The International System of Units, often referred to as the SI System, defines a small number of basic units, such as the second (time), metre (distance), kilogram (mass).
However, for the popular media these units have proved too limiting for the magnificent descriptive powers of our journalists and broadcasters, who have therefore evolved an alternative set of units which are used exclusively in the hackneyed writing of, well, hacks.
These are:
Weight
- London double decker buses
- Elephants
- Blue Whales (obsolete as mostly extinct)
- Grain of sand
Area
- Postage stamp
- Tennis Courts
- Football pitches
- Wales
- Sahara Desert
Length
- Little finger
- Round the world
- Earth to the moon
Volume
- Teaspoons
- Olympic Swimming Pools
Time
Since the building of the Pyramids
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