What energy drink is shaped like that?? Maybe the diameter is similar, but no way it’s the size of a whole can.
New unit of measurement
Submitted 11 months ago by Doesntpostmuch@possumpat.io to [deleted]
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Flummoxed@lemmy.world 11 months ago
KickMeElmo@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Maybe those five hour energy and similar shots? That’s all I can come up with though.
Flummoxed@lemmy.world 11 months ago
“Size of a nice rice ball” would have been more appropriate. Maybe if you tried flattening a 5 hour?
variants@possumpat.io 11 months ago
I don’t know I’ve never removed the pelt off one
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Flummoxed@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ok, ok, maybe… Thank you for this. Good call.
dingus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I like these, but places near me don’t seem to sell them. Well, my local gas station used to, but they were always hidden in the back and expired which is gross as fuck.
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
We talking red bull or Rockstar?
Flummoxed@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Neither are ovoid shaped, right? I just don’t understand.
Valmond@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Those small cans you get on the plane? But why the ‘energy’? Probably to shitpost IMO.
Evilschnuff@feddit.de 11 months ago
They look exactly golfball-sized, wtf. This is the default measurement unit for hail!
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 11 months ago
Those are some big golf balls you play with. Maybe racquetballs?
BigDiction@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah this in between golf ball and baseball.
BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
The first line took a while to read. First try I got what could be written as:
“Sizes of energy drink can pelts, we salute you”
I mean “drink can pelts” is a weird way to say aluminum
tiredofsametab@kbin.run 11 months ago
"energy-drink-can-sized hail..." is how I would have written it. Or, y'know, used numbers like a sane person.
dingus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Well, I mean it’s less weird to write “gold ball -sized hail” bcause it’s a rather common way to describe the size of hail. Energy drink cans are cylindrical, so it doesn’t make immediate sense in anyone’s brain in the sentence as a comparison. I’m guessing the author couldn’t think of a common enough spherical item of the right size to compare with. Still, I think hyphens would have immediately fixed the strangeness, like the person below you commented.
BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Or commas, and better grammar, would have done wonders, too.
“Hail, the size of energy drink can[s], pelt[ed] Texas […]”
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 11 months ago
Sports equipment and fruit are the common comparison for spherical objects.
“Grape sized hail” is quick and easy. “Softball sized” gives the proper “holy shit that’s huge” reaction.
Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
I like the spherical references. I don’t know why he wouldn’t stick with balls.
el_abuelo@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
It’s a good thing they included the coin for scale otherwise we might have just assumed this person had Trump sized hands (another completely valid and totally real unit of measure, the greatest unit of all time actually)
Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
I’m ngl, this was so hard to read. Why does english have 2 meanings for can?
bob_lemon@feddit.de 11 months ago
Also, why should we hail the size of energy drink cans?
Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
I’ll tell you a secret. I’ve never had an energy drink in my life so I don’t even know it’s size.
ICastFist@programming.dev 11 months ago
Imagine a language invented by a drunken german who thought french sounded nice. That’s english in a nutshell
wieson@feddit.de 11 months ago
Also pelts can mean fur or yeet
Eyedust@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Three. Depending on where you are in the U.S., a toilet is also a “can”. It’s more of a slang meaning, but if you ever hear an American saying they’re “going to go hit the can,” it means they’re going to use the bathroom.
tiredofsametab@kbin.run 11 months ago
Can you do the can can whilst canning peas and drinking a can of monster all whilst on the can?
callouscomic@lemm.ee 11 months ago
“possible tornado” hurt someone?
What?
Madison420@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Someone wanted comp and the government is filled with gullible idiots.
Eiim@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Well, you can have a funnel cloud, but it’s not a tornado until the condensation funnel touches the ground, and it’s not always clear what the case is until proper surveying is done.
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 11 months ago
Was it one or was it not?
EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Hail the size of energy.
Drink can pelts Texas
samus12345@lemmy.world 11 months ago
How do you get the pelt off of an energy drink can, though?
spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Or, is it drink can doing the pelting of Texas? Also an interesting option
BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
A surprising lot of them are re-skinned, actually, so that’s a legit thing. Depending on your definition of pelt.
Lots of cans that were printed for discontinued lines, or printed before a label change, have plastic sleeves over the can to re-brand them, even when the label on the old and new is identical…
Otakulad@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Using republican logic, God hates the border patrol.
Etterra@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Funny, I’ve never seen an energy drink come in a can that small.
Sconrad122@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Low key convinced this started out as “monster hail” and then got butchered by an AI or like 5 Google translate passes
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Inb4 euros still being mad about “they’ll use anything but metric!”
RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Inb4
Nope, you’re way late.
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
Yeah, ok, well only babies drink energy drinks that small.
TimeNaan@lemmy.world 11 months ago
We need a child-sized drink for that
pezmaker@programming.dev 11 months ago
In other news, several border patrol agents seen chasing tornado with tasers drawn.
lemmylommy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Quickly, shrinkflate the energy drinks
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Media is in cahoots - groundwork laid for the gaslight
cerement@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
based tornado
synae@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Fuck border patrol, I hereby upgrade “possible tornado” to “neighborhood tornado watch”
itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Hail the size of Pillsbury Toaster Strudel
Okokimup@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Someone alert Alex Horne
UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 11 months ago
quick! pour some Gatorade on the crops so it grows better
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Redbull would beg to differ
salarua@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
anything but the metric system
disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 11 months ago
We may be the minority, but many of us Americans prefer the metric system.
Ease of conversion and relationship with calories aside, have you ever tried measuring small SI machine screws? Calipers run decimal, not fractions. You can’t compare them without math or memorization. It’s a pain in the ass.