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   goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Friday, 29-Nov-2024 20:29:22 JST goatsarah
   American companies on Facebook advertising clever carry on luggage and not publishing dimensions, or making it not fit in a 55*40*20cm cuboid, and wondering why nobody in Europe buys it.
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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Friday, 29-Nov-2024 20:33:05 JST goatsarah

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     THE BOX, motherfucker! WILL IT FIT IN THE BOX? Yes or fucking no?

     … um, almost?

     NO

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Friday, 29-Nov-2024 20:40:04 JST goatsarah

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     I commented on the ad.

     The DMed me.

     With the dimensions.

     In fucking INCHES.

     I ran them through a converter.

     It doesn’t fit in the box.

     This product is literally useless in Europe.

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Friday, 29-Nov-2024 21:07:03 JST goatsarah

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     • Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖
     • Nicovel0 🍉

     @christineburns @Nicovel0 My Leaf is almost too wide for some Algarve roads.

     Yank tanks have no chance.

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     Nicovel0 🍉 (nicovel0@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Nov-2024 21:07:05 JST Nicovel0 🍉

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     @goatsarah LOL you might as well tell us those dimensions in peppercorns

     goatsarah likes this.
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     Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ (christineburns@mastodon.green)'s status on Friday, 29-Nov-2024 21:07:05 JST Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖

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     • Nicovel0 🍉

     @Nicovel0 @goatsarah Yesterday I was watching a couple of YouTubes about why US car makers failed to sell their bloated gas guzzling cars in Europe and its a similar story of making products that just don’t fit anywhere else unless they have the wit and wisdom to set up locally and make products specifically for that market.

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Friday, 29-Nov-2024 22:24:50 JST goatsarah

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     • Miguel Arroz
     @arroz Ryanair basically sets the standard here. They want to turn a plane round in 20 minutes which means the standard US “everyone spends five minutes playing luggage Tetris in the cabin” thing is right out.
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     Miguel Arroz (arroz@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Nov-2024 22:24:51 JST Miguel Arroz

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     @goatsarah Wait, that's news to me… the max luggage dimensions are different here and in the US? I assume that was standardized.