This is off-topic (and thank you for this interesting article) but why do the British persist in using stones as a unit of weight? It’s even more archaic than our use of pounds.
“This is off-topic (and thank you for this interesting article) but why do the British persist in using stones as a unit of weight? It’s even more archaic than our use of pounds.”
Every watch Benny Hill?
Man 1. “Don’t you know the Queen’s English?”
Man 2. “I’m sure she is!”
Translation: the English do everything different and since we’ve been freed of them, we have forgotten their ways and made our own.
Our use of pounds isn't archaic. Pounds, pints, gallons, feet, inches, etc. are convenient measurements for which there is no metric equivalent. Perhaps the British feel the same way about measuring weight in stone.
Because they're used to it. Nothing more complicated than that.
Why not?
The metric system is a quaint relic of nineteenth century thought which made sense economically before calculators, but which now is only useful to committed globalists in furthering their incessant desire to completely erase cultures other than the one they propogate.
Probably they just do it to annoy the French.