are cunts.
Hallo nochmal, meine kleinen Biertrinker
It all started quite a while ago
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When there was an earthquake somewhere the news people would all say “… and that measured 5.6 on the Richter scale”.
Don`t know about you, but how many other fucking earthquake scales do you know? Now they just say “magnitude 5.6”– it took about 70 years for them to drop the `Richter` bit.
What has persisted though are a few annoyingly (to me) random phrases.
Cliché №1 – An area the size of Wales.
Unfortunately, I know where Wales is, but I have absolutely no fucking idea how big the thing is. But suppose this story was going out internationally; how many Americans would know what the size of Wales is? How many Americans would know where Wales is, for that matter? I suppose they could change it to “an area the size of Texas”. And we`re back to square one.
Cliché №2 – The weight of about 4 elephants.
African or Indian? Male or female? How many London double-decker buses does that equate to? As if suddenly the penny drops when they use that comparison – Ja!, it all makes sense, now I know how heavy that thing is when you compared it to the elephants!
I won`t go on, but I`m sure you catch my drift.
I do know this, though. Most of the Kinder who pass for `journalists` these days after doing a YouTube course via soshullmeeedia possess the journalistic knowledge of a whelk. Or, to put it another way, the knowledge all of them have could be all tattooed on the balls of an ant.
Poland, of course, is a different matter
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Nominated by Adolph Schicklgrüüber, seconded by Geordie Twatt.
I would like to second Herr Schicklgruber’s nomination of Meaningless Dimensional Comparators with three of my own:
1. Football pitches
Flabbott’s/Nugee’s/Lizzo’s bloomers cover the same area as 14 football pitches.
2. Double decker buses end to end
Flabbott’s/Nugee’s/Lizzo’s bloomers would cover 50 double decker buses parked end to end.
3. Times around the world
The elastic from Flabbott’s/Nugee’s/Lizzo’s bloomers, stretched to its limit, would go 3 times round the world.
Pointless drivel churned out for those whose cerebral development came to a grinding halt in kindergarten, eh Adolph?