how much is a stone?

in pounds?

I saw this thing on obese people
and this 13yo said he was 17 stones
before the diet/clinic thing

but this other guy said he was almost 400 lbs?
and I just got lost. . . .

never mind
14 lbs in a stone
so 14 x 17=238

thats a big 13 yo

so whats a half a stone called
how does that work?

 

half a stone

poorly. The stone is an ancient measure; they didn't try to slice things as fine or as accurately as today.

 

Wow that is heavy for a 13 year old.

A stone is 14 US pounds or 6.3 kilograms...whichever you prefer.

Either way the kid is obese!

Half a stone is called half a stone *grins* or 8 pounds. There are 16 imperial pounds to a stone. These are different to the pounds used in the US. Confused.... How about metric pounds too hehe

 

so, me being 173slbs
would be
12.357142857142857142857142857. . . . stone?

what about american standard?he he

 

Yup...ya lightweight

 

well thanks everyone

so then why is it still in effect?
habit?
if so why didn't the early Americans decide to keep such a system?

 

since you can't slice a stone........you would be 12 or 13 stone..............right...a ok.I think........wobbles

 

I would go with 12. .be that the case

 

8.5 stone, so do I multiply that by 14 to get pounds?

Wow, 119lbs!

 

Conversion calculator for all types of stuff

http://convert.french-property.co.uk/

Some examples

There are 16 ounces to a pound and 14 pounds to a stone (mot 16).

200 pounds = 14 stone 4 pounds as an example.

220 pounds is approxi,ately 100 kilograms. Bazza

 

Scroll down the page for different conversion tables. Bazza

 

When I lived in England we learned 14lb to a stone. I've never heard of Imperial Pounds.

 

those stones are lead by Darth Vader
he. .oh that was stupid I know. .
it 5am


anyway, heres one that kept me up all night. .

How many pounds for a pint?

 

80 kilos.. no pounds i mean.. wow thats like... 10 babies

 

Stones, pounds, ounces are Imperial measurements. Spread from the UK to all parts of the old British Commonwealth.many years ago. Even canada, I guess. Bazza

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I mean how much for a beer?
a pint of it. in money

 

Most of the world has gone metric, as Australia did about thirty years ago. Everything is sensibly in multiples of ten.

England tends to be more traditional, and has retained most of the Imperial measurements. Except the money went to New Pence (i.e. multiples of ten) long ago.

The U.S. tends to think it's somethng special, and has imperial, but it's own version of it. Much like the English language. it has it all right, but it's own version.

Yep, 14 pounds to a stone, 16 ounces to a pound. So to English, and a lot of Australians and other ex-British places, one may be 14St,4b., which. if my math is correct, would be 200lb, or 200/2.24 = 89.3 kg.

I still find it hard to visualize people's hieght in meters instead of feet and inches.

 

i'm 167 Centi meters tall
or 5'7

 

1972...I so missed that thre'penny bit

 

A carton of beer (24 cans) costs around AUD$33 which is around USD$ 25-26 depending on the current conversion rate. Price of a single beer depends on thesize of glass and delusions of grandeur of the establishment you are in. Bazza

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