Useless Facts

1142 here

 

@The Dapper Hooligan I get from his avatar slogan, but where would it have been 19:42?

And where's 11:42, @Iain Aschendale?

And why is no one puting the colon between the hour and minutes?

And why isn't The Dapper Hooligan's name linking to the member in this post?

 

Arizona, no Day Light Savings here.
(You can figure out Canada based on the time zones)

 

I'm actually on a quick trip to Dildo right now, it's an hour and a half ahead of where I live in Ontario.

 

You know, they don't offer bags like that in the states. Usually the best you can do is a one pound bag. Unless you mean the bag of popcorn from the movie theater supply outlet that comes in the 55 gallon heft bag.

 

Japan, and military time doesn't use colons.

ETA for clarity: 11:42 is ambiguous, it could be a.m. or p.m., but 1142 signals that you're using 24 hour time, so it's definitely morning.

 

They do. Or maybe they used to. There's an episode of Friends where Ross and Phoebe have one of these giant bags each. I think Phoebe's are pretzels, but Ross' are cheesy puff things. They have the bags on their knees and the opening comes up way beyond their chest.

I watch too much Friends.

 

I don't know about the States, but you can get 400g bags of cheesy poofs at most grocery stores in Canada. Sometimes if you go to an outlet store like Costco you can find them in bags of a couple of kilo's each.

 

That's called a 'prop', at best a novelty, not a general offering. Might find something close at Costco.

 

Well I'm probably talking about a time before you remember, but the US definitely (used to) do bags of crisps far bigger than the UK ever did.

In fact, these over-sized bags of crisps were very popular in the 80s. I remember them from all those Spielberg films and the like.

I love American food. It's so junky! In fact, if I ever decide to top myself I'm going to move to the US and eat myself to death.

 

Run o' the mill chip aisle. Sorry to disappoint.

 

@NobodySpecial

Yeah, that's what I mean. They might not seem big to the average American, but to this country's population and its ever-growing drive towards healthy eating, they're massive.

And look at the damn choice! We get salt and bastard vinegar or cheese & onion, and that's about it.

 

I' almost 50 years old, how far back did you want to go? And Spielburg films? Again, props. Even your jumbo cheeto bag isn't an American offering, the only English words on the bag are Cheeto and jumbo.
And yes, American food is quite junky. Just because a ten pound bag isn't a general offering, that doesn't mean the option to try ten one pound bags is off the table.

 

Hell, that's just one side of the aisle.

 

Well, maybe the 'giant' bags are rare, but your bags of crisps are still bigger than ours.

 

Weird thing is, I'm pretty sure I remember these, too. Though I'm not sure if it was because they actually existed, or I was much smaller back then.

 

I'm thinking of suing our government for their healthy eating campaigns.

What about us depressives?? How the fuck are we supposed to use food to make us 'happy' when it tastes like bastard cardboard!?

 

Sounds like you could use some wasabi and ginger flavored Lays potato chips

 

Also @Iain Aschendale you forgot hospitals use 24hr time too.

 

That is one big ass bag of cheese puffs.

 

If you're taking times for science reasons, too, it's written as hour:minute:second, or to whatever accuracy you want to mark it to.

 

You're more likely to find enormous bags of chips and the like in Mexico. In the U.S., you might find them occasionally at stores that import Mexican goods. They exist, but at the bulk stores in the U.S., you're more likely to find a container with twelve or so smaller bags. The average bag of "crisps" at my local Walmart is around 25 ounces, which is still pretty big.

 

I know the thread title is useless facts, but I'm absolutely captivated by this intensive chip talk. This is very useful to me. I'm taking notes.

 

That is also how one documents speed times in sports where speed in a major factor.