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Originally Posted by v4 media
40 years after the UK went metric, all roadsigns are still miles. When its hot it's in Fahrenheit when its cold they go Celsius. Anyone over 50 still does everything in inches. Height is still done in ft and inches, and weight in stones for people.
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the stones thing of the UK sounds the weirdest to me.
Feet are approximately the same. Pounds are always the same. Who the fuck came up with stone as a weight system thing? A stone can be 10 grams or 1000's of kilo's. When I hear someone say on tv 'I weigh x stone' I literally think of the stone age.