Analogies for very large things

[Halo Stickman]

The world’s richest 85 people own more money than the world’s poorest 3 billion – that’s equivalent to one double-decker bus load versus 33,333 Wembleys filled to capacity.

 

If the solar system was the size of a CD, our Milky Way galaxy would be the size of planet earth.

 

Next?

[TopGun]

"Am I pleased to see you, or did I just put a canoe in my pocket?"

[buctootim]

To see what it’s like to be your own heart, try using a teacup to empty a bathtub in 15 minutes—then do it again and again, without stopping, for the rest of your life.

 

The sun burns through matter at a rate equivalent to a million elephants every second.

[Jimmy_D]

"... an area the size of Wales..."

[benjii]

Is it part of the BBC charter that a double-decker bus must be used as a measuring rod?

[sussexsaint]

If the wavlengths of the electromegnetic spectrum we can percieve were equated to an octave on a piano then the total length of the keyboard would stretch to the sun

[bridge too far]

"... an area the size of Wales..."

 

Was going to say this - or 'the size of x football pitches / Olympic swimming pools'

[Bearsy]

if you got all the pubes that have been cut since bush become unfashionable, you would enough wiry hair to knit the moon a woolly hat

[Bearsy]

If you put all the ejaculate ever ejaculated into the oceans, the sea level would rise so much that all of London would be underspooge

[sussexsaint]

Was going to say this - or 'the size of x football pitches / Olympic swimming pools'

 

Analogy for plane crashes

 

If you took an olympic size swimming pool and filled it with ping pong balls, all white save one red.

 

Blindfold somone and get them to jump in and retrieve one ball

 

if it is red there is a problem with the plane

 

Repeat the exercise if they pick red again there is a crash

[Halo Stickman]

Is it part of the BBC charter that a double-decker bus must be used as a measuring rod?

 

To be fair to the BBC, I thought up that first analogy myself – maybe I need to get out more.

 

Here’s another Wembley one, to which I don’t claim copyright:

 

If the nucleus of an atom is a grape seed on the centre circle, its electrons are orbiting around the outside of the stadium walls. As everything, and everyone, is made up of atoms, that’s a hell of a lot of empty space.

[Huffton]

If you put all the ejaculate ever ejaculated into the oceans, the sea level would rise so much that all of London would be underspooge

 

[sussexsaint]

If you put all the ejaculate ever ejaculated into the oceans, the sea level would rise so much that all of London would be underspooge

 

 

[Whitey Grandad]

If all the women in Portsea Island were laid end to end...

[aintforever]

If the average view on the Pompey Takeover Thread lasted 5 mins then it has been viewed for a total of 70 years, 6 months and 27 days.

[Hamilton Saint]

"... bigger than a bread box; smaller than an elephant ..."

[Badger]

I remember a Viz cartoon of Roger Mellie where he introduced a tv programme with " welcome to Windsor, behind us is a f*cking great tw^tter of a castle .."

 

Does that count ?

[badgerx16]

If all the women in Portsea Island were laid end to end...

 

It would be one hell of a family reunion.

[GAS]

If all the shell suits in Portsmouth rubbed together for 2 minutes you could light Fratton Park for 90 minutes. Fact.

[sandwichsaint]

I was reading the new GCSE Maths specs on Tuesday morning: it will no longer be necessary to teach conversions and equivalents from metric to imperial measures.

 

Switched to the local Kent Online newspaper/website to find that a sink hole had appeared in the central reservation of the M2 measuring '5 metres by 2 metres and approximately 15 feet deep'. Duh!