TIL that an American pint (500ml) is smaller than a British pint (568ml).
Yeah it comes up in Canada where restaurants will say “Pint*” to short change us.
TIL Brits have bigger pints, not just small baby sized shots! Does it balance out?
The American pint is actually only 473ml! That’s a half litre bottle.
Then there’s some dodgy measurements going on the side of that can.
Also explains when I’ve been in America and asked for a pint of beer I’ve been given a child’s size glass compared to what I’m used to
47 cl vs. 57 cl, really ?
In Europe, the pint is at an even 50 cl.
An imperial pint is 568ml.
Do they use pints in Europe?
Ireland and the UK use the imperial pint in pubs (568ml). Everything else in Ireland at least is metric for liquids.
Speaking for NL:
25cl is a “Flute” locally (fluit)
50cl is a “Small Vase” (vaasje)
If you ask for “A small pilsner” (pilsje) you’d normally get the 25cl or sometimes the 33cl glass of the beer on tap.
There are various regional names for 50cl, but “pint” is common, since it’s quite close.
In France, for beer, it would be a “baron”, while 1l would be a “formidable”.
I suppose each place has such names.
Though in Finland 44cl is very common as well
That’s an interesting one, where does it come from?
I looked into it, most places will sell “big” pints which are either 40cl or 50cl (though many craft breweries sell 44cl cans). I couldn’t find an exact reason for the 40cl pints, but apparently they became common in the 90’s due to recession and price increases and such. Beer in restaurants, bars and pubs is quite expensive here in general
Well it says 1.05 pints in the pic though 500ml would be 473 x 1.056 so technically correct but yes definitely on second part.
Ah right, I’m not good at maths so thank you.
Its like when you buy a 1tb drive and the real capacity shows up as like 920Gb lol
There are (mainly) 3 reasons for that:
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TB vs TiB: Computers don’t count drive space in metric units, they count it in powers of 2. This means that, for you, 1 TB is 1000 GB, while for a computer, 1 TiB is 1024 GiB. Drive manufactirers take advantage of this, and only count space in metric (TB). So when you plug the drive into your computer, and it converts to GiB, you end up with 1 TB = 931.3 GiB. Windows hasn’t helped this confusion, I remember it doing something weird like counting in GiB and displaying it as GB.
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Reserved space: Many OSes reserve some space on their drives for special stuff. This is especially the case with Linux and ext4, where it by default reserves a percentage of the drive to root. This is to optimize distribution of files around the disk, which limits fragmentation. The system slowly frees more of this space as you fill up the disk, and at the end it should leave you with 100% of the space.
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Formatting: Empty drive space isn’t the same as usable drive space. In order to use a drive you need to format it, which doesn’t just blank it. Formatting a drive adds a filesystem to it, which is what allows you to write files and folders to it. This filesystem takes up some space, and reserves more space for inodes and, in some cases, a filesystem journal. Some filesystems have even more features that also take up some space.
This has nothing to do with metric. There was just a tradition to use the SI prefixes in binary and with k/K it worked. With MB it doesn’t work that well anymore, which is why they came up with MiB at some point, but MB can still be interpreted binary like it always was. Software can often display both binary and decimal prefixes. There are also different standards how to handle these units for different kinds of storage.
1kB is clearly 1000B and 1KB is clearly 1024B
All software has always interpreted it in binary as far as I know. There never was a good standard, and the most common way to differentiate in my experience was using KB as metric (decimal, SI) and K as binary. It’s easy to confuse with the already convoluted standard of KB being a kilobyte and Kb being a kilobit.
The reason for the added “i” is that in every other system, kilo means 1000. Someone at the SI realized that it didn’t make any sense to have it mean something different in software so they invented the Ki prefix (instead of K) to mean 1024. That is now the standard, and it’s part of the SI (coloquially metric). As a consequence of this, you can technically use the Ki prefix with any other SI unit, so you can also use the KiM (kibimeter), which is 1024 meters. Idk why you’d use it, but it’s funny that the option exists.
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Its because american terabyte is smaller than metric terabyte.
How could this possibly even happen?
Has to be corporate greed.
1/3 of all money has been printed since covid? Nice
It’s easier to make a bottle to sell in most countries rather than make a difference bottle for a single market. Especially when that market has lax consumer rights laws.
They still need different prints etc.
They’ll try to rationalize that part, but they still have to pay attention to regional preferences.
I don’t even know if the sizes are all the same here in EU. In Germany the most common bottle sizes are 250ml (1l/4), 330ml (1l/3), 500ml (1l/2), 750ml (3l/4) and 1l afaik. 200ml (1l/5), 375ml (3l/8) and 2l also seem to be a thing.
33cl is the standard for beer and 75cl for vine.
My measuring cap for my cola syrup has markings for 250ml, 500ml and 1l. As well as 615ml and 840ml because of Soda Stream bottle sizes.
A diet pepsi by the look of it
Did no one notice I bought 20 oz not 16.9 oz bottle I got ripped off
Naw mate, I just noticed you clicked on that shit when you could have been enjoying a Dr. Pepper. Wtf?
I saw that immediately, that’s so illegal. You should record it and report it to the appropriate 3-letter agency (no idea which one). Doubt you’ll get the money back, but making the assholes that run that machine deal with the government would be worth it to me.
Bro thinks CIA gonna be bustin’ down Pepsis door
The three letter agencies are the spooks the MIB’s the guy’s who disappeared Epstein.
You are looking for something more boring like the Health department or department of agriculture.
So the DOA? :D
I’d be more surprised if the government didn’t fine they guy reporting or require a lawyer to go through layers of bureaucratic nonsense designed to make it so hard to do anything the average person won’t bother.
USDA
United States Department of Agriculture.
That’s what mom calls them when their in trouble.
He’s looking for the number to call on the sign that indicates the vending machines are ran by a third party company, then he can talk to a customer service representative after spending over an hour trying to get through the AI support, after providing all his personal information, a video of the incident, and a drop of his blood he’ll get a check mailed to him in 6-16 weeks, maybe.
still waiting on any company, agency, government to give a shit about the grocery stores selling eg 200g of meat but only giving 165g. not the prepackaged ceap, actual cuts of meat. numbers are examples but it happens way too much where the actual is always less then the advertised weight.
buy a scale, weight meat. get enraged
In the US, your state’s department of weights and measures might care. They’re the ones who verify grocery store scales, taxi cab fare meters, gas pumps… they exist to make sure you’re not getting ripped off. If you’re in a blue state they care, in a red state ymmv.
I live in Texas and the State Dept of Agriculture takes this kind of stuff very seriously. You have to report it though, which might be the other commenter’s issue
Probably ESA as it’s 500ml in metrics and all.
Soda bottles in the us shows both ounces and milititers.
Large bottles are sold as “2 liter soda”…that’s it.
Smaller bottles are in ounces (with the metric label just a requirement I guess - no one I know here talks about buying a 500ml soda)
Everything else is ounces or gallons, I’m sure someone will ‘umm actually’ me…but generally nothing else is metric; like milk and juice.
Large bottles are sold as “2 liter soda”…that’s it.
I’m from Finland. It never stops being weird when Americans talk about 2 liter sodas. First, it being in liters, and second, 2 liter sodas are huuuuge. (Large bottles are usually 1.5 liters here.)
2 liters is pretty common for foreign stuff in Estonia. Aka stuff made by coca cola mostly. Price per liter is a bit better than 1.5 liters so it makes more sense for get-togethers.
Locally made stuff usually doesn’t get past 1.5 liter bottles except for kali (kvass). And juice too, but that’s in tetrapak not bottles.
Then again, I never saw a 6 pack of large bottles of coke until I came to Norway, where every grocery store seems to sell 6 packs of the 1.5 liter bottles, so Europeans are not exactly without their own Coca Cola habits to support.
Yeah, they are huge bottles sold individually…great for pouring a reasonable amount for many people.
Not as great for 1 person drinking it, unless you drink way too much, it will go flat before you can finish it. Never seen a 1.5l bottle before searching it now, that looks like something some one could easily carry with them to have soda all day long!
America: fuck metric, unless you’re talking soda or bullets
…science and drugs
I know it’s a funny joke, but we actually use metric quite a bit, especially for volume
noticed the same with 1.25L bottles replacing 1.5L and 1.7L replacing 2L
Yeah but the machine is in ounces, where the can is in Florida ounces. Once you convert it’s perfectly fine.
on the sub that this was posted on, it was done by the vendors buying the bottles at places like costco.
Reminds me of the deodorant I just bought that’s literally only halfway filled.
Shrinkflation! Must have taken a cold shower.
oh I get it they didn’t change out the stickers on the button. the vendor still probably an a hole
Hole in the head?
Lol a-hole* too lazy to use a hyphen
Damn, that is why I can’t get my hand into the pringles tube. It is smaller in diameter.
I thought the same, but they still make the 20 Oz bottles. Looks like the vending machine company is either cheating people or forgot to update the placards - https://www.target.com/p/pepsi-cola-soda-20-fl-oz-bottle/-/A-12979694
It has always been like this in my country. We have multiples of 330ml or 500ml
EDIT: I just noticed now and yeah this is false advertising
“WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH MY FUCKING CALORIES?!”
Ran out of bottles using freedom units, had to use rest-of-the-world units instead. Thanks, Trump.
Soda is sold in 600ml bottles all over the world.
No, that’s literally one size I’ve never seen.
Not where i live.
American suddenly realizing that not the entire world is america.
America might not be the entire world but it’s everywhere that matters in the world.
Adequate username
Wait wait, I first read this as satire but something’s not right. You’re not being serious are you?
I’m always serious.
Username checks out
It’s gotten increasingly difficult to tell with Maggie lately, but in this case I’m 99.9% certain that they’re satirizing stereotypical Americans rather than expressing a sincere opinion.
Not here.
Maybe US territories all over the world.
Coca-Cola recently issued a 750ml bottle in Japan, where it had always been either 500ml or 1.5l.
Never heard of that.
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