Are they the same though. There are differences between english and American pints, for example. Also it means nothing to me when someone quotes their weight in

Are they the same though. There are differences between english and American pints, for example. Also it means nothing to me when someone quotes their weight in lbs or kgs. I need stones to get an impression of how heavy they are. Where I live it's currently a mish mash of metric and imperial units but the trend is definitely towards metric. I don't think my kids think in imperial the way i do a lot of the time. Meanwhile metric means absolutely nothing to my dad.