From the EU? Former parts of "The Empire?" Welcome!

GeezerSue · December 28, 2003

I really love having people from places which deal in the kilogram and the stone. Any system of measurement which allows me to divide my weight (in pounds) by any number greater than one is clearly superior!

For any math challenged who wonder how to "compare" their stats to our friends from the EU or other locations in the former British Empire...

--for kilos, divide your weight in pounds by 2.2

--for stone, divide your weight in pounds by 14

Close enough,

Sue

Audrey · December 28, 2003

Thanks for that Sue...

I forget that we all guage our weight so differently!

saying that.... our BMI's are usually calculated the same way... unfortunately... they're alway so high! ARGH !!!

Audrey

Kiwigirl · December 28, 2003

Trouble is Sue when I start converting from one to another I make mistakes and think I have lost loads or not enough. I like the pounds because when I go to the supermarket I make a little mountain of the amount I have lost in butter. It ruins their displays but I'm having fun.

GeezerSue · December 29, 2003

KiwiGirl...I don't think you should change to pounds. I think the US should have gone metric when it said it was going to do that. Right now, I still have to buy European friends US measuring cups and spoons, so that they can relate to our recipes!

Story: Many years ago, I was helping neighbors from Colombia learn English. The workbook had a lesson on health. The book said, "Mary has a temperature of 104 degrees. Mary is ______." The student was expected to fill in the blank from the provided vocabulary. My neighbor came to my house and said, "Mary is dead, no?" (For the math challenged*, if your temp is 104 degrees in the US, you are sick. In the whole rest of the world, you're somewhere around the "soft ball stage" in candy making. My neighbor figured that Mary had pretty much evaporated.)

Sue

*I don't think my fellow banded are incapable of computing this, but I know my sister would say, "Huh?" That's why I started this thread.