UFC 70 in Manchester

[duncvis]

Do you know your weight in kilos McJ?

fuck no.


but if i had learned through your system, i am sure it would have been much easier.

16 oz for a pound
12 inches for a foot

wtf.  in tens is much simpler.

As a kid in the eighties, we learned both, but imperial stuck better since everyone used it. later we had to have goods etc sold in metric, and its more accepted now.

[ASpHole]

OK, I wathed the fight last night.... They kept giving the fighters weight in pounds AND STONE.

WTF is Stone ?? Any why do you Brits use such an antiquated system ??

A stone is 14 pounds. Its a hangover from imperial weights and measures - we're mostly metric, but stones, pounds and ounces is still better understood than kilograms, and feet and inches better understood than (centi)metres, particularly for the older generations.

So..... how far is it from where you live to Mancs......measured in Rods? 

OTOH, I know the Canadians, (Or at least the ones in Quebec, at any rate) still have issues with the Metric system. The French speaking people adopted the system quite readily, the English speaking people OTOH were holding out. In English speaking areas, people use Standard weight equivalents. --You go into a store and get 454 grams of hamburger.

[duncvis]

Rods? Not a fucking clue. About thirty miles. Leeds is about twenty.

A lot of stuff is still packaged here in imperial equivalents, like 454g and 568ml, and sold loose by the pound. They just have to display weight/price per metric unit as well.

[McGiver]

Rods? Not a fucking clue. About thirty miles. Leeds is about twenty.

A lot of stuff is still packaged here in imperial equivalents, like 454g and 568ml, and sold loose by the pound. They just have to display weight/price per metric unit as well.

it's funny at the docks when we get bulk cargo that is listed in kilosgrams.
all the machines have maximum weight capacities.
we always just scratch out head.  and we find out which machine can handle the weight by trying.

our machines are listed in pounds.

[Scrapheap]

Rods? Not a fucking clue. About thirty miles. Leeds is about twenty.

A lot of stuff is still packaged here in imperial equivalents, like 454g and 568ml, and sold loose by the pound. They just have to display weight/price per metric unit as well.

it's funny at the docks when we get bulk cargo that is listed in kilosgrams.
all the machines have maximum weight capacities.
we always just scratch out head.  and we find out which machine can handle the weight by trying.

our machines are listed in pounds.

Have you ever broke something that way ??

[McGiver]

Rods? Not a fucking clue. About thirty miles. Leeds is about twenty.

A lot of stuff is still packaged here in imperial equivalents, like 454g and 568ml, and sold loose by the pound. They just have to display weight/price per metric unit as well.

it's funny at the docks when we get bulk cargo that is listed in kilosgrams.
all the machines have maximum weight capacities.
we always just scratch out head.  and we find out which machine can handle the weight by trying.

our machines are listed in pounds.

Have you ever broke something that way ??

broke a blade on a heavy lift.

[Callaway]

One kilogram is approximately 2.20 pounds, so if you know something has 1000 kilograms of mass, to estimate how much it weighs in pounds, you can double it and then add ten percent of the doubled number, which is not that difficult to do, so 1000 + 1000 = 2000 then add 10% of 2000 or 200 so you get 2200 pounds.  If you wanted a rougher estimate, you could just double the mass in kilograms to get a rough estimate in pounds.