Sorry, Pete!
Force of habit - in the UK, we always think of body weight in stones and pounds, not pounds alone. When an American says he weighs 200 lb, that means zilch and I have to convert to stones and pounds. I think that's 14 st 4 lbs?
A stone is 14 lbs. So 1 1/2 stones would be 21 lbs. In fact I lost about 23 lbs. A little bit has gone back on but I know how to deal with that.
There I go again - do you use lb as abbreviation for pound in North America?
Continentals laugh or despair at our system of weights and measures, which is also used in the US (and Canada?) but with differences. 16 ounces to a pound, 14 pounds to a stone, eight stones to a hundredweight, twenty hundredweight to a ton. Which is therefore 2240 lbs. 12 inches to a foot, 3 feet to a yard, 1760 yards to a mile. Or 22 yards to a chain. Or 220 yards to a furlong. Conveniently, a furlong is one eighth of a mile.
But in Britain, we have 20 fluid oz to a pint, while the US uses 16. This makes the American gallon 20% smaller than the Imperial gallon.
Thread is What makes you feel young. But this discussion makes me sound old . . .
although all other measurements I have to use metric . craaaazzzzy
