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
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).
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 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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
But that includes organs and stuff so they also need to tell us how many hotdogs. I weigh 783 hamburgers and 132 hotdogs
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?
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.
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.
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
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
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
We have an 18cu ft upright freezer, it currently contains probably about 60lbs ground venison, plus roasts and cuts from two deer, but also something like 1/8hog, 1/4cow, bunch of fish and say 1/2dozen prepped dinners. You could fit like 5or6 processed deer I bet in the average chest freezer which would be a great many burgers, say 3 or 400.
I found on a quick search that 0.5lb ground beef is 14.44cu in. So if we're calling all red meat the same density, and a loose packing factor of 0.75 it looks like about 1615 1/2lb venison burgers in my freezer which is quite a bit more than 400.
18cuft 1728=31104cuin, 31104/14.44=2154burgers, 21540.75=1615 burgers (1/2lb)
I once saw a tsunami tidal wave height described in refrigerators tall. Something like it could reach the height of 2.5 refrigerators.
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.
I mean there is a good reason.... And that reason is, which I will state in this comment, is that the reason is very good in terms of the fact that hereby unto forthwith hence that reason is valid.
You're not, you're aware of that.
But some people are super America-centric and can't imagine switching to anything unamerican.
Most of our people are that way. Our arrogance in this stupid notion of American Exceptionalism holds us back, and too many of us are too stupid to realize it.
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
So what you're saying is, I can make 800 venison hamburgers from a single deer? Nice.
Hey if you grind the bone fine enough you can't tell and it is a great source of calcium.
No that is when you boil the gelatin out of the joints. Then combine it with some blood and put it in the fridge to set. I like to use my deer shape ice cube tray.
To be fair: if anyone's going to intuitively know the weight of 800 hamburgers, Americans are it. :)
Also, I'm not entirely opposed to using "every day" analogies for stuff like this.
I use metric, so you tell me weight in kg and I imagine it in half the number of (2 liter) water bottles. Which I have a pretty good intuition for since I often carry anywhere between 1 and 12 at a time.
Of course if I had to suffer imperial, I would like analogies as well.
Same with me on the water. I grew up Australia.
Since moving to the UK, I'm still trying to get used to medieval bollocks. Gimme analogies, because Stones used to be 1 Stone of wheat was a different weight to 1 Stone of, say, actual stones. Mental.