• HEXN3T
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    555 months ago

    Bicycle is fine because it’s an everyday object I can visualise, but what the hell am I supposed to do with 800 burgers?

      • @CarbonatedPastaSauce
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        165 months ago

        I don’t understand what you’re saying. How many piled hamburgers in a metre?

      • Ephera
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        45 months ago

        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).

      • HEXN3T
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        25 months ago

        Unfortunately, I have an eating disorder that limits my diet severely. Burgers don’t make the list, I’m afraid.

        • Jesus
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          35 months ago

          I feel ya. I also can’t eat 800 hamburgers. We’re a silent majority.

        • @[email protected]
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          25 months ago

          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).

    • @Jimmyeatsausage
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      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.

      • @over_clox
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        5 months ago

        … 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? 🤔

        • @Juvyn00b
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          25 months ago

          From the Deer. Duh.

    • @SlopppyEngineer
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      65 months ago

      It’s about 3/4 the weight of the average American.

    • runeko
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      55 months ago

      Give em to yo mama for a light afternoon snack?

    • @marcos
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      35 months ago

      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.

    • @negativeyoda
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      35 months ago

      Bicycles come in a variety of sizes and configurations tho…

    • Ephera
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      25 months ago

      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.

      • @AA5B
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        25 months ago

        And people are much closer in size - isn’t “the weight of your uncle Eddie” more meaningful?

      • @Stegget
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        45 months ago

        So do deer, this is intended as a mental shortcut to roughly approximate size instead of a precise measurement.

        • @AA5B
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          15 months ago

          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

      • @Valmond
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        05 months ago

        Isn’t a stone an english measurement?