Why some people in the US can't understand the metric system.

[Ecthy]

those are yocca and yocto, and they do make sense in theory!!!

[Harovan]

I only know yoghurt.

[MrFun]

Someday, Europe will become as advanced as the United States.

[GePap]

Metric is great..500 mL of beer, or 1 pint?

[Harovan]

Nobody would order 500 ml beer here. "A Moss" is a liter, and "A Holbe" is half a liter. But that is Bavaria.

[GePap]

Hello, 500 mL is a Holbe.

[Harovan]

True, but 500ml is 7 syllables here and A Holbe only 3.

[GePap]

If "half liter" had some independent universal name (as opposed to a local bavarian beer measurement) then I would use it. The point remains, people buying pints get less that people getting half-liters....

So how many Moss (it is Mossen pl?) does the average bavarian drink in a day?

[Harovan]

Yes. One "Moss". Many "Moss'n". As for the amount... well that depends. I'm not much a drinker, I drink a Moss per hour. So if I'm out from 8-11pm, it's three Moss'n, usually. But that's me, and I am not a native here. There are of course "combat drinkers" who drink much more.

[Solly]

Combat drinkers..?

[GePap]

Hmm, the most beer I have drunk ever were about 8 12 ounce bottles..that's about a Moss and a Holbe in approx. 2.5 hours. Hmm, a light drinker.

Damn! You see, this is the problem with Standard.. specially using ounces for both volume and weight! Its 8 ounces to a cup, not 16! (that's weight)..revise my figures up.. that was a little less than 3 Moss'n.

[Harovan]

Kampftrinker, we call people so, that drink very much.

[Solly]

The most I've had was around 20 330ml bottles of Carlsberg Export (5%), though I lost count after around 13 so had to ask the barmaid the day after.

Around 6 Mossn and a Holbe..

[Harovan]

Originally posted by GePap
Hmm, the most beer I have drunk ever were about 8 12 ounce bottles..that's about a Moss and a Holbe in approx. 2.5 hours. Hmm, a light drinker.

Umm, weren't 12 ounces about 1/3 liters (even slighly more)? In this case it would be more than 2.5 Moss'n, in about my "speed limit".

[GePap]

Yeah, I edited my post..confused weight ounces and volume ounces when calculating.