21 stone?! I swear you guys will use anything instead of metric
Actually stone is used by the brits instead of americans
21 stone is approximately 1.54 Americans, by my calculations. Another weird unit of measure but who am I to judge?
I do believe that’s the joke.
I was already wondering that. Whether they’re Americans or British, they seem to have the same fear of using logical measuring systems like metric
Haha I don’t think it’s about fear. It’s probably about having hundreds of years of using those measurements, and it being very baked in to the language used between people to communicate.
Nobody wants to have to translate between kg and stone all the time. It’s tedious. If you live in a country where all your interactions are going to be in one measurement then you’re probably just going to go along with everyone else.
Even down to ‘goin down the pub for a pint’ being a commonly used phrase which doesn’t have the same ring when it’s '‘goin down the pub for a half litre’.
That’s the thing, they do use kg. So it is not something they don’t know about. Just that stone for people’s weight specifically somehow is still in use.
For the pint, I do not think it is about the volume when someone says that. As of they are only going to drink one anyway?! Replace it with beer and it is a perfectly normal thing to say.
Yes. The Brits still use a few non-metric measurements at times. In fact, it was America’s British heritage that got us Americans into the bad habit of using imperial over metric in the first place.
Only for adult body weight.
I’m impressed that it only took a quarter of a dozen fortnights.
Wow I could travel so many furloughs in that time period.
Stone only makes sense for people used to pounds, shillings and pence. For instance, “This costs 3 pound, 4 shilling and 8”, and, “I weight 12 stone, 6 pounds and 3 ounces”.
“12 stone, 6 pounds and 3 ounces”, instead of saying “133.4 kilogram”. Lol. :)
But the “being used to it” is always hard to overcome.
I’m glad it worked for him, but if someone did that to me, I’d probably get fatter just out of spite.
Healthy fuck.
Fine! Fine! I’ll go jogging, you bastard!
For the US users, that’s 0.79 Danny DeVitos
According to the questionable celebrity health statistics website I found… Danny DeVito is 70kg, which is 11 stone… So it’s more like the chef lost almost 1.9 Danny DeVitos. We Americans may have weird measuring systems, but we take them seriously!
My apologies, I accidentally divided by Dutch cask per stadion
Measuring in Smoots is a hill I will die on.
294 lbs for other confused Americans, 133.4 Kg for everyone else that’s not British.
Are you sure? 133 kilo is two of me…
1 stone = 14 pounds ≈ 6 kilo
What is this, Diagon Alley?
That’s why this is a news article, it’s really quite impressive in terms of both weight gained and weight lost.
That’s what Google said
Had no idea kidney stones were that big
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I assume the texting was six weeks but the weight losing longer
This brings me memories of fathate or whatever that fatfobic subreddit was called.
r/fatpeoplehate
They were so toxic that the site got noticeably better within 24 hours of them being banned.
They all migrated to Voat. Later, people from r/The_Donald also tried to join voat, but the fat hate people were too toxic even for them!
Yeah, they were awful, awful people.
Fuckin shitty people central
Who the fuck measures anythin in stones?
People from the UK.
We still like pints and miles too.
Obelix
Miners
How many pebbles in a stone, and stone in a boulder? It’s a convenient measurement, I’m sure.
All I know is that a large boulder can be the size of a small boulder.
Oh yeah 😎👉👉
1 stone is 14lbs, the uk still like to use imperial for measuring weight and height
He lost a lot of weight and all it took was daily malicious bullying?! How inspirational.
It’s not necessarily malicious – given general humour in this country, it’s likely he wanted to lose weight and asked his friend to text him that daily as a form of motivation.
Edit: however, I’d like to point out that consensually being sent that by a friend is fundamentally different to having abuse thrown at you by a stranger on the internet for your body shape.
So were those stones ugly? Or just too much for his furniture? Why is this so anti-stones?
He ate them, that’s why he was so big. He lost (passed?) them and is now skinny
That makes sense, thank you!
Zeus tricked him into eating them.
Stones are made of high fructose corn syrup, maltodexotrin, skittles, and xanthan gum?
Well it’s UK so I’m guessing now the friend goes: “skinny fuck” every day?
Anyone else a bit suspicious of a skinny chef?
Nah, most good chefs are cigarette addicted and depressed, that keeps them skinny
Most chefs I’ve known are addicted to a lot more than just cigarettes
And as an ex smoker I can tell you, cigarettes aren’t very good at keeping you skinny.
Quitting is pretty good at making you fat tho lmao (speaking from experience)
Work 18 hours, spend it on blow, crash in the alley by the dumpsters, wake up, work another 18 hours.
How do they taste anything? Smoking dulls your tastebuds.
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Well I was in catering the owner was the taster and he didn’t smoke and drank only luke warm espresso in one gulp. I know because he explained it to me many times.
Yes very much so. There was this bakery I would go to when I was a teen who had the best chocolate chip cookies ever. The woman behind the counter stood taller than pretty much any woman I have ever seen and her obesity made me wonder how she could even stand.
And they say fat shaming doesn’t work…
Obviously it’s different for everybody, but it worked for me. I lost over a hundred pounds after watching a comedy special where the comic ripped into fat people. It made me feel gross, and gave me the motivation/willpower to start losing the weight.
That won’t work for everyone so obviously we shouldn’t go harassing all fat people, but clearly “fat shaming” isn’t entirely worthless.
Username checks out. Can I say congrats on your loss?
Thanks, I appreciate it!
Fatpeoplehate still going strong
That’s absolutely what these stupid ass type of posts are about.
People just can’t help themselves but being assholes about it.
If I was that obese I’d hope to have a friend who cared about me enough to bully me into a healthier lifestyle. there’s a difference between being overweight and morbidly obese.
You’re unintelligent
Yeah what kind of friends are they even if they’re not giving you an eating disorder?!?
Yeah, it’s shameful that as society we learned to be compassionate to other disabled people but still treat the obese like it’s their own fault.
