NON-STANDARD MEASUREMENT UNITS

[johnDH]

Furlongs per square fortnight.



It's the standard unit of acceleration here (ie in my mind)

 

[tubedude]

I live in Los Angeles, where everything is measured in time. How far away is the restaurant? It's about 30 minutes from here.

In L.A. that's 1.3 miles.

 

[tele_savales]

In L.A. that's 1.3 miles.

If there's no traffic.

 

[tubedude]

Wow - meters you can still put coins in - how quaint In these parts you have to wave your phone/debit card at them while chanting something like "...just ****king work, you poxy bast**d..." The chant is optional, but I hear it used a lot.

I used to work with a gentleman of the Glaswegian persuasion many moons ago...who referred to very small measurements as being 'smaller than a ball hair's width'.

At least I think that's what he was saying

That must be a metric measurement.
In the U.S. it's an RCH.

 

[ale.istotle]

My father had the habit of measuring job difficulty in expletives. “I have to clean the gutters. That’s a 7 son-of-a… job.”
Brake shoes in January was off the charts.

 

[WingedWords]

Brazil is 142 Switzerlands. Approx