That depends. Do you feel just as faded as your jeans (alternate measurement for ennui)? Are you willing to sing every song that driver knew? Are you far from Louisiana?
ENVY is measured in cardiobites.
Boredom is usually going from Tedium to Apathy and back with the occasional side trip to Monotony. Going all the way to Ennui is an exception.
Obscure literary reference. But I expect at least a few in this crowd to get it.
I would more prefer to use the unit trump as a measure of mendacity. Most ordinary mendacity would be measured in millitrumps or even microtrumps. The eponymous originator of the term, paradoxically, is known not for his mere trumps, but rather for speaking in tens of kilotrumps.
Washington Post counts 30,573 false or misleading claims in four years by Trump
Buckets of Pissed
Rhinos of Horny
Generations of ‘Don’t Give A Fuck’
Bags of frustration* This is a real thing in Brazil
Maybe one or two, or a hundred. ![]()
Is being pissed off the same as angry? Because I suspect the units of measurement might differ here.
How does one measure sarcasm?
Golf claps? OK boomers? Smooooth moves?
Many thanks.
I’ve enjoyed reading the Straight Dope Message Board for years, but have only recently and hesitantly begun posting. Conversations marked by such overall brilliance are a bit intimidating to a novice, and your kind message is a help.
Nyvaak (NY, VA and AK, the three states I’ve lived in)
Blues can be measured in milliBBs.
Some measure happiness in clams, but I wonder if clams are really happy.
Only when they’re lying in bed?
… and they are so tightly packed together they can’t kick each other to death.