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Offline danwood

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Re: Cor! What a bargain!
« on: March 01, 2010, 05:53:51 PM »
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Speaking of pounds (thought I'd ask here since there's lots of UK users), when someone mentions a Stone, is that a certain numbers of pounds like Tons is over here?

And yeah, I wonder what that single offer was for. £1?  :lol:


We're in that weird stage between metric and imperial.  We weigh ourselves in stones usually, but everything else in grammes/kilogrammes, same with distance, roads in miles, but everything else in metres/cm/mm, we measure beer by the pint in glasses and by the litre in bottles.

Most things are metric here now though, with the above exceptions.
 

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Re: Cor! What a bargain!
« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2010, 07:51:05 PM »
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Hight of objects and people is in feet and inches.


Yeah people tend to be, but objects I measure in meters.  Maybe it depends when you went to school, I was raised in the late 80s/90s, we were never taught any imperial in school at all, just metric from 1984 onwards.