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• andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  21 stone is approximately 0.8 Americans, by my calculations.

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• Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I do believe that’s the joke.

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• gerryflap@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I was already wondering that. Whether they’re Americans or British, they seem to have the same fear of using logical measuring systems like metric

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  • thetreesaysbark@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Haha I don’t think it’s about fear. It’s probably about having hundreds of years of using those metrics, and it being very baked in to the language used between people to communicate.

    Nobody wants to have to translate between kg and stone all the time. It’s tedious. If you live in a country where all your interactions are going to be in one measurement then you’re probably just going to go along with everyone else.

    Even down to ‘goin down the pub for a pint’ being a commonly used phrase which doesn’t have the same ring when it’s '‘goin down the pub for a half litre’.

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    • Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      That’s the thing, they do use kg. So it is not something they don’t know about. Just that stone for people’s weight specifically somehow is still in use.

      For the pint, I do not think it is about the volume when someone says that. As of they are only going to drink one anyway?!

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• ericisshort@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Yes. The Brits still use feet and miles and stone and a few other non-metric measurements at times. In fact, it was our (American) British heritage that got us into the bad habit of using imperial over metric in the first place.

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• Blackmist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Only for adult body weight.

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