I initially read the title as 55,000 one pound stones. I was thinking, huh that does seem like a lot of work. (>▽<)
replyOr 3928 stone stones
replyStones are the Fahrenheit of weight. Useful for the human body but fuck all else.
replyAre they useful for human bodies?
replyWe have a dumb system here in New Zealand. Most people seem to know their height in feet/inches and weight in kilograms.
Or about 3 double-decker buses for the length of 171 footy pitches.
replyThat's not dimensionally correct! Double-decker bus is a unit of length, and footy pitch is too prosaic to be an approved unit: https://www.theregister.com/bootnotes/2026/05/31/the-reg-onl...
replyIt's a shame it's not about area then at least we could agree on Wales as a unit.
replyIt's not too prosaic, it's just too imprecise. There is no standard size, and some regulations even allow a range of sizes.
replyI don't think that's relevant for Register units. Clearly there's a standard brontosaurus somewhere, for instance, otherwise how could we have the conversion table? However, sorry, I was wrong about the football pitch, at least as a unit of area, equal to 194.89nWa per the original article: https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2007/08/24/so-whats-the-...
replyYou're not wrong! Personally, I like to use penguin as a measure of height. Everybody knows how big a penguin is, right? It's pretty standard.
replyto clarify for those of a nautical bent - that's about half a blue whale for about 4/5ths of a dozen nautical miles
replyFor anyone confused, British people would generally use tonnes (or tons, but maybe not know the difference exactly) and miles.
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