AH's favourite imperial measurements.

AskMyChocolate

And have we got any new ones?

Having just harvested two bushels of grain/rood, I think it's been an exceptionally good season, and feel entitled to my "shoulder" of whiskey.

I'll leave it to ye to let your imagination run wild.

I'm off down to the confectioners to get a well deserved, 1/2 ankle of jelly beans, and just a 1/4 chair of Peggy's Leg.

I've always had a soft spot for cubits too.

El Weirdo

Is a ream imperial?

If so, I choose "ream".

IM0

I just got a 'load' of stuff in the shops

Superbus

I just had my sleep deprivation measured, apparently it's at 8 internets.

arse..biscuits

AskMyChocolate wrote: »

And have we got any new ones?

Having just harvested two bushels of grain/rood, I think it's been an exceptionally good season, and feel entitled to my "shoulder" of whiskey.

I'll leave it to ye to let your imagination run wild.

I'm off down to the confectioners to get a well deserved, 1/2 ankle of jelly beans, and just a 1/4 chair of Peggy's Leg.

I've always had a soft spot for cubits too.

I could murder some crows

KeithM89_old

Is 'shitload' imperial or metric??

Sam Vimes

The hogshead

El Weirdo

A scatter?

A belt?

Jimoslimos

KeithM89 wrote: »

Is 'shitload' imperial or metric??

It's actually an SI unit:pac:

Thrill

A langer load of drink.

brummytom

A fair bit

stoneill

A Gill.

Best unit ever!

Phill Ewinn

Shaggin' egit.

Bleedin' < Shaggin' < Feckin.

suicide_circus

******.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/******_%28unit%29

Edit: boards won't let me say f.a.g.g.o.t ???? replace the "******" in the above link with the offending letters for more info

Stained Class

Hogsheads, Filderkins, Bushels,Gallons, Gills, Roods, Miles,etc...

It was so brilliantly organic & well.......human.

I'm 43 & was the last generation that used this system.

We sold our souls to Europe long before now, I think.

El Weirdo

A rake.

IM0

a skinfull of beer

Badly Drunk Boy

I could murder 479.78 fluid scruples of Guinness!!

Phill Ewinn

Irish mile. Or just a mile if you're not a west Brit.

IM0

cool Id forgotten half of these

IM0

few scoups?

Chuck Stone

A bushel of kittens.

ArtSmart

AskMyChocolate wrote: »

And have we got any new ones?

Having just harvested two bushels of grain/rood, I think it's been an exceptionally good season, and feel entitled to my "shoulder" of whiskey.

I'll leave it to ye to let your imagination run wild.

I'm off down to the confectioners to get a well deserved, 1/2 ankle of jelly beans, and just a 1/4 chair of Peggy's Leg.

I've always had a soft spot for cubits too.

shoulder of lamb, not whiskey.

occasionally fhist of whiskey , but mostly feed, fheast or fondle of whiskey

BornToKill

Firkin.

ArtSmart

Chuck Stone wrote: »

A bushel of kittens.

it's bushel of pussys, and well you know it.

My name is URL

Sheppey

A sheppey is defined as the closest distance at which sheep remain picturesque, which is about 7/8 of a mile.

Captain Chaos

A gee hair. As in "it's just off by a gee hair".

Smidge

A "clatter" of rain
Don't try to tell me that rain can be measured in any other way;)

DB21

A country mile

humberklog

A "flange" of Graham Knuttels.

A flagon

AskMyChocolate

KeithM89 wrote: »

Is 'shitload' imperial or metric??

Would that be booze,pints or cans you're measuring? Cos I think I have a conversion table somewhere.


*Aah ffs, where did I leave me conversion table.*

\ searches the same place again.

Thrill

A pile of sh!te

policarp

A yard of ale. . .

IM0

she's only knee high to a grasshopper

AskMyChocolate

ArtSmart wrote: »

shoulder of lamb, not whiskey.

occasionally fhist of whiskey , but mostly feed, fheast or fondle of whiskey

Is "shoulder" not an old Irish euphamism for a half bottle?

Two naggins less a gill.:pac:

Pherekydes

I can't fathom how the mods have allowed this thread to continue. They need to get down off their perch and go the extra mile to keep boards.ie in the big league.

Otherwise, they should be chained at the foot of their yard and flogged with a rod to within an inch of their lives.

Now, can I have my pound of flesh?

IM0

a load a ****

AskMyChocolate

Captain Chaos wrote: »

A gee hair. As in "it's just off by a gee hair".

LMFAO.:D

Pherekydes

Captain Chaos wrote: »

A gee hair. As in "it's just off by a gee hair".

This makes me think of "sliding fit".

ArtSmart

AskMyChocolate wrote: »

Is "shoulder" not an old Irish euphamism for a half bottle?

no, that's American for flagon or flask of whisky (no e)


In the fair sod, we removed the difficulty of the shoulder rest by using the aul Buidéal

Thrill

A barrel of laughs

ArtSmart

humberklog wrote: »

A "flange" of Graham Knuttels.

Only one in ten thousand will get that.

hairyprincess

I remember being in school and a classmate telling me her horse was 12 hands, and there was me imagining a 12 foot high horse

'Up the road there a good bit' is a usual one of my measurements

efb

By and by - an unit of time measurement used by oldies to fobb the kids off when they asked when were they going somewhere

IM0

a tincy bit of pepper

captainjack

A shower of baaastards

Kerrigooney

A gnats cock = a small bit.

golden lane

giz some of yours

Smidge

A scrape of butter

golden lane

a smidgen