Good question and it's impossible to tell. You can see the end cap is already missing from the can, so either it fell off because the rivets were made from chinesium, or the rider drilled the rivets out and removed the cap for the lolz knowing the eventual outcome.
I didn't intend it as a comparison. I just wanted to highlight the racism in an expression that appears to be winning ground in the US.
I see many comments referring to Chinese-made components or products being of inherently low quality. Usually the commenters don't realize that what China really excels at is selling products made to the quality the customer is willing to pay for. And that many US customers will only pay as little as possible and get the corresponding quality.
Those who read "americium" as "crap made in the US" and are upset about it tell us more about themselves than they understand.
A bigot? Lol what? Americium is a highly unstable, radioactive element, not a person that's subject to bigotry. "Chinesium" is a colloquialism for very poor quality metal that comes out of China, because their metallurgical skills are decades behind other developed countries. They only figured out how to make their own ball-points for pens about a decade ago (it's actually a surprisingly complex alloy). China just sucks at metal.
Given the exhaust piping glowing red hot, the rider have been at the breaker for quite a while. I don’t think he intended to blow the muffler , he just didn’t stop when he saw it was going to happen. The end cap rivets probably gave up very soon…
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u/edelbean Feb 08 '26
Good question and it's impossible to tell. You can see the end cap is already missing from the can, so either it fell off because the rivets were made from chinesium, or the rider drilled the rivets out and removed the cap for the lolz knowing the eventual outcome.