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dazzledbeans @lemmy.world to Memes@lemmy.ml · 8 months ago

guess the company

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guess the company

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dazzledbeans @lemmy.world to Memes@lemmy.ml · 8 months ago
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  • SGGeorwell@lemmy.world
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    Yamaha started as an Organ and piano manufacturer.

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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      8 months ago

      The meme has it backwards … worker should be saying … ‘I guess we produce motorcycles now’

      • snooggums@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        “I guess we are getting history backwards now”

    • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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      Hence why their logo is 3 tuning forks.

      logo

      • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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        BMW started off making aircraft engines over a hundred years ago when powered aircraft were first being developed … which is why their logo is a circle with four different coloured quarters, it’s the image of a spinning propeller

        Just don’t ask them what they were doing between 1933 and 1945

        • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
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          Nintendo started off making playing cards, that’s why their logo is a [Remainder of comment removed due to Cease and Desist]

        • cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de
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          This is a misconception. The chequered blue and white is part of a Bavarian flag, but due to some legal issues they had to straighten it.

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          Just don’t ask them what they were doing between 1933 and 1945

        • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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          I think it’s also a reference to the bavarian flag.

          • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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            Yes … and because of that, for the longest time, because so many people repeated it, I thought the acronym stood for Bavarian Motor Works … its actually ‘Bayerische Motoren Werke’

            • bob_lemon@feddit.org
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              Which is literally just German for Bavarian Motor Works.

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                German for Bavarian Motor Works

                God damit! … I was right all along … just in the wrong language!

  • Doomsider@lemmy.world
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    Panasonic also makes bikes and pianos. Samsung does too. I think even Sony has a motorcycle concept so add them to the list.

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      Samsung also builds ships

      • LavenderDay3544@lemmy.world
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        I would say Samsung is like the Korean GE but tbh it’s more like GE is a smaller American Samsung.

      • Manzas@lemdro.id
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        Samsung also builds tanks

      • kautau@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        And tanks and jet engines

  • meowMix2525@lemm.ee
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    Kawasaki did toy pianos does that count

  • ilovededyoupiggy@sh.itjust.works
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    No idea. Yamaha was doing pianos long before they were doing motorcycles, so it can’t be them. I can’t think of a company that started with motorcycles and then moved into pianos.

  • Snazzy3846@lemmy.ml
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    Yamaha has the beginner wind instrument market by the balls right now. Conn-Selmer became garbage over the last 15 years or so, and Jupiter has been known to be “the nicest dogshit in the business” for some time. Yamaha literally just had to maintain the same level of instrument quality while the former “great brands” became cheap stencil crap.

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    Yamaha, Mitsubishi and a few others.

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    Guess we are making Motorboat engines now

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    8 months ago

    Is that a penis?

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      Asking the important questions!

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