• @SGGeorwell
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    Yamaha started as an Organ and piano manufacturer.

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        BMW started off making aircraft engines over a hundred years ago when powered aircraft were first being developed … which is why their logo is a circle with four different coloured quarters, it’s the image of a spinning propeller

        Just don’t ask them what they were doing between 1933 and 1945

        • @[email protected]
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          Nintendo started off making playing cards, that’s why their logo is a [Remainder of comment removed due to Cease and Desist]

        • @[email protected]
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          This is a misconception. The chequered blue and white is part of a Bavarian flag, but due to some legal issues they had to straighten it.

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          Just don’t ask them what they were doing between 1933 and 1945

        • Lord Wiggle
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          Peugeot started off making pepper and salt grinders.

        • Ephera
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          The image of a propeller is from an ad they once ran, but the logo existed beforehand.

          • IninewCrow
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            72 days ago

            Yes … and because of that, for the longest time, because so many people repeated it, I thought the acronym stood for Bavarian Motor Works … its actually ‘Bayerische Motoren Werke’

              • IninewCrow
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                German for Bavarian Motor Works

                God damit! … I was right all along … just in the wrong language!

      • @kn33
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        Then they moved to motorcycle forks

        • Boxscape
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          Then they moved to motorcycle forks

          Maybe they can do Y-Wings next.

          Stay on target.

    • IninewCrow
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      282 days ago

      The meme has it backwards … worker should be saying … ‘I guess we produce motorcycles now’

      • snooggums
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        “I guess we are getting history backwards now”

  • @[email protected]
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    No idea. Yamaha was doing pianos long before they were doing motorcycles, so it can’t be them. I can’t think of a company that started with motorcycles and then moved into pianos.

  • @aluminium
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    Guess we are making Motorboat engines now

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        142 days ago

        Nintendo was founded in 1889 and originally made a type of playing card

        • LeTak
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          Don’t forget the yakuza money laundry made by Nintendo

          • @[email protected]
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            If you dig back enough, literally every Japanese corpo roots go to some usury house or gambling den in Edo period. Or worse, to aristocratic family. Or both.

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          You could write a story about a samurai and cowboy playing with Nintendo cards and drinking Coke and it would be historically accurate.

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        Far as I know, they still make sewing machines; they just don’t sell them in the States.

        Lamborghini started out making tractors.

        My parents had a Mitsubishi television about 15 years ago.

        Coleco started life as the Connecticut Leather Company.

        And it’ll never fail to amuse me how Michelin tells you where to find the best restaurants on the planet.

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          Michelin tells you where the best restaurants are so you can drive to them on their tires ;)

          Guinness started the world record book to settle bar bets.

    • @errer
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      Just look at the Mr. Sparkle corporation: a joint venture of Matsumura Fishworks and Tamaribuchi Heavy Manufacturing Concern

  • @Doomsider
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    122 days ago

    Panasonic also makes bikes and pianos. Samsung does too. I think even Sony has a motorcycle concept so add them to the list.

  • @Smoogs
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    142 days ago

    Is that a penis?

  • @[email protected]
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    72 days ago

    Yamaha has the beginner wind instrument market by the balls right now. Conn-Selmer became garbage over the last 15 years or so, and Jupiter has been known to be “the nicest dogshit in the business” for some time. Yamaha literally just had to maintain the same level of instrument quality while the former “great brands” became cheap stencil crap.

  • @glitch1985
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    I have one of their stereo receivers in my living room.

  • @Potatisen
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    Looks like he’s having away from the conveyor belt or he’s got a front-butt.