We're all familiar with football pitches and double-decker buses being used as units of measurement, with elephants, houses, and family cars making occasional appearances but this BBC report has got particularly creative...
"It is said to weigh more than 500kg (1,102lb) - around the same as an adult horse - and is around 2.5m (8ft) in diameter, roughly the size of child's four-seater merry-go-round."
'The size of Wales' is oft used as an indicator to how much rainforest have diminished.
My favourite measurement has always been a 'gnats cock'
I once worked with a welder who used it as a measurement.
I also once worked with an Aussie welder who said ' bees dick '
Also the biting point of the clutch used to be measured in pound coins
There was a tall kid at my school called Joe. We used to measure some distances in Joes.
Similarly once solved a question in a pub quiz about how many feet to a yard or some such. We knew of the 18 yard box in football and had a 6 foot tall mate with us so imagined how many of him lieing down head-to-toe it would take to get from the goalline to the end of the area.
Mark Deeks wrote:Callum Todd looks like a young Ted Bundy.
