1. A method of measuring how badly any person, action or object failed. Ranging from 1-10 (or higher if the person failed horribly).
2. A device used to measure the caliber of a fail.
Scenario 1:
Person A: I sat on a chair and broke it.
Person B: That sucks, but it's only a 6.5 on a failometer.
Scenario 2:
Person A: The movie 300 was historically accurate!
Person B: Anyone have an industrial strength failometer? Mine exploded after reading that.
fag·o·me·ter
1.Instrument for measuring the amount of a persons gayness.
2.Something that registers or responds to gayrods, or anyone that could be considered a homo
Dude 1: "Hey! Lets go clubbin and wear pink stripped button down shirts and drink Appletini's and Red Bull and Vodka's all night. Then come home wasted and give eachother backrubs!"
Dude 2: "Hold on one second......." long pause
(leaves room to grab fagometer)
Loud buzzing noise emits from fagometer
Long pause
"Dude, you are an off the charts fagasaurus!!!"
A device or means for measuring the amount of time spent faffing around (as I am doing when writing this entry) as against doing constructive work.
E.g. an excel spreadsheet in which you enter the times when you start faffing and when you start on real production work.
or a stopwatch that you start / stop accordingly.
My productivity has dropped dramatically in the last few weeks, so I'll have to install a faffometer.
It is used as a way to express extreme surprise at a fact. Derived from the word "fathom" which simply means "to understand". Fathometh is used to mean "You understand?" or "Riiiight?" but in old English (or King James English).
Sarah: I can't believe Amy went back to her ex.
Jackie: Fathometh?