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Why do I feel like I'm listening to an ad on Radio Los Santos?
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.
Would you rather have a liter of cola?
Its illegal if its US customary floz. Needs to be British imperial floz along side metric unless its for certain products (milk, beer etc)
This is exactly how propaganda works
What’s more ‘Murican than not understanding the metric system?
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.
Not understanding anything at all
It's not even about the units - a fraction is unitless. 1/3 of something is more than 1/4 of the same something.
found the bot
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.
They don't understand insert basically anything either though.
Understanding things is COMMUNIST! We have the FREEDUMB to be completely illiterate!
Tbf does anybody? It's a pretty stupid system.
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
Oh then we both have terrible news today....
uh oh. you tell me mine. im pretty stupid
THAT’S WHAT IT’S BASED ON?
Nobody really knows for sure. It's lost to history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit
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
I've always explained °Fwith:
0° = Cold AF
100° = Hot AF
50° = Chilly, but manageable
So I take it 50°F is the ideal temperature for humans, since it's halfway between cold and hot?
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
Why are you all like this?
This is not the explanation you think it is, over there.
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.
The 151.1959447 gram burger has such a nice ring to it!
The wut?
I'll never understand how people drink this axe spray flavored toxic piss. They all taste like what I imagine chemical runoff tastes like.
You can pry the chemical piss from my dead hands, which should be soon because I drink chemical piss
Don't think beverage, think drug.
Don’t think beverage,
chug beverage
Ikr, both sugar and cocaine activate the exact same dopaminic pathways in your brain, it floods the nucleus accumbens with signals of intense pleasure and satisfaction, creating a long term addiction, but only one is legal.
Cocaine has some additional interactions with the body that one might consider fairly pivotal.
I have never once heard anyone describe the scent of cocaine.
It's the white can. It's sugar free but definitely does something for my ADHD
It has other kinds of sugars in it, like inositol. Not to mention the caffiene.
Yup. Taurine for pep. Same reason they put it in cheap dog food.
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.
Speak for yourself
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).
People come to like what they consume regularly. People's insecure clinging to dietary preferences is so short sighted, pointless, and harmful.
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 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
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.
I didn't know they were European, good times
Red Bull straight up own the Red Bull Ring racing track in Austria, formerly Österreichring i.e. ‘Austrian circuit’.
I hate to ruin things for you, but the founder was a right wing piece of shit.
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.
This is a great TIL. I had no idea red bull was Thai!
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.
Crazy story! I'm so glad it worked out for each party.
what is your stake in this?
Yeah, Austrian with the original development done in Vietnam
Thailand I believe.
The US could never tell the difference...
/S
I don't know about the US, but in Canada Red Bull comes in 250ml, 355ml, and 500ml sizes.
In the US you can get 8.4oz (248ml), 12oz (355ml), 16oz (473ml), 20oz (591ml).
The "euro can" is 33cl/330ml
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!
Wonder if this could be a lawsuit like that dude that sued redbull for not really giving you wings.
Probably not since the actual thing they are likely referring to with that sentence is the 250ml Red Bull can.
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 still miss the grand Angus. It was a great patty that was usually seasoned well and the sauce was bangin
The mushroom Swiss was genuinely a great burger. Of course hardly anyone ordered it.
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!
Me too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFEG0Eu4OOc
MANLY EXTRA STRAWBERRY DREAMS!!
We got got to go back to elementry school yo hahahaha 🤣
Amateurs:
My mom bought me one of these from Estonia, 900ml.
What is 12% and what is 4.9%?
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.
12 volts, 900ml. It would be a 2 days hangover for me.
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."
I didn't even see the "4.9%“. I thought it was one of those horrible beers. Plato scale. OK, I learnt something.
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?
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.
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"
US or British Fartbuckets ?
Yeah, I know the prefixes, I just hadn't seen it used with liquid like that
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)
Yes, Switzerland is weirdly obsessed with centilitres, not sure why. But it's metric so it's not a big deal.
is it just a different way of saying 56.5cl?
Yes.
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!
Because deciliters is proper metric notation. We don't count large distances in millimeters.
Faxe ~~Kondi~~ Danechad 1lt cans mog that
Imma grip n’ sip.
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?
Well... yes. Yes, kinda. The "1/3 is smaller than 1/4" is a real thing being referenced, and how smart is that?
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)
Don’t forget your piss-poor food standards.
We have food standards?!?
Very appropriate username!
Wait but they do sell a 16 oz one according to redbull
I don't live in the US of A, tho
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!
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
Heh, true. But however the numbers change, you can be sure that the game remains the same.
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.
They could have just called them (checks converter) 4oz and 5.28oz burgers
The gram: Am I a joke to you?
just get the 1/10 lb patties like the value burgers and add 2 more on.
Imagine drinking and eating garbage when it's literally cheaper, healthier, and tastier to cook for yourself
how do you make something with an even remotely similar flavor at home?
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??
You don't have monster chicken?
Oooo that's nice, not cooking for myself
This feels like a metaphor...
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?
AI upscale always looks trash. It’s so obviously bad.
What the heck is happening in the middle panel the cups don't make any sense
AI slop version of this:
They also never get pointing at things right
AIs are cats. They think we just like showing each other fingers.
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.
That doesn't even make sense
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.
Listen, water higher up tastes better. It's rarefied.
Exactly. Water from higher elevation tastes better. That's why I only buy Figi Arrowhead Calistoga Spring water.
