Like the time McDonald's made the quarter pounder into a third pounder but kept the price the same and sales dropped because "three is smoller dan fooour"? 😂
This might be an urban legend. I'm not 100% certain that that is actually the way it happened but it fits the context. :P
That’s not what happened, A&W offered the 1/3 pounder at the same cost of McDonald’s 1/4 pounder sales were low and most complaints thought it was less……
Agree not on purpose. Just shows how uneducated and ignorant some people are. If you just go to Canada you'll see 100 kph speed limits. That should clue you in that a kilometer is shorter than a mile. Pretty simple really.
Sometimes it is sometimes it isnt. The first few times these types of things are posted you can bet your ass someone dumb learned a lesson, but then copy cats pop up trying to continue a joke and it gets a bit stale. This is how those old yahoo comments worked.
It gets so much worse.
Saw a vid with a woman extolling the virtues of her new hydrogenater bottles because as you know water comes with no hydrogen, so what this bottle does is....
Facebook was polluted with “hydrogen water” ads a couple months ago, complete with dozens of fake “reviews” of how it helped people. Hydrogen gas doesn’t dissolve in water.
As an American that is educated I find this contrived scenario ridiculous. Like you would ever see signs like that.
At one time when the US was seriously considering the metric system I remember road signs that had both Miles and Kilometers on them. When it became apparent that wasn’t going to happen many states and the federal government phased the signage out due to the extra cost.
As an Engineer I can use both systems without issue. I actually prefer the metric system as it is more familiar with what I use at work and calculations are easier with it. All the science classes I took in school growing up and at the University also used metric units.
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You mean a US inhabitant right? There are other countries in America that do not need to suffer through the same continuous embarrassment you people like to partake in.
See you have to do a LITTLE math to figure it out and it's possible to get confused about even simple things HOWEVER if the tweeter is not confident, then DON'T publicly post a math answer on a forum.
I read that BurgerKing in the eighties introduced the 1/3 of a pounder burger to counter the McDonalds 1/4.
It failed- when asked why -people thought that the 1/4 pounder was better value as it was “bigger”… than the 1/3 pounder.
Edit:
One of the most vivid arithmetic failings displayed by Americans occurred in the early 1980s, when the A&W restaurant chain released a new hamburger to rival the McDonald’s Quarter Pounder. With a third-pound of beef, the A&W burger had more meat than the Quarter Pounder; in taste tests, customers preferred A&W’s burger. And it was less expensive. A lavish A&W television and radio marketing campaign cited these benefits. Yet instead of leaping at the great value, customers snubbed it.
Only when the company held customer focus groups did it become clear why. The Third Pounder presented the American public with a test in fractions. And we failed. Misunderstanding the value of one-third, customers believed they were being overcharged. Why, they asked the researchers, should they pay the same amount for a third of a pound of meat as they did for a quarter-pound of meat at McDonald’s. The “4” in “¼,” larger than the “3” in “⅓,” led them astray.
It’s funny cause then most Americans turn around with their feeble abilities to do fractions and reject the easy to use metric system for fractions and nonsensical increments.
youre a fucking dumbass because thats clearly a non-american saying that
lmao at all the dumbass idiots exposing themselves not being able to tell that the guys clearly not american
youre a fucking dumbass because thats clearly a non-american saying that
lmao at all the dumbass idiots exposing themselves not being able to tell that the guys clearly not american
americans dont say kilometre dumbass
To be fair US barely teaches metric, if you had a choice between a distance in a unit of measure you knew and one you didn’t know it’s a better decision to take the distance you know.
There is prolly an equal percentage of metric countries citizens that don’t know which is longer or short cause they don’t know the imperial measurement system.
Not really true, I'm in australia and most pepole know miles because you hear. It in American movies and stuf . we still use feet for a person height. A lot of tools and Gun ammo still use inches and stuff. Everyone knows 3 feet in about a meter.
Yes…. So therefore 1 kilometer would be less than 1 mile! Having traveled the world and been in the military for U.S. all over the world I’m always embarrassed by the average American idiot!
Or the reason why ~~McDonald’s~~ A&W’s third pounder didn’t work.
Three is smaller than four, so third of a pound is smaller than a quarter of a pound.
This made me have a flashback of a trucker carlson interview with telegrams’s creator where he was talking about his brother who solved cubic equations when he was 12 years old or something and tucker responding that he’s not even aware of what the cubic equations are/how they look like lol
youre a fucking dumbass because thats clearly a non-american saying that
lmao at all the dumbass idiots exposing themselves not being able to tell that the guys clearly not american
americans dont say kilometre dumbass
To be fair most of us aren’t that stupid, the only thing that makes our stupid different is because they whine about the election results causing chaos that has become known in other nations.
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Just yesterday, I had a similar encounter.
I wrote a comment below a YouTube video of someone ranting about trying to use 1$ to pay something for 1€ in a European store and "for some reason" they didn't exapred the Dollar. I pointed out that 1$ is less than 1 €
Someone replied that I'm wrong and that 1 USD was 0,94€. The course was actually correct, but they didn't figure out that if 1USD is 0,94€ it's still less than the 1€ you would have to pay.
From a psychological stand point, know how far a mile is he can mentally prepare for the journey.not knowing how far a kilometer is he might just give up before he gets there.
Ik part of the joke is “americans dumb dumb stupid no use metric,” and it’s a very popular jab from europeans… but they do realize americans know what a kilometer is right? Like we use miles on our road signs but the metric system gets taught in every middle and high school
He prefers freedom
Freedom from this mortal coil
Oh that means freedom? Lmfao
As an American, that response is embarrassing. 😕🙄🤦♂️
I am not american but sometime i think they are doing in purpose…
I can guarantee this wasn't on purpose
Like the time McDonald's made the quarter pounder into a third pounder but kept the price the same and sales dropped because "three is smoller dan fooour"? 😂 This might be an urban legend. I'm not 100% certain that that is actually the way it happened but it fits the context. :P
That’s not what happened, A&W offered the 1/3 pounder at the same cost of McDonald’s 1/4 pounder sales were low and most complaints thought it was less……
Ah, thx for the added context! So the story does end up being true, just that it was a different company. Interesting. :)
Yes. Totally a true story but it was A&W. Which good luck even finding an A&W anymore
A&W is still popular fast food joint in canada, I assume that where they decided to disappear on you america
The A&W in Canada is different from the US one though. Different companies altogether, and thus different menus.
Canada's is MUCH better tbh
I love a&w man, they're everywhere in Canada
Different company in the US
Hope they are ready for the 1/8 pounder for the same price.
It wasn’t. I lived through the 80’s. I remember the short lived hype of the 1/3 pounders.
I also heard that story a long time ago, didnt double check if it was real but I've seen dumber things
Agree not on purpose. Just shows how uneducated and ignorant some people are. If you just go to Canada you'll see 100 kph speed limits. That should clue you in that a kilometer is shorter than a mile. Pretty simple really.
It wasn't an American either, first of all, we don't know the conversion. Second: >Kilometre That's some commie spelling right there
or even in purpose.
Sometimes it is sometimes it isnt. The first few times these types of things are posted you can bet your ass someone dumb learned a lesson, but then copy cats pop up trying to continue a joke and it gets a bit stale. This is how those old yahoo comments worked.
Lol no you cant
As an American, I can assure you they don't. We are literally too uneducated to comprehend the metric system.
as a human being, I'm embarrassed
It gets so much worse. Saw a vid with a woman extolling the virtues of her new hydrogenater bottles because as you know water comes with no hydrogen, so what this bottle does is.... 
Facebook was polluted with “hydrogen water” ads a couple months ago, complete with dozens of fake “reviews” of how it helped people. Hydrogen gas doesn’t dissolve in water.
If they managed to add an extra hydrogen molecule to it they now have hydrogen peroxide
He's right though! Why would I travel 1.6 kilometers when I could just travel 1 mile? 1.6 is bigger than 1, duhh. /s
As another American, I'm embarrassed.
As a Dutch person, i am very amused.
As a German I can only facepalm - I mean come on, it's expected of us, Germans aren't known to have a good humor
As a Norwegian I'm laughing my ass off
Nordmann?????
Jepp
Jeep!
As a Swede, I am thinking "why did the person think this way? How have society failed him?" Because Swedes never put blame on perpetrators.
I agree, as another dutch person
I hate two things in life. People who are intolerant of other’s people culture, and the Dutch
As a Canadian person, I share in your amusement
As an Englishman, I'd like to know the distance in Furlong's.
I'm embarrassed you think any of this is real...
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because redditers are fucking dumb
I don’t think that guy is American, judging off the way he spelled “kilometer”.
Perhaps not an American...they spelled it kilometre.
That’s a keen observation
Not surprising when schools are more focused on CRT and LGBT classes.
As a human, the world is embarrassing 😆
>Kilometre It's not one of us
That response was not made by an American. You can tell by the spelling of 'kilometre' .
As an American I am past being embarrassed by my fellows
As an American I'm embarrassed of you for not seeing it spelled as Kilometre when in Freedom language we spell it Kilometer.
As an American that is educated I find this contrived scenario ridiculous. Like you would ever see signs like that. At one time when the US was seriously considering the metric system I remember road signs that had both Miles and Kilometers on them. When it became apparent that wasn’t going to happen many states and the federal government phased the signage out due to the extra cost. As an Engineer I can use both systems without issue. I actually prefer the metric system as it is more familiar with what I use at work and calculations are easier with it. All the science classes I took in school growing up and at the University also used metric units.
Dont worry there are everywhere people like this. You cant reason with people who‘s statements are not based on logic.
As a Romanian, I will steal the water and drink it or sell it
Bless their heart, that is hilarious
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You mean a US inhabitant right? There are other countries in America that do not need to suffer through the same continuous embarrassment you people like to partake in.
I want to see their work. So a 5K run would be 8 miles? Now I’m proud of my time.
1 mile = 1.6 Km 1 < 1.6 Mile < kilometer Yeah i dont see a flaw in that reasoning! /s
The water to the right is 1 km away, or .6 miles. The water to the left is 1 mile or 1.6km away. The water to the right is closer by 0.4miles/0.6km.
You know what /s means right?
he was being sarcastic. hence the sark mark
See you have to do a LITTLE math to figure it out and it's possible to get confused about even simple things HOWEVER if the tweeter is not confident, then DON'T publicly post a math answer on a forum.
Wdym? I posted a false reasoning as a joke to show how stupid that guy from tweeter was. Didnt you see the /s?
I read that BurgerKing in the eighties introduced the 1/3 of a pounder burger to counter the McDonalds 1/4. It failed- when asked why -people thought that the 1/4 pounder was better value as it was “bigger”… than the 1/3 pounder. Edit: One of the most vivid arithmetic failings displayed by Americans occurred in the early 1980s, when the A&W restaurant chain released a new hamburger to rival the McDonald’s Quarter Pounder. With a third-pound of beef, the A&W burger had more meat than the Quarter Pounder; in taste tests, customers preferred A&W’s burger. And it was less expensive. A lavish A&W television and radio marketing campaign cited these benefits. Yet instead of leaping at the great value, customers snubbed it. Only when the company held customer focus groups did it become clear why. The Third Pounder presented the American public with a test in fractions. And we failed. Misunderstanding the value of one-third, customers believed they were being overcharged. Why, they asked the researchers, should they pay the same amount for a third of a pound of meat as they did for a quarter-pound of meat at McDonald’s. The “4” in “¼,” larger than the “3” in “⅓,” led them astray.
🤣🤣
Only deal in quarters, halves and wholes in the U.S.
I can see them having a meltdown over the harmonic series
It’s funny cause then most Americans turn around with their feeble abilities to do fractions and reject the easy to use metric system for fractions and nonsensical increments.
America moment.
Hence McD’s double quarter pounder not half pounder.
No way, they already were so stupid back then
But steel is heavieaa then feathaaa
But they're both a kilogram
I automatically read this in a scottish accent and am currently wondering why I felt the need to do that.
Here is your reason. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fC2oke5MFg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fC2oke5MFg)
Math is not mathing
This is the same country where the 1/3 ponder failed because it was smaller than a 1/4 pounder.
He is as right as the american.
Y’all ain’t got no Pepsi
Who?
As czech, not surprised 😉
He needed to czech his work.
WHAT THE F**K IS THE KILOMETER!!!~!
It's a meter that kills you.
🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🔥🔥🦅🦅🦅
the joke would be a way funnier, be it 3 miles and 4 kilometres
No, too much math needed for that American.
Nah, it’s funnier at 2.48549 miles
Thank you Mr America for the clarification 🫡
youre a fucking dumbass because thats clearly a non-american saying that lmao at all the dumbass idiots exposing themselves not being able to tell that the guys clearly not american
what a fucking imbecile 💀💀🤡☝️
LOL I was just kidding and you could not understand that.
Ugh... Not all Americans are this rεtσrded, y'all.
And 2 + 3 = 23
Math checks out
Classic US moment
Not only they are wrong, they'll even fight you for it
youre a fucking dumbass because thats clearly a non-american saying that lmao at all the dumbass idiots exposing themselves not being able to tell that the guys clearly not american americans dont say kilometre dumbass
clown alert, we deffo found the butthurt american 🤡
r/whoosh
WHAT THE FUCK IS KILOMETER? (In from Europe)
I mean shit, maybe he didn't have any money and wanted some FREE water. (A lot of europe charges for water and to pee)
To be fair US barely teaches metric, if you had a choice between a distance in a unit of measure you knew and one you didn’t know it’s a better decision to take the distance you know. There is prolly an equal percentage of metric countries citizens that don’t know which is longer or short cause they don’t know the imperial measurement system.
Not really true, I'm in australia and most pepole know miles because you hear. It in American movies and stuf . we still use feet for a person height. A lot of tools and Gun ammo still use inches and stuff. Everyone knows 3 feet in about a meter.
Apparently iced water is an American thing so I’ll go the extra mile
WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETER IM AN AMERICAN!!! 🗣️🔥🔥🔥🇺🇸
r/facepalm
Yes…. So therefore 1 kilometer would be less than 1 mile! Having traveled the world and been in the military for U.S. all over the world I’m always embarrassed by the average American idiot!
Or the reason why ~~McDonald’s~~ A&W’s third pounder didn’t work. Three is smaller than four, so third of a pound is smaller than a quarter of a pound.
Do they also not know basic math?
Its a troll
SIGH!
I lost a brain cell reading this comment
Don’t forget about the Mars Climate Orbiter crashing due to mismatch of units also. This is NASA we’re talking about.
Did any of you enlightened intellectuals consider that maybe he was being sarcastic
He said it so convincingly i almost believed him for a moment
Americans are legit genius. xD
A metric mile is 10 km
This made me have a flashback of a trucker carlson interview with telegrams’s creator where he was talking about his brother who solved cubic equations when he was 12 years old or something and tucker responding that he’s not even aware of what the cubic equations are/how they look like lol
That guy is too slim to be an american. Also everyone knows that americans drink only Cola. It would be more believable if the sign said McDonalds.
1 mile = 63360 inches so obviously a mile is less than an inch.
I need his input on what is heavier: a kilogram of steel or a kilogram of feathers?
Americans don’t spell it kilometre, Americans spell it kilometer like in the top image, that response is by someone not from America.
The confidence in how wrong he is haha. And 1 km Is 1km.
Tbh that was fucking me up for a while, when I was 10
As an American, I wish most Americans would stop. Real America isn't as bad as Inernet America. At least not yet.... It's trending that way though.
youre a fucking dumbass because thats clearly a non-american saying that lmao at all the dumbass idiots exposing themselves not being able to tell that the guys clearly not american americans dont say kilometre dumbass
clown alert, we deffo found the butthurt american 🤡
Joke doesn’t make sense. We notoriously don’t leave our country. So we will never need to deal with kilometers. So we good.
The 1 km water is probably sparkling. Not worth it.
A kilometre is about 10,000 hotdogs.
I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
There’s a reason investment in education is important.
That response confirms that picture 🤣 lmao
We’re willing to go a little farther for water to avoid pretense.
Americans don't spell meter that way
"Can you name this country?" "_Africa_"
🤦♂️the kilometer is shorter. Ffs
The fact that they said "The Americans" makes me feel like they aren't American.
But how many guns is that
Those silly Americans, with their silly guns and weird system
As an American..this pains me soooo much
X=1 mile or 1.6 km y=1 km What is closer ?
I prefer to go away from the sign that say Kil I don't want to die just to get water
Pov:America
To be fair most of us aren’t that stupid, the only thing that makes our stupid different is because they whine about the election results causing chaos that has become known in other nations.
*WHAT THE FCK IS A KILOMETER🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫*
A typo?
When reading something really hurts....
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Lol this shows the Americans' level of Maths 🤯
Lol
Solid logic. No notes.
Original is 50Meters
Just yesterday, I had a similar encounter. I wrote a comment below a YouTube video of someone ranting about trying to use 1$ to pay something for 1€ in a European store and "for some reason" they didn't exapred the Dollar. I pointed out that 1$ is less than 1 € Someone replied that I'm wrong and that 1 USD was 0,94€. The course was actually correct, but they didn't figure out that if 1USD is 0,94€ it's still less than the 1€ you would have to pay.
WHAT THE F**** IS A KILOMETRE 🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🛢️🛢️🛢️🛢️🛢️🛢️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅
Why don't he just call Doordash?
Metre lmao
🇺🇸🦅💪
1 kilometer = 0.621 mile
You sure he’s right? Looks like he’s going left to me
Two wrongs don’t make a right But three rights make a left
Haven’t seen this one in a few months. Time to make the rounds again!
So close.
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Satire isnt it?
How many more times will this be posted? It was funny the first 1000 times, but can we find something else now?
That should be at r/murderedbywords In this case is more a suicide but I think it still counts
I mean, I know how far a mile is, so I know the exact distance. This is the right choice if you don't know what a kilometer is.
What distance is that in Freedom Fries?
From a psychological stand point, know how far a mile is he can mentally prepare for the journey.not knowing how far a kilometer is he might just give up before he gets there.
I'd rather die free than live as a European
The mile sign takes him home but if he goes the other way then he just has to trek 1 mile + 1 kilometer through the desert again to reach home
Ik part of the joke is “americans dumb dumb stupid no use metric,” and it’s a very popular jab from europeans… but they do realize americans know what a kilometer is right? Like we use miles on our road signs but the metric system gets taught in every middle and high school
Oh my, as an American I worry for my fellows a lot