Unofficial units of measurement

[tripleheader]

A Knats **** , as in a unit of length.
Wide as a Barn Door/Back Alley
Eyes as big as Goggles
Slack as Welly Boot-do you need to ask?
Stiff as a Barge Pole, as above
Drunk as a Skunk, self explanatory.
Sober as a Judge
Fit as a Butchers Dog
Tight as a Ducks ****
Someone who has Deep Pockets. Ie ability to pay
Smooth as a Babies Bum
Useless as a Chocolate Fireguard/ Ashtray on a Motorbike
Bright as a Button
Fast as a Rocket
Slow as a Tortoise
Ugly as Sin
Big as a Bus
Tight as a Nun's-time for bed!

 

[johnsmithsno2]

The other day

 

[Laughing]

The other day

Way back when
Yesteryear
Days off yore

 

[FatCat]

Way back when
Yesteryear
Days off yore

Back in the day

 

[tripleheader]

Hard Yards

 

[Randy]

A fannyfull. As in 'add a fannyfull of sugar"

 

[Laughing]

yay big

 

[Corco65]

There is another thread called, how long do we give Warnock, perhaps that is better placed in this thread.

 

[El Guapo]

Half a teacake. A unit on the scale of arousal, somewhere about halfway between flop-on and hard as a pipe.

 

[Corco65]

I thought best to mention this one quick, the DFS sale, as it's about to end soon.

 

[Ingleby_Flash]

A wizard’s sleeve. As in, well as in wizards sleeve

 

[Ingleby_Flash]

Can’t see anyone has mentioned Barge Pole…

As in I wouldn’t touch her with a barge pole

Yours
Asin I wouldn’t touch her with yours.

 

[Johnny Vincents Motorbike]

Da Vinci thumbnailed it !!

 

[NoloBoro]

Fanny like a welly top
More pricks than kerplunk

 

[rkangel]

Da Vinci thumbnailed it !!


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Odd that he would duplicate "Fathom" and "6 Feet". Unless "Fathom" itself is franglais for a measurement, "that pub has tiny toilets. You couldn't get 3 fat hommes in there." I don't think Da Vinci was a stranger to that world.

 

[rkangel]

I seem to recall it's "Full fathom my father lies" in The Tempest, also part of one my favourite Laurie Anderson tunes.

 

[bear66]

A half full glass . . . which should clearly be a half empty glass.

 

[bear66]

Past the sell by date

 

[Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret]

Parsecs and womp rats.

My favourite measurements are the sci fi measurements. The Transformers use astroseconds.

 

[xxlshirts_fit_all]

Too many posts to read but I saw this new measuring scale today and wasn’t sure if it’s been shared yet… although it does open up many questions… what load size? Is it a front loader? But yes, anything is better than metric for the yanks