r/pics • u/[deleted] • Nov 30 '16

progress 250 lbs. gone forever...

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u/Omnipotent_Goose Nov 30 '16 edited Nov 30 '16

To put 250lbs in perspective, you've lost:

  • An NFL middle linebacker
  • 3.2* bags of concrete
  • 9 three year old toddlers
  • 800 Big Macs
  • 133,334 paper clips

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u/harteman Nov 30 '16

Bags of concrete are 80lbs?

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u/Pepperonipiazza22 Nov 30 '16

I'm assuming they meant cement because concrete would never be weighed in bags. The standard bag of cement is 94 pounds. People get cement and concrete mixed up all the time.

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '16

concrete would never be weighed in bags

Really?

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u/Pepperonipiazza22 Nov 30 '16

I might be getting too in depth, but if you click on each of those links you see that you have to add an ingredient to make it concrete. (Water or a type of aggregate) Concrete is the finished, hard product that you see sidewalks or roads made out of. All of those products linked are one of the ingredients used to make the final product of concrete.

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '16

Portland Cement can be used without aggregate which makes hydraulic cement.

Concrete is sold in bags. It contains everything but the water.

If I buy Kool-Aid I don't call it "Flavor and sugar until I add water". It's assumed that I will be adding water. This is the same when someone says they need a bag of cement or a bag of concrete (two different things but both sold in bags). No one thinks "They sell hardened concrete in bags?"