (milk, beer etc)
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 21h
It's pretty easy to convert mentally using the Beer Standard, where 12 fl oz = 355 mL.
Whelks_chance@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 21h
For added confusion, pints are different sizes on either side of the pond too
LemmyThinkAboutIt@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1d
Would you rather have a liter of cola?
Noodle07@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
I'd rather have 2
village604@adultswim.fan · 2 pts · 17h
I don't want a large Farva
moopet@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 7h
If I had to have cola I'd probably prefer 250ml or 330ml depending whether I was sitting at a table or climbing a hill.
the_wizard_of_0Z@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 1d
We got got to go back to elementry school yo hahahaha 🤣
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2d
Sucks, too, because 1/3 pound was the right size. Two 1/4 pound patties are too much, which is the only option now, since, yes, Americans are poorly educated. And, it's getting worse.
I'm not blaming teachers, at all. Their hands are tied by admin and parents.
flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 1d
They could have just called them (checks converter) 4oz and 5.28oz burgers
Steve@startrek.website · 5 pts · 1d
The gram: Am I a joke to you?
rumba@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1d
just get the 1/10 lb patties like the value burgers and add 2 more on.
ASK_ME_ABOUT_LOOM@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 22h
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.
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 21h
Can someone tell me what they're trying to say with that line? Does someone in the Monster marketing department think the covers of history textbooks are... Exciting?
ASK_ME_ABOUT_LOOM@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 13h
"This isn't a drink for some woke liberal blue-haired nerd!"
It almost feels like negging. They're somehow trying to appeal to the non-nerd by playing up fake nerd cred? I don't know. It's entirely too confusing.
DisasterTransport@startrek.website · 5 pts · 21h
I'm convinced that most marketing copy is ai generated these days.
mobyduck648@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 6h
Appropriate since a lot of LLMs sound like their training data had way too much marketing copy in it. It's like a circular human centipede.
rumba@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 17h
Well besides not having enough education to know AP and Honors classes are different things; they're trying to raise a patriot boner when some maga walks up to the drink case so they'll buy the can. ~"This drink is so patriotic that you'll be an expert in US history, and (take a shot at europe because magas are anti-europe) this ain't no small European can," referencing the tendency for 330ml (11.1oz) cans in the eu instead of the 12oz (~473ml)
echodot@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 9h
The funny thing is I don't think I've ever seen the 330 ml monster can. Not that I really been looking since I've had one monster drink at one point in my life, and felt like I was gonna die.
rumba@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 7h
I only do energy drinks if I'm on the road for long hours late at night, just before i know i'm going to get tired and I slowly ramp up until i get tired again anyway.
Caffeine has more of a subtle effect on me.
DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 1d
Wonder if this could be a lawsuit like that dude that sued redbull for not really giving you wings.
Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 1d
Probably not since the actual thing they are likely referring to with that sentence is the 250ml Red Bull can.
Manjushri@piefed.social · 4 pts · 1d
That tracks, considering at some American sports stadiums you can buy a regular (20oz) beer for $4 that neatly fills up the cup for a large beer (24oz allegedly) that costs $7. Humans in general, and Americans in particular, are not good at judging beverage volumes.
Youtube Video
jballs@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 1d
You can tell that's an old article because you haven't been able to get a $4 beer in sports stadiums in forever. I ordered a tall boy at a baseball game this season and it set me back $20!
trebach@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1d
It really depends on the stadium how much they gouge you. $20 is more than every NFL stadium charges for 16 oz (about 48 cl) of beer according to this as of February 2026: https://1075thefan.com/playlist/price-of-beer-at-every-nfl-stadium
Manjushri@piefed.social · 2 pts · 1d
Heh, true. But however the numbers change, you can be sure that the game remains the same.
grayclouds@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 4h
I poisoned myself with these once, so I can't drink them anymore.
Murse@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 1d
This feels like a metaphor...
boaratio@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3h
We here in America are proud to measure everything in hamburgers. You Europeans using standardized measurements can get bent.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 1d
These were my guilty pleasure until they backed some trump event I can't even remember. Shame
CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 4h
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.
amio@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1d
Americans have too much freedom to bother with pesky little details like that. Don't you know how bad some Jethro-Bobby-named dumbass thinks it is over here?
Jax@sh.itjust.works · -2 pts · 1d
Imagine drinking and eating garbage when it's literally cheaper, healthier, and tastier to cook for yourself
jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works · -1 pts · 1d
how do you make something with an even remotely similar flavor at home?
GiveOver@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 1d
You don't have monster chicken?
jerkface@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1d
Flavour is one of the lowest dietary priorities. If you eat it regularly and it is remotely similar to food, you will come to enjoy it. Why not fall in love with something you control rather than with something a corporation is openly trying to use to control YOU??
jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works · -1 pts · 16h
but monster isn't similar to food
Jax@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 13h
You're right, because monster is a fucking drug.
I just quit using caffeine everyday. It sucks but you can do it, just make sure you drink water when you want caffeine. You'll need to pee more but you'll make it.
jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works · -1 pts · 12h
how much meth should I substitute a monster with?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 1d
Oooo that's nice, not cooking for myself
d.rizo@piefed.social · -17 pts · 1d
cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 1d
AI upscale always looks trash. It’s so obviously bad.
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip · 20 pts · 1d
What the heck is happening in the middle panel the cups don't make any sense
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 30 pts · 1d
AI slop version of this:
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1d
They also never get pointing at things right
jerkface@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1d
AIs are cats. They think we just like showing each other fingers.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 6 pts · 1d
What's an even funnier experiment with toddlers is to give yourself two cookies and the kid only one. When they're upset you break their cookie in half so that they now have "two" and are satisfied.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1d
That doesn't even make sense
amio@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
It's a real enough thing that kids do. If you mean the fact that it's a completely pointlessly sloppified AI version where the water slops on the outside because slop, you're completely right.
quarkquasar@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
Listen, water higher up tastes better. It's rarefied.
happysplinter@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
Exactly. Water from higher elevation tastes better. That's why I only buy Figi Arrowhead Calistoga Spring water.