Hyperbolic units of scale

Doing some garden jobs today, and Mrs Bloke awoke a slumbering hornet when opening a garden umbrella. She exclaimed ‘It’s like a Lancaster bomber’!  I’d have gone for B52 myself. To be fair it was impressively big, but maybe not WW2 bomber big.

I love an exaggerated unit of scale. Hailstones like golf balls, rats the size of cats, dragonflies like pterodactyls, a jobby the size of King Kong’s finger.

Whatya got?

Scammel Wheel Nuts.

With reference to speed; like a tramp on hot chips.

Hailstones like golf balls,

This is already happening in some parts of Europe. That’s a warming climate  for you

I blame the dogs the size of Land Cruisers

Scammel Wheel Nuts.

😆 See also, chapel hat pegs, fighter pilots thumbs….

Hailstones size of golf balls in Hinckley a few years ago wrote my wife’s car off.

Cinnamon buns the size of bear cubs

Beans, beans, as big as submarines

https://www.larepubliquedespyrenees.fr/environnement/intemperies/orages-les-pyrenees-atlantiques-passent-en-vigilance-orange-11368140.php

Nothing forum friendly springs to mind on topic

Hailstones like golf balls,

I was caught in a summer storm last year (north Spain) with hailstones this size, thankfully we were under cover and had parked the car in an underground car park. All the cars out on the street had dented metalwork, massive damage to the trees, etc.

Automotive roadholding:

Sticks like sh1t to a blanket

Speed:

Goes like greased weasel sh1t

Swimming:

Like a greased otter

Gnats cock.

An arse the size of a barn door.

🙈

Or as put by the Divine Comedy – the size of a small country

SI unit of very heavy things = whales

SI unit of very long things = double decker buses end to end

SI unit of large bodies of water = Olympic swimming pools

SI unit of comparative size of countries = France (or Wales if you’ve not converted to metric)

SI unit of long distance= how far [and back] to the moon, or times around the equator

“Mad as biscuits.”

Banging like the shithouse door on a Grimsby trawler

Like a fat kid on a cup-cake.

Wait.. Are we doing metaphors or similes?

Specifically size/scale comparisons.  Seems to have off wandered a bit. @nickc your list made me chuckle!

@Edukator – there’s a couple of meteorologists in France well worth following for that kind of stuff. Yann Amice and Gilles André – lots of posts on Twitter

What’s the ratio of imperial gallons to Donald Trumps?

https://www.theregister.com/Design/page/reg-standards-converter.html for the full, official list

Bawhair

Standard unit of measurement here in Scotland. Rarely accurate

Measure of dampness: wetter than an otter’s pocket.

I had to invoke that after last Saturday’s ride which, in turn, may have invoked my last couple of forum posts about replacing freehub bearings….

I’ve deleted the description but, ‘like a donkeys yawn’ is my favourite.

“Bawhair

Standard unit of measurement here in Scotland. Rarely accurate”

As well as bawhair being a measurement of distance baw is also a meaurement of depth.

A real one. An ex boss whose first job was at Jodrell Bank said they measured energy density in British Thermal Units per cubic Megaparsec

I was hoping for some of this type of thing:

We all know that the geometric object of minimal surface area amongst all shapes with a fixed volume is the round ball, whose boundary is spherical. Water blobs try to minimise surface area and curl into spherical droplets. The physical problem of surface-area minimisation is thus quite well understood. What about the opposite problem of surface-area maximisation? Does the problem even make sense? Indeed it does. Trees try to maximise surface area to get the most of sunlight through their leaves. Sea anemones and sponges work to maximise their surface area to maximise contact with water to obtain food. Gills in fish and animal lungs try to maximise the surface area so that more oxygen goes into the blood. The resulting geometry is hyperbolic—a geometry that is, as expected, quite the opposite to spherical geometry.

Which I find interesting but am not able to comprehend the maths behind it. It came from here, if you’re interested: https://researchmatters.in/news/ubiquity-hyperbolic-geometry

(where it rapidly surpasses my comprehension in the first sentence of the second paragraph!)

There is such a unit as a Sydharb.

And as for hailstones. We get these localised storms every year or so which lead to entire neighbourhoods needing new roofing and cars.

The size of 3 bananas

Any large land area can obviously be compared to ‘the size of Wales’ or multiples of.

if we’re talking  similes and in the same vein as Hippo’s Yawn then ‘cavernous as a Wizard’s sleeve’ is a good one.

Mad as a box of frogs?

Like two squirrels in a bag?

Bawhair

Standard unit of measurement here in Scotland. Rarely accurate

But very precise.

I see your donkeys yawn and raise you a hippo, courtesy of RW.

Surely in the internet age the only true internationally recognised unit of scale is the banana.?

SI unit of very heavy things = whales

SI unit of moderately heavy things = elephant

Fart – a unit of torque. IE tighten it till you fart.

‘it needs some hair around it’ – not a unit of measurement but a helpful engineering guide when struggling with concentric alignment.

Mass: the metric shit ton

Slower than a stuned slug. – slow

A midges dick – small

SI unit of fear… Brick (shitting thereof)

Multiple units in residential units.

“Shit a brick?! I just shat 4 bed semi”

When referring to exceedingly under inflated tyres…

Flat as a badger on a bypass