TheWaterGodM to OffbeatEnglish · 3 days agoStay indoors or risk being blown away, China warns light peoplewww.telegraph.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square6linkfedilinkarrow-up128arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up127arrow-down1external-linkStay indoors or risk being blown away, China warns light peoplewww.telegraph.co.ukTheWaterGodM to OffbeatEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square6linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareRentlarlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·3 days agoIt’s a chiefly British way of measuring body weight. 1 st = 14 lbs, so 7 st 9 lbs = 107 lbs. Though honestly 50kg is closer to 7 st 12 lbs.
minus-squareramble81@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up9·3 days agoAnd I thought Americans were bad with arbitrary values (yeah it’s probably rooted in something…. From 400 years ago)
minus-squareShiggles@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days agoI would assume then that it’s a Hong Kong thing.
It’s a chiefly British way of measuring body weight. 1 st = 14 lbs, so 7 st 9 lbs = 107 lbs. Though honestly 50kg is closer to 7 st 12 lbs.
And I thought Americans were bad with arbitrary values (yeah it’s probably rooted in something…. From 400 years ago)
I would assume then that it’s a Hong Kong thing.