People in the UK usually state their weight in stones. Are bathroom scales there marked in stones? Or are they just marked in kilos and pounds like in the US, and Brits are really good at dividing by 14 and 6.35 in their heads?
Yes, they are marked in stones (and kg as well on newer ones). Digital one next door can be set to read stones & pounds, pounds only, or kg
When I returned from OZ I brought back a scale that also measures in kilos and stones.
I’m surprised it doesn’t measure in slabs as well.
Okay, unashamedly showing my ignorance now, but what does 6.35 signify?
The number of kilograms in a stone.
14 pounds (1 stone) is 6.35 kilograms.
Note: the plural of “stone” (weight) is “stone”.
I find it comical, a 300lb Gorilla requires calculation, something in Kg requires even more calculation, yet give me a weight in Stones or a 1 cwt sack of cement and I am happy.
Strange how logical measurements and physical measurements are different.
- mostly wine is sold by the pint 0,7 and a livre or pfund is clearly understood.
My favourite example was an engineer who was taught after we became metricated, he could not understand feet and inches, but knew exactly what a ‘thou’ was.
Yeah, I knew that, but it looked odd to write, “People in the U.K. state their weight in stone.” Implies that if you ask what they weigh, they hand you an engraved granite tablet.
Not that you would ask what someone weighs, unless you’re a medic or running a slimmers’ club or handicapping jockeys.
I thought most wine bottles in the UK 0.75 of a litre?
70cl I believe.
Just looked at a couple wine bottles and they are 75cl. You do get the odd 70cl, but they are usually cheap wine or spirit brands.
Definitely almost always 75Cl. I’ve just switched from beer to wine, so I know.
The only 70 cl bottles I have seen are cheap own-brand spirits. Also they are usually lower in alcoholic content (36% instead of 40%) . This fools buyers into thinking they are getting a better bargain then they actually are.
Getting briefly off-track talking about spirits I find it irritating that pubs and clubs in the U.K. use different definitions of a “shot”. From what I recall some pubs use 25ml and some use 35ml, which makes quite a difference if you order a double.
Old Zealand? Or over the rainbow?
It’s a relic of when spirits were sold in 1/6, 1/5 or 1/4 gills.
Aren’t most spirits sold in this quantity, not just the cheap ones? A quick check on Tesco’s site shows Talisker in 70cl bottles.
Yes , you are correct. It looks as the the EU decreed that spirit bottle sizes would be 70cl back in 1992. It’s just wine bottles which are 75cl.
750mL is standard for wine bottles, 1.5 L for the larger Magnum bottles… The little 4-pack wines are 187mL each. Wait, this wasn’t the topic we were discussing…