Possibly the Most Useful Piece of Research Ever to Have Come Out of Australia.

I'm glad to see that the now universally accepted unit of mass was used :

If we assume that the annual rate of teaspoon loss per employee can be applied to the entire workforce of the city of Melbourne (about 2.5 million), an estimated 18 million teaspoons are going missing in Melbourne each year. Laid end to end, these lost teaspoons would cover over 2700 km—the length of the entire coastline of Mozambique¹—and weigh over 360 metric tons—the approximate weight of four adult blue whales.²

Thanks Tony,

Yes I admit I read the whole thing and very informative it was too.

Now the chained or string restrained teaspoon at the greasy spoon makes even more sense.

It is a world wide problem though. We seem to lose an inordinate amount of tea spoons. For what it's worth being the smallest cutlery, I reckon they just get caught up in the yoghurt pots and general waste that forms in eldest's bedroom, then collected together and thrown out, always the day after the rubbish collection BTW.

I will try to get the phrase "counterphenomenological resistentialism" into a real life conversation soon.

What are these Kms and "metric" tons? 

Douglas Adams had it sussed. The spoons probably end up on their own planet.

Somewhere in the cosmos, he said, along with all the planets inhabited by humanoids, reptiloids, fishoids, walking treeoids and superintelligent shades of the colour blue, there was also a planet entirely given over to Biro life forms. And it was to this planet that unattended Biros made their way, slipping quietly through wormholes in Space to a world where they knew they could enjoy a uniquely Biroid lifestyle, responding to highly Biro-oriented stimuli, and generally leading the Biro equivalent of the good life.

Dunno Howard. Something to do with Johnny foreigner I expect.

STEADY..............................!

Dear Tony. The word METRIC is just a pointless filler and a Kilometer is roughly 2/3 of a mile. In other words if you are doing 300 km/hour in a car , it will equal 186 mph. and here it is important not to come off the throttle too abruptly, foreigner or not as case may be !  Speak soon Peter

Don't think I've ever managed to achieve 186 mph in my Morris Traveller Peter. Still, might be worth a try in this slippery weather; bit less friction on the crossplys. I do worry somewhat about stopping the old girl though.

Peter, you learn something new every day !

I thought "Kilometers" (should it be spelt killometers) was a unit for counting people that your car has run over at 186 mph.

Cheers

Don

LOL  Have a good one Peter

Wow great research but it did not help to explain the half life of my socks. By that i mean when a pair of socks is likely to become a single sock.

Yep Tony, power is nothing without control. You could always ask wifey to squeze her upper torso out through the passenger window, that would not only stop the car a bit quicker, but an added benefit is , that she would never need to see a dentist ever again or a hair dresser for that matter ! Peter

You've not met the wife yet Peter...

Tony, you just keep it under 50 mph., and I would love to meet her !  ATB Peter