Sergeant Wilson Posted April 12, 2022 Share Posted April 12, 2022 3 minutes ago, Boo Khaki said: I notice you've omitted the next one up, 'Belgium', which has presumably been dropped now that the UK is no longer an EU member state. I'm fairly certain it's still commonly used to quantify things which are non-EU related though, so "Bolsonaro is destroying the Amazonian rainforest at the rate of an area the size of Belgium every year" for example. I think it's Texas after Wales. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deej Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 10 hours ago, Sergeant Wilson said: I think it's Texas after Wales. Bus -> football pitch -> Wales -> Belgium -> Texas -> Your mum 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 12 hours ago, Boo Khaki said: I notice you've omitted the next one up, 'Belgium', which has presumably been dropped now that the UK is no longer an EU member state. I'm fairly certain it's still commonly used to quantify things which are non-EU related though, so "Bolsonaro is destroying the Amazonian rainforest at the rate of an area the size of Belgium every year" for example. Wales is Imperial, about 2/3 of the metric Belgium that barmy Brussels Bureacrats tried to force on us. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Khaki Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 4 hours ago, coprolite said: Wales is Imperial, about 2/3 of the metric Belgium that barmy Brussels Bureacrats tried to force on us. Good spot. I'm looking forward to 'Yorkshires' and 'Surreys' re-entering our national lexicon of units of measurement 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 Belgium = Wales plus one Norfolk. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 21 hours ago, Sergeant Wilson said: Size goes like this... Double decker bus, football pitch, Wales. Thats height (or in some cases length), area, area. Volume is of course swimming pools (Olympic size) or in some cases, Wembley Stadiums. Pressure I once saw described as “an amount of Eiffel towers pressing down on a snooker table”. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 If you collected all the Covid on the planet it would fit inside a can of Irn Bru. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlipperyP Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 13 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkay said: Thats height (or in some cases length), area, area. Volume is of course swimming pools (Olympic size) or in some cases, Wembley Stadiums. Pressure I once saw described as “an amount of Eiffel towers pressing down on a snooker table”. I'm sure it was the length of the English Channel, which is about 23 yards.. Fuckers who can't swim don't deserve to serve me tea. I maybe wrong, but by f**k I'm not. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Khaki Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 We shouldn't forget about 'moons' or 'our planet earths' when it comes to contextually sizing deep sea trenches and heavenly bodies. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 6 minutes ago, Boo Khaki said: We shouldn't forget about 'moons' or 'our planet earths' when it comes to contextually sizing deep sea trenches and heavenly bodies. Our moon is defined by Jaffa cakes. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Khaki Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 Oh, and the 'eye' on Jupiter as well. I've heard of all sorts being able to fit in there x times over, and I've still got no idea how big it actually is. If only they could spell it out in Wales's or Belgiums instead. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Khaki Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 (edited) Here you go - Comets are apparently measured in 'Rhode Islands'. I'm assuming NASA uses US States. If EU scientists had discovered it presumably we'd know how many 'Luxembourgs' across it is. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-61097826 Edited April 13, 2022 by Boo Khaki 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 (edited) 6 hours ago, welshbairn said: If you collected all the Covid on the planet it would fit inside a can of Irn Bru. Why didn’t we do that and then kept it somewhere safe and out of reach. Would have saved a lot of hassle. Edited April 13, 2022 by Enigma 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted April 14, 2022 Share Posted April 14, 2022 This isn’t my wife but my mother-in-law revealed the other day that she’d never heard of the asteroid or volcano theories of why Dinosaurs went extinct and assumed they had all just eaten each other. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEADOWXI Posted April 14, 2022 Share Posted April 14, 2022 9 hours ago, Enigma said: Why didn’t we do that and then kept it somewhere safe and out of reach. Would have saved a lot of hassle. They did, it was placed at the back of a fridge in Methil. Then some Fifer found it when they had it a hangover, It was the last can in fridge and despite a post-it on it stating 'do not open it will kill millions', they couldn't help themselve. It was Monday 07.27 and it was a 2 day hangover and that is how it started. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hk blues Posted April 14, 2022 Share Posted April 14, 2022 1 hour ago, ICTChris said: This isn’t my wife but my mother-in-law revealed the other day that she’d never heard of the asteroid or volcano theories of why Dinosaurs went extinct and assumed they had all just eaten each other. Who ate the last one then? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted April 14, 2022 Share Posted April 14, 2022 14 minutes ago, hk blues said: Who ate the last one then? Fossil evidence 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hk blues Posted April 14, 2022 Share Posted April 14, 2022 8 minutes ago, coprolite said: Fossil evidence I wish I could do that! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd_is_God Posted April 16, 2022 Share Posted April 16, 2022 Just proclaimed (with a deadly straight face) that electric cars are really dangerous for deaf people crossing the road as they won't hear them coming. Only after I looked at her oddly and pointed out that they wouldn't hear a tank coming either did she realise she meant blind people. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wile E Coyote Posted April 16, 2022 Share Posted April 16, 2022 On 14/04/2022 at 10:14, hk blues said: Who ate the last one then? It starved to death 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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