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Nah, "soccer fields" is a very common way to reference size/length in various European cultures.

• ajuc 12y ago
  Which ones? I've never heard it.
  • loup-vaillant 12y ago
    Mine. I'm French. We often use soccer fields as a unit of surface.
  • lotsofmangos 12y ago
    The British press regularly measure things in football (soccer) pitches, London double-decker buses, Eiffel towers, blue whales and Wales. The Register regularly does piss-take articles about this and even provides a handy conversion calculator. http://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/page/reg-standards-converter.html http://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/page/reg-standards-conve... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/24/vulture_central_standards/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/24/vulture_central_stan...
    • xxs 12y ago
      I was under the impression El Reg does it as a joke to the US.
      • lotsofmangos 12y ago
        Nah, it is a common habit the world over, no matter what the local official system of measurement happens to be. http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2010/may/17/mind-your-language-david-marsh http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2010/may... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_units_of_measurement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_units_of_measur... I like the one suggested in the book Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, of measuring faith in Alps.
  • ivanhoe 12y ago
    also in Eastern Europe...