john: you ok?, dave: sad face, john: ohhh right, dave: just sad face, john: you n that damn face scale
by kyranist July 19, 2011

Much like the Richter Scale measures the strength of an earthquake, the Hitchcock Scale measures the strength of a sneeze. The scale goes from 1 to 10 where 10 is the highest. A sneeze measuring 1 is basically that of a very polite grandmother, barely a "psst." Whereas a 10 is a sneeze that results in death.
Sandy: "God bless you!"
Jon: "Thanks... that was at least an 8 on the Hitchcock Scale. I sharted and I'm still seeing spots."
Jon: "Thanks... that was at least an 8 on the Hitchcock Scale. I sharted and I'm still seeing spots."
by the creeper July 30, 2020

The Scoble Scale is a Software Engineering term invented to fill the need to accurately describe your annoyance level to other co-workers. This is based on the Scoville Scale used to measure the pungency of peppers, which is based on a subjective rating by test subjects. In this case, the subjectivity is because annoyances can differ between people, but at least there's still a way to communicate it.
1 Scoble Unit is equal to the annoyance perceived from taking a 45 min train ride into town for a meeting organized by a manager that takes less than 5 minutes to conclude, then have to ride the train back.
Since the scale is subjective, it theoretically has no upper limit, but for the sake of simplicity we try to cap it to 11.
1 Scoble Unit is equal to the annoyance perceived from taking a 45 min train ride into town for a meeting organized by a manager that takes less than 5 minutes to conclude, then have to ride the train back.
Since the scale is subjective, it theoretically has no upper limit, but for the sake of simplicity we try to cap it to 11.
by CanadianBadass May 1, 2014

by dirtymindedchick:} February 28, 2017

by Shaquan Johnson September 30, 2008

me-“Hey dad, we have to take steve home.”
dad- “Okay, how does it rate on the ines scale?”
me- “it’s uphill but paved so about a 3”
dad- “okay so we can take the car.”
dad- “Okay, how does it rate on the ines scale?”
me- “it’s uphill but paved so about a 3”
dad- “okay so we can take the car.”
by 123beetree June 9, 2019
