@Atlas1988 458192 wrote:
BTW whats “losing to the stone”?
initially this was misspelt but what he meant was a loss in body weight of 28 lbs or 12.7 kilos.
In England people weigh themselves in stones and pounds, one stone being 14 lbs, unless its withiin a healthcare environment where the European metric system is used.
As a trained engineer who also does some finance work in a UK healthcare company I use the metric system. Not because of company policy, but because being a short Asian chap 165cm or 1.65m can make you appear taller, and 64 kilos (which is still on the heavier side for my height by European or Asian standards) isn’t immediately apparent to many how much I actually weigh :wink:. Of course this doesn’t work as well in Europe where everythiing is metric, but in Blighty anyone smart enough to work out the conversions tends to be a great lover of real ale and decent English food, and therefore weighs more than me anyway.
some clever folk take it to extremes by setting their bicycle speed displays to metric (its still miles and yards here or decimal fractions of miles) as it does look faster but I consider that going too far. If I tried to do that sort of maths in my head whilst cycling at the same time I would almost certainly have a nasty crash :yakk:
