• SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml
    3·
    5 months ago

    Lived in the UK for quite some time now. Still can’t wrap my head around stone…which is kinda ironic being a Stonemason and all…

    • el_abuelo@lemmy.ml
      4·
      5 months ago

      What’s to wrap your head around? It’s 6.35kg or 12lbs.

      Importantly it is only ever used to measure the weight of humans

      • SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml
        1·
        4 months ago

        It’s 14lbs, or 6.3503kg. It’s the conversion, I can work in mm/cm/m, or fractions of in/ft/yd, but despite knowing what the conversion numbers are, mental mathing it does not jive with my brain. Same with g/kg oz/lb and stone.

    • snugglesthefalse
      3·
      5 months ago

      Native UK here and I’ve never had a good reason to use stone as a unit of measurement. Kg works fine