Bicycle is fine because it’s an everyday object I can visualise, but what the hell am I supposed to do with 800 burgers?
WTF my bike is about a metre twenty high
Have they got fuckin dwarf deer there or something
I don’t understand what you’re saying. How many piled hamburgers in a metre?
With pickles?
There are now
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Apparently, they do. For example, the white-tailed deer has a shoulder height of 1.0m to 1.1m, and that’s in the North. Towards the South, they get smaller.
I guess, that would be a general thing. Mainland US is relatively temperate. The real giant kinds of deer, like e.g. moose/elks, only really live in colder regions, which are further north (including in Alaska).
Mule or black tail maybe?
Eat em!
Ok, gimmie
Unfortunately, I have an eating disorder that limits my diet severely. Burgers don’t make the list, I’m afraid.
But you don’t have to eat a weight to understand how heavy it feels. Just picking it up is usually sufficient (within human lifting range of course).
I feel ya. I also can’t eat 800 hamburgers. We’re a silent majority.
Americans are way more familiar with hamburgers that bycicles
Can confirm.
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.
… child-size and adult-sized burgers and you hit it with your truck …
I’m sorry, but where does McDonald’s get their meat from again? 🤔
From the Deer. Duh.
Give em to yo mama for a light afternoon snack?
Haha that was a good one
It’s about 3/4 the weight of the average American.
Invite guests round for dinner at the White House.
No, that’s hamberders.
Bicycles come in so many sizes and shapes that it’s as useful measure as a stone
So do deer, this is intended as a mental shortcut to roughly approximate size instead of a precise measurement.
But since deer are common and they do t have anything more precise than looking up an average and you can’t reasonably picture 800 burgers, wtf
Isn’t a stone an english measurement?
Also what kind of deer?
Divide by 4.
what’s 1/4 of a Royale with cheese?
15 grams.
Or 3 fat joints, or one nice fat blunt.
Bicycles come in a variety of sizes and configurations tho…
Hum… What part of the bike exactly? And there are bikes with widely different sizes out there.
Overall, it lets me have an idea of the size. Unfortunately, not as good an idea as that reference-free photo.
Yeah, it’s particularly weird, because surely people from the US have a good sense how much a pound weighs, and a pound weighs more than a burger, so you need to imagine a less big number of them.
And people are much closer in size - isn’t “the weight of your uncle Eddie” more meaningful?
why doesn’t someone just push it out of the way?
Or… punch it?
Chris Redfield is busy somewhere else
It’s the police, they’ll just shoot it out of the way.
Only if it black
Looks like something you can manipulate with a sheikah slate
Why push it, just ride it like the pioneers used to do.
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.
But how many square burgers is that?
Sir, this isn’t Wendy’s.
Good catch!
I know, I’m just here for the Brawndo. It’s got electrolytes!
Great question!! Ok a rough estimate is the best I can do. As everything is bigger in Texas, I will take a relatively big deer for reference. As you will understand, I must compare area with area, so here goes:
Taking a BigMac as a reference and assuming a patty diameter of 10.4cm Source. This would lead to an area of 84.95cm2.
A bigger deer skin could be 150x139 cm Source. On the one hand this is an overestimation because those are the maximum measures and it’s not perfectly square, but on the other hand we’re not taking certain area’s such as the hooves and head into account. The area comes to 20850cm2.
So one deer is, in terms of area, as big as 245,4 hamburgers.
Again, I hope this helps.
I assume you’re still measuring in Texas Deer units…
Yes, very helpful!
Somewhere between 746 and nineteen quintillion. Hope that helps.
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.
A hamburger weighs as much as 3 bananas, everyone knows that silly.
I stand corrected. A banana weighs as much as 3 hamburgers.
We don’t have this one around here, but we have one about half of its (linear) size, so 1/8 of the weight. It already weights more than 3 hamburgers (unless they are like the one on the photo around the comments here).
Bananas are quite dense.
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.
I need a conversion to cheeseburgers. I rarely work with regular hamburgers.
Hamburger units feel appropriate for things that can be hamburgers.
But that includes organs and stuff so they also need to tell us how many hotdogs. I weigh 783 hamburgers and 132 hotdogs
You forgot to add in the 15% sawdust…
Maybe, but there’s a lot of most animals that I don’t want in a burger or any kind of ground meat. Bones, cartilage, organs, etc.
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?
Roughly 1/800th of a deer.
A Big Mac is ~250g, a cheeseburger ~120g.
An American male mule deer is 95 - 150kg.
So to answer your question, they’re using something closer in size to the cheeseburger and not the Big Mac, as 800 Big Macs is about ~190kg whereas 800 cheezburgers is about 96kg.
What’s the convention rate from hamburger to American frie’s?
3 bags of five guys fries per burger.
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/
Keeping it at seconds still makes it relatively comfortable for me. Bananas per minute (BPM) is where it’s at
1 Mile Per Hour ≈ 150.688 Bananas Per Minute
1 Kilometer Per Hour ≈ 93.633 Bananas Per Minute
So you’re telling me that deer are made out of hamburgers and bicycles?
According to my calculations, deer are bicycles made of hamburgers
This math checks out.
Perfect.
The person who wrote this is on a bicycle to work off the 800 burgers made from deer.
That’s excellent deduction, Watson.
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.
But if stupid Americans can use the “difficult” system, it can’t be too hard.
I think about this whenever I see someone complain about how Fahrenheit is arbitrary and how are you supposed to remember that water freezes at 32° and boils at 212°. I guess American brains are just able to retain more.
You never deal with 0°C/32°F or 100°C/212°F unless you’re in a science lab.
They are nice numbers in celcius, but for real-world applications, it’s almost meaningless.
When I boil water on the stove, I don’t check if it hits 100°C. When I freeze water in the freezer, I don’t check if it hits 0°C.
Everyone can get by without knowing the exact degrees.
This is pure water at standard pressure. Higher or lower altitudes will change it, and if your water has minerals or impurities in it, it will also change it. It’s pretty arbitrary.
Water on roads can freeze before it hits 0°C outside. It can even snow above 0°C.
Fahrenheit is a very simple scale other than those two things. <0° extremely cold, >100° extremely hot for air temperature. Freezers are 0°F and Saunas are 200°F. Hot tubs are 100°F. You bake cookies at 325° to 375°, pizza is cooked at 600° to 800°F. You’ll find a lot of 25° increments in cooking.
Fahrenheit isn’t really a part of the US customary units.
Knowing both Fahrenheit and Celsius, I do think Fahrenheit is simpler for real-world applications. For science they are just numbers on a scale. Converting is the only real problem.
Trying to learn Fahrenheit scale isn’t that easy as an adult. I know 0 is very cold and 100 very warm. So of course it follows 50 is perfect weather. Turns out it’s not.
In the end you still just have to learn by hearth that t-shirt weather starts at 70 something and that kind of stuff.
50°F is the point where you need clothes to survive. If you sat naked in a 50°F room you run the risk of your body not being able to generate enough heat and you’ll slowly die.
~75°F is room temperature. It’s in the middle on the warm side.
70°F is a cool room, 80°F is a warm room.
Whenever I think of Celsius I see it as 0° to 40° with 20° being room temperature. I hear 30°C and think halfway between 70 and 100 so I know it’s around 85°F and I know how 85°F feels.
But like 35°C. That’s 3/4 of the way from 20°C to 40°F. 100°F-70°F is 30°. 3/4 of 30 is 22.5. So 35° must be close to 70°+22.5° or ~93°F. I know how 93°F feels.
I can see how celcius is easier if you learned it as a child. 35°C would just be 35°C. But trying to quickly wrap your head around it is difficult unless you just know it. I’m sure if I said 93°F you could tell me that that is pretty hot.
75F would already be a warm room for many. 70F or 21C is usually room temperature around here. In the past this was often 65F. In more southern places 75F is middle of the night temperature and too cold.
I can see how the F scale makes some sense, but then you see some news report from Texas reaching 100F and you wonder if people can read their own temperature scale as that is clearly not fit for human habitation.
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There are the “I like to keep my house at 66°F because I like to wear a hoodie or use a blanket”. They are going to say that 75°F is warm or even hot for a room.
If an average person sat naked in a 75°F room they would be happy.
68°F or 20°C is cold for me. Even 70°F or 21°C. I keep my house around 72° to 74°F and bump it up or down a degree. Coming in from mowing the yard, bump it down, sitting all day watching movies, keep it the same, cold winter day, bump it up.
Older people keep their houses at 78°+
100°F doesn’t mean “not fit for human habitation”
Anything above body temperature of 98.6°F (37°C) you are slowly cooking yourself. That’s why 100°F is important.
I just feel the need to say the yard and meter weren’t randomly established distances. They were chosen. Meter being the earth’s circumference divided by 40 million (or rather the distance from the pole to the equator divided by 10 million). Useful for map making and navigating.
And the yard being the distance from the nose to the thumb of some British monarch, Henry I, I think. Useful for buildings and making sure things are within reach for the average person
I want this on a T-shirt.
I’m willing to defend the use of US Customary.
Come at me, bitches.
Stand at my back! We will fight them off together!
Tradesman? Skilled labor? Common day vikings!
But stand at least 3 burritos away plz.
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
About… yea high. Like, two dozen hamburgers.
With or without cheese?
Round 'bout two dogs worth of cheese, yeah.
Thank you, I have a good sense of the height now.
As an American, I appreciate when measurements are already laid out the way I’ll understand. A “meter” isn’t a thing. A hamburger is a thing. Thank you.
A meter is defined as a thing but the distance traveled by light in 1/299792458 of a second may not be the most evocative reference for the common person.
Did you know that a pendulum exactly one meter long will swing exactly once per second? Yep, science!
Hamburger is not a standard measure. Do you mean it’s a small cheeseburger or a large deluxe super burger? What place do you take it from? Those can get to like three times difference in sizes.
It’s impossible to say how big is a “hamburger”. But you can precisely define a meter, and it gets intuitive very quickly with a fraction of effort you imagine it to be.
How do Americans find out how big a bicycle is?
Oh, you know. We see them at schools, on the news…
Some of us steal them.
Average ballsack height.
Well going by that measurement, the ladies are gonna have an ahem, interesting ride…
Fair point. If we’re talking top of the sack I’m 5’10". Bottom? 3’.
