RFC: System for measuring excessively large amounts of things

[bvark]

Cabe, Cheez, Whiteknight and I have been struggling with the definition of exactly how many an assload is.
Extensive research has revealed...

Imperial Assload
6 fistfuls in a hatful
6 hatfuls in a buttload
12 buttloads to a crapload
14 craploads to an assload

Metric Arseload
10 handfuls in a bucketload
10 bucketloads in a boatload
10 boatloads to a sh*tload
10 sh*tloads to an metric arseload

There are approximately 6 boatloads in a crapload, so an metric assload is approximately 1.2 imperial arseloads.

For external reference, a /11 of IP address space is a metric arseload.

[DarkMatter]

i'm confused...

[bvark]

Oh, sorry - an arseload is 1.6 x 10^-7 hojillions.

Hope that clears things up.

[Cabe]

which is roughly equivlent to 16.5 decithingies.

[Dunceantix]

hmmm good resoning

[bvark]

well yes, 1.2 arseloads in an assload

[Cabe]

Actually Bvark is rounding, 1.21 arseloads to the assload is the correct coversion ratio.

[Freelance]

so is an ass larger than an arse? i thought it was the other way around

[Cabe]

remember of course that, sometimes ass is ebonically known as booty.

[KingDaveRa]

I agree. It needs to get into Google conversion.

[DarkMatter]

*scratches head*

[TheDon]

I always thought Arseload was imperial, and Assload was metric? (as arseload is the classic English measurement?)

[Cheez]

The reasoning is that americans don't use metric, and they say ass. While Europe uses metric and Arse...

[AcidUK]

What about a metric f***tonne?

[Cabe]

thats just crazy talk!

[Neon]

Actually Bvark is rounding, 1.21 arseloads to the assload is the correct coversion ratio. 1.21 GIGAWATTS!

[DarkMatter]

help...

[WhiteKnight]

This is remeniscant of the security badger thread......

[Elbonio]

remember of course that, sometimes ass is ebonically known as booty.

Does that mean Bootz is an ass?

[Squeeb]

She has an ass (RESURRECT MIGHTY THREAD REBIRTH GOGOGO)

[Portia]

This may help in your quest...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/page/reg-standards-converter.html

[Rippsy]

Holy jesus this thread is superb :D

[Afty]

What about a metric f***tonne?This was word for word what I intended to post on this thread.

[KingDaveRa]

Thread necro!

Ewwww!

[Joey]

I suggest:

1000 assloads per f*ckton
1000 metric-arseloads per metric f*cktonne

that would keep the 1.21:1 ratio between f*cktons and metric f*cktonnes intact

[JeRkY]

Being an engineer, im used to dimensional tolerances measured in gnats whatsits. How do these units relate to your arseloads?

[Predobear]

I desire one metric ****tonne of your finest asparagus!

[X25killa]

Sorry this is not in topic, but what the hell happened to DarkMatter?

[Pru]

he lurks

[andyf]

but what the hell happened to DarkMatter?

He got a new job as a technician, but suffered an unfortunate accident one day working on the machinery (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider) when some of his colleagues misunderstood him whilst talking about his nickname.

[noodle]

... An Arseload of WHAT?

[Aardvark]

Whatever you like, that's the beauty of it...