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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...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyn9dgdwe3o

"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."

I think we need a thread for this, so here it is.

'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.