What are " stones"
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Stones is the British rock group that had some great hits. Lead man Mick Jagger. Awesome group.0
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I totally agree, but I won't be shouting about it until I've lost 4 stone!! lol0
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Yup its stones in the UK 1 stone = 14lbs0
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It just makes us Brits appear lighter. 14 stone sounds far better than 196lbs.
I actually think 14 stone sounds much worse - small units lose all meaning, but larger single units have a tendency to be more meaningful (plus it's etymologically identical to feet and inches; you'd never say you were 64 inches tall, or whatever your height is once converted).0 -
In the North East we say 'clem' instead of stone so someone could be 14 clem!!! just to confuse you even more x0
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It just makes us Brits appear lighter. 14 stone sounds far better than 196lbs.
Haha! This! I much prefer to say my weight in stones0 -
If Google is suppose to replace all conversation, cyber or otherwise, then what is the point of having message boards?0
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I totally agree, but I won't be shouting about it until I've lost 4 stone!! lol
This brings up a good point.
Is stones practical when weighting a person? The resolution is so big that it seems like it would be more appropriate when weighing big things.
My goal weight is barely over 2 stones away, but 30 lbs is something that I can see a change in every week.0 -
Thank God someone had the guts to ask that .I've been wondering what a stone equals in pounds for awhile now!0
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We are very imperial... lol0
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I totally agree, but I won't be shouting about it until I've lost 4 stone!! lol
This brings up a good point.
Is stones practical when weighting a person? The resolution is so big that it seems like it would be more appropriate when weighing big things.
My goal weight is barely over 2 stones away, but 30 lbs is something that I can see a change in every week.
If you're used to weighing in stones then it makes perfect sense that way! Before I joined MFP, I had no idea what 175 pounds looked like or was equal to. I dunno... I suppose it's just a way of breaking the whole thing down into 'manageable sized chunks'0 -
Stones are always used here in the UK
But for some odd reason only when referring to a person's weight. When shopping or in the kitchen people in the UK use kilos (now some odd person will come and say they use pounds).
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Contextually, it could also refer to cajones. But we're assuming you mean weight measurement.0
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If Google is suppose to replace all conversation, cyber or otherwise, then what is the point of having message boards?0
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slightly bigger than a pebble but smaller than rocks......
joking aside, stones are common usage in the UK. One stone = 14lbs. Therefore someone says they weigh 10 stone, they weigh 140lbs.
good to know. I also wondered what stone was, but since it was referenced in a weight related conversation, I had figured may be 10 lb = 1 stone....;)0 -
Thank God someone had the guts to ask that .I've been wondering what a stone equals in pounds for awhile now!0
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I totally agree, but I won't be shouting about it until I've lost 4 stone!! lol
This brings up a good point.
Is stones practical when weighting a person? The resolution is so big that it seems like it would be more appropriate when weighing big things.
My goal weight is barely over 2 stones away, but 30 lbs is something that I can see a change in every week.0 -
Stones are always used here in the UK
But for some odd reason only when referring to a person's weight. When shopping or in the kitchen people in the UK use kilos (now some odd person will come and say they use pounds).
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Or ounces in the kitchen0 -
Stones are always used here in the UK
But for some odd reason only when referring to a person's weight. When shopping or in the kitchen people in the UK use kilos (now some odd person will come and say they use pounds).
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It's not really odd - it's just been a gradual conversion to metric from imperial. You use imperial and metric measurements for different types of distance equally as frequently (e.g. "100 metres away" versus "10 miles away"). I couldn't estimate a yard if you paid me (because in small units, we usually think in centimetres and metres), but I know roughly how far a mile is, since we still use this for distance measurements.0 -
I totally agree, but I won't be shouting about it until I've lost 4 stone!! lol
This brings up a good point.
Is stones practical when weighting a person? The resolution is so big that it seems like it would be more appropriate when weighing big things.
My goal weight is barely over 2 stones away, but 30 lbs is something that I can see a change in every week.
It's perfectly viable and is why it's still widely used in the UK, would you describe your height solely in inch units? No, you'd use a combo of feet and inches, and we use a combo of Stones and lbs.
It's just a British quirk, and many younger Brits are almost completely metric anyway, expressing weight in Kilograms. (If it helps, we have to do some mental conversions when we read US descriptions of volume expressed in cups)
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