Someone drops out of Twitter.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-32302939
Kim, you are very bad!
Baby's weight announced in avoirdupois.Have we really not gone a bit metric yet?
Archaic weights have a comfortable familiarity.
Babies (at least in the NHS) are measured & recorded in metric. Archaic and arcane systems are probably one of the things we taxpayers are shelling out extra for in this case.
Quote from: hellymedic on 02 May, 2015, 01:07:37 pmArchaic weights have a comfortable familiarity....is what old people assume.The way I see it, if you're going to use base 16 units, then they need to be represented by the digits 0-F for comfortable familiarity.
But stones and pounds are base 14 to confuzzle the enemy further.
So how many Olympic size swimming pools is that?
(I'm currently reading an alternate history series where an industrialising 17th century Europe seems to be standardising on decimal feet, as a compromise between politics and common sense.)
Anyway, since the royal family seem to exist primarily for the benefit of the Express and the USAnian tourist industry, it makes sense to use their native units.