29-11-2020, 06:49 PM
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Re: Weighing machine
Originally Posted by Besoeker
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Why doesn't anyone here use kg? That's what hospitals and doctors use. Not to mention my children, grand children, and even grocery stores.
I use what has meaning to me: stones and pounds (and ounces of course).
Whenever I buy sweets I ask for a 'quarter' (eg, 4 ounces). The shopkeepers always understand, unless they're millennials of course.
29-11-2020, 06:56 PM
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Re: Weighing machine
Originally Posted by Percy Vere
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So were we but it wasn't until the dreaded EU (hawk, spit 
) forced us to adopt the metric system for weights and measures generally, that most people really became aware of it. I'm happy using both systems but what floors me mentally is converting pounds weight to stones.
It's easy. Divide by 14, but I find it easier to think in stones and pounds. Mental rithmetic (one of the 'three Rs') isn't my strong point, so I'd have to use a calculator.
29-11-2020, 07:08 PM
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Re: Weighing machine
Originally Posted by Besoeker
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It's just simpler. Much simpler. Take a gander at your fridge for example. Brown sauce is metric. Rice bones for my dog is a pack of 18 kg. My camera is metric. And so on.
100 seconds = 1 minute
100 minutes = 1 hour
10 hours = 1 day
So 100,000 seconds = 1 day
Perfectly possible if we make seconds a little shorter in length,
as presently there are 86,400 seconds in a day.
29-11-2020, 07:12 PM
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Re: Weighing machine
Originally Posted by JBR
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The sodding EU forces me to do nothing, and never will.
Originally Posted by Besoeker
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Metric was long before the EU. Even before the Common Market.
The sodding Frogs force me to do nothing, and never will!
29-11-2020, 08:41 PM
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Re: Weighing machine
Originally Posted by Percy Vere
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Scot, that will only prove/disprove the accuracy at 56lbs. What you should be doing is checking the accuracy near the bottom end at about 10% of maximum load, then again at around 50%, and again at about 90% of the maximum.So were we but it wasn't until the dreaded EU (hawk, spit
) forced us to adopt the metric system for weights and measures generally, that most people really became aware of it. I'm happy using both systems but what floors me mentally is converting pounds weight to stones.
29-11-2020, 08:43 PM
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Re: Weighing machine
Originally Posted by Mags
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I suggest we all use what we are used to, be it Imperial or Metric.Right folks, can we get back to the actual weighing scales, which ones are best...
29-11-2020, 09:08 PM
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Re: Weighing machine
Originally Posted by AnnieS
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We have some digital salter scales as recommended by someone medical and I seem to have jumped right up in weight overnight. The old Ikea mechanical scales were far kinder. I blame lockdown and gremlins.
I blame the scales.
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