a little far for me to drive but a deadlift party or other strongman type training followed by food and drinks sounds like fun to me
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Whoa - I never said food! You give people an inch (cm, in your case)…
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Well on the railway in the UK we actually use meters, miles, yards and chains still. Crazy silly old England with our strange measurements!
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How far is a chain?
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22 yards. Is crazy the silly way we measure stuff and then convert it into a million different things. Same with weight though. Most English people talk about their body weight in Stone, measure some stuff in kg and other stuff in pounds and oz.
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Internet guys tend to Americanize themselves with things like weighing themselves in lbs, and then when someone asks you how much you weigh and you say “190lbs” they have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about.
WHAT’S THAT IN STONE? Derppppp.
It really is a pointless measurement.
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That’s pretty funny.
Stones seems a weird way to measure bodyweight, because it’s such a big increment that it gets really imprecise.
I also think measuring height in meters is strange, but at least cm are very specific when you get to the incremental.
I will admit feet/ inches/ yards is a goofball measurement. Why have an arbitrary delineation when our whole system of mathematics is base-10?
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At least when people measure in meters they might say in person “I’m 1 point 8 meters”. With stone nobody says “I’m 14 stone 8 pounds”, it’s ALWAYs rounded up to the nearest stone. Occasionally people will say “14 and a half” but yeah, there’s no accuracy at all.
I’ve lost 11lbs and earlier today I told someone I lost a stone. there are 14 pounds in a stone
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That’s as close as you can get. Super weird.
Although it’s just as weird here to stress about 3 lbs on the scale, which could be the difference in a bottle of water.
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is currently stressing about 3lbs on the scale because thats my goal to jump back into a bulk
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You mean .21 stone
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Pretty sure you did get me all excited and mention food
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All I know is that there is the type of measuring system used by the majority of the world and scientific communities, and then there is the measuring system used by people who have been to the moon.
Scoreboard.
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I think you will find that NASA actually used SI Units for its calculations but displayed to the pilots in feet per second and nautical miles as it was something they were used to and understood.
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Old Timey surveyors like George Washington used to drag those chains through the woods to make measurements back in the day.
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Fake news. It may be objectively true, yet I refuse to acknowledge it. Welcome to American politics.
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I think it is more about how the computers worked rather than a preference to a better numerical system. Pretty sure the computers weren’t built in Texas. If we want to talk fake news then we can discuss if they ever went to the moon in the first place. LOL
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I like the turn this has taken!
I’ll also add: there is no objective truth. We now have “your truth,” which removes the pesky burden of facts.
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A fact is only so until it is proved to be wrong
That’s the beauty of “my truth”: your “proof” is irrelevant