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I went to visit my friend in England, and being from the States, I thought I understood the metric system. “Oh wow, you weigh 70 stone? That’s impressive!” I exclaimed, completely oblivious to the fact that her weight was actually 70 kilograms. She gave me a confused look, and the amusement began as I sat there drafting a mental checklist of what 70 stone even looked like. Was it like a boulder? Did she just roll out of bed after hibernating for the winter?
The funniest part was my desperation to save face as I furiously Googled “stone to pounds conversion” while trying to look calm. Turns out, one stone is 14 pounds. So if I had managed to actually spread the rumor she weighed 980 pounds, I’d probably need more than a boulder-sized apology! Now I can’t help but chuckle whenever someone mentions a “stone”; all I can picture is my friend struggling to lift an enormous rock just to prove a point.
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What exactly is a “Stone”? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
S
Australia used stone when I was growing up. Its been a while though.
B
I know this because AC/DC said Rosie weighed 19 stone.
S
> 266 lbs That *is* a whole lotta woman!!
N
She ain’t exactly small
N
That’s a whole lotta Rosie!
B
In stone I am… \*checks scales” a fat fuck
C
So… a boulder?
J
The mountain
B
The man, the mountain, the boulder!
Z
The Boulder: “The Boulder is conflicted..”
H
Sounds to me like you’re scared, Boulder!
A
“The Boulder’s over his conflicting feelings” 😂 top three best lines in Avatar
Z
Can’t wait for Toph in the Live action AtLAB
B
>Sounds to me like you’re scared, the pebble. Ftfy
N
The man, The Mountain, The stoner.
I
Not just a boulder… It’s a rock
R
The pioneers used to ride these for *miles*
B
One could describe me as such, yes
A
I like that boulder. That’s a nice boulder.
D
*Large boulder the size of a small boulder*
A
If you fell down a hill you’d be rolling stones.
B
Just can’t get no satisfaction
P
An absolute unit
A
But what about in slugs?
B
And the plural is “stone”, not “stones”. That difference can serve as a shibboleth.
G
I love a good sibboleth.
M
I found an Ephraimite!
G
I’m innocent! I’ve been Ephraimed!
R
take my upvote piece of sit
M
Eat a bronze spear filthy Ephraimite 🤣
G
I guess I’m sit out of luck!
S
Literal LOL. Bravo
W
Bravo. Threads like this get me up in the day!
T
Execute him.
B
All hail Sibboleth, Destroyer of Worlds!
S
Funny it’s not Stones but also it IS Maths
J
We do pluralize the full word “mathematics” though, but not the shortened one.
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J
As opposed to a yalrmulke wearing calc professor, which is a Mathsemitic.
B
Mathematics is not plural though. And I say this as a maths Stan.
S
That’s not a plural. It’s a mass noun. Mathematics is hard, not mathematics are hard. Same with maths. Not every word that ends with -s is a plural 😉
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Oddly, in my experience, when referring to the unit we measure ourselves in it is “stones” (and pounds). But, colloquially, when referring to our weight it is “stone” – “12 stone 4” (pounds)… 15 stone, etc
F
Same for height, where we usually say 6 foot 2
S
I’m 6 foot 2 inches. And those are 2 separate measurements
P
14lbs
F
Then what’s an lbs
P
454g
D
then what’s a g
P
Roughly 1ml of water at 4C (39.2F), anything further and we start discussing the Planck constant.
P
And what’s a ml?
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