I've always heard them called gas cans where I'm from.
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indeed. gascans, jerrycans make more sense to me than a unit of measurement to put into them. 
good to see it fixed. it might be a small thing but those things can really drive me crazy xd
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I must be crazy then because I never noticed anything wrong with the part of the game where you name the MC.
maybe you always left your cursor in the textbox then ?I must be crazy then because I never noticed anything wrong with the part of the game where you name the MC.
wondering the same about sam miches while they are looking at sandwitches XDView attachment 3010808 View attachment 3010809 indeed. gascans, jerrycans make more sense to me than a unit of measurement to put into them.
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A Jerrycan is a specific form of gascan. The German army used easily mounted steel gascans. The British and American armies copied the design. The British called the Germans "Jerry's" as a shortened "Britification" of "German". A Jerrycan is 5 gallons in the US (and used to be in Britain), the German cans were 20Liters I believe.
Hence....."Jerrycan" is a "Jerry style gascan"
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I read that it's because the Germans came up with it during WWII, and the American US forces adopted it cuz it was a good idea.A Jerrycan is a specific form of gascan. The German army used easily mounted steel gascans. The British and American armies copied the design. The British called the Germans "Jerry's" as a shortened "Britification" of "German". A Jerrycan is 5 gallons in the US (and used to be in Britain), the German cans were 20Liters I believe.
Hence....."Jerrycan" is a "Jerry style gascan"
more trivial and unimportant information for your day. Wikipedia probably has a hugely in-depth explanation of it
"Jerry" was a slang term used by the Americans for germans.
So it's basically a name born out of racism, lmao.
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Yeah, that's pretty much it except it was the British that called them Jerry's. That and calling them Bosch started in WWI.
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Galao? (you have to pretend the accent mark is there, I don't have my keyboard set up to do it)
Looks like he might hold more than 20 liters, but is quite unhappy about it
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Hm...
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said it was the americans who used that slang.Doesn't matter tho. Americans, British, they're all the same thing just on different sides of the ocean.
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The stamped metal ones are absolutely still called jerrycans in the US. They're not very common anymore, as most people use the plastic fuel containers. Jerrycans are mostly used for off-roading and camping now, because they're easier to pack and more durable than the plastic containers and the plastic ones are generally more convenient in just about any other scenario.
mybe dont think i even ever saw one of those metal ones tbh. but anytime iv ever heard anyone talk about one its just a gas can
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They're honestly getting harder (and more expensive) to find all the time, so it's not surprising you haven't seen them. They're really only preferable to the plastic ones in couple of niche instances now, as well. If fact, with the smaller propane tanks you can get for camping and how easy to use they are, jerrycans are pretty much relegated to just being used as off-roading backup fuel containers unless you happen to have really old camping gear
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That's one of the quickest ways to piss off a Brit, compare them to Americans (ungrateful Colonials!
)The British used "Jerry" we, in a great show of cultural sensitivity, referred to the Germans as "Krauts" as in "saurkraut"
We evidently used to have a weird cultural thing about tagging people with a racist slur involving food. Germans were "Krauts", the French were the "Cheese Eaters", A Japanese car or motorcycle was referred to as a "Rice Burner", Mexicans were "Beaners"
Weird what people focus on
Either way, there's probably more Jerrycans in Georgia (US) than in Germany
I have three myself.
Wasn't just Americans that did that. The English used to call the French "Frogs" because they ate frogs legs.
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ftfy. Astoundingly, English, Germans, and white Americans: all the same race, same ethnicity even.
I'm American (Southern States more specifically), and I've almost always heard jerrycans referred to as "jerrycans", occasionally as "gas cans". An ex-gf's grandfather called one of these
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I know, that's why I said it.
The stapple brazilian stereotype for frenchmen is that they're all gay.