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[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 27 points 1 year ago

Okay, I always knew they were big, but I never would have thought Appa was accurately sized

[–] krippix@feddit.de 24 points 1 year ago
[–] wallmenis@lemmy.one 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Bison

[–] Neato@ttrpg.network 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow that's a lot. But how many pounds is a note?

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago
[–] gigachad@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago
[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The other 7.8 billion of us on this planet would have the biggest objection to "lbs"

[–] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

To give you an idea how big it is

Spouts some pish that virtually nobody on the planet understands

Smh

[–] ladicius@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Big if true.

I'd say that man is about 1/8 the volume of that bison so if it's about equal weight per volume then the bison is 24,000 lbs.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Holy shit! That bison's head is almost as big as that of Ben Affleck!

Shown here besides average sized for an American adult John Legend: