The fantasy imperial measurements thread

[Mr Larrington]

Might we see a resurgence of the Megalithic yard?

[TheLurker]

Crans

[ElyDave]

Crans

Do they pick up hevy thngs?

[hellymedic]

Did anyone mention Oxford time? Our own local time, for our own local city/town/parish? Clockwinders of the shires unite!

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I haven't.

Is it 4 minutes behind GMT?

I've not checked co-ordinates…

Solar noon was 12.15 here today...

[mattc]

No Olympic-sized swimming pools, though.  They're Greek.

Empire Games-sized swimming pools (50 yards long one assumes) will suffice surely?

I decided to check this. I liked what I found, mainly cos it turns out I've stood in the Empire Games Pool [sort of]

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London 1948:

Forty years on swimming for London 1948 was hosted in the Empire Pool, then venue was originally created for the 1934 British Empire Games. The dimensions of the pool were anything but standard - a beached entry and wave machine were part of its features.

The Empire Pool was positioned next to the stadium that hosted the Games, Wembley. Remarkably this venue still stands to this day - but you will not know it as a swimming pool but as a music venue. The swimming events of London 1948 were the last it hosted, and since then the venue has played host to acts such as The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Abba and Madonna. You will know then venue now as the SSE Arena Wembley, or Wembley Arena.
The fact I heard recently is that all "Olympic Pools" are a smidge tad slightly longer than 50m; because of course the swimmers must complete 50m between those clever timing pad thingies.

[redshift]

Imperial Maxwells:

Standard unit of measurement for light intensity (candles, light bulbs etc).

1 Maxwell = 12^32 photons per 1/64000 of a second where the frequency of the light produces a colour exactly that of the sky on a dull afternoon in Rochdale at 2:17pm on the second Tuesday after the vernal equinox.

Ah, good old Illuminant D...*

Cables.  We should use cables and nautical miles more.



*or not.

[hellymedic]

or knot...

[Kim]

Cables.

Nahh, the future's wireless.  And the wireless should of course have its tuner calibrated in fathoms or something, none of this FOREIGN metres and Hertzes rubbish.

[spesh]

Cables.

Nahh, the future's wireless.  And the wireless should of course have its tuner calibrated in fathoms or something, none of this FOREIGN metres and Hertzes rubbish.

Now we're talking electrotrickery, we have to get the term "phlogistons" back in use.

Just sayin'...



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[Pingu]

Ether or...

[Kim]

Now we're talking electrotrickery, we have to get the term "phlogistons" back in use.

Just sayin'...

Isn't that just magic smoke?

[hellymedic]

 

Negative oxygen...

[spesh]

Now we're talking electrotrickery, we have to get the term "phlogistons" back in use.

Just sayin'...

Isn't that just magic smoke?

Magic smoke is the phlogistons escaping from the device, but I was thinking of how the SI definitions of Volts and Amps could be redefined in terms of phlogistons per something-or-other. Or thingies per phlogiston.


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[rogerzilla]

or knot...

Knots are a bit weird, being non-arbitrary and based on a physical constant.  Sort of.  And the metre was based on the same kind of idea as the nautical mile, except the French cocked it up.

[mllePB]

Nigel Slater cookbook I got for xmas, uses 'edible' as a volumetric measurement for cauliflower.

[Canardly]

Fathoms are a bit of a stretch.

[canny colin]

Sir Winston Churchill used to like laying bricks, around the chequers estate  . But only jumped on the line,( and was photographed ) when the wall was around waist height .
So any wall  around waist height on the building sites .                                                                                                                         
Is known as  "Churchill Height ". Used to drive them nuts in the office .

[Beardy]

Fathoms are a bit of a stretch.

I think you’re plumbing the depths for puns now.

[Canardly]

We could come to an understanding. 

[Pingu]

<cough>

[Slave To The Viking]

Did anyone mention Oxford time? Our own local time, for our own local city/town/parish? Clockwinders of the shires unite!

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Or Fenland Time, currently set about 1970

Having just visited West Yorkshire, I’m very happy to be back in the backwaters of the Angles. There’s just too many people up there.

Ah, well, but, now, see, thanose, that brings us squarely round to the issue of rainforests. It seems ludicrous to use the Wales as the standard for delineation of area destroyed. The Yorkshire is far more wieldy a unit, although your use of the post-tetralization "West Yorkshire" rather misses the point, obviously: a Yorkshire divides so neatly into Ridings, then subdivides into Wapentakes. What could be simpler?

"On Thursday last, an area the size of Lower Claro was destroyed, but thanks to the dynamiting of at least a Kippax worth of logging-camp runways, we should hopefully reduce this week's efforts to the size of Upper Skyrack".

[Beardy]

The Original Oak was larger, and when I was frequenting the watering holes of Headingly, more convivial hostelry than the Skyrack. Though I suspect the main reason for us not frequenting the latter might have had something to do with it being the local of a former dalliance of the student nurse later to be known as Dr Beardy (Mrs)  .