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- Tuesday May 22, 2012
- Location
- Cumbria, England
Still see some folks outside the US referring to their weight in "stone",... why???
It's so that no-one knows how much they actually weigh. I had this conversation with my wife a few months back when we were weighing our daughter to find an appropriate car seat, I pointed out that "nearly three stone" not only didn't tell me anything meaningful, but that it also wasn't helpful when the seats were rated in kilos.
As an aside, a few years back we visited a cooperage and all the coopers worked by eye and experience with what little actual measuring they did typically being hand-breadths, thumbs etc. Practical application of the "rule of thumb".
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