>>>>>Talking about imperial. In the UK we use a unit of stones, usually for a person's weight. A stone is 14 lbs. So a fairly heavy person may be 16-17 stone. But it's hard to envisage when you guys say "220 - 240 lbs"
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>>>>16-17 stone doesn't sound so bad, does it? ;-)
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>>>Well to us that's a guy who's letting himself go to seed. 18 st and he's maybe a super-heavyweight boxer or more likely a couch potato (hope I'm not treading on anyone's toes here).
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>>The parenthesis depends on how many stones you weigh :).
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>Wouldn't that depend on the size of the stones? If you use those ones that you can sit on in the park, then I weigh less than 1, but if you use the ones in my garden, then I probably weigh as much as a couple hundred of them. Never mind the ones that get into my shoe.

This you being funny, right, or did you miss the 2nd sentence above? :-)

BTW, we don't put an "s" on the end, so it's "18 stone in weight"

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