• Flummoxed@lemmy.world
    51·
    1 year ago

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

      • Flummoxed@lemmy.world
        8·
        1 year ago

        “Size of a nice rice ball” would have been more appropriate. Maybe if you tried flattening a 5 hour?

        • aeronmelon@lemmy.world
          3·
          1 year ago

          Texans do not know what a riceball is.

          The American localization of Pokemon in the 1990s calling onigiri (triangular riceballs) doughnuts has become one of the most infamous in-jokes in Anime.

    • brbposting@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      1 year ago

      Well “energy” is a bit of a stretch but… (I’ll let YouTube thumbnails take it from here)

      inb4”silence brand”

      • dingus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I like these, but places near me don’t seem to sell them. Well, my local gas station used to, but they were always hidden in the back and expired which is gross as fuck.

    • Valmond@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      Those small cans you get on the plane? But why the ‘energy’? Probably to shitpost IMO.

  • el_abuelo@lemmy.ml
    19·
    1 year ago

    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)

  • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
    16·
    1 year ago

    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

    • tiredofsametab@kbin.run
      4·
      1 year ago

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

    • dingus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
        41·
        1 year ago

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

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

      • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
        3·
        1 year ago

        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.

  • EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works
    15·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • Eiim@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      1 year ago

      Well, you can have a funnel cloud, but it’s not a tornado until the condensation funnel touches the ground, and it’s not always clear what the case is until proper surveying is done.

    • Sconrad122@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

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