Kilometres and kg

[teaboy5]

Anyone else getting sick of everyone bloody using km to measure distance and kg for weight within the UK? For example, I ran 10k today or I weigh 80kg. No you ran 6.2 miles and weigh 12 stone.

 

[Hagar]

No, since the mid nineteen sixties I have been using both measures, the last forty years predominantly metric. A non issue.

 

[andy_mk3]

Nope

 

[Firestar_3x]

Nope.

 

[randomshenans]

OK boomer

 

[Calpol]

Anyone else getting sick of everyone bloody using km to measure distance and kg for weight within the UK? For example, I ran 10k today or I weigh 80kg. No you ran 6.2 miles and weigh 12 stone.

Brexit surely should have fixed that. I blame Boris.

 

[PapaLazaru]

Kilograms for weight.
Miles for biking distances.
Kilometres for running distances.

Weird, but it works.

 

[teenwolf]

Nope

 

[UTmaniac]

Anyone else getting sick of everyone bloody using km to measure distance and kg for weight within the UK? For example, I ran 10k today or I weigh 80kg. No you ran 6.2 miles and weigh 12 stone.

12.598 stone is 80Kg.

And no.

 

[HACO]

Anyone else getting sick of everyone bloody using km to measure distance and kg for weight within the UK? For example, I ran 10k today or I weigh 80kg. No you ran 6.2 miles and weigh 12 stone.

No. They're right and we should all do that. The metric system is a fundamentally superior way of measurement.

https://ukma.org.uk/press/reasons-to-metricate/

 

[teaboy5]

Brexit surely should have fixed that. I blame Boris.

lol. No idea were the KG for weight came from back in my day it's always been stone and lb's.

 

[Hotwired]

Anyone else getting sick of everyone bloody using km to measure distance and kg for weight within the UK? For example, I ran 10k today or I weigh 80kg. No you ran 6.2 miles and weigh 12 stone.

What's this, decimal miles

 

[Hagar]

What's this, decimal miles

6 miles and 352 yards.

 

[Calpol]

What's this, decimal miles

As opposed to 49 furlongs

 

[Ryan-3]

Surely that should have been given in miles and furlongs if you were using imperial correctly?

 

[HACO]

What's this, decimal miles

OP made the point for the metric system without even realising it.

 

[englishpremier]

Nope metric are proper measurements. Anything else is some weird voodoo.

Next the OP will be telling us he uses fahrenheit instead of celsius. I wonder how old 'they' are.

I do use nautical miles though at sea as that is the standard measurement.

 

[2004typer]

Mixed bag here for me, distance is miles, weight is stones and pounds, golf is yards.

But if I'm measuring dimensions it's metric.

I also use metric for cooking weights even though I tend to use imperial for my weight as above.

Can work in either metric or imperial though no matter what, but the above is just what I've got used to.

 

[mrk]

KG is the better measurement anyway. Literally everything is weighed in KG, so why not bodyweight too?

Do people send their parcels weighed in stones when booking the item in at checkout? Are cars weighed in stones or KG? Is everything else weighed in KG or stones?

KG just offers a better basis of comparison and an overall better metric for weighing things.

Miles for distance, KG for weight but we will probably need tonnes for yo moma.

 

[peterwalkley]

Brexit surely should have fixed that. I blame Boris.

Give the man his due. All those "meetings" at 10 Downing Street were surely to discuss reinstating Imperial measures. Why else could they possibly need all those samples of strange foreign liquids bottled in the incorrect sizes.