Originally Posted by
OH306
Actually they do. A stone is around 14 pounds. This is OK, but the measurement is not accurate enough so someone may say "I weigh 10 3/4 stone". If I was in charge I would modify this to boulders, rocks and pebbles where 4 pebbles=1 rock, 4 rocks=1 boulder and 4 boulders=1 stone. The same flaw exists with temp measurement in celsius. 28 deg C. is much warmer than 26 but it doesn't sound like much.
We do use stones over here and 1 stone is 14 of our English pounds. I say that reservedly as I know that a US gallon is different to our UK Gallon. Then on Drink Bottles- You are talking about volume and you suddenly throw in Weight to it.(24 oz bottle) Now is that 24 of your US ounces or is there a direct equivalent to a bottle measured in Cubic Centimetres-Or Milli-Litres or are you converting to The mentic system where 1 litre of water weighs 1 kilogram. I give up. But 1 litre of your US liquid- may be different to the European Litre. I weigh 10stone 10 lbs on a good day and that is 150 of our good and solid Imperial lbs. It is somewhere near the 70 kilogramme mark but what either of those convert to in your US ozs I don't really know. Or care.
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