Since when did an Olympic-sized swimming pool become a standard unit of measure? Whenever journalists are talking about large volumes, they will invariably resort to referring to how many Olympic-sized swimming pools said volume would fill, as if that’s some sort of frame of reference for us, you know, after you bought an Olympic-sized swimming pool of rice, because it was on sale…
Add to this list of peculiar measures:
- Football fields
- Double-decker buses
- Wembley Stadiums
- Central Parks
What other “units of measurement” irk you that you’d be happy to see banished?
You forget the eternal measurement of “piece of string”
My particular irk is tennis courts – does it include the run off area or not?