My god if I were being asked that question it would take all of my self-restraint not to answer the judge’s question with a question.
This could be my autism shining through at full force but my first question would be to ask what the weight of an average newspaper is (people outside of the industry aren’t going to have a fucking clue). If the judge brushed it aside or gave a perfunctory answer I’d ask about font size in mm.
Nobody weighs a newspaper, nobody has any clue how much they weigh, and nobody knows what a measurement like 3 tons of newspaper actually represents. These sorts of comparisons are generally only useful for a scale which is so large or so small that they are purely abstract to humans (think the scale used for microscopic sizes or for astronomical measurements) or where it’s useful to understand things in a relative sense (e.g. talking about a person who is walking across the US and comparing that number of steps to how many years it would take the average person to accure that amount of steps.)
I’d just want to create an opportunity for the judge to humiliate themselves by talking themselves into a hole. If you don’t know how much an average newspaper weighs, what the fuck use is a scale of measurement based on that going to be?
My god if I were being asked that question it would take all of my self-restraint not to answer the judge’s question with a question.
This could be my autism shining through at full force but my first question would be to ask what the weight of an average newspaper is (people outside of the industry aren’t going to have a fucking clue). If the judge brushed it aside or gave a perfunctory answer I’d ask about font size in mm.
Nobody weighs a newspaper, nobody has any clue how much they weigh, and nobody knows what a measurement like 3 tons of newspaper actually represents. These sorts of comparisons are generally only useful for a scale which is so large or so small that they are purely abstract to humans (think the scale used for microscopic sizes or for astronomical measurements) or where it’s useful to understand things in a relative sense (e.g. talking about a person who is walking across the US and comparing that number of steps to how many years it would take the average person to accure that amount of steps.)
I’d just want to create an opportunity for the judge to humiliate themselves by talking themselves into a hole. If you don’t know how much an average newspaper weighs, what the fuck use is a scale of measurement based on that going to be?