The magis-sublimito-anthropo-metro-prehendo syndrome

We are a generation of confused men and women, thanks in no small measure to Michelson, Henry I, and Gudea of Lagash, of course...

Life offers scope for enough ponderables to keep me occupied for a lifetime... i can do without poeple coming over to me and inviting me over for the house warming ceremony of their new 1500 sq. feet house, about 2 furlongs off Tambaram Camproad, a couple of miles from East Tambaram bus stand. For god's sake, i cant even imagine how much is 1500sq.ft....

Almost immediately, a flurry of conversions leave me faint, and I search for a chair, and find one a metre away.

Familiarity breeds reassurance...

My earliest recollections of this units war, is intriguing, to say the least. My grandfather measured distances in yards and furlongs, dad in miles,feet and inches, and me in metres. It feels very strange to read in the newspaper that the big B was fined for measuring distances in feet on Kaun Banega Karodpati, turning back and finding your parents discussing if a 1200sq.feet house is good enough for the family.

Whats stranger is this syndrome of mine... the magis-sublimito-anthropo-metro-prehendo
In layman terms, it signifies the inability of a person to visualise measurements that are larger than the height of a human being.

This whole feet-metre issue drives me crazy. I can visualise distances and height in feet updo 6 feet, not more... Anything above six, say 7 feet and 23,400 feet make no difference to me... i just cant comprehend such distances in feet. Above 6 feet, measurements should be in metres.

Death to Michelson, Henry I, and Gudea of Lagash, and everyone else too....