Your “Staggering” Facts Do Not Stagger Me
Posted on December 3rd, 2008
One of my biggest pet peeves is when people turn how much they manufacture of something into a measure distance. Instead of saying, “we produce forty million bags of chips annually” they’ll say something like: “we produce enough chips each year that if you layed them all out, they would reach to Mars and back!” So what? I probably shed enough hair each year to wrap around the Earth a couple of times, but why would I?
And who are the people figuring out all of these lame facts? I mean, I know it’s just a bit of simple math, but are they getting paid? I really hope not. Stupidest job ever.
Really, I don’t think anybody is impressed about how many football stadiums full of Pepsi is made each year, or that the average American consumes forty-five Twinkies each year.
So cut it out.
That’s so true. I hate when Unwrapped, the show on FoodNetwork, busts out with “we produce … etc. that reaches around the world.. blah”. How obnoxious. I don’t care. We are fat, we get it.
Lol that doesn’t really bother me, but I’d just prefer to know the amount in basic numbers. Trying to figure out what 5 times to the moon and back would be in paperclips is tedious
It is all about exaggeration. They have to say something to boggle the customers’ mind to get their attention.
Wow, that is a lot of hair. That is 260 million feet of hair EVERY
WEEK. Unbelievable, huh?
I think those facts are just to put it into perspective for the average dumbass. I mean, 100,000 litres is harder to visualize for them than STADIUM FULL OF POP.