How much does a stone weigh

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JustSomeJD wrote: »

TonyB0588 wrote: »

JustSomeJD wrote: »

lavinia_whateley_goals wrote: »

tryin to decide if this post a good segue into ranting about converting to the metric system

I joined a fraternity to suppress the metric system. I call it the Metric System Supression Society. I mean really, it's only for chemists and people who like counting by 10's. Plus it's 2018, what if the "stone" doesn't identify as 14lbs? Has anyone considered the stone's feelings?

I might be missing your point, but it's sure easier to multiply by 10 or 100 or 1000 in the metric system, than by 14 or 16 or 8 or any of the other variables in other systems.

The great thing about standards is that there are plenty to choose from!


My post was mostly in jest, but since some people seem to have such a hard on for the metric system, I in turn am a staunch defender of Imperial units. For many reasons, not the least of which is a bit of cultural heritage. Most people won't care but even here in the US this were set to their own standard until someone or group of someone's decided to establish *the* standard. Take your average hand tool, a ratchet for example. We have a couple of standard sizes for normal tools used by a mechanic: 1/4", 3/8", and 1/2" drive. There are 3/4" and larger drives, but that is getting into specialty and industrial stuff. Prior to the 1920s each company had their own "standard" size which wouldn't work with other companies tools. We can see examples of this still today where companies make proprietary sized connections (remember 12V charger kits in the 90s for your car?). They came with 10 different adapters to fit most "standard" connections at the time.

People will always and forever attempt to come up with better systems until time is no more. I don't blame them, it's part of what makes us human. Now if you want to talk about standards and engineering lets talk about SI...

you seem to be suggesting that back prior to 1920s people all had different sized tools, there was no national standards, and it was a bit of a mess and even in the 90s you needed an adaptor with 10 connections.

So agreeing to a standard set of measurements is a good idea? no more adaptors, conversions and tools like a wrench can be used anywhere in the country or in another company.

So if all but 3 countries are metric, isnt that a good reason for america to adopt the international standards of the metric system? No more adaptors or conversions or lost space probes caused my mistakes when converting metric to imperial?