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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 152567" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>About "stone" as a weight measurement - at Highland games they have a competition called "putting the stones". The men each lift a large boulder and 'put' it (more correctly, heave it) onto a barrel. They have a series of stones, each one heavier. It's a form of weightlifting contest. </p><p></p><p>I think the term "stone" in terms of weight measurement came about because a large rock was used as a measure for buying food, etc. in farming communities.</p><p></p><p>I remember as a kid (pre-metric) our minister told us a joke in church. The congregation was filing out after church one Sunday, the preacher shaking hands with each parishioner, when a little old lady came up to him and began beating him up with her umbrella.</p><p>"Mrs Allen, what's the matter?" asked the bewildered preacher.</p><p>"I was here a month ago and in your sermon you said, 'constant dripping wears away a stone.' Well, I've been eating bread and dripping every day for the last month, and I've not only not lost weight, I've gained! You should be ashamed of yourself, peddling false information like that!"</p><p></p><p>husband mentioned that he and I grew up with Imperial and had to learn to convert to metric. All through our schooling we were given maths problems in both Imperial and metric, and often had to convert from one to another. While we're now very quick at doing it, I can assure you that especially in science (physics in particular) I LOVE metric. We did a few problems from old textbooks which required us to work with Imperial units (remember, this was in the days before calculators - all we had to play with were slide rules, and a lot of paper). Metric is far and away better.</p><p></p><p>However - we still have manufacturers who produce tinned food in non-metric sizes. Initially they said it was too difficult to re-size their tinned goods. Fair enough. But we've been metric since 1972, it's about time they stopped producing tinned goods in sizes such as 135 g, 182 g, 225 g, 325 g, 425 g, 447 g and so on. Frankly, I think it's a ploy to hide the actual cost per 100 g. husband & I, because of our 'bilingual' education in pre-calculator days, are very good at fast mental arithmetic and even we find trying to work out the best value tinned food to be really taxing. Anybody ten years younger or more (or ten years older and hence not bilingual) just can't do it. I make an effort to calculate it though, ever since I discovered that my favourite brand of frozen peas is cheaper if I buy 2 x 500 g, than if I buy 1 x 1 Kg. And that's really easy to calculate!</p><p></p><p>I think I feel a letter to the consumer magazine coming on...</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 152567, member: 1991"] About "stone" as a weight measurement - at Highland games they have a competition called "putting the stones". The men each lift a large boulder and 'put' it (more correctly, heave it) onto a barrel. They have a series of stones, each one heavier. It's a form of weightlifting contest. I think the term "stone" in terms of weight measurement came about because a large rock was used as a measure for buying food, etc. in farming communities. I remember as a kid (pre-metric) our minister told us a joke in church. The congregation was filing out after church one Sunday, the preacher shaking hands with each parishioner, when a little old lady came up to him and began beating him up with her umbrella. "Mrs Allen, what's the matter?" asked the bewildered preacher. "I was here a month ago and in your sermon you said, 'constant dripping wears away a stone.' Well, I've been eating bread and dripping every day for the last month, and I've not only not lost weight, I've gained! You should be ashamed of yourself, peddling false information like that!" husband mentioned that he and I grew up with Imperial and had to learn to convert to metric. All through our schooling we were given maths problems in both Imperial and metric, and often had to convert from one to another. While we're now very quick at doing it, I can assure you that especially in science (physics in particular) I LOVE metric. We did a few problems from old textbooks which required us to work with Imperial units (remember, this was in the days before calculators - all we had to play with were slide rules, and a lot of paper). Metric is far and away better. However - we still have manufacturers who produce tinned food in non-metric sizes. Initially they said it was too difficult to re-size their tinned goods. Fair enough. But we've been metric since 1972, it's about time they stopped producing tinned goods in sizes such as 135 g, 182 g, 225 g, 325 g, 425 g, 447 g and so on. Frankly, I think it's a ploy to hide the actual cost per 100 g. husband & I, because of our 'bilingual' education in pre-calculator days, are very good at fast mental arithmetic and even we find trying to work out the best value tinned food to be really taxing. Anybody ten years younger or more (or ten years older and hence not bilingual) just can't do it. I make an effort to calculate it though, ever since I discovered that my favourite brand of frozen peas is cheaper if I buy 2 x 500 g, than if I buy 1 x 1 Kg. And that's really easy to calculate! I think I feel a letter to the consumer magazine coming on... Marg [/QUOTE]
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