Sorry I only understand football field based units of measurement

fnordpiglet 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It’s a real condition. For me it’s jet liners of various makes. I had to rewrite the quote as “0.005 Boeing 777’s” to be able to comprehend just how strong those snails teeth are.

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eth0up 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Sorry, but that's what 14 (standard) pickup trucks of yak hair was invented for.

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djtriptych 6 hours ago | parent [-]

ok but what color is the yak hair?

	▲	thenewwazoo 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Same color as the bike shed, obviously
	▲	eth0up 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Not from Unitzikstan I see White, of course; that way the statisticians can dye them any color they want. But for ultra high precision I do recommend the Boeing system. But be sure to use the older models, before private equity firms replaced all the metal parts with zipties. If you can't find a quality Boeing (plausible), consider 1.1 Blue Whales (tricky). fnordpiglet was being deliberately humble with the decimals. It's accurate down to the semi firkin. Not to be confused with a quarter Tod. Ignore the redundant bike shed comment, as that fits precisely 3,300 one-pound bags of sugar. Anyone with a bike should know that.

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Rooster61 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Wait, I can do that? Here I've been using Smoots this whole time (with great difficulty might I add).

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rz2k 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Obviously it weighs 10,300 baseballs, which are 26 football fields long.

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isatty 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

A football field is by far a better measurement than 3300 one pound bags of sugar.

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sph 3 hours ago | parent [-]

It is not if all you know are football fields and not American football fields.

I still don’t know how they even compare.

	▲	bch 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's why we use the %fill of an Olympic Sized Pool - doesn't matter from what continent the field comes, they fill the pool equally.

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bell-cot 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Understandable, with how many there are to pick from, and the wiggle room in the longest ones -

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/As...

	▲	kulahan 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		OP is talking about a football field, not a soccer field. It’s a common joke in America that things have to be measured in football terms. In the “for what it’s worth” department, Brits called it soccer too. I have no idea why they swapped to football recently.