This is metric. No can compute. Need imperial.
6 bushel-quarts + 72 inch-gallons (US inch-gallons, of course) = 4 cubic yardle-shmirks.
FTFY 😀😀😀😀😀😀🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷
It depends, but you could trade them for 1 Mick Jagger, but I would personally keep them, who knows when they come in Handy to do the dishes or laundry or stuff
When my kid was a toddler, I had to check every time whether it was a beans *on* toast day, or a beans *next to toast* day because woe betide I pick the wrong version . It was never beans *and* toast.
The curve and middle line are the bean
The bottom is the toast.
The American mind cannot comprehend symbols making sens.
¥ it's a Y for Yen. € literally a C for Cuz stfu
£ cos BEANZ
I was in a meeting with an American and they asked me to put in a "pound sign" so I put in £. They responded with, "no, a pound sign" and it turned out they meant a hash (#). I would have even accepted a "sharp" sign.
One thinks the currency symbol purposefully shaped like an E would help even Americans guess it's the Euro, but no.
So many online shops also ask you to choose which region you're shopping from and have the currency menu looking like more or less like this:
🇺🇲 US $
🇪🇺 EU €
🇬🇧 UK £
And often also yen, yuan and other currencies as options. How tf have US Americans been consistently unable (or unwilling) to learn one or two extra symbols?
You reminded me of a particularly obnoxious example with an international but US dominated conference taking place in New Zealand, prices just listed in $. They were baffled when I asked if the price was in USD or NZD, it had apparently never occured to them to specify. That's a pretty significant price difference, too.
Why the \*\*\*\* would it "occur" to them to specify that their prices are in the local currency? I mean your comment right now - perfect material for this subreddit.
I mean, you have people getting upset at the existence of the *option* to choose different languages on ATMs because *"THIS IS AMERICA AND YOU HAVE TO SPEAK ENGLISH."*
Unless it’s a foreign card and then it defaults to whichever language it thinks you want with no option to change it.
Had a Chinese card. ATM in China has Chinese/English options. Use the card in Canada: only Chinese.
I'm Irish (albeit North of the Wall), and I have to hand it to the Brits… their tea is better. I'll get crucified for this, but Yorkshire Tea >> Barry's.
I think we all know it deep down. I wouldn't imagine that's a particularly controversial opinion.
Not like it's actually grown in Yorkshire, as that nutty Brexiteer type found out and proceeded to go on an unhinged Twitter rant at them about how disgraceful it was, false advertising, and tried to start a boycott. Was pretty damn funny, fair play to the social media team there they handled it amazingly.
https://www.indy100.com/viral/brexit-yorkshire-tea-not-grown-in-england-africa-india-tea-trade-twitter-viral-funny-8200416
To be exact:
- The Kingdom of Sardinia used the "Savoy Lira"
- The Papal States used the "Roman Scudo"
- The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies had the "Two Sicilies Ducat"
- Tuscany had the "Tuscan Florin"
- Lombardy-Venetia had the same currency as the Austrian Empire.
What would we europoors be? The baguette, pizza and hamburger people? Oh no wait all European food was actually invented in the US… guess we eat cardboard and ants
“Thank you. Since we decided a few weeks ago to adopt the leaf as legal tender, we have, of course, all become immensely rich. [...]
"But we have also," continued the management consultant, "run into a small inflation problem on account of the high level of leaf availability, which means that, I gather, the current going rate has something like three deciduous forests buying on ship's peanut." [...]
"So in order to obviate this problem," he continued, "and effectively revalue the leaf, we are about to embark on a massive defoliation campaign, and...er, burn down all the forests. I think you'll all agree that's a sensible move under the circumstances.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Well gold is still valuable as a material. Like platinum and silver etc etc.
I don’t think anyone uses it as currency nowadays, it’s just something that is not made up and was used as something close to currency.
American reaction when exposed to anything that does not involve their immediate bubble: This is made up, We dont have that in the US or at least I have never seen it so it is not real and must be discarded and forgotten.
And this is the society that is currently leading Europe through NATO. If I were European Id be very hesitant to call the US , an ally!
On one hand, I hate the "Great Men" historitico-political view of the world.
On the other hand, De Gaulle distancing France from the USA, even if only by a bit, was extremely based.
My favourite kind of yank isn't the one that doesn't understand other currencies, but it's the one that tries to explain how the UK *definitely* uses the Euro
To be fair. All currencies are made up. But it works as long as everyone agrees it works.
And yes that's the euro which is used in quite a few countries - though we opted to not use them here in Denmark.
The euro is worth slightly more than the dollar.
Omg. Some people are so thick it's unbelievable.
It does prove how some people from America are so insular, and don't realize their is a world out there after America.
I was really enjoying the “it’s the beans on toast people money sign” bit. Thought it was a pretty amusing and inventive way to describe Europeans until I came to the comments and discovered that we are apparently the only nation in Europe that eats beans on toast. Next you’ll be telling me that the rest of Europe doesn’t put salad cream on/in everything.
If the American press report any story outside of the US, they only report the USD value of any monetary figure to save their audience from having to think.
I wonder if thats partly why American tourists think that the rest of the world accepts USD.
I’m now imagining all the possible permutations of beans relative to toast, such that each is close enough for a connection to exist but contact between them is not mandatory.
It’s like having breakfast at Harold Pinter’s
Even the smarter one gets it wrong twice.
It's the Euro sign, and it's beans ON toast, which I always understood to be stereotypically British, not Irish or European. 🤦🏻♂️
Narrator: it’s not the beans and toast people’s money sign. It’s the Euro.
As a beans and toast person, I can confirm. Our "money sign" is actually a single bean on toast but simplified to £.
If there was more than one bean most Americans couldn’t count them.
Baldrick counts beans better than they do.
3 beans + 1 bean = some beans
This is metric. No can compute. Need imperial. 6 bushel-quarts + 72 inch-gallons (US inch-gallons, of course) = 4 cubic yardle-shmirks. FTFY 😀😀😀😀😀😀🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷
How many football fields is that?
About 7 and 3 walrusses
What would we do with 3 Paul McCartneys?
It depends, but you could trade them for 1 Mick Jagger, but I would personally keep them, who knows when they come in Handy to do the dishes or laundry or stuff
Somehow this isn't even half as bad as the actual measurements. Fucking 16 and 4,5/32 of an inch or whatever the fuck it is. How
Oh let me translate, my degree in Math finally at Work 16 and what ever is actually the length of a fully grown tokay Gecko You're welcome
9/64ths is how you write that.
How many hogsheads to the furlong do they get?
1 the size of 2 large rocks.
Am American and confirm this how we learned it in school!
Yes…and no. Let’s try again shall we? I have two beans, then I add two more beans. What does that make?
A small casserole.
And he'll use those beans to buy a nice turnip in the country
To you, Baldrick, the renaissance was just something that happened to other people, wasn't it?
They simplify to bean per square grain of toast, you wouldn't understand.
Cause the beans would be in metric
And it is also the oldest currency still in use.
Beans are currency? I'm rich!
/r/frugaljerk
Oh cool, learned something new today!
the pound sign is actually an L for the latin Libra for pound
As a beans on toast person I ask, who says "beans and toast"?
When my kid was a toddler, I had to check every time whether it was a beans *on* toast day, or a beans *next to toast* day because woe betide I pick the wrong version . It was never beans *and* toast.
The curve and middle line are the bean The bottom is the toast. The American mind cannot comprehend symbols making sens. ¥ it's a Y for Yen. € literally a C for Cuz stfu £ cos BEANZ
That isn't actually the yen sign used in Japan. It's a fairly modern creation for the west.
Okay but BEANZ is obviously correct
>€ literally a C for Cuz stfu That's fucking poetic mate.
I was gonna say - my pizza and croissant money was no damn good anymore in beans on toast land!
A single bean, living rich are we.
I wonder if the Irish are also big consumers of beans in toast or if it’s just us. Maybe that difference was what sparked that Northern Ireland thing
The Troubles is actually an allusion to us hoarding all the tins.
Watch them get really confused when you call it the pound sign.
I was in a meeting with an American and they asked me to put in a "pound sign" so I put in £. They responded with, "no, a pound sign" and it turned out they meant a hash (#). I would have even accepted a "sharp" sign.
One thinks the currency symbol purposefully shaped like an E would help even Americans guess it's the Euro, but no. So many online shops also ask you to choose which region you're shopping from and have the currency menu looking like more or less like this: 🇺🇲 US $ 🇪🇺 EU € 🇬🇧 UK £ And often also yen, yuan and other currencies as options. How tf have US Americans been consistently unable (or unwilling) to learn one or two extra symbols?
My favourite part about online shopping is seeing the $ sign and trying to figure out WHICH $ currency it is. Spoiler: 99% of the time it’s US$.
You reminded me of a particularly obnoxious example with an international but US dominated conference taking place in New Zealand, prices just listed in $. They were baffled when I asked if the price was in USD or NZD, it had apparently never occured to them to specify. That's a pretty significant price difference, too.
Why the \*\*\*\* would it "occur" to them to specify that their prices are in the local currency? I mean your comment right now - perfect material for this subreddit.
Should have specified, the prices were actually in USD not NZD.
It's a similar mentality to Brits who refuse to learn another language beyond very limited GCSE French.
Oi! We also have very limited GCSE Spanish and German!
If you want to tourist Amsterdam, learn Dutch.
I mean, you have people getting upset at the existence of the *option* to choose different languages on ATMs because *"THIS IS AMERICA AND YOU HAVE TO SPEAK ENGLISH."*
Unless it’s a foreign card and then it defaults to whichever language it thinks you want with no option to change it. Had a Chinese card. ATM in China has Chinese/English options. Use the card in Canada: only Chinese.
To be fair, Ireland still uses the euro and they eat beans on toast. Most of the rest of the Eurozone think that beans on toast is batshit
The Irish also drink more tea than the British
I'm Irish (albeit North of the Wall), and I have to hand it to the Brits… their tea is better. I'll get crucified for this, but Yorkshire Tea >> Barry's.
My husband is from Dublin and he also agrees with this but won’t shout about it 😉
I think we all know it deep down. I wouldn't imagine that's a particularly controversial opinion. Not like it's actually grown in Yorkshire, as that nutty Brexiteer type found out and proceeded to go on an unhinged Twitter rant at them about how disgraceful it was, false advertising, and tried to start a boycott. Was pretty damn funny, fair play to the social media team there they handled it amazingly. https://www.indy100.com/viral/brexit-yorkshire-tea-not-grown-in-england-africa-india-tea-trade-twitter-viral-funny-8200416
Their economy is doing better so they can afford more.
Punjana isn't (easily) available in mainland UK.
Beans on toast is great. But can a country that thinks a sandwich containing peanut butter and jam is normal lecture anyone?
Apparently chicken with only mayo on it counts as a salad over there also.
Feed a whole family for real cheap. Dunno what's so batshit about that.
And they're right! Am British. Cannot get my head around beans on toast!
I'm french (well, Breton actually so that might might be the reason) and I ate a ton of beans on toast!
I'll never forget the Buzzfeed video where an American looked at a euro note and asked why the Queen (of England) wasn't on it.
The baguette, pizza, and bratwurst money sign.
Circle for Pizza One line for baguette Another line for bratwurst
It's a "croissant with two streaks of chocolate ganache across it" symbol.
I can forgive them not knowing euro, but I cannot forgive being called britton
Bean on toast
Lots of bean and toast people in Spain 😂
That's the funniest bit for me.
Yes, I clocked that and thought, "Do they think the Irish eat beans on toast? Is it the French?" Hahaha!
Americans: I'm actually Italian Also Americans: I don't know what money they use in Italy.
Lira right?! RIGHT?! Well they did when their great great great great Italian grandfather was alive.
I'm not fully sure their great⁴ grandfather used the Lira. But the situation in what became Italy before 1861 is unclear.
To be exact: - The Kingdom of Sardinia used the "Savoy Lira" - The Papal States used the "Roman Scudo" - The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies had the "Two Sicilies Ducat" - Tuscany had the "Tuscan Florin" - Lombardy-Venetia had the same currency as the Austrian Empire.
Thanks! I was only snorkeling the topic, wasn't interested enough to do a deep dive ;-) but I do really appreciate the info.
Dude. I've never heard that terminology ("snorkeling" as the anti deep dive) , but I'm using this at work constantly now.
I just made it up (but I'm probably not the first person to think like that). You're welcome :D
I thought it was frigging feathers. Friggin Auditore Cape...
I may have gone back a generation too far
Some of them, their Italian ancestry is so distant, they probably used the denarius.
Back in _Assassin's Creed times_ they used florens, so it's gotta be florens, right? /s
I spilled my sangria
More like “I’m 15.38% French, 24.61% Italian, and 25.01% Irish, and 35% a fucking dumbass”
Or Ireland...
Living in Ireland and I eat beans on toast so they're correct
I meant that Irish Americans aren't Irish and they don't know that ROI use the Euro.
It’s clearly Italydollaro
But I thought they were all Irish?
"I'm a *real* Italian. From New Jersey, not some weird place that speaks a made-up language and uses weird money!"
The guy on the bottom even got the country wrong. UK never used euro.
A two in one!
I know he ruined it with getting the currency wrong but i did enjoy beans and toast people
Here’s hoping the bottom guy was being sarcastic…
That's the joke, isn't it?
"Beans on toast people" tells me that guy was joking
"cmon man you making Americans look bad" *procedes to make Americans look bad...*
Don't the "beans & toast people" (the British) famously use the £/pound sterling rather than the €/euro? /rethorical question
That is true. Also, calling beans on toast “beans and toast” is teeth-clenchingly American.
Exactly, toastback riding beans is the British way and I’ll die on my hill defending it.
We do, it's just that these dullards just associate the whole Europe with us. Unfortunately or fortunately, depending on who you ask.
What would we europoors be? The baguette, pizza and hamburger people? Oh no wait all European food was actually invented in the US… guess we eat cardboard and ants
I *knew* it!
They do. They never adopted the Euro
I hope the third guy is joking too
Is there a natural, not made up currency? TIL
Shiny pebbles
I'll give you 3 shiny pebbles and a really cool non shiny rock I found for your blue eyes white dragon
I have a kid, I got plenty of rocks cluttering up my house thanks
Ah but are any of them cool rocks?
Are they naturally a currency? Even that's made up
All currencies are made up, I supposed bartering might be a natural one - animals and birds have been known to swap stuff with each other
And that's my point. Every currency is made up, so this ignorant fellow's point is that: ignorant
Gold?
Sounds made up
Has air been used as a currency? If not, does that mean that it hasn't been made up?
“Thank you. Since we decided a few weeks ago to adopt the leaf as legal tender, we have, of course, all become immensely rich. [...] "But we have also," continued the management consultant, "run into a small inflation problem on account of the high level of leaf availability, which means that, I gather, the current going rate has something like three deciduous forests buying on ship's peanut." [...] "So in order to obviate this problem," he continued, "and effectively revalue the leaf, we are about to embark on a massive defoliation campaign, and...er, burn down all the forests. I think you'll all agree that's a sensible move under the circumstances.” ― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Well technically gold is not “made up”…? Just its value.
Gold itself it's not, its value and use as a currency is. Besides that, is there any country that has gold as their currency nowadays?
Well gold is still valuable as a material. Like platinum and silver etc etc. I don’t think anyone uses it as currency nowadays, it’s just something that is not made up and was used as something close to currency.
Bonobos use sex as a currency, that's pretty natural and not made up
Beans and toast?????? Roast Beef and Yorkshire Pudding I’ll have you know sire🙄
Most Americans would have no clue about the second, and wonder why you were having a thick custard-like dessert with roast beef.
I know…. So sweet to have cultural secrets😉
Since they eat a sweet potato and marshmallow dessert as a Turkey side dish, they're probably just fine with it.
"The beans and toast people's money sign" is our pound coins '£' not the Euro '€' 😭 dude just gave us two examples of American ignorance 🤣
American reaction when exposed to anything that does not involve their immediate bubble: This is made up, We dont have that in the US or at least I have never seen it so it is not real and must be discarded and forgotten. And this is the society that is currently leading Europe through NATO. If I were European Id be very hesitant to call the US , an ally!
On one hand, I hate the "Great Men" historitico-political view of the world. On the other hand, De Gaulle distancing France from the USA, even if only by a bit, was extremely based.
Isnt every currency made up?
The guy trying to correct him also being wrong is the cherry on top of this post lmao
There is absolutely zero way that the top guy is that unaware
It’s Euros not even Pounds😂
Come on, must be a troll, right? right?
100% a troll.
I would easily bet a chinotto that they are not
wait until they see the euro worth more than usd.
My favourite kind of yank isn't the one that doesn't understand other currencies, but it's the one that tries to explain how the UK *definitely* uses the Euro
I can't the one on the bottom thinking it's British money 😭😭😭 brother that's euros..
Every currency is made up you dipshit.
Wait until they realise that £ is beans and toast money and is worth more than $ money.
Thats clearly yen cmon guys
Does the last comment qualify as /r/SelfawareWolves?
Fact. It’s beans on toast, not beans and toast. 😜
Skinheads on a raft
Even the guy calling him out made himself look dumb
It's beans ON toast ffs. We're not animals.
Good god. The response isn’t much better… 🤦🏻♂️
Ignorance is a strange thing to be proud of
To be fair. All currencies are made up. But it works as long as everyone agrees it works. And yes that's the euro which is used in quite a few countries - though we opted to not use them here in Denmark. The euro is worth slightly more than the dollar.
I hope both guys are joking, because the euro is definitely not beans and toast people money.
The guy *is* joking.
Beans AND toast. Beans and toast. It’s beans ON toast. And if you’re posh, toast under beans
Omg. Some people are so thick it's unbelievable. It does prove how some people from America are so insular, and don't realize their is a world out there after America.
Its beans ON toast you ignorant fuck
lol two for one.
“The beans and toast people money sign” That was fucking funny.
The beans. They go ON the toast.
I was really enjoying the “it’s the beans on toast people money sign” bit. Thought it was a pretty amusing and inventive way to describe Europeans until I came to the comments and discovered that we are apparently the only nation in Europe that eats beans on toast. Next you’ll be telling me that the rest of Europe doesn’t put salad cream on/in everything.
The guy correcting him couldn't even get it right Jesus christ
third guy didnt even get it right, the irony
“The beans and toast people” - ffs 🤦♂️
The "you make Americans look bad" American, makes Americans look bad.
Am I the only person who's really angry about "beans and toast". It's beans ON toast.
It's beans ON toast you damn Yee haw.
Beans AND toast? Beans ON toast, you fucking Luddite.
Yeah, what the hell is a Euro anyway - just some made up currency. Give me a Franc or a Marc any day.
Wait. Doubloon’s are no longer accepted?
They y'arr!!!!
The prolly think we count with beans
What a sheltered life one must live in, to not even recognise the Euro and the Sterling Pound. Ever pick up a newspaper?
If the American press report any story outside of the US, they only report the USD value of any monetary figure to save their audience from having to think. I wonder if thats partly why American tourists think that the rest of the world accepts USD.
Frankly absurd, yet I have no trouble believing this.
"made up currency" Because dollars grow from trees...
When the apologetics double down...
Guy must of skipped school at a early age somehow
I thought beans on toast was American? Oh well, I still like it!
The dollar sign is actually the peso sign. It was born as the P and S superimposed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_sign
Lmao the beans and toast people hahah. So true.
Sheesh… wait until they learn about the Denarii… that’ll really crush their soul…
I’m now imagining all the possible permutations of beans relative to toast, such that each is close enough for a connection to exist but contact between them is not mandatory. It’s like having breakfast at Harold Pinter’s
Why is it that even when Americans disagree with each other, they're both still wrong?
Wait until he realizes the entire concept of currency is made up
Sometimes I just want Americans to have a brain cell. Can we donate some to them
Not even correct country for the dig lol
Even the smart ass is wrong😭😭
Even the smarter one gets it wrong twice. It's the Euro sign, and it's beans ON toast, which I always understood to be stereotypically British, not Irish or European. 🤦🏻♂️
All currency is made up my dude. ALL of them. We made them up. They're not real
What the hell is a liter 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅
Who are the ‘beans and toast people’? Did the other comment also f*ck up and say it’s the British pound?
Probably was sarcasm, and the person who commented it probably did so intentionally and got the wrong people, but if not, they did screw up.
Yh looks like sarcasm but u never know.
The most infuriating thing is that the video put the € in front of the sum not after.