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As a person from the UK in their mid-30s I have no idea what a stone or a lb is. I did the conversion and 310 lbs is approx. 140 kg.

• VBprogrammer 4y ago
  Weird, I'm also mid-30s in the UK and stone is my native person weight. As well as pounds and ounces for babies. That said, I have a reasonable intuition for the conversion factors. Enough that I wouldn't have to run to Google to understand the jist of the story.
  • nikanj 4y ago
    And the memes still claim that the UK is metric.
    • weberer 4y ago
      So is the USA on paper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_Conversion_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_Conversion_Act
• smcl 4y ago
  Ah that is a bit unusual. We're roughly the same age, and I only switched to kg after going abroad - otherwise bodyweight was always stone for me.
  • ben_w 4y ago
    I'm 39 and never used imperial weights despite living in the UK from birth until relocating in 2018. I don't even know how many pounds to the stone today without looking it up, and constantly get surprised by all the other Brits who don't think in metric by default (but that happens enough that I do know to multiply kg by 2.2 to get lbs).
    • smcl 4y ago
      Yeah Pounds to Stone is a pain in that it's fourteen while Ounces to Pounds is sixteen. I think the only thing I used imperial for is bodyweight and that's just due to either parents or doctors using it. Other than that we used to ask for a "quarter" of boiled sweets at the shop, but I never internalized what the exact weight was (I guess a quarter of a pound) it's just what my dad taught me to ask for when I was ~4 and I kept it up.