Originally posted by Smitty
What is this, the STONE age? Step on a scale and throw rocks on the other side? I don't understand it (another ignorant yank!) <-- everything is in jest.
1 stone == 14 pounds.
Given that we are the only two countries left on the planet that haven't fully embraced the metric system, I'm not sure we should... errr... throw stones. Not as in 14 pound stones, more like people in glass houses and all that. Christ, we can't even agree on how much a pint is! (Of course, we are right because we invented it, even though our version makes no sense.) Remember, "a pint's a pound the whole world round," except anywhere outside the US where it's 1lb 4oz - at least for water.
Anyway, for the record, I'm 5'9" and 9st10lb (131lb for you yanks), so I might be up for the skinny award