Ahhhhh! Thats what I get for not previewing.
What I meant that 2nd sentence to say is: You finish 7/8ths of the first beer, equalling one serving. That means its time to order a new one. The other 1/8th isn’t for leaving, its for sipping while you await a fresh beer.
I’d like a rules clarification, please, your honor…
Erm, if a stone annahalf is 24 lbs, then a stone oughtta be 16 lbs; if a stone is 14lbs, then a stone annahalf would be 21lbs.
So, which is it?
[sub]No, I’m not nitpicking, I actually have no clue what a stone, as a measurement of weight, actually is. And I’m still confused after the explanation.[/sub]
The answer is “a stone and a half” is just a rough estimate, said in a less-than-accurate conversational manner. “24 lbs” would sound like I’m being anal, because Irish and British people talk about weight in stones. I guess it’d be like saying “the store is 1.78 miles down the road” rather than saying “'bout a a mile and a half down the road”.
BTW I should clarify - we talk about a person’s weight in stones. Pretty much everything else, we use kilos and grammes.
Oh, and a stone is indeed 14 lbs.
I don’t know if I would agree with that. A four stone bag of spuds, a pound of tomatoes etc. etc.
I would never buy a pound of tomatoes - 500g or a kilo or whatever. YMMV.
And since I never buy enough potatoes to feed Napoleon’s army, I didn’t know this. But then I’m not Irish.
Outside of a restaurant, who would buy a 56lb bags of pototoes?
Irish people.
But who would buy a 56lb bag inside a restaurant?
And is there an official stone, or do you all have your own? I’d think a stone’s throw would be really short there, and hitting two birds with one stone would require some dumb birds. I can’t decide if leaving no stone unturned would be more difficult, due to the weight, or less, due to the fewer number of stones.