Comments on: The All New SI Units Of Work

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:55:57 +0000

1 Hitler is of course the SI unit of parental repression as measured by a teenager.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:55:21 +0000

Well just a Nazi would do the job.

So a quite evil thing would be a milliNazi, and then murdering someone might be 1 Nazi, since that’s the sort of thing they did, and then clearly Hitler is several teraNazis up the scale.

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:51:02 +0000

Hmm, good point. Perhaps a footsoldier maybe the unit - so a Gestapo Officer?

By: a logged out p^nk s lord sukråt wötsit

a logged out p^nk s lord sukråt wötsit — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:41:38 +0000

oops “near” = “never”

By: a logged out p^nk s lord sukråt wötsit

a logged out p^nk s lord sukråt wötsit — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:41:11 +0000

uselessness is not scaleable, is it? you near hear “this is as useless as chocolate teapot but that’s as useless as seven chocolate teapots” — so some of these aren’t units strictly speaking

and hitler is more the ASYMPTOTE of evil than the unit

By: Martin Skidmore

Martin Skidmore — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:29:56 +0000

The uselessness standard unit is traditionally the chocolate teapot, I think.

Studidity is the short plank, but the problem with that is that it is its thickness rather than its shortness that is the point.

Goodness of a new thing SI = sliced bread.

By: Alan

Alan — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:50:21 +0000

the vector product of annoyance and evil is measured in the kilo-clarkson. examples:

work
“They stole all my treasury tags! woo that measured about 2 kilo-clarksons”

and non work:
“when i killed that child cos i was speeding it was about 3 kilo-clarksons”
“when he killed my child cos he was speeding, it was about 20 giga-clarksons”

By: a logged out p^nk s lord sukråt wötsit

a logged out p^nk s lord sukråt wötsit — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:24:42 +0000

si unit of scaring kids into goin to bed: before hitler = BONEY!

By: a logged out p^nk s lord sukråt wötsit

a logged out p^nk s lord sukråt wötsit — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:23:32 +0000

uselessness: a hammer carved from a banana etc

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:16:29 +0000

The Hitler is a good call, it being the unit which usurped the Imperial measure the Ghenghis.

I dread to ask the SI Unit of stupidity.

By: Martin Skidmore

Martin Skidmore — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:31:09 +0000

SI Unit of evil = the Hitler, surely? I guess Mother Theresa or Jesus would have some claims to its flipside.

There’s a very good bit relating to this in the pretty good comedy The Big Bang Theory, which centres around two nerdy geniuses, the funniest of which is Sheldon. Sheldon’s sister appears in one episode, and she says she is always pleased when rocket science is invoked to tell her friends that her brother is a rocket scientist.

“Rocket scientist!” he says, totally outraged. “I’m a THEORETICAL PHYSICIST! You might as well tell them I collects tokens in a highway toll booth!”

By: Andrew F

Andrew F — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:41:17 +0000

Most famous Brain Surgeon = Doctor Frankenstein - but NO! As the documentary film Young Frankenstein shows, he just puts the intact brain in, he doesn’t perform any actual surgery on it - you might as well claim it was Dr Hfuhruhurr. In fact the most famous Brain Surgeon is probably Gazi Yasargil. Yes, exactly.

Most famous Rocket Scientist = Dr Bruce Banner, the Incredible Hulk.

I thus propose that we use Brain Surgeon as the unit of Difficulty and Rocket Scientist as a mixed unit, such as the foot-pound, to indicate Difficulty and Fame.

By: Kat but logged out innit

Kat but logged out innit — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:54:07 +0000

Annoyance - number of fingernails on blackboard?

By: CarsmileSteve

CarsmileSteve — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:40:53 +0000

we missed “width of a human hair” off the old one (we should clean all that spam off there, but it’s all quite pretty isn’t it…)

ANNOYANCE should be measured in Apprentices