Obscure units of measurement

[User482]

Having just posted a link about Scoville units, which measures the heat of chillis, I got thinking...

Here's my nomination: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Stool_Scale

Can you beat it?

 

[betty swollocks]

Well, you've got to get them in the correct ordure

 

[Arch]

There's a Glasgow Coma Score, I think...

 

[bobg]

Having just posted a link about Scoville units, which measures the heat of chillis, I got thinking...

Here's my nomination: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Stool_Scale

Can you beat it?

My 16 year old son was passing through and glanced at the monitor while I was laughing at that and said " you wanna google for "rate my poo" - I did and wished I hadn't - I leave the decision entirely to you... you may regret it...

 

[Aint Skeered]

Nibble- 4 bits of a binary code
Twip - 1/20 of a type setting point
Thrave - 24 sheaves of wheat
Miickey - ratio of computer mouse movements to cursor movement
Jansky - strength of a radio signal from space

 

[Aperitif]

"A gnat's coq" = quite small
"A fag paper" = not quite so far

 

[Aint Skeered]

A fanny full, approx. - A small amount of liquid

 

[PrettyboyTim]

My favourite unit of measurement is the one for beauty, which is measured in milliHelens - one milliHelen being the amount of beauty required to launch a single ship.

 

[derall]

My favourite is the Smoot. The length of the Harvard Bridge in Boston is 364.4 smoots plus or minus an ear

Further units listed here

 

[Fnaar]

My favourite unit of measurement is the one for beauty, which is measured in milliHelens - one milliHelen being the amount of beauty required to launch a single ship.

I have 'friends' (ahem) who have been known, in the past, when they were younger and less mature, to measure beauty by number of pints of beer it'd take to fancy her. A "7-pinter" was to be avoided at all costs....

 

[Rob S]

From Sheldon Brown's torque spanner

 

[marinyork]

As listened in derall's list the Barn is a measurement of cross sectional area in scattering.

 

[Renard]

Baw hair​

A hairsbreadth. A tiny amount.

Example usage: "He missed me by a baw hair"

 

[Keith Oates]

A nit on a nats nuts = very small!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Monst]

You forget the standard International Measurement:

Wales.....


As in an area the size of wales is deforested every year in.... etc