Monday, December 05, 2005

Keeping a close eye on VSU

Barnaby Joyce was on the radio this morning (yes I know, hard to believe innit?) discussing the Voluntary Student Union Bill which is due to debated in the Senate this week. In between making multiple references to "requiring facilities so that students become functioning members of society" (?!?!), when questioned about changes to the legislation he said:

"...there has not been one nanocentimetre of movement on the Government's behalf..."
Ah if you paid as much attention to correct units of measurement as you are to the Government's actions you would know that there nanocentimetre is actually 10 picometres (10exp-12 from memory). But a point well made - looks like some of those fees could be well spent on conversion charts for the decibel system.

2 comments:

paula said...

You haven't heard about Johnny's bill to reform the metric system?
It's up for a nanominute's debate only to be pushed through in a microweek.

Anonymous said...

The laugh's on Gareth really because get this...

...a nanocentimetre is a factor of 10 greater than a picometre (a nanomillimetre in Barnaby speak)!

Now that is hilarious!