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Old 27th Jun 2017, 10:35
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muppetofthenorth
 
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Originally Posted by pasta
Problem is, there are only four units of measurement suitable for use in newspaper articles such as this one:

Football pitches
Olympic swimming pools
Double decker buses
Wales

So you could say it's one millionth the size of Wales, but that's hard to visualise. I suppose you could say it's big enough to park 200 (or however many) double decker buses, but that's only really useful to people who work in bus depots...
Nelson's column? Would even be appropriately navalish.

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