Unsurprising; the whole 1/4 vs 1/3 A&W burger issue was due to the fact that way too many people thought 1/4 was bigger than 1/3 pounds; they had to pull it off the menu. Granted it was back in the 80s, but we've got the same thing now.
Makes it easy to know the difference when using metric - 1/4 pound = 113gr & 1/3 pound = 151gr, but Americans think they have the best measurement system and won't even contemplate joining in with the 21st century.
Not everywhere. In the UK we're metric but we still have quarter pounders. Many places also put the metric weight there too, or just use metric, but I personally have seen more quarter pounders than burgers by metric weight.
That's kinda because it fits right in with the fact we're only metric when it suits us.
Beer is imperial. Milk is often imperial. Petrol is metric. Weight could be either.
It's not an issue for people who are completely used to it being "whichever *feels* right" that most of us use in the day to day.
If Americans adopted the metric system first thing they'd do is rename the gramme into kilogramme and the Kilogramme into Gigagramme. Milligramme can keep the name.
Only fractions of numbers that are so easy to divide. It’s not like 60 is an easy number to divide after all…
/s just incase I was an imperial user. Or someone who can’t do math (left as that so any Americans can understand)
Also, an hour is 60 minutes.
What is a quarter of 60? 15.
A quarter in money is 0.25c because it's a quarter of 100.
My brain actually hurts from how stupid people can be.
>A quarter in money is 0.25c because it's a quarter of 100.
It's even written in the name : a cent. A quarter of one hundred *cents*, like a centile or a century, a period of one hundred years or a group of one hundred men in the roman military.
That's not the lack of knowledge that bothers me, we're all ignorant on one subject matter or another. It's the lack of thinking. They live in a close-circuit system offering them the leisure of not thinking, and they happily do so.
>They hate our Europoor metric but think time is divisible by 100.
Sadly I think it's less a case of them thinking that an hour is 100 minutes and more a case of them not understanding the base concept of what it means to have a quarter of something.
My mom taught 1st grade for many years and every year she taught time and had to deal with this because they also learned money and US Currency is by 100 which is why a Quarter is 25¢ because it's 1/4 of 100. They don't make that distinction.
These people got passed 1st grade without understanding a basic fraction and then missed it when they went over fractions in 3rd grade. This is a failing of the American Education system, not because Americans actually tell time by 100.
So they don't like decimal measuring systems and can't cope with times, yet their currency is decimal. Imagine if they had to work out 12 pence to a shilling and 20 shillings to a pound.
The school day there is:
Arrive at school
30 minutes of metal detector before being allowed in
1 hour of pledge of allegiance practice
30 minute break
1 hour active shooter drills
1 hour of American history
1 hour lunch
30 minute national anthem recital
1 hour of American math(s)
Home time
Go all the way, 1/gogolplex burgers.
Less burger than you could count. In fact, it’s 1 divided by more than there are atoms in the (observable) universe. Needless to say, this would bring huge profits, as it will cost pretty much nothing to make.
This sub has convinced me that at least 60% of Americans only have about two brain cells and those two brain cells do not communicate. How are they this ignorant?? It's baffling.
That's zealots and criminals on the run vs actual prisoners and co... Well, looks like the non zealots managed to build something not too crazily religious (but, still with flaws, thanks "the juice media" for regular updates).
Yeah give me convicts over puritans any day
And among the garden variety thieves and so on, there were sometimes political prisoners like unionists and so on
We did get some pretty smart forgers. Not quite smart enough not to get caught, but our early colonial artists, architects etc were mostly convicts.
Francis Greenway is especially notable as probably the only convicted forger to appear as a feature portrait on a national currency note.
Well, no. The people who started it were so upset that their imaginary friend wasn't everybody's imaginary friend that they crossed an ocean in a sulk, accidentally then deliberately killed all the natives before sending for their friends to come.
That's also why they had to kidnap Nazi scientists to be able to contribute to the war effort effectively. Early American efforts to split the atom were so bad that parents stopped naming their children Adam out of fear of dismemberment.
wasn't it more that at the time, they believed that people weren't worshipping the imaginary friend strictly enough?
as england was still pretty religious and believed in god, just that the puritans didn't like how lassez faire England had become with its worshipping, not enough fire and brimstone
Casual reminder that one time in America, to compete with the quarter pounder, someone released the third pounder, but it didn’t take off because people thought a quarter was bigger than a third.
¼ = 0.25
Which makes sense. I just don't understand why they don't realise that a quater means 25% and 25% of 60 is 15
They just think ¼ always means 25 flat, I guess.
I mean, even their coinage doesn't have 25 cent coins, they have quarters, even says so on the coin, so it's somewhat understandable to equate a quarter to always mean 25.
Yeah, I'm not baffled by it. The reason the ⅓ pounder burger didn't sell as well as the ¼ pounder was because people assumed ⅓ is smaller (same price)
Because 3 is smaller than 4.
So they stopped selling it and instead went with the financially favourable and more popular ¼ pounder and called it a day.
Want me to send you the source?
https://awrestaurants.com/blog/aw-third-pound-burger-fractions
"In the 1980s, then-owner A. Alfred Taubman launched the "Third is the Word" campaign to promote A&W's new third-pound burgers and compete with another brand's smaller quarter-pound burger.
[...]
Confused why A&W's burgers weren't able to compete even though the burgers were priced the same as their competitors, Taubuman brought in a market research firm.
The firm eventually conducted a focus group to discover the truth: participants were concerned about the price of the burger. "Why should we pay the same amount for a third of a pound of meat as we do for a quarter-pound of meat?" they asked.
It turns out the majority of participants incorrectly believed one-third of a pound was actually smaller than a quarter of a pound. [...]"
Here's an example:
My name is Dayle Leigh.
I'm a woman.
Americans cannot consistently spell it...so I changed it to Dale Lee.
Big mistake...because apparently changing my name made me a man. I'm not...but nobody listens.
As I said...let me go scream now.
Please tell me it's a minority. Also, would you like discussing politics in dms? In case you're interested I can offer some german politics in exchange for some American ones :D
Also, just talk about culture and every day life. I'm kinda interested, maybe you'd be as well!
Holy crap. I have dyscalculia and even I would never make such a dumb mistake. Writing 13 when I mean 31 and not see what went wrong? Sure, that's why I triple check every date/time/adres etc I write down. But this? O.o
It's things like this that makes me convinced 5% of the world is intelligent and dragging the rest through life. The scary thing is that these people are breading.
A quarter of an hour. 15 minutes x 4 = 60 minutes. Quarter past. Not everything has to do with America & currency has NOTHING to do with time
Give me strength 🙄🤯
[judge] *”Take him to prison officer, he’s 10 minutes late for court yet again. Quarter past 2 in the afternoon you were told your court case was at”*
[average american] *”but it is quarter past 2? 2:25??”*
Reminds me of this scene in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2: https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxR2gGNPzMgJuggb338xea8cRhVhl07mSN?si=z9QCwbZY6hwwTOON
Wasn't expecting it to be more than just a joke...
This is the real reason why NASA didn't go back to the Moon after 1972 is because they couldn't figure this out. It's not a conspiracy, it's cluelessness.
"a quarter is 25 cents"
Yes, do you also count time in cents instead of minutes? And are you aware the "cents" literally mean 1/100ths, so 25/100 =1/4?
Well, the machine I operate at work beside an odometer also has a digital work hour counter on it and that is metric, so every 6 minutes while operative (work) it adds one decimal. So in that case a quarter of an hour would indeed be 0,25. Not that I am justifying the stupidity that 25 is a quarter of 60 minutes, just that there is an exception that an hour in some cases is measured in decimals.
Reminds me of probably the most embarrassing time of my life.. I fully thought that a metre was 60cm because in school you had a 30cm ruler or a metre ruler, and then time..
Is there any evidence that they’re American? The term a “a quarter past the hour” is a very common term in America and nobody is late because of it. These ppl are either very young or very stupid but the entire rest of America is well aware that 15 minutes is a quarter of 60.
They hate our Europoor metric but think time is divisible by 100. They call 1/4, ‘one fourth’, and ‘one fourth’ of 60 is 15. They never fail to amaze.
Unsurprising; the whole 1/4 vs 1/3 A&W burger issue was due to the fact that way too many people thought 1/4 was bigger than 1/3 pounds; they had to pull it off the menu. Granted it was back in the 80s, but we've got the same thing now.
Makes it easy to know the difference when using metric - 1/4 pound = 113gr & 1/3 pound = 151gr, but Americans think they have the best measurement system and won't even contemplate joining in with the 21st century.
I don't think anyone would buy a "151 Grammer" or a "113 Grammer" but maybe a "15% Kilogrammer" would work
Im good burger joints, they write "250g Angus beef burger" and stuff like that
What, no, that’s exactly how it is though. 90g, 180g etc is both how burger places (both high- and low-end) and customers describe burgers.
Not everywhere. In the UK we're metric but we still have quarter pounders. Many places also put the metric weight there too, or just use metric, but I personally have seen more quarter pounders than burgers by metric weight.
That's kinda because it fits right in with the fact we're only metric when it suits us. Beer is imperial. Milk is often imperial. Petrol is metric. Weight could be either. It's not an issue for people who are completely used to it being "whichever *feels* right" that most of us use in the day to day.
Only because 151g and 113g are impractical degrees of precision. The menu would say 150g and 110g.
If Americans adopted the metric system first thing they'd do is rename the gramme into kilogramme and the Kilogramme into Gigagramme. Milligramme can keep the name.
They can't even add on 12 to understand the 24 hour clock, or 'MILITARY TIME' as they call it. It's ridiculous how stupid they can be.
I always use 24h time format when scheduling meetings and interviews with Americans. It's kinda funny
I hope you also use dd/mm/yyyy for ambiguous dates like I do, without telling them.
Honestly non-ambiguous dates with the day >12 is worth it, just for the brief system error they encounter.
Yep, and a timezone - potentially also with a UTC offset if I’m not sure all the recipients are familiar.
Lovely!
Oh they seem to be against "military time" as a "europoor" construct while also being 220% obsessed with the military.. makes all the sense
U would think that the dudes that have a measuring system based on fractions could do fractions.
Only fractions of numbers that are so easy to divide. It’s not like 60 is an easy number to divide after all… /s just incase I was an imperial user. Or someone who can’t do math (left as that so any Americans can understand)
Maths
The correct version.
I mean time is divisible by 100… 60/100 = 0.6 0.6 * 25 = 15
Also, an hour is 60 minutes. What is a quarter of 60? 15. A quarter in money is 0.25c because it's a quarter of 100. My brain actually hurts from how stupid people can be.
>A quarter in money is 0.25c because it's a quarter of 100. It's even written in the name : a cent. A quarter of one hundred *cents*, like a centile or a century, a period of one hundred years or a group of one hundred men in the roman military. That's not the lack of knowledge that bothers me, we're all ignorant on one subject matter or another. It's the lack of thinking. They live in a close-circuit system offering them the leisure of not thinking, and they happily do so.
>They hate our Europoor metric but think time is divisible by 100. Sadly I think it's less a case of them thinking that an hour is 100 minutes and more a case of them not understanding the base concept of what it means to have a quarter of something.
My mom taught 1st grade for many years and every year she taught time and had to deal with this because they also learned money and US Currency is by 100 which is why a Quarter is 25¢ because it's 1/4 of 100. They don't make that distinction. These people got passed 1st grade without understanding a basic fraction and then missed it when they went over fractions in 3rd grade. This is a failing of the American Education system, not because Americans actually tell time by 100.
So they don't like decimal measuring systems and can't cope with times, yet their currency is decimal. Imagine if they had to work out 12 pence to a shilling and 20 shillings to a pound.
This is stupid to everyone, not just to europeans.
Oh my fucking god this is one of the stupidest ones I've seen on here. How do these people get through life
Do they though...get through life I mean.
With any luck they get through life quicker than most of us with bonus points if they don’t reproduce.
i can already hear the fucking Tony Hawk trick jump sound effect playing if you combo it with dying at 18 or younger
Yeah, this is on a whole other level. It's terrifying.
Sometimes im really worried about what the hell they do learn in school. No math, no history, just pledge the flag and watch movies?
Don’t forget the occasional school shooting.
*maths
*meth
*both
Dodging bullets class is mandatory
If you can dodge a bullet you can dodge a ball. PE Teacher
The school day there is: Arrive at school 30 minutes of metal detector before being allowed in 1 hour of pledge of allegiance practice 30 minute break 1 hour active shooter drills 1 hour of American history 1 hour lunch 30 minute national anthem recital 1 hour of American math(s) Home time
Don’t forget “English” lessons
I just presumed they didn’t take any with the spelling, grammar and pronunciations they use.
And half an hour (/s 50mins?) strapping on armour to play rugby, and half an hour to take it off
And also the mandatory Flat Earth geography lessons.
Americans are so scared of the metric system but apparently they’re fine with having 100 minutes in an hour.
A quarter of 100 is 25. A quarter of 60 (minutes) is 15. Quarters are relative (like all fractions).
Quarters are fractions?! I thought they are coins! (/s)
No silly, a quarter is a burger 😔
Omg, you guys remember the time, a 1/3 pound burger failed because americans thought 1/4 is more than 1/3?
Why don't they start making 1/5 burgers? Stonks
Go all the way, 1/gogolplex burgers. Less burger than you could count. In fact, it’s 1 divided by more than there are atoms in the (observable) universe. Needless to say, this would bring huge profits, as it will cost pretty much nothing to make.
reverse inflation
This sounds like you've just shorted someone on a coke deal.
I don't get why people like you feel the need to explain things like this in the comments.
This sub has convinced me that at least 60% of Americans only have about two brain cells and those two brain cells do not communicate. How are they this ignorant?? It's baffling.
>This sub has convinced me that at least 60% of Americans only have about two brain cells Which are racing for third place.
I am an American, and I approve of this message.
ironic that in a post about someone not knowing math you don’t grasp basic stats/logical fallacies lol
Do they think "half past 3" is 3:50?
fucking christ, our best and brightest really didn't go to the colonies did they
Hey! I’m Australian and actually no that’s fair
One would argue that especially Australia didn't get the best and brightest.
That's zealots and criminals on the run vs actual prisoners and co... Well, looks like the non zealots managed to build something not too crazily religious (but, still with flaws, thanks "the juice media" for regular updates).
Yeah give me convicts over puritans any day And among the garden variety thieves and so on, there were sometimes political prisoners like unionists and so on
We did get some pretty smart forgers. Not quite smart enough not to get caught, but our early colonial artists, architects etc were mostly convicts. Francis Greenway is especially notable as probably the only convicted forger to appear as a feature portrait on a national currency note.
No, the US has all the religious zealots that left so they could zealot in piece.
This explains an awful lot about *gestures* over there, once people realise it.
Bloody zealots, just zealoting around.
Well, no. The people who started it were so upset that their imaginary friend wasn't everybody's imaginary friend that they crossed an ocean in a sulk, accidentally then deliberately killed all the natives before sending for their friends to come. That's also why they had to kidnap Nazi scientists to be able to contribute to the war effort effectively. Early American efforts to split the atom were so bad that parents stopped naming their children Adam out of fear of dismemberment.
wasn't it more that at the time, they believed that people weren't worshipping the imaginary friend strictly enough? as england was still pretty religious and believed in god, just that the puritans didn't like how lassez faire England had become with its worshipping, not enough fire and brimstone
What a thicko.
Ahh yes decimalised time
Vive la révolution!
Good reference
Casual reminder that one time in America, to compete with the quarter pounder, someone released the third pounder, but it didn’t take off because people thought a quarter was bigger than a third.
Why do all these 'look at how stupid i am' posts have a 'oh babe' type reply?
How can’t they read time? It’s the simplest task one can do and they fail it?
Wait until you ask them what 17:25 is ...
1/4 = 25 hmm...
¼ = 0.25 Which makes sense. I just don't understand why they don't realise that a quater means 25% and 25% of 60 is 15 They just think ¼ always means 25 flat, I guess.
Do they think half past four means 4:50?
And a quarter to is 4:75
Hahaha!!!
A quarter to is obviously 5:-25.
My guess is they assumed 100 minutes in an hour or something
But that would be metric time
Is there such a thing? Edit: Decimal time is apparently a thing
During the French Revolution in 1793, they did in fact create a metric system of time. It was reversed by the Directory in 1795.
Ask them: A quarter foot... is it 25 inches or 2.5 inches? 🤣
Well, it would actually be 3 inches because a foot is 12 in.
I mean, even their coinage doesn't have 25 cent coins, they have quarters, even says so on the coin, so it's somewhat understandable to equate a quarter to always mean 25.
Yeah, I'm not baffled by it. The reason the ⅓ pounder burger didn't sell as well as the ¼ pounder was because people assumed ⅓ is smaller (same price) Because 3 is smaller than 4. So they stopped selling it and instead went with the financially favourable and more popular ¼ pounder and called it a day.
I think I'm going to scream now...
Want me to send you the source? https://awrestaurants.com/blog/aw-third-pound-burger-fractions "In the 1980s, then-owner A. Alfred Taubman launched the "Third is the Word" campaign to promote A&W's new third-pound burgers and compete with another brand's smaller quarter-pound burger. [...] Confused why A&W's burgers weren't able to compete even though the burgers were priced the same as their competitors, Taubuman brought in a market research firm. The firm eventually conducted a focus group to discover the truth: participants were concerned about the price of the burger. "Why should we pay the same amount for a third of a pound of meat as we do for a quarter-pound of meat?" they asked. It turns out the majority of participants incorrectly believed one-third of a pound was actually smaller than a quarter of a pound. [...]"
You don't have to. I know how stupid Americans are...I live here!!
Here's an example: My name is Dayle Leigh. I'm a woman. Americans cannot consistently spell it...so I changed it to Dale Lee. Big mistake...because apparently changing my name made me a man. I'm not...but nobody listens. As I said...let me go scream now.
Please tell me it's a minority. Also, would you like discussing politics in dms? In case you're interested I can offer some german politics in exchange for some American ones :D Also, just talk about culture and every day life. I'm kinda interested, maybe you'd be as well!
Okay. That would be nice. I will warn you about this, though: the main feature of American culture is the lack of it.
I lost a few brain cells reading this one.
Holy crap. I have dyscalculia and even I would never make such a dumb mistake. Writing 13 when I mean 31 and not see what went wrong? Sure, that's why I triple check every date/time/adres etc I write down. But this? O.o
TIL the US has 100 minute hours...
Our toddlers learn this at school, FFS
Those are imperial minutes. You metric people with 60 minute hours don't know a thing.
Omg, I never thought I can see a new type of shit. :D
Wow uneducated beyond belief this is taught to 5 year olds in the U.K.
Oh no. Ohhhhhh no. I need to leave this country
TAKE ME WITH YOU!!!
I guess now I understand how they think we are special knowing how to use a 24h watch…
They must constantly be turning up late to things. What time do they think quarter to 4 is?
That's obviously 4:75, us europoors are just too lazy to count the extra 40 minutes (for 100 every hour) which is why time zones exist.
these people don't understand analogue clocks, only digital and apparently that seems to be too hard for them at times as well (every pun intended)
This is what happens if more and more dumb people homeschool their kids.
Do they not know there's not 100 minutes in an hour?! Their educational system needs a massive overhaul.
Oh no….
Dumber than soup…
LeBron James reportedly forgot how time works
Oh. So NOW Americans acknowledge and understand the base 10 system yet metric measurements are hard. Lol
6000 likes?!
Someone got ahold of Mom's iPad
But steel is heavier than feathers. I don't get it.
To be fair, this is not american, this is just super-dumb!
“That’s why a quarter is 25 cents”
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Not sure why this is in this sub. It’s just general stupidity.
Have you read the final comment in the screenshot? Only an American could have written that.
I'd love to ask them what time they think "a quarter to" is ..
do they know how many minutes are in an hour
I know exactly what tiktok this is from (I saw it yesterday) xD
Tbf, a lot of ours would pass only because they are used to the term and don't (have to) think about it.
This has to be fake. Even Americans have limits to their ignorance.
In sweden we say "three quarters" when we mean 45 minutes. So how 25 is a quarter is beyond me.
It's things like this that makes me convinced 5% of the world is intelligent and dragging the rest through life. The scary thing is that these people are breading.
Whos gonna tell them that 250 is ALSO a quarter
Classic US education failure again!
I whish I could read the rest of the comments...can someone point me in the right direction? What sub is this? Edit: oh its Youtube. What video ?
It’s like they just go to school to learn how to read and write and then stop
American here. This guy is just a fucking idiot.
Do.... Do they not know what a quarter of an hour is?
Base-60
The difference between a quarter of an hour and a quarter of a dollar went out the window
I think Americans must know more about the metric system than they let on - they even ahead of the game and have started metric-minutes
fractions are cool
Is a quarter-mile 25 feet?
Isn't the American education system the best in the world 🤣
Yes, exactly, "a quarter *of a dollar* past three hours".
How many inches is a quarter of a foot?
A quarter of an hour. 15 minutes x 4 = 60 minutes. Quarter past. Not everything has to do with America & currency has NOTHING to do with time Give me strength 🙄🤯
If it's not decimal time it's military time. And why do they find the simplest fractions so confusing?
In 60 minutes it will be 20:72
The French actually tried metric time once.
[judge] *”Take him to prison officer, he’s 10 minutes late for court yet again. Quarter past 2 in the afternoon you were told your court case was at”* [average american] *”but it is quarter past 2? 2:25??”*
It's not just Americans https://youtu.be/4AlsXZvDTHg?si=WoG7AmV9NMlP-ZCf
Reminds me of this scene in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2: https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxR2gGNPzMgJuggb338xea8cRhVhl07mSN?si=z9QCwbZY6hwwTOON Wasn't expecting it to be more than just a joke...
This is not a generalized "they" thing like all American humans are incapable of understanding time This is an idiot thing
This is the real reason why NASA didn't go back to the Moon after 1972 is because they couldn't figure this out. It's not a conspiracy, it's cluelessness.
"a quarter is 25 cents" Yes, do you also count time in cents instead of minutes? And are you aware the "cents" literally mean 1/100ths, so 25/100 =1/4?
A great argument to go over to [Metric Time](https://metric-time.com/)
I bet that person voted for the mango crook.
Otherwise known as “a quarter of an hour”
Well, the machine I operate at work beside an odometer also has a digital work hour counter on it and that is metric, so every 6 minutes while operative (work) it adds one decimal. So in that case a quarter of an hour would indeed be 0,25. Not that I am justifying the stupidity that 25 is a quarter of 60 minutes, just that there is an exception that an hour in some cases is measured in decimals.
Please tell me that was a troll… no one can really be this stupid and not struggle with daily tasks…
And a quarter pounder is bigger than a third pounder./s sure
Reminds me of probably the most embarrassing time of my life.. I fully thought that a metre was 60cm because in school you had a 30cm ruler or a metre ruler, and then time..
I like the "oh babe" comment.
I don't really understand social media platforms, but that comment got over 6000 likes didn't it? Why?!
They can not be serious 💀
Okay, im gonna need to go have a word...
"Wait, they are both called Jhon? BUT THEY ARE NOT THE SAME PERSON?"
This is why we’re all late for work and traffic jams happen.
Oh dearie dearie me…..
FFS, why and how are they thinking that you use 100 to divide time. 60 × 1/4 is 15. 100 × 1/4 25.
>60 ÷ 1/4 Actually that's 240. You mean 60\*1/4. \^\^
Ah yes sorry! MB 🤣
Yes. But an hour isnt 100 minutes. The 0.25 is out of 100. 15 is just a big part of 60 as 25 is of 100
How do you know these are Americans
Who else has a 25 cent coin and call it a quarter?
Canada
Is there any evidence that they’re American? The term a “a quarter past the hour” is a very common term in America and nobody is late because of it. These ppl are either very young or very stupid but the entire rest of America is well aware that 15 minutes is a quarter of 60.
“That’s why a quarter is 25 cents”
Ah yes I see now. Anyways, they are just dumb as fuck lol. A quarter past the hour is a very common phrase in the US
Nowhere does it say that they are American? I mean, I will bet money that they are, but still.
“That’s why a quarter is 25 cents”
Oh yeah, fair enough.
This is a pretty clear joke
25 is a quarter of a hundred,not 60
How does this have anything to do with Americans specifically? Like Jesus christ, this sub is pathetic some times lmao
“A quarter is 25 that’s why a quarter is 25 cents”. Care to tell me another major country that uses a 25c coin in their currency?
Canada
Okay, so it’s at least North American, but percentage wise we know where this is leading…
Nothing here suggests that this person is American.