What have you ordered, which turned out substantially bigger
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Ordered a pizza last night in Vegas for takeaway, i just asked for a large meaty pizza. (In the UK this gets me a nice sized pizza)
When i collected it, i was like WTF thats a f
king big Pizza box.
Then when i opened its, st thats a lot of Pizza to eat on my own!
Nearly 24 hours later, and ive just finally finished it
I do like cold pizza
No wonder Americans tend to be so large!
And to show scale, this is the size of 1 slice, thats a full sized ipad!
When i collected it, i was like WTF thats a f
king big Pizza box. Then when i opened its, s
t thats a lot of Pizza to eat on my own!Nearly 24 hours later, and ive just finally finished it
I do like cold pizza
No wonder Americans tend to be so large!
And to show scale, this is the size of 1 slice, thats a full sized ipad!
As a reverse to this thread, our neighbours bought themselves one of these for xmas, surprisingly to clear the leaves from all around the house, drive, garden etc... She was waiting for it to be delivered expecting a big box with all the bits in it. When the knock at the door came she opened it to be handed a package about the size of a shoe box.
Check the measurements, the body is only about 20cm long. Not quite the big garden leaf blower they thought they'd bought.
He swears it's actually quite good, but I can tell from the look in his eyes he's lying to save her feelings.
Check the measurements, the body is only about 20cm long. Not quite the big garden leaf blower they thought they'd bought.
He swears it's actually quite good, but I can tell from the look in his eyes he's lying to save her feelings.
Bristol spark said:
Ordered a pizza last night in Vegas ...
Had the same in Boston. Staying in an apartment in Hanover Street, walked a couple of minutes down the road to a Pizzeria. Ordered a pizza and was handed a box large enough to house the top of a dining room table! Good job I like pizza 
I once bid on a 48" crt tv on eBay not expecting to win. Unfortunately I won at 99p. I asked a mate with a car if he could go and collect it with me and he obliged wondering just how much tv 99p gets you. Well it turns out a 48" crt tv is bloody massive and weighs a ton!
We barely managed to get it into the back of my mates mk5 fiesta but only by putting the front seats as far forward as possible. This meant for the journey home my head was pressed against the windscreen and my mate was pressed against the steering wheel more than any pensioner you've ever seen driving!
Things didn't get easier once back at my parents house. Even with 3 people we struggled getting into the house and my dad wouldn't help us any further so getting it upstairs was even harder. We had the genius idea that pushing it would be easy once the tv was at the same angle as the stairs. Unfortunately it didn't go to plan and it caught the edge of every step meaning I had to climb over it (it was literally as wide as the staircase) and lift it over each step as my mate pushed it. By the time he got about 3 quarters of the way there he looked like he was going to pass out and fall back down! Luckily we got to the top and then rolled it into the room as we were so knackered from carrying it around.
Luckily it worked as we hadn't tested it at until it was in the room!
We barely managed to get it into the back of my mates mk5 fiesta but only by putting the front seats as far forward as possible. This meant for the journey home my head was pressed against the windscreen and my mate was pressed against the steering wheel more than any pensioner you've ever seen driving!
Things didn't get easier once back at my parents house. Even with 3 people we struggled getting into the house and my dad wouldn't help us any further so getting it upstairs was even harder. We had the genius idea that pushing it would be easy once the tv was at the same angle as the stairs. Unfortunately it didn't go to plan and it caught the edge of every step meaning I had to climb over it (it was literally as wide as the staircase) and lift it over each step as my mate pushed it. By the time he got about 3 quarters of the way there he looked like he was going to pass out and fall back down! Luckily we got to the top and then rolled it into the room as we were so knackered from carrying it around.
Luckily it worked as we hadn't tested it at until it was in the room!
I have done that in the US, got back from work, went to the "Package Store" and got myself a bottle of wine, then went to the local Italian Restaurant and ordered a Meaty Pizza of some variety, had a couple of beers whilst I waited and then went back, bloody ravenous caqrrying what felt like it was probably a sizable dead Stingray in a cardboard box, must have weighed like three pounds.
It wasnt that is that huge in diameter, not as big as the one the OP had, it was a medium apparently but I hadnt allowed for the depth, it was like an inch and a half, so I went back and watched crap telly (being the US it was mainly adverts for drugs and a list of side effects) and gorged on it, I drank the whole bottle of wine and was like a beached Whale, looked at it and only three of the 8 slices were gone, so it got stuck in the in room fridge, where it stayed, I was still full two days later.
Still not as deep as the one in Calgary, that was two inches in places, was nice at first then you reaslised it was piles of processed meat that hadnt entirely warmed through.
Then we wonder why we put weight on when away, breakfast int he hotel, dont go mand, then they order in a sandwich box which is a sandwich, bag of crisps and a cookie, bu the sandwich is usually a full pack of wafer thin ham between two doorsteps, low on quality, tasty but total overkill, then out for dinner and loads of drinks.
It wasnt that is that huge in diameter, not as big as the one the OP had, it was a medium apparently but I hadnt allowed for the depth, it was like an inch and a half, so I went back and watched crap telly (being the US it was mainly adverts for drugs and a list of side effects) and gorged on it, I drank the whole bottle of wine and was like a beached Whale, looked at it and only three of the 8 slices were gone, so it got stuck in the in room fridge, where it stayed, I was still full two days later.
Still not as deep as the one in Calgary, that was two inches in places, was nice at first then you reaslised it was piles of processed meat that hadnt entirely warmed through.
Then we wonder why we put weight on when away, breakfast int he hotel, dont go mand, then they order in a sandwich box which is a sandwich, bag of crisps and a cookie, bu the sandwich is usually a full pack of wafer thin ham between two doorsteps, low on quality, tasty but total overkill, then out for dinner and loads of drinks.
My eldest had a toy deer that she took everywhere and wouldn't be parted from it. That is until one day when she dropped it. Retracing our steps didn't turn it up so we searched online and found one that looked identical.
Turned up a week later 3x the size of the original! Managed to convince her it was mummy deer.
Not long after she took a shine to a.monkey teddy with velcro hands, same story she lost it and we searched and ordered a replacement. Bloody thing was 3 feet long when it arrived!
Turned up a week later 3x the size of the original! Managed to convince her it was mummy deer.
Not long after she took a shine to a.monkey teddy with velcro hands, same story she lost it and we searched and ordered a replacement. Bloody thing was 3 feet long when it arrived!
J.R.B. said:
A pair of Focal Aria 948s. Took some explaining to my other half when they turned up. I've a photo somewhere of them next to the Tannoy floorstanders in my other system which show just how huge they are. Will have to locate it.
Funny ? as women usually love massive speakers 
SAS Tom said:
I once bid on a 48" crt tv on eBay not expecting to win. Unfortunately I won at 99p. I asked a mate with a car if he could go and collect it with me and he obliged wondering just how much tv 99p gets you. Well it turns out a 48" crt tv is bloody massive and weighs a ton!
We barely managed to get it into the back of my mates mk5 fiesta but only by putting the front seats as far forward as possible. This meant for the journey home my head was pressed against the windscreen and my mate was pressed against the steering wheel more than any pensioner you've ever seen driving!
Things didn't get easier once back at my parents house. Even with 3 people we struggled getting into the house and my dad wouldn't help us any further so getting it upstairs was even harder. We had the genius idea that pushing it would be easy once the tv was at the same angle as the stairs. Unfortunately it didn't go to plan and it caught the edge of every step meaning I had to climb over it (it was literally as wide as the staircase) and lift it over each step as my mate pushed it. By the time he got about 3 quarters of the way there he looked like he was going to pass out and fall back down! Luckily we got to the top and then rolled it into the room as we were so knackered from carrying it around.
Luckily it worked as we hadn't tested it at until it was in the room!
lol I've done this exact thing helping a mate with an old B&OWe barely managed to get it into the back of my mates mk5 fiesta but only by putting the front seats as far forward as possible. This meant for the journey home my head was pressed against the windscreen and my mate was pressed against the steering wheel more than any pensioner you've ever seen driving!
Things didn't get easier once back at my parents house. Even with 3 people we struggled getting into the house and my dad wouldn't help us any further so getting it upstairs was even harder. We had the genius idea that pushing it would be easy once the tv was at the same angle as the stairs. Unfortunately it didn't go to plan and it caught the edge of every step meaning I had to climb over it (it was literally as wide as the staircase) and lift it over each step as my mate pushed it. By the time he got about 3 quarters of the way there he looked like he was going to pass out and fall back down! Luckily we got to the top and then rolled it into the room as we were so knackered from carrying it around.
Luckily it worked as we hadn't tested it at until it was in the room!
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