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?
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.
It's about 3/4 the weight of the average American.
Invite guests round for dinner at the White House.
No, that's hamberders.
why doesn’t someone just push it out of the way?
Or.. punch it?
Chris Redfield is busy somewhere else
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.
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.
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.
What's the convention rate from hamburger to American frie's?
3 bags of five guys fries per burger.
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
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.
So you're telling me that deer are made out of hamburgers and bicycles?
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/
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.
I want this on a T-shirt.
I once saw a tsunami tidal wave height described in refrigerators tall. Something like it could reach the height of 2.5 refrigerators.
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.
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
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
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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