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      We may be the minority, but many of us Americans prefer the metric system.

      Ease of conversion and relationship with calories aside, have you ever tried measuring small SI machine screws? Calipers run decimal, not fractions. You can’t compare them without math or memorization. It’s a pain in the ass.

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    What energy drink is shaped like that?? Maybe the diameter is similar, but no way it’s the size of a whole can.

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    They look exactly golfball-sized, wtf. This is the default measurement unit for hail!

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    The first line took a while to read. First try I got what could be written as:

    “Sizes of energy drink can pelts, we salute you”

    I mean “drink can pelts” is a weird way to say aluminum

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      “energy-drink-can-sized hail…” is how I would have written it. Or, y’know, used numbers like a sane person.

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      Well, I mean it’s less weird to write “golf ball-sized hail” bcause it’s a rather common way to describe the size of hail. Energy drink cans are cylindrical, so it doesn’t make immediate sense in anyone’s brain in the sentence as a comparison. I’m guessing the author couldn’t think of a common enough spherical item of the right size to compare with. Still, I think hyphens would have immediately fixed the strangeness, like the person below you commented.

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        Sports equipment and fruit are the common comparison for spherical objects.

        “Grape sized hail” is quick and easy. “Softball sized” gives the proper “holy shit that’s huge” reaction.

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        Or commas, and better grammar, would have done wonders, too.

        “Hail, the size of energy drink can[s], pelt[ed] Texas […]”

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    It’s a good thing they included the coin for scale otherwise we might have just assumed this person had Trump sized hands (another completely valid and totally real unit of measure, the greatest unit of all time actually)

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    How to actually read this:

    Hail the size of energy. (Meaning ‘Glory to the size of energy’)

    Drink can pelts Texas while possible tornado injuries US Border Patrol agent.

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        A surprising lot of them are re-skinned, actually, so that’s a legit thing. Depending on your definition of pelt.

        Lots of cans that were printed for discontinued lines, or printed before a label change, have plastic sleeves over the can to re-brand them, even when the label on the old and new is identical…

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      Three. Depending on where you are in the U.S., a toilet is also a “can”. It’s more of a slang meaning, but if you ever hear an American saying they’re “going to go hit the can,” it means they’re going to use the bathroom.

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      Low key convinced this started out as “monster hail” and then got butchered by an AI or like 5 Google translate passes