You kid and joke - But I think it was something like that. When not going to wiki, I’m assuming that when they used balancing scales, they used stones as the counter balance. shrug
Off to wiki
[b][i]The stone was originally used for weighing agricultural commodities. Historically the number of pounds in a stone varied by commodity, and was not the same in all times and places even for one commodity. Potatoes, for example, were traditionally sold in stone and half-stone (14-pound and 7-pound) quantities but the OED contains examples including:[3]
Commodity Number of Pounds
Wool 14, 15, 24
Wax 12
Sugar and spice 8
Beef and Mutton 8
Another example is the definition of the “stone” in the 1772 edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica which reads, “STONE also denotes a certain quantity or weight of some commodities. A stone of beef, in London, is the quantity of eight pounds; in Hertfordshire, twelve pounds; in Scotland sixteen pounds”.[4]
Current useAlthough the United Kingdom’s 1985 Weights and Measures Act[5] expressly prohibited the use of the stone as a unit of measure for purposes of trade (other than as a supplementary unit), the stone remains widely used within the United Kingdom and also in Ireland as a means of expressing human body weight. People in these countries normally describe themselves as weighing, for example, “11 stone 4” (11 stones and 4 pounds), rather than “72 kilograms” in most other countries, or “158 pounds” (the conventional way of expressing the same weight in the United States and Canada).[6]
Its widespread colloquial use is consistent with the persistence in the United Kingdom and in Ireland of other Imperial units like the foot, the inch, yard and the mile, despite these having been supplanted entirely or partly by metric units in official use and other contexts. Thus on a National Health Service website the user may select imperial units,[7] but the law requires that if this information is officially recorded, then such records shall be in metric units.[8]
When used as the unit of measurement, the plural form of stone is correctly stone (as in, “11 stone”), though stones is sometimes used, but not usually by British natives. When describing the units, the correct plural is stones (as in, “Please enter your weight in stones and pounds”).
In many sports such as professional boxing, wrestling and horse racing, stone is still used as a means of measuring weight but is slowly becoming obsolete.[/i][/b]
Naw, I’m thinking of dressing up like Riddick :).
The schedule above may not work out as planned because if I feel like taken a rest, I’m gonna take a rest (considering that’s when you get bigger). Just have to see how it goes.
Just finished having my lunch of sausages (2) with a cheesy corgette(zuchanni?) and onions followed by black current yoghurt.
Dinner is prob going to be the same sausages,etc as it’s left overs.
I’m prob come in at the 1600 cal mark…Have to see.
I’ll think about doing a video…Maybe
